The Elizabeth Line Opens For Sunday Services

Sadiq Khan has called the huge success of the Elizabeth Line as Sunday services and more direct routes were opened.

The Mayor of London joined transport leaders to ride the £19 billion railway from Stratford to Paddington.

The trip marked the opening of direct routes across the line as well as a seven-day service for the first time since the line opened in May.

The railway has so far operated in three separate sections, requiring passengers to trek for several minutes to switch trains at Liverpool Street and Paddington.

As of Sunday morning, passengers could travel across the whole line extending from Reading in Berkshire and Heathrow Airport in southwest London, to Abbey Wood in southeast London and Shenfield in Essex without changing platforms.

Sunday services are also now operating after they were stopped in the London tunnels almost every weekend since the line opened on May 24 to allow more testing to take place.

Talking at Paddington, Sadiq Khan said that it was wonderful news, not just for the Elizabeth line but also for the south of the country.

He said that London benefits but also if people live in the west in Reading or in Shenfield if you live in Essex or in Windsor you benefit as well.

Sadiq Khan met several transport leaders, including Transport for London’s acting commissioner Andy Lord and transport minister Richard Holden, at Stratford Station on Sunday morning.

The group boarded the 10.16 am train, which took slightly over 18 minutes to get to Paddington after the removal of the interchange at Liverpool Street.

They could be heard discussing the complicated signal system, the size of platforms and the confusion around the Elizabeth line not being part of the Tube network.

At Paddington, the group was welcomed by two trainee railway workers and posed for photographs.

Sadiq Khan called the Elizabeth line a huge huge hit but also asserted Government to invest more in London’s infrastructure, including projects like Crossrail 2, which has been suspended indefinitely. 

He said that he believed what the Elizabeth line shows is that if they invest, people will use it, adding that 60 million journeys had been made on the railway since it opened in May, and he said that it demonstrated the difference good public transport can make but that actually the great news was that as a global metropolis we now have a new piece of infrastructure, and that we can’t simply stand still and that when he talks to associates in Singapore, in Hong Kong, in Paris and New York, they’re investing in infrastructure.

Council Tax Is Set To Soar

Council tax bills could skyrocket next year under government plans to reduce the strain on public finances.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is looking at relaxing the decade-long cap that presently allows town halls to increase their annual bills by just 2 per cent a year for their core services.

Although the move would not directly raise funds for the Treasury, officials believe it could allow Jeremy Hunt to squeeze central funding to local authorities, as they would then be able to make up the difference from local council taxpayers.

A government source told a newspaper outlet the idea was being examined as an option as ministers scramble to find £50 billion in tax rises and spending cuts by the time of the Budget on November 17.

The source said that it didn’t bring in money directly, but that if went ahead it would allow the Treasury to provide less money centrally, and that it was an option that was being examined.

The plan could allow local authorities to impose the first double-digit hikes in council tax for more than ten years.

Some ministers are resisting the move, asserting that it would pile pressure on families already facing the worst cost-of-living crunch in decades, but councils are pushing for the freedom to set their own bills without constraint, saying their ability to deliver core services was being eroded by inflation.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned ministers that councils face a £3.4 billion funding gap next year just to maintain services at pre-COVID levels.

In a submission to the Treasury, the LGA said that to fill the void using council tax alone, bills would have to increase by well over 10 per cent next year. The organisation, which represents councils across England and Wales, said rises on this scale would be neither sustainable nor desirable.

Despite this, it called for the existing cap on council tax increases to be rescinded to give them the power to raise more money to protect or enhance local services.

Under existing regulations, councils had to win a local referendum if they wanted to increase council tax by more than 2 per cent.

In recent years they have also been allowed to levy a precept for social care of between 1 and 3 per cent.

Last year, total average bills increased by 3.5 per cent.

The Treasury is now looking at options to increase the percentage rise at which authorities are required to win a referendum.

The existing 2 per cent cap could be increased to 5 per cent or more, although ministers are nervous about ditching it.

What this Government should start funding is the giant black hole we have by eliminating foreign aid and illegal immigrants, but of course, they have no intention of doing any of that, and Jeremy Hunt always has that smirking smile.

Council Tax should be only for the people who were born in this country and that the council serves, and it shouldn’t have any connection to Foreign Aid or immigrants et cetera. They should also reduce the House of Lords and any Royal expenses, and if the Royal Family want these extra indulgences they should be paid for by themselves.

Does Jeremy Hunt want us to sell the shirt off our backs too?

How on earth is anybody supposed to make ends meet with this joker taxing us dry?

Basically, he’s putting millions of people into serious financial misery, and if he allows the councils at a time like this to hike up Council Tax bills, where the councils will waste money as badly as our Government, then the Tories deserve every bit of punishment they get in the next General Election.

Asylum Seekers From Manston Stranded In Central London By The Home Office

A newspaper outlet revealed that the Home Office left asylum seekers from the Manston immigration centre in central London without accommodation or warm clothing, as officials tried to ease acute overcrowding.

A group of 11 asylum seekers from Manston were left at Victoria railway station on Tuesday evening with nowhere to stay, without winter coats, many of them in flip flops, according to volunteers with the Under One Sky homelessness charity, who supplied them with emergency supplies of food and clothing.

Danial Abbas, a volunteer with the charity said that they were worried, frightened and totally disorientated. 

The group who were from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq were covered in blankets to keep them warm, and they were confused about what they were meant to do, they were also extremely hungry.

According to a witness, approximately 50 asylum seekers from Kent were also deposited from a bus by Victoria coach station at about 11 pm on Saturday.

The eyewitness said they were still on the street at midnight, trying to work out what to do, or where to go. They had no cash, they hadn’t even been told where they were.

Hundreds of asylum seekers have been rapidly moved out of the Manston centre in the past two days amid heavy criticism of overcrowded conditions at the immigration centre, where this weekend around 4,000 people were being kept at a site designed for 1,600.

The immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, said the number of people at Manston had dropped substantially on Tuesday, but on Wednesday evening he admitted that there were still almost 3,500 at the centre.

Appearing on ITV, he told Robert Peston that they gripped this immediately when they appreciated the scale of the challenge at the weekend and that it was now falling extremely rapidly and he expected that they’d get down to an acceptable level within about seven days.

The 11 men left without accommodation on Tuesday told charity volunteers they’d been driven from Kent to London earlier on Tuesday afternoon as part of a larger group of approximately 40 asylum seekers.

Other members of their group had family members or friends they were able to contact and stay with, but 11 were left by the station without anywhere to spend the night.

One of the men, a 29-year-old economics student from Iraq, said he’d been held at Manston for 21 days after arriving in the United Kingdom by boat. He said there were so many people there, and that they were given food but very little, and then on Tuesday afternoon he was told that he was being taken to London, and they were told they should go to their families or friends. He said that he didn’t have any family or friends here in the United Kingdom.

Even migrants have a human right to express their concerns, but the Home Office has denied it’s to blame for asylum seekers being left stranded in London, yet Danial Abbas, a volunteer with Under One Sky, a homelessness charity that helped the asylum seekers, said that someone from the Home Office told him that a huge mistake had been made.

The Home Office didn’t provide a comment for the story, but then issued a statement, which said that 11 asylum seekers had been left stranded, but they said that originally those asylum seekers who were left stranded had originally told staff they had somewhere to stay in London and that it was, therefore, wrong to say the Home Office had made a mistake.

The Home Office said the individuals were transported to Victoria coach station, London because they said they had accommodation in that location which would not leave them destitute, and that they told them that they had accommodation with friends and family available to them.

However, if they had accommodation available to them in the first place, wouldn’t they have gone there rather than go to Manston, and wouldn’t they have been picked up by family or friends when they got off the boat?

The Home Office said any suggestion there was a mistake in transporting the individuals to Victoria was wrong, and that when they found out, the Home Office worked at a pace to find accommodation for the individuals when they were informed that 11 of them didn’t, in fact, have a place to stay.

The Home Office also said the group were only in London for a few hours before accommodation was found for them.

It’s unlikely to be the last word on the matter, and in other developments, Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister said that the government was facing legal action over the conditions in which people have been held at Manston and that four Commons select committee chairs (two Tories, one from Labour and one from the SNP) had written an open letter to Braverman demanding answers to a string of questions about the bad conditions at Manston.

‘Extremely Limited’ Rail Services Continue To Cause Travel Chaos For Rail Passengers Today

The UK’s rail service will be harshly disrupted across the country today despite an 11th-hour decision to suspend strikes while negotiations between the RMT union and train companies continue.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) and Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) were due to stage strikes in the coming few days in a long-running dispute over employment, pay and conditions.

Employees were preparing to walk out today, Sunday 6, Monday 7, and Wednesday 9 November, with Tube staff due to join them later in the week. The walkout on Sunday was expected to be for train managers exclusively, but passengers will still encounter problems travelling as train operators say the change was announced at the last minute to reinstate regular services.

RMT strikes on November 10 affecting the London Underground and Overground services are still set to go ahead in the continuing dispute over wages and working conditions.

Last night the RMT said it had secured unconditional talks with Network Rail and the promise of a pay offer from the train operating companies, meaning 40,000 employees are no longer set to strike, but RMT boss Mike Lynch acknowledged train strikes could continue beyond Christmas if a deal isn’t found.

It comes as new Transport Secretary Mark Harper confirmed he was happy to meet with trade unions, a marked departure from his predecessor Grant Shapps’ approach.

Mark Harper said that the negotiations were clearly going to take place between the unions and the employers: Network Rail and the train operating companies, and he said that he believed it was helpful for ministers to meet trade union leaders and to listen to their concerns, and that he was extremely happy to do that, and that his department would be reaching out to those trade union leaders in due course.

The RMT said last night it had made rail bosses see sense but added that if they have to take strike action during the next six months to secure an agreement, they will.

The union said the dispute remains very much alive and it is continuing its re-ballot of members to secure a fresh mandate for action with the result due on November 15.

But transport chaos is still anticipated after the last-minute cancellation left train operators unable to reinstate a full timetable at such short notice.

So, it seems the strike is off, but still no trains, rail workers get a day off, fully paid, and the general public still suffers.

It sounds like a new tactic to me. Call off the strike just when it’s impossible to reschedule, which doubles the impact and the unions will just say they called it off, but it caused disruption.

The only thing this action has accomplished is chaos and suffering for working people.

It seems it’s like everyone for themselves to survive in Tory UK.

There’s an unending crater of funds available to support war-torn countries and the pampering of boat arrivals, with hotel stays, free legal aid, dental and NHS services are thrown in as a Golden Hello, but people who live in the United Kingdom are struggling to get through the month because of inflation.

Our Government need to prioritise and stop saving the world, and they need to look a tad closer to home.

Once the economy has recovered, if it ever recovers, and everyone can properly access a GP, then we can endeavour to continue with pet projects, but these walkouts are doing immeasurable damage to people’s trust in the rail service.

To Survive In Donetsk, Russian Soldiers Ate ZOO ANIMALS

It’s been claimed that desperate Russian soldiers were so ravenous they resorted to eating zoo animals.

Volunteer rescue workers said the soldiers committed horrible acts of cruelty at Yampil Zoo in the eastern Donetsk region.

Yampil village was liberated by Ukrainian forces on September 30.

The rescue workers arrived ten days later to discover animal skeletons and bits of flesh and bone spread across the zoo grounds.

One of the volunteers said that numerous animals had been eaten by the orcs, and according to the authorities, two camels, a kangaroo, a bison, some piglets, birds and wolves were killed.

Those animals that were saved are being cared for in the metropolis of Dnipro.

Before the February 24 invasion, zookeepers said the compound was home to a wide range of creatures, including bears, camels, antelopes and wild boars.

Volunteers are gathering materials in order to contact Ukrainian law enforcement agencies with a view to pressing charges.

Poor creatures – more victims of Vladimir Putin’s evil madness, but then I guess it’s no more than the creatures that we consume on an industrial scale every day, although they’re presumably destroyed in a more compassionate way, but then if the soldiers were starving, what do people expect them to do because desperation doesn’t always permit us to make the proper choices, it’s all about survival.

The thing is if they’re happy to kill innocent people, we shouldn’t be surprised or outraged when they start slaughtering creatures at the zoo.

This is barbaric, but needs must and they’d probably eat their own soldiers if they needed to, and to be fair, anyone would when you’re starving, and by the looks of it, they appear to be eating better than the folks back home – perhaps they should join I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!

Napoleon said that an army marches on its stomach, and if Vladimir Putin can’t feed his troops then they’re doomed to fail.

Of course, they will be doing the same thing on reality TV soon, including Matt Hancock, and people won’t bat an eyelid over it because it’s called entertainment.

‘What’s that Skippy? There’s a Russian down a mineshaft who’s just eaten your brother?’

These Russian soldiers committed acts against zoo creatures and engaged in acts of incredible savagery, and this is particularly disturbing on an assortment of levels and in various degrees of horror. These were poor defenceless zoo animals and in addition, Russian soldiers have been sent to certain slaughter with soldiers being treated no better than the animals in the zoo.

Vladimir Putin has been described as the wealthiest man on the planet but he treats his citizens and troops as if they were zoo animals, and in fact, far far worse, and through no fault of their own, hungry people will eat what’s available, that’s a fact of life.

I mean, Vladimir Putin must really care about his troops.

I can’t condone cruelty to animals or even human beings, but if a person is that hungry they will kill anything to endure, and this is deemed acceptable, and before veggies and vegans get on the attack, take note, that in war zones very little vegetation survives, and one would get extremely hungry very fast, and in those circumstances, I’d eat anything to survive, although I doubt if the coward Vladimir Putin is going hungry.

Mind you, it’s a pity they didn’t resort to cannibalism because if they did, then there would be fewer Ruskies to fight or run from, including the animals.

Jeremy Corbyn Claims He ‘Lives Rent-Free’ In PM Rishi Sunak’s Head

Jeremy Corbyn believes he ‘lives rent-free’ in Rishi Sunak’s head given the Prime Minister’s repeated reference to him during attacks on Sir Keir Starmer.

The former Labour leader criticised Rishi Sunak for giving a wholly incorrect representation of his 2019 agenda on national security during Prime Minister’s Questions.

Jeremy Corbyn, who now sits as an independent MP for Islington North, also asked Rishi Sunak to correct the record and to accurately reflect his views rather than deliver stories made up by him or his office.

Rishi Sunak has pledged to repeatedly use Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s backing for Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership as an attack line during PMQs.

On Wednesday, Rishi Sunak claimed Jeremy Corbyn’s national security agenda included cancelling our armed forces, discarding the nuclear deterrent, recoiling from NATO, voting against every single anti-terror law we tried, and befriending Hamas and Hezbollah.

But Jeremy Corbyn said Rishi Sunak gave him no advance warning of the plan to reference him at PMQs and stated this was against the conventions of the House.

Jeremy Corbyn added to deputy speaker Nigel Evans that he gave a totally false representation of the 2019 election manifesto, which he must have been completely well conscious of because he took part in numerous discussions about the content of that manifesto during the election drive, and could they guide him on how the Prime Minister could correct the record?

And he said that if he was going to live rent-free in his head, at least he could accurately reflect what he believes and what he would say rather than fantasies made up by him or his office.

Mr Evans said MPs were accountable for the content of their contributions in the room, adding that in respect of what was said in the House, parliamentary privilege permits all Members the freedom of free speech to ensure they can represent their constituents and voice their opinions without fear or favour.

He said that this was a privilege and they must exercise great responsibility so the Treasury bench would have heard that point of order and he was confident it would be passed onto the Prime Minister.

Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt identified the need for MPs to give each other notice about plans to reference them in their addresses, and she added that she suspects Jeremy Corbyn should be prepared for him to be discussed, and in particular, the Leader of the Opposition’s support for both him and the manifesto that he stood on to be noted on at least a weekly basis.

Rishi Sunak isn’t a real Prime Minister, he’s just a stand-in until another one comes along, and Jeremy Corbyn would crucify him in PMQs if he was the opposition leader, and every time the Tories bring up Jeremy Corbyn they also need to have Boris Johnson and Liz Truss thrown back at them, and continually bringing up the former leader just demonstrates that money bags Rishi Sunak doesn’t have anything else.

And it’s a pity that everyone believed the untruths about Jeremy Corbyn because had they not we could have had a worthy Prime Minister and hopefully a more reasonable society.

This gentleman would have frightened the life out of the establishment. He was actually quite amazing, and we would have been far better off having him as a leader than ridiculous Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak who lives in Alice in Wonderland.

I believe that Rishi Sunak portrays his desperation by referring to Jeremy Corbyn, and he can barely defend Tory’s current record so he has to deflect attention by going back again to the last election and how the country rejected Jeremy Corbyn, but what they forget to note is that the country picked Boris Johnson, not Rishi Sunak, and a General Election should be called now, even if it is to just give Rishi Sunak some credibility.

Growing Up, King Charles Was Closer To His Grandmother, According To Royal Experts

Royal experts have claimed that King Charles III was closer to the Queen Mother as a young boy, as his mostly absent monarch mother wasn’t a comforting figure during an apparently miserable childhood.

ITV documentary Charles: Our King aired tonight at 9 pm, giving an inside perspective on his upbringing and how it shaped a sensitive young boy into the King he is today.

Heartwarming black and white videos painted an idyllic family image, showing the Queen smiling with joy at a four-week-old Charles.

Nevertheless, royal commentators said that they believed the young prince had a miserable childhood.

The late Queen was coronated in 1953 when Charles was four years old. A clip of him at the coronation showed him standing next to his grandmother the Queen Mother, as they looked on at the monarch being crowned in front of the entire world.

Catherine Mayer, author of Charles: The Heart of a King, said that he grew up in an isolated world and that she dubbed it ‘Planet Windsor’, and that it works on a slightly different set of rules to planet Earth. It looks and sounds like ours but it’s extremely lonely.

She said he was extremely young when his mother became Queen and the bond he had with his mother was never as strong as it might have been because she had a lot of responsibilities.

The children lived on the top floor of Buckingham Palace at the time where there was a nursery wing and the Queen would visit her children.

Penny Junor, author of Charles: Victim or Villian? said that the Queen would go up and see Charles but more often than not she held back, she wasn’t that all-encompassing comfort that a child normally expects from a mother.

Clips were then shown of Charles beaming up at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, King George VI’s widow, on a train platform, as the narrator explained that he would develop a close bond with the Queen Mother as his parent were frequently away travelling the globe.

In 1954 the Commonwealth tour lasted six months, and Catherine Mayer described the moment Charles was reunited with his mother after her long time abroad. She said that finally, the royal yacht anchored, and the dignitaries stood waiting, and the young prince was so enthusiastic he lined up with the dignitaries to see his mother.

But the Queen was extra busy, so his Grandmother stepped up.

Charles as well as his siblings had nannies to alleviate the Queen of any care they needed, while their mother was busy waving, smiling and attending functions, and being a good mother was not one of them, but then being Queen wasn’t a 9-5 job, it was a vocation, and it must have taken up almost all of her time, energy at such a young age. She had a duty to the Realm and Commonwealth, which always came first, even before her children.

Perhaps the Queen Mother spoilt him and his siblings, and gave him a sense of entitlement, although he was going to be the next King, he didn’t actually need a sense of entitlement, he was literally entitled.

Then there was the footage of the Queen returning from a long tour and shaking 3-year-old Charle’s hand when she meets him, I mean, what normal mother does that? But the Queen wasn’t a typical mother because her title, and position as Monarch made it impossible for her to be a normal mother.

Mutiny In The Making?

The owner of Celebrations boxes has chosen to roll out Bounty free tubs ahead of Christmas, and you’ll be able to exchange normal tubs for free.

Mars Wrigley has announced special tubs of the chocolates will be available at select Tesco stores in the run-up to Christmas.

Revellers who don’t care for the smooth coconut and chocolate delicacies can exchange normal tubs purchased in stores with Bounty-free ones for free, from November 8.

It comes as more than a third of Britons have admitted they don’t want Bounties in their festive red tubs.

Customers will be able to get their hands on the boxes at 40 special Christmas Market pop-ups in Tescos around the country.

For these limited edition tubs, additional Mars, Snickers, Milky Way, Galaxy and the all-time favourites, Maltesers, will be added in place of the banned Bounty bars.

Tesco Christmas Market is a pop-up roadshow, starting in Manchester on Tuesday, December 8 and making its way down the country, closing on December 18 at Gallions Reach Extra in London.

Customers who can’t make it to those places can enter a competition on Tesco’s website to win a Bounty free tub.

It comes as Mars Wrigley debuted the Bounty Return Scheme in 2021, where customers could exchange unwanted chocolates for Maltesers after the festive period.

Emily Owen, Mars Wrigley’s head of Celebrations Festive Cheer, said that Christmas was the time for giving, but it appears this year, the British public is keen for them to take away Bounty.

She said that last year, they gave customers the opportunity to return their unwanted Bounty chocolates and that now, off the back of public demand, they’re trialling taking them out of the tub completely, and she said that you don’t know what you’ve got until its gone, and to those loyal and secret Bounty lovers out there, there’s still a possibility they’ll make a return after the trial.

The problem with chocolates is that some people like some but not others, and then they’re other people that just can’t eat them because of allergies, but isn’t this just pure wokery?

A 26-Year-Old Mother Gave Birth Five Minutes Into A Taxi Ride

A mother who gave birth to her daughter in the back of a taxi going at 40mph claimed she was left shocked when the taxi firm sent her a cleaning bill for £60.

Farah Cacanindin, 26, had just left the hospital for a routine examination for her pregnancy when she unexpectantly went into labour on the taxi trip home in Buckinghamshire.

A newspaper outlet reported that astonishingly, Ms Cacanindin was able to deliver her baby Naia herself while the taxi was still moving.

The cab driver called ahead to Stoke Mandeville Hospital to warn staff they were coming before dropping her off.

Baby Naia, bound in her mother’s jacket after she was born, was safely looked after when they arrived and the pair were allowed to return home. However, Ms Cacanindin claimed she was stunned when she was sent a £90 bill from Arrow Taxis to her home in High Wycombe, £30 for the journey to the hospital and £60 to clean up the mess.

She said she appreciated there had been a mess in the back of the taxi, but that it was an outrageous thing to do when she’d just gone through an unexpected delivery.

Ms Cacanindin said that she understood that she did make a mess but it was a tad cheeky to have charged her.

She said it was the quickest delivery ever, and that her waters broke five minutes into the journey. The driver asked if she wanted him to pull over but she said to keep going as she believed she would make it before the baby was born.

She added that she can still see the car her daughter was born in at the cab company just down the road from her home.

Arrow Taxis has been contacted for comment.

But why should the taxi company have to pay for the cleaning? It’s not cheeky for the company to charge for this, but it is cheeky for Ms Cacanindin not to pay and then run to the press as if the company had done something wrong.

Perhaps she should ask the hospital to pay the bill as they mistakenly discharged her home when evidently she shouldn’t have been.

It was a taxi, not an ambulance, and the cab driver would have had to take the car off the road for cleaning and probably have lost earnings.

The taxi company are in the right. If it was anyone else who made a mess they would be expected to pay, and if she refuses and gets away with it, then taxis might start refusing to take women in labour and then where would we be?

This cabbie will be off the road and won’t be able to take any more customers until it’s cleaned and sanitised. Is this woman actually expecting the taxi driver to lose his entire income because she doesn’t want to pay to clean up the mess?

No one’s saying that she did it on purpose, of course, she didn’t, or that it was her fault, it wasn’t, but it is her responsibility.

What this lady should be doing is be grateful for the safe delivery of her baby, but instead she’s whined about it with not a thought about the cab driver or his loss of wages.

I wish all the best to the new mother, but you still have to pay because you can’t expect the cab company to relish your happiness.

It’s pretty standard practice these days for anyone soiling the inside of a taxi for whatever reason because the driver will lose money by not being able to work while his car is being brought back to a functional standard and that’s without the expense of cleaning it, and most people would have been happy to pay the fee without having to bleat to the media for sympathy.

Worker Tax Raid By Rishi Sunak

New research reveals that Jeremy Hunt will rake in thousands of pounds extra from all average workers over the next five years without making a single change to the tax system.

The Chancellor is planning a string of tax increases to be unveiled in his Autumn Statement on November 17, but just as important as what he intends to change is what he plans to leave the same. Reports suggest he will leave income tax thresholds where they are, despite skyrocketing inflation.

The freeze to income tax thresholds up to and including the 2025/2026 tax year was announced during the Budget in March 2021, by Rishi Sunak when he was chancellor.

Over the past 20 years, average wage growth per year has been close to 3 per cent per year. Nevertheless, with inflation now in the double digits it’s likely to be higher over the next few years.

With a 3 per cent wage increase, someone making £35,000 faces having paid an extra £1,177 in income tax by 2028, but if wages rise by 5 per cent per year the figure will be more than £2,000 by 2028.

Shaun Moore, tax and financial planning expert at Quilter, which carried out the analysis, said that the calculations show the power of fiscal drag and how freezing income tax thresholds was a form of stealth tax.

He said that ultimately, if thresholds stay frozen for a number of years, then you would end up paying vastly more tax, and thresholds were meant to remain frozen until 2026 but with the cost of living crisis weighing heavy on government spending, this could be extended.

The Chancellor is set to meet colleagues this week as they attempt to hammer out a package ahead of the crucial Autumn Statement on November 17.

Jeremy Hunt warned business leaders that there was no way of sugarcoating the fact that personal and business taxes were going to increase.

According to Politico, he told an event at Claridge’s hotel in London that it was going to be a tough pill for everyone to swallow.

Rishi Sunak told Cabinet that difficult decisions were coming, but highlighted the NHS would be prioritised for funding while making clear that in return the health service would need to accept reform.

Nonetheless, that means other departments are facing even deeper curbs, as spiking inflation erodes the value of their budgets, and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told a House of Lords committee that he will suggest to the Chancellor that the strength of the army could remain at 76,000 rather than dropping to 73,000 as intended.

It appears that Rishi Sunak doesn’t want to remain Prime Minister for long, and how will he restore the Conservative Party after the next election I wonder?

So, once again the ordinary working people will be made to pay for the incompetence, blunders, failures, downright lies, arrogance and inflexibility of Rishi Sunak, Hancock and Johnson, and they will never admit their numerous blunders, and will never apologise, but will just penalise the law-abiding, hard-working, lower and middle classes, while protecting the pretentious, wealthy tax avoiders, and select few.

It’s the politicians that have screwed the economy, they’ve been making money hand over fist and yet the masses get to pay for it. Politicians are the problem, not the people.

Stop handing it out to those that don’t even have a right to be in this country, let alone experience any of its privileges. They should also cut the MP and civil servants on high income because cuts never come from within.

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