Another day, another two broken solemn pledges from Boris Johnson who is imposing unfair tax increases and denying pensioners a promised rise.
Putting up National Insurance to fund social care is the worst solution to a problem deserving a better answer. The low paid and young will be exploited to protect the inheritances of the wealthiest.
And ditching the triple lock because it would have triggered an unusually high 8% jump in what, internationally, is a low state pension is the Prime Minister moving the goal posts.
Lying comes easily to Mr Johnson. Voters should remember this when the Tories publish their election manifesto. Like the 2019 version, it will not be worth the paper it is printed on.
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The NHS has received £5billion extra a year, half of what those running the health service warn is needed. A wrongly funded care programme means some elderly would still have to sell their homes and it would fail to improve carers’ breadline wages.
Mr Johnson’s double-whammy on care tax and pensions fails the nation.
Amazon tax
American online giant Amazon paying so little tax on vast sales in Britain is a major public issue.
Making huge multinationals pay fair should be a priority of any government. And giants’ boast they employ people locally is insulting when the grafters are too often on low wages.
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The world’s G7 richer economies, after a prod from US President Joe Biden, are planning minimum corporation tax rates. We need a PM and Chancellor who stand up for Britain, unlike Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.
9/11 repeat fear
Ahead of Saturday’s poignant 20th anniversary of 9/11, we’re delighted to speak to a hero firefighter who survived.
The return to power in Afghanistan of a Taliban that harboured Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda understandably means many fearing the same might happen again.
