Boris, people need help TODAY – many of the lower-paid have never felt hardship like this
We’re hurting
MOST of us have never known a Queen’s Speech without our Queen.
And our hearts go out to Her Majesty, who will be distraught not to deliver it for the first time since 1963.
At least today Charles can stand in for her.
But it would be heartbreaking if his 96-year-old mother’s mobility problems curtailed her appearances at the historic four-day Platinum Jubilee extravaganza next month.
She must be wrapped in cotton wool and allowed to put her feet up till then.
As for the speech itself, we do fear that whatever promises the Government makes — and however much we might applaud them — they will be engulfed by the worsening cost-of-living nightmare.
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Yes, we are itching for a crackdown on crime, especially on the eco-cults who damage the economy and target working people.
And we cannot wait for new laws freeing us from EU red tape and finally realising Brexit’s potential.
But what we need more immediately is radical thinking and courage from Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak over the economic hell families face.
Energy bills, already crippling, may rise another £1,000 this winter.
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For some that means shivering in the dark.
Mortgages could hit four per cent, a massive shock to all those used to 13 years of rock-bottom interest rates.
We are facing a probable recession by Christmas and inflation not only hitting ten per cent but remaining high right into 2024 . . . election year.
We know the Tories spent an unprecedented £400billion seeing us through Covid and the coffers are depleted.
We know growth and high-wage, high-skilled jobs are the long-term future.
But, Boris, people need help TODAY.
Many of the lower-paid have never felt hardship like this. And it will get worse.
We need a VAT cut. Maybe corporation tax too.
And Rishi must know the income tax cut he was planning before the next election will come far too late.
We need that and much more . . . and we need it now.
Sip-ocrite Keir
KEIR Starmer’s desperate and outrageous attempt to strongarm police into clearing him plumbs new depths of hypocrisy.
When a senior ally of Boris Johnson said the Met needed to be “very certain” the PM broke the law before fining him, Labour howled about undue pressure being put on the cops.
But yesterday, as Starmer vowed he would quit if he’s fined, an ally admitted his specific intention was to “put some pressure on Durham police”.
What sickening double-standards.
But then Starmer and Angela Rayner’s hypocrisy over this wretched affair seemingly knows no limit.
And, for the record, when Labour’s leader claims his critics don’t really believe he broke the lockdown rules, he’s 100 per cent wrong.
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We DO, Mr Starmer.
And, according to a new poll, so does more than half the country.