"When he runs the country, he says, he will cut child benefit for those with more than two children and switch the 3bn saved to keep down the price of beer. The art of populism lies in headlines. It is about the way you tell it. Farage also says he would still give benefits to British working families, meaning about 3,700 households with two British-born parents who both work full-time. It seems a gratuitous discrimination."
"As for cutting VAT on pubs to 10%, it would apply not just to pubs but to the entire hospitality sector. It was for effect that he decided to make the announcement in a pub rather than McDonald's. The truth is that no national tax is hypothecated, other than the BBC licence fee. Farage's family benefits would be as likely to go to bombers as to beer. He just wished to show some glimmer of fiscal responsibility."
A proposal would cut child benefit for families with more than two children and redirect the 3bn saved to keep beer prices down. The measure would also include a VAT cut to 10% applying across the hospitality sector. Benefits would be retained for British working families—about 3,700 households with two British-born parents working full-time—creating a discriminatory effect. No national tax is hypothecated, so redirected funds are not narrowly ringfenced. Britain's high streets face devastation from higher payroll taxes, rising minimum wages, lost rates relief, soaring energy bills, employment-law changes, and eased pub-to-housing conversions, contributing to a quarter of pubs lost since 2000.
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