Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Prime Minister Starmer looking to blame Farage for budget tax hikes

New reports out of the UK claim Prime Minister Keir Starmer is looking to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for tax rises in the upcoming November budget.

The UK has a significant financial black hole it needs to fill up, and it's looking more likely that increased taxes are the way forward.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says it's unlikely UK voters will accept this.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK corresponds with us Alowinda, Hey, Heather,
I'm reminded. I saw sign A ran a marathon in
Germany at the weekend and a lady was holding up
a sign and it said pain is just the French
word for bread. Made me laugh. I love it. Hey,
who's Kostama going to blame for the tax rises? Well,
this is delicious, absolutely delicious. He's pinning it on Nigel

(00:22):
Farage and Bregsit So it's gonna get nasty. I think
in the coming weeks. The budget is due in November
and they reckon there will be somewhere in the region
of about forty billion dollars of a black hole to fill,
and that can only be done with tax rises. Now.
Starmer said in his manifesto that categorically there would be
no tax rises if he became Prime Minister. Clearly that

(00:45):
has gone out the window because the economic situation here
is so dire. His people are now letting it be
known and it's in the papers today that if there
are tax rises in this budget he will blame bregsit
the mess it has created, the damage to the UK economy,
and he will point the finger squarely at Nigel Farage.
So it appears we're going to be in for a

(01:06):
bit of a fistfight over Brexit all over again. Do
you think that will lend with a certain section of
the population who have a brain and can see the
economic damage breaks it has done. I think people will
be saying, well, why haven't you said this twelve fourteen
months ago? You know this, this is going on so long.
I think there are far too many people out there

(01:27):
who in the media give Forage a very easy ride.
And the end result is if you go and ask
people on the street why is the economy doing so badly,
they will say, Oh, it's the migrants, Oh it's the
asylum seekers. You know, there's always someone else to blame.
But the figures and facts speak for themselves. There was
a report yesterday that if Brexit had not happened, the

(01:47):
UK economy would by now be two hundred and forty
billion dollars better off. I mean, it is jaw dropping.
And to think that the man who blew off one
economic leg is now heading towards Downing Street with a
sh shotgun in his hand in four years time, it's
quite staggering funny. Okay, Tommy Robinson reckons that Elon Mask
is paying his legal fees. Why well, this is a

(02:11):
very good question and it's a very interesting court case
that's going on. So Tommy Robinson, the far right activist,
he is on trial in London under anti counter terrorism legislation.
Now it turns out he was stopped at the Channel Tunnel.
That is where you drive onto a train in England
and about twenty six minutes later you pop up the
other side in France and drive off the train and

(02:33):
off you go. He was driving a high value Silver
Bentley which was not registered in his name. He had
only just bought his ticket and these apparently were flat
red flags for the police. So the driver of the
vehicle was pulled over. They wind down the window and
lo and behold it's Tommy Robinson. So he is told
he's being spoken to that this has raised suspicions with

(02:55):
the Border police. They then search him and the vehicle
and they find twenty six thousand dollars worth of sterling
in cash and about three and a half thousand en
Z dollars worth of euro So he's asked to provide
his devices and he refuses to give the officer the
pin number for his mobile phone, claiming that he's a

(03:15):
journalist and it has sensitive information. So that was enough
apparently to get Aim nicked under counter terrorism legislation. So
he's on trial in London. He denies the charge, but
before the trial he has taken to Musk's social media
platform of choice and declared that Musk is paying his
legal bills. All very interesting, very interesting in the Thanks

(03:37):
very much appreciated. Into Brady, UK correspondent. For more from
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