Osborne Hitting Low Paid in Redditch Again

Governments around the world have their work cut out trying to manage their finances.  Undoubtedly there would have been difficult decisions to make for any UK government.  However, two years into a Conservative led Coalition and the UK economy is lagging behind France and Germany.
 
We are told by this government that even more cuts are necessary to reduce the deficit.  Yet the truth is welfare payments are increasing and the Government will borrow £212 billion more than they had planned.
 
Yet the government can afford to give every single millionaire an average of £107,000 by cutting the top rate of tax, while a Redditch family earning approximately £20,000 a year will lose £279 annually?  On top of the VAT hike last year that cost the average family £450 a year.
 
Despite having inherited a growing economy in 2010, we have since had the lowest levels of growth since the Second World War.  Now that Osborne has admitted he will not balance the books by 2015 he appears to have listened to Labour by promising investment in infrastructure - however, we are still waiting for them to start.  This country urgently needs a plan for growth.  We need a temporary VAT cut to help hard pressed families and businesses, a bankers bonus tax to create youth jobs and affordable homes and to not spend £3 billion on a wasteful NHS reorganisation.
 
People ask what a Labour government would do differently.  If there was an election tomorrow we would not ask the wealthiest to pay £3 billion less while asking the rest of society to pay more.