Get ahead of the Autumn Budget. Protect what’s yours with expert advice, plus a range of useful tools and calculators. |  | Szu Ping Chan Economics Editor | Rachel Reeves unleashes her version of The Dirty Dozen today. But unlike the war film, it won’t be receiving many plaudits.
That tale, based on the 1965 novel by EM Nathanson, proved that bad men can be heroes. The Chancellor will argue on Wednesday that, like the dozen convicts in the story, her tax rises can be the heroic rogues that get the job done.
Ms Reeves will use her speech to argue that tax rises are essential if the NHS and other vital public services are to be protected. The price, however, is an assault on Middle England, which will bear the brunt of a raid on wages, pensions, electric vehicles and even lattes as she also uses the Budget to fund an expansion of the welfare state.
She will say: “Today I will take the fair and necessary choices to deliver on our promise of change.
“I will not return Britain back to austerity, nor will I lose control of public spending with reckless borrowing. I will take action to help families with the cost of living… cut hospital waiting lists… cut the national debt.”
Sir Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, branded the package of 12 or more tax rises a “dirty dozen”.
He said: “Rachel Reeves is dressing up a dirty dozen tax hikes as fair and compassionate – but working people can see the truth. It looks as though this Budget will dodge all the tough choices, punish those who play by the rules, and proves Labour still can’t be trusted with the nation’s finances.”
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It’s often said that audiences – whether at the theatre, the opera or the cinema – are less well behaved these days. There are the predictable crimes: fiddling with a phone, say, or tucking into some ridge-cut cheese and onion crisps. But I had never encountered this one, described by Diane Donnelly: “Last Saturday, during a magnificent performance of Mozart’s Requiem, a lady in front of me sat knitting – a distraction for those sitting nearby, and surely a discourtesy to the professionals on stage.”
What to do? At least knitting doesn’t make a noise. I’m not really one for hissed confrontations, so would probably have settled for glaring at the back of the offender’s head. Jean-Marc Evans, however, advocated a more direct approach: “Rather than putting up with it, I would suggest that in future Diane tells anyone knitting or doing anything else distracting to stop – politely but firmly. I’ve found it always works.”
In truth, this problem isn’t especially new. I remember reading 20 years ago about how Richard Griffiths – now the late Richard Griffiths, sadly – had booted an audience member out of the theatre because her phone went off. “Never, ever come back,” he admonished.
Nicholas Young had a story from further back: “I acted in a West End production of Forty Years On. On a weekly basis we would suffer the presence of a man who always sat in the front row, armed with a copy of the play. He would assiduously follow every line with his finger, and if any of us deviated from the script by a single word he would visibly twitch, jerking his head between the transgressing actor and the written page. This was disconcerting for us all – but imagine how challenging it must have been for Alan Bennett, who was not only appearing on stage but had also written the play.”
Extraordinary. It doesn’t have to be this way, though. Last week I was at a concert at the Wigmore Hall in London, and in two and a half hours I didn’t see (or hear) a single phone. Maybe it’s just that we early-music fans didn’t have any friends to be messaging – but I highly recommend it, anyway. Send me your tales of audiences behaving badly here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, for which you can sign up to here.
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