One of the worst features of the governmentâs actions so far has been the determined attack on industry, trying to root out all use of fossil fuels to rely on imports instead.
1 They reversed the last governmentâs policy of granting exploration and development licences to U.K. oil and gas. They want to close our industry down as quickly as possible.
2. They reversed the previous governments delay to phasing out new petrol and diesel cars to 2035, bring it forward to a crippling 2030. They refuse to relax or abolish the penal taxes on selling too many petrol and diesel cars. Expect plenty of factory closures.
3. They confirmed the ending of all new steel making, despite criticising the former government for agreeing to this.
4. They have lifted the costs of energy higher, with higher managed prices, higher taxes and the introduction of carbon capture and storage, an extra large cost on burning energy.
5.They have accepted the closure of the Grangemouth refinery.
Why create all this carnage? Why import when you could make at home?
December 29, 2024
In the Telegraph today:- Bridget Phillipson
Tax breaks for private schools are a luxury our country cannot afford.
Tax breaks? Hardly, they pay three times over dear? With VAT it will be four times over. Taxes for others, tax and NI on the extra they need to earn to pay the fees, then the fees and soon VAT on top.
So is Ms Phillipson so thick that she does not see this or is she just lying to justify this theft and educational vandalism? I suppose we cannot expect all French and History graduated to be numerate or rational or honest!
December 29, 2024
Also in the Telegraph Dan Hannan
âWithout a Tory-Reform pact, weâre sunk â but egos are almost certain to get in the way.â
I met Dan about a year back and asked him about the insanity of the net zero lunacy of Sunak & Coutinho. He said he supported this mad war on CO2 plant food as does soporific Kemi (see the tedious say nothing interview with Amol Rajan). Why would Reform want a pact with letâs wreck the economy climate alarmists dopes? And Dan is one of the more sensible Tories.
December 29, 2024
Reform should keep well clear of the Tories, whatever blandishments may be offered by him or anyone else.
I would really like a political party that was dedicated to telling the honest truth and did not propagate myths.
My mother used to say that our lies would always find us out, but our political leaders were not taught that.
December 29, 2024
And here today is an example of how the electorate is being misdirected by their political leaders:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dxzyg9y3eo
“The poll found that around half of those asked in the UK believe greater engagement with the EU is the best way to boost the UK economy (50%) … ”
“A huge 68% of respondents in Britain see a benefit in reintroducing cross-Channel freedom of movement in exchange for access to the European single market.”
Who started the myth that the EU Single Market gave the UK important economic benefits? The Tories. and are we likely to see Kemi Badenoch admitting that it was always a myth, that her party lied about it for decades? And who keeps propagating the myth that we no longer have access to that market, when businesses across the UK are still selling their goods into that market to which they allegedly no longer have access? Hilary Benn, for one, to dupe people in Northern Ireland that they are very lucky to have “dual access”, and his constituents in Leeds Central should envy them:
https://hansard.parliament.uk//commons/2022-07-20/debates/C87027CA-3C9B-457F-AAD6-C7A9EAEEE376/NorthernIrelandProtocolBill#contribution-9ED58429-85D9-4990-87A6-8A0D748DB0B5
“Let us not forget that Northern Ireland is in a unique and favourable position compared with my constituents, precisely because it has access to both the market of the United Kingdom and the market of the European Union”
December 29, 2024
As I said yesterday, the Establishment deliberately stalled the economy shortly before Two-Tier created his “Drag us back towards the EU” unit …. to justify the intended closer alignment.
Their strategy is so obvious a reasonably savvy teenager could identify it.
December 29, 2024
@Denis Cooper +1
then again as you suggest that was the BBC keeping up its diatribe of left wing propaganda with bogus daily messages.
From my understanding the people of NI have not benefitted from the arrangement they just had a gun held to their head over a fictitious need for a border
December 29, 2024
Theresa May wanted to use the Irish land border as an excuse for keeping the whole of the UK under the economic thumb of the EU. She even boasted that the EU had only wanted to keep Northern Ireland under EU Single Market rules but she persuaded them to accept control over the whole of the UK. That was her great negotiating triumph, which had the unfortunate effect that she had to be replaced by the Great Charlatan Boris Johnson whose appalling behaviour led on the huge majority won by Labour with all the dire consequences that will ensue. And as a reward for this she is now an unelected legislator-for-life, Baroness May of Maidenhead.
December 29, 2024
100% (lies find us out eventually – in work, social life, romantic relationships and in general including the type of life we lead / inauthenticity – the modern world forgetting this more and more.
We need to restore traditional Tory values: hard work, direct, honest, masculine (for men)
December 29, 2024
If there is a split in the centre right vote at the next election, as there was at the last one, then there will be another Labour govt. that will be worse than the Conservative alternative, as we are now seeing.
December 29, 2024
Then the Tories should stand aside, get out of the way.
December 29, 2024
I joined Reform as soon as I saw the make up of the new Conservative parliamentary party in July, but let’s be realistic, Denis, the Conservatives have many more seats and votes than Reform and will have to be part of any centre-right coalition government in 2028-29.
Badenough (a deliberate mis-spelling), has made a fatal mistake in accusing Nigel Farage of lying and after the inevitable apology and substantial donation to a charity of his choosing, she will be toast.
Nigel is making all the running in opposing Labour and he is making the Conservatives look ineffective. This is because they can hardly accuse Labour of failing to deal with immigration, high taxes and much else after 14 years of doing the exactly the same!
But at some point the two parties are going to HAVE to reach an agreement on which seats each will contest, otherwise Labour will limp home again in 2029. To bring the Conservative leadership to the table, whoever succeeds Badenough, Nigel needs to take hundreds of council seats in May and do very well in by-elections and in the Welsh and Scottish elections. We therefore can’t expect a truce to break out until at least the autumn of next year.
But it will need to be Nigel who leads the two parties into the election and become PM.
After the last 14 years, I cannot see the 4.5-7m current supporters of Reform trusting any Conservative to lead the next government.
December 29, 2024
Agree
December 29, 2024
I agree. Despite the excuses they are the route cause and initiators of net zero, mass immigration, non Equality laws, ECHR, Human Rights Act continuation, ESG, DEI, refusal to remove EU regulations (Kemi), woke everywhere, positive action and anti white English discrimination etc etc. Reform is the only party trusted to deliver our wishes.
December 29, 2024
The useless Kemi needs to go first along with all the one nation wets and Lib Dums in the party. She has insulted Nigel too many times for there to be any pact. Robert Jenrick would have been a much better choice. At least he had policies akin to Reform. I agree there has to be some sort of pact at the next election to get Labour out but it has to be on Reformâs terms and not the unipartyâs. The few true remaining Conservatives left in the party after a purge need to fall in behind Nigel.
December 29, 2024
If there is an electoral pact of some kind, we would see former MPs like JR-M, and possibly our host, back on the green benches.
I can see both being in a Nigel Farage-led cabinet.
December 29, 2024
They’re all relatively useless (including Reform).
The problem is that the talented / true leaders (and lots of them) don’t want to go into politics. We have to try and change that. Encourage the talented / the true leaders into the Tory Party. How? It should be the number 1 topic at Tory Conference and in Tory media in general.
December 29, 2024
@Richard1 – question, ‘a split in the centre right vote’. We were awarded with this labour government as there was no centre party available to most of the country. 40% of the electorate stayed at home, for the most part they were disenfranchised.
Even today, you need to rationalise that the Laws and Rules the UK is having forced on it(with more zeal) come from the last crowd. The replacement leader/team of his majesties opposition all sat at the table with joint collective responsibility for today’s situation. Then the parliamentary group wanted continuity of failure not a centre anything party. They did not want a party that would listen and work with, but a party as with the other left members of parliament that would fight the people to hammer them into submission.
December 29, 2024
@Lifelogic – I read that item from Daniel yesterday and couldn’t grasp why he would think those of the parliamentary group somewhere to the left of the LibDems and Labour calling themselves Conservatives, could even attract Conservative voters when they deserted them(the Conservative Voter), let alone be an attractive proposition next time around. Then how and why a party that for the most part comes over as supporting the UK and its People would want to align with those that have shown they don’t.
So I would guess it was another DT ‘click-bait’ item to expose their sponsors/advertisers to the viewer as it had no meaning in ‘reality’ I was sucked into reading it – so job done
December 29, 2024
He cannot be that sensible LL or he would not talk the evil talk which is designed too destroy Great Britain by globalists and supported by commies.
They have only one target and thats filling their wallets !
December 29, 2024
Hannon is hopeless. Always has been. Norris McWhirter said he simply did not have the wherewithall.
December 29, 2024
All Keith aided by Thieves and Milibrain are doing is double down on Traitorous Mays net zero dictate.
Apart from drilling licences all the rest is a continuation of the last governments policy.
It was a Tory minister filmed clapping as Didcot power station was blown up.
Although Courtino relaxed the dates on banning ice cars, she didn’t remove the fines.
I see Volvo is the latest to buck the trend on pure EVs, they are starting to make the X90 again in petrol form. As this island only accounts for a fraction of sales, they are appealing to the wider market especially the USA now Trump is about to blow the scam wide open.
At what point will these destructive morons be ejected from office. Sooner rather than later when mass layoffs take place. Nissan next.
December 29, 2024
So Olukemi thinks she’s back in Nigeria threatening GB news for being critical of our dear leaders.
She really does need to wake up and smell the coffee.
December 29, 2024
Indeed meanwhile she and most Tory MPs refuse to go on. Listen to her radio 4 Amol Rajan interview you want to go to sleep. No policies sitting on the fence on every issue no sensible question either. Kemi need say what she actually believes in and why on earth we would ever trust the Tories to deliver this anyway after the last 14 years of betrayal?
She is still clearly pro net zero or on the fence at least, does she still like Sunak still think lockdowns and the net harm Covid vaccines were good policies, does she support Huntâs tax to death lunacy, what deterrent does she proposes for immigration, what levels does she support⊠She is far too safe and boring she needs to grab headlines her MPs are largely Libdims at best.
Her claims on Reforms membership claims were very foolish indeed too.
December 29, 2024
I agree with all you said Ian.
December 29, 2024
Yes, thinking ahead we need to consider which of their many dire actions will lead to them calling it a day and being required to step down. Before the consequences of net zero have a major effect, we’re likely to see these layoffs. Labour will try to solve that by taking more onto the state payroll and by subsidising favoured private sector entities. Increased taxes to pay for that will in turn lead to more private sector layoffs and further reduced investment.
The figures will be screaming out, but probably the increased unemployment in tandem with increased mortgage rates and inflation will be the most important simultaneous factors in showing their true incompetence to all.
December 29, 2024
I think weâve already seen Labourâs sheer incompetence but thereâs sod all we can do about it for the next four and a half years. The fact they got such a whopping majority on such a small percentage of the vote allows them to carry on regardless with their destructive policies. I fear it will be too late in four and a half years time to undo the damage.
December 29, 2024
The damage being done by Starmer, Reeves and Miliband, is in a completely different league to that caused by Brown when he was both Chancellor and then PM.
It will certainly take a lot longer to repair than the five years it took Osbourne in 2010 !
And that’s only if the Green Crap can be reversed after five years of Miliband doing his worst to wreck the Country.
December 29, 2024
This government has a super majority. Labour will not be stepping down in the next 4.5 years. It may be that the players change but the script will remain the same unless the polls suggest net zero is a vote loser (remember ULEZ and Uxbridge and South Ruislip).
Petitions and wishes will make no difference , we need net zero to be publicly debunked so the polls turn against it consistently.
December 29, 2024
So you’re saying that with Reform polling at above 50 percent, Labour on sub-10 percent, an economy going backwards, sky high gilt yields, inflation and taxes, that there wouldn’t be “encouragement” from both influential overseas and UK interests for these incompetents to stand down in 1-2 years time? There will come a tipping point where the opprobrium will be too great for them to continue like this.
December 30, 2024
They have a 179 majority. Labour won’t be stepping down.
As I wrote the players may change but the administration won’t
December 29, 2024
Ms Phillipson is a non too bright socialist with a chip who was selected by a PM who was editor of a Trotskyist magazine. Expect nothing else but compulsory state education and indoctrination with an end to free speech in universities. She’s on the job.
December 29, 2024
Indeed first thing she did was to kill this bill and now faces legal action. Of course had the dire Covid Vaccines are save Sunak not appallingly thrown the towel in early it would have become law before the election.
Bridget Phillipson will face legal action over her decision to stop commencement of new free speech laws designed to protect academics from cancel culture.
December 29, 2024
Why should academics get special treatment?
December 29, 2024
Because her views are different from yours (and indeed mine) doesnât justify condescending personal attacks.
December 29, 2024
do you mean like calling masses ‘scum’?
December 29, 2024
Well it clearly is not a tax break is it on any rational assessment. So either she is lying (prob. to justify this tax grab) or she is too thick to see this with her French and History degree. Any other explanations? This is just basic logic surely?
We would be far better of if nearly all schools were private and the state lowered taxes to reflect this and provided vouchers for those who could not afford school fees as they used to be.
December 29, 2024
Tell that to her constituents who were so abusive at her Count that she had to call the police for protection from them.
December 29, 2024
Her “argument” is destroyed by the FACT that whilst they are levying VAT on private school fees, they are not doing the same to University fees.
Now why would that be?
I suggest it is because they want to destroy the private school network, because it gives parents an opportunity to educate their children without imposition of the brainwashing programme which applies in the State sector. But they don’t want to destroy the University sector because that’s where the final, and most important, stages of the brainwashing are carried out.
December 29, 2024
@Donna +1
How can it be rational that one section of what is now called private (but is actually public as opposed to state controlled and run) gets taxes levied on it and another section, Universities, does not. Universities are privately run companies funded for the most part by fee paying students and commercial sponsorship.
Bitter and twisted idealism comes to mind
December 29, 2024
Indeed. Idealism like the raid on farmers, winter fuel allowances on pensioners, VAT on schools. uprating minimum wages and lowering age thresholds, raising employer N/I, freezing tax allowances and increasing capital gains and investment incomes/pensions. NO attack on welfare or provision of health and education of those receiving it, like newly arrived immigrants, their families and illegals! You can create growth by significant tax rises and costs on all employers and entrepreneur’s SAID NO ONE, EVER!!!! Where is our msm pointing this out. Labour thinks they can stand in a bucket, pull the handles and levitate. They are thick as mince and incompetent as next years recession will show.
December 29, 2024
The “Universities” are captured and preach the Agenda. Many (most?) Private schools aren’t / don’t.
December 29, 2024
Are they private though? I thought they only exist from government funding and now student tuition fees.
December 29, 2024
+1, got it in one Donna.
December 29, 2024
Why levy a VAT tax upon private schools ….just remove their ‘charity’ status
December 29, 2024
That is what they have done – which means they have to pay VAT and business rates.
December 29, 2024
The Treasury has confirmed its plans to end VAT and business rate exemptions for UK private schools ….they can retain their charity status
https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/treasury-publishes-plans-to-end-vat-breaks-for-private-school-charities-in-january.html
December 29, 2024
âThe government has acted quickly to introduce its manifesto commitment to introduce VAT on private school fees and to remove charitable rates relief for private schools in England.â
December 30, 2024
Not so.
December 29, 2024
Also VAT on school fee will not raise the government net any revenue anyway. as several will swich to the state sector and perhaps stop working too. Or send their children to overseas schools. Many state schools may well have to close.
December 29, 2024
Exactly. But then when did Labourâs politics of spite and envy ever really save money? Same with the scrapping of the winter fuel allowance which will actually cost the taxpayer more after they have encouraged hundreds of thousands of extra pensioners to claim pension credit.
December 29, 2024
LL expect A lot crowing from the Labour acolites in January “look we told you not many would leave private education”… Of course maybe a small proportion will leave halfway through a schoot year. Just wait till the autumn 2025 term when we will really see the effects of VAT and employer NI.
December 29, 2024
@Lifelogic +1
December 29, 2024
It’s unfair alright. But it’s also crazy to spend so much money on a child’s education. It’s mainly done for status – not education .. But people should be free to spend their money as they wish without being punished for it ..
December 29, 2024
Not true Ed,
Our eldest started in the state sector primary education. 1st year teacher was not bad, 2nd year was excellent, 3rd year was useless didn’t know our child’s strengths and weaknesses just came out with rubbish at a parents evening. We moved to the private sector to get more accountability and consistent standard of teaching. It was hard work for us but paid off in the long run.
December 29, 2024
I’m sure there’s lots of cases where this is true. I was generalising!
But think about it, private education from 8 to 18 now costs about:
Prep school: ÂŁ150K
Public school: ÂŁ225K
(with extras thrown in)
So you’re looking at about ÂŁ375K per child when this money might be better spent, in some / many cases, towards a deposit on a HOUSE!
(My niece is going out with an old-boy from a top public school whose parents were educated by the state. They both earn large salaries. But have little social life. Public school has bought this boy a social life essentially but I can’t see him earning more money than his parents. If anything, a busy social life can hamper ambition. He simply doesn’t have the raw ambition of his parents. His public school education has helped to chip this away I think)
December 29, 2024
I forgot to add, public-school parents are now expected to fork out on expensive clothes and skiing holidays and stuff like that that public school kids are used to. Not knocking public school (I think it’s great). But just saying lots of parents can’t really afford it (and money instead could be spent on buy the kids a generous deposit on house).
December 29, 2024
Itâs crazy to spend so much money on a fancy German car.
Itâs crazy to stretch yourself and work hard to buy a bigger house.
Itâs crazy to shop at the higher cost supermarkets.
Itâs crazy to buy expensive clothes.
Itâs crazy to buy more than basic footwear.
Itâs crazy to go to expensive restaurants and bars.
Aspiration, desire, ambition, rewards for hard work isnât crazy.
December 30, 2024
‘America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between’ – Oscar Wilde
Ambition is both a blessing and a curse. Like money, s-x and power.
And this attitude is part of the British mentality too. Excessive ambition is foreign to us (although we still relish, of course, healthy ambition). Americans are more ambitious than us because they are more insecure about who they are. They don’t nearly have so much history and age-old culture as us. But they also pray a price for being excessively ambitious too.
‘America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself’ – Oscar Wilde
We are British – not American ..
December 31, 2024
Hard work is key to good ambition. But you also have people without the talent and hard work to achieve what they want. So they steal – either literally or figuratively – like Icarus flying to the sun and the wax melts. A perfect example of the wrong kind of ambition and how it is actually self-destructive.
December 29, 2024
It’s the Labour Party our country cannot afford.
December 29, 2024
Good morning.
Because Labour does not really care about workers. All they care about is their own political survival via trade union finance through membership subscriptions.
They could see the writing on the wall as industry was always going to be moving elsewhere and so debarked on using the State as its financier, especially the emotive NHS. You always heard calls from Labour for more money to the NHS, meaning more staff, more union subs and therefore more money to the Labour Party.
Labour and the Unions are little more than parasites on the State the people. Neither care about the UK only their own survival.
December 29, 2024
Far more sense on net zero from the trade unions than from Ed Miliband!
December 29, 2024
Some trade unions that is!
December 29, 2024
Trade unions should be backing jobs for UK workers
December 29, 2024
+1.
Union membership “density” is 49% in the public sector, 12% in the private sector. LL will be interested to note that 63% of union members have a degree or equivalent (compared to 49% of non union members). Figures from and Dep for Trade & Business 2023 & 2024 statistical bulletins.
December 29, 2024
That’s because union members in the public sector are ppe graduates or similar. That accents for the dire levels of service.
How many have STEM qualifications. Not many.
December 29, 2024
The same number of entrepreneurs who have run a business in Cabinet………………………..NONE!
December 29, 2024
Our host hasn’t yet seen Starmer for who he really is. He is NOT a Labour politician of the normal caste that we’ve known for a hundred years. He is a conviction politician with a purpose. What he says is irrelevant, his plan is to change the UK into a ‘Socialist Republic’, without democracy or free enterprise. The state will eventually own and/or control everything. He wants the population to become dependent on the state. To do this he will destroy the present system, wipe the slate and rebuild his fantasy society.
The only way to rid us of him is if the ‘normal’ labour MPs rise up and depose him.
December 29, 2024
Unfortunately, you may be right Peter. I think these Zelots are going to do a great deal of damage whilst in power, including manipulating every lever they can get their hands on to stay there.
Communist States have never been bastions of democracy because the people cannot be trusted to accept the pure socialist vision of society, especially when it’s the same people who suffer the consequences of their obsessions.
December 29, 2024
Peter.
Absolutely agree with your summation about Starmer, but not sure about Labour Mp’s willing to take action, after all they are getting a good reward for supporting him.
It is up to the trade Unions (those not in the public sector) and electorate to get rid of him.
December 29, 2024
If Starmer was to be deposed, the Lefties in Labour would install Rayner, who would be even worse !
But both of the likely candidates (Rayner and Streeting) are almost certain to lose their seats at the next election.
December 29, 2024
I don’t think either Rayner or Streeting indicate the authoritarian and antidemocratic characteristics of Starmer, viz. cracking down on free speech and preferring WEF Davos to Westminster, nor do they indicate any strong desires for nationalisations. For them just being in office is enough. Starmer wants to carryout massive social restructuring. Truly dangerous.
December 29, 2024
I agree with you about Streeting, but Rayner is a full blown socialist and doesn’t have the intellectual vigour for the job. Streeting could make quite a good PM but would need a lot more time in office first.
The one thing that TTK, Theeves, and Minibrain have taught us, is that being the Leader of the Opposition or a shadow minister does nothing to prepare you to be a good PM or minister !
December 29, 2024
I think we make the mistake of thinking that they have no coherent policy when we criticise their individual acts of indhstrial vandalism.
I conclude that they are intent on destroging the UK as we know it. Turning us into a 100% dependant state, removing individual choice and ensuring that we are only fit to be reattached to the EU in whatever way they can get away with. They perceive that they only have another 4.5 years to commit this act of treachory. The EU is their socialist goal and they will destroy and lie their way to it. They are conducting a civil war on the British by whatever dishonest means they can bring to the act. We are being lulled into thinking they are incompetent, they may well be, but not at their principle goal of destroying the UK and handing her bound and gagged to enslavement by the EU. They must be stopped by whatever means possible. To those who may think otherwise, digest carefully the evidence of their acts to date.
December 29, 2024
I agree! Surely a government couldn’t be as incompetent as this one…. it has to be deliberate! It has to be!
It’s agenda 2030, of which the EU is onboard!
I still find it difficult to understand why anyone would want to destroy their country – even if they think globally! It’s like blowing up your own house just to stay friends with the rest of the road. It’s insanity!
December 29, 2024
Look at history. Plenty of those with communist ideals have done the same. There was widespread famine in the People’s Republic of China between 1959 and 1961 during the Great Leap Forward. It is estimated around 30 million people died. China had a planned economic structure where the central government directly controlled the acquisition and distribution of food. With the planned introduction of UN food hubs and Labour’s destruction of family farms, we are looking at a similar scenario. Control the food supply and you can get people to vote for anything. It is all part of their WEF Stakeholder Capitalism agenda.
Personally, I think their plans have been thwarted by Trump’s election in the US and Javier Milei’s in Argentina. Soon to be followed by the election of the AFD in Germany. We just have to hang on until Labour is removed and replaced with a sensible party like Reform. Don’t be lulled into thinking the Tories have changed their policies, they haven’t. Unfortunately, the damage to the UK may be irrevocable.
There is no point trying to make sense of Labour’s destructive policies as Sir John is doing. Voters need to take a step back and study the WEF/UN Stakeholder Capitalism agenda. The introduction of this has been going on for decades and top politicians and royalty are deeply involved.
December 29, 2024
agreed- I donât like it but we are now rely on Trump and Reform as the Lib lab Cons have all been bought by WEF and are Globalists , including the so called Royalty!
December 29, 2024
+1
December 29, 2024
Agreed. It is all being done deliberately.
December 29, 2024
Seemingly stupid and incompetant but also deceitful and cunning – a very nasty mix AG
December 29, 2024
Psychopaths. These are very sick people. No moral compass, no ability to differentIate between truth and lies. Etc etc etc
December 29, 2024
I dispute that they are intent on destroying thr UK. I suggest that they are so high on moral certainty (like most on the left) that they see their command economy destination as nirvana.
The old “but socialism has not been done properly” response to.past failures.
These people are rather dangerous and have many in the media in their thrall #bekind
December 29, 2024
The last couple of videos from David Starkey and the two from Dr John Campbell are all very good. Four late and free Christmas presents. Antidotes to the endless BBC lies and tedious propaganda.
December 29, 2024
Itâs been revealed that a Eyewatering ÂŁ37BILLION cost of Ed Miliband’s green crusade to make Britain Net Zero by 2029
So to put this in to perspective. In 6 months labour have spent.
ÂŁ13 billion on the 1st Unions bumper pay day.
2 new immigration centres costing ÂŁ117 million.
ÂŁ700 Million on the Rwanda give away
ÂŁ50 Million to Syria.
ÂŁ13 million to the Ukraine
ÂŁ17 Million, every single day on immigration, yes EVERY SINGLE DAY.
HS2 an Extra ÂŁ10 Billion.
Ukraine ,another ÂŁ4.5 Million.
ÂŁ9 Million to every single council in the country to new builds for immigrants.
ÂŁ37 Billion on this .
Yet, there is no money for New Schools. Hospitals, Doctors, Pensioners, the most vulnerable, etc.
why canât our King the only person to shut this bunch of chancers out of office by getting another General Election called before he doesnât have a Great Britain anymore
December 29, 2024
Unfortunately, Mad Ed’s total bill is ÂŁ328 billion.
December 29, 2024
Its not just the ÂŁcost, its the social-engineering and government control
December 29, 2024
So far!
December 29, 2024
It’s because King Charles the Green agrees with them.
December 29, 2024
Didn’t you listen to His Hypocritical Majesty of Windsor’s Christmas speech? He is a supporter of “diversity and a multi-faith society;” he’s been a leading propagandist for the Climate Change narrative for decades and he fronted the WEF, calling for “a Great Reset.”
Our salvation won’t come from him.
December 29, 2024
He’s hoping to be nominated King of the United Nations
December 29, 2024
The King is part of the problem. He’s part of the Davos WEF set who are pushing Stakeholder Capitalism.
December 29, 2024
Only if he can keep his own wealth and privilege!
December 29, 2024
Unfortunately the King is powerless, he prorogues Parliament when the PM tells him to. Similarly the Consulate General (I might be wrong re the title) does the same in the Kings Name in Australia.
When he opens a new Parliament he reads a speech written by the PM.
Since 1217 we have been effectively a Republic and the Monarch has been our servant.
In fact since the Maastricht Treaty we have not had a Monarch until 2016 and the Brexit vote which re established the Monarchy. Prior to that they were common citizens of the EU and Suzerains in the U.K.
December 29, 2024
Iâm not entirely sure I mean âunfortunatelyâ, being subject to a powerful Charles II would be worse than being subject to Starmer whom we can and will sack.
December 29, 2024
Tax to the point of destruction, then sell out what you can to foreign interests while you can to pay for the failing British state. This is and has been the guiding policy for the Labour party. Conservatives have not been much better.
December 29, 2024
Don’t forget they also are taxing family farms out of existence in order to advance corporate ownership and agenda 30 renewable energy policy. That shouldn’t do self sufficient food production much good.
December 29, 2024
As I said previously:
http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2024/12/04/the-u-k-does-have-a-deindustrialising-policy/#comment-1487584
“some people want to take us back to the Stone Age before mankind learned to control fire”
Burning hydrogen is still problematic even though it does not produce carbon dioxide:
https://www.sierraclub.org/articles/2022/01/hydrogen-future-clean-energy-or-false-solution
December 29, 2024
The hydrogen generation plant approved by Mad Ed’s ministry and being built in the NE is of the grey reformed hydrogen type and will pay the methane supplying industry to compress the CO2 and pump iti to old North Sea gas fields.
December 29, 2024
Stred :
Pumping CO2 into old North Sea gas fields can hardly be described as “sustainable”.
Not that CO2, or water vapour the largest of the greenhouse gases, causes radiative heating (the greenhouse effect) at the planet’s surface because of a phenomenon known as thermalisation or quenching as demonstrated by Shula & Ott both experimentally and theoretically. The irony is that reverse thermalisation at the very top of the atmosphere by the greenhouse gases, in fact mainly water vapour, cools the planet by radiating energy to space.
December 29, 2024
Hydrogen make little sense as for green hydrogen so much energy is wasted in converting wind power to hydrogenm the storing it (not easy) and then back to heat or electricity perhaps as high a 75% wasted. Far simpler and cheaper and better to use natural gas, oil, coal or diesel directly or to generate electricity as needed.
December 29, 2024
Outside a few rather specialist areas that is.
December 29, 2024
Same IHT with small family businesses.
December 29, 2024
Of course it would be “simpler” and possibly also “cheaper” to carry on using fossil fuels until global reserves were exhausted, as they eventually would be. Last night we watched a programme about life during the Edwardian period, when this country was not only self-sufficient in energy through its own coal but was exporting great quantities, and that was the basis for technological and economic and social progress and supported the Empire. Now we are dependent on others for energy, which is a very weak position to be in. That alone is enough to make me think that it would have been “better” to have started a gradual move to domestic renewable energy sources fifty years ago when we could have gone about it sensibly, rather than constantly looking for short term reasons for delaying and then finally going off half-cock, allegedly in an urgent response to a terrifying “climate crisis” but probably more for ideological reasons.
Reply We did put in nuclear which this government is closing down, delaying replacements
December 29, 2024
We have plenty of Gas, Coal and Oil resources which will get us through to practical nuclear fusion and better nuclear. With that we can have cost effective synthetic hydrocarbon fuels. Probably within my lifetime.
December 29, 2024
The best place for nuclear fusion is in the sun. I may have expected to see it on earth in my iifetime when I was at primary school and sticking up the newspaper cutting about ZETA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZETA_(fusion_reactor)
December 29, 2024
We know the reason. They are continuing the policies that the Tories started indeed signed up to legally binding commitments without a clue about their ramifications thinking that the target date was so far in advance that it wouldnât matter or âsomething would turn upâ technologically.
As for tactics. Again no difference or indeed in the private sector taking over a new department/company.
Blame the previous management for as much as you can and do as much âdirty washingâ as you can on the back of it.
Helped by the political right, naive new leader heading an arrogant âright to governâ party in denial, split with a rapidly growing but new entrant.
Obviously as with all governments sunlit uplands, tax cuts etc will magically appear in 3/4 years time (they hope!)
December 29, 2024
Labour have swallowed the ‘climate change’ nonsense preached by Greta and Al Gore. They are too scared to actually stand back and re-think the whole issue.
December 29, 2024
Why create all this carnage? Why import when you could make at home?
Questions which could be posed to the previous government also. This is exactly what they were doing, but on steroids. No real criticism coming from the previous cabinet, because they can’t go there!
December 29, 2024
Do you really think that the man who chose Davos, without hesitation, before Westminster when asked by Emily Maitlis in January 2023 is concerned about British industry? He is following an agenda set for him by his globalist masters – the same masters, incidentally, who Kemi Badenoch was happy to be photographed with.
December 29, 2024
+1
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
December 29, 2024
+1
December 29, 2024
âïžgot it !
December 29, 2024
Why?
You know why, Sir John. Because that is what the UN (Agenda 21, Agenda 2030) and the WEF’s Great Reset requires.
And if the other branch of the Westminster Uni-Party had somehow managed to get itself re-elected, it would be doing pretty-much the same thing.
December 29, 2024
Spot-On Donna
December 29, 2024
+1
December 29, 2024
Oh dear. 10 posts of yet more repetitive rubbish from Lifelogic, before breakfast. One wonders if this is down to dementia…..
Grangemouth at 50 years old is the UKâs oldest refinery and currently faces significant challenges due to worldwide market pressures and the energy transition. Refining is a globally competitive industry and Grangemouth is increasingly unable to compete with bigger, more modern and efficient sites in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Due to its size and configuration, Grangemouth incurs high levels of capital expenditure each year just to maintain its licence to operate; the site’s licence to distil crude oil is up for renewal in 2025 This annual outlay on essential planned maintenance and running repairs has been consistently higher than Grangemouth’s earnings over the past decade.
Britain has five other working refineries. The closure of Grangemouth is down to market forces. The employees will find well paid jobs in Scotland’s renewables industry, which is booming
December 29, 2024
Ad hominem attacks on fellow contributors only detracts from your viewpoint.
December 29, 2024
Far left lies- it goes on repeatedly , yeh yeh !
yabba yabba
December 29, 2024
Well there is not such thing as ârenewableâ energy and the jobs require huge subsidies (which destroy other jobs) and fossil fuel back up. Also the resultant v. expensive energy destroys further jobs.
December 29, 2024
“Why create all this carnage? Why import when you could make at home?”
It is becoming increasingly difficult to attribute this to anything other than deliberate sabotage, almost Pol Pot by stealth. Harold Wilson and Clement Attlee will be spinning in their graves. Whether it all has the approval of Blair, just as much a Davos Man as Starmer, is another question.
December 29, 2024
Labour are kowtowing to the UN believing they can somehow make a success of the UN’s mistakes by intensifying those very mistakes.
Net Zero 2050 is an invention. There is no need for man-made CO2 emissions to be specifically net zero specifically by the year 2050 (to cap the global temperature increase at 1.5 degrees celsius). I know that is the case as the UNFCCC cannot evidence it to me. So Labour (and all such climate fanatics) need to understand for matters this economically consequential we need to work off evidence and not idealism. That means helping British industry as much as possible and not being a UN lackey.
December 29, 2024
Agreed! keep telling the truth it will succeed in the end!
December 29, 2024
“Why import when you could make at home?”
Labour is importing its future roots :-
150,0000 boat folk so far plus illegal immigrants outnumber
150,000 Reform members,
131,680 Conservative membership
370,450 Labour members latest known figures.
QED
December 29, 2024
Labour are backward and act in reverse to what is needed.
They put Rachel from accounts in charge of UK finance; equivalent to promoting a croupier from a Russian roulette table to Minister of Defence in Ukraine.
Govt takes money from parents who reduce the cost of state education by volunteering to pay more for childrenâs private education. Then, instead of using some of that saving to encourage more such efficiency, Labour charge VAT to penalise those people who paid twice. That heavier burden then pushes more children into the state system, itself forcing even higher demands on inadequate state funding. Itâs like promoting a dunce to run the DfE, with volunteer teachers being caned for assisting children to learn.
Perhaps Wes Streeting has some semblance of sense, and only that keeps this governmentâs healthy majority of Labour idiots alive.
December 29, 2024
Labour is also attacking its growth Triple Whammy:-
1. Higher Minimum Wage ÂŁ12.21 from April 2025
2. Higher National insurance employer contributions
3. Creating Uncertainty and Doom loop of mixed messages to:-
Entrepreneurs, investors, creators, SME s, employees, pensioners, house owners, farmers and markets, trade partners, bankers, you name it.
Big shake out / wake up coming to this April fool “Labour government” which is no longer just a joke but a massive headache.
December 29, 2024
The divergence between the current Labour Party and its roots is little different to that which afflicted the Cameron/ Sunak Conservative Party: it is the same split between the Governing Elite and their subjects. It is true there were a few signs that some in the Conservative government (Claire Coutinho being one) realised the need for change, but the majority of the Conservative Parliamentary party had other ideas. You said the other day in your Popcon interview with Mark Littlewood, that what was now needed was sustained support for the new leader, giving her time to work out the appropriate new direction for the party, but we begin to need to have a clearer idea about what she thinks about things, and in what direction she wants to go. If she is going to re-connect the Conservative Parliamentary Party with its roots, she will at some stage have to have a showdown with those on the left of our party, who I suspect are still a majority of Conservative MPs, and I wonder where this will leave her?
December 29, 2024
You can also add extra direct taxes all round in April new tax year plus the fiscal drag effect of refusal to adjust allowances for the last few years, whilst Public Sector pensions rise with inflation,.
Inflation! Another biting statistic…..
December 29, 2024
Sir John
âWhy create all this carnage?â You have to ask?
It could be exporting UK jobs, causing the UK Citizen/Taxpayer to pay more than all their competing nations â is part of the plan. It could even be seen as part of the WEFâs âGreat Resetâ. What it isnât is a Government and a Parliament working with the people of the UK for a better future for all.
December 29, 2024
Creating by a greater magnitude more world pollution, more world CO2 emission then calling it the drive to NetZero cant ever be called âhonestâ While at the same time the rest of the World moves forward and gets richer at the UKâs expense.
December 29, 2024
Deliberately and maliciously exporting UK jobs, exporting the UKâs wealth creation. Deliberately and maliciously removing the UKâs ability to fund and then create a future is a Parliament a government on a war footing against the People and the Country. While all the time the Worlds competing nations do the opposite, work with their people create wealth for their country.
The World is not handicapped by ridiculous ill thought through Laws and Rules that demand impoverishment and removal of a future.
December 29, 2024
Einstein said the ability to change is a mark of intelligence,but from what to what?
December 29, 2024
I want an honest & truthful government âŠ
Police speeding fines is just tax revenue
TV licence is just tax revenue
Environmental tax is just tax revenue
Inheritance death tax is just tax revenue
VAT on private schools is just tax revenue
Net-Zero levies is just tax revenue etc etc
They should stop making out that these taxes and levies are for some higher purpose; theyâre not, theyâre just collecting tax revenue by any means
December 29, 2024
The âclosing down of industryâ is necessary to achieve Net Zero, two words that dare not be mentioned. The Net Zero policy was initiated by the blue section of the Uniparty by PM May when it was put into law by 2050 without a proper debate, vote or costing. This means that our energy, industry and consumption (living standards) policies are now determined by the unelected and unqualified CCC, anti-hydrocarbon fuel activists partly funded by the taxpayer and judges. The red section of the Uniparty are simply carrying on where it was left off before the last GE.
According to a recent âMore in Commonâ poll 66% of the public say that Labour seems like âmore of the sameâ compared with the previous government, while only 34% say they seem genuinely different.
December 29, 2024
Both the tory & labour partys are a far cry from the parties from 3 decades ago, both unrecogniseable by policy, tradition nor purpose ….uni-party
December 29, 2024
Schuman plan ….writ large
December 29, 2024
âThey reversed the previous governments delay to phasing out new petrol and diesel cars to 2035, bring it forward to a crippling 2030â
It was the blue section of the Uniparty, PM Johnson, who announced at the UN 22/09/2021 that he was changing his name to Boreas Johnson in honour of the North Wind, who first initiated the ending of sales of ices by 2030. PM Sunak changed the date to 2035.probably to align with the EU, but kept the same fining timing and amounts in place. The red section of the Uniparty have simply reverted back to the blue sectionâs original plan. So no change really. Second-hand ices will need to be imported but the main goal to net zero our territorial CO2 emissions will be helped by the closure of our motor industry.
Reply Not so. Sunak changed policy on ICE vehicles when I put to him the likelihood of plenty of nearly new ICE vehicles being imported coupled with closure of our factories. He did also reinstate drilling for UK oil and gas,seeing the argument that meant kess world CO 2. He appointed Coutinho who drove policy away from net zero extremism. Clearly they had further to go when Sunak wrongly decided on an early election. They did need to axe the fines for selling too many ICE vehicles but encountered strong official and Climate Change Committee resistance with many in the industry wanting further penalties on ICE production.
December 29, 2024
Even the CCC and NESO in their âClean Power 2030â report say that hydrocarbon fuels will be needed past 2050. So no policy change from our governments. Coutinho, Badenoch and the Conservative Party are fully signed up to Net Zero. As Narrow Shoulders below has so aptly put it âWe are in âwe have established the parties are whores and are now quibbling about the priceâ territory.
There is no climate crisis, in fact not even any global warming, caused by natural or anthropogenic emissions of CO2. It is completely false. Never mind the science of Shula & Ott just look at the current and past climate data.
December 29, 2024
Isnât it rather curious that after extreme climate events the World Weather Attribution group is able by rerunning weather forecast models with the contemporaneous concentrations of greenhouse gases and with the concentrations as they were in the 1950s to determine which events (locations, intensities of various parameters: T, wind, precip.) are linked to increased concentrations of GHGs and which are not.
The exact methodology, its plus and minus points are presented in:
Philip, SY et al., âA protocol for probabilistic extreme event attribution analysesâ, 2020 /doi.org/10.5194/ascmo-6-177-2020.
van Oldenborgh, GJ et al., âPathways and pittfalls in extreme event attributionâ, 2021
/doi.org/10.1007/s10584-21-03071-7.
Those two papers are âopen sourceâ and can be seen by anybody interested.
Maybe even Shula and Ott could possibly learn how to make their model less computer hungry and make it useful, as right now they themselves admit (âThe missing linkâ, p.24, 2nd §) that âa global circulation model based on the real mechanism of heat transfer would likely require orders of magnitude more computing power than the current radiative transfer based GCMsâ.
And then, assuming they are able to run such a GCM with âthe real mechanism of heat transferâ they might discover they could not run any attribution study as the weather change in these studies is linked to the GHG concentrations and they wouldnât want to change those. What a bummer!
December 30, 2024
Easy to set up and design computer models and their fixed parameters hefner.
You get the outputs you desire.
PS
Extreme climate events…there are no more now than decades ago.
December 29, 2024
@Reply – I take @Original Richard view here, Sunak was electioneering, and so was not open about all the background caveat’s he served up to stay in power and on track with the original Conservative/parliament targets of punitive punishment. It was within the Conservatives governments domain to align the UK with the Worlds view on NetZero – they chose the complete opposite. The UK among our competing nations is an outlier in wishing to punish its people and country by serving up their own Laws to punish. 95% of the World have a different view, and if NetZero is required are not seeking to punish and impoverish by fighting the people. From that you could suggest 95% of the World are moving forward, creating the wealth and resilience to face any challenge that is thrown their way – the UK Government past and present are ensuring the opposite
December 29, 2024
Ian B:
Correct.
December 29, 2024
Sanak didn’t change the policy on ICE vehicles, he just changed the schedule
December 30, 2024
Yes, and he only did that when the EU had “given him permission” by doing it first. Under the “Deal” the EU controls our Environment and Energy policies …..so we can’t compete “with our friends.”
December 29, 2024
322 criminals arrived in the UK yesterday; from the safe country of France âŠwe have open borders
December 29, 2024
Even criminals that have been deported keep coming back it seems.
December 29, 2024
I don’t trust the tories or labour
December 29, 2024
It’s hard to answer these questions without referring to what labour’s agenda actually is – and that should be pretty clear by now.
Labour had no intention, despite their promises, to make our economy boom. So not are they simply a rogue government doing everything against the wishes of the majority of the population, they are truly deceitful.
Surely everyone is fully aware of the actual agenda labour are following, you’d think, but still so many have their heads in the sand and refuse to look at where we are going.
With respect to our host who does a great job of pointing out the way labour are destroying our country, but we need to do more than just tell the clowns in power that they are wrong. They are very good at ignoring what they don’t want to hear. After all their religion is fool-proof and backed up by a false science. It tells them what they must do no matter how wrong they might be.
Mere words will not stop labour in their destruction of UK industry and way of life – they are beyond honest logic.
December 29, 2024
What they are doing to OUR country amounts to treachery. It appears they are acting as a Fifth Column to disrupt the country and bring it to its knees in submission to whatever comes next.
What I cannot understand is why they would want to act in this way unless it is their chosen way to destabilise us so the Nation would have to adopt Communist Principles whereby only the Government knows best and to challenge them would be a serious criminal offence (al la Russia, China or NK).
Either that or they are completely out of their depth, have no idea how to turn our failing fortunes around, and fall back on the old, worn-out, and failed socialist principles, as though this time under Starmer, they would work!
December 30, 2024
Check out the WEF’s website. That’s what they’re delivering – which is the same as the Not-a-Conservative-Government’s policy agenda. That’s why Two-Tier, in a rare moment of honesty, admitted that he’d rather be in Davos than Westminster because that’s where the real work gets done ….. Westminster is just a tribal pantomime to keep “the peasants” thinking that democracy still prevails (or it was until the 5 Reform MPs got there and started holding the Government to account).
We are being forced into a system of Stakeholder Capitalism: a fusion of government and corporate power – which was Mussolini’s definition of Fascism.
December 29, 2024
I agree with all you write today Sir John but let us not forget the net zero folly is pursued by all the parties bar one. We are in “we have established the parties are whores and are now quibbling about the price” territory.
We need the madness to stop. A fossil fuel messiah to preach back to the zealots.
December 29, 2024
One has to admire a brain that can think that the way to halt global warming-pre brand change to âclimate changeâ- is to encourage another country to do all the things you are forcing a country over which you have control NOT to do to halt global warming. One admires the fact that said brain can walk and breathe at the same timeâŠ
December 29, 2024
âWhy create all this carnage? Why import when you could make at home?â
Because we have a climate crisis/emergency/breakdown and that according the UN Sec Gen we are now in an era or âglobal boilingâ.
Now, you may ask why are we doing this? Well, the World needs a futile gesture as seen in the 1960s comedy âThe Futile Gestureâ (available on YouTube for those not old enough to remember). As we are the country which PM Johnson (blue section of the Uniparty) announced at the UN to be âthe first to send the great puffs of acrid smoke to the heavens on a scale to derange the natural orderâ and hence responsible for the existential threat to our planet from the Industrial Revolution it is only fitting that it should fall to the UK.
Anyway our own courts and the International courts demand it and of course we should always comply even if it means the impoverishment of our own population and destroys our national security.
December 29, 2024
Why import when you cam make at home? Good question, and is what we have been asking continuously this past 15 years!
December 29, 2024
Why import when you cam make at home? Good question, and is what we have been asking continuously this past 15 years!
Clearly the control department thinks it is easier to control imports than domestic manufacturers.
December 29, 2024
I think Rod, it is because of the way CO2 emissions of energy and products are counted.
The UK has a legally set target of Net Zero.
Imports aren’t counted in our total.
They are added to the total of the country importing.
We can already see the results:- The UKs CO2 emissions are falling whilst global CO2 levels are rising.
December 29, 2024
Martin :
The Uniparty have already thought of this and very soon it will be our CO2 consumption figures not our CO2 territorial emission figures which will be required to be net zero by 2050. Starting with CBAM.
December 29, 2024
Legally set targets, which can be repealed
December 29, 2024
OFT: The leader of the opposition is wanting to cancel the media for airing views of those that criticize her. isn’t that similar to Labour wanting to cancel free speech.
December 29, 2024
Earlier this year the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive (and the EIA Regulations 2017 that transposed the Directive into UK law) should be interpreted so as to require a planning authority to assess the downstream greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a fossil fuel extraction project, before deciding whether to grant planning permission for the development.
Will this now also apply to any products that emit CO2 in use?
December 29, 2024
PS :
The EUâs âCorporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directiveâ, which entered into force in July, allows for fines of up to 5% of a companyâs annual global revenue âif the management fails to address adverse human rights or environmental impactsâ
Will Parliament be following this EU directive in its desire to be “closer to the EU”?