Burnham's Controversial Plan to Strengthen Labour in the North Could Backfire on Everyone Else

Skivers’ charter

HE’S not even PM yet but Andy Burnham is already serving up a miserable diet of massive tax rises to pay for his socialist agenda.

Any hope that the would tackle giant welfare spending has evaporated. Instead, Burnham’s big ideas are to clobber more strivers to pay for more skivers.

Any hope that Andy Burnham would tackle giant welfare spending has evaporated Credit: PA The PM-in-waiting is already serving up a miserable diet of massive tax rises Credit: Reuters

For a man who trumpets growth in Manchester, he is also set to stamp all over wealth creators who drive it.

An expansion of the mansion tax, an increase in capital gains tax on investors and a redrawing of that will hit millions of ordinary families in the South where house values are higher would all be highly damaging.

Economists are already warning Britain has reached the limit on tax.

Even warns of the folly of yet another hit on entrepreneurs who are already fleeing the country.

Burnham’s plans will punish those who work hard, save and buy a house — and kill off incentives to start businesses and create .

Yet he has also signalled he WON’T root out the culture dragging the economy down.

Millions will be allowed to go on dropping out of work to live on handouts — some of whom are outright cheats costing grafting taxpayers £25million a WEEK.

is doomed to fail if it comes at the expense of the rest of us.

As PM, he has a duty to govern for all.

Not lead a class war against those currently keeping the country’s desperate finances on life support.

Class struggle

THE work crisis for young people isn’t just an urgent problem for today.

An out of control is storing up massive problems for the future.

More than

But a shocking report yesterday revealed four kids in every primary school class struggling with reading will likely end up straight on the welfare scrapheap, too.

A generation is being condemned to a remorseless conveyor belt of hopelessness.

Asylum lunacy

TO the surprise of absolutely no one, a snap inspection of the reveals four in five illegal migrants have been wrongly granted approval.

The weekly wave of arrivals means staff are nodding through claimants just to get the backlog down, even resorting to asking AI to work it out for them.

The free-for-all following the failure to stop the boats means Labour is effectively running an unofficial amnesty for those willing to break into our country.