A promise by Tory candidate for Reading West Alok Sharma "to be honest about public spending" has drawn a scornful response from Labour's Naz Sarkar, who says that following George Osborne's pledge on National Insurance last week there is now "a £22,272,000,000 credibility gap in Tory tax and spending pledges, a sum so vast that the mind boggles at the Tories' utter effrontery in claiming that 'cutting waste' will bridge the gap".
Naz Sarkar has released a 180-page analysis compiled by the Labour Party, and which documents in detail how the Tories have promised:
- To cut taxes by £12,800,0000,000
- To reverse £6,890,000,000 of tax increases now planned
- To increase taxes by just £50,000,000
- To reduce spending by £6,418,000,000
- To increase spending by £9,050,000,000
"If you put all this together," Naz Sarkar says, "the total Tory credibility gap is £22,272,000,000, which means George Osborne should be in the Guinness Book of Records as the most wildly irresponsible shadow-Chancellor of all time! I would welcome honesty from Mr Sharma about public spending : he can start with an honest explanation as to what Mr Osborne is playing at."
Click here to see the
Tory Credibility Deficit
|
