Yesterday I talked about why US national income per head is double that of the EU and why the U.K. is only 20% above the EU. Since 2000 the U.K. has allowed itself to waste too much money in the public sector, allowed public sector productivity to plunge since Covid, allowed a disastrous Bank of England to twice put us through boom/ bust money policies and adopted far to many laws, rules and high taxes.
If Conservatives/ Reform are going to oust this Labour government and get us back on the road to prosperity and freedom a lot has to change. One or other of the parties needs to carry most support or they need to do a deal. The agenda to win is easier to define than how to resolve the splits over the vote.
We need policies that make it easier to be self employed, to start and grow a small business, to save and vest at home, to exploit our own natural resources, to restore national self sufficiency in energy, to strengthen our defence and base national security on greater industrial capability at home, to help more people to buy a home of their own, to drastically reduce migration levels of people into low paid jobs and of illegals.
October 1, 2024
Indeed a deal is needed given FPTP voting. Sunak should have done one instead of throwing the towel in six months early. Instead of lying? about the vaccines being unequivocally safe and giving us the highest taxes for 70+ years and the lunacy of net zero.
So Boris finally accepts that Covid came from Wuhan lab, after gain of function experiments, and that the lockdowns did far more harm than good as was very clear almost from the outset. Perhaps soon he will look at the abundant stats worldwide that show that the Covid “vaccines” did far more harm than good too. Ineffective, dangerous and for young people and people who had had covid totally unnecessary even had they been safe and effective.
October 1, 2024
This the day after UK steel production was sacrificed on the alter of net zero. Use of coal worldwide is now higher than it has ever been. There is no climate emergency what so ever. Even a doubling of CO2 from the current low levels would be a net good. We are governed by moronic PPE loons like Miliband & Sunak and History loons like Lord Gummer, Classicists Boris & his barmy wife and Geography dopes like Now Baroness is it Theresa May. Are they on the make or do they actually believe in this lunacy?
October 1, 2024
Trust in the Conservative Party has gone. We no longer have a proper functioning democracy we are governed by charlatans and rogues who work for others and themselves instead of those whom they purport to represent.
October 1, 2024
We are ruled by politicians following UN/ WEF instructions.
Destruction of the economy is the driving force behind net zero formally adopted by traitorous May and Millibrains CCA again enthusiastically followed by the tories.
We all know the solution but that doesn’t chime with the politicians targets.
October 1, 2024
Trust in almost all politicians. We only trust that most will do entirely the wrong things and if their lips are moving they are either lying or perhaps saying something so obviously true that it is not even worth saying.
October 1, 2024
“Small businesses”
Once a nation of mighty industry.
Labour would have had a far smaller majority (or even failed) had Tory MPs got out of the way of Reform.
The Tory Party IS the problem. It is staffed by a small group of powerful men who are anarchists and in it for the thrill not giving one jot for the voter or the country.
October 1, 2024
Frank Haviland writes about the English Channel being a natural moat for hundreds of years, and asks why in 2024 we are no longer able to keep out invaders.
That logic applies to your blog…. why?
A good question! Why have we outsourced our ability to heat ourselves and see in the dark?
Why are we making it so difficult to have a business or invest in Britain?
Why is everything so highly taxed?
Why have farmers (throughout Europe) been partially ousted from doing their job, of supplying food?
There’s a lot of unanswered ‘why’s’ to a lot of illogical but harmful actions of recent and present governments.
The only positive is that even those who have pushed these ridiculous moves, are starting to look on and gasp, “oh, I didn’t expect….. that!” We need a few more to open their eyes and ‘see!’
Preferably, before the damage is permanent!
October 1, 2024
Why? Because the UN/WEF demand it and the treacherous “deal” with the EU requires that we don’t compete.
October 1, 2024
See in the dark is not such a problem In 1800, a candle providing one hour’s light cost six hours’ work. In the 1880s, the same light from a kerosene lamp took 15 minutes’ work to pay for. In 1950, it was eight seconds. Today, it’s half a second.
Warmth, fertilisers, transport fuels etc. are however rather more expensive
October 1, 2024
Gove the socialist, Greta disciple Engish Grad & now to be editor of The Spectator wanted to ban wood burning stoves too to make sure the poor freezed. Though it seems is is fine with him to burn wood (young coal) at Drax. A totally insane way to genereate electricity. He also wanted VAT on school fees, Perhaps he should joint Labour why what he ever a Tory MP?
October 1, 2024
Yesterday, J R-M suggested that the new Not-a-Conservative-Party-Leader (when selected) should do a deal which will allow Reform to challenge Labour unopposed in the 98 seats where it came second to Labour in July.
I very much doubt that any of the 4 candidates will even consider it ….. and anyway, who on earth would want to do a deal with WEF-sponsored Badenoch or the Globalists Tugendhat or Cleverly.
Jenrick appears to be the only Conservative on offer but he has stated “no deal” with Reform. He, like Badenoch, seems to think the NaCP is entitled to our votes. He, like Badenoch, will find out the hard way that he is wrong.
October 1, 2024
Jenrick is being promoted by the windbag David Starkey. Starkey claims Jenrick has seen the light and will be a good leader.
I do not trust Jenrick and believe that, like others, he will say whatever suits to get ahead.
October 1, 2024
Reported today: “He (Cleverly) told a fringe event last night: “Would I merge with Reform? No. No. No mergers, no deals, we don’t do that. We’re the Conservative Party.”
Jenrick said “no merger.” He didn’t say “no deal.” 🙂
October 1, 2024
All four potential leaders support the lunacy of net zero. Perhaps the best outcome is the dire lefty EU enthusiast Tugenhat and then the sensible Tory MPs (circa 20 at best) leaving the party for Reform.
They say pathetic things like “the Conservative Party lost the trust of voters”. No they lied to their voters in four manifestos and deliberately kicked then the teeth. They did not even try to keep their promises, they only one they tried to keep what the insanity of Net Xero. They deliberately betrayed their voters and got everything wrong with Covid too. Even now Sunak lies (or is very ignorant) about the safely of the Covid Vaccines.
October 1, 2024
Jenerick reminds me of Cast Iron Dave Cameron when he pretended to be a low tax at heart EU sceptic in order to become the Tory leader.
He was nothing of the sort and disaster ensued.
October 1, 2024
Prosperity and success is not feasible whilst we pursue the Marxist UN/WEF false climate crisis/emergency agenda and its “solution” Net Zero. Net Zero is designed to impoverish the democratic West by transitioning from cheap, reliable hydrocarbon energy to expensive chaotically intermittent renewables which forces upon the populations “customer engagement” and “behavioural change” aka the rationing of energy, food and transport.
The ignoring of nuclear energy, the only low CO2 emitting energy which is affordable and reliable and the lack of activists’ protest against CO2 emissions from China, India, Indonesia et al is proof that increasing levels of CO2 are not a danger to our existence.
I cannot see any deal between Reform and the Conservative Party whilst the Conservative Party continues to follow the UN/WEF Uniparty line of CAGW/Net Zero, and mass immigration.
At last with the formation of the Reform Party the electorate finally have a choice.
October 1, 2024
The “Conservative” Party is not conservative. No true conservative is likely to vote for this socialist shower. In my view it is finished. The number of true conservatives in it could be counted on the fingers of one hand. If it joined up with Reform I doubt if anybody would vote Reform, either. We need to start again, with people of integrity and insight.
A big problem is that very few of the younger generation can think for themselves. The vast majority follow the herd, the zeitgeist, and can’t even parse a sentence. That matters, because without the linguistic facility it is profoundly difficult to formulate a new thought, a new idea. Because they can’t tell the time, rather than teaching them such a basic skill they are removing clocks from classrooms. How soon will they be replacing text books with picture books?
This has happened within the last 25 years, and it’s a disgrace.
October 1, 2024
The way Reform are heading, they’ll attract more and more Conservative and Labour voters. Doing a deal with the rump of the Conservative MPs would be going backward when voters are destined to dump them anyway. They want popular support from enlightened voters, not just acquiring recycled Tory MPs promising to change their errant ways.
October 1, 2024
Indeed a great deal. Conservatives:
– have to stop thinking like labour – they have to be very different from those that filled the Tory benches these last few decades;
– must recognize that Popular Capitalism was their finest hour, and be determined to recreate it;
– must be true to their principles and their voters;
– have to be able to think for themselves and never follow the party line blindly – they must always question briefing papers for bias;
– should never ever cancel members who expose the truth – Tories as a whole must have complete integrity;
– must see how globalism was almost the death of democracy;
– must take powers back from quangos, make decisions themselves and be fully responsible for their action.
October 1, 2024
Listening to delegates at the conference this morning on the Today programe, there was no appetite for a joint Conservative/Reform agenda. One delegate said that there was no chance whatsoever of Nigel Farage becoming Prime Minister. She repeated it – twice. I’m not so convinced she is right, although I could see Richard Tice as a more likely candidate. He is certainly a better prospect than any of the current four Conservative hopefuls.
There appears to be no sense of realism at all at the conference. The 4.1m that voted for Reform in July are not coming back and millions more like me aren’t going to vote for the Conservatives again, either.
The party has got to come to terms with this new reality and be prepared to do a deal. Not a merger, but an electoral pact that would benefit both parties at the next election. JR-M has seen the sense in this, why is the rest or the party so far behind the curve ?
October 1, 2024
For the first time you link Conservatives with Reform. You say they need to do a deal. Only from the the result of the 2029 election will that possibility arise.
Before that, the current conservative party in Parliament must change its spots. Whoever takes control of the party must ensure that whoever is offered as a candidate is in fact a Conservative. Too few in Parliament in fact are. George Galloway got it right when he described conservative/labour as two cheeks of the same backside.
Then every Reformer will remember that, Nigel having facilitated Boris’s landslide in 2019, was badly let down when Brexit was not achieved in a meaningful form. Were I in fact reform in coalition I would insist that it was my party controlling the key offices of PM , Home Office, Treasury , Defence. On your own admission conservatives have failed in these roles, they just need to accept it with grace. I think Reform, once bitten, are far too cautious to contemplate coalition and are intent on an outright win in 2029. Coalition would mean dillution were it with current consocialists.
Having begun thinking in the way expressed, why not bite the bullet and talk to Nigel and Richard. They could benefit from your thinking.
Reply This is not a new thought of mine. It is obvious former Conservative voters went Reform or stayed at home as I warned Ministers they would. It is obvious for either Conservatives or Reform to win the next election they need to reach a pact or one of them needs to knock the other out of the running early. I publish my advice so any political leader is free to take it up.
October 1, 2024
We need policies as you describe but must also to encourage medium to large businesses to establish, grow and remain here.
We also need consumers to be realistic – there is a harsh price to pay when you buy cheap imported goods.
Government, businesses and consumers need to buy British goods and services.
We need to re-shore industries and commerce, what is the point of investing in steel production if there are no baseline customers and business in this country.
October 1, 2024
Off topic,
but will someone ask the leadership candidates why they each believe England and the English should, and are, being denied the same identity rights, protection and promotion currently enjoyed by Scotland and the Scottish.