The Green Party launched its manifesto today and if any further evidence were required that the party is is a far Left, statist outfit, then here it is.
A quick zip through various reports on the manifesto launch and you swiftly discover a long list of spending commitments for which the Greens reckon they will need to raise an eye-watering £112 billion in taxes over the next three years.
Among its pledges are:
- Increasing the weekly state pension to £170
- Scrapping all tuition fees
- Free school meals for all
- Scrapping prescription charges
- Re-introducing free eye tests
- Free dental care
- Free social care for all
- Opposing budget and job cuts in the public sector
- Increasing the minimum wage to £8.10 an hour
- 50% tax rate on incomes over £100,000
- No ceiling on National Insurance payments
- Re-introducing the fuel duty escalator at 8% per year
- Introducing VAT and fuel duty on aviation
- Introducing a permanent tax on bankers' bonuses
- Stripping private schools of charitable status
- Reducing the role of business in education
- Ending the use of nuclear power
- Scrapping the replacement for Trident
From their website you can download the suicide notemanifesto in full.
Jonathan Isaby