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RT @Phelimmac: Hunt has said council tax can rise by 5%
But it would need to rise by 4 times that to stop all the cuts that councils will have to make to return balanced budgets
The Tories have failed communities for the 12th year in a row
#AutumnStatement
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1593249474960556032
@CarolineLucas and along with VAT it’s still one of the most regressive taxes we have.
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Osbourne 2014 - we don’t invest enough , export enough or save enough .2014 borrowed 95billion - 2016 - 44 billion - OBR predicted 2019 UK would not need to borrow and would have a surplus of 5 billion In fact it increased to 44 billion a deterioration of 45 billion .Tories have blamed pandemic / war in Ukraine for 2022 economy- Osbourne and Cameron’s austerity years not only failed but public services were cut to the bone . 2022 austerity 2 ,will finish the job .