I can’t disagree Dave, although I think (at least, I hope!) that the pledge not to increase tax was made before the absolute nightmare of the shit-show the Tories had left - a deliberate booby-trap device IMHO - was fully understood.

Like you, I hope that she aims her increases towards corporations and the wealthy, and leaves those at the lower end alone.

I had to smile at the inept Helen Whateley on Politics Live today, twittering about the Labour government referring to the mess the Tories had left even though Labour have been in power for eighteen months, whilst conveniently ignoring the fact that her own Party made precisely the same complaints for the entire fourteen years they help power about the previous Labour government.