Nick T

CCHQ seem to be misremembering again – let’s help them out

By | Thu 1st May 2014 - 9:02 am

Generous-hearted souls that we are here at LDV Towers, we are inclined to think that the good people of Conservative Party HQ have been getting a little confused again in recent days. You see, to mark the end of the month, when many people will be receiving their pay slips, they have been tweeting about the coalition’s success in raising the income tax personal allowance:

This is not the first time our esteemed coalition partners have sought to rebrand our manifesto commitment to raise the threshold to £10,000 as a Conservative plan. Here are a couple of options to clear up their misapprehension. First, we can simply correct their tweets:

But if you want to be extra helpful, here’s a neat graphic you can share:

lib dem manifesto tax cut

And it’s always worth repeating Nick Clegg’s reminder of the challenge he had to force the Conservatives to prioritise income tax cuts for those on low and middle income over their taxation hobby horses of inheritance tax cuts and “marriage tax breaks”:

I have had to drag the Conservative party kicking and screaming in every single budget negotiation – by the way, not least recently when I talked about wanting to see this extra worker’s bonus – there was a very hostile reaction behind closed doors in Whitehall from my Conservative coalition partners.

* Nick Thornsby is a day editor at Lib Dem Voice.

Read more by or more about .
This entry was posted in News.
Advert

2 Comments

  • sfk 2nd May '14 - 9:05am

    Its interesting to me that the tory party would tell workers to check their pay just before intl workers day

  • Simon Banks 2nd May '14 - 2:06pm

    Looks like they can’t punctuate: “Conservatives Income Tax Cut”. Should mean cutting income tax for Conservatives, as opposed to “Conservatives’…

    Failure of punctuation is the beginning of a degeneration into moral turpitude.

Post a Comment

Lib Dem Voice welcomes comments from everyone but we ask you to be polite, to be on topic and to be who you say you are. You can read our comments policy in full here. Please respect it and all readers of the site.

To have your photo next to your comment please signup your email address with Gravatar.

Your email is never published. Required fields are marked *

*
*
Please complete the name of this site, Liberal Democrat ...?

Advert

Recent Comments

  • Roland
    @Jeff - I didn’t say resources were scarce, just that they are in short supply. So whilst there might be decades of fossil fuels in the ground, you may have n...
  • Paul R
    It might be better to spend the money on increased assistance to help people switch to EVs instead. Otherwise motorists will always be dependent on the next war...
  • Michael BG
    Nigel Jones, “When we debated FPC’s planned program last year, some said we should have included tax issues in that program” Indeed. I didn’t s...
  • Suzanne Fletcher
    Far too late for me to comment, but just skimmed through the replies and I agree with most. Most important is that as Caron says, it was announced where hundre...
  • Robyn Peel
    A key difference between the Liberal Democrats and other parties is that members go in their own right, not as representatives of their local party; we have att...