Bureaucrats Rejoice!

• Sam Ashworth-Hayes

Starmer has crushed private sector growth – but it’s boom time for the civil service.

The Budget was a blatant pitch to Labour’s most reliable voters

Sam Ashworth-Hayes

Related Topics

• Keir Starmer, 
• Rachel Reeves, 
• Jobs and employment, 
• UK economy, 
• The Budget

31 October 2024 9:00am GMT

Going into the election, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer told us again and again that they wouldn’t tax working people; in Wednesday’s Budget, they took almost £8bn out of working people’s pay packets by raising employer’s national insurance rates...

In their manifesto, Labour promised Britain they would go all out to secure “the highest sustained growth in the G7”; the new OBR forecasts have us lagging well behind the IMF estimates for the USA in every single year, with the Government’s decisions actually lowering GDP by the end of this parliament.

To borrow a phrase from Johnny Rotten: ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

If you voted Labour hoping to see a meaningful change, tough luck. The show will continue as scheduled. If, on the other hand, you voted Labour in order to benefit as part of the public sector, congratulations: you clearly read the room.

Starmer is sacrificing us all to protect the pampered public sector Militant unions are flexing their muscles – and have Labour over a barrel

#The net effect of Wednesday’s Budget is a huge transfer of resources from the private sector to the public. By 2029, Britain will be facing a higher tax burden than it was in 1948, or any year after. DT.