Fools’ gold
TODAY skint Britain will be battered by rises in just about every bill you can imagine.
Your energy, mobile, broadband and road tax will go up. Water will soar. So will council tax. Even the TV licence no one should have to pay is rising.
The vast majority of Britain thinks Labour have mishandled economy – why didn’t they change course?[/caption]
And that’s before the price hikes inevitable as firms scramble to survive today’s increases in their business rates, the minimum wage and, from next Monday, employers’ National Insurance.
Tomorrow, incredibly, things will get worse. Labour has failed to convince Donald Trump to exempt us from his brainless tariffs.
These will hammer our exporters, while retaliating will punish consumers here.
We wish this catalogue of catastrophe was an April Fool’s joke. We’re certainly all treated like fools.
And while some of this was beyond the Government’s control, much wasn’t.
Labour mistook the fragile but recovering economy the Tories left them for one from which they could still extract a few more billion to hand to the unions.
Now they are reduced to slashing benefits and the public sector while crushing the productive private sector with record taxes.
Growth forecasts are dire.
The vast majority of Britain thinks Labour have mishandled the economy, including their own voters.
Why didn’t they change course?
Boats denial
NOT one people smuggler is deterred by Keir Starmer issuing grave threats to camera or convening a summit.
They are too busy laughing at his Home Secretary blaming the vast surge in small boats under her on better weather.
Besides, this scandal is not caused by the gangs the PM affects to target.
You cannot make life here irresistible to rootless young men — with free hotels, food, clothes, NHS care and a near-guarantee they’ll stay forever — then blame the criminals supplying dinghies.
Migrants at Calais celebrated Labour winning power. One told The Sun this Government is “nice”.
It scrapped the Rwanda deterrent they genuinely feared. Now, posing as refugees, they are lining up for the red-carpet treatment.
If they were certain to be instantly deported — back to France, say, by return boat — the lure would vanish overnight and the crisis with it.
The Left is wilfully blind to the real problem, which it has made far worse.
Town haul
YOU may struggle to pay your council tax but 3,900 Town Hall penpushers won’t.
A record number now trouser £100,000-plus, with 1,092 topping £150,000.
Meanwhile your services worsen and your roads fall to bits.
Ring to complain and you can expect to wait forever in a queue.
Still, at least “your call is very important” to them.
