Nigel Farage has pitched an £80 billion tax-slashing, family-boosting spree funded by axing Net Zero and public sector waste. The Mailhas the details.
The Reform leader trolled that Keir Starmer is “terrified” of the threat from the insurgents as he committed to scrap the two-child benefit cap altogether and fully restore winter fuel payments.
Alongside the moves on the totemic issues for Left-wingers, Mr Farage used a press conference in Westminster to announce plans for a transferable marriage tax allowance worth around £1,000 a year.
However, Reform is facing mounting questions about how they plan to pay for the extraordinary giveaways, with national opinion polls suggesting they might end up in a position to implement the policies.
The respected IFS think-tank said the flagship proposal to increase the personal allowance from around £12,000 to £20,000 would cost between £50 billion and £80 billion by itself. …
He argued that £40 billion a year could be saved nationally by scrapping Net Zero, as well as billions more by axing “DEI” initiatives and quangos – although he conceded his hopes for savings might be “slightly optimistic”.
The party would also stop “young, undocumented males” coming across the Channel and being put up in “five star hotels” with “free dental”.
Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride said the pledges amounted to well over £60 billion of extra spending, while Reform supporter Tim Mongtomerie this morning admitted the sums do not yet “add up”.
Mr Farage’s intervention is designed to embarrass Sir Keir, as the PM and ministers wrestle over proposals for cutting benefits. …
Mr Farage denied there was a contradiction between being “the party of workers” and the “party of entrepreneurs”.
And the Reform chief said lifting the two-child benefit cap was a way of helping “British families” rather than people who “come in and have a lot of kids”. …
The married couple tax allowance would exempt one spouse from paying tax on the first £25,000 of their income.
The other would enjoy a tax-free income of £20,000, the level to which Reform has promised to raise the threshold for the basic rate.
At present, workers pay the 20% rate of income tax on everything between £12,570 and £50,270. Critics say that move alone would cost at least £50 billion.
Mr Farage said: “We need to encourage people to have families and ensure they feel financially able to have them. The collapsing birth rate in the UK, now well below the rates needed, is an existential crisis for our country. The Tories and Labour have sought to solve it with open borders.” …
Mr Farage said Reform would pay for winter fuel payments and ending the two-child benefit cap by scrapping Net Zero and the “DEI agenda”. …
“If we win the next election, we will scrap Net Zero, something that is costing the Exchequer an extraordinary £40 billion plus every year. There will be no more asylum hotels or houses of multiple occupancy. People who come here illegally, across the channel or on the back of lorries will not be allowed to stay. We will scrap the DEI agenda, which is costing the taxpayer up to £7 billion a year throughout the public sector, and yes, we see considerable savings to be made amongst the quangos.
“So yes, I do accept that these proposals, especially the one of lifting to £20,000 the level at which people start paying tax, I accept that it’s expensive, but I genuinely believe that we can pay for it because we’re not ideologically tied to the same ideas upon which we believe the Conservative and Labour governments have gone so wrong.” …
Mr Farage also declared that he would reverse the deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and pay billions of pounds to lease back the Diego Garcia military base.
However, it is unclear how Reform would do that after the treaty has been ratified.
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Jabby Mcstiff
2 months ago
This is a bad sign when you see alignment across the political spectrum for very basic welfare provisions. I’m sure I don’t need to say that they don’t give a crap. Government largesse counts for nothing in times of genuine shortages and they are very much in the pipeline if you track staple food production and its reduction in terms of crop yields and concommitant rise in price. This is the stage that we are at and have you heard a peep about it?
Pete Sutton
2 months ago
It will be interesting to see how Farage will ensure that child benefit help “British families” rather than people who “come in and have a lot of kids”. A good thing if he can make it happen.
Gezza England
2 months ago
Stop wasting taxpayers money and you do not need to keep robbing them of their money. The DOGE is finding huge amounts of waste which the DemoTwats are fighting against as they and their friends are prospering from the corruption. With the money saved Donald can reduce taxes although the Far Left media keep ignoring this fact and claim Donald will ruin the US economy. The downgrade of the US credit rating from Moody’s is because they are run by a Far Left Trump hater and nothing more.
bribing voters with their own money is part of the problem, not the solution. What about a Great Repeal Act, a proper Brexit and every quango scrapped?
Don’t forget no immigration and remigration.
Do you want to save the country or is Reform just vehicle for making you Prime Minister?
Re your last question, probably somewhere in between but maybe the best we can hope for. I guess I am what people call a minarchist but we are so far from arriving at that as a political philosophy that I have to accept the slim pickings that might arrive.
Heretic
2 months ago
All these promises sound good, but don’t all politicians promise lots of things, and then abandon them after winning elections?
Look at the two people in the background of that photo above. On the right is the female magistrate keen on Third World Immigrants, looking downcast, and on the left is the Third World Immigrant looking… where is he looking, by the way? Try as I might, every time I see a photo of him, he reminds me of some kind of Deep Sea Fish that David Attenborough might discover lurking in the ocean depths…
Of course, and something Labour cannot understand, is that when Nut Zero is scrapped, the general cost-of-business significantly reduces, stimulating the economy across the board, especially heavy industry, steel, chemicals, etc. This has a big positive effect on not just tax revenue, but also reducing the social security bill, as real jobs are created.
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This is a bad sign when you see alignment across the political spectrum for very basic welfare provisions. I’m sure I don’t need to say that they don’t give a crap. Government largesse counts for nothing in times of genuine shortages and they are very much in the pipeline if you track staple food production and its reduction in terms of crop yields and concommitant rise in price. This is the stage that we are at and have you heard a peep about it?
It will be interesting to see how Farage will ensure that child benefit help “British families” rather than people who “come in and have a lot of kids”. A good thing if he can make it happen.
Stop wasting taxpayers money and you do not need to keep robbing them of their money. The DOGE is finding huge amounts of waste which the DemoTwats are fighting against as they and their friends are prospering from the corruption. With the money saved Donald can reduce taxes although the Far Left media keep ignoring this fact and claim Donald will ruin the US economy. The downgrade of the US credit rating from Moody’s is because they are run by a Far Left Trump hater and nothing more.
Dear Nigel,
bribing voters with their own money is part of the problem, not the solution. What about a Great Repeal Act, a proper Brexit and every quango scrapped?
Don’t forget no immigration and remigration.
Do you want to save the country or is Reform just vehicle for making you Prime Minister?
Re your last question, probably somewhere in between but maybe the best we can hope for. I guess I am what people call a minarchist but we are so far from arriving at that as a political philosophy that I have to accept the slim pickings that might arrive.
All these promises sound good, but don’t all politicians promise lots of things, and then abandon them after winning elections?
Look at the two people in the background of that photo above. On the right is the female magistrate keen on Third World Immigrants, looking downcast, and on the left is the Third World Immigrant looking… where is he looking, by the way? Try as I might, every time I see a photo of him, he reminds me of some kind of Deep Sea Fish that David Attenborough might discover lurking in the ocean depths…
Of course, and something Labour cannot understand, is that when Nut Zero is scrapped, the general cost-of-business significantly reduces, stimulating the economy across the board, especially heavy industry, steel, chemicals, etc. This has a big positive effect on not just tax revenue, but also reducing the social security bill, as real jobs are created.
But they can’t do it, because Greta and David Attenborough will be upset with them…
“Giveaway for Families”
How can not taking people’s money from them be a giveaway to them?
Exactly, that’s the position we’ve got to with this craziness!