Welsh Labour MP defends Chancellor’s decision to rule out wealth tax

Pensioners are an easy target for Labour - so they think!

You refer to him as a 'Welsh' Labour MP? I thought he was parachuted in. Also he only seems to talk about Britain rather than Wales.

Wales’ MP’s are under strict instruction to mention UK, Britain. Their job is to keep the UK (or what’s left of it) together at all costs. Beware of anyone with a knighthood , they are just as bad. Be true to yourself and ask why Cynru remains in a poor state after 50 years despite different governments? Isn’t it time trust Plaid? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Yet another apologist for the "squeeze the poor, protect the super rich" Labour Party. They claim socialist roots, now looking more like national socialists, you know, the sort Adolf organised !

It's smarter to focus on fairness than wealth. When Mr Sunak pays an effective tax rate ten percent below Mr Starmer, it's clear there's a fairness gap to close. It's much harder for the right to weaponise a message of fairness than a message of punishing wealth.

So he thinks UBI is a non starter what's he doing in Wales where WG are running a pilot. He was same about 2 child cap, wrote a big policy doc on dropping it then towed line for a Welsh seat. Starmer starting to lose elections, 11 councillors since Sept 16th in by-elections.

Britain's super rich are allowed to hide their wealth in tax havens overseas. This can be, and should be made illegal. Just as a UK citizen can be stripped of nationality for marrying into ISIS these people should have the choice of keeping their wealth in UK or losing their UK citizenship and being banned from entering UK again. It can be done and should be done.

Cymru, Scotland, NI and England are becoming incompatibile political, social and economically and will need different solutions to proceed to what their populations require. They cannot be in the same monetary policy or union. Unless the UK becomes a confederation of independent nations there will be no future progress or growth for any of the nations within the union. The current centralised politics and economy with decrees handed down from London won’t work: The USSR system tried this and that didn’t end well. Scotland and NI already have governments that demand more power on decisions relating to their countries are removed from Westminster and gained by their own parliaments and they have secured much of that power, much more than Cymru Wales has received. Why? The parliaments have governments from political parties with policies made by, for and in the interests of their countries While Cymru Wales is ruled by a party which has its roots and is controlled outside Cymru and directly from London by their Labour and Tory masters. There is only one Labour party and one Tory party and either one have never prioritise the interests of the peoples of Cymru. If you know any supporters of those parties do persuade them to leave and join the Yes Cymru movement and Plaid Cymru. We need to be positive towards our country; It is Cymru. We need a government by a party organised in Cymru for 2026. Policies made in Cymru for the people of CYmru and no one else. PLAID CYMRU will be the government that we require. We must work towards a Plaid Cymru government in 2026 and an independent future. A future for Cymru in Europe and the world.

As I have said: We need our own financial system. We need The Cymru sovereign wealth fund as Norway created from their Oil revenues. We have this opportunity with wind, solar and tidal power. It does help when your Labour government is holding onto our coasts with their 'crown estates' ????? Cymru must have control of its coasts, land and have its sovereign wealth, financial and tax system accountable to our Senedd.

Cheltenham Literature Festival! That is his natural home as he's a fish out of water in Swansea. This guy is an ultra-Loyal who will not rock the Labour Brit Establishment boat under any circumstances. A future Chancellor of the Exchequer who will pump money into the M25 bubble. When will people in Swansea and across Wales wake up?

A shame to see Torsten Bell transform himself from a critic of austerity into a Labour hack. He once wrote a good paper explaining how the two-cap limit increased child poverty but voted for it under Starmer’s orders. Plenty of options exist to raise government revenue while reducing inequality, including a land value tax or ending subsidies to commercial banks through interest payments on balances held at the Bank of England.

This is the man who called for the two-child benefits limits to be abolished, because, “far from making families have fewer children, it has just made them far poorer”. (Ref: his book Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back.) Then is prepared to vote against his own advice to further his career and we are supposed to take him seriously as a representative of the people who voted for him? If what he’s learned over his 20 years of being in his business is to spout waffle and change his beliefs to fit in with his boss he’ll go far. My worry is that when this new form of voting comes in and we have no say over the person we vote for but only the party are we actually going to be governed by people like this?