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UKIP & Reform UK - What's the Difference?

Antony Nailer • 7 June 2024

Antony Nailer

UK Independence Party spokesman for Treasury

Reform has just announced a new scheme to tax employers for every overseas worker they employ, to encourage them to take on UK citizens otherwise unemployed and living on Universal Credit.

I really am not impressed by the work of Reform’s Policy Group who don’t understand that UK people don’t want to do menial work. Also, apparently the NHS is the worlds’ 5th largest employer, many of which are nurses and doctors from southeast Asia.

The government loves overseas nurses and doctors because they are instantly available instead of taking years and lots of funding to train our UK people.

Has Reform actually thought of the cost of the overseas employee Tax added to the NHS wage bill?

Reform UK intends to ‘reform’ all sorts of things including the NHS but are very short on how this would happen. In truth it would end up like Yes Minister with bodies set up to work on the reforms, thereby increasing the overhead without solving the problem.

Reform now wants to dramatically reduce the rate of decarbonisation towards Net Zero but has not made a firm commitment to end this stupidity. Really, they keep trying to put clear water between themselves and the Westminster crowd, but they are just the party for disaffected Tories. Tory light??

The UK Independence Party has a brilliant Manifesto honed and polished each year since 2021. In it are addressed almost every major aspect of UK politics identifying the problem and offering a workable solution.

In 2021 we came up with the £20,000 annual personal allowance two years before Reform adopted it, BUT we also wish to introduce a flat tax which will reduce the 11,500 pages of tax law and tax avoidance to less than 500 pages.

Less will be demanded from high earners who are then more likely to pay than avoid, which has been proved time and again, that when tax rates are lowered, tax revenue increases.

We have worked tax tables to show that all lower paid workers will pay less tax than they do now and the only who will pay a couple of hundred pounds more tax is a limited band around a gross income of £50,000 per person salary.

Our latest scheme, still to be finalised is a change in Housing Benefit eligibility that presently precludes young couples on low income from receiving it and causes them to split up. That is so short sighted as we must try to promote the family unit.

My calculations based on the young man on part time or full-time employment as breadwinner for a family, together with means tested Housing Benefit would keep couples together on a living income, reduce the need for homes and flats for them living separately and cost the government less than it presently pays single mothers of at least one child, in Universal Credit + Housing Benefit.

In reality it requires the male breadwinner to live with the family and be subsidising the amount previously paid to the single mother in Housing Benefit and Universal Credit.

This is better for the economy and better for the families. As a family unit it frees up the mother to do evening and weekend work and is better for all with their ‘right to a family life’ (as the lawyers would argue).

Tony Nailer

UK Independence Party spokesman for Treasury

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