Oh, to Be in England, Where Many of Your 'Merry Wives' Can Now Be Welfare Dependents – HotAir
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There’s been quite an uproar in the United Kingdom lately over the premature release of a large part of the proposed budget.

What it’s been called once people have had a chance to dig through it is a ‘tax raid’ of massive proportions based on Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ insistence that she was working against a £30B fiscal black hole.





Reeves’ budget siphons blood from stones and threatens every facet of what remains of everyday British life.

The ubiquitous British pubs, whose owners complain they have been paying a disproportionate amount of the burden, had been repeatedly promised relief and were horrified to see they’d been tapped again. 

Some pub owners believe it will be the last time for many of them that the government can go to their well.

One pub owner laid out exactly how Reeves’ budget was probably going to mean the last call financially.

A popular Cotswolds pub says it is being pushed to the brink, with drastic price hikes and new reduced hours set to hit customers in the new year.

…The Ship Inn at Brimscombe, known across the Stroud Valleys for its Sunday roasts and canalside location, will raise food and drink prices by between 15 and 20 per cent from January 1.

Staff hours will be cut at the same time, in what 41-year-old landlord Wesley Birch describes as a last attempt to avoid liquidation and “make sacrifices and changes” ahead of what he calls the Budget’s economic fallout.

The pub’s business rateable value is forecast to jump from £8,000 in 2025-26 to £31,750 from April 2026 — a rise Birch says leaves him with no alternative.

“That is nearly a 300 per cent increase!” Mr Birch said.

The landlord outlined how multiple cost pressures were hitting simultaneously. The minimum wage for workers under 18, who made up half the pub’s workforce, has jumped by 24 per cent between April 2025 and 2026.

National Insurance contributions have also climbed by approximately £11,000 this year, adding further strain to the business.





You’ve got to sell a lot of bangers and brewskis to cover that.

The leaked details were enough to spook a stock market sell-off.

There’s been some budgetary skullduggery, as well. That fiscal black hole Reeves had to fill, which required her to backtrack on every single promise Labour made to win their election, like slashing welfare spending and lifting some of the tax burden from the working class?

Well, it turns out it didn’t exist – Reeves had been fibbing for effect.

Reeves on the brink over tax lies

Chancellor fighting for job after being accused of misleading public over ‘black hole’ she used to justify massive raid on workers

Rachel Reeves misled the public over the state of the country’s finances as she plotted her £30bn tax raid, allegedly to save herself and Sir Keir Starmer.

The Chancellor was at war with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on Friday night after the watchdog published a blow-by-blow account of its discussions with the Treasury in the run-up to this week’s shambolic Budget.

It revealed that a series of statements in recent weeks from Ms Reeves and her officials falsely represented the fiscal shortfall she faced, preparing the ground for her to raise taxes and welfare spending.

The futures of both Ms Reeves and Richard Hughes, the OBR chief, were in doubt after the Treasury attacked his decision to open up the “private space” for officials to debate forecasts and the effect of policy changes.

Also hidden from the public in budget details not leaked were more burdens placed on the supposedly protected working class by the UK’s insane drive to a Green transition. This determined march into a new Stone Age remains unbroken and, if Labour has its way, lucrative for someone. Just not the working stiff who now, thanks to Labour might no longer have a pub on the corner, either.





Households face paying billions more in energy bills to fund green subsidy costs that were not outlined in Rachel Reeves’s Budget last week.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) revealed in its latest economic assessment that £1bn a year will be added to household energy bills to fund Ed Miliband’s next auction for renewables projects, known as “allocation round 7” (AR7).

Costs of the scheme were not outlined in the Chancellor’s Budget. Instead, they were revealed in a footnote to the OBR’s Fiscal Outlook report released on the same day.

The revelation will cast doubt on Ms Reeves’s claims that Labour is bringing down the cost of living. It also comes amid a clash between the OBR and the Chancellor about whether she told the truth about the state of the public finances in the run-up to the Budget.

The OBR’s disclosures relate to contracts for difference (CfD), the system under which levies are added to household bills to finance subsidies for green energy projects, including wind, solar and nuclear.

As for the bit about ‘slashing welfare spending,’ well…

Labour voters got snookered on that, too. Reeves did slash some benefits, but they weren’t precisely what the working class had expected. One thing that has working families going mad is how the Chancellor stripped away the two-child cap, which helped with a small allowance for things like childcare or school.

The way the Telegraph works the math, the loss of the cap for working families is actually helping pay for a massive increase in welfare spending, which will put non-working welfare households ahead of modest-income working ones.





VURT DA ACTUAL FURK?

Families on modest incomes will be £18,000 worse off than jobless parents claiming benefits following Rachel Reeves’s abolition of the two-child cap in the Budget, an analysis has found.

A family with three children that has at least one parent claiming the average rates of Universal Credit (UC), combined with other benefits, will receive up to £46,000 by next year, according to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).

That compares with the £28,000 take-home earnings of a family where one adult is working full-time, and another part-time, on the national living wage.

The disparity will fuel criticism of the Chancellor’s Budget for raising taxes on working people by £26bn to pay for an extra £16bn on welfare spending.

And here is where Chancellor Rachel Reeves twists the shiv she and Labour have already planted in a regular working sod’s back. Who is that extra £16bn in welfare spending raised on the backs of taxpayers going to?

Well. Some of it to Achmed and his harem. Wives. Sorry. In the plural.

He’s getting a bump in benefit payouts for the lovely ladies of his household.

The British government will support up to three – wait, make that four – of your dearly beloveds.

The DWP is handing out more than £6,000 to second wives and third wives in the UK as part of benefits given to people in polygamous marriages – and the amount is being increased from April. 

There’s a set of circumstances in which people who are married to a husband with more than one wife (or a wife with more than one husband) can claim an additional benefits allowance – and it’s all fully legal.

The DWP has confirmed in its benefits uprating list for 2025-26 that ‘additional spouses’ in ‘polygamous marriages’ are being given a 4.8% boost to their benefits from April.





Now, don’t think that if you’re Bingley Smithington from Bristol, you can do this. Oh, no, no, no. 

This is a paid-for privilege by the British taxpayer strictly reserved for Muslim immigrants. It’s only allowed if you’re immigrated – or floated – to England with your wives already in tow. Polygamy is illegal in the UK for citizens, but it’s okay if you had these squeezables before you got there.

And cha-CHING when you hit the jackpot in England.

…Those who are classed as an ‘additional spouse’ in a polygamous marriage and are above state pension age are currently able to claim an additional £119.50 per week of Pension Credit or Housing Benefit, with no given limit on the number of separate additional spouses who can claim in one household, other than the overall benefits cap per household per year.

From April 2026, this is being increased to £125.25 per week per additional spouse, a 4.8% increase in line with wage growth, which is how Pension Credit is automatically increased each spring, which is another £5.75 per week, or £299 extra per year.

…Although bigamy is illegal in the UK, the act of marrying more than one person at a time – polygamy – is not illegal if the marriages took place overseas.

This is legal where a person has married multiple wives (or husbands) overseas while legally living in a country where this is legally allowed, and then moved to the UK legally afterwards.

In that circumstance, a person now legally living in the UK, who legally married more than one spouse while living overseas, can then see their second, third, and even fourth wife (or husband) all claim an additional £125.25 each per week, as long as that additional spouse came to the UK legally in their own right.





Isn’t that something?

The Muslim vote – that’s all this is about. Labour needs it and desperately right now.

Kinda sounds like what’s going on with a tinier population in a certain blue state, doesn’t it?

Labour must really be feeling the heat, because, as if the budget wasn’t bad enough, they’ve taken the extraordinary step of postponing four mayoral elections for another two years, which would very likely have gone to Reform.

What she left off the list was facial recognition cameras and software going up all over the country. The council elections for those cities are still supposed to be held this coming spring, but as the Xweet says, it really looks as if anything is possible with Labour backed into a corner like a wounded, not very bright animal.

And cornered they increasingly are. When a popular British TikTokker was recently interviewed, the very first thing he did was apologise for voting for Labour.

‘I thought,’ he said, ‘They were the party of the working class.’

Believing everything they were selling was your first mistake.

I’d say the ‘joke’s on you,’ only it’s the sickest joke I’ve ever watched play out, and I can’t believe it doesn’t end.







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