Spring Statement signals huge fall in UK living standards – especially if you’re on benefits
Despair: the indifference of the Conservative government that UK voters put into office by a landslide means that – unless you’re a millionaire like them – you are going to struggle to survive over the next few years. Does voting Tory still seem a good idea?
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has let voters down badly.
His failure to do anything meaningful to tackle the cost of living crisis, coupled with inflation and high taxation, mean people are facing the biggest fall in living standards since records began in 1956. Worst-hit will be people on benefits, for whom Sunak offered absolutely nothing at all.
Watch Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies as he lays out the bad news:
I’m not going to suggest that any Vox Political reader was stupid enough to vote Tory. But somebody is bound to find this article and consider responding along the lines that the alternative was Jeremy Corbyn “and we’d all be in a terrible state with him in charge!”
But this is quite clearly nonsense. Corbyn was never allowed to be in charge and so any such claims are just childish speculation.
We know why he wasn’t allowed to be in charge:
You were told he was an anti-Semite, and that was a lie.
You were told he wanted to dismantle the UK’s armed forces, and that was a lie too.
You were told he was a friend of Vladimir Putin, and that was also a lie. The friends of Vladimir Putin are currently sitting in Downing Street pretending to be his enemies.
In broader terms, the Tories won because you were told that Brexit would be good for you and voting Tory was the only way to “Get Brexit Done”. That was the biggest lie of all; Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster for the people – and the economy – of the United Kingdom.
As your Tory friends struggle to make ends meet over the coming years and months, please don’t hesitate to remind them of the facts that they ignored because they preferred the convenient lies.
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