Sunday 30 June 2013



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SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2013

Read Guido’s Column in The Sun Today


A new strapline for Guido in the Sun. Read about how Boris bellowed at Guido about last week’s “bald spot” story. Ladies, Guido reports what it is like to run your fingers though his hair.

Elsewhere in today’s column:
  • When Theresa May enforced the peace between Lawson and Saatchi
  • Genetically Modified Clegg
  • Hodge wastes taxpayers’ money trying to save taxpayers’ money
  • Buzzwords, burgers and a barbecue for Tory MPs
  • All your latest reshuffle rumours
Politics for the many, not the few, just 60p…
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June 30, 2013 at 10:54 am  Comments (11)

SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2013

Does this Government Care About Middle Class Families?

Guido knew that the structure of marginal tax rates following a decade of Brown’s insidiously stealthy taxation and redistribution was malformed. How malformed was only driven home after reading a note from the Centre for Policy Studies. It is obscene how this government has punitively taxed the middle classes…
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The CPS use a simple not atypical example of a married man with two children, who has no savings or investment income, and no student loans. Factoring in allowances and changes to child benefit, his marginal rates will be as above. A middle-class single income family with 2 children and the father earning £50,001 will have a marginal tax rate of 59.5%. You don’t have to be a fully paid-up member of the Taxpayers’ Alliance to think that is far too much.
Next year will be the thirtieth anniversary of Nigel Lawson’s 1984 Tax Reforms. George Osborne says he is Lawsonian, if the Chancellor wants a legacy and the gratitude of the electorate, simpler, flatter, fairer taxeswould be the right thing to do. It might win back the middle classes at the ballot box as well…
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