Will you please make up your mind??

From BBC news website

"Cut in VAT leaves shoppers cold"
Summary: The drop in VAT from 17.5% to 15% is too small to make a difference to people. Not a big enough cut.

"VAT rise 'dropped just days ago'"
Summary: The government were considering raising VAT from 17.5% to 18.5%. Tories say this is shocking "a secret tax bombshell".

I'm not the biggest fan of the Labour government (far from it actually), but this does seem a little unfair to me. How is a 2.5% tax cut too small to make a difference to people, when a potential 1% tax rise on the same thing considered to be a really bad thing which is going to really affect people and their spending?

So much for the Tory pledge for "an end to Punch and Judy politics". This is one reason of many I just don't trust the tories and won't touch them with a barge pole. As I've said before, the only thing that would make me vote for them would be as a tactical vote to keep the BNP out.

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