Tax cuts but is it enough?

It’s three in a row of ” Put Britain first ” from Andy Burnham. In a 6 am a press release has been announced that Drinking establishments, pubs, clubs and live music venues will get a 20% business rates tax cut from next April.

We have had VAT relief on electric bills for 6 months, bus fares capped to £2 per route and a cut in business rates for drinking establishments. But what’s on people’s mind is how this all is to be funded.

It’s good to think we have a government that’s doing for the general public, but is it too little too late?

Kemi Badenoch, Conservative, has called the PM’s plans a spending spree and has called on him to rule out tax rises to pay for them. She also said it’s too small for Britain; we need to look in a bigger way.

Drinking venues will save approx. £1100 on their tax bill per year. But really, is this enough to save the drinks industry? With approximately 8 venues closing weekly, it’s clear more needs to be done. It’s estimated 540 pubs will close in 2026.

Cafés, restaurants and hotels won’t benefit from these tax cuts and many of their businesses are under threat.

Funding will come from bad businesses like Vape shops that seem to promote sad business for the UK.

But the cost-of-living UK idea seems to have been floundering before it even began. It does not seem enough really to help our pockets. Business tax has gone up 50%, so a cut of 20% is not good at all and still leaves publicans under pressure.

We had 3 boats and 173 illegal immigrants land at Dover yesterday and no word or acknowledgement from Andy Burnham. Besides the cost of living, stopping the boats is a huge subject for the people of Britain.

What’s the PM’s game? Getting the public to like him with Micky Mouse pledges. He still has not been grilled by the press yet, and everything is staged. Is this the best we can do, Andy Burnham and his staged cabinet?