As a member of the Conservative party I considered voting for Larry the cat but instead I listened to the two candidates at all of the hustings. Sunak offered more of the same, why would we want that after years of stagnation. Truss offered something different so I gave her my vote.
I like the budget, times are hard throughout the world, economies are in a state of shock throughout. New measures are required. Big, bold, brave.
The scrapping of the 45% tax will tell the entrepreneurs, the creators, the innovators, the inventors, the worlds creme de la creme that we are open for business. We want them to create our wealth and we will reward them. Surely it’s better to have 100 millionaires paying 40% than 10 paying 45%.
It’s naive to call it trickle down economics, it isn’t. A wealthy country can better help the less fortunate. The politics of envy promoted by the Labour Party creates division and resentment.
Those wealthy people will spend, will employ, will invest. Their money doesn’t sit in neat little boxes in a bank vault, if they save it there then the banks invest it, we all gain.
The policy of not increasing benefits for those who can work is to encourage self sufficiency which leads to self respect and helps fight depression and other mental health issues. These people then pay tax and help to create the wealth that pays for those who can not work through severe disability or the need to care for others.
Labours National energy scheme sounds fabulous on paper, we all own our energy and become world leaders. No way will those clever top innovators, inventors, researchers work in the public sector. They’ll be snapped up by private industry all over the world. We need to encourage them to work here, we need to reward their effort with no ceiling to earnings. We need to stimulate growth by backing business to the hilt. The rich getting richer doesn’t mean the poor get poorer. A wealthy nation can offer so much more for everyone.
We are doing down our country and shaking confidence with this mass hysteria over the budget just as we have done over leaving the EU since 2016.
Those who bothered to vote in the referendum decided we wanted to leave. Our voice was clear and our negotiating position was strong. Sadly the vociferous and somewhat aggressive remainers in the civil service, the Houses of Parliament, the media spent years talking down our country, telling the EU and the rest of the world that we’d made a massive mistake and letting Theresa May lead a weak and half hearted negotiation. This left us in a much damaged position by the time Boris Johnson won his huge majority in 2019. The media et al never forgave the Conservatives for taking us out of the EU and continued to chisel away at Boris Johnson until his position became untenable. Yes, he made mistakes but no more than many before him. He was not given credit for the many good things his government achieved.
Here we are now with Liz Truss and a brave bold change of direction that is being undermined at every turn by grey suited sheep following the herd and afraid of change and of risk.
As for levelling up, it doesn’t mean equality. There will never be equality, some people are always faster, brighter, more creative. The abolition of so many grammar schools is proof that if we try to create a state of equality we penalise the brightest and end with a state of mediocrity.
I vote Conservative because I believe in aspiration, independence, self reliance, self respect. None of the latter make me unaware of those in need, those less fortunate and none strips me of a social conscience.
Sorry if my post is disjointed but you did ask.
