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Labour is Taxing the Poor Harder Than the Rich

and calling it fairness. Robin Hood but backwards...!!

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Mike Olley
Aug 07, 2025
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Let’s start with the basics.

Council tax is broken. Bent as a barrel of spanners. Not a little bit wrong. Not just inefficient. Properly, mathematically unjust

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It’s Robin Hood in reverse—taking from the poor and giving to the wealthy, with a cheery grin and a red rosette on the lapel.

Imagine a bin man in Birmingham—£21,000 a year, lives in a £70,000 flat…

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