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Hyndburn MP rebels over ‘tax on the poor’
12:26pm Tuesday 7th July 2009 in
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- By Tom Moseley » Reporter
AN EAST Lancashire Labour MP is at the centre of a fresh rebellion against the Government’s tax plans.
Greg Pope, who represents Hyndburn, is threatening to block this year’s budget unless Chancellor Alistair Darling compensates everyone made worse off by the 2007 abolition of the 10p tax rate.
Mr Pope, who is standing down at the next General Election, admits the measure would cost hundreds of millions of pounds in lost tax revenue.
But he said he was determined to stand his ground and did not mind being branded a “rebel”.
He said: “I did not come into politics to make poor people poorer.”
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who was then Chancellor, axed the minimum 10 per cent band of income tax in his 2007 budget.
There has already been one revolt, with the Government heading off rebels with a £2.9bn compensation package.
But Mr Pope and fellow backbencher Frank Field say more than a million people low-earners will still lose out.
They have tabled an amendment to the finance bill, which is to be debated this week, calling for those people to be compensated before the Budget announced in March can come into force.
Comments(7)
Wikidi
says...
12:39pm Tue 7 Jul 09
pull some strings
says...
12:57pm Tue 7 Jul 09
Him and his lot managed to make the poor, the rich, the middle class, in fact anybody you care to mention poorer!!!
GENERAL ELECTION NOW!
Centaur
says...
3:33pm Tue 7 Jul 09
Why...because he's a coward!
thermio
says...
5:48pm Tue 7 Jul 09
Is he leaving Labour for a position in the re-formed Kajagoogoo?
happycyclist
says...
12:31am Wed 8 Jul 09
Centaur
says...
10:04am Wed 8 Jul 09
happycyclist wrote:As I said previously.HE'S A COWARD
Seems like he changed his mind and voted for the Government after all.
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Lifeinthemix says...
12:29pm Tue 7 Jul 09
Well done Greg Pope, although there is still another matter I feel would benifit from your attention....