Streeting’s Terrifying Tax Plans - Brace Yourselves

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:01]Wes is out on his socials uh saying it's not fair if you're a cleaner that you have to pay the same tax as somebody who's just sold their business and made a load of profit.

[00:00:12]He talks about, you know, if you work in jobs like most of us work in and he points to the NHS and he he'll say something else. He's never worked in another job. He's always been an MP. So West Streeting has no idea what how this works and he has no idea the taxes the business owner will have paid to the point of sale and what he doesn't understand is all the expenditure that the business owner has had made and contributed to the state up until that point and then continues to do so from that point on. He he hasn't looked at the people it employs. I mean I can't be bothered. I just can't be bothered. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work it out. Now, the tax system, I don't think is fair. But the the immediate, well, I'm just going to tax the rich people. Okay, brilliant.

[00:01:02]Awesome. So, where are they going to go with their businesses? Where's what are they going to do? Who are they going to employ? Because it won't be the people like you and me. It's never you, is it?

[00:01:11]Because you're an MP. You don't have an actual real job. So, you don't understand in any way, shape, or form what it's like for somebody who has a business what they have to do. Have you ever I mean perhaps do it. You're talking about you want to get kids into work experience and paid work experience. Perhaps you should go to work experience. Perhaps it should be mandatory for an MP to go and spend a year working in industry. And I'm not talking about your mate at the bank. I'm talking actual industry. Go and work on the factory floor. I did it. I absolutely did it. I I can tell you I I packed bearings. I I packed them, sealed them in the little heat seedy things. My dad wouldn't let me work in the office.

[00:01:50]I had to work in the factory. Mhm. And I had coffees and teas at the polyyreeny cups in the porter cabin at break times.

[00:01:57]It was awesome. Loved it. Absolutely loved it. I learned what it was like to get up and be on the factory floor at 7 and leave the factory floor at 4 and spend my day packing bearings. I then went on to be god I did everything. I was a chambermaid. I was a dog walker. I worked in a pharmacy. I worked in a chemist. I worked for uh um Kelly services. I worked being an office temp all over the place. I worked in newspapers. I worked in radio stations.

[00:02:24]I worked in television stations. I worked in school. I have worked in every single job there was. It's a little bit like Susie Sheep's mom on Peppa Pig. It feels like Yeah, I did that too. But West Streeting and Westminster, they've worked in Parliament or maybe at Mim's charity. They have not worked in industry. So, they just don't understand it. And and here's the real nub of all of this. This is the bit that is going to probably piss people off, but we just need to say it anyway. Life isn't fair.

[00:02:56]Everyone doesn't have the same. We all have different things, and that's because we're individual, and we want different things. There are people that aspire to massive houses and flash cars and clothes that only have a designer label on them. And then there's people like me who are really quite happy with nutmeg 2 FNF, you know, supermarket clothes or I'm wearing something that I bought nine years ago. But I'm good with that. That's fine. That suits me. That works. Well, it might not actually suit me. Um I think I look a bit of a shocker this morning, but I'm only going to go and poop fields. Does it matter? No. But my point is, we're all so different. So why are we all aspiring to be the same and have the same people want different things? And it's this lack of grasp of individuality. It's this lack of grasp of understanding what makes humans humans, what makes them tick, what their behaviors are, why they do things. It's also a massive lack of understanding that if you're spending more than your revenue, then it's going to go tits up.

[00:03:58]And you'd know that if you'd worked in industry, when you had to pay the wages and there was no money to pay them with, so you had to let people off. Then you'd know it. My god, you would know it.

[00:04:09]But where's with his socials? Oh, well, you know, and his mom's A CLEANER. GOOD FOR his mom. Brilliant. We need cleaners. That doesn't mean that people that have spent their entire life and all of their own personal investment building businesses should be taxed at ludicrous rates because where's his mom's a cleaner? My granddad was a cleaner.

[00:04:30]But if if the cleaning company that he'd worked for were having to pay all of these excessive extortionate taxes, he wouldn't be a cleaner cuz they couldn't have afforded him.

[00:04:42]It's It's just not rocket science.

[00:04:47]Although it feels like with this Labor government, it sort of slightly