Taxes CANNOT rise again, Keir Starmer – the cost and size of the State must be slashed

Tax attacks

WHAT rank hypocrisy from Labour on tax.

Our overall burden is now at a historic peak, crushing growth and families’ finances.

But Keir Starmer says he may yet demand more if forced to by ­further unforeseen events on the scale of Covid or the war in Ukraine.

Except when the Tories raised taxes to fund those, Labour savaged them for hurting “working families”.

Their activists dressed up as Rishi Sunak and pranced about waving fake tax bills.

The Tories DID hike taxes alarmingly after 2019 but at least mainly had an excuse — the £400billion pandemic bill.

Labour’s defence for raising them yet further in the Budget, hammering businesses and staff, is almost entirely a self-serving myth: The “£22billion black hole” the OBR refuses to confirm exists.

In reality the Government wants our money to further inflate its public sector voter base and line unions’ pockets.

And there lies the problem.

There is now gargantuan waste across Government.

The civil service mostly works from home, operates at a snail’s pace if at all and raises merry hell over any challenge to its cosy complacency.

The answer to a new crisis, PM, will be slashing the cost and size of the State.

Taxes CANNOT rise again.

British fail

YET another technical glitch cripples our transport system. Did working-from-home make matters even worse once again?

In 2023, 700,000 people were stranded by an air traffic control meltdown, prolonged for hours because the on-call engineer was at home unable to log in.

Yesterday train networks were paralysed by a radio fault.

The engineers responsible for fixing it are only in the office twice a week. Is that why it took six hours to put right?

The economic damage from such disasters is immense.

Some jobs can now be done at home, but Britain must recognise that pivotal roles cannot.

Those who maintain our critical infrastructure should be on site.

The livelihoods of others depend on it.

Knight Mayor

A KNIGHTHOOD for the capital’s inept yet vainglorious Mayor Sadiq Khan would be an insult to Londoners.

What can he possibly have done to deserve it? Surely not just winning elections for Labour in a left-wing city?

Khan is a woke egomaniac for whom image is everything and delivery nothing.

Unless it’s delivering crippling eco taxes for the poorest drivers, violent street crime and ceaseless Tube strikes.

Despite all those failures, he saw fit to light up his OWN grand title in the night sky last New Year’s Eve.

The public already holds the honours system in contempt.

Making this political lightweight a Sir would be another nail in its coffin.