The Lib Dems have started a “fairer tax” campaign (you couldn’t make it up…)

The Lib Dems have launched a campaign for “Fairer tax”. In the blurb on their website, they say:

“We believe that everyone should pay their fair share of tax.”

This just a few months after they voted to cut the top rate of tax whilst making cuts that disproportionately hit the poor. As Nick Clegg himself put it back in 2011, a top rate tax cut was not “morally or economically right”.

And neither is campaigning for “fairer taxes” when you’re for anything but…

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