The autumn statement

Making the penniless pay for tax avoiders

Jeremy Hunt has issued his autumn statement, a plan to fix the Trussonomic crisis that I'm pretty sure no Tory has ever come up with before: he is going to usher in austerity. Yes, he is going to give you Scandinavian-level taxes while shrinking us down to a US-style state - a worst of both worlds where the penniless pay for the crimes of tax avoiders. …