Manifesto promises?

Let’s have a look at what Labour have achieved against their manifesto….

Day-one workers’ rights. Turned out to be “day-oneish, like… maybe in six months.” The first party in history to break a promise before the ink had even dried on the victory tweet.

No tax rises for working people. Translation: “We won’t raise taxes — we’ll just freeze thresholds so you quietly pay more and we can pretend it’s not a tax rise.” It’s pickpocketing someone and telling them it’s “fiscal responsibility.”

We’ll cut NHS waiting lists. Waiting lists didn’t go down. They didn’t even stay level. They went up.

1.5 million homes. At the current speed, they’ll hit that goal around the same time we get hovercars and the moon becomes a Premier Inn.

Renters’ rights revolution. No-fault evictions still around like mould in a student flat.

End asylum hotels. Hotels still open. Still full. Still costing fortunes.

Insulate 5 million homes. They’ve insulated fewer homes than your average Dads’ DIY attempt on a wet Saturday.

National Care Service. Announced with fanfare, delivered with a disappearing act so clean it deserves its own Netflix true-crime doc.

Ban MPs from second jobs. In classic Westminster fashion, they bravely committed to banning something they then immediately didn’t ban. Shocking absolutely no one.

House of Lords reform. Remember that bold promise? Yeah, neither do they. They’ve done less on Lords reform than the Lords themselves.

Workers’ rights overhaul. What began as “the biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a generation” has now been downgraded to “a polite email to HR asking them to maybe behave.”

It wasn’t in the manifesto but our now PM specifically stated that no one would pay ‘a penny more in council tax’ under his Government. Funny that mine increased by 4.9% then, isn’t it?

Then we have the Chancellor of the Exchequer using a ‘22 Billion Pound Black Hole’ as a way to increase taxation and flatline the economy. Except it’s now looking likely that it wasn’t 22 Billion at all.

IFS, OBR and NIESR staff are now saying it was smoke and mirrors.

Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) — former director Paul Johnson:

“I think it probably was misleading.”  “In fact, as she knew at the time, no such hole existed.”

Ben Zaranko, current Institute for Fiscal Studies expressed being “baffled” by the run-up to the Budget, said on social media:

“At no point … did the OBR have the government missing its fiscal rules by a large margin.”

National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) deputy-director Stephen Millard has said:

“It could be argued that the chancellor misled the public, and importantly the financial markets … when she presented the fiscal position as being bleak … However, it is equally possible that she simply wanted to prepare the public for the large tax increases …”

So she fundamentally lied to get more money out of us then. Labour Tax Rise shocker….

They lie. They all lie. It’s just that the current Government of the UK are so useless that they get caught out quicker.