🗣️ 'Budget holidays are still protected.' Transport Sec, Heidi Alexander MP, has defended the government's plan to allow regional mayors to implement a tourist tax with no cap. She tells Anna Jones the tax is a 'sensible' approach and will not be put in place everywhere

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Everyone is sick of this government taxing anything and everything. The sooner they are gone, the better.

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Other peoples money, they love it. No one in this government has ever created any wealth.

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky If you tax something it will reduce usage, which less tax receipts. It is punishing the same people over and over again.

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky “It won’t be put in place everywhere”. Translation - it will only be put in place, in areas that people actually visit, or holiday.

@SkyNews @Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Barcelona & Rome have a lower VAT rate, 10% on hospitality. There are age exemptions & caps on numbers of nights. Why don’t presenters challenge these MPs all spouting the same? I knew devolution would mean passing the buck, local mayors given the power but it’s their choice!!

@SkyNews @Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky No tax is sensible and anyone who claims it is is retarded and unfit for public office.

@SkyNews @Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky What about trips that aren’t holiday related? Visiting sick relatives? Work? Emergencies? Clear this is just any grubby tax grab

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky .@UKLabour Paedophile Party rich bitch at taxpayers expense @Heidi_Labour, happy to rape taxpayers and other visitors, to make money for corrupt @UKLabour cunt mayors like islamic terrorist @SadiqKhan - who already rapes £billions from London taxpayers to smash the city, #SkyNews

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky For goodness sake, they're not "asking" and it's not "a little bit more". This is mandating a 5% tax over and above the cost of a holiday. Stop with these linguistic gymnastics; no-one is taken in by you any more. Stop this absolute rubbish. We are NOT stupid.

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky 20% vat and yet more tax same old same old Liebour🙄

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Other countries don't place the tax on their own citizens. How are budget holidays protected? How expensive something is scales with the amount of wealth you have. If you're doing a budget holiday you likely don't have any money to spare so 5% on accomodation is a lot!

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Budget holidays protected 😂😂. So basically if you dare to graft hard and can afford to go somewhere nice , you’ll get your broad shoulders out and contribute a little bit more to the welfare bill ! Fukn sound !

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Yet more taxes from the most disgusting wasteful government I’ve ever had the misfortune to live with. Even your own bloke McFadden said every meeting was about how to tax us more. How dare you stand there & act like you’re doing the “right thing” when you’re taxing us to death🤬

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky @UKLabour @Heidi_Labour its impossible to hate people more than you.each and everyday your finding new ways to fuck us out of more money.i pray for the day all of you get fucked off out of power

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Tax, tax, tax

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky When 1.2 trillion in tax collected each year isn't enough

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Tax, tax, tax, tax.... Everything is a fcuking tax Fcuk off @Heidi_Labour

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Thick bastards!! They don’t have a clue!! It’s disgusting! But Migrants are exempt!!

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky But it will end up everywhere and it will rise and rise until people can’t afford it. Welcome to Labour’s Britain

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Idiotically conceived. Tourism will be damaged and therefore hospitality. Tradesman and cleaners who rely on work from holiday homes. It will be the young people at the coastal being put again onto the frontline of unemployment. Make the connections - join the dots!

@SkyNews @Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Hope they’ve done the homework, otherwise people will not travel to the area. Would suggest that it will propel people to travel abroad?

@SkyNews @Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Shows financial illiteracy It’s a % levy applied equally to all Low income people are less able to absorb the % price increase - it impacts budget holidays the most Authorities can exempt budget but then they need to hit high spenders Deterring high spenders is insane

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky It’s death by a thousand cuts. Council tax up. Fuel up. Energy bills up. Etc. You can only cut £1 up so many ways. With oil going over $100 a barrel, food inflation will hit hard and goods delivery will see the same outcome.

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky It’s about taxing us more How’s about fuck off Bleeding us dry Emigrate while you can Country is fucked

@SkyNews @Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Tax tax

@SkyNews @Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Tax is a tax when will Labour learn they can’t keep taxing people

@SkyNews @Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky What about people who travel for work and need to book into a hotel for 4-5 nights???

@SkyNews @Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky This is ridiculous, the government really are finding a way to tax literally everything. Shameful

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Councils are desperate for money - of course they will put this up as much as they can. A basic b&b in the middle of nowhere can easily cost £100 just for one night. If you have a family and need two rooms that's easily a £1000 for a five night stay. An extra £50 is not helping.

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Not a clue this lot

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Tax, tax, tax. This is NOT a "tourist" tax. This is a tax on overnight stays. That includes workers. Tradesmen working away. Business travellers. Labour are adding yet another tax on business. Disgraceful.

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Seriously, the stupidity of these people is off the scale.

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky So @Heidi_Labour is too stupid to realise the tourism industry in the UK has just been killed. When it comes to Labour, it's TAX, TAX, TAX and then TAX some more

@SkyNews @Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky Another bloody tax. This government are determined to bleed every hard working person dry. @UKLabour are the very definition of the word scum.

@Heidi_Labour @AnnaJonesSky LABOUR OUT!!!!