Thursday, October 19, 2006
Don't be afraid
Possibly picking up on the art of spin, it appears that Conservative proposals for tax cuts were inadvertently published on their web site yesterday. (See The Times here).
The proposals are both overdue and excellent proposing to reduce government revenues to the tune of twenty one billion pounds and totally exempt two and a half million people (those on low incomes) from paying tax altogether.
The article says: "Fears about Conservative tax policies have cost the party dearly in the past two elections." This is rubbish, what has cost the Conservatives, is a failure to make the case for tax cuts, and they must take care not to fall into that trap again. It should be easy to make the case especially with a profligate government spending money like it's going out of fashion. See here for a story in the Daily Express telling us about Gordon (I want to be Prime Minister) Brown spending fifty six million pounds of our money on hotel bills for government apparatchiks.
So Conservative party members and leaders yes I'm talking to you: Don't be frightened of tax cuts! Go out there and make the case for tax cuts when they ask what public services you'll cut back on? Say None! Say we'll cut back on government hotel bills, on unnecessary levels of mismanagement, point out how "public" services haven't got any better despite the increased billions being supposedly spent on them. Don't accept Labour lies lying down, for example Ed Balls(up) in the article saying: "“These are tax cuts for the few. This is the same old Conservative Party." Say: No! these are tax cuts that exempt the lowest earning two and a half million people in the country from paying tax, and for other low earners, a tax cut in the basic rate from 22% to 20%, how can this be a "tax cut for the few"?
Margaret Thatcher would never have allowed such a perfidious misrepresentation of a Conservative position to go unchallenged and neither should you. If I as a pathetic little blogger with no resources can do this; how much easier for you? Trust your instincts and trust the people, go for tax cuts. Let's put Labour on the run.
The proposals are both overdue and excellent proposing to reduce government revenues to the tune of twenty one billion pounds and totally exempt two and a half million people (those on low incomes) from paying tax altogether.
The article says: "Fears about Conservative tax policies have cost the party dearly in the past two elections." This is rubbish, what has cost the Conservatives, is a failure to make the case for tax cuts, and they must take care not to fall into that trap again. It should be easy to make the case especially with a profligate government spending money like it's going out of fashion. See here for a story in the Daily Express telling us about Gordon (I want to be Prime Minister) Brown spending fifty six million pounds of our money on hotel bills for government apparatchiks.
So Conservative party members and leaders yes I'm talking to you: Don't be frightened of tax cuts! Go out there and make the case for tax cuts when they ask what public services you'll cut back on? Say None! Say we'll cut back on government hotel bills, on unnecessary levels of mismanagement, point out how "public" services haven't got any better despite the increased billions being supposedly spent on them. Don't accept Labour lies lying down, for example Ed Balls(up) in the article saying: "“These are tax cuts for the few. This is the same old Conservative Party." Say: No! these are tax cuts that exempt the lowest earning two and a half million people in the country from paying tax, and for other low earners, a tax cut in the basic rate from 22% to 20%, how can this be a "tax cut for the few"?
Margaret Thatcher would never have allowed such a perfidious misrepresentation of a Conservative position to go unchallenged and neither should you. If I as a pathetic little blogger with no resources can do this; how much easier for you? Trust your instincts and trust the people, go for tax cuts. Let's put Labour on the run.
Tags: tax cuts, Conservatives
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