Labour and Co-operative Member of
Parliament for Kemptown and Peacehaven

Budget 2012 – “cynical deluded and regressive”

by Lloyd on 05.04.12
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The Tories with their LibDem friends have given us a budget which is cynical, deluded and regressive (Larry Elliot The Guardian 22.3.12)

Those with an income of £1 million will get an extra £42,500; those with an income of £150,000 will get an extra £10,000, while those with an income of £20,000 will lose £253.

Pensioners have had a shock raid on their incomes and are set to lose £84 on average, more for the soon to be retired. Pensioners will contribute £3 billion to prop up the incomes of the rich.

The Tories no longer bother to pretend that “we are all in this together”, with their consistent punitive measures against low and middle income families and have gone back to the Tories discredited idea of “trickle down” wealth. We know that wealth does not trickle down: it stays where it is to make the rich even richer.

Those of us running the stalls on 24th March, at North St and in the Cliffe precinct, listened to the views of many people in Lewes and the unanimous voice was that the budget was unfair. We were delighted to sign up a lot of new members and supporters and hope to see them soon at branch meetings.

“unfair and out of touch, for the few, not the many”. – Ed Miliband

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