How Labour policies will bring Britain to brink of destruction
SHOCKINGLY, Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell has made it clear he will send accountants to jail simply for advising their clients on how they can legally avoid paying so much tax. They’re not breaking the law but he doesn’t like what they’re doing, so that’s that.
On top of that he wants trade unions to settle 100 per cent of workers’ wages – taking us way beyond the bad old days of 1970s collective bargaining. It’s the kind of totalitarian Marxism we’re used to seeing in failed countries such as Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
We can’t say we haven’t been warned as McDonnell gleefully compares tax avoidance to burglary. “If you were advising someone how to burgle a house,” he says, “you wouldn’t be able to use professional privilege, would you?” He wants the state to poke its nose into private conversations between clients and financial advisers.
Tax evasion is illegal, but tax avoidance is not. We’re all entitled not to pay any more tax than we have to and professional guidance on that is welcome. But according to McDonnell it’s verging on a criminal act.
This is a very worrying development as Labour is increasingly open about passing laws that make more and more of our daily activities illegal merely because it offends their self- righteous sense of fairness. nies what they must their pay workers whether they can afford it or not. Just as in the 1970s, this will lead to staggering levels of unemployment and industry- wide strikes.
This bombshell comes on top of days of revolutionary proposals by Labour as they prepare for their party conference next week.
Take education. Many working people scrimp and save to send their children to private schools to give them a better start in life than they had. But a Corbyn- led government is threatening to take away their charitable status and add VAT to independent school fees. That means private schooling will finally be pushed out of reach of humbler parents and become purely the preserve of superrich bankers and aristocrats. Where’s the fairness in that?
Then there’s the plan to order private companies to give 10
M IF THAT’S not bad enough, Labour wants to shift power back into the hands of trade union barons so they can determine how much we are all paid.
“Twenty- five to 30 years ago 80 per cent of us had their wages determined by sectoral collective bargaining,” says McDonnell. Now it’s 20 per cent, but the man who wants to be our next Chancellor wants to see it rise to 100 per cent.
That means that trade unions will be telling private compaper cent of their shares to their workers. If companies refuse, will their owners face jail too?
With many people living on declining fixed incomes thanks to getting near zero interest on their bank savings, it’s no surprise that some have put their lifetime- accumulated nest- eggs into buying a small rental property. Now Labour views these people as making a “fast buck” and wants to use the law to force them to sell their properties at less than their market value. That’s not fairness, that’s state- sanctioned theft.
Last weekend saw the funeral of Marxist tyrant Robert Mugabe. During his oppressive rule he turned Zimbabwe from the breadbasket of southern Africa into its basket- case economy with rampant inflation and sky- high unemployment. Part of this had been because his regime stole farms from their white owners and gave them to cronies who had no idea how to run a successful business. Black farm workers lost their jobs and their families faced famine.
That was meant to be about fairness but ended in a nightmare of violence and poverty. At the same time Tony Blair was Labour Prime Minister and could have intervened in the process but his overseas development minister had little sympathy for the dispossessed farmers. ARXISTS see nothing wrong in changing the law to redistribute wealth from one sector of society they demonise to another sector they hope will vote for them. If anyone resists, they will send them to prison. First it will be tax advisers and landlords, then who next?
Far from making Britain fairer, many of Labour’s recent proposals will make the gap bigger between rich and poor. Radical socialism in other countries has brought their economies to the brink of destruction and if Corbyn and McDonnell are ever allowed into power, the UK will suffer a similar fate. In their misguided attempt to spread wealth around, they will make us all poorer.