OWNERS of second homes who hastily sold them in the belief that Rachel Reeves was planning to tax them have been left looking like total knobheads.
The self-pitying wealthy, who sold off their holiday properties convinced it would save them tens of thousands, are bloody furious with the chancellor for ignoring their canny financial move and leaving capital gains tax on the sale of second homes untouched.
Denys Finch Hatton, who now has to book a hotel when he goes to Abersoch like a f**king tourist, said: “I’ve spent the last month boasting about how clever I was. Bollocks.
“Does Reeves not consider that when she decides her vindictive policies some of us are not just reading articles about how to avoid Labour’s tax grab in the Telegraph but actually acting on them?
“My employees ask what I’m doing at the weekend with barely disguised glee. My ‘Beside the Seaside’ group chat is openly exultant. I can’t even invest my money in shares because the evil cow’s taxing those.
“Bring back the Conservatives. Now there’s a party who’d take the country to the precipice of ruin rather than see those of us on six-figure incomes facing embarrassment.”
Reeves said: “Gotcha, suckers.”
