To wonder why the conservatives won't just tax people more ??

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Am I missing something here ?

Clearly there is a scarcity of money - and certain areas are rightly ring fenced .

But don't tell me that most working families can't afford an average of £50 a month - this would exclude people on low income , and for some families it £10 and for some £200 -

The UK is full of families and individuals with disposable income - a minor tax increase for 40% of the working population could raise £11bn

So why won't they do it ??? Baffles me - I would personally rather pay more tax and know that the vulnerable are cared for

On the question of Corbyn I think it is difficult to deny that he has changed the perception / reality that Labour are Tory light. The tax credits changes would not have been dropped if Liz Kendal, Yvette Cooper or even Andy Burnham had won the leadership contest imo.

I think the jury is out on whether he is electable but it is a bit rich to criticise his UKIP swing voter appeal when it is widely accepted that Corbyn has been persuaded to muzzle his Euroscepticism by the Labour establishment.

On Academies and the Torys I suspect the real driver is accounting smoke and mirrors. All the health trust "deficits" are off the government books and it won't be long before all Academy Trusts are all also running unfunded deficits. As a Scot I object to the Barnet consequential impact of that. As a UK voter I object to constant misquoting of economic data from the chancellor. I am not persuaded that his mismanagement is not in fact just down to ignorance rather than malice.

Mistiri...

VAT rose when the tax cuts came in during the 80s, it also post 2010.

Interestingly real wages of the average have stagnated since the neo liberal economics took hold in the 1980s, but profits, dividends, executive pay and bonuses have risen exponentially.

I'm not sure on Corbyn, I hope he will get better tbh, I also hope that the younger vote may have an impact. For whatever the poster above said, when it was calculated in lots of seats the margin between the tories and Labour wasn't that much.

I have to have some hope for the future. The thought of Osborne, Johnson or Gove in office scares me.