'Hardworking Britons are being unfairly treated - and Labour knows it,' Jacob Rees Mogg blasts

But whilst they're paying more tax, the people who are not working are protected.

So between 2021 and now, their benefits have gone up by 28 per cent. The people who are working are worse off and the people who are not working are being protected.

This is unfair because not everybody who's working is a multi-millionaire. Some people, 6.5 million people in this country are working who would in fact be better off on benefits.

They are such noble people. They are people who, if they gave up work, who if they decided that they stayed at home and watched GB News all day, a wonderful thing to do, they would actually be financially better off than continuing to struggle into work and to do their duty to the country, their patriotic duty to make this country prosper and thrive, and to improve the standard of living of the nation as a whole.

Those are the ones who are hit by the fact that their standard living is not only frozen but reduced, whilst those they are paying for is protected.

And this is simply not fair. And the insult that being added to injury by the Chancellor is that she is proposing to give support for those on benefits who are hit by fuel increases, and not to anybody else.

Now, the problem with this is, first of all, it's far too early.

Four years ago, there was a massive energy crisis, but, at that point, the gas price at its peak was nine times higher than it had been at the start.

This was a level of pain that almost no business or no individual could cope with. Some billionaires, yes, of course, but even people on decent incomes couldn't cope with a nine-fold increase in their benefit bills, in their energy bills, and therefore the Government came in to support.

That was, in my view, a better way of doing it, which was to make the support payable back over a time.

But nonetheless, everyone was helped because the problem hit everybody. Now the problem is not yet anything like as serious.

The increase in gas prices and the oil prices is notable, but it's not catastrophic.

So therefore, too early to be coming out with these sorts of programs, too early to be saying that there should be any special support, because what has currently happened is actually within the normal range of things that happen and is accounted for in the uprating with inflation.

That is going to go ahead on April 1 for people on benefits anyway, that they are already in a protected position.

It is not right to be throwing more money at it, more money that will have to be paid for by future generations, because the deficit is already so large, because the figure for February was significantly worse than anticipated, even after a relatively good January...

Because the Government's spending too much, it is spending increases that are keeping the deficit high, and we are in a doom loop of high taxation.

That means that people aren't going to work hard enough to pay the taxes, because the disincentives are so strong.

This isn't a tax strike in the medieval sense, when people simply refuse to pay their taxes. It is a tax strike by incentives being removed.

Those who are working are being unfairly treated. They know it's unfair. It hits the poor working more than anybody else.

It is most unfair on them as they have to pay more tax to look after those who stay at home. It's simply wrong. It shouldn't be allowed to happen, but it is, of course, what you always get with socialists.

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