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I am asking everyone to make a
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contribution, but I can keep that
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contribution as low as possible because
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I will make further reforms to our tax
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system today to make it fairer and to
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ensure that the wealthiest contribute
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the most. Helen, uh, you could almost
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sense there the extent to which the
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chancellor wanted to make the most
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political capital out of this decision
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by saying, "This is me coming for the
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wealthy whilst recognizing perhaps the
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angel on the other shoulder saying,
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"Don't forget you said you weren't going
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to do this." So, how does she walk that
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line? Because she did say that, you
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know, this time last year that the the
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freeze and it is the most penicious tax
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on people. The figures are absolutely
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shocking as to where these tax
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thresholds would be had they not been
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frozen by the previous Tory government.
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Um it is the most penicious thing and
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this time last year the chancellor said
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it's attacks on working people and I'm
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going to end it by the end of this
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parliament. Today she says she's going
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Well exactly breaking another promise. I
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mean we started at the top of this with
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Vicki talking about you know the
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promises broken. It's quite astonishing
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when you add up these three fiscal
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events. The Uturns the um it's awful
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really because there's you know people
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say there's always a tweet there's
1:08
always something you can go back to
1:09
where they said we're definitely not
1:11
going to do this. I mean, what that does
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in the end for everybody is it pollutes
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politics because people just turn the
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television off, said, "I can't trust
