We need a supply side revolution. The Bank is shifting us from too much money chasing too few goods, to too little money chasing too few goods. It does not solve the underlying shortages.
The whole government needs to engage in a policy to curb inflation. An urgent substantial reduction in legal migration is needed to curb demand. It would also help them with their net zero plans. We need less demand for homes, water, food, electricity, transport and the rest from inviting in so many extra people. Put up the minimum pay a lot that someone needs to earn before they qualify for a work visa. Concentrate on inviting in well skilled and entrepreneurial people.
The government needs to tell the Bank to stop selling bonds at huge losses which taxpayers have to pay. This policy is driving up mortgage rates more.
The government needs to speed the implementation of its new policy of licensing more oil and gas output from the North Sea. I am glad I and others have persuaded them so now do it. It brings in lots of tax that otherwise is paid away to a foreign supplier and cuts CO 2 for them.
It needs to shift farm grants away from stopping food production to boosting food growing.
It needs to allow the water companies to get on with new reservoirs and the grid company to speed more capacity.
It should delay the big planned spend on carbon capture and storage. We need less spending and lower taxes, not more costly state disruption of our energy markets.
It should suspend the smart meter roll out to save Ā£1bn a year.
It should impose a freeze on all new external staff appointments in the government employ other than front line workers like nurses, teachers and police.
We need growth and investment in capacity. We need tax cuts paid for by spending reductions and other revenue growth.
June 24, 2023
There is too much misgovernment.
June 24, 2023
Yes, and ALL of it by the Conservatives, in power for over 13 years now
June 24, 2023
pursuing Labour policies for the most part
June 24, 2023
Indeed! Voters are likely to conclude that Socialism is best done by Socialists, or that it’s best just to get rid of this lot…and vote Labour.
The outcome will be disastrous, of course, but it may give the opportunity for a true conservative party to arise…or for this lot to reform (but that is unlikely).
June 24, 2023
NS – Pursuing Globalist policies……..
June 24, 2023
No mate! Not all of it- Labour are just as corrupt. We need new blood , people we can trust again. And definitely rid of most of the senior so- called civiil servants as they have got too big for their boots
June 25, 2023
No – not all of it by the CONs. The EU controlled this country for the first 10 years – it’s only post 2020, when Johnson’s BRINO+ was implemented that the CONs have been able to do something about a lot of it. They’ve chosen not to.
And then there’s Labour’s Quangocracy, implementing EU Regulations and/or left-wing Regulations. Yes, the CONs could have at least started dismantling that post BRINO. Again, they’ve chosen not ot.
June 24, 2023
Far too much government and far too many people in parasitic & unproductive jobs these both in government & also in the private sector – in compliance, net zero lunacy…lawyers, HR, Health and Safely, diversity, planning, woke lunacy ever where…
Too few people doing useful jobs and far too many waiving worthless degrees in fairly worthless subjects with Ā£50K of student debt (that often will never be repaid).
June 24, 2023
LL, you are so right in both of your paragraphs.
Compliance and complexity of rules and regs have formed an almost impenetrable Sargasso Sea of binding weed enmeshing the enterprising and productive people of the nation.
The rust-belt NHS is fully enmeshed also. Ask any Doctor, Nurse, Dentist, health provider or ancillary and the CQC will likely be cited for their idiotic and ignorant oversight. Donāt be deluded by the title, Care and Quality are simply not understood by the apparatchiks of this organisation. Itās a convenient foil for equally useless MPs and ministers but itās now instrumental in the inefficiency of the provision of health care.
June 25, 2023
“an almost impenetrable Sargasso Sea of binding weed enmeshing the enterprising and productive people of the nation.” – Jim+Whitehead
Agreed. Let’s see…
Remove IR35. Get the truck drivers back on roads to move goods, get agency nurses back into hospitals to ease the staff shortage, supply teachers back to schools to ease the teacher shortage, IT staff back to provide short term specific skills cover, etc.
Exempt cottage industries from many levels of regs to help microbusinesses get set up and hire staff, giving the hard-to-employ experience, creating products and businesses, and most importantly helping people support themselves. (The overhead of hiring people is huge.)
Have a serious look at refining KYC to remove the huge overhead it puts on businesses and people trying to buy or sell online. (In its current form it is also encouraging identity theft – see Fourthline, TJX Case etc. – by requiring businesses to store IDs long term. Note that PCI DSS expressly prohibits card details being stored for as long as KYC wants passport images held for, and has stronger secure requirements as to how those details may be stored and accessed).
Raise the personal trade allowance so people can make and sell more than Ā£1,000 of goods before having to handle tax allowances – if small cooks/gardeners/homegrowers etc. make more to sell, that increases the products and food available, which eases supply-side pressure…
There’s a few to start. However this would involve actually cutting some red tape, and after all these years I’ve no faith that the current government will.
June 24, 2023
Good morning.
With the next GE less than 12 months away, do you think the government can do it all in time ?
Nah ! Me neither.
June 24, 2023
Of course not. Even a screeching hand-brake U-turn won’t produce any results by autumn 2024, when the General Election must be held.
But they’ll “promise” to do it all after the General Election, along with tax cuts, if you vote to be CONNED by them again.
Do you want to buy a bridge?
June 24, 2023
+1. No-one’s fooled any more. After 13 years we’ve all had enough of false promises and Tory mismanagement. Most people I talk to “want a change” and for them that means Labour. That’s to say mismanagement under a different colour, probably worse, but hey-ho, if you are in a Bosch-like vision of hell does it matter if the demons use pitchforks or branding irons on you? After 13 years you don’t care any more.
June 24, 2023
Indeed but the only alternative is even worse!
June 24, 2023
Donāt get me wrong – I donāt like Tories. But one could argue that, in the past, they have been marginally less worse (not better!) than Labour. But, given our appalling voting system, the only way to give the Tories the kick up the backside they so badly need is to put them on the opposition benches. But, theyāll probably be there for at least 10 years. Labourās āthereās no money leftā note in 2010 will be a mere blip compared to āthe Tories have run up the biggest debt in our history and it is going to take a long time to clear up their messā.
Which, to be fair, is true. This is the worst government in my 70 year lifetime.
Iām now wondering how long it will be before we go full banana republic (can one say that these days?) and default on our debt.
If we get another Covid it will be a laugh. No reserves at all. What was it that prize jester Cameron said; āLabour didnāt fix the roof while the sun was shining!ā Tee hee, you couldnāt make it up. The Tories not only didnāt fix the roof, they took the roof off and binned it.
June 24, 2023
Just how much worse can Labour be? The Tory MPs have almost no connection with ordinary people.
They have brought in and allowed all manner of socialist theory and practise, woke imposition, and the destruction of our society alongside moral corruption.
They would much rather our culture be subsumed under foreign and alien beliefs than work and speak to defend ours. After all they think defending ourselves is offensive. Sickening.
They are debators only and have no idea in the main what it’s like to be on the street, on a wage and be forced to live with all this.
June 24, 2023
The Miliband Plan for Net Zero is truly frightening. We have National Grid proclaiming they’re going to be spending Ā£18.4bn a year for the next 11 years – Ā£200bn – just on upgrading the transmission grid to handle all the renewables Labour want to connect. At the same time we have Siemens admitting that there may be “design problems” with some of their turbines which is going to lead to heavy maintenance bills. It seems that the idea that wind is cheap is now dead. Yet Miliband wants even more than Shapps, and by 2030.
As Prof Dieter Helm has pointed out neither plan is feasible, and the cost of attempting it will be horrendous. It will crash the economy.
June 24, 2023
Indeed………………It should delay the big planned spend on carbon capture and storage…………………………Ha ha ha ha. Try selling that religion as part of your election manifesto or more windmills, solar panels and increased energy bills. Get rid of our ice cars for unreliable electric with no capacity in mileage or charging.
No, the Tory’s are toast.
No time to rectify the long list of failures on everything and woke health, public services appointments and education. Who wants to be a cat today or a dog tomorrow or identify as one of the many non existent sexes. The Tory’s brought this shit into education to change the masses view on everything normal, whilst promoting and prioritising every minority issue. They abandoned white English tax payers a long time ago in favour of welfare recipient’s.
We the 46% need REFORM, we can’t afford the Tory’s.
June 24, 2023
+ many, multiplied. Wee said Timaction. I feel like a very low class (unappreciated) citizen, classed lower priority than illegal immigrants even, and I have contributed a lot to this country over my 53 year working life, and which I seriously regret working into retirement now. But the indigenous truly are low priority in this country, aren’t they!
June 24, 2023
*Well said Timaction.*
June 24, 2023
Equality and priority for all except straight whites, who make up the majority in this country (for a while, anyway).
June 24, 2023
Sir John, during the Question Time session Alistair Campbell claimed that Brexit had led to a 10% fall in sterling, which we had not got back, and therefore Brexit had caused inflation.
Firstly I would point out, and not for the first time:
http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2019/09/28/why-is-the-bank-of-england-standing-aside-from-global-action-to-stimulate-economies/#comment-1059182
that after rising since March 2013 the trade weighted index of sterling peaked in August 2015 and was already on the way down before we voted in June 2016; and the drop after the referendum was similar in scale to the drop before the referendum; and it was more or less a continuation of the same trend and would probably have behaved in much the same way if we had voted to stay in the EU:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/fromshowcolumns.asp?Travel=NIxIRxSUx&FromSeries=1&ToSeries=50&DAT=RNG&FD=1&FM=Jan&FY=2012&TD=31&TM=Dec&TY=2023&FNY=&CSVF=TT&html.x=102&html.y=33&C=IIN&Filter=N
Secondly I would point out that the index is now back to where it was in the summer of 2016.
And thirdly I would point out that while the overall decline in the sterling index from 94 at its peak in 2015 to 82 now will feed through to retail prices the effect will have been diluted and anyway it will have occurred long ago, it would not just be coming through in the past couple of years.
Reply The Bank took the pound down after the result with more QE
June 24, 2023
Sir John suggests we need a Conservative Government, implementing Conservative policies.
What a novel idea. It’ll never catch on with the Blue-Green-Socialists who assumed power, following what was effectively a coup.
June 24, 2023
Iāve been reading old reports of the āTurnip Talibanā disaster under Cameron.
I had NO idea about who was involved and what happened since I didnāt take much notice at the time ( I had a life then and thought our politicians knew what they were about!)
But that really was a fra-far-reaching coup I reckon!
June 24, 2023
Looking at this chart:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/306648/inflation-rate-consumer-price-index-cpi-united-kingdom-uk/
CPI soared from near zero two years ago to over 10% , while sterling now is the same as then; earlier, the decline before and after the referendum was followed by a rise in CPI from near zero to 3%. It is not possible to explain the more recent and much larger rise in CPI and the consequent “cost of living crisis” through a drop in the external value of sterling, whether or not there was a drop connected with Brexit.
I look at Alistair Campbell and I look at Boris Johnson and I see the same careless disregard for the truth.
June 24, 2023
+1 both basically anarchists. When they had āpowerā they used it disastrously.
June 24, 2023
You got it in one Denis – two people who are strangers to truth!
We need honourable people in Westminster, Labour have non and Conservatives have very few!
June 24, 2023
The Bank is playing politics. Is this acceptable?
June 24, 2023
No, and neither is the Bank’s attempt to be in control of our lives with CBDC.
June 24, 2023
Sir JR, you often put forward your ideas for boosting the economy. It seems no one in Government is listening.
June 24, 2023
Well apparently the govt. doesnāt want to boost the economy.
It seems to prefer recession.
However, what folk think they will get with Labour absolutely beats me.
It will be all of the same on stilts ( with bells on!).
And punishing the tories will be such a pyrrhic victory
June 24, 2023
The government haven’t the time to do what you ask, they know they are out come the next election. Your prime minister isn’t listening to you and your suggestions which you have raised many times on this site. Your suggestions are reasonable and would solve many problems.
June 24, 2023
Exactly. They seem to be employing a ‘scorched earth’ policy to make it difficult for whatever government we get foisted (I won’t say elected because as usual it will be about 25 percent of electors actually choosing) upon us. This is to me a kind of, if not full blown, treason. WEF seems to rule.
June 24, 2023
Another great manifesto statement there, SJR. But how will it be put to the voters?
June 24, 2023
We’ve been before. It’s talk. I suggest you and Brexit MPs declare war on your leader NOW. We need action today before a Labour government takes power and finishes off the work enacted by your now vile party. All that we have seen in the last three years will be multiplied by ten if Labour achieve power.
I can smell totalitarianism and this nation’s political, bureaucratic and ideological class have embraced it in neo-Marxist form.
I am convinced John thinks contemporary politics hasn’t changed. Wrong, there’s something seriously misaligned in our world and I find that terrifying
Reply To change things I need MP numbers as well as good ideas. You always want me to say and do things which will reduce voting support, not build it for the necessary policy changes.
June 24, 2023
Reply to reply. That’s unfair. Explaining yourself alongside like minded folk, such as you did with Ben Habib on Thursday makes sense. You both came out of that, I think, looking more reasonable than Campbell and the Labour whinger. You can build support by saying things which make sense per se, rather than leaning towards useless people at the top of the Conservatives, and pretending that they have any other intention than front-running Labour.
June 24, 2023
How about activism at local level? ( If it is being done then they are very quiet about it).
Did the Young Conservatives ( they helped get MT in) go woke?
Well-organised ( not like some small parties I have witnessed) and rules-based to get rid of local global terrors.
Like the terrible parking āsystemā and traffic interferences.
Tree felling and over-development. Transparency in planning etc.
Here, our āToryā MP supported doing away with train ticket offices ( fewer will then use the train for fear of crime). He has also overseen the decimation of the town. He needs holding to account.
All these seemingly small things will lead eventually to the prison of 2030.
They need to be nipped in the bud. (admittedly they are half-out now)
Such a movement could also counter the notion of local business men toppling the local council in order to literally rule a town.
The Left is so good at infiltration and activism ( we have many NGOs here doing the work of the Left) why not those who oppose the madness?
PSā¦I am in no way suggesting that JR should do such a thingā¦.he IS spreading the word most effectively. But in the face of whatās coming..itās an idea. And local is the only way to beat the threat of globalism. No computers or iPhones needed.
June 24, 2023
Yes, Cuibono. Thetford showed the way.
June 24, 2023
Reply to reply.
You think the party of your choice, that has abandoned you, is retrievable. I know it is not. You need to find a more welcoming home that does respect your advice.
June 24, 2023
I know for an absolute fact that there are plenty of entrepreneurial people already here!
Probably their ancestors had been running businesses for millennia.
So many ancestors in our families shopkeepers, farmers, smallholders undertakers shoemakers and on and on.
But the REGULATIONS are now stifling. They really are!!
And the benefits are soooo tempting.
June 24, 2023
Cuibono, ++++++++++
āThe REGULATIONS ARE NOW STIFLING. THEY REALLY ARE !!!!ā
June 24, 2023
Today we read that Mr Gove, under his levelling up, or is it down, brief has sneeked through more planning restrictions so that unauthorised work, such as my small terrace at the rear of the house, or my cladding to stop the rain coming through the wall, will have to survive 10 years instead of 4 in order to escape some municipal bossy boots making me demolish it.
June 24, 2023
Are you sure that your works are not permitted developments?
Maybe you should check with your council if you havenāt.
Trouble is, although your building is probably very modest many people just go berserk.
As they have round here.
Endless noisy building work and fly tipping of excess soil etc then houses added to intrusively beyond any sane plan. Gardens were built over until the elite realised it might affect them next.
Not to mention balconies which are virtually flying freeholds over a neighbourās garden.
The tories in their desperation to please developers and keep house prices rising (?) have managed to add yet another string of destruction to their bow.
BUT LABOUR WOULD BE WORSE AND NO OTHER PARTY STANDS EVEN A MINUTE CHANCE.
June 24, 2023
In my experience asking the council whether it needs permission always means a yes plus the fee is more than the cost of the work, they will insist on it being done in a way that is inferior and more expensive and if it’s planning it will be refused anyway.
My balcony was on a 1 metre roof and 3m away from two balconies on my neighbour’s roof and third floor extension. Both looked into my bedroom. She reported mine to the planners who made me take it down. Her balconies had been built without permission but 4 years before and they were allowed. She is now taking the other neighbours to court over a small balcony which overlooks her garden and was built 30 years ago. Planning has become a menace.
June 24, 2023
Not if you don’t vote for them, Cuibono. Too many people with the attitude that it is not worth voting for another party because ‘they will never get in’. Which is self-defeatist.
June 24, 2023
Indeed. Mercifully retired now, I refused to grow my business because employing people these days is a nightmare. It was bad enough in the 1990s but now it is appalling.
June 24, 2023
Is it too late to cancel the HS2 vanity project, which looks ever more an absurd white elephant? Most of the sunk cost to date is land purchased, this could be sold back to the market with accelerated planning permission. The sheer waste and uselessness of much state spending is whatās so galling. In recent days information has come out on the Ajax armoured vehicle, originally ordered by the Labour govt for the army. It still hasnāt been delivered, itās design is now such that itās of questionable usefulness and is still several years away from delivery. It does not yet work and is reportedly far inferior to comparable vehicles produced by other countries. But weāve spent Ā£5-6bn on it already! This sort of waste barely makes the news, yet the people responsible for this terrible disaster have not been named and shamed, have probably been promoted and retired with knighthoods. HMS Prince of Wales doesnāt really function it seems, parts are being jobbed from her for HMS Queen Elizabeth. Thatās Ā£billions of wasted spending (thanks again Brown).
The massive error made by Truss was not āunfunded tax cutsā but simply ignoring Margaret Thatcherās lesson on the need for spending constraint to establish confidence.
Reply The main error made by Kwarteng was to allow the Bank to announce major bond sales at a time when it had failed to regulate pension fund LDI investment in geared bonds. My ideas for spending cuts have not been welcome to any of the last 3 PM ministries.
June 24, 2023
Reply to reply. Again your ideas ref spending cuts unwelcome why? Perhaps they haven’t been aired and explained properly? At some stage people will start to regard the whole spend and waste thing as electoral dynamite. It’s just a question of time now as interest rates start to climb on the back of stupid spending and the vicious spiral of debt repayments and/or devaluation inflation. Unbelievably enacted by Conservatives of which you’re one.
June 24, 2023
Re HS2 – the problem I would say, although carefully not published, is what the cost would be to cancel. I’m willing to bet that the contract is so badly written that it would cost the same whether it is built or not. Everyone can see what a useless project this is, especially with rail travel falling probably because it is so horrendously expensive and only the upper echelons of society will use it anyway. Politicians will get free tickets on expenses of course.
June 24, 2023
Kwarteng’s problem is that the establishment via the markets did not want this to be done. They are intent on bringing us down and any hint of advancement is squashed very firmly. EU take heart – we are coming back, on worse terms and paying much more. Only then will they relent.
June 24, 2023
Reply to reply.
95% correct SJR, but as the BoE is independent of government it can take deliberate steps to thwart anything the Chancellor does that does not comply with blob bank and Treasury thinking. That is exactly and deliberately what they did. It led to the undemocratic coupe and the illigitimate government we suffer now.
June 24, 2023
To be fair to Brown, if you give shipbuilders/the navy 6 thousand, million pounds, you might reasonably expect them to build a couple of ships that worked.
June 24, 2023
Is it Ā£600m that doesn’t buy a small ferry in Scotland? It seems that govedrnment ordered ships sink – monewy that is, and then themselves.
June 24, 2023
From what I understand, a lot of this malaise started under EU membership of having to open up/outsource to all offers within the EU, and we never seemed to get many of the contracts; look at the passports contract even AFTER we left. And since leaving, outsourcing has gone crazy. Itās like someone is trying to run down the country.
I agree with whatās in this article, your suggestions are very sensible, thereās far too many people, and the numbers are growing daily! We need to encourage small businesses! Theyāre our strengthā¦ that and the British pub.
Where I donāt agree is on net zero – that is the scam being used to reset society into a controlled society.
June 24, 2023
Agree with all except if some carbon capture spend went for support for an Allam cycle power station e.g. in Teesside:
https://whitetail.energy/
June 24, 2023
For you next blog maybe you could posit why these things are not being done Sir John?
Which part of government or vested interests is stopping it? Nothing you have suggested requires too much intellect to see so why is is not happening.
Why does OUR government not act for us?
June 24, 2023
When it comes to food production we need farmers to provide the out of season food the supermarkets thrive on. They need greenhouses, water and lots of electricity then there can be a UK food revolution and also the growing of other high value items like flowers, plants trees all of which are today imported. The farmers will be happy, the customers will be happy, the supermarkets will be happy, the net zero fiends will be happy, not sure anyone in the Treasury will be happy making the UK successful when they prefer to justify a move back to the EU comfort zone where they would have little work and plenty of European travel perks.
June 24, 2023
Oddly there are at least two things which can cut out the need for electricity.
Hot beds and thermal mass.
They both make use of waste and they both work. ( And make work for the countryside they plan to turf us out of).
Brick built hot houses ( melons, pineapples, grapes out of season) had solid fuel boilers.
And we have plenty of coal!
And probably wood could be arranged.
Sadly we might have to have mostly polytunnels rather than the acres of glasshouses destroyed in 70s/80s.
June 24, 2023
This Conservative Government has lost the plot ā in the Media āHouseholds will be spared a levy on their energy billsā
Another levy, as in read tax. So Households to get a pass this time? But others will pay and were do they get the money, oh yes Households.
13 years in development in this Conservative Government and it is now a full blown Socialist Empire.
The economy, the driver of the Countries Wealth, this Conservative Government, the Establishment, the āBlobā ā money doesnāt come from the economy it comes from taxes and borrowing.
Yet all the while the State grows, the Quangos(jobs-for-the boys) keep growing and thrown more money. The BoE keeps getting rewarded for failure and so it goes on. Is it this Conservative Government that is incapable of āmanagingā or other they just refusing to āmanageā while in fear of another political coup created by the collective āBlobā
June 24, 2023
I think youāre mistaken there. The joker Cameron said heād have a ābonfire of the QUANGOsā. So there canāt be many left unless, phoenix like, the have risen from the ashes.
June 24, 2023
They may be spared one levy, but National Grid has plans to add Ā£18.4bn a year to bills that will be agreed by OFGEM in its new role as Net Zero champion. I see OFGEM are minded to exempt offshore wind farms connected
part way along a so called multi-purpose interconnector from having to bear any cost of the transmission system, subsidising them to locate inconveniently, and also subsidising the interconnector.
June 24, 2023
Smart meters work on 3G which is due to be phased out in 2030
So what is the point of continuing to install them
June 24, 2023
The collective āBlobā having learnt from their Master in the EU is dictating an administrative, bureaucratic, WEF inspire Socialist Empire. A place were Democracy and the People have no home.
Imports good, self reliance bad. Tax good, economy that funds projects bad. The People voted leave lets now annihilate them, we the āBlobā stopped the concept of Brexit in its tracks, we must now stop anything that interferes with the growth of our status of control. Those pawns that have been elected now realise that try to control our empire we will inflict anther political assassination and coup on them.
We the āBlobā have full control and dictate to what some refer to as the Conservative Government, there is no way they will attempt to manage our (the āBlobsā) Country there are now to many of us.
June 24, 2023
Ian B
Amusingly put, but sadly seems about right!
June 24, 2023
Indeed but the only alternative is even worse!
June 24, 2023
From Cameronās speech Manchester 2009
āWe all know how bad things are: massive debt, social breakdown, political disenchantment. But what I want to talk about today is how good things could be.ā
June 24, 2023
Ha ha. He should be doing stand up.
June 24, 2023
One thing for sure, individuals do not cause inflation, nor do the cause the out of balance economy we endure at present. Accepting one caveat, unless you happen to be the PM, Chancellor, an ovinelike minister, or a Govenor of the Bank of England.
Government are responsible for:-
Printing money so they can spend more than individuals can pay in tax. Take away their credit card.
Nett Zero that has taxed us into an insane situation that harms the poorest the most while largely lining the pockets of foreign shareholders.
A maximised tax take that stiffles enterprise and investment, or put another way kills off home industry.
Creating an energy policy that exposes individuals to the vagaries of the international fuel market while denying us the use of coal, gas, and oil we are sitting on just so that idiot ministers can virtue signal at every globalist conference.
As you say, accelerating immigration of anyone who gets here legally or illegally so increasing demand on a finite supply. A standard way of causing inflation. Not to mention increasing crime and risking increased terrorism. It also destroys the very fabric of our society when it is accelerated to the degree it is.
Those in government are not mindless fools, so I ask the serious question, is it all quite deliberate. Is there a master plan to destroy democracy and drive us all into a 1984 dictatorship. We already have globalist companies dictating to governments and doing much as they please. Banks moving towards digital currency with reduced individual control being the intent. I think we are on a very loose slope awaiting the avalanche. I hope that, as at the last EU election and the 2016 referendum, we are given the chance to vote for a political lightening strike that decimates the status quo in our existing Parliament. The people are up for it, the blob should be fearful for its future.
June 24, 2023
Is this censorship via lack of moderation. It happens too frequently.
June 25, 2023
Yes, there is a Plan. It’s called UN Agenda 2030 and the WEF’s Agenda to “Build Back Better.” The Plan is hiding in plain sight and their puppet Governments are steadily implementing it.
And if Sunak/Hunt are kicked out, then Starmer/Reeves will continue rolling it out, but at a slightly quicker pace. It’s why Starmer, when asked, freely admitted that he’d rather be in Davos (WEF) than Westminster because that’s where the real work gets done. Westminster is just a pantomime to pretend that this country is a democracy.
June 24, 2023
From the Meida
āJoe Biden mistakes Indian national anthem for US oneā
The UKās 2 Chancellors mistake tax growth and State spending as growth in the economy and investment.
Pure Socialism
June 24, 2023
āWe need a supply side revolution.ā
This isnāt going to happen whilst our Uniparty Parliament are following the false CAGW religion and thus implementing their Net Zero Strategy of transitioning to expensive, unreliable energy and impractical electrification in order to reduce our 1% contribution to global CO2 emissions, curb growth, de-industrialise and eventually ration energy, food, heating and travel.
The only GDP āgrowthā allowed is that from extracting wealth from UK citizens for increased government spending and through mass immigration.
June 24, 2023
I have come to the realisation that net immigration far from solving our labour shortage problems in itself helps create some extra labour shortages. Say we try to plug a shortage in medical doctors by inviting a person from Asia to come into Britain to work as a doctor and he naturally brings his family here. He then among other things wants a house when we are already short of builders, electricians etc., – so we have extra need for import labour to furnish him with his house. He will also want Asian food when we are already short of Asian chefs – so there is yet more need to import labour to run Asian takeaways. So we are not ending labour shortage problems by importing labour for one thing but helping to create yet more labour shortages and needs in other things for imported labour. Therefore immigration is only a worthwhile answer to labour shortages in exceptional circumstances, not as a general rule.
June 24, 2023
It sounds like a manifesto that I could vote for and support …its just a pity that its not the policies of the Tory government nor party
June 24, 2023
+many
June 24, 2023
To my mind, it’s no longer an interesting question to consider what SJR, as a Conservative MP, could do now. In a year or so he will be sitting on the opposition benches (I hope he will be re-elected). The question is what he and others could do at that point to restore the Conservative party to the values and principles it used to hold. The Tories will of course need a new leader. There should be a powerful group of MPs already planning their moves for when that happens, working to ensure the leadership of the party takes a very different direction from the policies Sunak is following. But given how politics works, and the obvious need for confidentiality, I would not expect to be hearing about this yet. Perhaps the best Sir John can do in the meanwhile is to keep putting out these blog posts and other public statements to keep the ball in play for 2024, and let’s be realistic about the impact he can make among his colleagues until then.
June 24, 2023
Fully agree, action is needed this day
June 24, 2023
Well, Yes…. But it’s not getting through to HMG – they have as we all know their own agenda, which they are doing very well with:
– destroy the economy;
– create food shortages;
– kill more people in line with depopulation goals, using things like vaccines;
– turn justice on its head;
– wipe out industry;
– confine people to small areas – no travel allowed.
June 24, 2023
+++++++
Oooo!
So well said!!
June 24, 2023
If they want depopulation why would they INVITE nearly a million people here last year. Just as well that 300,000 contributors left (I donāt imagine many people on benefits emigrate – where else will they find such a cushy life?)
June 25, 2023
Depoulation is no myth – take a look at how many excess deaths have occurred world wide – for a start.
The immigrant situation is about justifying removing Christianity from the country.
June 24, 2023
How much has this governmentās green taxes contributed to inflation? I want green taxes to be more transparent.
June 24, 2023
I want green taxes/levies scrapped
June 24, 2023
Sir John,
As you say in your second paragraph, an urgent substantial reduction in legal migration is needed. Why not adopt the Australian model whereby only those with skills that are needed are allowed in. With time limited working visas and high salary threshold requirements, we would no longer be importing cheap labour to add to that which we already have. If as a result the salaries for unskilled jobs start to rise, then perhaps some of those not in work might be tempted to find gainful employment.
June 24, 2023
”(vii) We shall then introduce a quota system, covering everyone outside the European Community, to control all entry for settlement. ” Tory manifesto 1979
The tories are all talk they never act, they beem talking about australia quota type systems for 40+ years …they just do nothing
June 24, 2023
All the views and criticisms Sir John makes today I fully support . He should have more influence in the way the Government is run and I sincerely hope he will receive support from Conservative back benchers in order for the necessary changes to take place . Sunak is too isolated from the ordinary person and does not seem to recognise our dire state . As things stand – and opinion polls predict , the Conservatives will not win the next election . Our respect and standing in the World has seriously declined .
June 24, 2023
What we need is a proper Conservative government! – just joking as that would be a impossibility under the First Past the Post electoral system which prevents people voting for whom they want and what they want. What we need is a fair political system as they have in democratic countries (not the US) under which two thirds of the voters are not disenfranchised because their votes have no effect on the outcomes of elections.
How low does this country have sink before even the thickest two party supporter gives up believing their governments will never take this country lower into the abyss of mass immigration and cultural replacement by design, energy policies designed to wreck the economy and farming and fishing policies designed to make us wholly dependent on imports when we have the wherewithal to be substantially self-sufficient?
A plague on both your houses.
June 24, 2023
Low enough to default on our debt. Must be on the way. 3 trillion is being approached at somewhere between the speed of sound and the speed of light. Ā£5k a second! Thatās probably another quarter of a million while Iāve typed this.
June 24, 2023
On reflection I suppose that there was too much truth contained in my contribution for you to publish it, I apologise
June 24, 2023
Similar – If your comment does not follow the agenda or narrative it will not be published. Canoot have anyone informing the people of the TRUTH.
June 24, 2023
You are absolutely right, Sir John, & well supported on this site. So why do we have a PM & Chancellor who totally ignore you? It is shocking that the last three PMs have not welcomed your suggestions to cut government spending.
Who do they listen to? They both seem paralysed by the situation & act as if they can do nothing about it.
June 24, 2023
K from L – They listen to their Masters, the Globalist UK Establishment.
June 24, 2023
Too much Global Corporatism.
June 24, 2023
Off topic, this morning I have sent an email to Chris Heaton-Harris, as follows:
“Dear Mr Heaton-Harris
When I saw that there will be “no running commentary” on your negotiations with the DUP:
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/no-running-commentary-on-efforts-to-restore-stormont-ni-secretary-chris-heaton-harris-4188395
I recollected that both Theresa May and Boris Johnson said exactly the same thing about their negotiations, and that is how between the two of them they got Northern Ireland into the present appalling predicament.
http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2019/10/30/what-should-an-election-be-about/#comment-1067391
“Theresa May said that she did not intend to give a running commentary on her negotiations with the EU:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2016/sep/07/theresa-may-not-provide-running-commentary-on-brexit-negotiations-video
and she came back with an agreement which would potentially have kept the whole of the UK under the economic thumb of the EU in perpetuity, and so I was alarmed to hear Boris Johnson repeating the very same
phrase, that he would not be giving a running commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgdodmrrDjA
And lo and behold he came back with an agreement which potentially could actually lead to the break up of the UK …”
But maybe it will turn out differently this time; maybe the DUP actually have some serious proposals to get Northern Ireland out of the mess your unpatriotic party has created before Labour come in and make it even
worse.
Dr D R Cooper”
June 24, 2023
+1
June 25, 2023
Keep plugging away Denis. You’re doing a very good job.
June 25, 2023
Denis. As usual the DUP has no idea on how to dig itself out and in the meantime irish nationalism is on the march – by the time the DUP get going again they will be well behind the curve.
June 24, 2023
More than 3,300 migrants have crossed the Channel so far this month, heaping fresh pressure on Rishi Sunak over his promise to stop the boats. The desperate asylum seekers are taking longer routes to the UK to avoid the heavily policed areas near Calais and Dunkirk.
A boat carrying 24 migrants was rescued off the coast of Quend on Thursday morning, 54 miles south of Calais.
It comes as people smugglers exploited the improving weather conditions to launch unsafe dinghies into the Channel bound for Britain.
So far in June, 3,308 migrants have arrived on 68 boats, bringing the total this year to 10,962.
June 24, 2023
Rishi sunak and his Globalist UK Establishment cohorts have absolutely NO intention of stopping the boats. It ALL part of their NWO plan.
June 24, 2023
Has someone in government done a backroom deal that we don’t know about ?
June 25, 2023
I strongly suspect that as part of the Brino negotiations, it was agreed that “we’d take our fair share” of the criminal migrants the EU has encouraged to flood into Europe.
For the sake of appearances, Macron pretends he’s trying to stop them and Johnson/Sunak pretend they want to.
June 24, 2023
I would have thought the greenies would be pressuring the Government to spend more on our agricultural resources to make this country self-sufficient in food and save thousands of tons of transport carbon in the process. James Dyson has shown the way forward why is it they cannot or will not join him?
June 24, 2023
āThe Great Sparrow Campaignā
Starvation killed 45 million people in three years.
There are similarities.
June 24, 2023
The greenies are phonies. They talk about reducing CO2 and then jet around the world to their climate change conferences.
True greens must be a tiny minority, judging by the proportion of cyclists to motorists going past our house.
June 24, 2023
I see that Sweden has just ditched its āclimate goalsā, saying green energy can never be relied on. Now maybe some of our MPs will take notice. I find it very sad that Britain now has always to wait for others to show us the way.
June 24, 2023
Sweden showing real leadership
June 24, 2023
+1. As it did with Covid
June 25, 2023
Australia did much better than Sweden. Why not advocate that UK should learn from Australia?
June 24, 2023
Whilst the Germans on the other hand pay lip service to climate goals while burning brown coal for electricity.
To be acceptable you just have to talk the talk. It doesn’t matter if you’re a complete hypocrite.
June 24, 2023
cleanenergywire.org 18/04/2023 āGermanyās energy consumption and power mix in chartsā.
June 24, 2023
Having sped read my Clive Cusslers, It’s now Frederick Forsyths apparently.
June 24, 2023
I agree with all your points , and I think that most Tory voters do as well. So what is stopping this Gov,t getting on with this programme pronto ? Civil service unable to cope with change despite record numbers ?
In addition , until the rail unions accept the need for changes in working practices what is the point of bringing in a modern rail system like HS2 ? So pause any further investment until we have agreed new working practices.
June 25, 2023
if you want supply side reform, more supply how about investing in training Brits in the skills industry needs? Immigration poliociy is not linked to categories of skills shortages and there are no incentives to train Brits instead of importing labour. The UK is kidding itself if it thinks it has a proper points based immigration system like Australia’s. Australia has a cap on overall immigration, a cap on each category of skill and a policy of employing Australians first and links immigration to training to reduce skills shortages: an employer importing an employee must pay a large sum into the Skilling Australia Fund which is used exclusively to train Australians. There are additional more general requirements, such as proof of not being a burden on the state.
The UK has none of these features. The requirement only to be earning above the minimum wage is ludicrously low but even if the level were raised it would still be inadequate, too crude, to select only those the UK really needs, ie to fill gaps in skills it cannot fill itself. The UK needs to invest in its own human capital.
June 25, 2023
Sir John Redwood for PM?
June 25, 2023
Agree – and I don’t care if its the Tory or Reform Party
June 25, 2023
Totally agree with everything you write. Excellent stuff. Why doesn’t Sunak make you Minister for Business?
June 25, 2023
Home Office ā 23-24 June 2023
Illegal Immigrants ā 213
Boats ā 4
Sunak said this morning āāweāre stopping the boatāā well clearly he isnāt
June 25, 2023
We need small farmers and take up incentives for young people to go into farming. Get rid of mega farms where animals are not treated with respect and looked after properly so they get disease which is passed to humans. This entails not trading with US I would say. Too much emphasis put on US for my liking. Get the African countries in as long as we watch animal welfare. Smart meters put them out of their misery. I won’ t have any more as the one I have has packed up and they have not replaced it or come to check the meter. Expecting an enormous bill one way or the other if this continues. With business, I would say promote those who have
worked in the place for years, if suitable, instead of recruiting from outside. It seems we have a pool of useless people who keep losing us money and then are sent to another big business to do the same there. How has this come about? Don’t have Inquiries into everything, get it done quickly eg the Sub Postmasters disgusting affair for one thing, the blood deaths another. Don’t wait for people to die so that they are not paid or looked after. It is inhumane.
June 26, 2023
I’m with you on most of this agenda but your reservoir ambitions might be over the top. This zealotment is already building on and ‘rewilding’ our countryside. You want to flood it too? Ending population growth is the answer to many of our problems.
P.S. I see that 90 million Chinese are on the move. I’d suggest that none of them should be allowed into a country that is having to absorb large numbers of Hong Kongers, displaced because a Chinese signature on an agreement means nothing. None of them!