"FAIR TAX" OR JUST "LESS TAX FOR THE RICH"?

In The Times, Yellow Dave has made clear another huge gulf between his Libservative party and the Tories.

Point 1: The Tories want the rich to pay a lot less tax.

Point 2: The Libservatives want the rich to pay a lot more tax.

Oops.

There is a pretty obvious clash of ideology here:

Tories cut taxes in such a way as to give great heaps of cash to the richest. They always have. It's what makes them the Tory party.

By contrast, the Libservatives think that the tax burden should be spread. The poorest should pay less tax. And in order to fund that move, the richest should pay more.

So what will the New Coalition do?

Well, in the article Yellow Dave insists that Blue Dave is of the same opinion as he. Cut the tax load on the poorest and make the rich cough up.

Fine.

But for one thing.

The great majority of the Blue party are frothing at the mouth at this prospect.

They want the rich to get a good big handout.

And they will fall out with Yellow Dave if he insists on the game being played his way.