In June the UK had grown at a 2.2% annual rate in the first half of 2024, and inflation was at 2%. How has Rachel managed to get growth down to zero and inflation heading for 3.7% according to the Bank of England? How did she get longer term interest rates higher than Liz Truss, which Rachel called ‘crashing” the economy?
1. Place a big tax increase on employing people to drive employment down and business costs up
2. Tax small business more to discourage family companies
3 Tax farms more, putting them off investing in new and more productive equipment
4.Put up the managed energy prices three times to ensure UK has uncompetitive energy prices leading to business closures
5 Grant inflation busting pay awards to public sector workers with no productivity agreements . This requires higher taxes and helps push wages up in the squeezed private sector
6. Frighten markets with excessive spending and borrowing, putting up longer rates of interest
7. Announce more planning permissions for homes without solving the problems of too little demand and lack of affordability
8 Push up Council taxes, rail fares, water bills and public sector charges to boost inflation despite promises of stability
9. Allow extra payments to Ukraine, Mauritius , carbon capture and storage whilst hitting UK business and pensioners
10 Fail to ask Bank of England to curb its excessive losses, running at £30 bn nine months to December
11 Think growth can come from closer links to EU when EU is not offering us a better deal and when the German economy has not be growing for two years.
At least she can congratulate herself on dragging the UK down to German levels of economic performance, way below fast growing USA.
February 10, 2025
As we’ve said before John, everything going to plan. When they’ve turned us into a 70s style basket case they can use Heaths argument that we’re better off in the EU
The narrative will be we are where we are because of Brexit. Luckily Trump will be demonstrating to the world that the globalists are wrong, together with net zero and open borders
When he reduces government spending and waste it will make Thieves and Co look like the amateurs thy really are.
It’s a shame we have to lose all our savings and assets at the altar of wokeism before we can eject these chances. Maybe it will bury socialist thinking for ever.
February 10, 2025
Precisely. It’s deliberate.
February 10, 2025
Rachel is not listening. Though she may be wary of losing the job in a cabinet reshuffle.
Look on the bright side. Trump tarrifs on steel production will not affect us as badly as others since we no longer have much of a steel industry.
February 11, 2025
I disagree Donna, I do not think she has the intelligence to run a household budget,
February 10, 2025
Indeed Ian. This is a Government of ideology, where most of the ‘policy’ statements are just that – statements.
Sir J misses one of the key economically damaging factors from the Government – total negativity and criticism of the state of the economy when they came to power. The continuous bad news announcements from Starmer and Reeves would be enough to drive anyone to drink (if you could afford it).
February 10, 2025
@Ian Wraggg +1
Agreed wholeheartedly they are putting personal, very personal ideology before country and its people
February 10, 2025
Ted would not have succeeded with the EU in its current state. You see in his day the EU was like ‘computing’ or the current magic bullet ‘AI’. All of these ‘bullets’ are actually boomerangs, they take down the shooter.
The rusty, beaten, poor, battered EU which suffers people like Kaja Kallis and van der Leyen as ‘leaders’ is seen, worldwide, for what it is. A laughing stock.
Now they will have to find 5% ‘to take defence into our own hands’ says this German woman. She still does not understand that if the place is not the homeland of a nation, there is nobody to defend it. You have to go out and drag people off the streets, batter them and pour them into uniforms and drop them on a front line – like Zelensky does. But they don’t win!
Germany is heading for yet another crushing military and economic defeat. Stand back and let her beat herself, she takes the EU down with her and then we are all free to fight for our own countries and our own cultures.
Now that is the war to watch.
February 10, 2025
Ah! just leave her alone the tories were there for fourteen years and didn’t make a great fist of it either – and please don’t quote the Truss interruption – also Germany is going througj rough times but no need to get on your high horse we can only look to ourselves and if we can’t do anything about things at home then what is the point?
February 10, 2025
Correct Blazes. Much of the groundwork was done by the tories for what is happening today. Failure to repeal the CCA encouraging mass immigration, letting the BoE continue to sell bonds at a loss and finally Treacherous May signing up to the UN refugee charter and with the aid of deluded politicians putting Net Zero targets into law.
All these clowns are doing is doubling down on tory stupidity.
February 10, 2025
So the Tories are to blame for Labour’s inability to put things right?
February 10, 2025
@ Blazes “… if we can’t do anything about things at home then what is the point?” – quite, but we can do something at home: show how the Reeves chancellorship is doing great harm as preliminary step to the adoption of more sensible measures.
The notion of leaving Reeves alone to be free to wreak more damage seems daft.
February 10, 2025
Your point has weight, for sure the Tories were hiding problems and obfuscating, sticking plasters and gum & brown-paper to ‘solve’ issues. And of course the mad profligacy of Covid lockdown. The lesson of mismanagement of Covid should have been a lesson, we MUST make detailed analysis of the big problems – NET ZERO, but no, we still follow the wild-eyed preachers with little question. Our money is running out fast, then what?
February 10, 2025
Leave her alone to cause more mayhem? Those smug jokers in Labour probably think they’re doing a good job, as it appears you do.
February 10, 2025
Point well made. Had the Conservatives not spewed cash on keeping us at home while letting the rest of the world wander in, this lot wouldn’t have got a look in. Any root cause analysis says letting the kids into the sweet shop is the cardinal irresponsible act, not them gorging themselves when therein.
February 10, 2025
Blazes,
Whilst your comments regarding the Tories is understood, your observation is, in my opinion, unnecessarily negative.
The last few weeks has demonstrated that the world is changing, thank goodness! There is an opportunity for any Western country, with a sensible leadership, to look at the example of the US, grasp the nettle and dispatch the destructive leftist ideology to the wasteland. Reeves, Starmer and the remainder of his team are pro-globalist and therefore anti-British. The UK Government needs Reform!
February 10, 2025
hello Pom.
Well we endured 14 years of not ‘grasp the nettle and dispatch the destructive leftist ideology to the wasteland’.
Each PM took us further away from ‘Britain first’ and right thinking policies.
Starmer and Reeves etc are just accelerating what went before.
February 11, 2025
Hi Michael,
Great to hear from you and absolutely agree with what you say.
Trump is considered, by some, as a divisive character. Others view him more positively. It takes great strength to openly challenge the narrative orchestrated, corruptly, by the Left, utilizing massive funding fraudulently directed to their advantage. All strength to his arm. The UK needs to heed. Starmer and his inadequate cohorts are incapable. BUT, the tide is turning, and the future looks bright. Come the day when sensible Government is again in power in our once great country. It will, hopefully, come sooner than the arrogant Starmer expects.
February 10, 2025
You have to be joking – the Tories were punished for their sins, we have barely started attacking her for her attrocities.
Whatever damage the Tories did she has exceeded by a factor of 10.
She has been deliberately spiteful in attacking various groups, but worse she doesn’t even know how bad she is.
February 10, 2025
Why do you think we ‘can’t do anything about things at home’?
Of course we can, that’s the whole point!
February 10, 2025
@Blazes – I don’t think we should leave any of them alone, but yes the faux-Tories opened all the doors for her. If only we were a democracy, a real democracy that had elections every 2 years as is the norm so confirmation is sort for the direction the zealots are taking us.
The 5 year term for a Parliament is a Conservative introduction, the fear of the people no know bounds. We need 2 year fixed terms for parliament, they all then may take their jobs seriously. Parliament needs to know why they are there, and it is working for their electorate not free-loading at the expense of the electorate
February 10, 2025
@Blazes
Have you read the wrong script ???
February 10, 2025
When allow the Fox into the Hen House, don’t expect to find anything alive afterwards.
You can shoot the Fox but it won’t bring your chickens back…
February 10, 2025
Good morning,
I seem to remember that the UK Government signed agreements with the EU stating that, they will not compete against it ? Because if so, this is going a bit far. ie We are in a race to the bottom.
February 10, 2025
What next on this path to destruction and destitution?
-scrap small business rate relief
-undo the tax exemption of ISAs
– VAT on private medical care
-airport tax (combined with tourist tax for those taking UK breaks)
-scrap pensioner freebies (bus passes etc)
There are lots of ways a deluded chancellor can think she can get more money at the stroke of a pen. Goodness knows what’s coming.
February 10, 2025
So a new lesson is confirmed: don’t send a retail bank compliants manager to do an economist’s job.
February 10, 2025
Question, how long can she and her fellow Luddites last in this fantasy government. Hope, long enough for Reform to move from leading to dominating the polls, sufficient to form a government in their own right. I hope they appreciate the extent of the task they will have in the great reset. Do not delude yourselves into thinking any other party even approaches knowing what to do. They all carry too much negative baggage, and come with too much self interest as opposed to national interest.
February 10, 2025
Generally speaking I believe in free trade and I oppose tariffs. Tariffs are inflationary by increasing costs for consumers, tariffs prevent investment in new manufacturing technology and invite retaliation
In an increasingly interconnected world that many have likened to a global village, Trump will come to regret starting a trade war. The end result will likely be a global recession
February 10, 2025
Whilst I do share your concerns SG, the West has allowed very large dependancies to develop that are also a reasons to worry. Adjustments are clearly required to protect western manufacturing capability, if only for national security reasons. The world is dividing along new lines and this was happening well before President Trump came to power. Dictatorial regimes take a longer term view and have done so to their advantage. Western economies meanwhile are busy burying themselves in debt. Trump is simply a manifestation of the very real concerns that ordinary people have about their future well being and safety.
February 10, 2025
He is imposing ‘reciprocal tariffs’. Ie there are tariffs on US goods and services so he is levelling the playing-field.
Why don’t you condemn the EU Customs Union – which is the tariff wall against the rest of the world?
February 10, 2025
and China has been dumping (poor quality) products on the West for years driving our industries into oblivion.
Even worse certain politicians welcomed it! They even flooded our universities which denied our own gaining technical expertise for the future.
Blinkered Britain still hasn’t woken up. China has played a long term masterstroke.
February 10, 2025
David P Goldman of Asia Times(always someone to listen to) points to an article in the FT re China-America tariff talks-or the lack of them:”Experts in Beijing said talks might have stalled because Trump was demanding co-operation on other fronts,such as pressuring Russia over its invasion of Ukraine or ceding ownership of Tik-Tok to an American buyer.”
He adds:”Beijing thinks:’uh,you want to end the Ukraine war so you can concentrate your military against us in Asia?We don’t think so…..!!’ ”
Two good articles in Asia Times over the past week:
Feb 7:”How wars end-and why Ukraine’s may drag on”by Uwe Parpart.”Trump is running the risk of following previous presidents failed ‘peace through strength’ formula in Ukraine.
Feb 4:”How China is playing to win Trump’s trade war” by William Pesek.”China isn’t as reliant on US markets as before and has plenty of levers to retaliate.”
February 10, 2025
Trump would not talk to China about a war between Russia and NATO.
He talks to the organ grinder – that’s how you get no distortion and a quick fix.
February 10, 2025
Guess what there’s not a bloody thing we can do about it for another 4 flamming years Welcome to third world Britain
February 10, 2025
“Announce more planning permissions for homes without solving the problems of too little demand and lack of affordability”
Eh ? There’s “too little” demand for homes is there ? And since when did increasing the supply of something make it less affordable ?
Reply. Yes too little effective demand i.e. people with the money to buy a house, More supply would help abate prices, but you cannot get more supply without effective demand.
February 10, 2025
An article last weekend in The Guardian said that 100,000 homes could be built in the highest-risk flood zones.
You can believe this to be true and that no provisions will be made to either prevent flooding or build the homes in such a way to accommodate flooding…so as to be able to continue with the false propaganda that anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are causing flooding……quite cleaver, really…when the inevitable flooding occurs…..
The government, NGOs, regulators and private companies can all get away with poor maintenance by claiming “it was climate change wot dun it”
February 11, 2025
They have already made that mistake here in Devon, despite locals telling the developer it was a flood plane. However he got his just desserts as half way through his project he had to repair the foundations on houses he had sold, and shells of others are sitting with no windows unfinished as no-one will buy!
February 10, 2025
Reply to reply.
Exactly so. Plenty of people demanding a free house. Few with the resources to buy. We need buyers!
February 10, 2025
reply to reply ..agreed and making deposits and income even harder will not secure the means to buy!
February 10, 2025
Is anyone surprised??
I can’t say I’ve been taken by surprise by anything they’ve done so far.
I fear a lot worse to come, not just financially either.
The march to state control over everything is well on its way.
Read a few articles claiming ISA’s will be next on the list. I suppose (if it’s true) after that they’ll give themselves powers to search under your mattress and floorboards, just in case you’ve dared to keep something for yourself.
February 10, 2025
Thats why your money is becoming solely digital, presenting £thousands to a bank will attract laundering unacceptablity. Forget under the mattress in paper money.
February 10, 2025
Labour, led by a two-faced anti-English incompetent. Assisted by a girl from the back office. Together they throw our taxes at nonsensical dogmatic projects while destroying the wellbeing of the masses. I look forward to Reform replacing them.
February 10, 2025
It is clear from the evidence post WW2 that socialist policies function as wrecking balls on the UK economy. During that period, apart from the Thatcher government, consensus politics has mostly endorsed the resulting status quo. Today the UK economy is in dire straits. It will take a generation to revive it to true health and then only if there are policies in place which promote business growth and the wealth creation needed to finance that growth. This Labour government is doing the very opposite of what needs to be done. That is why businesses and the very well off are voting with their feet and wallets to leave the country.
February 10, 2025
Its far worse than that-the power shift from west to east is rapidly reversing the rise of the west over the past c500 years.Its unstoppable and irreversible and is gathering momentum.
The west is now seen as toxic in much of the world.
February 10, 2025
The movement you speak of has been stopped in the last 10 days. We are watching the west pick itself up. Across the world we all want a DOGE. In the UK JR is our natural DOGE director.
The socialists have shown us you don’t have to be in power to get your way. The pressure from the British people – the Market – taking action against Rachel is building steam. Reality is clipping the Starmer wings.
We came close, but like Lazarus, we are not finished yet. Commeth the Hour…commeth the man – in our case, the men!
February 11, 2025
Rubbish.Trump has further diminished the US over the past few weeks and effectively destroyed the very concept of the west.
February 10, 2025
Rachel has been racing down a one way street in the wrong direction trying to avoid the long left 4ft deep potholes and crushing into the red wall at the end in a crumpled heap of uselessness.
She can’t afford the repair or even a breakers’ tow away because her National Insurance raid forced their businesses to close. The rusting mess remains, consuming oxygen.
February 10, 2025
Where in the media are headline news that Rachel from accounts has crashed the economy, continues to do so, and has the backing of the expressionless PM when he graces the UK with his presence when not jet-setting around the world. Is he real or is he a product of AI?
February 10, 2025
The Chancellor should reverse NI on business & put up income tax after borrowing too much in the first place
The thinking is all wrong they look desperate & unable to prioritise
February 10, 2025
Rachel Reeves has crashed the economy
With no backtracking of her perverse budget likely we will continue to accrue debt like an avalanche as everyone is taxed into poverty and high inflation! It’s pretty clear it was deliberate.
Looking back at some of the possible socialist governments that didn’t happen because we all recognized their inability with the economy, and they had some pretty sour plans – none of those plans were anything as bad as the actions that Rachel from accounts has taken.
How is it that none of her fancy highly paid advisors gave her a hint of the damage she was doing?
The deceit started right after labour gained access to power with stories about a huge black hole in the finances. At that point most of realised what was to come – more duplicity, more pointless taxation, more debt, more immoral socialism. This was only the beginning. Now we are told fairy tales about how we need to get closer to the EU to bask in the warmth of their economic success and benefit from their benign political systems.
The lies of our political leaders know no bounds.
February 10, 2025
Is she going to be replaced by Ed Ball’s wife?
Ed Balls has a few brains … 🤞🏻
February 10, 2025
hmmm.
February 10, 2025
I’m not sure if she’s crashed the economy, but she’s definitely suffocated it (and on the way to crashing it). And I’d agree with Michael O’Leary: Rubbish Rachel.
February 10, 2025
If she has not crashed the economy then she was wrong to accuse Truss of crashing the economy. Which is it? Either way, Rachel is a loser.
February 10, 2025
Sing of times to come: the DACIA SPRING ELECTRIC car – now Britain’s CHEAPEST new car.
James May of Top Gear writes: ‘It’s perfectly useable.’
Which helps to explain why Elon Musk is the richest man in the world and embracing EV technology (which is far more than where the car is today and its potential and the potential of related technology for the future).
(Yes, to gas, oil and nuclear but no to putting one’s nose up at EV and related tech – worth a fortune to our country in particular in the future – with great jobs, high skills, productivity and exports).
February 10, 2025
Mobile phones are now pretty much universally used by everyone, without any need to enforce their use. EV’s undoubtedly have their place, particularly as short range ‘in-town’ vehicles but why force the pace of adoption across the board? We keep harming ourselves for no good reason, when the Market is quite capable of allowing a workable and affordable transition.
February 10, 2025
I agree
February 10, 2025
Musks wealth come from space! EVs are just a sideline, like X.
February 10, 2025
True. But Musk sees EV as it improves over time – and, even more importantly, related technology as a real future money spinner.
February 10, 2025
Most of these policies, if not all, would have been implemented anyway by an incoming Tory government, not that I believe that governments are making the major decisions. These are now made by unelected Civil Servants, quangos, regulators and judges.
And what about the costs of illegal and mass immigration which were not mentioned?
According to the OBR, “environmental levies” will be £12bn in 2024/2035, £400 per household.
According to NESO (National Energy System Operator) their suggested Pathways to clean power by 2030 (well, actually 95% clean power) “will involve an investment programme averaging over £40 billion annually”. No maximum given and is likely to be an HS2 estimate.
This is £10,000 per household and resulting in insecure energy that will require “customer engagement” (aka rolling blackouts) in order to prevent a complete collapse of the grid.
As IW says above, it’s all going to plan.
February 10, 2025
It is reported in the media that the EU is about to drop their extortionate tax on US imported vehicles from the level that is a 400% uplift on EU vehicles entering the US – Trump is focusing minds on reciprocity and level trade between nations.
There has been no such announcement from the UK Government that has tied itself to take laws & rules from the EU. the UK difference was the same 400% uplift on most vehicles and around 800% higher rate on others. Fair balanced and reciprocal trade has become a myth.
There is no need for so-called ‘free trade’ at best it is a ‘Con’, as it cusses one party to free-load on the other. But there is a self fulfilling need for ‘fair balanced and reciprocal trade’ or simply treat other’s as they treat you. The protectionist States of the EU, China and even India to name a few need putting back in their boxes.
February 10, 2025
The bit I find amusing is those that are affected by Trumps shout outs on trade all talk of retaliating. How can you retaliate when it is you that are refusing to reciprocate by being the ones with the unreasonable taxes, rules etc. Trump is not asking anyone for special treatment, he knows the US doesn’t need it, what he is suggesting is equality with the same equal treatment that the US gives to other Nations.
We have a two tier world, just look at the UK internally. If a ‘Grandmother’ makes a comment the PM disagrees with on Social Media she is locked up for 15months for being ‘right-wing’. If a sitting Labour MP calls for someone to die etc on Social Media, but is a Left-Wing Marxists the same school as the PM there is a slap on the wrist and told don’t do it again. The list is endless of this governments two tier diktats
February 10, 2025
Spot on. And of course China needs a market. There is no real consumption in Africa. Trump will entice all the US corporation HQs home from Ireland. That will benefit the U.K.
February 10, 2025
The faster we turn our backs on China, the faster it will spiral into meltdown which has begun already.
February 10, 2025
How taking the US Corporation EU HQs home (i.e. back to the USA) from Ireland would benefit the UK? I’m afraid you read something and didn’t understand it …
February 11, 2025
Again,rubbish.China already sells more to BRICS/ASEAN/Global South than it does to the west.
Asia Times,14/1/25:”China continues to shift exports to Global South.”
“China’s exports grew 10.7% in December,outpacing November’s 6.7% and beating analyst forecasts of 7.3% growth…….In December China sold $137bn in goods to the Global South(inc Russia and the Gulf) compared with just $108bn to all developed nations(US+EU+Japan+Australia)……The biggest yoy gain came from Indonesia whose purchases from China were up 50% on the previous December.China is building high speed rail and telecom infrastructure in South East Asia’s largest country.”
February 10, 2025
But trade, at least of high quality brands, is determined by CONSUMER DEMAND – not politicians. This is a fundamental error Pres Trump is making ..
February 14, 2025
Hee hee, US tax on EU cars is at 2.5%, EU tax on US cars is at 10%, so indeed 4 times higher. But that does not mean it is a 400% uplift on the price of the car. It must be a ‘genius’ in the DM who came up with the 400% figure, which later was not understood by the reader above.
February 10, 2025
Trump’s tariffs are all about autocracy (power going to one’s head).
Starmer is governing like an autocrat too but in a different way.
Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq was based on autocracy.
Real leaders focus on genuinely helping to untether the markets / economy and putting the country first before their own sense of power) – with a real, deep, well-thought plan – for the short-term, mid-term and long-term.
February 10, 2025
From the ordinary person on the streets she has made it impossible to run a small business with the NI hikes for employers and employees (I lost my business in the 1980s through their last stupid tax policies); council tax hikes (I don’t know how much mine is going up yet); food prices (if you shop you know this without looking for it); personal tax will go up with the pension increase for those of us who have saved into a private pension as we go over the personal allowance which needs increasing urgently; car tax for those of us who have petrol engines (just paid mine). This names a few of the ‘rewards’ we have enjoyed under this government in 7 months. I look forward to the next 4 years with ‘joy’, if they last that long which I hope they don’t.
February 10, 2025
Rachel is like the house wife who sees her husband go out to work but lacks the empathy to see how hard he works to keep the family comfortable. Like a child, she thinks money grows on trees. Socialism is a lack of empathy towards those who create wealth (sure you get wealth creators who can be tyrants like some husbands can be tyrants – but most wealth creators are not tyrants and we need to HELP them by making life easier for them to do business).
February 10, 2025
Sir John, your criticisms are valid but do not amount to her crashing the economy. On the other hand Gordon Brown certainly did make a major contribution to the catastrophic crash of the economy in 2008, when the last Labour government found that it had to borrow a quarter of all the money that it was spending and resorted to rigging the gilts market through “Quantitative Easing”, and we have never fully recovered from that.
As an alternative to the “Driving with handbrake on for past 16 years” analogy:
http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2024/07/26/37906/#comment-1466677
it could be said that we drove away from the 2008 crash with a flat tyre which has still not been repaired.
Taking data from this ONS chart of UK GDP from 1948 to 2023:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/abmi/ukea
I find the following average compound growth rates before and after the 2008 global financial crisis:
2008 2135
1948 423
60 years at 2.73% a year.
2023 2536
2008 2135
15 years at 1.15% a year.
It was a global crisis which started in the US but through his profligacy Gordon Brown had left us vulnerable.
I keep emphasising this because:
(a) we need a correct diagnosis of the problem so we can identify the cure, and
(b) we must not allow unscrupulous Rejoiners to get away with blaming Brexit.
Reply The 2006-10 boom bust here was created by bad Central Bank policy, the commercial banks and Gordon Brown
February 10, 2025
The Labour Government is a shambles, but so was the Conservative Government before it. This just highlights the poor quality of our MPs, Cabinet Ministers, and Prime Ministers.
Sadly, the Labour lot are even worse as the last 7 months have shown. Both Labour and Conservatives have forgotten they are there to serve the people of the UK, not to issue edicts about what car or heating system you can buy. They have all bought the Net Zero con and make decisions without any thought about the long-term effects! The essential problem is they lack the brains/common sense to investigate and educate themselves before making decisions that will bankrupt the UK. Just take the point that no one, with the exception of our host, has rejected the idea of deficit budgets for the last 25 years! If MPs managed their own finances like they do the UK’s they would all have gone bankrupt years ago!
February 10, 2025
Spot on could not have said it better
February 10, 2025
With Rachel Reeves crashing the economy there were calls at the weekend for the Conservative and Reform Parties to merge.
Those Conservative Party members, and more importantly, voters, that do not believe in high spending to justify high taxation, Net Zero and mass immigration (legal and illegal) need to realise that the Tory brand is completely broken.
Who is going to trust a party that promised several times to bring immigration down to the “tens of thousands” and then allowed immigration to exceed 1m in a single year?
Or said it was the party of low taxation?
Should an electorate even vote for a party who so blatantly and grossly did the opposite of their election promises?
Is it not necessary for the good of democracy that any party who tries this should not be anywhere near the levers of power for a very long time in order to ensure no other party tries to do this again?
If nothing else, it means that the Conservative Party cannot be an effective opposition to a government who also believes in high taxation, Net Zero and high immigration.
February 10, 2025
I’m a strong Tory but I definitely think we need to join up with Reform in some way for sure.
Tories just drowning at moment. They need rescuing.
February 10, 2025
62 criminals arrived in the UK yesterday; from the safe country of France …someone in Whitehall has just said ‘’well its only 62’’
February 10, 2025
GC:
They simply don’t care.
February 11, 2025
Slightly off topic but the conversation on GB news last night between Sir John and Lloyd Russell-Moyle on inheritance tax was revealing. Russell-Moyle was steadfast in his belief that wealth should not be passed down as it limited opportunity, but instead be confiscated by the state. A mindset that I think prevails throughout the current Government. I thought Sir John was going to have a heart attack.
I am comforted in the knowledge that my children will be eternally grateful that following years of toil and sacrifice by their father, his assets will be used to accommodate migrants in hotels, bribe the Mauritius Government, pay off IRA murderers, pay £100,000 to an over stayer who was manhandled, pay reparations for slavery. The list is endless.
We need to clean the swamp.