00:00In my view, I think it breaks the spirit of the manifesto pledge, but I'm not 100 percent sure whether it breaks breaks the actual rule of the pledge.
00:07I mean, the frustrating thing here is the nightmare we have had in Britain for the last 20 years is the way that our electoral system works,
00:14that they have to do these pre-election pledges when it isn't, you know, to match each other means that we've been lied to by all politicians of all parties for 20 years,
00:23that we can cut taxes and increase public spending. Well, you can't.
00:27And it's such a shame Labour locked itself in because the truth is a 1p rise in income tax would have probably hit people less hard than freezing the tax thresholds, the stealth tax.
00:37But they've had to do it through this stealth tax because they pledged they wouldn't rise income tax.
00:42And I would prefer to see our government making decisions that work for people rather than having to play the political game.
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