Comments on: Oooooh, well done Polly!

By: diogenes1960

diogenes1960 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:55:23 +0000

just that cutting a tax on corporate profits does not necessarily equate to higher payments into corporate pension schemes…so the relevance of the John B and Mark Wadsworth objection is precisely what?

By: Andrew K

Andrew K — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:54:21 +0000

Her strapline needs careful reading: I have copied and pasted it here

False Tory outrage at fat-cat pubic sector benefits is a crude sleight of hand to divert voters’ attention from the real wealth gap

By: Mark Wadsworth

Mark Wadsworth — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:14:52 +0000

@ John B, I never tire of pointing that out, but you said it best.

By: john b

john b — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:53:02 +0000

…except that it was exactly and directly offset by the simultaneous cut in corporation tax, as more or less nobody points out.

Whichever Tory PR man managed to sell something completely harmless as “Brown’s evil theft of your pension” deserves a dozen medals for his work.