The government is out to blame the oil and gas companies and the food retailers for price gouging when it is government actions and high taxes that are putting up the cost of living. High business rates for shops and a big tax rise on jobs compounds the problems. High energy prices and carbon taxes threaten many UK businesses. The failure to provide enough police to stop a tidal wave of shop lifting and violence in stores adds to the private sector misery.
I usually undertake a weekly food shop in one of three national chains with stores in my area, rotating between them to stay in touch and hear from them on how things are going. This week I went to a store which offered me £12 off £80, so I decided to restock some items that can be stored to get up to the spend level.
I also optimised the spend by using in store shelf edge promotions. It meant I could buy around £90 of goods for £68 combining £10 of product promotions with the £12 voucher. That was a useful 24% discount which helps with the weekly budget. What a contrast with the grasping wasteful Lib Dem Council demanding 5% more of my money under threat of imprisonment for non payment. They specialise in spending on road wrecking and bad investments that annoy me greatly. My Council Tax bill along with all the other people’s bills is way above the value of what they do for the local community.
The state is by far and away my biggest cost as I work away to pay the soaring tax bills. They never offer a discount for early payment or for good conduct or for not using some of their services which are badly run or pointless. There is no government loyalty card.
A lot of smaller shops, restaurants and pubs are closing thank to high taxes and the squeeze on consumers. This is visible on our shrinking High Streets. So too are many of our high energy using industries. Denby’s ceramics went under this week, adding to the rout in that industry. Royal Staffordshire and Heraldic have also gone recently and Moorcroft needed refinancing. The government does not care as it bulldozes its way through the private sector, blaming it for its own disasters.
April 2, 2026
When you say ‘Denby’s ceramics went under this week’ do you mean it is an example of concealed unemployment being converted into real unemployment?
Reply No. It is another casualty of rip off energy taxes
April 2, 2026
The deconstruction of western society is continuing at pace, thanks to the Marxist ideology adopted by left aligned state institutions and fed by a hard left government who sees no social danger in what they are doing.
If we can not change the mindset of the left there will be desperate times ahead as western civilisation is driven to accommodate draconian state controls and forced into behaviours alien to our culture and history.
It is becoming very troubling.
April 2, 2026
Rod, this is precisely what the government wants. Yesterday 2TK set out his plans for dynamic alignment with the EU and built in penalties should a Reform government wish to reverse these pledges.
He us looking for any pretext to cancel the next GE under the guise of national security.
We have councils and unions offering counselling for anyone worried by a Reform government. The left is entrenched in all our institutions and is he’ll bent on destroying our way of life in pursuit of some Nirvana.
We need to be rid of these charlatans but it’s going to be difficult. I see trouble ahead.
April 2, 2026
He basically announced what I have been predicting for a long time: he is going to make us (effectively) an Associate Member of the EU.
April 2, 2026
Doubless tied in with dynamic alignment and huge exit clauses! A deal probably even worse than his Chagos one or his French fishing one, or his French policing for migrants one? This government are surely enemies of the UK, either that or they are mad!
April 2, 2026
…and pay hundreds of £billions for the privilege, without a vote
April 2, 2026
@Rod Evans & @Ian Wragg – it is what is meant by Sir Kiers(2TK’s) ‘Plan’ when there is things that don’t go his way his says he must strengthen the ‘Plan’ and others must get back on board the ‘Plan’. there is no other way than the ‘Plan’. It is another way or wording the doctrine of his mentor Klaus Schwab and the Great Reset Initiative. It’s a step in achieving world wide socialism from which there can be no return.
Look at everything this Parliament has done, not one thing has been about the UK or its People it all points to the ‘Great Reset’ as the ‘Plan’ – there is no other explanation that makes sense
April 2, 2026
Worldwide socialism – a new modern slavery to unelected masters!
April 2, 2026
It’s not worldwide socialism, it’s Islam.
Can you not see Carney (to all intents and purposes submitted Canada to Islam in a speech this week), Albanese (enacts laws to protect Islam and increases migration), Starmer (recognises ‘Palestine State’, enacts laws to defend Islam, increases migration of Islamic ‘army’ to the UK), King Charles III (lauds and admires Islam publicly and meets Al Jalani the ISIS terrorist), Austrian PM (every woman should wear a hijab in solidarity with Mozlem women).
They know there is going to be shock in the west, so they hope the forces against us are overwhelming and force us to submit quickly ‘to avoid bloodshed’. This is the best they can do.
You are the new Persians.
April 2, 2026
IW : “The left is entrenched in all our institutions and is he’ll bent on destroying our way of life in pursuit of some Nirvana.”
Sounds a bit like George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
April 2, 2026
@ Rod E
I would agree! It is very troubling!
April 2, 2026
I am pleased to see Starmer is now showing a bit of honesty and making clear his intention to rejoin the EU. Clearly he believes this is a master policy to quell the left rebellion, reduce losses at the locals in May and be the reason he keeps his position. His delusion will be his downfall. His lack of understanding of the true feelings of the nation will become clear. This is the open goal for Ms Badenoch and Reform to tell the nation why he is wrong, the increased costs the EU causes and loss of control of our future.
April 2, 2026
Indeed all the problems caused be Starmer’s economic lunacy and Ed’s rip of energy will be blamed on Trump’s war and Brexit. They also have load of government NHS adverts saying the government is doing this and that for the NHS. The are surely using tax payers money for party political ends. The Mayor of London does this endlessly with London Transport advert etc.
I see that the First Sea Lord General Sir Gwyn Jenkins (on GB News Mogg) has stated the Royal Navy faces significant challenges, admitting it is not fully ready for a high-intensity war until the 2030s. While capable of advanced operations now, the service faces shortages in frigates, submarine maintenance issues, and manpower limitations, requiring time to restore readiness.
He is very optimistic indeed. So what makes him think they will be ready in 4+ years given this dire government and the appalling procurement and management systems they have?
April 2, 2026
“Also on Mogg he claimed that in year 2000 UK GDP per cap was 90% of US rates and it is now only 60% and that over the same period industrial electricity prices have gone from being the same as the US to now being 4 times USA rates.”
Taxes, low skilled immigration (often benefit claiming) and red tape have risen vastly too.
So well done Blair, Brown, Darling, Miliband, Cameron, Osborne, May, Hammond, Boris, Sunak, Hunt and Starmer/Reeves/Ed Miliband – Climate alarmist, net zero, doom loop, economic socialists the lot of them. Running an open door to low skilled and benefit claiming immigration (legal and illegal) hugely negative to GDP per cap and causing many other serious issues too. Starmer surely is the worst so far of a truly dire list.
April 2, 2026
Much discussion about the moon mission and all the benefits we will get from it. Also how it will be a base for trips to Mars.
My rather more realistic summary is there are no benefits really of any significance and certainly non that could have been got far more cheaply by an unmanned trip. Anyone going to Mars will certainly never come back even if they get there (as they certainly cannot take fuel and a return rocket with them plus life in zero gravity will likely kill them). Return on the $90 billion basically almost zero.
Any exploration beyond Earth orbit is a waste of money other than perhaps equipment to spot and divert large objects that will likely hit the earth.
It is all about politicians vanity and entertainment really.
April 2, 2026
Some like to claim the moon landings gave us Velcro etc. but this is not true evolution gave us it first with seed Burrs.
Anyway if you want to develop things like Velcro or indeed anything – there are rather cheaper ways than doing it as a side effect of putting a man on the moon or indeed a side effect of wars!
April 2, 2026
Well he can’t say we are basically defenceless to any serious attacks, can he?
He’s hoping a UK government will change direction and tell an attacker we are not a pushover…
Good luck with that.
April 2, 2026
Hoping Starmer comes to terms with reality is unrealistic. He has no difficulty ignoring reality. We have seen time and time again his capacity to simply say one thing but mean something quite different to normal interpretation of his words. His much published action/policy on migration to “smash the gangs” was taken to mean the trafficking gangs. What he was actually referring to was smashing the gangs of critics claiming immigration was out of control so he could simply continue importation without hindrance.
His Chagos Islands statement, “getting the best deal for Britain”, translates as getting the best deal for Mauritius. A deal funded all £35 billion pounds by the British tax payer and organised by his best legal partner mate working on behalf of yes Mauritius!
Starer lives in a make believe world, from his much touted tool maker upbringing to his belief that he controls the Labour Party as leader. His Marxist ideology if on full display with his energy minister a fellow self proclaimed Marxist determined to remove all semblance of energy security from Britain and force the nation into total dependence of foreign supply.
As they say in the tool making world when describing troublesome characters, ‘ he is a wrong un’
April 2, 2026
Unfortunately a large number of the population just need a scapegoat. In the past that was the EU, now it is not the EU. It is our own politicians who make this what they are. The world has some influence but itis our reaction to the world that makes us thrive or suffer.
Too many tools are allowed to vote. There should be a contribution test and reasoning test. Both of which need to be passed.
April 2, 2026
A qualified vote. Too late.
April 2, 2026
Council tax is a wealth tax simply in another name, you do not pay for the services you use, you pay by the so called value of your home, the assumption being that those who live in more expensive properties (no matter the size of the mortgage) should pay more, for the same services than those who live in less expensive homes.
Social care, the biggest Local Authority spend, should be funded by National Government not local councils.
April 2, 2026
It’s good that you were able to obtain discounts on your supermarket food shopping. And that you are able to afford to buy any, after the huge increase in food inflation over the past couple of years
Apparently about 2 million very poor folk, many with more than one job, have to use food banks in this country. While their children eat from breakfast clubs and free school dinners. Maybe you cold consider donating a portion of your food savings to one in Wokingham, or perhaps a can of baked beans and a couple of potatoes
April 2, 2026
The Government has been deliberately importing millions of people who need welfare and recourse for food banks. They have turned us into the Welfare State for the world.
I no longer donate.
April 2, 2026
How do you know he didn’t contribute to the food bank collection point? Arrogance from you.
Most people do not boast about giving to charity.
April 2, 2026
you mean how it was for millions post-war?
April 2, 2026
There is no such thing as free school meals, taxpayers pay for them. If anyone in this country cannot feed their own children with the benifits they get, they should not have children.
April 2, 2026
None of us can afford this Government JR.
in addition to massive increases in costs there is increased time demanded because none of their systems work.
I have just filled in an online form, but was unable to add my address as there was no address box provided next to the ‘address’ * – so I put the address in the post code box which was big enough to accommodate the lot. However the computer could not ‘find’ it.
This particular service charge of £556 per month for providing access though no actual service, will take ‘up to September’ to action, once they are content with the form which is impossible to complete.
I will spend the day trying to contact somebody live because their complaints options don’t include one which says their form is impossible to complete.
April 2, 2026
The Government is deliberately de-industrialising the UK. It is deliberately making us dependent on imports for food security, energy security, manufactured goods and reliant on “our allies” for defence. They are deliberately destroying whole industries and thousands of jobs in order to continue implementing the Net Zero SCAM.
It has now, deliberately, alienated us from the only ally who could (if so minded) help defend these islands for us and is cosying up to an anti-democratic bloc which has extremely limited defence capability and whose members have NEVER come to our aid throughout history.
Everything they are doing has the intention of dragging us back into the EU, with no Referendum and no mandate, as Two-Tier made clear yesterday.
April 2, 2026
Never come to our aid indeed – but seems some are very happy taking £ millions for not even attempting to stop the migrant RIBs on their way to Dover!
April 2, 2026
The EU has fallen.
Did you hear Merkel interviewed in which she admitted importing many people to defeat the ADF?
These psychotic Narcissists prefer to destroy their countries and nations to suffer8 g defeat a5 the hands of their political enemies.
April 2, 2026
It is bad, getting worse, and we have no resiliance to economic shocks. It appears we are going to get a severe one. Trump’s announcement in the early hours was that the war would continue and oil is already 6% higher this morning.
Italy is keeping open its coal power plants. We need to be scrabbling to whatever we can, too. Frack, mine coal, increase North sea production. Instead the government is throwing us overboard with net zero “concrete boots” on.
April 2, 2026
Trump is heroic, very brave and a good man.
The explosion in Isphahan was enormous, so they are getting to stored weapons with the repeated application of the bunker busters.
The problem of course, is that when a vicious armed force is on every street and prepared to kill anything that moves, the population is in serious danger even when the main defeat is secured. The mopping up is very difficult, the Persian population are unarmed – like us.
April 2, 2026
This is the reality of the green agenda imposed on us all. Most people think that it’s all about windmills and reduced energy levels – It isn’t.
A major part of this agenda is reducing consumption and activities, and population reduction is a major wing of this insanity.
It’s not as though they haven’t compiled documents to tell us what to expect.
By 2029, as the plan goes:
– All airports except Heathrow, Glasgow and Belfast close;
– There are currently no freight ships operating without emissions, so shipping must contract;
– National consumption of beef and lamb drops by 50%, along with reduction in frozen ready meals and air-freighted food imports;
– Reduced cement supply compensated by improved material efficiency, new steel replaced by recycled steel;
– Material efficiency becomes prominent as material supply contract;
– Rapid reduction in supply and use of all fossil fuels, except for oil for plastic production.
So, if we want to stop our high streets closing, supermarket shelves becoming empty, industry going to the dogs and so much more we have to not only stop NET-0 – IT HAS TO BE REVERSED, and quickly!
April 2, 2026
Agreed. The deliberately instigated “energy crisis” is the next stage in imposing the WEF’s Great Reset on us.
April 2, 2026
And it is just the one madman driving it.
He needs to be sectioned.
April 2, 2026
I would contend that the £10 worth of supermarket savings resulted from unnecessary price increases being dropped back down to the normal level Lord Redwood. The £12 off was a genuine saving but not the £10.00
Unless the supermarkets and petrol companies are operating in a cartel then competition will determine that prices remain as low as they can.
Most consumers can knock 20-25% off their supermarket bill by not buying brands.
Not much can be done about the price of petrol unfortunately unless supply increases. How might we do that?
April 2, 2026
You’re not exactly a retailer, are you?
Retailers will always endeavour to get the best price possible.
Narrow minded rather than shouldered.
April 3, 2026
Most retailers will indeed try to get the best price possible and many consumers will do the same.
Hence competition keeps prices down.
April 2, 2026
Indeed we need free and fair competition alas with government you get no such thing. they grap you money and deliver usually worthless dross or even “public services” that can even deliver net harms as we see with Net Zero, Covid “Vaccines”, Covid Lockdowns, motorist muggings, most Red tape…
The competition authorities never seems to even consider or address the hugely unfair competition between private and state schools, rail and road transport, Health care, universities, the BBC tax, subsidised social housing…
April 2, 2026
I remember the big weekly food shop. Queuing behind massive trolleys in the days when the big chains closed at 8pm.
Now the shopping is spread out over various shops. Shops have mostly got better – apart from lack of places to pay by cash. Small shops are still better for certain items. For example, if you want decent aubergines you have to use the Asian shops as they have cornered the market.
In contrast, the Liberal Democrats have raised the local council tax by 4.9%. Yet my street sign has been missing for weeks. When I contacted the council, they said they may take up to 28 days to address the issue. On the two occasions when I wrote to the MP (the fat bloke in a wetsuit) to complain about the removal of flags answer came there none. The council have now thankfully given trying to replace cameras to police traffic charges within zone 6 as members of the public simply remove them.
April 2, 2026
USA off to the moon again …..meanwhile the UK can’t even make HS2 work or go fast !
April 2, 2026
I’m afraid NASA can no longer compete.
Musk used a launcher last week on its 47th trip.
His flying machines are made of stainless steel.
He’s uncatchable.
April 2, 2026
This government hates private enterprise. How else does one explain the IHT penalty now being imposed on family businesses?
April 2, 2026
Wake up and smell the coffee, IHT will soon apply to most married home owners on second death in the southern half of England, especially those who took care and saved money into pension schemes. Of course that sum may well be alarmingly reduced paying foreign (or other ) owners of Care Homes.
April 2, 2026
The loss of heavy industry is an extinction level event. Once dead, they will not return. The capital investment required, quite apart from the lack of a viable eco-system of cheap energy, low taxation and sensible regulation will prevent it. So the list of things we can sell or barter to pay our way in the world will keep shrinking. Energy is key but so are the regulations and rules you decide to adopt. Much of the required change would cost very little, just the willpower to do it – and of course the desire to do so.
April 2, 2026
Oh the skills are being lost too, we will never recover them. Hand painted porcelain. Piece after piece identical. Future generation will believe it was machine done.
April 2, 2026
I know in the UK the well meaning ‘Luvies’ mainly on left wanting to be seen as caring and the go to for help, but one thing the end up doing is obscuring the truth. They take the honesty out of life’s realities. I am talking about Tax, unescapable tax. Societies were tax is something you add after a purchase fair better than those that only see gross. The point I am making Parliament wants to obscure what they are taking and squandering by lumping their ineptitude and inabilities on those that provide products and services mainly in the private sector.
In 1974 VAT was 8% on purchases now it is 20%. So at least 1 fifth of all spend goes straight to the Exchequer, but it is not identified on each purchase as it should be. Any one supplying goods and services would be doing extremely well to earn 10% net, yet Parliament for doing next to nothing gets 20% to splash around on personal pet projects. Why does Parliament seek to obscure their blatant disregard for our money,
On top of tax we have the Levies, tax in every-way but name – that tax on tax. Fuel Duty in the UK is today at 52.95p per litre then 20% VAT is added, this is rising with world energy costs, those that extract oil & gas, process it, distribute it, then sell it to the consumer get to share between them just 40% of the final price. They also get to be taxed on the 40% themselves.
The point is that Parliament gets away with not exposing what they take and therefore how prolific and wasteful they are. The prices shown with be the the cost of that being consumed and then what the government takes
April 2, 2026
In a similar vein, we all hate seeing what the authorities like to call ‘fly tipping’. But reflect, Parliament introduced tax on tax for waste disposal now for every ton that’s disposed of the Government takes £130 + 20%VAT a medium skip takes around 2-4 ton’s costs inclusive of tax around £200 so you are looking at a government tax take of around 70%.
Parliament/Government isn’t honest, more than 90% of so called waste isn’t real waste it can be recycled, resold, turned in to heat and energy thus making profit. They wishing to be seen to on WOKE message are the ones causing the problems and in doing so loosing out on revenue.
The one I find amusing is councils charging extra for what they call green waste. This is sold by them for composting which then turns up at garden centres in bags for spreading on gardens. What if they just collected green waste without the charge, wouldn’t they then have more to sell and make more money?
April 2, 2026
I protested at Bracknell (tip) when offered compost bags for sale – after all I was bringing in or paying £99 via a brown bin for the raw materials.
April 2, 2026
I went out and cut the ‘verge’ outside my house this week. It was very overgrown and untidy. When we first moved here it would have been cut monthly during the spring and summer. Last year it wasn’t cut till mid-July because we had “No-Mow May” which extended on right through June into July. We now pay £99 to have our brown bin emptied, which is on top of the rates we pay (in our case larger than our combined gas & electricity bills). The roads south of town are in constant flux as the new “Southern Distribution” road is built to enable new estates to be built south of the railway line.
What do we get for our money? Nothing much of any use to us. Another batch of SEND places, new cycle lanes, magic roundabouts, speed restrictions and 7×24 parking charges – and of course constant emails from the council asking us for our opinion – which we suspect they really don’t want to hear!
April 2, 2026
They openly admit a majority response will not automatically be adopted. So I ask, why bother employing staff to do all these surveys if the council will do what they like in spite of public opinion?
April 2, 2026
@Ian B. +1. VAT infuriates me. I use my already-taxed net income to buy things or services, and pay another 20% to the government. On larger items it really hurts, and can put me off buying at all, if I can avoid it. That means less taxable profit for suppliers.
Put vat back to the original 8% and the overall take would likely not fall.
April 2, 2026
“The government does not care as it bulldozes its way through the private sector, blaming it for its own disasters.”
It is clearly worse than this. The government is deliberately following a de-industrialisation policy, calling it a decarbonisation policy, designed to impoverish for socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor. This scorched policy will obviously require the destruction of the private sector. The CAGW excuse for decarbonisation and hence impoverishment is entirely false as shown by both climate history and climate science. Even the science from the IPCC. In addition we have a civil service whose goals are made clear by Lord Gus O’Donnell who, when Cabinet Secretary, said in 2011: “When I was at the Treasury I argued for the most open door possible to immigration … I think it’s my job to maximise global welfare not national.”
April 2, 2026
@Original Richard – an excuse to nationalise, every ‘Marxist’ knows the central command by the State is the only way forward. Cause bankruptcies and the State gets a ‘free’ run at things. The taxpayer picks up the bill.
April 2, 2026
It’s about time they brought pensions for Council workers and similar into the modern world.
Difficult to get accurate figures but 25% of Council Tax seems to go on their pensioners. Why should they not have Defined Contribution in place of Defined Benefit schemes and thus in part depend on the success of the country as a whole?
April 2, 2026
If I may be so bold to intimate yourself like the rest of us run ‘Budget’, we balance spend against income. If we want extras, we either find a way to ‘earn’ more or we cut back in other areas. Basic elementary home economics. A budget is in reality the understanding of ‘maths’
Which is why so many of us that are your audience struggle when people suggest they are PPE graduates, when the ‘E’ stands for economics and they demonstrate in every which way they don’t do the maths.
In some ways where it falls down in the private sector, is they all know they have to compete, that means it is down to them to develop the next customer, so as their way to earn the money to pay for a way forward. Every time they ‘adjust’, then adjust again due to the interference from Parliament, they have to find more money to mark time. This then gives Parliament another excuse to create another financial trap, the private sector copped lets tax them more, just for their prolific mostly personal expenditure. The private sector lives in a perpetual state of “catch 22”, there only escape is to walk away.
Parliament (I keep saying Parliament because they own everything government does, they manage the government, hold it to account, for us outside to change things we need to change Parliament) in 2024/25 was taking 39% of everything that the productive side of the country earned, that is £1,139 billion. For the next round (2026) that rises to 45% or £1,370 billion a massive increase. Parliament expenditure equates to £48,000 per household. Even then this is not enough for these out-of-control spenders they have to borrow approximately £151.9 billion to cover the bills they keep running up. Budget, what budget?
All those with economics degrees (basic maths) know if you remove money from one area it affects that areas growth and its ability to pay its way, its earnings and what it has left to pay tax.
What it demonstrates is that the ‘Muppets’ have high-jacked Parliament, that they are about self and don’t give a dam about tomorrow. They don’t do budgets, they don’t do maths, they don’t support for the UK or its people there is a need for a change, a massive change
April 2, 2026
I suggest we need to do four things to resolve our problems because this Labour government won’t.
First, we need a recall system for MPs, say once a year, so they can’t ignore the voters for five years. immigration over the last 25 years has been the classic example of all governments ignoring what voters want.
Second, we need to raise MPs’ salaries to £1,000,000 a year to attract far higher-calibre people. If you are a bright, intelligent individual, why become an MP when you can earn far more in the private sector?
Third, we need to reduce the number of MPs to no more than 500.
Fourth, make at least 400,000 Civil Servants redundant; what can’t be done with the 150,000 remaining just doesn’t get done. Meanwhile, we had better pray the UK survives the next three years of this disastrous government!
April 2, 2026
@Keith from Leeds +1
The USA with 350 million population their House of Representatives is 435 all standing in elections every 2 years. The UK 67million population 650 MPs with elections up to 5 years apart. UK MP’s don’t need to seek validation on anything no matter how extreme – it would suggest they live in fear of democracy.
It means as is now, in the USA, there electorate would have gone to the polls 3 times before the UK see another general election.
We are about to get some local polls, but they count for anything with real meaning other than send a message, their tax and to a certain extent their spend is dictated by Central Command. So whatever the results in May very little gets to change they are dictated to..
The British Empire was around 450 million people at its peak, it was governed by just 1000 people in the Colonial Office
April 2, 2026
Increasing MPs salaries will attract the grifters even more. Good MP already have money and don’t need a salary, they do the job for more important reasons than money. See Rupert Lowe who donates his MP salary each month to a charity in his constituency. See President Trump who takes no salary and who is funding a new bunker and ballroom at the White House personally.
We currently have far fewer than 500 MPs.
April 2, 2026
Fifth : We’ll need to privatise everything possible to remove the stranglehold the Far Left have on all our monopoly institutions, which is not only detrimental to those they supposedly serve but importantly also detrimental to staff as they have no-where else to find employment within their skills sphere and are constantly bullied into submission. Starting with the NHS and education.
April 3, 2026
And even Border Force, pay by results.
April 2, 2026
325 ‘illegal immigrants’ invaded the UK yesterday 1st April 2026 …
April 2, 2026
Is that a Battalion or just a Company?
April 2, 2026
Import the third world, become the thirtd world. Europeans are a small minority in a world of 8 billion.
April 2, 2026
Not only raising Council tax by 5% but green waste charges by more. Their leader says disabled and old people cost a lot of money, but it does seem unfair of him to blame them when you have the fuel-wasting road blocking measures around Arborfield which must have cost big £ and now redevelopment of a bridge which was only placed there a handful of years ago. It’s all anti-car, unplanned mayhem.
April 2, 2026
The King, having given fulsome good wishes to !oz.ems for Ramadan, is NOT going to issue Good wishes for Easter.
I’m afraid this is becoming sinister.