The great 10p tax rip-off

Labour Government DOUBLES tax rate for lower paid pensioners and families

Anger at Gordon Brown’s decision to abolish the 10p tax rate costing the low paid hundreds of pounds a year won’t go away.

Just days after Labour MPs voted through the tax hike, Labour was handed its worst local election result in forty years.

Local campaigner Elizabeth Shenton said, “Labour are robbing the poor to pay the rich. It’s the kind of move we might have expected from a Conservative Government.”

The Liberal Democrats are leading the fight against the tax rise that is hitting thousands of people in Crewe and Nantwich.

Elizabeth Shenton said, “This tax hike hits the people that Labour used to stand up for.

“Pensioners, low paid families and many other people who can’t afford to lose hundreds of pounds a year. It is a heartless and cruel tax rise.”

Facing a rebellion from his own MPs, Gordon Brown has been forced to announce that some of the people who lose out might get compensation. But no one will get anything for at least six months. Even then it’s not clear how many people will get their money back and how they will receive it.

Elizabeth Shenton said, “Labour are completely out of touch with real life if they think the least well off can wait six months or more to get back money that belongs to them. This is too little too late.”

From: Elizabeth Shenton