Raise taxes on the rich, voters tell Johnson. They’ll be disappointed – it was never in his manifesto
Voter confusion: a survey has shown that voters’ policy preferences indicate they should have put Labour in power, not the Tories.
The Independent reckons Boris Johnson is facing a dilemma after a survey found voters who gave him his election landslide want him to raise taxes on the rich.
There’s just one problem:
That was never a Conservative manifesto promise so he’s under no obligation to do anything of the sort.
Did these people not realise that they were voting for the promises the Tories put in their manifesto?
Voters have never had the right to make demands on a government after putting it in power.
And I know it must seem unfair, considering governments very rarely act according to their manifestos. Theresa May’s 2017 manifesto was obsolete almost before it was published.
And in Johnson’s case, the dilemma isn’t even “Does he deliver for Conservative voters or business leaders?” as the news website claims.
Johnson will deliver for himself, as always. If anybody else profits, that’ll be their good fortune.
But the survey does make one thing very clear.
Voters who want government intervention in the economy, tax rises for the wealthy and spending on public services made a mistake voting Tory.
Those were Labour policies.
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I’m tempted to say they deserve all they get, except their idiocy affects all of us.
British mostly haven’t a clue about how politics, or elections or parliament works. Whats a manifesto? they ask.What has it got to do with elections? WHY WHY do we not teach civics properly in schools and make it compulsory?
@ Jenny
They did when I was at school in the 1970s. We had an O-Level subject called ‘Government, Economics and Commerce’.