On Monday, a week or more too late, the government will consider the high energy prices crisis and the bond market high mortgage rate crisis. They should decide to
1 Lift the bans on new UK oil and gas production.
2.Encourage offshore and onshore gas exploration
3.Bank of England should end bond sales at a loss, which is helping push up interest rates
4. Cancel autumn fuel duty rise
5 Cut fuel duty all the time fuel prices are elevated and VAT receipts are up
6. Target help with fuel bills on low income households
7. Reinstate two child cap , reduce numbers of sick notes for life being issued and improve incentives to work
8. Cut carbon tax and emissions trading to reduce the current alarming rate of industrial closures
9. Stop Chagos give away and the expensive EU re set
10. Legislate to instruct UK courts to disallow asylum claims if someone enters UK illegally.
March 22, 2026
This is all far too sensible and common sense for the halfwits we have in charge at the moment,They are wedded to taxing it, creating a problem and then subsidising it
March 22, 2026
Indeed.
I would add to the list:- undo everything Labour have done so far (and most of what Blair to Sunak did), ditch net zero completely, go for easy hire and fire, make work pay relative to benefits, ditch VAT on school fees, stop blocking the roads (it wastes time, money and fuel), stop the soft “loans” for duff degrees about 75% of them are virtually worthless, halve the size of the state, relax planning, get energy costs down to US levels about 25% of current, drill, frack, mine, stop all renewable subsidies and market rigging, stop rail subsidies, stop heat pump and EV subsidies, ditch all low skilled and net cost immigration, get some confidence in government by doing all the above.
Change the Doom-Loop agenda to a virtuous circle that attracts wealth, hard workers, inward investment, business expansion, relax planning…
March 22, 2026
Steve Reed (an English Sheffield Grad and Minister for food and Agriculture or something similar):- “no need to panic buy fuel” (tell that to transport businesses, industry and farmers), “no shortage of fuel” and “have trust in the government”!
Should go well! Surely a statement that will help cause panic buying!
March 22, 2026
@David Peddy
I agree with you, Sir Johns suggestions are spot on, but I’m they’ll find some way to make the situation worse, not better!
March 22, 2026
Not a snowball in hells chance.
Net ruin rules regardless of the consequences.
Just another step towards bankrupting this country which is the Fabians target.
March 22, 2026
A step to foster longer term wealth creation would be the reintroduction of taper relief in respect of taxes on securities held for more than five years – this would have the benefits of a) costing the Government nothing up front, b) increasing the supply of patient capital (which the UK is desperately short of), and c) being difficult for tax advisers to manipulate to avoid the objective.
March 22, 2026
And all other assets too. This would free up a lot of property for resale and redeployment.
March 22, 2026
Number 11 plan for a General Election this year after the people of this great country sends a resounding message to this government in the May local elections this year that the liebour party have zero credibility in the eyes of the vast majority of the U.K. and should be resigned to the history books never to be seen again. Rant over
March 22, 2026
Would that it were so, however I beg to disagree, 2TK is a true believer in HIS right to rule. The problem is he’s been well warned there’s going to be a challenge in May/June, no doubt he’s got a group of Fabians and such working behind the scenes to bring the febrile bankbenchers to heel. I think that’s what the emergency economic meeting is for, produce a list of financial giveaways to calm the revolters. Lord J’s list of economic restraints are for the birds, Starmer will be spend forever and damn the bond markets!
March 22, 2026
Let us see how much of your wish list gets onto the agenda John let alone how many are addressed in the way you would suggest they should.
It is more likely they will fast track the build out of renewable energy contracts. The other decision will be to more closely integrate our armed forces command structure with the EUs and make our armaments procurement an EU centred competence.
No doubt there will also be reference to fast tracking Islamophobia legislation to ensure no one is allowed to criticise mass gatherings of its supporters in places like Trafalgar Square.
March 22, 2026
Wrongly named “Renewables” only provide intermittent Electcity which is only about 20% of total human energy use. In the UK about 6%and 29% of electricity comes from solar and wind resp. . So about 7% of total UK energy from these. But then take of all the fossil fuel they use to manufacture, connect and maintain these and inefficiencies cause to gas production by the need for back up then 2-4% is more realistic. They are largely irrelevant Theresa and Miliband surely even they can see this.
Plus of course so much of our industries have been exported to China etc. which should also be accounted for. The whole agenda a a blatant con trick.
March 22, 2026
I suspect the Agenda will be more focused on how to take more from (perceived) wealthy Peter in order to give it to Paul ….. ie various client / favoured groups who they deem to be deserving of it.
March 22, 2026
+1
March 22, 2026
Yes Lord John but we all know those are the last things they are going to do. The world has now plainly seen that our Emperor has no clothes and when they have stopped laughing, they will decide we are an even worse bet than they thought and act accordingly..
March 22, 2026
As to No 10, it’s not sufficient just to say someone has entered the country illegally. If they claim asylum they are no longer illegal. What is needed is an office in Calais where those who want to claim asylum have to make their claim. They can languish in northern France while their application is considered, not be put up at public expense in a British hotel. If they enter the UK without permission, they can be detained securely pending return to their home country. Get the Royal Engineers to dust off their POW camp plans.
March 22, 2026
Add to that list ‘remove VAT from domestic fuel bills’
And that will be eleven suggsetions that will be ignored.
March 22, 2026
Even better – forget the meeting – go to the country and ask for permission to go on destroying the UK.