“WAR On The Rich” | Labour Government Slammed Over ‘Painful’ Taxes
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Political commentator Theo Usherwood joins Talk’s Mike Graham to discuss the most important issues of the day, including the taxation policies of the Labour Government, that are hurting UK businesses and the rich class.
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unfortunately the lesson that successive labour governments have failed to learn is that a percentage of something is better than nothing at all
The more money that's in a system means there's more that circulates cancel culture limits the potential of the whole economy secondly corporation tax is a lot lower than income tax. i Think it would be better to take the impact for a short while lowering corporation tax to a more competitive level until the economy has grown at the current rate a 5% reduction in corporation tax you'd need to make up for about £5 Billion pound in the Budget. Income tax collection is 270 Billion pound. there needs to be an aspect of global corporation investment and Home Grown Businesses. We all pay our fair share. corporations are not being ripped off their just comparing rates. But when you do business in Britain you get British ingenuity with British global ties access to infrastructure close to the European market.
And above all we must keep the poor poor.
No, that's rubbish. Work hard, make sacrifices, and be driven are a few traits you need to be successful. There will always be rich and poor, people that do and people that don't. It's simple. By the way I'm poor. Be happy with what you have or try harder.
What about the average pensioners
Net zero is a load of bollocks
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they have messed up big time making the 22 billion pound black hole up , if that was you or I that done that we would have lost our jobs and been put in prison. just because they have authority doesn't mean they shouldn't be treated any differently to any other human. they are a disgrace to this county and to the people they are . shame shame shame
We have at least 5 million Deliveroo moped riders on their way with their disabled and family members. We don’t need to worry. They will kickstart the economy and put the Great back into Britain 🙄
Yes that delivery trend is a sign that we are in big trouble
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@ NEVER ever having a battery car either!!!!!
likely taking cash, and warehouse with their own to avoid taxes into the system whilst taking benefits and the government also sends foreign aid! The British people get nothing and expected to be grateful. Who sends our Country money 🤔🤔🤔
I'm from the city of Lincoln and not that long ago most Deliveroo moped riders were of student age and white British. Now a good proportion of them are African and Asian Muslims.
Government overreach. Trying to justify their indexed pensions and pathetic unnecessary existence.
Well now you know why the most richest are leaving UK. UK has already lost 10,800 Millionaires in 2024.
didn't Gordon Brown learn this the hard way as well?
That is the goal of Marxism.
It's the communist playbook. Communists want middle classes gone.
How many of those millionaires are foreigners?
It's just a matter of time before third world countries like Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam accidentally find themselves home to the richest and most powerful companies in the world.
The voice of Rachel from accounts makes my toes curl. Awful
💯, Rayner, thieves, starmer, sillyband they all speak and sound the same and speak the same, they all speak to us like they are the head teacher of our school
Starmer android
Mine too. Horrible smug woman
They all have the same training. Dull tedious meaningless platitudes.
If they had gotten there with that extremism thing the other day, just saying that about a woman would have you labelled an extremist.
Classic Labour Party, infinitely more interested in redistributing wealth rather than creating wealth.
Graham your Ranting is entertaining 😂😂 you claim to care about the pensioners but defending the Ritch
Redistributing other people's wealth.
That's why the PM and the chancellor reply "Growth" to every question they're asked.
@@jasoncooper1728 Let's get rid of the rich and rely on the poor the pensioners and the unemployed/work-shy to pay our taxes? the economics of a fool.
@@ShyTalks-d8b They may reply growth but they've no idea how to achieve it.
I am just listening to Rachel from accounts, talking about how she's building the economy and growth. I'm not a pretend economist, and even I know she's talking out of her arse.
I think Labour have proven how much we actually need a constitution
they should be held accountable for wasting our money
But never on them selves!
I despise Rachel Reeves.
But Keir's worth £10 million why's this ok for him? More hypocrisy and double standards. I have two +20 year old kids no way they can get a decent job in this climate to get there own place and cover their expenses let alone consider having children
Tbh I think that's the whole idea.....
Unfortunately some people are living with their parents at nearly 30 years old or in other shared accommodation and the chances of getting a council house or flat is zero, unless you are a foreigner fresh off the boat.
They despise the Rich, but the most important Labour politicians are all rich and millionaires.
Thats is dictatorship, enrich themselves and impoverish the rest!
That's because labour are the biggest walking hypocrites ever.
What is clear is that despite all their rubbish about change and having a plan, they in fact had no plan and no ideas. They are a disaster on every level.
If Liebour hate the rich,why are there so many millionaires in their party.😊
Nice one
Because they are all pickpockets. Pickpocketing money from people working in the private sector
Good point.
How many Labour MPs are millionaires. ?
Too many, we need to know where they are investing their money, that will tell the story
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@@RayTeggie-er7pbprobably China 🇨🇳
Depends on how many houses they have flipped.
@ Nice one.
Starmer is rich so why isn't he taxing himself and the others also like him ? Thats how silly this is ....
He is ONLY a multi millionaire receiving gifts from a billionaire
Starmer doesn't tax anybody. Parliament sets the tax laws.
Starmer pays tax just like everyone else.
@@ShyTalks-d8bbut……. He pays very little tax. Obviously has a fabulous accountant. He doesn’t care about the British public.
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but … the OP implied he pays NO TAX.
Which is a LIE.
@@ShyTalks-d8b So your saying the PRIME MINISTER doesn't have no control on how tax is done, the man who has final say on government policy and taxes. With the majority in Parliament.
They need more money how else are they going to pay the hotels for the migrants coming across on the boats into the country everyday
I worked at HBOS. And Rachel Reeves, managed a desk of 8 kids, who earned £11k a year each. That was the complaints department, for things like their bank card hadn't arrived. It would be like someone working in Greggs saying that they were a culinary finance administrator. Just because they used a till.
It's the consumers that will pay! There is NO WAY these companies will lower their profits , that's why farmers are protesting because we are price takers not price makers, Reeves got a merit in economics!!! She also maxed out her credit card 10 years ago 🤦🤦
Is that home economics ?
The third Runway?
Welcome to the new HS3!
THEY JUST GAVE 17 MILLION AWAY TO GAZA WHY ?
So now we are going to get equality of poverty for those of us who cant leave?
I never had much faith in politicians but now with this lot labour l have even less now
It's almost as if everything is failing in a coordinated fashion as part of a an unacknowledged plan.
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"We understand why they hate them, they're rich"
I'm not rich, i grew up on a council estate, i joined the royal navy then left to plaster houses. My mum's a nurse and my dad a mechanic. I know the world is unfair and it sucks, but it's not the fault of people striving forward. If i were to become rich, would that mean i would be hated? For what?
Reeves is suddenly Extremely upbeat and excited about the economy because her downbeat criticism of the economy two months ago was causing so much anxiety in the business community.
AIRHEAD!!!
Now the business community knows the extent of her 'skills' they're even more anxious.
These MPs will change their tune when they can’t afford to do the things they enjoy or even afford to live. If only they could wake up and see the truth of their party agenda.
Just wait until there’s no money to pay their extortionate salaries etc. who will they blame? The private sector?
I work for a very large foreign technology company within the UK, we are not allowed to employ UK resources now, everything has to be offshore!
Labour seem to have not noticed that it's so easy to move a business to another country and still trade as before.
Rachel 3rd runway where is the money coming from
magic money tree
We are trillions in debt, the money from scamming us goes abroad and to all the illegal lying invaders, none spent here
I bet they'll get Chinese investment and then that will give that country yet another foothold in our economy.
Labour's economic growth was creating 25 new Quangos. So growth in the public sector😮
He's a multi millionaire living in Hampstead - TOTAL HYPOCRITE !!!!
EVERY 3 WEEKS THEY DO A RE-SET 😂😂ANYONE WOULD THINK THIS GOVERNMENT DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING
Are they taking lessons from Huggy Markel.
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We need a third run way Heathrow
Millions leaving UK
While
Millions of migrants coming to uk every year
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It not rocket science
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More And More Regular Immigrants To Get Richer And Richer. Melting Pot Britain
If I was a millionaire I’d be gone aswell
10% of the country pay for over 60% of the country but these ideological clowns talk about the rich paying their fair share. It’s crazy.
It’s scary when the bills are more than the mortgage
Restaurants and shops are closing at a alarming rate in Barcelona so it's happening everywhere same story different place✌️🐸
Labour are the epitome of stupid! Doing the same thing - tax & spend - expecting a different result! They never learn 🙄🤦♂️.
The Private Sector improves the economy, the Public Sector doesn't. And who have Labour rewarded ... their fanbase, the Public Sector. Labour don't have a clue on the economy, or anything else for that matter.
Tell me... where does everyone in the public sector spend it's money? The private sector. Before you say that you don't need the public sector, firstly, take a look what's included in it and explain why everyone is against "privatisation" of the public sector services?
In my eyes it's greed at top
Should be asking which country labour work for?
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
Thomas Sowell
Is Sowell very rich and very greedy?
Sick of them both,just resign.
You are supposed to be good get an education, get a good job, house, etc, but not be successful. I think it's about not letting money replace your soul and help those less fortunate, ideally.
For some their lust for money is obscene, as with Politicians. They can't settle for what they preach.
The Labouring party still thinks the world is flat 🤦♂️
Why is a third runway at Heathrow a good thing, y’know on the outskirts of a city that has imposed ULEZ charges yet HS2 is unaffordable?
Just for their private jets
Sick to death of the noise, jettisoning fuel, I live in London, its hell
Things are hard enough for pensioners as it is!!... :( *Down with Starmer & his cabinet/backers!!... :(
The public section doesn't generate direct growth, but it can indirectly facilitate it through being efficient both in terms of speed and costs.
But it isnt the rich tho is it , it appears to be anyone or a couple on a medium of 45-50k
Biggest problem ive had with the rich , is the pitiful wages they pay
Absolutely!!!
The rich include the venomous toad, Starlin.
Shows how you need rich people. They own business and employ people. Maybe they find ways to get around paying all their taxes. But remember when they leave than the poor people must pay higher taxes to Make up difference. ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!
Graham don't mind war on the poor
No one cares for the peo0le that decidesd to make life decisions that lead to their own poverty. Self inflicted.
Make better decisions
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I always check property statistics, and the figures of available luxury homes for sale has shot through the roof in 2025 up by 80%. Places which are commonly known as luxury residence in inner city London and Sandbanks; recently this year now have huge long lists of property for sale and I mean; 1 million up to 65 million in price ( where it previously was just a handful of luxury homes for sale). An exodus of the rich is apparent, but lets face it, a regular English person has long been unable to get further or higher education without getting into debt and our children in 2025 can not afford property and many do not have the prospect of a good job. There is a huge wealth divide and now both are taxed, but one can flee, the other must sit and suffer.
Interesting thought, the mining of coal is bad, as is the burning of coal for cheap energy however the mining of lithium, cobalt and nickel is good?
This 1970's style labour government landing in 2024 is like watching a man enter modern civilisation who'd been raised by animals in a jungle.
All wide eyed and completely out of place with the reality of the world around them.
You've put your finger on it!! 😂
I would move tomorrow if I could mike. It breaks my heart. It makes me ill listening to all the negative news. Nothing good to look forward too. My girls struggling to get a home. They work damn hard, two jobs.
But they are all rich.
Sainsburys are closing all there Cafes,so all those workers will be made Redundant, sadly 😥
Maybe statmer worth over 10 million should pay TAX on his pension, 0h I forgot the torys put a vote through parliment so he does not have to .
So if the labour lot hate wealthy people then when are they donating all of there wealth 🤷🏼♀️Tony Blair , Keir and many others are worth millions . So when are they going on minimum wages and giving all their wealth away 😆sounds fair surly
The rich get rich and the poorer get poorer and now the rich are leaving destitute 😮
stop calling her rachael from accounts....she's rachael from complaints! lol
Charles needs to dissolve parliament ! We the people need to start writing to the King ,asking him to act on the people will, lets see if he is worthy of being King of England?
Not his job I am afraid. He might, if he thinks it is important have harsh words with the PM but it is a fantasy to think he might do anything. It is beyond his remit unless something drastically changes.
Charles co founded the wef , best of luck with that
LAUGH OUT LOUD
@@flappospammo he is actually the head of it...
The monarch cannot just dissolve parliament at a drop of a hat. @davepfizer is correct unless something drastic happens the monarch cannot intervene. Unfortunately many have forgotten what they were taught in school about the civil war and Cromwell's period as Lord Protector. So just to expand a bit on what @davepfizer said.
We had a civil war that changed how our monarch treats their subjects and interferes in parliament, yes that significantly changed. But not in the way that many think.
The monarch still has quite a bit of authority that many dismiss.
BUT before the monarch can formally intervene - Constituents would have to first petition their MP for change, if those MPs ignored those petitions, then other elements of our constitutional system would have to come in to play. If those elements failed, then that would be a different kettle of fish.
The constituents have to take the first step with their MP, if they don't, well, we just wait for the next general election.
The constitutional system in the UK is very complex, the monarch has a number of advisors and the Privy Council who advise the monarch of matters of state. It is through the constitutional system that political stability is maintained, this is due the monarch being politically impartial, this was brought about by the Civil War and the beheading of King Charles I in 1649.
To give you some idea of the power the monarch has - If we had a political party sitting in government or a Prime Minister who refused to leave office after a general election, the monarch could very easily dissolve parliament.
Also if the result of a general election did not produce a party with a majority or if the party with the most votes was unable to form a coalition. Then the monarch has the power to appoint a Prime Minister and then help them create a government, though it is important to note that the monarch IS NOT able to appoint MPs or determine who sits on the cabinet.
Only the monarch can dissolve parliament, which is why when Boris Johnson wanted to shut parliament down, he had to get permission from the queen, which was granted - the rationale that he used, it turned out is he convincingly lied or at least did not explain the whole reasons fully to the queen.
So to say that it is beyond the monarch’s remit, or that he has no power would not be strictly true subject to various caveats.
The image that King Charles III projects is that he appears not to be as strong as his mother. But do not underestimate his influence. He has very strong suggestive reasoning, just like his mother did.
Much of what the monarch thinks, discusses with others or does, very little of it makes it in to the public domain, or when a leak occurs, it can soon be removed from general sight. His mother on occasions has shall we say, informally gave the benefit of her wisdom, to the appropriate members of parliament. One example I can recall, do you remember the international embarrassing debacle of Brexit and how every attempt to agree a departure arrangement was blocked, and it went on and on, but then following the queen giving informally of a bit of her wisdom shall we say, again, suddenly the stalemate was broken.
King Charles’ image, that is held by many, is probably the result that many still have not got over the Princess Diane affair and other issues, so he is not as well liked in comparison to his mother.
Before the monarch can intervene in parliamentary affairs, the sitting government would have to seriously go against the interests of the whole country, not just against a lot who are not keen on what they are doing.
Any such intervention would likely have been preceded by dissension with the Labour back benches, and following a vote of no confidence in parliament, but we are not where near that yet - sadly.
The thing to understand is that the king cannot just dissolve parliament off his own back, he has to be petitioned through a very old and complicated system.
Just in the same way he has the power not to grant accession to an act, but he cannot decline without being petitioned not to sign the Act.
There was an instance where Queen Anne was petitioned and she declined to it being enacted, and there was an incident where Queen Elizabeth II was petitioned which resulted in an Act being amended before being enacted.
So have I got this right?
- A war on the rich is a war on everyone.
But
- A war on the poor is just a war on the poor.
Don’t ask us to be offended on behalf of a minuscule percentage of the population when we have our own problems.
Have Labour thought about what jobs citizens are going to do let alone illegal immigrants when AI takes over due to these high taxes 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Just stop sending all our money to forien contries
Why🎉 Are they taking it from our own hard working people
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We are back in 1977. Is he Sir Kim Stalin 2.0 or Jim Callaghan 2.0?
Is UK the North Korea 2.0 of Europe?
Just like 1977, the Reds of LFC will win the league &: euro championship titles. Emma Radukanu will win Wimbledon like Virginia Wade whilst UK enters a winter of discontent 2.O.
England will enter a dominant Ashes cricket winning era with Harry Brooks = Gower 2.0 etc and Lab our will be wiped out at the GE like Michael Foots lot
Nobody in this government has had a proper job and the PM is a lawyer not a leader. What expertise do they have? NONE.
Reeves is like a blind person looking for growth in a darkened room whilst wearing a blindfold. Clueless
Scrap the green policies, make mad milliband redundant and put the money into pulling genuine growth levers that give us maximum short to mid term growth bang for our buck. It’s simple not rocket science!
Isn't starmer rich perhaps I have that wrong didn't get away from paying the amount of tax on his pension. When don't starmer bloody leave the country
Trouble is people want everything for nothing. And we have seen over 14 yrs what rightwing policies have done to our public services, our nhs, our policing, our military etc…!
Labour is the most economically irresponsible government we have had in the last fifteen years.
So Starmer has the same salary as a teacher 😂
So if liebour hate the rich.
Why is starmer and co rich ?
So does starmer hate himself for being rich himself then😂
People in the labour are rich?
Rachel stopped growth
Would to work in MIRA work in Jaguar 24 yrs
Ah the classical whine over taxes. Will these people ever understand that wealth is created by the working class, not by business men?
What does KS spend personally on holidays etc £11,000 a year ??? ( State pension . ) And we pay MPs £350 a day plus expenses for turning up 🤔 ( winter fuel payment ) Also £35.000 a year is NOT the usual yearly income. More like £16,000 a year
He usually gets other mugs to pay
Someone has to pay to save our precious nhs and why not the rich paying more, after all they use it too, like A&E, which has been under huge pressure for years.
Blaming national living wage increase is beyond idiotic. Tesco, Asada, Lidl, Morrisons and Sainsbury's already pay above the new national living wage.
Tescos however made a £3,000,000,000 profit in 2024, while tescos CEO was paid £10,000,000 and you're blaming a 80p an hour wage rise during a cost of livling crisis.
If we didn't have uncontrolled immigration, the minimum wage would have risen naturally years ago due to simple demand and supply. Dont blame the poor who desperately need more money.
Makes a change from targeting the elderly, most people would rightly welcome the better off paying more.
Starmer is a clueless fool it’s business that create growth and not governments.
Questions that no one seems to be asking about biofuels. (noun: biofuel is a fuel derived immediately from living matter).
How many harvests a year can the tilled land sustain to produce biofuel.?
How much biofuel (of any kind) can be produced from 1 acre of land.?
How many acres of land will be set aside for biofuel production.?
As the UK imports 20% of its food, (only a small percentage of this are foods that the UK cannot produce), does this mean the UK will have to import more food as some of our land will be used for biofuel production.?
Will other countries have enough surplus food to export to the UK after setting aside land to produce their own biofuel.?
I am sure others could add to this list to point out the folly of biofuel replacing subterranean fuels.
Can I ask the audience please Chris?
Anyone who is rich wanting to dicth responsibility i got a company yet to be rich I'll pay whatever tax it is I'll donate whatever percentage it is to you to cover taxes
more biofuel = less food
I wonder if Mike talks over the end of everyone's sentences, or just this guy?
The country needs a national retraining programme there are currently estimated 9 million people out of work retailers accross the country are announcing job losses manufactoring is dying because of the national insurance increases your announing the jobs of the future but who will that benefit wouldnt it make sense to retrain people to fill these jobs of the future which are looking like 5 years away so you have quaalified people to fill the roles at tghe time the jobs are available. the country is in need of electricians plumbers builders to build the infrastructure and deployment of solar. the electricians are aging and the numbers to replace them are low to growing an economy doesnt just involve announcing buildings the more people who are working spend money if there is no demand for goods and services because people cant afford those goods and services then there is no need to supply them which leads to closures and job losses you want to get people working where are the jobs coming from tax is up council tax going up ni is up people are leaving the country in droves so estimated 1 millionare levaves every 40 minutes currently who takes on the tax burden will it be the general working people you claim not to want to tax. the solution is simple for the retraining side you pay out all this money on benfits year in year out rather than just cut the benefits pay them out whilst people go to collage or retrain if they refuse to retrain remove there benefits once they have retrained they have the skills and tools for these jobs of the future the government keeps banging on with everyone whats the benefits but nobody has a plan to fund it. ive just given you one free of charge
This is communism-lite