Sunak comes across like the prat he is. “Labor will raise taxes by £2,000 for everybody” regardless of the question. Talking over all the time, not listening to the moderator. Appalling creature. Starmer sympathises a lot with people asking questions without answering them. Skating around or just plainly ignoring questions all the time. I can’t watch this shit a minute longer.
Not watching any of it. I already know what they’re going to say and it would just make me cross.
Just to be clear, I did not want to make any points about politics, just rant about the quality of the debate of the people who want to lead.
I avoided seeing it. As I remarked to a similar post in Another Place, were you expecting anything different?
Naively I was hoping for something a bit more civilised. All I got was a notch up in blood pressure.
I think Labour has already pledged not to raise taxes, but let’s play devil’s advocate and pretend that they were going to slap a £2000 on everyone of working age.
Doing some fuzzy maths based on statistics I can find online from 2 years ago, that’s roughly 45 million people, or £90 billion a year. Or to put in into the Brexit campaign’s favourite terms, £1.7 billion per week going into public coffers.
I’m not suggesting such a flat structure would actually make sense as a policy, but that maybe tax rises as a concept aren’t always a universally bad thing.
Starmer was an awful debater yet he still looked good compared to Sunak…
