Somalis don't deserve support, an MP said, while announcing a tax plan.
Rupert Lowe, a member of parliament, announced a costed tax plan and added that high earners' money shouldn't go to fund “indolent Somalians on benefits.”
A tax proposal doesn't need a national-origin group named as its counterexample.
Calling an entire nationality indolent and parasitic, then attaching a tax policy to it, treats Somalis as a drain to be legislated against, with nothing left of them as people.
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Rupert Lowe
"Income tax - Restore Britain has published our costed plan to extend the basic-rate 20% band to £100,000. If you work hard and earn good money? You should be rewarded for it, not fund indolent Somalians on benefits or a parasitic bureaucracy sucking the life out of Britain."
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