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| Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls MP with Mike Le-Surf. Labour on your side. |
After three years of a Tory led government people are on average
are £1,600 a year worse off than when the government took office in 2010, while
only the rich benefitting from a slightly improving economy. Rising bills and
falling wages meant that most people in South Basildon and East Thurrock are no
better off as a result.
The public’s reaction to the Tory/Lib Dem Autumn
Statement is revealed in a snap poll carried out last night by Ipsos MORI showing
that 40% agree with Ed Balls that Gideon
Osborne is "in denial about the cost of living crisis", compared to
24% who agree with Osborne that his "long-term plan for economic recovery
is working".
Many people will have seen the Tories laugh, as Ed Balls pointed
out the fact that living standards for most citizens are falling. The shadow
chancellor highlighted George Osborne’s "breathtaking complacency"
over Britain's economic recovery and said that the chancellor was in
"complete denial" about the cost of living crisis facing hardworking
families. He added: “This
Autumn Statement shows with the out of touch chancellor and prime minister
hard-working people are worse off under the Tories. For most people in our
country living standards aren't rising, they are falling year on year on
year,"
Mr Balls stated people would be worse off in 2015 than in 2010,
and accused the government of giving with one hand and taking more away with
the other. He said cuts to tax credits and child benefit, and the VAT increase,
had outweighed the benefits of the personal income tax allowance rise and fuel
duty freeze. He called on Mr. Osborne to back Labour policies of levying banks
and scrapping the winter fuel allowance for the richest pensioners to pay for
jobs for young people, scrap the spare room subsidy, and expand free childcare.
A Labour government in 2015 will act immediately to begin to rectify
the damage currently being caused by this Lib Dem supported Tory led
government.
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