Labour's appalling for the few not the many budget is up a certain creek without a paddle as the hidden truths emerge! Right, so you can always tell when a government is about to pick your pocket because it spends the entire week insisting it’s doing you a favour. This time around, they’ve spent the last month doing that and that’s exactly what Rachel Reeves has done with this budget. She calls it a plan for ordinary working people, she used that phrase, as if the numbers haven’t already shown it’s the workers who are paying for it. She’s hauled in tens of billions by freezing thresholds, taxing wages by stealth, nudging commuters for a bit extra, and leaving renters exactly where Westminster always leaves them: paying more and getting nothing. Meanwhile the people who actually hold the wealth barely feel a tap on the shoulder. Property stays protected. Capital stays sheltered. Markets stay reassured. And the government congratulates itself for being fair. So let’s drop the performance and say it plainly: this is a budget for owners, funded by earners, all dressed up as responsibility. Labour is just another Tory Party, having completely abandoned the working class that created it and this budget stamps that truth out in triplicate. Right, so Rachel Reeves has delivered a budget she insists is built around working people, and the funny thing is she says it as if nobody is going to bother reading the numbers despite all the analysis that gets done, yet so much of it has framed this as yes being high tax burden, but implying she has come after the rich. She really hasn’t. The truth does sit there in the numbers, and it’s not subtle, it shouldn’t need interpretation but it does need some honesty. What she has set out is a budget for people who own things, people who sit on assets, people who live off investments and inherited value, and it is being paid for by people who get up, do the job, take home the wage and hand over more of it every year because the tax threshold never moves. She has raised tens of billions through the parts of the system that fall on wages and consumption, and she has protected the parts of the system that store wealth. It is not complicated. It is just unpleasant to admit, which is why Labour tries not to.