Governments in other Western countries will soon (from August 2025) implement tax increases on their middle classes, facing the same choice as the UK government between taxing the rich or the middle class.
"your government will have very soon, which is you only have two options. Do you tax the rich or do you tax the middle class? And um I'm here campaigning for tax the rich. But the truth is uh most governments at the moment seem to feel like their only option is to tax the middle class. So that is what you you will get. That is what we will get in October and that's what you will get in your country very very soon."