What is it about teachers with three years’ experience, mental health nurses with under two years’ experience, a detective sergeant and a senior BA long-haul steward that Rachel Reeves hates?
The answer is that neither Reeves nor the idiot next door regards them as ‘’working people’’ as they earn around £45,000 a year, and Labour has decided that come November 26, they have them in their sights and plan an income tax rise of 2p for them to ruin their Christmas.
You see, Starmer has always struggled to define what a ‘’working person’’ is. Now he has solved the puzzle, according to Whitehall insiders, by defining them in the bottom two-thirds of earnings.
In other words, anybody making less than a salary of £45,000.
That brands the 7.2 million middle earners in the top third as ‘’wealthy’’. Plain wrong, but typical of socialism to target the aspirational middle classes to fill a hole caused by the idle and the welfare cheats who exclusively vote Labour.
Nobody ever mentions the 4.4 million social homes in the UK (councils own about 55 per cent of them), where they would be very unlucky to pay a quarter of what the private renters pay.
In London, it’s an absolute scandal with a two-bedroomed council flat going for around £500 a month compared with a private renter paying on average £2,100. That £2,100 takes a lot of earning.
Rachel Reeves is about to ruin Christmas for £45k earners. The mask is finally off - Kelvin MacKenzie
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I knew a guy who lived in a council house in Staines-on-Thames, Surrey, who worked for a gas company making good money but went around the world watching England play cricket.
He could afford Australia, so don’t tell me he couldn’t afford a non-subsidised rent.
So, I’ve been doing some maths and have worked out that this group of hard-working people on £45,000 a year will, due to a 2p rise, have to cough up another £648.50 a year in tax, a whopping £54.05p a month.
If you’re on £75,000, you would have to find another £900 and £1,085 if on £1000,000. There’ no good news.
You might reasonably ask what stops Starmer and Reeves from cutting the nation’s cloth, rather than going down the tax route.
The reality is that Labour want to flatten out salaries so that you will earn the same money for pushing a broom outside Morrisons as you would for driving an HGV truck across Europe or being an assistant marketing director of a small tech firm.
Labour hates successful people but loves their money. They plan to create such a state subsidised monolith over the next four years that whoever comes to power in 2029 will find it impossible to reduce spending without there being a general strike.
They couldn’t be more wrong.
Mystic Mac forecasts that Labour and the Tories will be destroyed in a General Election. I expect Labour to fall back to around 12 per cent, giving them a handful of seats. The Greens would do better at 20 per cent, but the way our constituencies work, I doubt they would get 40 seats.
That way, the Reform-Tory alliance (and probably Farage on his own) could do whatever he liked. I am hopeful that he would take the axe to our benefits bill upon winning the general election, although I am concerned that he is indicating he might change the two-cap policy.
Currently, Labour couldn’t give a fig about angering the over £45,000s. They will get even more enjoyment out of taxing the hell out of anybody who has a nice house – especially the old dear who lives alone after her husband died.
What Reeves plans to do is double the council tax for anybody with a G or H band. Around my way, that will mean the G band will go from £5,000 to £10,000. I don’t know what value I get for that £5,000 right now, as a quarter of the money goes to the pension pots of employees at Elmbridge council.
I might be able to afford it, but there are plenty of older people who will be forced to sell up. I have some bad news.
I guarantee that there will be few buyers but plenty of sellers, and the price will collapse, causing huge pain for the families who were relying on their mum and grandmother’s money.
Labour will be delighted. They will have destroyed the wealth of the middle classes. Their job is done.
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