Showing posts with label VAT electioneering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VAT electioneering. Show all posts

Friday, 9 May 2014

SMART LOOKING AD...BUT SLOPPY RESEARCH

The not-so-clever spin people in Labour have come up with a colourful looking poster complaining about how much VAT the ToryLiberal party have put on your shopping.

So far so good. Just like Tahtcher before them, they chose an unprogressive way of increasing their income, hitting the poorest hardest.

Cameron and Clegg are two peas in a pod, they say. They put an extra £450 VAT on your shopping.

I have no idea whether they have put £450 on my shopping or not, quite possibly they have. But certainly they didn't do so by increasing the VAT on most of the products in the poster...given that most food is zero rated.

Oooops!

Oh, and, note to politicians of all parties. Please do us all a favour. Whoever told you that us ordinary morons are impressed by the adjective "hard-working", was wrong. We just laugh at it, specially when you add "families" and "up and down the country". So stop it.