What is a "Working Person"?

 Kier Starmer has changed his party's manifesto pledge not to increase National Insurance to they will not increase working people's National Insurance. 

A subtle change and in essence what it mans is that Employer's N.I. will increase. Employee's N.I. MAY not increase.

I say may, because I'm not sure what Starmer and his cabinet define as working people is necessarily what most working people think is a working person.

We've all seen before Labour talk about working people, but what they mean is those on benefits.

Or they've meant Public Sector workers.

The concept of workers in the private sector like the majority of people, those of us earning just above minimum wage, those of is with no disposable income and struggling to pay the bills don't seem to compute when it comes to Labour.

The signals are that there will be a slew of increases in indirect taxation in the budget. How that doesn't affect "working people" and make things even harder I don't know. I don't think Labour could explain that one either.

But hey, no increase in direct taxation!

But how many people will be unable to run a car and continue their jobs if road tax increases and insurance tax increases and fuel duty increases? The triple whammy for drivers that will send people off the road. How will the government collect their projected increase in tax if the very poor give up their cars and just don't pay these taxes?

Government need to really understand that people that run cars are not rich and cannot be expected to pay these ever-increasing taxes. They need to look towards the people that can afford an increase in tax. Those funnelling money abroad, those corporations that pay no tax even though they transact with UK residents, those that have bought or are buying up large swathes of the UK property and corporate market.