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
You need to go back to Victoria’s era to justly use ‘Great’.
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
‘Restore Britain has 50,000 paid-up members in 24 hours’ according to …. rupertlowemep Facebook page.
As Michelle says (her ‘if’ comment below): if this can ever be checked independently and proved correct that’s a worthwhile piece of news. If not, that’s just …
February 16, 2026
Amazing that 50,000 would pay to join a ‘secret strategy’. What if the secret is to speed up rejoining as a serf to the EU, nuclear disarmament, support for Russia’s invasion? Are you saying they/we don’t have a clue what the strategy is?
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’s job destruction machine” – just Rayner’s mad workers right bill (the right never to get offered a job in many cases) is appalling vandalism, as are the increased minimum wage levels (actually in effect another huge tax increase for employers). Rayner depressingly the 5/2 favourite to replace the dire, dishonest, economic vandal that is two Tier Kier. The man who keeps absurdly claiming Farage is Pro-Putin even he surely cannot believe this this?
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
@ Donna
A very accurate summation of where we are… enemies within! Traitors, indeed!
February 16, 2026
Donna:
Correct. And we don’t know everything that is happening now that our judiciary are colluding with government and the Civil Service to hide their actions using super injunctions.
February 16, 2026
Importing cheap labour an huge increases in minimum wages such that hiring trainees is uneconomic.
Signposting draconian changes in employment rights thus reducing the attractration of training new workers in case they don’t work out.
February 16, 2026
Not very good my Lord is it? What are we going to do about it?
February 16, 2026
At least our Ange likes pubs n clubs and might do summat to stop em closing. She might like factories too and put Ed (out of harms way Ed). Cum on Ange and get (Starmer out Ed)
February 16, 2026
It started with the last Tory(Pseudo socialist) government on a much smaller scale, but this labour government have done their best to accelerate every soul destroying mechanism to bring on economic ruin.
Their definition of growth is more big brother, more state interventions and more crippling taxes.
Socialists have never been good at running an economy because they want to bring in so many laws to watch and control us while wiping out the desire within us to function and produce with their moves to provide a state income to everyone, but it’s their ideology that has done the greatest damage.
Following the EU is a get out, because once labour’s irrational ideology has been set in place they have nothing left, innovation will have gone down the drain by then, so making us subservient to a greater power absolves them of all responsibility for everything.
February 16, 2026
It is of course so much more easy to follow the dictats of the EU than face up to the difficult actions needed to put right the political failings of many years that are necessary to get the British economy and polity in good order again. This Government, and its leader in particular, certainly does not have the stomach for it. And getting ‘closer to the EU’ gives all those wonderful opportunities to be seen on TV standing next to Mrs Von der Leyden.
February 16, 2026
Give Labour credit, they have increased the size of the State exponentially. Along with State spending. The UK Parliament its Government is spending over £3.35bn on State AI projects. Over £1bn alone to Microsoft for AI to make the offices of the State more efficient and productive.
How are the doing it, by reducing the capability of the Nation to earn and pay for their ideological whims.
Of note the Civil Service is kicking back and resiting the already paid for AI in their departments as it could lead to unemployment amongst it members.
The Unions the beneficiaries of these Labour Government give-aways are able to contribute even more to Labour’s campaigning war chest(The largest in the country, more than all the others put together) that their gang boss can use to blackmail through the party whip the majority of MPs in Parliament.
February 16, 2026
How can one man starmer do this to the uk
Where are the conservatives ? the lib dem
Reform why are they allowing to let we can trust democracy taken away the EU will destroy the uk and starmer will help them
What’s becoming of the uk
John you are a man of good words but we need action there is not a party that tell the truth or that trust
February 16, 2026
Labour destroying the country. Twas ever thus.
February 16, 2026
You do not exagerate. The real question is
what, within the bounds of legality, can be done about it.
Sow dissention within the Labour party and government, beyond what they already enjoy, to functionally slow them down or bring them to a halt.
Those forces brought to bare on the Truss government should be encouraged to bring about the demise of Labour. They should by now have realised that the past and current path they are taking is of no benefit to a thriving economy, without which no political faction can succeed. I am surprised that the socialist wrecking ball has been tolerated for so long.
Short of revolution, which is anathema to the British, we can resort to mass public demonstration and dissent until the whole rotten Starmer edifice self implodes.