Tories not overseeing cost of living crisis; they are its cause
This year, families in the North East and nationwide will fork out an extra ten billion pounds on petrol, when compared to this time last year. This is money our families simply do not have.
Let’s look at how we arrived at this horrible state of affairs. In hisSpringBudget,theChancellor promised a fuel duty cut of 5p per litrebutthiscutwasswallowedup bythefuelcompanies,whoraised their fuel prices by 5p and trousered the extra profit.
The Chancellor then hiked up National Insurance and reduced Universal Credit, leaving ordinary people struggling to make ends meet.
The truth is that the Government is dangerously out of touch. Many of my constituents tell me theynowchoosebetweenheating andeating.Thisisnotjustacaseof Tories being Tories, lives and livelihoodsareatstakeastheGovernment watches on. Something has to give.
That’s why I am calling on the Government to announce an emergency budget, with measures to help struggling Britons with their bills.
Labour wants to see a windfall tax put on oil and gas producers, who took billions in soaring profits over recent times. Our plan would cut household bills by up to £600.
We would also scrap the Government’s callous rise in National Insurance, saving working people money in their pocket immediately.
To pay for these changes, Labour would first protect the public purse.
The Tories’ lax attitude to crimehasbledintotheirapproach topublicfinance,withovertwelve billion pounds of taxpayer funds lost to fraud and error.
Labour wants to see that money investigated by the National CrimeAgency,sonomoretaxpayer cash, so desperately needed by families, goes down the drain.
What connects these policies is a stench of Conservative mismanagement.
The Prime Minister staggers fromonecrisistothenext,hisgovernment trailing behind, rudderless, as the people of Britain cry out for help.
A man concerned only with preserving his career, the Prime Minister’s time is up. He must resign.
But he won’t, and his bad economic decisions will continue to cause pain to ordinary people.
Remember, the Conservatives are not overseeing a cost of living crisis, they are its very cause.
SendthemamessageonMay5 by voting for Labour.