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Rachel Reeves is the face of a Labour con-trick (Image: PA)
Today's Financial Statement is not a vision for Britain, it’s a cynical con-trick. Labour has slashed departmental budgets to fund baffling and inept spending priorities. Billions have been stripped from frontline services, only to be funnelled into headline-chasing gimmicks and overseas giveaways.
With news of the surrender of Gibraltar's borders timed to be buried as the Chancellor spoke, the staggering cost of Labour's previous overseas territories betrayal haunted Reeve's tired monologue. The ￡30 billion handout to Mauritius was signed and sealed by Labour while they drew up plans to cut ￡5 billion a year from disability benefits here at home.
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That’s so much money heading to the Indian Ocean that Mauritius has today announced it can effectively abolish income tax. A paradise funded by British pensioners, farmers, disabled people and struggling small businesses. How’s that for redistribution?
Take policing. The Home Office budget is being cut by 2.2%. Yet, with a straight face, the Chancellor claims police "spending power" will rise by 2.3%. How? By forcing local councils to hike the policing precept on your council tax bill.
This is not investment — it’s sleight of hand. Still, Rachel Reeves insists none of this “raises taxes on working people.” Who does she think pays council tax? Hedge fund managers?
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It’s this sort of nonsense that treats voters like fools. The Chancellor also promised an end to hotels being used for asylum seekers — just minutes after unveiling a ￡39 billion housing allocation. The public can see the dots being joined. We’re not stupid. And we’ve heard enough vague promises dressed up as moral clarity to last a decade.
Then came the now obligatory reference to the “￡22 billion black hole,” wheeled out like a ghost story to justify anything and everything. It was accompanied by a claim of ￡100 billion in “new” spending, which looks suspiciously like old money repackaged and pushed around a spreadsheet.
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This is not a budget. It’s a badly written magic trick, all distraction and no substance.
Labour is trying to rewrite the rules of basic arithmetic while hoping nobody notices. But people do notice: when their council tax goes up, when their GP surgery closes, when their disabled relative gets less support, or when local police stations are hollowed out.
And they’ll notice when billions are spirited offshore to fund tax cuts. Not here, but in tropical islands halfway across the globe. This isn’t fiscal prudence. It’s fiscal theatre. And the curtain is starting to fall.
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