Robbing David - Hero of the Rich

The headlines in tomorrows papers will be full of stories that leader of the game of poor robbers, David Cameron, is going to make everyone rich in six years time by giving the working man and woman a tax cut by increasing personal allowances. The stories will also go on to say how the rich will see the point at at which they start paying tax at a higher rate also being moved to give the rich an additional tax cut. Now it all makes good headlines but none of this is coming in to 2018 some four years away, assuming they manage to balance the books. Of course a cynic would say this is attract the Conservative vote at the next election and they would be right.   

Already it has been pointed the amount of the extra money the people on the basic rate will get won't be in real terms what the headlining figures suggested and it is highly probable that it will amount to an extra £250 appearing in people wage packets from what they received the year before. It has also be speculated  to where the Conservatives are going to get the money to pay for their increase in personal allowances and changing the point at the rich start paying tax, especially when they are going have to make other savage cuts to produce the surplus they are promising to reduce the counties debt.

Well I think I have worked it out, it from the freezing of the benefits of working adults and the unemployed which which £3bn within the first two years of being in effect and will continue to save money year on year even when the freeze is over. This money combined with forecasts of higher employment and the corresponding increase in tax take will pay for the his tax cutting pledge. 

The problem is the people the press will he is helping by taking the earners of minimum wage out of paying tax will probably also see the value of the benefits they receive going down, relativity to what they would have been without the freeze in benefits. Probably to the tune of around the £250 per year. This will result in a net gain of zero. In fact before the increase of the personal allowance the effects of the benefit freeze will mean they are actually worse off up until 2020.

The same saving from the benefits freeze will also be passed on to the rich in the raising the threshold that they start paying the top rate of tax. This will give them an additional saving in tax over that of the people of lower incomes while the poor have had to suffer for years by living on the breadline because their tax credits and other benefits have been falling  in real terms. In effect he will be taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich, but that should come as no surprise to anyone that has worked out that the Conservatives only ever look out for their own. 

If the Conservative Party win the next election may be the song the poor hard working people on the breadline will be singing has this as the chorus:

Robbing Dave, Robbing Dave, driving through the city

Robbing Dave, Robbing Dave, with his band of merry men

Feared by the poor, loved by the rich

Robbing Dave, Robbing Dave, Robbing Dave

I just hope they lose, because having listened to them for the last few days they are starting to lose the plot in every sense of the word. Good Governance is looking after the country, the people and protecting it for the future and that something they have failed to do and will continue to fail to do. The poor in this country will continue to get poorer while the rich continue to get richer with the posh boys and their mates in charge.