Nigel Farage to abandon Reform manifesto’s big plans for tax cuts

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/nigel-farage-abandon-reform-manifesto-tax-6cctqsz6h

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15 comments

  1. Is he also going to abandon any pretence that he’s a democrat?

  2. I mean, Reform hasn’t had a manifesto for years because they said that if they announce what their policies are, people can state for fact how and why they won’t work.

    So instead they just invented something new they call a ‘Contract with you’ and literally don’t bother with a manifesto.

    I’ve read their ‘contract to you’. They just involves sentences like ‘We believe Criminals should be punished’ and ‘We believe illegal immigration should be reduced’ – with absolutely no reference to how they’ll achieve any of this stuff at all, what their targets even are, or anything.

    IMO Farage has got this one right. Reform supports generally won’t have the patience or interest in learning actually what Nigel will do and I don’t think anyone with more than 3 GSCE’s think’s Nige has any actual, practical answers that could stand up to scrutiny. A few easy to read 7 words-or-less sentences is just about perfect for them.

    ‘We believe Britain should be strong’ with no more detail _at all_. It’s perfect for exactly who Reform are aiming for.

  3. Is it Annual Nigel Farage ~~Resignation~~ Goes Back On His Word Day again *already?*

    Didn’t he promise to leave the UK, if Brexit were a failure … and then himself pronounce Brexit a failure? What’s he still doing here?

    Oh, yeah …

  4. Add another one to the Nigel Farage U-turn back plans counter! We’re going to need another digit column on the laser display board Samantha we’re almost into triple figures 

  5. At least not having £90bn of illegitimate tax cuts might mean we will avoid a rerun of the Liz Truss silliness…

  6. The archived link in the automod message isn’t working for me. Does anyone have a non-paywalled link to the article that works?

  7. >a ban on borrowing to fund government expenditure

    Borrowing to invest in things like infrastructure is the one single type of borrowing the public get behind (and the only way to build basic stuff like electric grid expansion), so, yet another idiotic Reform economic policy I look forward to hearing about for weeks on end in the press.

  8. >In an interview in Wales with The Times, he also clarified that Reform’s previous pledge to increase the tax-free personal allowance to £20,000 — ­estimated by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) to cost between £50 billion and £80 billion — was “a goal we should ­aspire for”.

    So they’re U-turning on the kind of tax cuts that might have helped people on low and medium incomes. What about tax cuts that primarily benefit corporations and billionaires? The article seems conveniently light on detail about which tax cuts Reform would keep, and that’s not very reassuring considering that Farage described the Kami-Kwasi budget as “the best Conservative budget since 1986.”

  9. Bit of a clunky headline. Why not simply

    >Nigel Farage to abandon manifesto plans for tax cuts

  10. Well yeah. Now that they’re starting to gain some semblance of power they’re finding out that there in fact isn’t a massive wellspring of amazing DOGE-style efficiency savings to be made and hence any chat about tax cuts was essentially a load of bollocks.

    If they come to power at the national level Farage will experience the same precipitous popularity decline as Starmer has for that exact same reason.

    Eight Reform UK councils ‘set to hike tax’ despite party promising to fight for lower rates | LBC https://share.google/xsBupXfs9VnP2zrpo

  11. I don’t buy it. He will bow down to the billionaires, just as he always has.

  12. all laughable, i love the panic ‘his manifesto’ has on labour and the tories when whatever he says now cannot possibly be of relevance for three years! Right now farage is doing a great job of keeping labour on their toes & showing their poor performance up.

  13. I’m sure Russia could help.out like they did for Nathan Gill

  14. And it won’t make the slightest bit of difference when it comes to their support with the electorate.

    For all intents and purposes, Reform might as well be a single issue party, the issue in question of course being immigration. Like it or not, *this* is why they’re becoming so popular. This is what the majority of the electorate want.

  15. At this point they’re just throwing their feces at the wall to see what sticks.

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