Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Conservative commitments 7



See 23. In contrast to the preceding policy, this is nicely specific, although it still doesn’t say how it will be ensured. If it did, people would realise that it’s a duplicate promise to the promise to raise the personal allowance to £12,500.
The Conservatives have promised to raise the minimum age to £8/hr. This promise is therefore to ensure that everyone earning £12,480/yr will not pay income tax, exactly as promised elsewhere.
This might be the reporter’s ignorance, so let’s reserve judgement on this one, just noting that it would be open and honest to report that actually it’s the same thing. It’s better for the Conservatives to give the impression of having lots of policies relevant to low-paid workers where they can.

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