Labour has done its best to align the UK with the EU’s high rates of youth unemployment and has now succeeded, and with the EU’s higher unemployment rate where it is almost there. How has it done it?
1. Ban on all new oil and gas, destroying and failing to create many high productivity high paid jobs. In line with EU decarbonisation policy.
2. Ban on all new petrol and diesel car output by 2030, a more severe version of an EU policy, destroying many UK factories and jobs.
3. Dear energy prices under an EU type emissions trading and carbon tax scheme, leading to mass closures in petrochemicals, plastics, paper, cement, ceramics, steel etc
4. Coming adoption of more anti food growing farm policies from EU sources on top of anti food UK grant schemes
5. Giving away 12 years of our fish to EU, preventing rebuild of UK fishing industry
6. High taxes on employment and business premises destroying jobs in shops, leisure centres, hospitality and entertainment – UK policies
7. Imports first policy in craven negotiations over trade with China and EU where we already run huge deficits. Imports cut GDP.
8. Productivity collapse and huge losses in the public sector hold the UK back and keep borrowing, taxes and interest rates too high.Home made disaster.
February 16, 2026
These disastrous outcomes, Sir John, we know about. We know they are either on the way or already here. The question is what do we do about it and what do we do about the long wait until the next general election by which time Labour’s scorched earth policy will have achieved exactly what it intends it to achieve – the destruction of our once great United Kingdom and our subsumation and subservience to the EU?
February 16, 2026
The British people are making up their minds.
It’s a funny atmosphere, I remember it before Brexit. Instead of me discussing politics, everyone else is opening these subject with real-time details, a commentary. They are not content.
The politicians are unwise to confront us with these deliberate attacks. Broadcasts from Mosques lauding alien culture is very counter-productive.
Even the King is being confronted and challenged and mocked. This is unprecedented in my experience.
A friend who works on the oil rigs in the North Sea has had 4 successive contracts cancelled. He told us Aberdeen is basically in collapse.
February 16, 2026
Restore Britain has 50,000 paid up members in 24 hours.
Their offering is unlike anything I have ever seen before.
Somebody has pointed out that Lowe’s secret strategy is saying what everyone is thinking.
This has pointedly moved Reform policy evidenced by interviews at the weekend. Kemi is aligning and supporting the private Lowe MP initiative of the Rape Gang Inquiry even as Parliament rejects an Inquiry.
Britain is moving fast and the brighter politicians are running to catch up. So it’s not just me to feels this decisive change. The feedback on the doorstep to Labour in Manchester is apparently brutal, Labour canvassers are shocked by the response of their own erstwhile supporters. Certainly nothing like any responses we have ever had even when we were canvassing in the direct aftermath of Mrs Thatcher’s departure when the Conservative voters were very angry, or canvassing for Peter Bone in Ebbw Valley known as ‘little Moscow’.
February 16, 2026
I’m getting the same down here in Dorset. Friends who are usually uninterested in politics are talking about the consequences of Two-Tier’s disastrous policies.
February 16, 2026
Every person out of work with little prospect of (or desire to) get a job is probably considered more likely to vote Labour. So from their viewpoint, unemployment isn’t such a bad thing.
February 16, 2026
Especially if benefits are raised well above inflation levels, if what I read the other day is true.
I always say ‘if’ because until satisfactorily confirmed then to take anything you read at face value these days is naive.
Journalism, like so much else here now is in the gutter.
Likewise, having as many people on the state payroll as possible can ensure a vote or two.
February 16, 2026
Indeed and (as they know they have almost zero chance at the next election) they have an incentive to leave as big an economic mess for the next government as possible. They seem to be very good at this as JR’s short list of disasters shows – it could easily be enlarged to 10+ times the size.
Is is surely deliberate vandalism rather than incompetence!
February 16, 2026
Labour isn’t just a job destruction machine. They’re destroying our Sovereignty, society, culture, national cohesion, energy security, food security and our FUTURE.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron
February 16, 2026
Labour destroying the country. Twas ever thus.