It really is media froth based around some weird definition of left/right that makes no sense to me at all.

The first stage of the policy has already been pushed heavily as the green tax switch--reducing taxes on the lowest paid (combined basic rate cut and threshold increase) by increasing taxes on environmental externalities (gotta love Pigou). Second stage is a medium term "if we find savings then" thing--for a start you can't reduce the number of MPs within a Parliament, and that's been a policy since I was at school.

I actually think it's a good move politically depending on how the press team and spokestypes manage to sell it, the tax threshold shoud be above minimum wage full time anyway, and environmental taxation just makes sense.

We'll see, I guess.