Yet another charity has fallen victim to Reeves’ tax raid. A 30-year-old charity, Bridges Community Trust, has been forced to shut up shop after “running out of money” – following the bankruptcy of Labour-run Nottingham City Council in 2023, with Reeves’ NICs hikes being the final nail in the coffin. Chair of the trust, Miriam Gifford, called it “an end of an era.” And an end to crucial services for the people of Nottingham…
The charity has provided food banks and helped people find employment since 1996. Gifford pointed the finger at Reeves’ ‘jobs tax,’ saying: “National Insurance has doubled – that’s another cost we can’t manage. Income is coming in, but it’s not enough to sustain even one paid role.” No wonder a record-low 24% of Britons think Labour cares about ordinary people. Labour declined recently to lift the NI hike on charities after a campaign by the Tories…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”