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A Tory Budget Straight From The Kitchens of Versailles And Marie Antoinette?
“The people asks only for what is necessary, it only wants justice and tranquility, the rich aspire to everything, they want to invade and dominate everything. Abuses are the work and the domain of the rich, they are the scourges of the people: the interest of the people is the general interest, that of the rich is a particular interest.”
― Maximilien Robespierre, Virtue and Terror
“Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”
— Marie-Antoinette
So the latest Tory Budget is unleashed by Chancellor Hunt and it's enough to turn you to drink or rebellion or even both. You cannot make those Molotov cocktails without some vodka involved somewhere along the line of production.
Well basically the Pension Limit was scrapped and you can now have a pension of over a million pounds; childcare provision was extended to children in their first year of life and continuing until they go to school BUT if you are ‘economically inactive’ the Tory machine will be on your ass bigtime demanding you work or otherwise you will receive no state benefit whatsoever and end up in the street with no roof over your head. From the million pound pensioners to the “spare us a penny?” in the gutter of a rich country. When is the Revolution? I have a few empty…
