Every time the PM and the Foreign Secretary step abroad there is more money for a foreign country. Meanwhile at home the arrival of thousands of extra migrants adds to the costs of housing and looking after them. Here is some of the extra spending this government has done that is annoying many taxpayers. It explains why this government has created a budget crisis for itself.
- Money to Mauritius for Chagos give away. 100 years of planned spending, starting at £101 m a year but rising. Say £20bn
- Money to Singapore for energy transition £70 m
- Grants to home and foreign car makers to subsidise battery cars £650 m
- Other subsidies and grants for battery vehicles and chargers £3.85 bn
- Costs of illegal migrants and asylum seekers £5m a day or £1.8bn a year
- Extra money to France to police their border – no figure given on top of £480 m past payments
- Unspecified open ended costs of Scunthorpe steel, said to be £700,000 a day of losses, to come out of a general £2.5bn steel investment fund
- Increasing government administration budget by £154 m 2026-7 over 2025-26
- HS 2 overruns now saying a total Phase One to Birmingham cost of up to £80 bn (original 2009 budget for whole railway £37.5bn)
- Gift of fish to EU worth around £12 bn over next twelve years
July 23, 2025
you missed massive tax discounts to work visa holders to help them undercut local workers.
July 23, 2025
And every day we continue to issue thousands of visa across africa, the middle-east and far-east
July 23, 2025
Indeed low skilled immigration is not just a net tax/benefit liability in itself it also reduces wages and thus often reduces the tax take from existing workers or even make them stop bothering to work. It also pushes up demand for houses, roads, public services, prisons, social services, courts…
July 23, 2025
I dont care how highly skilled they are, they should not be working free of any taxes a local & their employer would have to pay.
July 23, 2025
To date there are 1.67 million people unemployed in the UK ……some of them must be highly skilled ?
July 23, 2025
indeed they are
July 23, 2025
The UK and British people have become the milch cow of ignorant out of control socialism. Fear not however, Reform have give notice of its end and reversal once in power.
July 23, 2025
😂🤣 you are funny.
July 23, 2025
Humour is an essential ingredient in the circumstances. Glad to have given you a laugh.
July 23, 2025
Meanwhile Kemi appoints Sir James Cleverly as Minister for housing, Communities and Local Government – a clear sign Kemi is keen to stick with the ECHR, Net Zero lunacy and Sunak’s deluded Con-Socialist agenda! At least she did not appoint “tax to death” Sir Jeremy Hunt or did he refuse?
So was Sunak’s mad decision to throw the towel in six month early driven by the courts decision the day before to lift the appalling Afghan super injunction (later overturned on appeal to keep voters in the dark even longer)? Why else did this appalling tax borrow and piss down the drain Chancellor and PM do this?
July 23, 2025
Reeves yesterday was asked about the economy and suggested “poor growth over recent years is caused by poor productivity”. So dear what might be causing the poor productivity? Might it be something to do with energy costs of 4 times those of the US caused by Net Zero, over the top regulation of everything, vastly high taxes that deter investment, restrictive planning laws, expensive housing, big bloated government, vast low skilled immigration levels and benefit claiming immigrants, benefits level that encourage people never to bother to work… plus high interest rates due to lack of confidence in this government and the previous one.
So all things this government and you are making even worse then Rachael.
July 23, 2025
It seems the government now want to give local government the rights to levy daily tourist taxes. Through absurdly high parking charges and motorist muggings local government has already killed many shops and shopping areas so then they will doubtless do the same to the tourism industry. Already very highly taxed with vat at 20% and rates relative to most countries. Same with landlord licensing taxes! Hotel charges hugely driven up by government demand for migrants too. Many UK hotels costs have more than doubled over the last three years.
July 23, 2025
Reform are the only party saying the right things, the other parties want/win continue the status que ie keep letting them in and give aid to everyone …..the model has to change
July 23, 2025
Although a proper government would never have entertained any of these expenditures, I have a solution for this misplaced government – allocate the costs of illegal migrants, Chagos, Singapore and the EU fish plundering to the foreign aid budget because that’s exactly what it is – foreign aid.
July 23, 2025
Paul
That is not a solution, they will simply increase the Foreign Aid budget again to pay for it.
The simple solution is to stop spending/wasting the money on such schemes.
July 23, 2025
Indeed. Some advice for Reeves following her deluded gibbering yesterday. You and the government are spending too much tax payers money and worse much of it is doing no good and actual harm like Net Zero. The good new is you could just stop this. The bad news is this government is not mined to do this – indeed incapable for doing this. Raising tax rates will raise less not more so this is the only solution.
£17bn a month just on debt interest is unsustainable. True much of this debt was the built up by the appalling Sunak as chancellor when they damagingly locked down the country, paid people not to work and pumped them with net harm very dangerous so called “vaccines”!
Well done the England Women’s team for finally ditching the absurd taking the knee and for fighting back to win. Alas they still managed to fail with another appallingly taken penalty far more practice still needed – but luckily scored on the rebound and saved us for 10+ more! Michelle Agyemang played well.
July 23, 2025
A starting price of £38bn for 3.2GW at Sizewell C is an obvious wrong decision. We should not be replicating the troubled EPR design with extra cost add-ons from the Office for Nuclear Retrenchment. The ONR – like so many of our regulators – needs a complete overhaul, though I suspect Lord Offord’s attempts to insert some amendments to legislation to embark on that process will be denied as a cover-up. Kathryn Porter of Watt-Logic has recently written about the wider reform needed.
We should be investing instead in Korean or perhaps Japanese technology that is proven and can be built on time and on budget for half the cost, preventing the ONR interfering in proven design.
July 23, 2025
The UK’s national debt (in nominal, GBP terms) started to rise exponentially from 2003 onwards. It’s attributed to the expiration of Blair’s 4 year commitment to keep to Tory public spending limits, his Iraq war, then the credit crunch / recession and the banking bailouts, then the covid lockdowns. We still need to paydown all of that borrowing.
July 23, 2025
Apart from the stupidity of giving Mauritius money to rake the Chagos islands it’s the handing over fishing rights to the EU for 12 years.
They didn’t ask for that and would have probably settled for 3 years. It appears that it was a deliberate act of spite and sabotage against the British fishing fleet.
Wr then have the attack on farmers and the latest in the pensioners.
It would appear that all the demographics that are unlikely to vote Labour are being punished.
We have never had such an openly hostile government against the British people.
RIP Ozzy Osborne.
July 23, 2025
So now we know, all these counter demonstrations by antifa etc are officially sanctioned by the police. Plod was caught red handed escorting them masked up from the local station.
We really are plumbing third world depths when the government becomes the enemy.
I don’t suppose the Chief Constable of Essex will lose his job over this or the Home Secretary be charged with treason. Just concerned parents being labelled faaaar right.
July 23, 2025
Indeed truly appalling behaviour by our truly appalling two Tier Police! They first even lied that they had not done this. Much of the government has been the enemy of the people for quite some time. The idea of the state spending approaching 50% of GDP is appalling especially, when so much of it is wasted doing vast net harm.
July 23, 2025
” Much of the government has been the enemy of the people for quite some time” – true, and extend to all of the established political class for out of office they do not change their approach.
July 23, 2025
Yes. Usually the Police keep opposing demonstrators away from each other, in order to allow protests to proceed but avoid a clash and to keep the peace. Sometimes they ban one of the counter-protests for the same reason.
At Epping they escorted masked-up lefty-wing pro-immigration counter-demonstrators who were carrying professionally produced banners, to confront the original demonstration of ordinary British citizens concerned about the safety of having a criminal migrant hotel just a few hundred yards from a local school.
Deliberate provocation by the Authorities? It certainly looks like it.
July 23, 2025
+1
July 23, 2025
Not policing by consent
July 23, 2025
+1
July 23, 2025
It seems likely they wanted trouble at the peaceful protest so they could make some more examples like the political prisoner Lucy Connolly.
Perhaps I am too cynical but generally I find out I have not been cynical enough, especially in politics. Look at the “today is a good day to bury bad news” email on 9/11 or the Afghan super injunction, or the pushing of the net harm multiple Covid Vaccines – these even to people with zero need of them even had they worked! And now the hiding or massaging of the damning statistics showing the vast harms done!
July 23, 2025
There’s a clip on GB News showing those anti protestors being transported in police minibuses ….shocking
July 23, 2025
No new depths – it was ever thus:
‘To tell people they may provide for themselves by erecting a new legislative when, by oppression, artifice, or being delivered over to a foreign power, their old one is gone, is only to tell them they may expect relief when it is too late and the evil is past cure.
This is in effect no more than to bid them first be slaves, and then to take care of their liberty; and when their chains are on, tell them they may act like free men.
This if barely so, is rather mockery than relief and men can never be secure from tyranny if there be no means to escape it till they are perfectly under it, and therefore it is that they not only have a right to get out of it, but to prevent it.’
John Locke 1632 – 1704
For anyone interested I recommend Locke’s ‘Treatise of Government’
July 23, 2025
+1
July 23, 2025
Good words
July 23, 2025
oan
Yes difficult to believe isn’t it, but then I have virtually given up hope of anyone who is funded by taxpayer money to use common-sense.
July 23, 2025
And coincidentally we have the release of information where the Blair regime lied and spread misinformation about immigration
July 23, 2025
Yes, when I see the police nowadays I see them as a government militia, there to oppress us. It was when they hunted down walkers in the National Parks during Covid that I lost faith in them. Since then, non Crime Hate Incidents, the Pride Parades and online harassment all confirm they don’t police with our consent.
July 23, 2025
+1
July 23, 2025
If you choose someone you’ll give your credit card to for 5 years, during which time they use it whenever they like with no comeback, you need to be very careful who you choose.
We need some new checks and balances (no financial pun intended) in our “constitution”, so the people can’t be robbed, gagged or imprisoned by their representatives in Westminster.
July 23, 2025
Misrepresentation of manifesto, the comedy farce of PMQs, cash for questions, mates in quangos, weakness of select committees, the power of the civil service ….the contempt of the people
July 23, 2025
Good Morning,
Most G7 member states are now running large budget deficits, consequently they need to raise money by selling bonds. We are not the weakest nor the strongest borrower, but we do pay among the highest borrowing costs. The bond market should put a restraint on us to restrict our government from spending money we don’t have by making it cost more and less readily available. So long as we don’t resort to QE again, our spendthrift government should soon find it has to run a more financially responsible ship.
July 23, 2025
Circa 1% higher than Greece for 10 year bonds! Such is the confidence in this appalling government, Rachael Reeves and her very expensive tears!
July 23, 2025
Why would they do that? We can print our own funds to pay them so the debt is guaranteed and the profits baked in. The banks are printing their own money to lend to us.
The bond market is a scam of made up money where the tax payer is fleeced paying for non-existent funds.
July 23, 2025
Fiat money is based on this! But it can only survive whilst all believe so the capital markets are a basic halt on any one country just printing money. Expect Donald Trump to press for a return to the gold standard soon.
July 23, 2025
The Bank of England is driving up the bill through depressing bond prices through its QT sales, and crystallising losses that have to be financed with further borrowing, again contributing to higher yields and a larger interest bill.
July 23, 2025
An unknown contribution to the EU (which we’re supposed to have left) so they can dictate our Food Regulation standards to us and prosecute us through their corrupt Court if they think we have broken their Rules.
An unknown and ongoing contribution to the never-ending war they want between Russia and Ukraine.
£billions to France, to not stop the criminal migrants
But let’s face it, they’re just carrying on with the same taxpayer-exploiting policies which the likes of Cameron/Mitchell, May, Johnson and Sunak were implementing: money for every foreign country with a begging bowl.
UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 require it.
July 23, 2025
@Donna – yes telling, no ordering us in our own Country to lower our standards for everything inside our own Country. How corrupting can 2TK get?
July 23, 2025
I watched some of the proceeding in Parliament yesterday, on TV.
David Lammy was making a statement about the situation in the Middle East, I think it was, he has made so many, Ive lost count. Naturally, it included that he had promised an additional several millions to the Country involved.
As an 86 year old taxpayer, I sighed, I have heard it so many times before. Next week, such as I will probably be told our pension is unaffordable, and we are costing the Country far too much. I cant do anything about this situation. Just sit by, and watch my bank account being raided, like so many others. I never voted for this lot, but experience told me what would be coming down the line if they ever got in, and we have another 4 years of this!
July 23, 2025
+1
July 23, 2025
@Cheshire Girl – It is easy for a Citizen of Guyana to dictate what the UK Taxpayer should give to his friends. He gets to reside elsewhere when it all finally goes pearshape
July 23, 2025
Elsewhere – Guido has told us ‘In a new commitment, British taxpayers will also be forced to cough up for the International Development Association (IDA), a fund run by the World Bank. Labour is expanding foreign aid…’ an idea run by a Citizen of Guyana on our behalf
What! are we made of money – or is it the curse of the Uniparty and their destruction
July 23, 2025
Squander bugs. And with taxpayers hard earned cash.
July 23, 2025
Oh look – Linden Kemkaran, the Reform leader of Kent County Council, has demanded that armed police be given the “right” to publicly execute even more members of the public that they think may pose a threat – with complete immunity. Even though there have been 1930 deaths in police custody or otherwise following contact with the police in England & Wales since 1990. (Source; inquest.co.uk)
Yeah, right. Tell that to the bereaved relatives of the entirely innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot seven times in the head while on the Tube by armed officers during a huge police surveillance cock-up.
July 23, 2025
Keep calm SG.
You are getting over excited.
July 23, 2025
Err…that is not what the leader of Kent council actually said SG
Rather poor reporting from you.
July 23, 2025
Regardless of your political persuasion, Miliband’s decision to proceed with the Sizewell C nuclear power station is good news for the UK. In comparison with Sir John’s points above, this plant will cost a mere £40billion; the Treasury will take a 45% stake and Centrica will have 15%. Miliband has agreed that the financing for investors will be the Regulated Asset Base model instead of CfD.
The plant, which is expected to take 10 years to build, will benefit from the transfer of skills and technical knowledge from Hinkley Point C, which will connect to the grid in about 5 years.
Sizewell C will be the twin of Hinkley Point C (which has just had one of the reactor caps lifted and fitted) and should be built without delays and cost over-runs, as all concerned will have gained useful experience.
These new power stations will provide much-needed baseline electricity. The remaining AGR designs operated by EDF could have their life further extended as they were massively over-engineered when they were originally built.
Reply Lets hope it has the happy ending you forecast
July 23, 2025
Well yes base line electricity but nuclear is not very efficient for ramping up and down to cope with the intermittent supplies of wind and solar. This problem will be made even worse if we all move over to heat pumps as the deluded zealot Miliband wants. This as winter demand will become far higher 10+ times on cold days (as we switch from gas, solid fuels and oil heating to electrical heat-pumps heating and hot water. You spend a fortune on new power plants like this then only run them at say 30% of capacity for much of the year and inefficiently ramp them up and down.
I suspect the project will end up run rather like the basket case HS2!
July 23, 2025
NESO’s 2025 FES (Future Energy Scenario (or Pathway now)) for 2050 is expecting that peak demand will halved by DSR (Demand Side Response) with all the Alberts submitting to forced rationing. NESO say this will save everyone money by saving some of the the costs of upgrading the national and local grids and of course by using less electricity in the process. The plan is to have an expensive and intermittent electricity supply with the reliability of the third world. Gone is the Boris Johnson claim on P19 of the Net Zero Strategy that we will have cheap, abundant electricity available at the flick of a switch. It’s more important to save the planet from extinction.
July 23, 2025
Hinkley Point C, which Sizewell C in planning use of European Pressurised Reactors replicates, is significantly over budget (now estimated at £46 billion) and delayed (expected completion in the early 2030s instead of 2017).
Let us recall also that the cost of Sizewell C has risen from an initial £20 billion to £38 billion, partly due to inflation and risk contingencies.
I wonder if Wrecker Reeves believes any cost figures she has received from Wrecker Miliband?
July 23, 2025
I was listening to an interview recently where South Korea recently built their nuclear power stations for a quarter of the cost and in about 6 years. The difference was said to be caused by the UKs nuclear regulation authority, which strangely comes under the Department of Work & Pensions, not Energy, through excessive regulation and caution..
July 23, 2025
Indeed it is not the engineering but the planning, red tape, bat and newt people, legal challenges, inquiries and similar that will cost the £billions. Doubtless they will need a £1 million bat or toad tunnel to be constructed. Though thousands of raptor chopping and bat exploding wind turbines seems to be just fine.
July 23, 2025
Except that the builders have been guaranteed profit 50 percent dearer than current prices (already the dearest in the western world) for 20 years with inflation boosts. So where is the 300 pounds discount on our bills to come from? The whole thing is a scam and they (Milliband in particular) are lying.) He promised us during the election that our bills would be 300 pounds a year cheaper and I expect that within this parliament or he is a blatant liar. Fat chance with deals like this being done. Every time Labour does a deal we end up worse off and the other side get a massive win.
July 23, 2025
£40bn for 3.2 GW is over £12bn/GW. The Koreans can build nuclear plants at less than £4bn/GW (and on time) and even exactly the same EDF EPR technology in Finland is providing electricity at less than half the price of Hinkley Point C’s current CfD price of £127/MWhr. The reason for these ridiculous UK nuclear costs, and the reason for deliberately holding back any firm order for RR SMRs, is of course to enable the renewables industry to continue to make a fortune at the taxpayers’ expense. Back in 1997 26% of our electricity was nuclear but it has been deliberately allowed to decline and even by 2050 it is only planned to be around 5%. This is despite nuclar providing the only low carbon source of electricity which is affordable (everywhere else but the UK), abundant and reliable. It is curious that the climate alarmists, who say that weather will become less reliable and more chaotic and extreme, want make our energy supply dependent upon weather dependent renewables rather than nuclear.
July 23, 2025
“The plant, which is expected to take 10 years to build”
Is there a single person in the country who expects that ?
July 23, 2025
RG:
Well, this time, with exactly the same design as Hinkley Point C, the snags should have been eliminated, the workforce trained and the supply chain organised. Although there are much better proposals, such as the Korean APR-1400 which is a quarter of the price and we know can be built on time, to be fair to EDF, because we have allowed our nuclear industry to wither on the vine, they have had to organise a lot of training and supply chains. Also, according to Professor Sir Dieter Helm, Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford the cost of Hinkley Point C would have been halved if Cameron, Osborne and Davey had not selected Chinese finance at 9%.
July 23, 2025
“this plant will cost a mere £40billion”
We ought to have a sweepstake on that. Up until this month it was supposed to cost £20bn but that has now increased to £38bn. My guess is £68bn but I may be too optimistic.
July 23, 2025
As I have explained it is a poor and costly decision. Probably designed to try and prove that wind is “cheap”. We should not have chosen to replicate Hinkley Point, but rather to replicate the proven design from Korea at half the cost (or less).
July 23, 2025
People who ‘get’ money rather than work for it behave in this manner, flinging it about randomly in the belief that the miraculous flow cannot stop. They don’t know where wealth comes from, they have never created a profit on which to live. That’s why Reeves etc have no concept of what ‘growth’ is – they think increased turnover is growth.
That was the complaint against many of the upper class who inherited money, and why The House of Lords is not in control of the Taxpayers purse-strings.
However the redistribution of money has created new Entitled Class, uneducated, uninquisitive, insecure. People like Starmer and his deputy, or people like Johnson on whom education was wasted because his insecurities run so deep. They throw money about to prove themselves to themselves.
We need to freely choose our own candidates. Johnson would NEVER have been selected by me or my ilk. We know exactly what the ‘hey big-spenders’ aim is – and the U.K. is not a whorehouse.
July 23, 2025
Marvellous post.
July 23, 2025
Boris is probably one of the few candidate who would have been selected by the electorate – as we saw even in London twice.
“Uneducated” often the problem is with the allegedly “educated” who come out of “good” schools and universities with £50K of student debt and a degree in Grievance Studies, green or sustainable X or Y or similar from the ex-poly of Bognor Regis or similar. Those educated by experience in life and through, working can often be rather more sensible!
July 23, 2025
Hobson’s Choice in London. Boris is not a pleasant chap in person. He’s not suited to public life. He is wary of people, he does not know who will see through him next so he is defensive and permanently rushing off so that he is not found out. He’s glib, shallow, loud (taking up the airtime so you have less).
When I think of Cecil Parkinson who could charm the birds out of the trees, Norman Tebbit who was simply admirable and unassuming, and Enoch Powell who gave everything he had (and it was a LOT). It’s obvious Johnson was cut from entirely different cloth.
July 24, 2025
Boris Johnson’s political career must surely be over. Forget the eating cake episode, how can he come back from his Net Zero Strategy and the “Boris Wave”?
July 23, 2025
When Cameron had his A list and appointed dire pro EU, climate alarmists & socialists like (now Baroness) Warsi as Chairman of the Con-Socialist party things went from bad to appalling!
July 23, 2025
It doesn’t seem to matter who we elect as leaders. Their advisors have an odd amount of power. e.g. Morgan McSweeney (not even British) is Chief of Staff under Starmer. The New Statesman said he was Starmer’s “most trusted advisor”. His grandfather served in the IRA.
The New Statesman now lists this man “the most influential person on the left today”. The Times said “nobody without elected office wields as much power in British politics as McSweeney”. Yet no one I know has heard of him. Cummins was criticised every day, the left interrogated him, and his family camped outside his home. We knew he was working with Boris to get Boris elected; nearly every day, we were told that, along with Cummings, is a career psychopath SKY headline, a divisive political strategist, the New Stateman told us ” some colleagues acclaim his strategic brilliance while others mock him. Was a similar amount of information provided about Starmer’s choice of Chief of Staff or his top team?
Perhaps this is what must change, that we know the team in advance.
He’s married to a Scottish Labour MP, so they get two cracks at power.
July 23, 2025
If he’s Irish he’s British. Might not be a UK citizen.
July 24, 2025
British” is usually an abbreviation for “citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, which does not apply to citizens of Ireland. He was born in County Cork in the Republic of Ireland.
“His paternal grandfather, Michael McSweeney, served in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and won a medal for his service. His aunt was a councillor for Fine Gael and his first cousin, Clare Mungovan, was special adviser to the Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar.” Wiki
July 23, 2025
Starmer hates the White British. He sees us all as Faaaaaarrrrr-right. He’s in love with virtue signalling to the world.
July 23, 2025
If he can’t find any facists …he’ll invent them …..you always need an enemy to blame
July 23, 2025
Not to mention defined benefit pensions for all with employer contributions in excess of 25%.
An easy and quick change, right there.
July 23, 2025
Having seen that Sakara has contributed, I am reminded about the net zero subsidies and offshoring of industrialisation which is costing us a fair few taxpayers funds.
July 23, 2025
£4bn extra interest for the increased national debt.
What do you know, Labour have fixed the economy. Just in case you hadn’t noticed.
July 23, 2025
Lest we forget – £12 billion a month in benefits for those not born here. £144 billion per year just one month’s giveaway less than the 2023/24 deficit of £157 billion.
Truly immigration is the gift that keeps giving. Rising housing costs, unavailability of public services and now hosepipe bans. Still at least we have a good choice of take aways and VAT dodging ethnic supermarkets.
July 23, 2025
Sir John
Contradictions by the score good at giving ‘our’ money away, but rubbish at spending it.
All the short falls in the Budget, the demand to fill the coffers, are as a result of there not being a Budget. A budget infers; expenditure balanced against income. What is lost is that ‘tax’ is not income as income comes from earnings, the production of a saleable product. By taking money from the economy is to remove the seed corn of that economy, so sales, purchases, wealth creation are reduced – result less tax take, nothing for government to spend. Black-hole in the finances.
How much does it cost in interest to support a £2.7biilion debt pile? Or is that just to be left for the next generation without the means to escape government inspired poverty?
July 23, 2025
This government – just like the previous government – has a knack for giving us all the things we didn’t ask for: more “diversity” staff in the civil service, more immigration, more things controlled by the State etc…
…and not giving us the things we want: reduced crime; police doing thier jobs; civil service answering the phone (a basic civility); roads that are properly maintained etc
July 23, 2025
Sir John
OFT. How come it is OK for a Foreign State, a State that doesn’t permit ‘Free Speech’ to takeover part of the UK’s media when they would never allow similar in reverse?
Take overs are not measured equally and that leads to distortion and corruption. Our ‘Free-Speech’ is already under threat from within now government wants another nail in its coffin.
July 23, 2025
BBC/Labour have finally acknowledged that ordinary people are concerned about high levels of immigration and they are not all “far right”.
I strongly suspect this is because some of the people in Epping are “known” to BBC/Labour people. They are the first people with posh voices to be affected in largish numbers.
They ignored the People for too long. Only when “their own” people are affected do they take notice.
BBC/Labour are ignorant snobs.
July 23, 2025
Why is your message today not hammered home to voters all day and every day by the Opposition front bench?
July 23, 2025
Probably because the Tories would have done exactly the same so can’t criticise all of the projects, schemes and EU gifts.
July 23, 2025
+1
July 23, 2025
You missed the £90 million bung Lammy gave to the Jihadist government of Syria , whose forces are reported to have gone into a hospital and killed all the Druze patients , but that’s alright for the Druze are sort of allied to Israel.
July 23, 2025
I have tax to pay at the end of the month
I am thinking about a tax strike
July 23, 2025
Sir John, whilst you have mentioned subsidies for foreign suppliers of evs, batteries and chargers you have failed to include by name the biggest foreign spend which is Net Zero, a policy designed to save the whole planet from extinction at the UK taxpayers’ expense. Net zeroing our electricity alone, which is just 20% of our energy and by far the easiest to decarbonise, has already cost us £220bn or £8000 per household in subsidies since 2002 and now amounts to £25.8bn/year and comprises 40% of the cost of electricity. DESNZ’s Clean Power by 2030 plan has been costed by NESO at “over £40bn/year”. Then there are the subsidies of £3750 and £7500 for each ev and heat pump respectively, many of which are imported, probably from China. Then there is the cost of de-industrialisation simply to reduce our teritorial CO2 emissions and soon to be effected CBAM to increase the cost of imported goods….and the subsidising of the Chinese manufactured solar panels and wind turbines….the list is endless…we are going broke in order to save the world from emissions of CO2, the gas without which life on the planet cannot survive…utter madness…
July 23, 2025
SirJ thanks for highligthing this, I just wish someone in the media would reprint it …..with the caveat that your taxes are going up again to fund this aid
July 23, 2025
Ms Badenoch has had a shuffle – who cares, just moving irrelevances around.
Just to amuse I trawled the local jobs market to see what gives. Unsurprisingly they are mostly pretty cr*p with cr*p wages. But WFH did feature in a good number of them. Plainly people like it and a lot of jobs can easily be done from home.
But it was a depressing trawl, bog cleaning, DPD driving, care work and for the IT skilled – Help Desk work or some pretty mundane support work. All this a few miles outside the M25 where house prices start around £350k for a rabbit hutch. In this village there are some 8 houses for sale over £1 million – almost all retired or widowed folk wanting to downsize. But who is going to buy when the job market is so poor. Convert them all into immigrant flats?
No wonder Angela is in trouble, this is no way to run an economy, not so much a shoestring more a frayed cotton thread. Not that the Tories have any better ideas. We need sources of wealth not everyone struggling for a crust.
July 23, 2025
Add the following:
£ billions to the EU to participate in their defence fund
£ Unknown to the EU to be subject to their food standards etc. (agreement seems to have been signed with a commitment to pay but with no price having been specified by the EU yet – a massive negotiating fail by Starmer)
£ Unknown to the EU to participate in their carbon border scheme (ditto)
£ Unknown for the EU youth mobility scheme and suggested tuition fee discounts for EU students
July 23, 2025
Roy, previously the uk provided the UK student loans, and free tuition in Scotland, are we going to be doing that for the new youth mobility scheme discounted tuition and maintenance, or are the students’ home nations financing them?
July 23, 2025
11. Decarbonise the NG (£500bn),
12. £8.3bn to capitalise GBE
13. £11bn for climate aid
14. £22bn for CCS Carbon Capture and sequestration.
15. Interruptibles are subsidised at £18bn per year.
July 23, 2025
+1 but prob. underestimates when fully accounted for.
July 23, 2025
The Foreign Office is splashing our borrowed cash on Equalities nonsense overseas.
Douglas Alexander, publicly admitted that the public no longer support it, but the Foreign Office Mandarins and Lammy don’t give a 4X about that.
https://order-order.com/2025/07/23/labour-rolls-out-enormous-foreign-aid-spending-to-avoid-disproportionate-impacts-on-equalities/
July 23, 2025
“The economics of the madhouse” summed it all up by Andrew Neil
“Broke Britain’s on the edge of financial disaster, Labour’s out of its depth – and people are angry. I’m scared for what’s to come” .
July 23, 2025
We are borrowing money to pay the interest on the outstanding mega debt we have. Likened to get a new credit card to pay off our maxed out existing credit cards! Crazy.
July 23, 2025
In the private sector it is called fraud as It’s basically “teeming and lading” also like Ponsi schemes .
July 23, 2025
It is appalling that we are now borrowing money to pay the interest on the money we borrowed previously! Both Labour and Conservatives are responsible for the debt. Usually, Labour take power when the Conservatives have stabilised the economy and reduced UK debt. But not this time, and Labour promptly made everything worse by spending/ giving away our taxpayers’ money!
It is an utter shambles, and the frightening thing is that the PM, Chancellor and Cabinet Ministers don’t seem to have a clue about the damage they are doing.
Where there is no vision, the people perish, and neither Labour nor Conservative MPs have any vision at all.
July 23, 2025
Could we employ a private EU security firm to be security at France’s border to cut the use of dinghy’s only, using drones? France are enjoying a reward for something they’re not providing. Perhaps they should only get paid per slashed dinghy we collect from them.
This is ridiculous anyway. Who is making these boats? Are we sending boats back to Europe or burning them?
July 23, 2025
so the cabinet have been briefed they have a bit of a “societal coherence” problem… “declining trust in institutions”…
the chief constable of Essex has just defended the indefensible
this country is in very imminent short term trouble
what exactly does democracy want decent people to do when they are ignored consistently
this is going to blow up massively
July 23, 2025
Correct
July 23, 2025
No government, household, family or business can go on indefinitely living beyond its means not least of course with extravagant spending. Remember what happened to Greece a few short years ago and indeed the UK in the 1970s. Were we to reach a point yet again when we go back cap in hand to the IMF what terms would they insist upon? What would they have to say about the list of expenditures listed in Sir John’s post today?
July 23, 2025
Ford hiring more people to work on the diesel van production lines, and sacking people on EV van production lines.
Why is this not in the news?
July 30, 2025
They don’t care it’s not their money, they’re Socialist after all and there’s not end to the good they can do with other peoples money. They run out of funds very soon and GB will once again be a basket case under Labour