He’s backed by a rabble of spiteful class warriors, and there’s nothing easy-going about any of them. They’re hardcore left-wing operators with just one idea in their heads: how to squeeze more tax out of the rest of us. And they’re falling over each other to suggest new ways to punish homeowners, savers and pensioners. They will be directed by a PM who hasn’t been elected, even by members of his own party, yet still thinks he has the right to demand 10 years in Number 10. The arrogance is shocking, and so is the potential impact on our wallets.

The nation voted for Labour to get rid of the Tories, yet Keir Starmer could still only muster 33% of the vote, and then only by lying about his tax plans. The £70billion blitz unleashed by Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves is nothing compared with what’s coming under Burnham. The people behind him will make your blood run cold. While Reeves famously embellished her CV, top Burnham adviser Louise Haigh has something far more embarrassing on hers: a fraud conviction. She was forced to step down as transport secretary when it emerged. But that hasn’t stopped her gaining power behind the scenes, incredibly advising Burnham on economic policy.

She’s applied her entire mind to what she grandly calls a “fundamental redesign” of the tax system. Basically, it’s the same old story. She wants to hike capital gains tax and inheritance tax, and has called for an “exit tax” on entrepreneurs leaving the UK. All would backfire, but the last would be economically disastrous. Who would set up a business in this country if the state grabbed the rewards and effectively locked them into staying here? Overseas entrepreneurs wouldn’t even consider setting up shop here. For every pound in tax she raised, she’d lose many more. I don’t think that can have occurred to Haigh. Either that or she doesn’t care.

Haigh also supports a new property and land tax to replace stamp duty and council tax. She presents this as a necessary reorganisation. Instead, it would be another tax grab hitting homeowners, including pensioners who own their homes but have low incomes. Inevitably, she wants to loosen fiscal rules to allow the government to borrow billions more to fund national and regional investment. Plus all the usual nationalisation schemes.

Peckham MP Miatta Fahnbulleh, who is helping Burnham prepare for power, makes Haigh look like a right-wing free-marketeer by comparison. She wants more taxes to fund a basic income for all, a barmy idea that refuses to die in left-wing circles despite being completely unaffordable. She also wants more taxes on wealth and believes those earning more than £50,000 a year should pay more in National Insurance contributions.

Given the ongoing threshold freeze, that will hit millions of taxpayers. She pensioners to pay NI too. All this, plus a four-day week. It’s madness bordering on imbecility. Torsten Bell is another tax nutter, you can read about his spine-chilling agenda here.

Talking of madness, it still looks like Ed Miliband remains frontrunner to become chancellor under Andy Burnham. A man decisively rejected by the country in 2015 could end up running the country after all. He’s going to create absolute chaos in the role.

Miliband destroys everything he touches. He doesn’t listen, doesn’t swerve and doesn’t have regrets. He just keeps pushing ahead, and naturally, he’s also in favour of hiking taxes.

Basically, we’re being subject to a hard-left coup by a bunch of cult-like zealots, all of whom would have been rejected if they’d presented themselves honestly to the British people. So they haven’t. They’ll kill growth, demoralise the nation and send bond yields through the roof. It’s going to be hell. Get out your wallets. They’re coming for you.