So the man worth £200 Million with a £10 million property portfolio (metropolitan digs in London – a Kensington mews house, a flat on Old Brompton Road – and a place in California) with a £1.5 million Georgian manor in Yorkshire set across 12 acres, including an ornamental lake where he entertains the “constituency membership” with lavish summer parties at which uniformed staff serve champagne and canapés, the man known locally as the ‘Maharajah of the Yorkshire Dales’, the son-in-law of a multi-billionaire, on top of his public sector pay freeze when the average public sector worker is already earning 1.5% less than *in 2010* in real terms, has raised the minimum wage by just 19p an hour and benefits by just 37p a week.
Let that sink in. Rishi Sunak’s Spending Review is effectively a return to (or continuation of) austerity, to the tune of £10bn shaved off public spending already.
Not that the mainstream media seemed to have noticed.
“Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Spending Review was a fine bit of electioneering, if you’re a Tory. Otherwise, as one person pointed out about a key policy, it was all a bit “smoke and mirrors”. Because buried in the detail was a damning admission: that austerity round two had effectively begun.
”To read more:https://www.thecanary.co/…/smoke-and-mirrors-sums-up…/
The last decade of Tory austerity saw the rich got a whole lot richer, now watch as an even more hawkish government enrich themselves and their ilk to the detriment of the many.
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