#LondonCalling: Raising taxes without a plan.@JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:29.2 | Terms apply. |
| 0:34.7 | I'm John. That's with my colleague colleague and friend Joseph Sternberg. |
| 0:37.8 | He's the member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.6 | He's in London, and he writes political economics. |
| 0:44.3 | And there is a headline in the London Times that I read carefully that astonished me. |
| 0:50.7 | Britain isn't working, admits Kier Starrmer in Jobs Push. |
| 0:54.8 | That's his presentation. |
| 0:57.0 | Rachel Reeves, on the other hand, is presenting, I promise you I will not raise taxes again, |
| 1:03.4 | having raised taxes on every employer, everybody, national insurance. |
| 1:08.5 | That's like the payroll tax we pay here. These two remarks both seem odd to me, |
| 1:14.7 | and I see that there is a question about the steady hand at the tiller of labor. Joe, I want to |
| 1:21.8 | understand what's going on because we've talked about a petition to force Sir Kr-Starmour to step aside and call a new |
| 1:28.4 | election. Labor was out of government, the majority, for 13 years. Did they grow rusty? |
| 1:36.2 | Are they just stumbling like, say, a newborn, learning how to sit up and then walk? Or is there |
| 1:43.5 | something deeper that's going on that they make |
| 1:45.7 | all these mistakes? When Rachel Reeves says, I promise you, I won't raise your taxes again. |
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