Quote Originally Posted by Eric Cartman View Post
It worries me that most of what they have done isn't even controversial yet they can't get out in front of the inevitable response.

Winter Fuel Allowance - benefits should be means tested, come up with a scheme/roadmap that helps those caught in the just above pension credit grey area.

VAT on private schools - country can't afford to give a tax break to private schools, show kids in top hats that nobody normal can relate to. If a Tory mentions the pressure on state schools as a result, ask them about their migration record and funding and show the pressure that has caused (likely far more)

Employer NI - I think quite a few of the businesses kicking up a fuss would have seen more impact by the recent inflation matching rises in min wage. Likely increase for an employee on the median wage is 900Ł. Oh and if a FTSE100 boss criticises it, do a tiny bit of research and publicly ask why their CEO earns 50+% more than they did pre-pandemic.

Public sector pay-rise - relate criticism to services/people that the public rely on and aggressively point at the above about CEO pay while asking why needing to give pay rises to 'retain talent' doesn't apply to nurses etc. At the moment some private sector employees are looking for a race to the bottom with the public sector, they should be looking at the obscene salaries at the top of their own business.

Farmers - publicly sling mud at people who have used it as a tax avoidance scheme until the whole alliance crumbles. Anybody who supports Clarkson, Dyson etc or publishes anything they say is supporting tax avoidance and hurting farmers in the long term.

Unfortunately this government doesn't seem to have the balls/inclination to upset people at the top. The reality is that the public/taxpayer are being taken for a ride and they should keep saying this and linking it the Tories as much as they can, rather than the tired 'liz truss crashed the economy' yawnfest. And finally make some laws around transparency of the credentials/funding of experts (i.e. think-tank grads) that are plastered all over the TV/media pushing narratives.
Of course, it is, back Public Sector with excessive pay rises Ł11Billion and taking a tiny proportion from pensioners, 1.5Billion, it's idiotic politics, lose the next election in the first few weeks of power it's plan daft.

Employer NI, shatters any prospect of growth and investment in private companies.

Farmers turn off all voters from rural communities.

Private schools will increase the burden on standard schools as middle earners with businesses affected by NI rises for their employees and VAT on school fees, will withdraw from Private Education.

Wait till the railways get worse and all the other cockups take hold, this is supposed to be a COVID-free recovery period for growth and improvement, but we will go backward and end up in a worse mess in four years.

Come back in four years and see how we compare directly with the US, I'm not a fan of Trump but he will will go for growth and investment, and we are doing the opposite.