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Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu Oct 23, 2025 6:58 pm Oh joy. And just before the Budget, just to compound the "nothing works and taxes are up" mood.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... e-november

Bastards.

There's also the problem that 17.4m, even with deaths and repentant liberal leavers and Lexiters, is rather a lot of voters to tell that (in effect) they made a dumb choice.

Nobody made a dumb choice as all the bad predictions for Brexit were Project Fear. Its not Remain voters Farage needs to be made accountable to. They got the Brexit they voted against.

The problem is that lots of Remain voters are more focussed on Starmer who should "just cancel Brexit ffs"

Reeves considers breaking manifesto pledge with income tax rise to fill £30bn gap
Exclusive: Treasury discussions include possibly adding 1p to basic rate or raising higher or additional tax rates

Roughly translated- Treasury produces spreadsheet.

I'm ok with this but I'll be in a small minority. The general reaction to this is unlikely to be "Great, grown up politics!"