From:
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BORIS JOHNSON has launched a damning attack on Jeremy Corbyn, drawing
parallels between his proposed treatment of the rich and Stalin’s
persecution of the Kulaks.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Boris Johnson told readers that his Brexit
deal was “oven-ready”, urging the nation to vote for the Conservatives and take the “country forward”. He used the space to launch a damning attack
on Jeremy Corbyn’s recent rhetoric surrounding the wealthy, of which the Labour leader claimed billionaires shouldn’t exist during a party speech ahead of the December 12 election.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1200585/brexit-latest-news-jeremy-corbyn-boris-johnson-general-election-2019-brexit-news
In this vein, Mr Johnson compared Mr Corbyn’s treatment of the wealthy to that of Joseph Stalin’s persecution of the Kulaks, a category of affluent peasants.
Mr Johnson said about wealthy businesses and the rich: “We cheer for them, because their success is our success.
“And, the tragedy of the modern Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn is that
they detest the profit motive so viscerally – and would raise taxes so wantonly – that they would destroy the very basis of this country’s prosperity.
“They pretend that their hatred is directed only at certain billionaires.
“And, they point their fingers at individuals with a relish and a vindictiveness not seen since Stalin persecuted the Kulaks.
“In reality they would end up putting up taxes on everyone: on pensions,
on businesses, on inheritance, on homes, on gardens.”
Labour has not said they plan to put taxes on everyone, but has drawn up
plans to reduce the tax threshold of many high earners in order to free up money for the public sector.
The party announced it would reduce the inheritance tax threshold - a tax
paid by someone who inherits money or property of a person who has died -
from £325,000 to a “lifetime gifts” levy that would see the tax scrapped.
They also plan to increase corporation tax to 26 percent up from the
current rate of 19 percent.
Labour has estimated that an increase in income tax would raise
£6.4billion.
Corporation taxes would increase revenue by £19.4billion.
While £6.5billion would come in from shutting tax loopholes.
Mr Johnson’s comments follow a speech given by Mr Corbyn ahead of the December 12 general election.
Speaking at Battersea Arts Centre in south London, he said: "You know what really scares the elite? What they're actually afraid of is paying their
taxes.
“We’re going after the tax dodgers.
“We’re going after the dodgy landlords.
“We’re going after the bad bosses.
“We’re going after the big polluters - because we know whose side we’re on.”
Business leaders around the UK reacted angrily to the comments, being
targeted for having a lack of business knowledge and having led “a narrow life”.
Mike Ashley, Sports Direct owner, whose net worth is thought to be just
over £3billion, branded Mr Corbyn as “clueless”, admitting that he fears the current state of big business.
He said: “The real problem is politicians such as Corbyn being unwilling
to do anything about it.”
Financier Crispin Odey, a Tory donor who backed Brexit and runs one of the country’s biggest hedge funds, said he did not take the comments seriously.
However, Mr Odey added: "He just doesn't know many people. He has lived a narrow life. Luckily Labour can't even run a campaign, let alone the
country."
### - cue the inevitable general election under boris after him singularly failing to deliver leaving the EU by 28th Oct last haha + really had to
laff then at the antics of boris now accusing corbyn of being like
stalin?? hahaha :)))
a cheap opening election shot from the far-right in an effort to further demonise the left with the specter of stalin!?
and maybe too as a bit of a pointed retort after corbyn accused boris of
being like thatcher LOL
corbyn's policies being only the typical left-wing menu of taxing the
already wealthy a tad more to pay for public services instead of merely heaping/foisting yet more austerity upon the poor, that same working class majority, btw, that actually 'generates' all that wealth they don't wanna
now pay fair taxes on?
i mean yeah, that defo makes them the devil doesn't it: wanting to tax the
rich a bit more??
riiiight...
the austerity-thing here has actually been really horrible FOR the poorest people in our society, whereas the wealthy have actually prospered under
such a regime; one that's now quite obviously been totally biased in their favour?
it's all wrong ya know, unfortunately no one really understands it except
the right-wing who do nothing but deliberately exploit the situation,
everyone else is just basically too tired & underfed to even lift their
heads enough to go out and vote, let alone knowing why & what to vote
for...
so their wealth makes britain great does it??
not for the the vast majority it don't!
who are worse-off now than they ever were in real terms!
and of course the tories wanna keep things the way they are; screw the majority, they's earning hand over fist out of all this??
and is just hard to accept that this is nearly the year 2020 and yet we're
all still living in the dark ages of robber-barons?
so 1820 more like! maybe even 1620 albeit with better plumbing & dental
plans heh ;)
whatever, but still socially primitive beyond belief!
so much so, one could almost imagine they actually 'like' living in a
shithole?
(like pigs in shite comes to mind haha)
fuck it maan, the world's all fucked up, gimmie some blues for
christsakes...
it's the only sane thing in an insane world!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8R7zjJMIfU
:)
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