Rachel Reeves says she cannot rule out autumn tax rises after ‘damaging’ week

>Asked whether she was prepared to rule out tax rises, she said: “I’m not going to, because it would be irresponsible for a chancellor to do that. We took the decisions last year to draw a line under unfunded commitments and economic mismanagement. So we’ll never have to do something like that again. But there are costs to what happened.”

Meh, I can’t complain about that. It’s less dishonest.

After a week of defeats to the Labour party, you’d imagine this isn’t the kind of Friday night headline they were hoping for.

Why do they never mention the winter fuel allowance u-turn? Boomers protested out of principle, not need and we have to pay the cost of that too, at significant cost. 1/3 of the cost is WFA.

If there’s one thing you can guarantee with Tories and Labour it’s annual tax increases.

Isn’t there a fairly simple solution to this.

Wages are low and the welfare budget is high.

Does it not stand to reason that if people’s wages were higher and people didn’t have to rely on benefits to get by then we would a) generate more income tax and b) have less expenditure on welfare which is subsiding wages. Two birds one stone.

We can’t afford to increase income tax. People on the basic rate are already struggling with the cost of everything going up and increasing income tax is another additional expense and people on the higher rates are already getting stung.

The solution to me is to stop using welfare to subsidise wages and let the employers take the fucking hit for once.

It’s a labour government and they should be protecting the value of our labour not diminishing it. Any tax increases should be targeted at the wealthy, the landowners and big businesses who have been getting away with it for too long

When I cry, EVERYBODY CRIES

MWAHAHAHAHA

(except the rich)

I don’t want reform to win in 2029 but it looks inevitable.

I am ok with tax rises when our money is being used in ways that benefit society as a whole.

As a middle earner, I keep getting squeezed for more money, while austerity lives on and things just seem to get worse and worse each year. Longer NHS waiting lists, roads that are becoming dangerous to drive on with the amount of pot holes, unchecked mass immigration, housing shortages, a benefits system that is becoming unsustainable, the triple lock that will ensure young people never get a pension themselves, cuts to ISA savings, sky high energy bills, lack of police funding causing specific crimes to rise and go unchecked, prisons full, cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels sky high, the insane Chagos islands deal, lack of investment and growth, rising unemployment… I could go on, it’s so tiring.

The Tories ruined this country. Labour are doing better but that’s a low bar. There’s such a lack of inspiration. It’s been a year and the labour party are already tearing themselves apart from within. I hope they enjoy the next 4 years because that’s all they’re getting if they don’t sort themselves out fast.

Meanwhile, big corporations such as Nando’s and Starbucks are paying little to no corporation tax in the UK. At least, if we had good public services, that would make sense. More and more tax increases. Then, they’ll be the same ones asking, “Why is the hospitality and night-time economy dying?” It’s because no one can afford to go out.

yeh lets just keep doing the same thing we’ve done the last 20 years and hope that this time it finally works

20p tax on every bet made in the U.K. let’s see if the house always wins

This is what we get for spending millions on benefits

Any chance of cutting the hotel and housing bill for illegal arrivals?

That would save us billions.