When the big fat fibber Starmer vowed he wouldn’t increase taxes for working people there were obviously some – presumably the pitiful few who voted for him – who believed him.
Now credible Whitehall intelligence tells us that that too was a lie as he’s planning to lift the 15-year freeze and put fuel up 10p a litre.
If ever there was a tax designed to clobber the working classes it’s THIS one. So, as well as planning to raise inheritance tax, capital gains and council tax he’s also going to kick workers in the goolies by taxing them on what is essentially their lifeblood – the fuel that enables them to do their jobs.
Drivers won’t have been fleeced on such a scale since 1997 - 2010 when Labour increased fuel duty by a staggering 46 percent.
And all this is coming from a bloke who, in the lead up to the election, vowed he wouldn’t increase taxes because Sunak had destroyed Britain by saddling it with the highest tax burden since the war.
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