We are roughly 50 days into our new Keir Starmer government and it has become extremely clear that Labour has misled us… Almost two months in and they have broken their promises.
During the election, the Labour Party promised people that they would see their energy bills reduced.
Keir Starmer, now Prime Minister, pledged to ‘cut bills, create jobs, and provide energy security’ during many speeches in the run-up to the election.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, said that Brits can expect to see their energy bills reduced by £300.
Really? Instead of lower bills, people in the UK are predicted to see their average household energy bill rise by £150 after Ofgem raised the price cap by nearly 10 per cent.
Additionally, the Labour Party claimed that they would not raise taxes for working people. If that is the case, why is it that we have the Chancellor of the Exchequer revealing this week that she expects taxes to rise in the upcoming Budget. Something about a £20bn black hole in the UK’s finances that she wasn’t aware of…?
And what of security? At no point during the election campaign did Labour allude to their plan of releasing 40,000 prisoners. I’m not sure that would have been a very popular policy. Indeed, I remember Labour claiming they wanted to ‘take back our streets’. Well, if that means riots and early-release prisoners, things are going well for Starmer.
Another thing Labour failed to mention during the campaign was their intention to deprive pensioners of their Winter Fuel Allowance. In fact, Keir Starmer accused the Conservatives of plotting to cut pensioners’ Winter fuel payments weeks before the election was called and challenged the then-Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, to rule it out.
Lastly, we have Labour’s favourite line during the election: ‘Rebuilding trust and integrity in politics.’
In the first 50 days, Starmer’s government has been embroiled in scandals with donors apparently being given cushy Civil Services jobs and passes to Number 10. There have been big unfunded pay rises to public sector workers, which will keep Labour’s Union donors happy. This doesn’t sound like integrity to me. If the Tories behaved like this, Labour would be calling it ‘sleaze and corruption’.
Labour’s promises of cheaper energy bills, safer streets, a pause on tax hikes, warm pensions, and integrity in politics have been broken.
Between the riots, freezing pensioners, and a government drowning in sleaze, they have misled us all.