The lack of resolution of the US Iran war and closure of the Straits of Hormuz is driving energy and food costs higher with shortage of fertiliser and major restrictions on movements of oil.
The government’s response of lifting sanctions on foreign refineries using Russian oil to make jet fuel and diesel show they are rattled, but once again coming up with the wrong response. They close our refineries and stop us getting our own oil and gas out of the ground when there is a world shortage. This makes us more vulnerable.
They need to lift bans on new UK oil and gas, take down taxes on energy and help re open the two most recent refinery closures. Why do they always back imports and stop or overtax UK activity?
They are now asking supermarkets to freeze prices on 10 or 20 products out of the 30,000 they sell. What nonsense. It will not stop food inflation but will create shortages of the few selected. Do they not understand it is their National Insurance, their farm tax, their industrial closures, their energy taxes that are much of the problem of food prices?
May 20, 2026
The long Fabian march objective to destroy democracy moves along at pace. This Labour government and many in the previous Tory government feel Fabianism or state control to be clear what Fabianism is, are determined to remove National statehood. Too many in our establishment and in our institutions generally believe collectivised global authority is where our future lies.
Unfortunately for those of us not in the upper control class of government officials, that vision of the future is equivalent to serfdom.
The end of Nation the end of democracy and the end of individuality/individual rights.
We have to oppose the policies of National destruction. We have to end Net Zero.
May 20, 2026
@Rod Evans – so very true, and we have a cabal on all sides of Parliament that is still pursuing this ideological dream. They still want a them and us.
May 20, 2026
The problem in food production is down to lack of vision, or intelligence, in politicians of all sorts. Brexit was meant to allow us to treat our farmers with dignity and let them produce with no restrictions (except those which could be proved to be health issues to the general public) food. This has not happened and they seem to be in a worse state than before we left the communist EU. Until we get people who have had farming experience into posts in government or strong union groups who represent them, nothing will change. I find it incredible that an agricultural country only produces 60% of food to feed us. This figure might not be correct the way people massage the figures to stop people starting to worry. Do they really think the continental countries will come to our aid with oil/gas which they have had the sense to stockpile while we have a ridiculous man in charge of energy production who shuts all means of cheap energy production down? No, of course, not. The continentals would love to see us drown in our own stupidity. To live you need clean air, food and water. We do not seem to have any of these in abundance at present and they do not seem to be coming our way as we need to use our own supplies of energy under the earth and sea until we can find better ways of safeguarding what the human body needs to survive. Finally, we have the most stupid of men in No 10 who upsets the one ally who could help us in our hour of need – Starmer the fool against Trump the visionary. Like him or not, Trump could be our saviour in more ways than one. To all who do not believe me, read the Philadelphia Trumpet and find our for yourselves. Watch our for Germany on the way. They are at it again. All forecast in the Bible.
May 20, 2026
@Linda Brown +1
May 20, 2026
It’s because it’s often cheaper for the customer and supermarkets to import from abroad. Like importing tat from China. The approach to British farming is to offer quality food and high-quality experiences to the middle classes. Which a lot of farmers doing great job at. And hats off to the Top-gear, farming guy whose high quality cider is absolutely delicious – with or without fish and chips.
May 22, 2026
LB, Which book and verse(s)?
May 20, 2026
So they vote to shut down the North Sea oil and gas industry. I have never known a more stupid cohort of people in my life.
We are nation blessed with an abundance of fossil fuels, a gift from God and these shysters destroy their extraction.
What’s the betting they issue Norway licenses to extract our oil and gas.
May 20, 2026
That’s Fabianism for you. It travels under several names but the end is always the destruction of sovereignty and removal of democracy. The removal of individuality, allowing total state control is the objective. The ongoing tone deaf Starmer is their perfect servant. It would be interesting to know if Burnham is also a Fabian?
May 21, 2026
On this day and age can you not find the answer yourself? It took me ten seconds to get it.
Redwood’s website: the place where the least computer able contributors proliferate. No surprise that JR can go on spewing his 45 years old recipes to them.
May 20, 2026
Agree they are stupid
May 20, 2026
Wrong, pay to issue licences, pay companies to extract, buy back oil and gas at inflated rates, pay maximum carbon taxes for doing so…
May 20, 2026
So now the imbeciles in Westminster have lifted restrictions on Russian oil by agreeing to buy aviation fuel and diesel via India.
The hypocrisy of these bar stewards knows no bounds.
May 21, 2026
They have little choice. Diesel and jet import dependence has risen with refinery closures. Russia used to be an important diesel supplier prior to the Ukraine war, since replaced by the US and AG refineries, which were the main source of jet. With Hormuz closed there are few alternative sources particularly for jet fuel, although refiners have the incentive to maximise production. If you don’t buy direct from India you rely on India selling into e.g. Africa, and then buying from there instead if they’ll sell. Each extra layer of trade adds cost for extra freight and handling and delay and risk of not being supplied. It makes no difference to Russia so long as it has customers for what it can sell.
The Zelensky approach of attacking Russian export facilities does have a real impact, lowering exports. In turn that worsens the global supply, giving additional leverage to Iran for terms to reopen Hormuz. The policy options are what chess players call zugzwang – damned if you don’t, and damned if you do.
The only real solution is to maximise alternative supply by producing more oil everywhere away from the AG including the North Sea, and by maximising refinery output. Crude oil supply and your own refining is much more fungible than depending on a handful of refineries with a jet surplus.
May 20, 2026
The wheels are coming off the Net Zero SCAM.
Personally, I think it’s quite enjoyable watching the Eco Nutters in the Establishment and the Net Zero enthusiasts in the Government get a little foretaste of what their bought-and-paid-for activists in Just Stop Oil were demanding.
But then, I’ve prepped for the blackouts and food shortages.
May 20, 2026
The UK is the only country continuing with the net-zero scam
May 21, 2026
resenergygroup.co.uk 24/06/2025 ‘Net zero nation by nation: where countries stand in 2025´.
May 20, 2026
How have you prepped for power cuts?…
May 21, 2026
Our government has shown the way …..just buy what you need from russia
May 20, 2026
Good morning.
I bake my own bread and from a supplier I use (25kg bags) they have already run out. Looks like people are already prepping for shortages.
What next. Home diesel generators ?
May 20, 2026
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) is pushing an initiative to eliminate the use of diesel generators from most UK construction sites by 2035 …..not doubt will cover any private sector business ….than home generators
May 20, 2026
Enoch Powell directed the phrase “has the right hon. Member taken leave of his senses?” at the daft Prime Minister, Edward Heath, in 1971 he duly lost the election in 74 to Wilson again who continued with idiotic policies.
Wilson famous for his earlier devaluation lie when he told the nation that “while the pound abroad was worth less, it did not mean “the pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank” had been devalued.”
Later we had 98% income tax Healey going off to the IMF cap in hand.
What appalling government this country has suffered for almost all of the last 60+ years. Heath and Wilson both read PPE (perhaps the economics section was beyond them). Healey was awarded a double first in Greats but was daft einough to think 98% income tax was a great plan!
May 20, 2026
Socialism remains convinced that legislation and not competition controls supply.
Show me a left wing economist and I will show you a command economy.
May 20, 2026
Show me a left wing economists and I will show you a fool or a liar or both. No shortage of them however. They all seem to lack an understanding of human nature.
May 20, 2026
All that you describe – and worse – has been talked and written about for weeks. Either the BoE is oblivious of the severe danger to our and the world’s economy, or those Labour ministers and their handlers in Whitehall do not take notice of that the BoE tells them. Obviously, those people also do not read anything which hasn’t been pre-digested in certain papers.
So let’s drift into a horrendous crash of the global economy, in the firm knowledge that somehow, saying all or either of those – Russia, China, Iran, USA – are bad, will prevent the worst.
And no – things don’t look ‘better’ for the EU …
May 20, 2026
Why do we have so many politicians who think they can control everything with regulation and taxation, even matters that are controlled by nature, availability, and supply and demand.
May 20, 2026
We are not the land of the free ….nor the mother of democracy
May 20, 2026
Surely we’re on our way to nationalised supermarkets. Full on Soviet Union.
May 20, 2026
Whether we like it or not, we are effectivrly at war. A foreign country has closed a vital supply line in International waters and all some want to do is blame Trump. That might feed their righteousness but it won’t change the facts. The world needs that waterway open and should be taking measures to open it. In the meantime, the impact of the closure is already serious and will grow more so.
We should be adopting a ‘war footing’ if only to start looking at ways to protect our industries and people. It maybe not quite be “Dig for Victory” time just yet but the Government should be urgently moving to utilise every resource and build up vital reserves.
Instead we have the King of the North fiasco…
May 20, 2026
Ian, what are these industries you mention that we should be protecting? Come to think about it, who are the ‘people’ too? This government and indeed the ones before it, regarded the safety and security of the British people of no interest whatsoever.
May 20, 2026
Well yes, we are either shutting them down (Oil, Gas, Refining & Steel), driving them overseas (Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals) or simply pushing them out of business (Manufacturing & Ceramics) at the moment. Maybe we should stop doing that ?
May 20, 2026
The Straits of Hormuz are too far away for our meagre military forces. A combined international force is what’s called for – good luck trying to herd cats. The best chance to get it open is for Xi Jinping to issue a direction to Iran.
May 20, 2026
That’s probably why we had a base in Bahrain with 5-6 minesweepers staioned there. We can’t recreate that but we can start to think about what should replace those capabilites and how to afford them.
May 20, 2026
Oh come on, Trump opened up this rabbit hole. Trump is easily the main problem here. And not a lot we can do about Trump until he leaves office. Our economy and military seriously frayed to get serious in getting us out of such a rabbit hole as this. And how many more rabbit holes is he going to spring on us.
May 20, 2026
Trump didn’t get us in the hole we are in. We did it all to ourselves. It’s all too easy to blame others for our woes when we have spent years deluding ourselves that everything was OK and that we could continue to spend money we didn’t have and lead lives we couldn’t afford. There are a lot of people who still beleive these fantasies. The world (nor Donald Trump) doesn’t owe us a living and ”we’ (as a country) have to start understanding that fact.
May 21, 2026
What?!
How did UK get us into this situation over Iran exactly – and not Trump?!
May 21, 2026
Trump didn’t run our military down, Trump didn’t run up our debt levels, Trump didn’t impose Net-Zero – or ban fracking and new oil fields. The ‘hole’ we are in, is one of our own making not Trumps. It’s taken years to get here. It’s left us unable to do anything about re-opening the Straights (even if we wanted to) and made us far more vulnerable to any disruption.
Finally, Trump didn’t shut the Straights of Hormuz, the Iranians did. We can argue the toss about how near the Iranians are to having Nukes but I hope we can all agree that we don’t want that to happen. So Trumps actions from that point of view were inevitable – sooner or later there was going to a confrontation. Do you think we would have been better prepared further down the road? If you don’t want to be pushed into a hole, then don’t dig it in the first place.
May 21, 2026
‘Trump didn’t run our military down’ – straw man. This has nothing to do with Trump’s behaviour over Iran.
‘Trump didn’t run up our debt levels’ – straw man.
‘Trump didn’t impose Net-Zero’ SM
‘or ban fracking and new oil fields’ SM
‘It’s left us unable to do anything about re-opening the Straights’ – the Straights closed recently because of Trump’s actions.
‘Finally, Trump didn’t shut the Straights of Hormuz, the Iranians did’ – well we all know the Iranians are the daft on this but it takes two to tango in this case.
‘but I hope we can all agree that we don’t want that to happen’ – complete STRAW MAN. Of course we all agree we don’t want Iran to get nukes (AND, moreover, obviously that military action is a choice if need be to stop that).
Your argument is full of straw men. You’re debating yourself. Talking to yourself because you’re so obsessed by some issues (and that I agree with you to an important degree) that you can only view everything else through them.
‘So Trumps actions from that point of view were inevitable’ – NO! That’s a completely fallacious argument. Trump has done many stupid things to entangle us in this mess. The most stupid were: 1. Threatening ‘to bomb a civilisation to the Stone Age’ 2. Not planning for this nearly properly enough (it took USA many months to plan for Iraq 2 and even that wasn’t nearly enough). So it’s Trump’s HUBRIS that played a key role in getting us to this situation but you completely ignore that.
I greatly honour and respect USA and its military but Trump does not equal the USA or its military.
\sooner or later there was going to a confrontation’ – you’re argument here is complete STRAW MAN / fallacious.
‘Do you think we would have been better prepared further down the road? If you don’t want to be pushed into a hole, then don’t dig it in the first place’ – straw man
May 21, 2026
That’s a lot of Straw Men Ed.
But please step back to the beginning of our field of scarecrows. I stated that “A foreign country has closed a vital supply line in International waters” That is simple fact.
I argued that this closure will have serious implications for this country that will be exacerbated by our military and economic decline and that decline had not happened overnight but over decades.
Trump may well have triggered Iran’s latest actions but this is a problem that has also been decades in the making and that Iran has been instrumental in provoking. Trump is very much a Jonny-cum-lately to this whole sorry saga.
The only ‘Straw Man’ in this debate is surely Donald Trump?
May 22, 2026
@Ian
I don’t deny Iran is very challenging situation. And others have failed. But stop massively dropping standards – and with straw men – by allowing Trump to get away with using language such as: ‘bomb you to the stoneage’ (this might work to a degree in real estate but in geopolitics) whilst with no planning (and he should know better – we had Iraq 2 which the USA planned for months and was still a failure). You’re allowing Trump to get away with hubris. And he’s not completely new. This is his second presidency. And we are in the NOW not the past. He chose to become president with all the responsibilities that bears. Including dealing with the Iran nuclear situation.
May 22, 2026
@Ian,
Also, you’re like a man who puts a woman on a pedestal, instead of both admiring her and challenging her.
I’m a huge fan of Cyrus the Great. But he was far from perfect too (same for other people I greatly admire such as Mrs Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth I – both great leaders but also flawed too. And no, I don’t think Trump is a great leader at all unlike Mrs Thatcher, Elizabeth I and Cyrus the Great. I think he’s pretty phoney actually – as president – although done a few good things for sure).
Best,
May 21, 2026
You prefer the Religion of Peace to be nuclear armed?
May 21, 2026
And I hope you’re not still supporting Putin?
May 21, 2026
Lynn,
You’re attributing an argument to me I never made therefore this is a STRAW MAN (which means you’re effectively arguing – or talking – to yourself).
To oppose the right to remove Iran’s nuclear weapon would be passivism which to me is a heresy (and therefore a sin).
But when you use language of ‘bomb’ a country to ‘the Stone Age’ that is the language of unjust war (even if your goal is just). And also not planning properly for war is also part of unjust war (a just war must be properly planned for).
And at end of day, ‘unjust’ wars aren’t just moral issues, they’re also about trying to be as EFFECTIVE as possible in solving the problem. Unjust wars or approaches creates more problems than they solve therefore are condemned for that – not just moral reasons.
Lesson here: no short-cuts in life. You always pay a price. You’ve got to go through the hard (heroic) slog of doing it properly.
May 21, 2026
And Lynn, when you give Trump a free rein to act as he does, you send a signal to others, including the young, that’s it’s fine to act like that. Well, it’s not. This is the UK – not the USA or (Putin’s) Russia. We have standards here. And we’re not going to allow toxic values from abroad to sully our great nation!
May 21, 2026
I don’t see how Trump is to blame for Iran building a massive missile stockpile and getting close to a nuclear bomb, or for Israel getting nervous about the consequences. Previous presidents going right back to Carter failed to grasp the Iranian nettle.
May 22, 2026
And isn’t it embarrassing how many people tell one the Islamic Republic has only just discovered the strategic value of the Strait of Hormuz, thanks to Trump. Why do they think all other American Presidents caved in to the Ayatollahs’ blackmail?
May 22, 2026
Straw man
May 20, 2026
Farcical. So now we are paying for Russian oil to maintain their war against Ukraine as well as giving money/arms to Ukraine to stop the Russian incursion. Starmer should be re- named Janus which would stop him messing about with all those U-turns as he could face opposite directions at the same time and choose whichever one suits that day of the week.
It’s a bit like paying to have somebody murdered and then claiming innocence as it was actually carried out by another person.
May 20, 2026
@miami.mode +1
May 20, 2026
This government needs the equivalent of a psychiatrist to remedy so many of its wrong decisions and switch to becoming sensible.
May 20, 2026
Then again Lord Redwood, the UK is an import only regime so everything is safe & secure(sarc)
It is better that we take good agriculture land out of production. It is better that we import oil & gas causing higher World emissions. It is better that UK hard-earned taxpayer money is sent abroad to prop up alternate regimes
Unfortunately the bit people don’t like to recognise is this all was kicked of by the unable to think Tories. They never thought it through, have we opened the door for more reactionary forces? If we do this, how will it play out how much benefit does it bring to the World if the UK cant earn and has to fund everyone else’s growth?
The thing with Socialism is we know the Socialist can do it better, can be more draconian, be more malicious in dishing out the punishment. So that is what’s happening. The Tories thought they had secured their ‘own’ future on message with the kids, not reality. But their no earning policy still means no future.
I would now get told the Conservatives will stop some of this destruction, that’s the credibility gap. Those that had the collective responsibility while in cabinet, caused today’s situation, that are now the opposition actually suggesting they will reverse the things they created if we put them back in power.
I don’t have an answer other than it is clear that those in Parliament have become so self obsessed, so ego driven that they are ‘all’ the problem so they should all go and take their civil servants with them. We need to find away to cause the UK to be governed by those that will work the people, everyone. We don’t need the disruption? it is only Parliament that has caused the disruption.
May 21, 2026
I think quite a lot of people have recognised that the “unable to think” Tories bear a great deal of the responsibility.
Unfortunately (and just like Labour) it isn’t a case of being unable to think. It is very much a case of choosing not to think about what is in the interests of the UK and the British people, and not doing it.
May 20, 2026
The cost of energy and the problem of importing too much food are linked. Any sane government with sustainability, growth and security of food would introduce controlled energy pricing for producers, tax allowance for building infrastructure such as large greenhouses and mechanical aids, assistance with employing manual workers and loans for specific industries.
I know, I’m in dreamland.
May 20, 2026
but the government needs to get serious about immigration, public sector efficiency, and so on
the obvious agenda that any group of friends in any pub up and down the land is nowhere to be seen
May 20, 2026
New buzz phrase used by politcians and the news media …”cost of living crisis” a trow awaycomment without understanding what it means ….a bit like ‘climate change crisis’
May 20, 2026
It is abundantly obvious that we need to stop the madness of the Net Zero Strategy – Build Back Greener – devised by PM Johnson (Oxford: Classics, ancient languages, literature, history, and philosophy) who wrote on P19 “Our power system will consist of abundant, cheap British renewables, cutting edge new nuclear power stations, and be underpinned by flexibility including storage, gas with CCS, hydrogen and ensure reliable power is always there at the flick of a switch.” The result as predicted has been the highest electricity prices in the world and is destroying our industry, economy and national security. But it will be not be stopped for socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor. In addition to the high prices they are pushing for the electrification of everything to ensure the maximum effect from the pre-planned and ruinous intermittency of supply from the Chinese supplied renewables. All done, they say, to “save the planet”. There is no climate crisis and the slowly rising temperature as we continue to exit the Little Ice Age at a rate of 0.14 degrees C per decade is not caused by increasing levels of CO2, a trace gas necessary for all life on the planet to survive.
May 21, 2026
drroyspencer.com UAH v6.1 Global temperature update published 07/05/2026:
There’s a table for global monthly values for 2024 and 2025. The lowest monthly temperature increase is 0.30 degC for Dec’25, the highest 0.94 degC for Apr’24.
When are you going to update your brain OR?
May 20, 2026
Use our own gas and oil !! Greta say no. Starmer and Miliband say OK boss.
May 20, 2026
There are those dumb enough and deluded in the UK Parliament that thought that the services industry will take up the slack in earnings as a result of the UK Parliament ejecting real jobs from these shores.
They needed to be reminded of what Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, has recently said, he predicts that artificial intelligence will reach human-level performance in nearly all professional tasks within 12 to 18 months, effectively automating the bulk of white-collar work. That is the service industry. Then get real it means even the most backward 3rd world(whatever that is) country can pick up those tasks in house, there will be no need to call on the UK. That is ‘accountancy’, ‘law’, ‘finance’ etc gone in 12-18months, or at least the reason to have the UK involved.
He goes on “The real risk isn’t that jobs vanish overnight, but that the number of humans needed to do the same volume of work shrinks gradually. Ten accountants become seven. Seven become four.” It also means anyone and everyone can achieve the same output any where in the World so the UK has thrown out its Service Industry as well, don’t forget we cant afford the energy to power the ‘data banks’ to enable these systems to work here, the UK Parliament through that facility away as well. The UK Parliament is incapable of thinking past their personal self and how to win an election – the UK? not their problem.
The problem for the Brain Dead in the UK Parliament, its only them the only Parliament in the World that don’t recognise the destruction they have started.
Unsure of who Mustafa Suleyman is, well he teamed up at University College London (UCL) , with Demis Hassabis & Shane Legg and between them they are the ones running all your daily AI, Deepmind, Google(Gemini) , Microsoft (CoPilot) structures and systems. Theses are now all US owned, the UK Parliament threw them out as well.
The UK’s rot is not just one party, they are all just as bad as one another, just different nuances of the same brain. Without starting over, having structures and government that instead of dividing out of hate and ideology and personal self preservation actually worked for and with us all this destruction will continue. All that has to happen is to recognise there are still those that ‘do’ left in the Country, release them. Parliament ‘but out’, especially when everyone knows everyone and everything can actual be done considerably better that the rabble in that house. Become a real democracy and there is a chance of survival
May 21, 2026
I’m sure AI is going to change the world of work but in ways that we are not grasping at the moment. Many UK companies already outsource many low-level taks to overseas contractors (call centres/software support) and these will be the first to suffer and already are. This work will continue to be outsourced but to ‘AI’ centres rather than manned ones. This shift will likely move the work from low-cost labour areas to low cost energy areas – neither of which will help the UK employment very much (with it’s current energy policies). Behind this AI advance will come the robots – both humanoid and embedded (autonomous cars, delivery vehicles, warehouse/factory specific)
So well-paid ‘soft-skilled’ jobs (IT Admin/Programming, Design, Law, Accountancy etc) will be hit as well as low-paid, low-skilled workers (Drivers, Assembly, Warehouse etc). We need to anticipate these changes and start orientating our future work force with this in mind. It’s going to be a while before a robot can get under my kitchen sink and replace a tap for instance but one can already drive a Tube train – if the Unions agreed. Nor do we need to import more low skilled labour to fill gaps that will not exist in 5 years time (Taxi drivers?) or higher skilled workers where we are likely to have a surplus of our very soon.
Clearly we need to consider the tax & economic implications, whilst also redeploying (& reskilling) our available labour. Unfortuntely, we have “Leaders” who can’t effectively manage the country in good times – let alone turbulent ones.
May 20, 2026
This morning “Sir Keir will now allow some imports of diesel and jet fuel derived from Russian crude.”
That is better than the UK using its own? Better to finance Russia in their war with the Ukraine. Better to increase World emissions. The UK Parliament agrees!
Dame Emily Thornberry, the Labour chairman of the foreign affairs committee, accused Sir Keir of “letting down” the Ukrainian people. – of course he is, more importantly he is letting down the honest hardworking UK Citizen and the UK Parliament agrees with him!
May 20, 2026
Elon offering to fund lawsuit against the cops who arrested the stabbing victim who died, instead of the guy who stabbed him. Again it is the Americans who are talking most sense about UK current affairs.
I hope those cops get locked up.
Together with the cops who turned a blind eye to mass gang rape of young girls.
We cannot go on tolerating this stuff.
May 20, 2026
Even without Iran we were still expecting shortages of energy and food supplies, because that is what net-0 means.
They want us to stop using ships to bring in what we need due to our food and energy suppliers going bust or abroad.
Rationing of resources we need for our daily lives is going to happen sooner than we’d like. It’s already happening with one water company that is using tiered pricing to restrict usage for big water users. That’s likely how it will go with gas and electricity once there are enough smart meters out there.
Just imagine imitating your grand parents queuing up for your portions of bread and food, ration book in hand or on a smart app, if you can afford them of course. Their shortages were real, ours artificially created for the sake of ideology.
May 21, 2026
Yes, the so-called Smart meters are in order to implement “dynamic pricing” and rationing through cost – with the threat that your supply will be cut off if you “misbehave.” In order to take advantage of the “dynamic pricing” you will have to change your behaviour … cook the roast, use your washing machine, hoover the carpet between 2 – 3 am.
It is all about behavioural change, rationing and control.
May 20, 2026
The most damaging of their ideologies is the one that profit must be stamped out – except the profit the Treasury makes. Pension funds, revenues, investment, can all disappear because they originate in the private sector and the private sector is being systematically dismantled in every part of its existence.
May 20, 2026
The answer to your last sentence is NO. This Government understands nothing of the real world, ignores what is happening out there, and lives in its own little unreality bubble. Have we ever had a Government so lacking in intelligence and common sense?
They do need to get serious about food and energy, but while Ed Miliband reigns supreme, they will not.
The first duty of any Government is the security and defence of the UK, and they just ignore both.
Starmer is a dead duck, Burnham is even worse, and Streeting obviously can’t get 81 MPs to back him. This Labour Government is disunited, has no vision, and is concerned with its own survival, not the survival, growth and prosperity of the UK. What a shower!
May 20, 2026
The fact that government ministers can propose that supermarkets put a cap on the price of some of their items shows that they lack an understanding of basic economic principles.
May 20, 2026
I am a little more positive re the North Sea resource.It is there and not going away so long as the country stays British.There stays the concern .At present we are in danger of being swallowed up as ” Islam becomes the new face of Britain”.
Fear often precedes a reality as the focus on such creates a type of ‘ Darwinian change:but back to our stores.A.limited use giving other suppliers a taste of what we could do could provide some competitive impetus
May 20, 2026
The CCC today pushing measures for Government intervention as serious heatwaves are heading our way
Or are they?Dial up the members of this organisation.They all sing from the same book of psalms.
May 21, 2026
Haven’t they been told that RCP8.5 is no longer part of their book of prayers?