What? A Tory in a Tory cabinet?

I HAD to hold on to my seat on Thursday after it emerged that a Tory – a real Tory, rather than a spendthrift pinko eco- nut – had found their way into the government.

Super- posh Jacob Rees- Mogg, it was reported, is leading a growing Tory tax revolt over the cost- ofliving crisis.

The Commons leader told Boris Johnson that a planned tax hike in April can’t be justified while families face soaring food and heating costs.

In a heated Cabinet, Rees- Mogg reportedly said the 1.25 per cent national insurance rise to pay for social care should be shelved.

A Government insider said Moggy felt ‘ finding savings would be more frugal and responsible’ than raising taxes for improvements to the NHS.

But Chancellor Rishi Sunak pushed back against calls for the levy to be scrapped or postponed.

It may come as a surprise to younger readers but, for the past 50 or- so years, cutting taxes and keeping control of government spending has been Conservative policy.

And the only times that Labour has found its way into Number 10 in that period is when they’ve adopted that policy too.

There’s a good reason for that. It works. But people who should know better appear to have forgotten that.

During the pandemic, millions of furloughed people believed their wages were being paid by “the government”.

No, no, no.

The wages were paid for by other taxpayers and by borrowing.

Yes, the furlough was vital to stop the economy collapsing but it gave the impression that ministers had found that magic money tree.

They haven’t.

WE are that money tree and now ministers are giving it a f** king big shake. And the simple truth is that ministers and civil servants are the WORST possible people to give money to.

My f** king cat is cannier with money.

They spend £ 36BILLION on a “Test and Trace” system nobody uses. Just about every big project the Ministry of Defence embarks on ends in an expensive shambles costing countless billions.

The NHS is a money pit and nobody has the balls to reform it.

And even while we were cowering in lockdown, ministers and their lackeys were making whoopee in Number 10.

Who paid for all that f** king cheese and wine, do you think?

Yes, there needs to be taxation but it is a necessary evil that needs to be kept to an absolute minimum.

Anyone who says different is an idiot, a fraud or addicted to the withered teat of the State.

Rees- Mogg may look like he’s visiting from another century but his stand against tax is spot on. It makes economic and political sense.

Most people would not be daft enough to lend a shyster like Boris a tenner.

Why are we falling over ourselves to hand the scruffy c** t a bigger wedge of our hardearned?