The government is going to launch sector strategies as part of its Industrial plan.
We can write some of them easily. The oil and gas one will say close the whole industry down more quickly. So will the petrol and diesel car one. The net zero mandate requires the closure of many high energy using factories and activities to be replaced by imports. None of these will help growth.
The government claims it will expand housebuilding by 50%. How? They have put mortgage rates up  by losing the confidence of markets. They are driving private landlords out of the market with extra taxes and regulations. They do not have the money for a major expansion of social housing. They think more planning permissions will do the job,  mindless that there are a million plots with permissions sitting there.
The government could set out a bold strategy to boost  industry. It would need major changes of energy and tax policy. We need much more energy from home sources at much lower prices. Getting more of our own gas out of the ground is the easiest way to do this. Adding more renewables needs to be done at lower prices for their power and with a cheap solution to the problem of intermittency which is not obvious.
Corporation tax should be taken down to 15%, where revenues would go up. The Treasury ia likely to stay wedded to the idea that higher rates are necessary. It will continue to look at Ireland, awash with  business tax revenue and digital company investment thanks to a lower tax rate and do the opposite.
I will look at the prospects for some of individual sectors in future blogs.
January 16, 2025
But the whole strategy will ha Net Zero at front and centre.
Already Milibrains dream of carpeting the country with windmills and mirrors is falling apart as there are no provisions for grid connections.
Housing developments can’t get their transformers connected and streets don’t have the capacity for heat pumps and charging EVs.
Shutting down the remainder of industry and agriculture IS the strategy. Where the money to buy these goods from abroad no one knows.
As the country declines, borrowing costs will rise causing a government induced doom loop which is all part of Agendac30 and 50
Thanks Treacherous May and Milibrain cheered on by the idiots in Parliament.
January 16, 2025
Indeed cheered on by about 96% of the MPs in parliament and even Kemi and Coutinho are still pro Net Zero but slightly more slowly. Even AI which Starmer keeps shouting about need far cheaper energy than we have.
See the recent Dr John Campbell Video on efficacy of the MRNA Covid Vaccine study in Japan. Average 85% higher chance of catching Covid if you have had the “vaccines” and higher the more jabs you have had. So not remotely safe and not even remotely effective! Yet still they are pushing them as safe and effective!
Let us hope Trump exposes this appalling crime as he seems determined to and does not back track.
January 16, 2025
Good morning.
I think, Sir John you need to stop listening to what they say as these people are following a different agenda to one that you would follow. Whereas you would be intent on making peoples lives better through their own efforts or those of others, these people are seeking to change both the society (people) and the means by which we are governed. This is the continuation of the Blairite Project and the plan is to smash everything. You once supported it yourself ! Remember the, “Build back better” slogan, Alexander Johnson used ? Some here, including myself, did try and warn you.
I think Peter Hitchens is one of the very few to get this right. He understands these people. They are of a different mindset because they are set with some sort of revolutionary zeal to turn this country and the world into a better place. A place were they are always in charge. Hence all those Mayors the Conservative Party created in England.
No matter what words of advice you offer. No matter what questions you raise. No matter how many endless words you use to describe this or that about this government, it does not matter to them. For they do not care, and people like you and I do not matter.
January 16, 2025
Correct.
January 16, 2025
Your analysis has real evidence, WEF, the EU politburo.. there is certainly sufficient indication in Europe of a ‘Patrician’ class of politician; and how many offspring of MP’s are there now in the HoC? This is why our present government finds the democratic system rather bothersome exercise, preferring to control it and limit criticism, and manage by secret committee. If we cannot get rid of Starmer and his motley crew, we will find ever decreasing democratic freedom.
January 16, 2025
Agreed. I’ve been saying for some time that the vast majority of elected MPs are out to destroy our way of life. That the majority remain wedded to Net Zero is the most obvious proof of that. That almost all of the current government’s policies are a development/worsening of those of the previous Tory government, is another. Once you’ve come to terms with this at least life becomes more bearable as you have no expectations and it’s then easier to get used to our accelerating national decline.
January 16, 2025
And for the railways and electricity generation is the sector strategy going to be wring hands and throw money?
Strategic thought combined with action to see material improvement would be welcome but what do the clowns in government suppose the businesses operating in the various sectors do continually?
January 16, 2025
To add, industrial strategy is, clearly, bound up with growth, itself described as you have referenced by Lord Moynihan in his recent books. I recall when you mentioned Moynihan’s first book I observed that we needed a second Ludwig Erhard at the BEIS whereas, at that time, we had Kemi (!). The situtation is even more pressing now and yet we still are lumbered with a clueless, myopic, timid government intent upon foolish misdirection (I anticipate Starmer’s sector strategies, suredly at little risk of error).
January 16, 2025
This Labour party have a plan for the systematic destruction of the UK as we know it, and when destroyed its absorbtion back into the EU to be bled further.
Your and our thoughts on sectors are irrelevant as long as they are in power. Once out we will require a revolution of thinking and action. Any idea that we can revert to anything of old is for the birds. The political system and the CS are not fit for purpose and have to suffer radical change. Fortunately the daily insanities of Labour ensure that we should be able to achieve necessary change democratically, though there is every indication that, via local elections, they are intent on running a pilot on how to subvert democracy. Strap yourselves in for a bumpy ride.
January 16, 2025
“.. mindless that there are a million plots with permissions sitting there.”
For Heaven’s sake don’t tell them. They’d commandeer them for illegal migrant housing.
January 16, 2025
Many of Labour’s policies will have exactly the opposite effect to intended. For example the new law brought in this week that private sector landlords can’t ask for more than one month’s rent in advance. This will mean that would-be renters with poor credit records or a patchy work record and no references will not be offered rental properties as landlords will now only rent to low-risk renters with guarantors. Other landlords will simply sell up due to this increase in risk loaded onto them leading to a further shortage of rental properties and higher rents. So a measure meant to protect the lower tier of renters will in fact harm them. Same as the Conservatives of course whose “no fault eviction” (ie. banning of fixed-term tenancies) policy is even more damaging to renters.
In the same way that Labour/Conservative net zero policies will increase CO2 emissions and their growth policies will reduce growth.
January 16, 2025
A Socialist Government picking “winners” eh? Worked out so well in the ’60s and ’70s.
The WEF’s Deconstruction Phase-UK is obviously moving into its next stage.
January 16, 2025
I am from the government and I am here to help.
Government governs best when it governs least.
Law and order, defence, limited regulation, limited targeted welfare. The rest we do not need them for.
January 16, 2025
I think the cardinal point is that these people only got into their positions because there was no better established alternative last time. It’s no good trying to persuade people like these or the Mays of this world to rewrite their crazed ideas. There’s now a clear alternative. Help them.
January 16, 2025
“The government could set out a bold strategy to boost industry.” Will the leopard change its spots?
Rather than reduce corporation tax, can we eliminate employer’s NI, which is a drain on a company’s resources whether they make a profit or not? Furthermore it’s a tax that prefers imports at the expense of British goods and stifles British industry in the global market.
If corporation tax can’t be reduced as well, shift it onto dividend tax and put on a withholding tax on dividends paid abroad. Identify royalty payments that British subsidiaries pay to global multi-nationals as disguised profits to be taxed as corporation tax and dividend tax as well.