The latest budget announcements from Chancellor Rishi Sunak, which can be perhaps best described as “shit with a bow on” have seen very little to combat the rising cost of living crisis. The promise of a 1p tax deduction by 2024 (huh?) will do very little to help working families now, and will ultimately benefit the highest earners far more than those on the lowest tax bracket, who are already struggling to make ends meet – or so we’re told by people who understand these things.
But whilst we buckle down and light some candles and wait for 2024 when we might be about to afford an packet of Aldi’s own gingernuts for the staff room, we would like to give a nod to the fantastic response to the budget from Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves.
Not only referring to Sunak as “Ted Heath with an Instagram account”, but also going off on a fabulous Alice in Wonderland* analogy; comparing Sunak to “Humpty Dumpty” who says “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean”.
You can watch the full response in the video below:
We looked into trips to Sunakland, to see if lower taxes really do mean higher taxes, but we could not find one that was ATOL protected, and with the economy as it is at the moment we decided not to risk the interns on a trip…
*Humpty Dumpty features in Alice Through the Looking Glass
You can listen to both Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass for free on Libravox.
