Pre-election VAT & NI commons debate

With the election getting forever closer, David Cameron delivered a bruising commons exchange yesterday.

Labour scrambled to recover this by ruling out a rise in National Insurance.

The Political audience and the press as usual seem preoccupied by judging who is scoring the most debate points, and how are they performing in the election surveys and statistics.

The subject matters themselves that are being trivially utilised as vehicles to point score are actually being completely ignored.

VAT and NI policies do matter post election

VAT rate changes and National Insurance intentions may be the latest potential ‘point scorers’ to win over the UK voters, but both are extremely important to businesses and individuals alike.

What we need is a solid robust policy and transparency about both subjects from every party regarding their intentions post-election – what we don’t need right now is speeches that will sway people to vote based on which party or leader can fool or cajole the other into an embarrassing commons debate situation.

Or maybe that is just the real world?

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