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Capital Gains Tax (Rates)

I will not, because I know others want to speak. I wish to conclude now for that very reason—many hon. Members wish to speak about the situation in their constituencies and the Budget's impact on ordinary people and communities. They want to do so partly because we have seen this situation before—not in this generation, but certainly in the 1930s and the '80s, and we do not want to see it again. This is a regressive and dangerous Budget that will hit the poor hardest. Yesterday, my hon. Friend the Member for Derby North (Chris Williamson) referred to Orwell's "Animal Farm", and I wish to conclude by quoting some words from that work: "Twelve voices"—I look at the mixture of Liberal Democrats and Conservatives on the Government Benches—""were shouting in anger, and they were all alike…The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."" But the British people can see through that.