The Isle of Wight Labour Party welcomes last week’s Budget, which focused on cutting the cost of living by freezing rail fares, prescription charges and fuel duty and taking £150 off the average energy bill from April next year.
Raising both the National Minimum Wage & the National Living Wage will deliver a pay rise for around 5,000 Islanders of up to £900. Over 40,000 Island pensioners will have an extra £575 to spend next year, as Labour increase the state pension by 4.8%, in line with our commitment to the triple lock. And £500 will be put back into the pockets of the parents of over 2,300 Island children as eligibility for free school meals is expanded. That’s more money in the pockets of Islanders, to spend in Island Businesses.
The transformation of the Business Rate system, announced in the budget, will permanently lower tax rates for around 4,000 Island business premises in retail, hospitality and leisure, protecting the Island’s high streets.
The introduction of a High Value Council Tax Surcharge will inject fairness into a system which currently sees a Band B home in Sandown charged the same Council Tax as a Band H property in Westminster. The additional revenue, which will be payable on less than 1% of Island homes, along with that collected from increasing taxes on online gambling, will help fund new youth employment skills training, Breakfast Clubs & double funding for repairing potholes.
Chair of the Isle of Wight Labour Party, Anne Bamford, says:
“Seventeen months ago, this country voted for change. Since then, Labour in government have slashed NHS waiting times by almost a quarter of a million, cut net migration by two thirds and are on track to cut child poverty by a record amount.
“Britain is now cutting borrowing faster than any other G7 country without cutting public investment, our fiscal headroom is up significantly, economic growth is beating the forecasts, and wages are up by more since the election than in a decade under the previous government.
“I welcome this budget which continues to deliver the change Islanders need and boosts living standards for over 2,700 Island children.”
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Yikes, talk about Labour propaganda! Sorry but whomever wrote this is trying to mislead the Islands people in the worst possible way!! The budget was a disaster for small business and its very likely the Island will soon have a lot less pubs than it once had, not to mention small businesses!
Yes people voted for change, but not this sort!
100% agree.
Fewer pubs.
And had you not been paying attention during the previous 14 years when most of them DID close?
I think you need to understand the economics and ergonomics of the world of pubs.. Around 30 years ago I visited and put in a report on every Whitbread pub on the Island. Half of them ( around a hundred I seem to remember) were then sold off, mostly to become homes. That might sound brutal, but the culling dramatically increased the potential turnover of the survivors. In. Victorian days there were a thousand busy pubs in Portsmouth. Now it’s a couple of hundred. Sad, but for a number of reasons and not just price of a pint, people don’t use. pubs as they once did. Ergo less demand, less outlets. I’m afraid it’s as simple and complicated as that.
For goodness’ sake: not all reporting of what the Government are doing is propaganda. What do you want the local paper to do: ignore the current Government’s budget?
That is why they are down to 14% in the last opinion poll.
E-mail from labour central office to all labour members throughout the UK, please get local press coverage showing the benefit of our recent budget which seems for some reason we do not understand to have been universally condemned, do not mention that we will now tax senior citizens whphave paid in all their lives on what they receive including the winter fuel allowance, do not inder any circumstances mention that unemployed families with numerous chiuldren will now be 37 per cent better off than the equilivant working family , do not mention that our drive to green where we told everyone tp buy electric cars means you will will to pay 3 pence a mile for the privilege.
Oh diddums…do you object to your thruppence a mile in your shiny comfortable car going towards helping the 1/3 of all children currently growing up in relative poverty? That is, being of a family who relies on just 60% of the average income. 90% of whom have at least ONE WORKING PARENT, and they still can’t put enough bread on the table.
Enjoy your hot dinner, Barnie.
Again stop misreporting labour propganda, an unemployed family of 5 is now 36 per cent better off than the average simailar sized working family, addutionally as for the childrens benefit increase that will benefit 94 per cent on non british families, yep that seems very fair and balanced.
Yeah, but apart from ruining the economy, driving high-rate tax payers abroad, keeping our borders wide open, increasing tax rates to fund benefits, abolishing many jury trials, dragging small farmers into inheritance tax, introducing ID cards, double taxing EV drivers, supporting a tax avoiding Deputy PM and a truth-phobic Chancellor, sucking up to the Chinese and causing a national atmosphere of malaise I think our Keir is doing rather well.
Lammy is reported as giving misleading figures about rape statistics to bolster his jury free ‘trials’. I’m surprised human rights lawyer Starmer thinks this is ok
Correct
Thanks for bringing all the points together Anne.
The negative press hide all the constructive action
Are you broken?
I have never read such a bunch of lies. Starmer liar, Reeves liar, Calamity Lammy liar. This government are doing everything they can to hold on to power, and sod the rest of us. Stop banging on about breakfast clubs, 14 years of tories and all the other “stock” answer you keep giving, your finished , and soon.
Thanks for that balanced analysis: not. As any socialist Government’s budget should be, it is focused on taking children out of poverty and narrowing the gap between the haves and have-nots.
And why are the children in poverty? Because finances are not considered when parents, already claiming benefits, decide to have more children. The solution is NOT to throw more money at them to have even more children!
Now at just 14% in the national opinion polls and a leader with the worst ever rating in history. Liebor would have just 4 yes 4 seats if an election was held now. Only voters remaining are those on index rate linked benefits.
Those who receive index rate linked benefits are more likely to vote Tory as they have the disposable income to chuck at investment portfolios.
I’d stick to squeaking at Minnie if I were you, finance or politics seems a bit of a stretch.
Ahhh bamford delusional as ever,never heard such tripe,another fool that thinks she is an mp,freshwater parish council need to give dementia sufferers like you the boot!
People will be concerned with Starmer and his delaying the local election for 3years.
ABSOLUTELY DELUDED!
Who on earth is this person trying to convince?
Anna Bamford please promote this. Unemployment up every month under labour taxes up inflation up illegal immigration up taxes on working people up taxes on savings up taxes on electric vechiles up taxes on farmers up taxes on pensions up days lost to strikes up borrowing up (record levels) debt repayment up (record levels). Not bad Liebor!
What a joke, I voted Reform & will do next time, the likes of that Rayner creature you can’t be serious they have been an absolute disaster!!!!! Starmer is never around & constantly on a jolly, I feel worse off now on energy & food costs & to be honest it’s a struggle to balance the books, I feel like we have gone backwards 50 years.
Is this a early April fools
Bunch of looney bins
They should be prosecuted for dropping all that garbage out of their mouths
Isle of Wight Labour can hail what they like. Nobody will believe them, they won’t be in power for much longer. Highly unlikely Mr Quigley will keep his seat.
Will be gone at the next election his seat will go to reform . Liebor currently third in Isle of Wight west opinion polls on 16% Torres on 19% reform on 34 % . Labour wipeout incoming never mind Quigly can get back to selling his chips something he is actually good at .
According to the Daily telegraph today – page 6 – in an interview with The Guardian, The Chancellor Rachel Reeves claimed she was “British girls under 14 (chess) champion”.
Apparently even this is untrue. It is reported that “she came 26th out of 34 in the mixed-gender British championships”.
Can we believe anything that we are told from anyone in the Labour Party?
Doesn’t seem we can.
ABSOLUTELY DELUDED!
I am entitled to my opinion and would appreciate it if Island would stop deleting it. Thanks
Whoever voted this shower in must be regretting it now they witness the lies and the utter shambles that tries to pass as a government for “change”. The change is that the people who work are getting poorer and the work shy and skivers are made up.
Totally agree. The people who voted in Labour wanted a change from the farce of the Conservatives (especially in the last few years they were in government), I don’t blame them for doing that (I was one of them) but yes, I am now regretting that vote and cannot wait for the next General Election.
Cancer is a good thing, if you were to believe what Labour say
Now on a serious note despite all Labours great achievements we still need a desperate appeal this Christmas..All we ask is that everyone on benefits donates a minimum of £10 each to support all the workers at Christmas so they might at least something to celebrate with. Many Thanks.