The tension between PM and Chancellor matters and was on display the day she shed a tear at PM’s questions and he declined to comfort or support her. It looks as if it has got worse, with the appointment of a new and constitutionally awkward Chief Secretary to the PM in Downing Street who looks a bit like a substitute Chancellor/Deputy PM out to second guess or trump the true holders of those offices.
In accordance with my policy of not talking here of allegations of personal misconduct I have kept off the details of the living arrangements and tax affairs of the Deputy PM. Now she has confirmed that she paid too little Stamp Duty on her latest purchase and has referred herself for investigation I need to assess the implications of this serious set back for the government.
It means the two most important Cabinet members have lost authority, whilst No 10 has strengthened its personnel as if to guide them or take over more of their jobs. It makes the government look very unstable. Some in the governing party now think the Deputy PM should lose that job. Her future rests on a report on her conduct. The Chancellor now has to broker her budget with the Chief Secretary to the PM and the PM ‘s Economic Adviser as well as with the PM himself. It makes error from more compromises and from the unregulated clash of minds more likely.
It is disappointing that the new team did not hit the ground running. Where was the action needed to end the Bank’s destructive sale of bonds? Where is the surrogate package of spending reductions to replace the lost cuts that backbenchers destroyed? Where are the revised plans to curb excessive growth of welfare entitlements with no requirement to work? Where are the detailed plans to recapture some of the huge public sector productivity losses?
September 4, 2025
Good morning.
There has always been tension between Numbers 10 and 11. I remember one between Mrs.T and Nigel Lawson over interest rates and the accusations he was trying to shadow the Deutschmark. I also remember tensions between Blair and Brown. Although that was more to do with power than policy. So the latest between two unmentionables is little difference. The only thing to remember is, both have the potential to damage the other.
As for the Deputy PM, I am of the opinion that, someone who has THREE homes of above standard value on an MP’s salary, who has no previous record of being in business, or inherited wealth to rely on, should have more than her Stamp Duty (property tax) investigated.
Reply She does not own the expensive London flat, that is government property. The original family home is owned by the Trust set up with NHS compensation money. She has a large mortgage on Hove according to the press.
Tension between PM and Chancellor is not uncommon but is not helpful. The Lawson-Thatcher row over the ERM eventually led to the adoption of the very destructive ERM policy against the PM’s wishes and her dismissal.
September 4, 2025
Mark, There is tension through Government not just between Nos. 10 & 11. Miliband seems to be winding up many, Cooper letting Home Office focus on trivia, I could go on…
As I said yesterday if a team isn’t performing you change the manager not the players. Can’t see Starmer recognising this.
September 4, 2025
Lady Rayner of Hove must be arriving soon!
September 4, 2025
@Mark B & @PeteB – the problem for them all is we thought we were empowering and paying them to serve us and the nation. Then we got, lets call them ‘influencers’ gifts in the run up to getting into office then the preoccupation with the WEF religion and personal self-esteem now they are in office indicates a miss-match on the purpose of Government/Parliament and the people they serve, all this indicates a structure no longer fit for purpose. Reminded more of the ‘Kim Jong Un’ domain than a mature western democracy
September 4, 2025
If it was anyone else guilty of avoiding tax, HMRC would be all over us like a rash. There is a story that she used Trust funds to pay thr deposit on the Hove house.
Regardless of that the questions you ask have no answers. This bankrupting of the country is being carefully choreographed by 2TK s handlers. Last night the Chancellor on the news categorically denied any black hole so the litany of lies continue.
Then we look at London and the mayor wants the arms fair cancelled because it is upsetting for asylum seekers
We have factor many of foreign extraction in positions of power actually working against us.
September 4, 2025
@Ian wragg – yup the Country has been cancelled. A TwoTierKier Marxist State will be here sooner than we think and we have not just the man himself, not just his team but the whole of a free-loading Parliament that are to frightened to do their job and hold people/government to account.
A reflection, there was a time that a pair of ‘glasses’ would have seen banishment now they are accepted by the tribe as being a badge of honour…
It is the rest of us that have been taken for fools, Blair should have been stopped, and along with all those that bought into his wreaking ball cabal, then we get those that refused to stop & change the destruction of democracy, they should no place of influence or be listened to anywhere. Even the new Uniparty faction created by Cameron/Clegg saw to it that nothing changed, kept all Blair’s disasters in place, and then ensured destruction would be compounded with 5 year terms in office before seeking validation of the direction parliament was taking. Meaning they ensured that 2TK has another 4 years to cause retribution on the nation.
September 4, 2025
What gets me is that if it hadn’t been for neighbours and nosey newspapers the underpayment of Stamp Duty would have remained undiscovered so the only conclusion to be reached by the silence and opaqueness of senior members of the government is that it’s OK to avoid tax if you can get away with it.
September 4, 2025
Indeed but why did Thatcher appoint daft as a brush (and maths O level failure) John Major as Chancellor it did not seem like an ideal choice to run the UK’s finances! Then even allow him to take us into the ERM against the wise advice of yourself and her advisor Alan Walters.
Why too did the usually sensible Lawson fall for the ERM Euro scam!
September 4, 2025
Pressure from the Wets. They were out to destroy her and did.
Lawson later reversed his position on ten ErM and acknowledged Mrs T was right. He shadowed the D’Mark unilaterally and should have been sacked, but she was too weak at that point.
The Wets won which is why Britain is now on the brink.
September 4, 2025
There’s no accounting for “stupid”.
September 4, 2025
True, it no longer looks like a government in control. Your “where are” questions remain unanswered because they have switched to survival mode. Yesterday the only one answering straight questions with straight answers was Wes Streeting. If both Deputy PM and Chancellor go, it is only a matter of time before the PM follows, and I am sure he is well aware of where this is leading.
They are a large majority government, in place due to the default of all other political parties, who a year ago lost the support of the electorate. They are the lees of a duff bottle of wine.
Incidentally, free speach, or the growing lack of it in the UK, was legitimately called out in Congress by Nigel yesteday. A worthy task for a statesman as an alternative to the charade of PMQs. You may well disagree with me, but I would suggest that Nigel is the only statesman in UK politics as is, perceived as the only threat to the woolly negative thinking in Parliament today. The targetting by the also rans only confirms my conclusions.
September 4, 2025
Agree. Nigel may well have power thrust upon him so hopefully he is oven ready to Govern
September 4, 2025
Nigel still has a very long way to go before he has a team capable of forming a government AG. I’d like to see him do so, as there has to be an alternative to this shower of clowns and the Lib Dem infested party that I suspect Badenoch is struggling to control.
September 4, 2025
@agricola – A government in control? How about a Parliament were we have over 50% of our Legislators fully behind 2TK. This mob calling itself a Parliament has the ultimate sanction and is employed by the Taxpayer to challenge the HoC’s top team. They don’t so the direction must be majority approved
September 4, 2025
But the PM says we have freedom of speech. How can this be possible? Because it is asymmetric free speech. It depends who says it and about which subject.
September 4, 2025
You either have free speech or you don’t.
We don’t.
September 4, 2025
Surely she will have accountants to handle her personal affairs.
You see this obsession with focus isn’t really the issue but rather getting every aspect of government accurate and truthful should be the mission.Focus leads to concentrating efforts and analysis on one particular aspect at the expense of many side variables which because of intense focus are omitted , yet impact on the whole.
September 4, 2025
Didn’t her conveyancing solicitor sort this out? Was he Jonathan Reynolds?
Reply We now know the conveyancing solicitor who has made clear they did not provide tax advice
September 4, 2025
I have seen this sort of focus in the NHS where the most influential managers have made a case for one part of care (and the influence can be ,how shall I say,not upright) and money is poured into this area to shine whilst other areas have deteriorated rapidly.State money or private intervention give the appearance of superiority when it is really robbing from Peter to pay Paul.
September 4, 2025
Darren Jones now Chief Secretary to the PM is another lawyer. Asked about the rising costs of living said “that is why we increased the minimum wage” so clearly either a bit dim or a liar! Any increase in the minimum wage (and the hige increase in employers NI) are the main causes of the increases in the cost of living it is also another huge tax grab as about 50% of the increase companies are forced to pay goes directly to the government in tax, NI, loss of benefits and VAT. Yet another transfer from the productive to the largely parasitic sector more doom loop economics!
Rayner almost certainly made an innocent mistake due to confusion with her advisors. I have sympathy the rules are absurdly complicated and wide reaching as to what constitutes a second home. I hardly think she did it on purpose to save tax!
She deserves huge criticism for her insane Workers Rights bill and her vastly damaging Housing Act as both are hugely damaging to Workers, Employers, Tenants, Landlords and the economy!
September 4, 2025
What is also wrong is that you need to pay £70,000 of stamp duty to buy an £800k home! Another appalling tax on money you have not even made! A vast tax on moving home and job mobility. With legal fees, agents fees, mortgage fees, valuations it might cost you £150,000 to move from a £950k home to a £800k home the £150k are cost of the move! You could build a new three bed house in the garden for a bit less, subject to planning!
September 4, 2025
Stamp duty used to be 1% tops now 15% tops, Insurance tax nothing now 14% tops, CGT used to be indexed against inflation, allowances used to go up with inflation, carbon taxes did not exist, landfill taxes did not exists, circa 70% of electricity costs are in effect taxes or market rigging too.
September 4, 2025
Also the fact that you need to pay lawyers and accounts (parasitic workers in essence producing nothing of value another red tape tax in essence with VAT on top too) to find you way through absurdly complex tax rules.
Also to set up expensive to run trusts for Rayner’s NHS injured daughter it seems!
September 4, 2025
Even if offered a new job on say £20k PA more than your current one it is not worth taking it as after tax and NI you might need some 15 years to get back the £150k of moving costs do you even have 15 years of good health left to work? So a less efficient economy results!
September 4, 2025
Well said again
September 4, 2025
High taxes of themselves strangle an economy and make it less efficient. This on top of rip off net zero energy, OTT red tape and governments not only spending money v. poorly but spending to do real net harms kills it!
September 4, 2025
The point is deputy PM is in a government that says the rich need to pay more in tax. However, when it comes to her, she doesn’t think that should apply. “One rule for them and another for us” has become her creed.
September 4, 2025
Well said
September 4, 2025
Her laws! She HAS to obey them. The law does not recognize ‘innocent mistakes’.
September 4, 2025
Allister Heath today in the Telegraph.
Starmer’s Britain is descending into anarcho-tyranny
Even Nigel Farage testifying before the US Congress did not convey the full horror of what is happening in the UK.
Indeed huge fines for a tyre in a bus lane or 1m over on you meter or 23 mph while overtaking a bike, 31 months for a silly tweet but nothing for muggers, fare dodgers, shop lifters, illegal immigrants, drug dealers…
September 4, 2025
@Lifelogic – welcome to the newly created Two-Tier World of ‘them and us’ brought to you by the need for Socialism. If we were all as before equal – Socialism wouldn’t survive
September 5, 2025
We all know Labour are cr-p. Problem is our right-wing media is too obsessed by drama instead of deep and constructive commentary about how to get the Tories back into power (so we don’t have Labour and so we can improve our country)! In other words, our right-wing media is not really right-wing in constructive sense (it is to a degree) but more about making drama to sell copies / internet hits. Beware (fine if you enjoy reading drama – like watching East Enders – but not for deep and constructive commentary about how to get Tories back into power).
September 4, 2025
Lawson resigned when Mrs Thatcher relied on an advisor rather than on him, and if the present Chancellor was half a person, she would do the same.
September 4, 2025
Lawson resigned to bring Thatcher down.
September 4, 2025
Yep, pure spite.
September 5, 2025
Because he was wrong re the ERM and Thatcher (who needed Walters to hone the argument for her, but knew instinctively) was right.
Lawson spent the rest of his life arguing the Walter’s (+ Redwood, Ridley and all monetarist’s Case.
Reply I first told Margaret Nigel was shadowing the DM and that it would cause boom/ bust disruption in 1984. Alan later advised her.
September 4, 2025
Once you enter the murky world of tax avoidance (perfectly legal) with Trusts and financial manipulation of your assets, your life and finances become very much more complicated, not just for you, but for your family and benerficiaries.
Trusts have rules, and HMRC have rules about Trusts, HMRC also have very many rules about taxation, the movement of money, the duration of agreements, and the taxation of it.
Few people are really aware of the complication, expense, limits, and the upfront and deferred taxation of Trusts.
Tax should really be a simple affair, but successive Governments have made the system hugely complicated and all encompassing, in a bid to finance increasing government spending.
Afraid the Deputy Prime Minister appears to have fallen foul of the rules, and ignorance even if you suggest you have taken advice is no excuse.
Politicians are now finding out what sort of a complicated tax system they have designed, that all of us out here have to abide by under threat of financial penalty.
There are no exceptions made for us, so there should be no exception for politicians, no matter what their position, she should resign immediately.
September 4, 2025
She just had to use Common sense. If as Settlors you start shifting assets into tax-privileged environments, such as Trusts, then remain tangled up with use of them, you’re asking for trouble. Trusts are for sole benefit of the beneficiaries. Common sense invests in independent assets, not a single entity, let alone a house which you also use.
September 4, 2025
@ Berkshire Alan – Concerning Deputy Prime Minister Rayner, I think it very harsh to demand she resign. The rule she fell foul of may well have been that explained @ https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/stamp-duty-land-tax-manual/sdltm09815, being:
“Trusts – Where a dwelling is owned by another person subject to a trust which gives an individual a right to occupy the dwelling for life or the right to the income earned in respect of the dwelling, that individual is treated as owning the interest [Para 11(1) and (3)]. This treatment will not apply to interests in dwellings which are trust property of a trust that gives the trustee a discretion to apply income between a class of beneficiaries or a trust which accumulates income.”
So the dwelling owned by her child’s trust likely grants Ms. Rayner the right to live there (facilitating caring for her child) and it is that right that the tax legislation captures to deem existing property ownership for determining stamp duty land tax liability when buying another interest. The tax law likely included that provision as an anti-avoidance measure for, clearly, it does not make much sense in the very particular circumstance illustrated by Ms. Rayner’s affairs.
An explanation for how it was that Ms Rayner was apparently advised wrongly could rest upon different lawyers being involved, the one dealing with the Hove purchase being unaware of the trust holding the family home.
I agree with Lifelogic above, where he says “Rayner almost certainly made an innocent mistake due to confusion with her advisors. I have sympathy the rules are absurdly complicated and wide reaching as to what constitutes a second home. I hardly think she did it on purpose to save tax!”.
Ms. Rayner has of course been very ready to attack others, even condemning tax avoidance, once in respect of an individual’s stamp duty!
September 4, 2025
100% right.
September 4, 2025
You are asking basic questions, central to government activity, but seem to forget it is a socialist Labour government in charge of decision making. The easy gifting of massive pay awards to the public sector, entirely at the expense of the private sector wealth producers set the scene of government focus. That happened in the first weeks of this Labour government. It tells us all we need to know about where their priorities are and what they mean when they talk about growth, while carefully avoiding ever mentioning wealth.
The failure of the Chancellor to understand even the most basic rules of fiscal control is obvious to see. The failures of the Housing Secretary/Deputy PM are quietly hidden away. Only her gauche public appearances aping Catherine Tate’s most iconic characters gets any publicity.
The clear evidence of government incompetence can not be hidden. The 1.5 million house building target in five years, promised and lauded as prime policy is an abject failure. House construction is declining not increasing.
We all know they will count HMOs as living spaces and count those to uplift and fudge the figures, Growth in Public Sector is happening though, with a 700,000 increase in the first year of this administration. Wealth is leaving the country along with wealth creators, The outflow may turn into a flood, unless drastic policy changes are introduced, which is unlikely. The ongoing suppression of free speech and the actual judicial overreach to enforce that, as witnessed this week with Graham Linehan is chilling.
This useless spiteful hopeless Labour government of repression has got to go.
September 4, 2025
Where is the change of policy needed to allow the BoE to swap it’s ginormous gilt holdings for gold? The world’s central banks are moving – decisively – away from fiat $dollars and are buying bullion as fast as it is refined from the mines
The convergence of weakening US employment data, virtually certain Fed easing in September, and persistent geo-political/war uncertainties have created an exceptionally favourable environment for gold
September 4, 2025
How on earth could they do that SG?
They are in a downward debt spiral. Each year brings more debt to service, which worries the Bond Markets and increases Gilt yeilds, so the cost of their existing debt goes up too. This cannot end well – in fact it usually ends in default. This Government is unwilling to make the hard decisions required and we are beginning to look very much like some third rate South American country. Market confidence is everything and who would have any faith in this crew of chancers?
PS – It is the BRIC banks who are stockpiling gold. I think it is signalling the end of globalisaton as we (the West) move out of an age of abundance and into one of scaricty (of money and resources). Things are going to get expensive.
September 4, 2025
But surely everything is all just fine: the foundations have been fixed; the gangs are being smashed and so successfully that the PM said again yesterday we won’t be leaving the jurisdiction of the ECHR; the chancellor has mentioned economic growth as a major factor in her budget planning; PM and Home Secretary festoon their homes with the Union Jack, demonstrating their strong patriotism. It’s such a mystery why government and PM opinion poll ratings are so low.
September 4, 2025
Can’t see want Rayner did wrong, she was just badly advised.
September 4, 2025
I sort of agree, and she did at least admit and front up about it.
It would be nice if we could accept people make mistakes from time to time and not tear into them for it… unfortunately for Rayner she is on very thin and fast melting ice (to be very generous) on this score.
September 4, 2025
Clearly it was not a deliberate attempt to deceive but she is clearly a grade one hypocrite. But ignorance of the law is not an excuse they say. Then again often the appeal court disagrees with the high court and the supreme court disagrees again so some of the judges are clearly ignorant!
The lessons are surely. Make tax laws far simpler and taxes far lower. 10% stamp duty on a small flat is absurd it is a transaction tax not a profit she has made. Do not abuse others for things you go on to do later yourself.
She should go however as her housing bill and her workers rights bill are both appallingly damaging and will benefit no one and she is clearly no very bright!
September 4, 2025
@Stephen Reay – then the deeper dive poses questions of the source of the money involved. Money paid in compensation to specifically provide for a long term situation, that can be considered to be miss-placed. We have a gaggle of individuals that on their way to the posts they now hold have shown that they are not beyond accepting considerations that the rest of us see as inappropriate.
In the end it is the picture painted, a picture that reflects on the whole of Parliament not just Government that becomes particularly galling all the time they are promoting ‘self’ and a political religion when all we want is good management, good government for us all
September 4, 2025
Ultimately you are responsible for your own tax affairs which is why you need to read & sign
September 4, 2025
She signed the form that was wrong. Have a go yourself with HMRC and say you were badly advised – absolutely no hope and YOUR responsibility.
How could you expect the person in charge of housing to understand the housing tax?
September 4, 2025
It is for the impishly subtle humour of its cynical contributors that one returns to these columns time and again. You have not disappointed.
September 4, 2025
The most material development is “… the appointment of a new and constitutionally awkward Chief Secretary to the PM…”.
Blairesque maladroit tinkering with the constitution whilst signalling a lack of confidence in senior colleagues and himself: Starmer makes a poor start worse.
September 4, 2025
The dreadful Nigel Farage failed to attend the first PMQ’s since the summer recess. Neither was he to be seen in his Clacton constituency. Apparently he was in Washington DC giving evidence to a US congressional committee on free speech
Farage devoted much of his speech to comparing our country, unfavourably, to N Korea. Farage suggested the US government should use “diplomacy and trade” to defend its position on free speech against the UK.
In other words, impose sanctions on us until the online security bill is amended to allow British children to access hard-core extreme pornography. How un-patriotic is that?
During the session Farage was heavily criticised by Democratic members of Congress, including Jamie Raskin – who labelled him a “Putin-loving free speech impostor”
The best thing Farage could do is to resign his Clacton seat and stay in America
September 4, 2025
Sir John
I have to challenge you there. Is this all just media speculation?
Two-Tiers team gives the outside appearance of not being to ‘bright’, and the man himself is generally absent without leave. The appearance is that there is no management within the Collective Responsibility team of the Cabinet. They all get to do what they want without discussion. How can that be the situation? Agreeing to dumb ideas is one thing, not caring, not listening to their electorate puts it on a whole other level. MPs without ‘post-bags’?
But these feelings are just from the outside, are not just with the top team, but the whole of Parliament, it seems they have all lost their jobs to self appointed ‘talking heads’ elsewhere. I get the Media’s position they have to sell advertising to pay the wages. But, Parliament? Seconding their over-site functions, their management, their empowerment to the unelected unaccountable wannabees.
But then again, Andrew Bailey got to run rings around them yesterday. Apparently although the figures are worse now than the ones he appears to have created for Liz Truss, the Parliament shouldn’t consider them they mean nothing as the Taxpayer will keep paying. Instead he suggests the real problem is Trump because he is challenging the orthodoxy of his Central Bank.
In a nutshell to me it is the whole of Parliament that appears to be in disarray, they keep demonstrating they have no purpose because they are no longer responsible and accountable for the management of anything
September 4, 2025
In The Telegraph today – headline stated “Reeves tells Rayner: We must all understand tax rules” Then you read the supposed conversation, and the context was entirely different to how must of us read the sound-bite headline.
The Media Headline writers nowadays are not those that for the most part write the stories – they are the advertising department trying to expose the paper for the benefit of advertisers. It is what most of us call ‘click-bait’
That leads to a situation for all of us, do we get the actual story or the sound-bite painting the picture?
September 4, 2025
Rayner has to go. She has no authority remaining. No doubt she’ll resign with some whining story how it’s all upsetting her son and she needs to step away.
Reeves moving the budget to the latest possible date, is a tactic that she hopes will give time for a piece of good economic news to come through. Don’t hold your breath love. Equally it gives Starmer more time to replace her ….
September 4, 2025
Labour are cr-ap but they got into power democratically.
But a threat we should be focusing on is China and how is / will slowly squeeze the UK economy is in advancements in High Tech and getting a bigger and bigger hold of the High Tech market in every sphere and all the related business models related to this. This is another reason why we have to focus on creating UK as second Silicon Valley in the West – for the sake of jobs, well-paid salaries, tax receipts and a strong and stable economy overall. And along with this, explore how to help entrepreneurs develop businesses that won’t be affected by AI.
September 4, 2025
I would say the government is very focussed on doing as much damage to our economy and national security as possible. Net Zero, high spending to justify high taxation, Chagos Islands give-away, massive legal immigration. Illegal immigrants rewarded with 4 star hotel rooms and houses. When are they going to give these illegal migrants the tented accommodation they receive back in France? And since illegal, and undocumented, within a secure compound prior to sending to Rwanda? Note that the Rwanda accommodation does not have to be very big because when these illegal migrants are sent there they will simply go back home to their families.
September 4, 2025
Goernment needs focus – God damn right
Our government needs to slap down, manage and control the civil service, the quangos and lobbyists
September 4, 2025
I agree 100%
I think this government will continue to be economically very damaging
The Bond market will see them as not being credible & may well step in
September 4, 2025
The way to go is to do it like Madrid Region.
An admirable achievment .
A cheering story of how “ one
region in Spain is emerging as a global model for defenders of freedom , measured in terms of governance , prosperity , and welfare .”
From DT 1st Sept.
September 4, 2025
The Labour Government does has focus, it is just on all the wrong things. We have a PM who has no idea of the feelings and emotions of ordinary people about immigration, the cost of living and a Deputy PM who evades tax.
If Angela Rayner is not intelligent enough to understand tax on second homes, then she is not intelligent enough to be a Minister.
Stgarmer’s new team at No 10 are all tax fanatics, as is Torsten Bell assisting, or writing, the budget. The Chancellor is so far out of her depth I can’t understand why she does not do the honourable thing and resign.
Have we ever had such low calibre MPs, PM and Government Ministers? Finally, Civil Service productivity will not improve until at least half are made redundant.
September 4, 2025
A nice quote on Social Media
“If [the] UK Government was infiltrated by foreign agents willing to bring the country down, there would have been few ways to do a better job.”
This is from one of the UK’s dynamic individuals. Who is doing well, the Sunday Times, says he is paying £664.5 million a year in tax in tax as an individual.
His business has maths at its core and also needs vast computing power; computing takes vast amounts of energy so he has to go abroad – so is spending €1bn (£860m) creating a data centre in Finland. The cost of the UK’s artificially high-priced energy
Labour attracted his dismay. Last year, the Government cut funding for the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme, which was designed to help teenagers take up advanced maths. As we know this Government doesn’t do maths, can’t make one column balance with another. So he is opening a specialist school for mathematicians next year and has said Britain needs to move away from a culture that prizes PPE (philosophy, politics and economics) as the most high-status higher education pursuit. Logic his business is built on maths, so he needs more maths candidates. That is what is meant by funding a future.
What’s brought this to mind once more is that he is in the news he is looking for interns for his business as such will pay £26,000 a month amid an escalating war for tech talent.
If we are to believe the media these are the people our PPE Parliament and its Government want ejected from this country as soon as possible. They dont know what maths is so lets ban it….
September 4, 2025
We should be promoting Children of the New Forest as a great book that children of Conservatives (and in general) should be reading.
It champions the values of chivalry (and the monarchy), heroism, leadership, adventure, endurance, creativity, real masculinity and real femininity, and being moderate in politics (although the children are royalists they befriend a benign roundhead).
We need to restore trad British values into our culture, and one of the places to start is with children’s stories / iit!
September 4, 2025
Integrity and Trust are like glass, once cracked it is impossible to put back together and has to be cleared up and replaced. Gravity accelerates.
It seems those who treat it lightly due to shallow thinking realise too late, that it cannot ever be fixed, despite much spinning, grasping and apologies.
Fixing the foundations smokescreen, invented black holes and illusions of grandeur and growth plus 20 other promises broken by this dysfunctional excuse for a government cannot defy gravity. What goes up will hit reality sooner than they think.
September 4, 2025
Are new trust home taxes coming soon to prompt these changes, perhaps? Angela Rayner’s son, as The Mirror disclosed, is 17, so the home would be eligible to put in his name soon anyway. She is still representing the area the home is in and uses it as her constituency and family home, caring for her children when she goes back to the area.
Why buy in Hove, do you have to have a connection to an area for a certain time in order to apply to be an MP there, some have suggested it would be a much safer seat for her because how can she possibly have time to use it when she is in London working or at home in her constituency (other than the odd weeks on holiday)? Labour went to war on holiday homes, even Vorderman sold her luxury Welsh apartment before the trebling of Council tax (taxes are for other people).
September 4, 2025
We have a constitution? Could have fooled me.
More like arbitrary rules made up as Westminster, Whitehall and the clowns in gowns go along which only apply to the rest of us not to them.. “Labour” (excuse me, the “adults”) are merely the worst.
September 4, 2025
As the Deputy PM was appointed by the Labour Party, my understanding of their constitution – which the PM seems to respect far more than the country’s constitution – is that she cannot be sacked by the PM, only by a vote at the Labour Conference. So if she chooses not to resign, it seems there’s nothing that can be done to make her, until Brother Bloggs proposed a motion drawing on Composite 2867 with regard to 5092.
September 4, 2025
been walking around one of our big city centres. came across a group of afghan taliban dressed exactly as they would be in Afghanistan. all they were missing were machine guns. this must be really upsetting for and British military who have been in Afghanistan fighting these exact same people.this is not going to work, our ruling class are mad to do this to the country.
September 4, 2025
Focus on how they do things in Madrid Region .
Find success .
September 4, 2025
Nadine Dorries quote on joining Reform.
September 5, 2025
Starmer’s Gang is opposed to the majority of the British, whom it detests. The newcomers, likewise, detest the British. Presumably their desire to destroy the foundations of the country are being called out by some on the inside, perhaps in the civil service. Public opposition is already occasionally turning into violence and this is likely to become more frequent. UK is a laughing stock abroad. Starmer’s Gang has no friends abroad except in countries with similarly hard Left goverments, like Australia (but not the Australian people). The EU is gleeful at UK’s distress. As are Putin and Xi. The Ayatollahs, when they have time to bother with UK, are pleased with the progress of Islamism in UK, as is Erdogan of Turkey.
So none of these obvious enemies of UK need lift a finger to attack UK. Starmer’s Gang is doing all that is necessary to destroy the country. And when even the Gang cannot deny the destruction it has brought about, they will not give way and call a general election. No, it will double down. Only when, through internal division the socialist rats destroy each other, will the last one standing give up.
September 5, 2025
Dear Sir John,
If we had an equitable tax system, Angela Rayner should not have had to pay a punitive extra Stamp Duty on her new home. Unhappily, the Conservative government, and Labour even more enthusiastically, have declared second home owners to be enemies of society who should be harried and reviled regardless of equity.
This policy is itself hypocritical since the House of Commons must contain one of the highest concentrations of second home owners in the country. While others have to pay through the nose, however, MPs have given themselves the privilege of charging their Council Tax to expenses. MPs have also been adept at flipping their main residence when it suited them for tax purposes.
As the minister responsible for housing, Ms Rayner is an enthusiastic persecutor of second home owners and should have made sure that her own behaviour was above board. That was not difficult as the relevant rules, however unfair, are spelt out unusually clearly on her government’s own website.
As with her former landlord-bashing colleague who evicted private tenants, it is hard to feel any political sympathy for her.