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Nigel Farage blasted for ‘fantasy economics’ as Reform claims £225billion savings by axing net zero projects

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Nigel Farage explains the politics of Reform UK: Racism, Fake anti-establishmentism, Deregulation, Corporatism, Climate Change Denial, Mysogyny and Transphobia.
Nigel Farage explains the politics of Reform UK: Racism, Fake anti-establishmentism, Deregulation, Corporatism, Climate Change Denial, Mysogyny and Transphobia.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/farage-reform-net-zero-tax-labour-child-winter-fuel-b1229834.html

He is calling for the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap and restoring the winter fuel payment to all pensioner

Nigel Farage’s tax and spend plans were slammed as “fantasy economics” as Reform UK claimed it could save a massive £225 billion over five years by scrapping net zero projects.

The Reform UK leader was seeking to march onto Labour territory by making a series of pledges including axing the two-child benefit limit and restoring the winter fuel allowance for all pensioners.

Mr Farage’s party also wants the threshold for paying the basic rate of income tax to be dramatically increased from £12,570 to £20,000.

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Reform sources said the £225 billion figure of savings from ditching net zero projects was based on a report by the Institute for Government.

But the IfG stressed that the bulk of this green investment, highlighted in the paper called “Paying for Net Zero” was due to come from the private sector, not public funds.

Jill Rutter, senior fellow at the IfG, told The Standard: “Cancelling private investment does not save the Government money.”

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Song lampooning Keir Starmer over winter fuel cuts hits number one

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Keir Starmer says pensioners can freeze to death and poor children can starve and be condemned to failure and misery all their lives.
Keir Starmer says pensioners can freeze to death and poor children can starve and be condemned to failure and misery all their lives.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24798711.song-lampooning-keir-starmer-winter-fuel-cuts-hits-number-one

A PARODY song lampooning Keir Starmer’s Labour Government for its cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment has hit number one in the UK charts.

The song Freezing This Christmas – by the artist “Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers” – hit the top of the Official Big Top 40 chart on December 15.

The song uses the tune of the 1974 Mud classic Lonely This Christmas, which also topped the charts at number one when it was first released.

The parody version goes: “It’ll be freezing this Christmas, without fuel at home, it’ll be freezing this Christmas, while Keir Starmer is warm. It’ll be cold, so cold, without fuel at home, this Christmas.”

The song then uses a clip of Starmer saying: “She told me that she doesn’t get out of bed till midday because she doesn’t want to turn the heating on.”

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https://www.thenational.scot/news/24798711.song-lampooning-keir-starmer-winter-fuel-cuts-hits-number-one

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Morning Star Editorial: Change or die: Starmer must abandon Treasury orthodoxy or face oblivion

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/change-or-die-starmer-must-abandon-treasury-orthodoxy-or-face-oblivion

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (left) and Health Secretary, Wes Streeting during a visit to the University College London Hospital (UCLH), September 11, 2024

“CHANGE or die” was Keir Starmer’s message to the National Health Service.

But it could as well apply to his own government, which already appears locked in a downward spiral.

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Labour secured the election with the smallest share of the vote for a new government in history and on a low turnout to boot. Barely one eligible voter in five chose Labour on July 4.

Starmer himself, moreover, saw half of his 2019 vote — and that was not a good year for Labour — disappear in his north London constituency.

But the only conclusion he has apparently drawn is that more misery must be piled on the public.

First, he maintained the cruel two-child benefit cap, and suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party those MPs who had the temerity to vote to lift children out of poverty.

Then he appeared in the Downing Street garden to announce that things were only going to get worse for the foreseeable future, preparing the way for that new round of austerity he had pledged to avoid during the election campaign.

His pretence is that “tough choices” are needed because of an unexpected “black hole” left behind in the public finances by the Tories.

But the choices made by Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Starmer are always “tough” at the expense of the poorest.

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In 2017 Labour estimated that means-testing the winter fuel allowance would lead to nearly 4,000 extra fatalities. Today, following exactly that policy, the government conceals the possible consequences, having either not commissioned an assessment of the policy’s impact, or determined to hide it.

It is said that you only get one chance to make a first impression. The first impression of this government is now set in stone — it is of callous cost-consciousness compounded by concealment.

This is not “fixing the foundations” as Starmer claims. It is fracturing them, and many Labour MPs know it.

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/change-or-die-starmer-must-abandon-treasury-orthodoxy-or-face-oblivion

Keir Starmer says pensioners can freeze to death and poor children can starve and be condemned to failure and misery all their lives.
Keir Starmer says pensioners can freeze to death and poor children can starve and be condemned to failure and misery all their lives.
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