Just last month, AOC slammed Republicans for “not cutting tax cuts for private jets,” branding Warner Bros. execs “insatiable” and “unacceptable” for their jet-set habits, claiming in February that she always flies commercial. No wonder both of them kept rather quiet on Tuesday’s ‘World Earth Day’ this year. Champagne socialism at its finest…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”