Unfortunately, it must be disclosed that this tax was actually the brainchild of George Osborne, the Tory shadow Chancellor.
It seems more than a little ridiculous, although the Tories intended to use it to offset an abolition of lower income inheritance tax, it’s still a policy that’s far from conservative.
England has a massive public infrastructure and a public spending addiction to match. Instead of cutting taxes and cutting spending (a taboo in a nation where 30% of the population now work for the Public Sector), the Tories have decided to simply levy taxes against people who don’t vote.
Labour, seeing that it was a popular policy, have pinched it.
There is no voice in opposition to question the lunacy of this policy. It will almost certainly pass into law.
