Alex Salmond ventured south last night to lecture inform the citizens of what he termed Britain’s ‘Dark Star’ of his latest plans. You can read his New Statesman lecture here. The most telling moment of the evening came, however, when George Eaton asked if Salmond favoured raising taxes on the wealthiest Scots. Specifically, did he find the notion of raising the top rate of income tax to 50 per cent attractive?
No.
Or as the First Minister put it:
‘We don’t have proposals for changing taxation. We certainly are not going to put ourselves at a tax disadvantage with the rest of the UK.’
It’s not quite read my lips, no new taxes but it’s not far from it. This should not surprise long-term readers. Some of us have been pointing out for years that Alex Salmond is not really very much of a socialist.
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