The enthusiasm for too much regulation in recent years has burdened us as taxpayers and as consumers as we pay for it. Some of it is wasteful and needless. Take the paperchase when someone buys a home. If they are paying with a deposit saved in a UK bank or building society why is there need of anti-money laundering paperwork, as the bank satisfied itself of their customer and can see the taxed income that provided the savings coming into their account. AML controls should be for the minority that pay in cash or draw on a foreign bank.
Having a driving licence and a utility bill does not prove someone with exotic sources of cash is not a money launderer, so in the minority of cases there needs to be a proper examination.
The Bank of England is the biggest loss making public sector institution by a mile. According to the OBR at budget autumn 2024 they will lose £240bn from end 2022 to the final run off of their bond portfolio. Why are they allowed to lose such huge sums? The Treasury and taxpayers have to send them the money for the losses and Chancellors approved the original bond buying. The European Central Bank made a similar error in buying too many bonds at high prices. It has loss containment policies which mean it will lose far less proportionately than the Bank of England.
The rail industry is largely nationalised. It is heavily loss making and needs big subsidies and borrowed capital. When train company franchises end their activities are nationalised. The high cost tracks, signals and stations have been long nationalised. The nationalised train companies do not perform better for customers and taxpayers than the private ones, and often perform worse.
Why can’t public sector management of a monopoly system do better? Throughout the public sector there is need for fewer but better managers. There is need for good bonuses only paid for good delivery. There is need to mentor and train Ministers to take an intelligent interest in management of their departments.
They should be criticised for allowing bad productivity. In the industrial businesses I have led I always found a limited number of well-paid good people was best. Quality and efficiency are two sides of the same coin. Getting things right first time matters. Honesty and quick remedies are essential when you get something wrong. Learn from your mistakes, design error out and always put customer and service users first.
November 15, 2025
You ask why the Public Sector can’t be better managed, well there’s absolutely no incentive to improve. It’s difficult to sack anyone and there’s a revolving door for the chosen few to take up senior posts without any relevant experience. Salaries and pensions are guaranteed by the taxpayer so keeping ones head down appears the norm.
The BoE being repaid for QE losses is as bizarre as it is stupid but again it’d only taxpayers money
We seem to have a government rotting from the head down but it looks like it’s going to be a slow and painful death
Painful for the UK at large that is.
After the winter of discontent I left the country for 22 years
Sadly I’m too old for that now
November 15, 2025
BoE seems to be able to keep the Money Supply going up without difficulty…..
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/auyn/qna
Perhaps ‘losses’ for the institutions that create money is not a problem? The problem will occur when we cannot sell our currency for foreign currency to keep importing needed energy and goods…. The BoE creates the £, it has no control of the US$, Euro, Yen etc.
November 15, 2025
The polls suggest the public has had enough of both Labour and Conservatives. Reform needs to get its agenda ready to deal with the over mighty, spendthrift state. It appears that, among other things, they want to focus on deregulation, tax simplification, reduction in the quangos count and an end to gold plated, index linked pensions for the civil service. That will require a supporting legislative programme to help make it happen. Such an agenda will be fought tooth and nail by the blob. But unless there is radical change to how the UK is run, it will continue its descent to third world status. There is no hope with the status quo.
November 15, 2025
Indeed for Reform to win the election with an overall majority will be difficult but perhaps the easy part. Changing what needs to be changes against the Lords, the Quangos, the blob, international bodies… will be very difficult especially as the country will be even more broke than now.
See David Stakey’s excellent video to the Reform Party Conference and also Britain need a new restoration.
November 15, 2025
Reform may (?) learn from Trump 2 – the second time around he came to power knowing what he wanted to do, with a team willing to carry out his plans. Whether you agree with his ideas (or not) this has been a far more effective approach than that of our benighted Premier, who seemed to ‘fall’ into government with no plan, no team and no hope.
November 15, 2025
@Oldtimer92. +1. Most governments have said, pre-election, they would cut costs/create efficiencies and deregulate. Have any actually managed to do it apart from Thatcher and the 2011-2019 Tory years (the latter, arguably, at the cost of growth)? It’ll be a big challenge for Reform. They ought to ask our kind host how to do it.
November 15, 2025
Farage has said he wants the Government to run more big industries. ‘Privatisation has gone too far’.
I’m sure they will do it well 🫣
November 15, 2025
@Oldtimer92 – Reform should do nothing and more importantly say nothing before any election. The point being all the time the are not the ‘others’ they are a vote winner. The not-so-Conservatives blew their chances by not clearing out the whole failure team and going with new blood and hopefully conservative blood – a 14 year record of repeated failures and they chose continuity and continuation. Labour have now exposed themselves as not being the party of the Worker, work-shy maybe. But they have shown that their team at the top table has seemingly have never had real jobs and that they are more than just socialist but full on WEF supporting Marxist, that is a little unkind because the Tory team go to and absorb the WEF sermons.
The only thing the UK citizen wants is a parliament that will work with and for the electorate, what I am calling the ‘others’ have a proven track record of fighting the people and preening their ego. Reform should be wary of exposing itself with any rhetoric all the time the others are imploding.
The only people that want to know what the will do are the established parties and their supporters looking to find a label for them, right-wing, extremists and so on.
November 15, 2025
You want us to vote blind for a totally untried team? And you don’t want them to even flesh out a general direction?
Wow. Sounds like a winning strategy.
November 15, 2025
LA, +1. Indeed a brilliant strategy!
Specially when NF has already gone back on a number of the previously advertised Reform’s promises:
06/09/2025 ‘NF shifts on two-week small boats pledge’
03/11/2025 ‘Huge tax cuts of £90bn not currently realistic’
04/11/2025 ‘Reform councils set to raise taxes for nearly 5 m people’
November 15, 2025
@Lynn Atkinson – you could of course vote for any faction of the Uniparty or obstain. You have seen their guarantees on keeping their word. The system needs simply to be disrupted to find the ‘real’ way forward.. To believe any of the majority in the Parliament have a clue would be a stretch
Reply All parties are struggling to keep promises made as officials and Council officers are unable or unwilling to do things like stopping illegal migrants or cutting Council tax.
November 16, 2025
@Reply – that does of course bring into the scenario that those that actually run things should be appointed by those that are elected, rolling contracts? They are now to a degree but in today’s mixed up political climate, contradictions and infighting it should be more so. Instructing someone to do something the electorate wants that they personally don’t agree with is a sure fire way for nothing to get done
November 16, 2025
Maybe some of the people here (Ian B in particular) should read Sam Freedman’s (16/11/2025) ‘The reality trap: Reform’s struggles in local government’. Available on Substack.
November 15, 2025
Well, colour me surprised but Labour has finally announced one sensible policy: scrapping the unwanted and completely pointless Police and Crime Commissioners which were introduced by the Not-a-Conservative-Party whilst at the same time they shrank the front-line police service – closing police stations around the country and dispensing with thousands of experienced officers.
So, unless they simply get re-deployed/branded into another role, there will be a few less taxpayer-funded, gold-pension-plated jobs for the political guys n gals and the fiefdoms they established, thanks to BluLabour Cameron/Osborne/May.
We won’t get a smaller State with reduced Regulations unless and until we LEAVE the EU. Sunak/Badenough made that perfectly clear when they REFUSED to scrap EU “retained law” due for repeal – which the DT subsequently reported was due to their commitment to the Net Zero Insanity.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/06/06/net-zero-bonfire-eu-rules-kemi-badenoch-brexit/
Reply They are going to create unelected Police authorities instead so I doubt there will be savings. Looks like they just want to scrap more elections they might lose, as with many Councils they want to reorganise.
November 15, 2025
Yes, I won’t be in the slightest bit surprised if they simply “re-brand” them. Perhaps the Not-a-Conservative-Party shouldn’t have created the pointless layer of “police management” in the first place?
Reply Commissioners replaced Police Authorities! meant to a slim down with more accountability.
November 15, 2025
The money laundering regulations came from the EU. I was debunked by my French bank for no reason given and it took the local staff to put the matter right. The civil service refused to make Brexit work.
November 15, 2025
Next they could scrap the pointless Mayors and their entourage. That would be a real saving.
November 15, 2025
The problem isn’t ultimately politics, it’s about the decline and fall of Western civilisation (in the UK and elsewhere).
Focusing on just politics is like building a sandcastle to protect you from the sea. What is required is a social and cultural revolution, restoring our traditional Christian values and the best of our Graeco-Roman ones.
November 15, 2025
(And Trump is like a man with an impressive, shiny digger on the beach but all he’s doing too is building a sandcastle too. Same for Starmer with his spade and shovel. And Reform with theirs. And the rest).
November 15, 2025
Drivel Trump is right on the dire BBC, on trying to get world peace, on the climate hoax, on energy policy, on woke lunacy, on men in women’s sport, on legal & illegal immigration levels , on tax levels, on red tape…
Starmer, Reeves, Miliband are wrong on almost every single thing. They are digging the hole or spinning the doom loop!
November 15, 2025
Ed M, I do believe that you have made a very important point, and your simple sandcastle simile is frighteningly accurate, and such simple clarity is a welcome contribution, and it won’t be the last.
November 15, 2025
Thanks
November 15, 2025
How do you destroy a civilisation? By replacing the cohesive population which held to common beliefs, common standards, common laws?
What power do you need to undertake such destruction?
A shiny new digger driven by the Prime Minister scratching away at the foundations with the power to provide all the perversions of law, homogeneity, education and religion.
Do you need the power to impoverish the high trust, generous culture?
Do you need a political clergy which undermines the religion and closes churches?
Do you need a perverted MSM machine, especially a state broadcaster, to churn out lies and be run and fronted by the tiny minority who do not share the values of the big nation?
Do you need educators who teach that the nation is evil?
How would you engineer the destruction of an entire culture, especially the most successful one on earth? Or are you saying God did it?
November 15, 2025
@Ed M – you appear to bought the media hype about Trump. Last time in office he(Trump) felt it was wrong that while the USA had 2.5% import duties on goods from the EU, the EU had 10% on USA goods. He tried to negotiate , went along with the EU style, of talking, then talking and they talked for all the time he was in office, the USA still ending up being charge 400% more by the EU than they did them. He learnt his lesson has chosen to be a disrupter and surprise reciprocal arrangement are turning up everywhere, the playing field is being levelled.
Then take 2TK trying to ingratiate himself on his beloved EU, has lost the UK billions, nothing is reciprocal just one way traffic. As SJR said yesterday if the UK want to sell the EU defence equipment the UK must pay into the EU Defence budget. Yet the EU is heavily involved in supply of Defence equipment to the UK with everything from Quality Steel for submarines, building the Royal Navy( its Ships), supplying the UK with missiles, helicopters and the electronics to keep thing running and supplying the refurbishment to UK Tanks. The EU doesn’t have to pay towards the UK Defence Budget. That’s without getting on to the give away of rights for fishing in UK territorial waters.
Yes Trump is a disrupter but he has seen through the cloak of deceit on the other side
November 15, 2025
Public sector costs per person in real terms have (AI tells me) increased 133% since 1985, reflecting broader public services despite efficiency efforts. Total spending equates to ~44% of GDP in 2025.
We definitely need less regulation, which leads to the need for less government. 30 years ago I moved to France and ran a few businesses there. I was astonished at the red tape and stifling, costly bureaucracy compared to the UK both in the personal and business spheres. I think we’ve caught up with them. Is that progress?
November 15, 2025
One of the probable new tax grabs is an Exit Tax whereby HMRC will value everything we own including houses, businesses and other investments and charge 20% on this if we leave. It’s already used in the USA and Germany, where industry was leaving in order to survive.
November 15, 2025
It’s been ruled out.
November 15, 2025
Good morning.
The reason for so much paperwork and checks is because we have moved from a ‘high trust’ society to a low one. Can you think of a reason why this is so ?
You cannot compare State run systems to those in the private sector, even if they are offering the same service. Why ? Because the former knows it does not rely on the consumer and shareholders whereas the latter does. And if the latter fails, usually there is another to pick up the pieces.
Ministers cannot run these State Departments, only defend them when something goes wrong and, beg for more money. They cannot effect meaningful change as it takes time for such departments to change even if they wanted to.
November 15, 2025
“And always put customers and service first”
I’m afraid even much of the private sector is losing that ethic Sir John. Customer loyalty is no longer rewarded and often abused (don’t auto renew with the AA) and personal service is being automated and replaced by the Cloud (High Street Banks). However, I do agree that very few private sector conpanies would survive long if managed the way the public sector appears to be run. Just the staff costs (and pension arrangements) would bankrupt them.
November 15, 2025
So another reported U turn by the Chancellor, what a bloody fiasco !
Now it is being suggested that owners of larger properties are deemed to be wealthy, so should pay 50-100% more Council tax every year.
The 2 of us live in a Band F property and already pay £3,500 per year which is 25% of my State Pension, a 50% increase as being suggested would mean another £1,750, taking it to over 40% of my State Pension.
Yes I have other means, and have been prudent where I can, but all has been saved from previously earned/taxed income, on which the income is also taxed.
How is draining our savings to pay increased Council tax going to help the economy, when we will have less to spend on ourselves ?
The politics of envy strike yet again.
November 15, 2025
Bring back the Community Charge. Each person consumes and that consumption should be paid for rather that a house which consumes nothing.
November 15, 2025
No doubt you did the right thing and worked and paid tax. Many of your peers didn’t though, and still expect a State pension having voted for borrow and waste governments all their life. So who is going to meet the financial burden of all that squander? Not those who hardly earned and spent everything they had. So it fall to the likes of you to make up the deficit. Thank the left wing agenda.
November 15, 2025
Bloated govt is sloppy, wasteful and incompetent. Gordon Brown initiated Bank of England ‘independence’. He and Blair deducted so much of the quality and value of life in the UK that is lingering and worsening still today.
November 15, 2025
They say the valuations for Council tax is 30 years out of date, yes it is, but then so are the rates charged, my Council tax bill is not the same as it was 30 years ago, it has also gone up by huge multiples, for a worse service.
How can a house that has not been modified since the original Band valuation be rated for a higher Band ?
The Poll tax was the fairest system for taxing local authority services, as it taxed all users in the same way.
Unfortunately that will never make a comeback due to Governments lack of resolve and their weakness to drop it originally.
Social care cost should be a Government funded scheme not a local Authority one.
Having it managed by the Local Authority may make some sense as they have local knowledge, but paying for it should come from Government taxation because it is, or should be, simply an extended arm of the NHS.
November 15, 2025
I have just commented on your previous post saying the same thing.
But stop calling the Community Charge ‘Poll tax’. It was never a tax which allowed you to vote.
Mind you, is such a tax a bad idea?
November 15, 2025
Lynn
Have said many times in the past perhaps only income tax payers should vote, as they have so called skin in the Game/result
November 15, 2025
Yes we need a Qualified Franchise.
November 15, 2025
@Berkshire Alan – it was strange that what you call the poll tax was simply a way of taxing people that use services according to their ability to pay, and yet the left felt that was objectional.
November 15, 2025
How on earth has the Governor of the Bank of England kept his job ?
The incompetents, hiring further incompetents.
November 15, 2025
When something goes wrong the BBC usually complains that it is “unregulated” and then asks the government what new regulations/fine/taxes it will impose.
Whlie we have that rhetoric from the Left, government will keep getting bigger and economic strangulation by red tape will continue
November 15, 2025
Seems the BBC is not properly regulated!
Else it would not push out barrowloads of vexatious and dangerous misinformation with impunity.
November 15, 2025
The reason the public sector is unable to provide quick responses or fix known uneconomic practices is simply down to managers having to get union permission to do anything that is different to the established protocols and rules.
That block control exercised by union authority is why nothing improves and why ever more money ends up being thrown into the public sector pot without any improvement in services.
It has been like this for a very long time and is why train drivers are being paid £80 thousand/year for a short working week.
It is why the NHS employs ever more people and the waiting times for simple procedures is unacceptable.
It is why you can no longer have a simple conversation with your local council or police force, you are forced to go through an intermediary.
It is completely unacceptable. We are constantly being forced to pay mre to get ever less service.
November 15, 2025
Perhaps less government would be good. I can’t agree with you Re. the railways. We need a national system of rail working as one. Not the hotch potch we have. With the ridiculous system of different fares for the same journey! Different companies running on the same lines with different timetables!
In view of Devolution (which England has not been allowed) which puts transport in the remit of the Scottish parliament. Create England Rail (we could include Wales, but they’d probably have a tantrum about English interference)
November 15, 2025
Why have you not had a tantrum about EU interference. The system is theirs, to provide for trains moving over state borders.
November 15, 2025
I’ve not had a tantrum because I’m talking about England not the EU. I thought that was obvious.
November 15, 2025
The state of railways in England are structured as they are because it was ducted by the EU.
We were a member state, do you remember?
November 15, 2025
Why would anyone of real talent join the Public Sector. At foot soldier zero financial incentive to go the extra mile,
Safe, job for life, secure pension but increments subject to ‘political’ whim, national affordability, outdated systems, little/no job satisfaction.
Senior management battered from all sides. Constant political harassment/interference from self important local representatives/MPs, demotivated work force, ‘unlimited’ services demand, annual budgets and constant budgetary restrictions, longer term investment decisions difficult, poor systems sclerotic/ bureaucratic decision making, in the grip of the Unions etc.
At national level, no experience required. Look at MPs CVs. Initial requirement, be prepared to do a vast amount of unpaid work, door knocking, envelope stuffing, unlimited meeting attendance, be a trade union official etc.
I’ve done work in local authorities. Compared with a previous large PLC, frankly a nightmare.
Finally inward looking jobs for life, un sackable , heavily unionised, no blame culture, indexed linked pensions, honours guaranteed, look after each other, revolving door senior Civil Service.
It’s surprising we do as well as we do.
November 15, 2025
Those I meet in the civil service tell me of how inefficient it is, and how full of baked in wasteful practice. They can do nothing about it, so end up disillusioned and demotivated. Those who do have the power to make change don’t have the wit to do so, and are more concerned with their virtue-signalling, sanctimony and hypocrisy.
The best thing to do with government is to shrink it.
November 15, 2025
That is exactly my personal experience.
November 15, 2025
Agreed – it’s another unnecessary imposition to make us see that HMG is in control of our lives. We will soon need their permission to sneeze.
While our host is reluctant to see comments about what HMG are likely to do in the future, though he should admit that with upcoming legislation and so much pervasive laws already in place our freedom to do anything will be heavily curtailed and policed.
So, YES, we badly need Less government, but also government that focuses on making life better for us.
The problem with having a parliament with so much of what it should be doing handed out to quangos, it tends to concentrate on ever more legislation – We need a way to limit that intent because it is counter-productive.
November 15, 2025
Banks, lawyers, accountants and surveyors are having to undertake ridiculously time consuming AML “verification” checks. In the case of an estate agent, such checks used to be required in respect of landlords and tenants only in cases where the rent was in excess of (the equivalent of) €100,000 per year. As from May this year there is no lower limit and a letting of a tiny workshop at a tiny rent requires the estate agent to carry out “verification” checks on both landlord and tenant. It goes without saying that such pointless bureaucratic nonsense is nothing more than an absolutely absurd waste of time and effort.
November 15, 2025
“The Bank of England is the biggest loss making public sector institution by a mile. According to the OBR at budget autumn 2024 they will lose £240bn from end 2022 to the final run off of their bond portfolio.”
£240bn is certainly a wicked amount to be lost by the BoE, headed by an ex Fabian Society member. But it will be dwarfed by the CCC/DESNZ/Ofgem/Mission Zero/NESO attempt to net zero our CO2 emissions. According to Professor Gordon Hughes of the Renewable Energy Foundation the UK taxpayer has already funded £220bn in renewable subsidies (£8000/household) since 2002 (2024 prices) and is currently funding £26bn/year in renewable subsidies. NESO has costed its Clean Power 2030 project at “over £40bn annually”, so another £8000/household by 2030 by which time it will be necessary to not only subsidise the renewables, the grid upgrades and the battery backups etc. but also the gas generated backup which will be needed to be available at any time to provide full power whilst only used for 5% of the time. NESO’s plan also necessitates rolling blackouts, called euphemistically, Demand Side Response (DSR), at times of peak demand and when electricity over the interconnectors is not available or insufficient. What will be the cost to the country of rolling blackouts? Has the OBR costed it?
November 15, 2025
Why doesn’t the BBC just offer to give a generoua – not too generous – donation to one of Trump’s favourite charities (it should have been advised to do this earlier before – along with the apology)? If Trump says no, very bad for his reputation. Plus the alternative for him would be to go down a rabbit-hole of litigation.
November 15, 2025
@Ed M. I really hope that Trump can be persuaded to tell the BBC that any such payment must go to genuine free-speech lobbying organisations in the UK (e.g. the Free Speech Union).
November 15, 2025
What would the Free Speech Union do with 5 billion?
November 15, 2025
@Lynn Atkinson. A body like the FSU could give out legal aid to those persecuted unfairly by the authorities, debanked, sacked etc for expressing perfectly legitimate views. Imagine a police force or HR department knowing that any overzealous action might be countered by a legal fight where your adversary has access to virtually unlimited sums of private legal aid. Cases against such bad actors could go to the Supreme Court, even the government could be kept on its toes.
That could be quite significant for individuals and for corporate, institutional and state policy.
November 15, 2025
If it had 5 billion it would soon be ‘captured’.
Why don’t we just make the state learn its place and stop the persecution? We need to be awarded compensation against their vexatious attacks. That could well got up to 5 billion of course …
November 15, 2025
I truely believe that the BBC would welcome their day in court against the evil Trump ….they still believe that they didn’t do anything wrong
November 15, 2025
Yes the sex traffickers of our small children are under the same delusion.
The Courts must put them right.
November 15, 2025
Sir John
While it is less Government, that leads to better Government, we are hampered by the remainers that have had a free-loading life, feeding off the Nation. Having the EU unelected, unaccountable, bureaucratic rules based structure, that has nothing to do with anything other than keep those bureaucrat’s employed. The structure is dedicated to laws, rules and regulations there to keep State workers employed and not to release the population to thrive. It another one of those Napoleonic structures that fight the people, if something is not permitted under their Laws, then it is illegal. We should have returned to what throughout the free Democratic World is known as English Law, everything is legal unless those democratically elected deem it not to be, even then it is elected representatives that can change, amend and repeal those laws..
The Empire of the State screws the life blood out of everyone, but those that have their nests feathered by other
November 15, 2025
You will never get public sector efficiency until you dramatically reduce the number of Civil Servants. Take the Home Office, 51,000 Civil Servants. Absolutely impossible to supervise, control and ensure all are working and doing a good week’s work. It is not only better management that is required, but lower numbers to manage.
Then you’ll need to be clear about the objectives you want to achieve.
With this Labour Government, you have not got any clarity about the objectives, increasing numbers on the public payroll, a Chancellor who is out of her depth, and in the private sector would have been sacked months ago.
Then a weak PM who nobody respects, Labour MPs who don’t have a clue about the economy, and who will be totally surprised when the UK goes bankrupt. It is a painful shambles!
November 15, 2025
KL
Perhaps they should be made ro re-apply for their existing jobs, with a completely different term of reference, Redundancy, pay, Holiday, and pension arrangements.
Happens in the outside World to make and form a complete reset for a business.
For a recent example think P&O ferries, they seem to have got away with it !.
Still in business, and in fact the service and food was better on our last trip.
November 15, 2025
”According to the OBR at budget autumn 2024 they will lose £240bn”
You’ll not hear any mention of that from either labour or tory at the run up to the next election or on their manifesto ….if they talk about it than they’ll have to have a plan to solve it
November 15, 2025
Pretty obvious to me that the Public Sector is the overloaded, overmanned, overpaid and bloated with inflated budgets, expenses and freebies, proverbial Cart –
While the Private Sector lean and skinny Horse does its best to strive uphill against the minefields and obstacles showered on it continually by the Government holding the excessive red tape legal reins of bureaucracy cracking the daily blaming Whip why it’s slowing down and needing to be recognised how important and critical its contribution is (esp when they think they are more important and know what is best but are indecisive).
The current govt labour under much guessing about how the Private Sector works and only thinks Profits are nasty.
Profit is the reward for taking Risk.
Risk is avoided in the safe Public Sector where no one gets fired and Jobs are for life and failures are often rewarded with promotion.
A blowback is happening now in the form of growth stalling and by default gravity will determine the outcome pretty swiftly.
November 15, 2025
I note that Pakistan is going for ‘more’ government ….in fact an defacto autocratic military dictatorship
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d6w1glz3qo
November 15, 2025
Where? In Britain?
November 15, 2025
People seem to forget that politics is about the little things in life.The houses ,the food on our tables,societies health, logistics,etc.I am not convinced that less government is better,but surely a government with an understanding of how to manage domestic potential.
For example when my mother was alive and strongly Pro immigration ,I asked her would she allow many more people into her house who couldn’t speak English but wanted a share of her old age pension and she had to serve them and learn their languages to better serve them.She thought the comparison was silly and didn’t quite get the point.
Are we going to make ourselves servants to all others and let them walk over us whilst we bow down to the needs of everyone but not to the once strong country we were.We did the work,we got society sorted with the NHS…the stupid governors brought us down.
November 15, 2025
Many questions ?
Big or small government with big or small civil service
Big or small ‘brother’ watching and controlling what we do
Big or small tax
Big or small immigration
November 15, 2025
john,
you missed the NHS. no need to avoid the truth about the worst health care in the developed world.
November 15, 2025
Maybe in the whole world!
November 15, 2025
Too many voters want intervention for them or their interests.
There are too few votes in leaving us alone.
It’s such a shame
November 15, 2025
As well as “less government”, that is fewer rules and regulations, we need fewer civil servants and quangos and to legislate to give the elected ministers the ability to sack civil servants and quango employees whom they believe are not performing or not giving them the (correct) information they require or even obstructing their commands. Currently it appears that our elected ministers are no longer in control of the civil service. Ministers should never be allowed to hide behind civil service permanent secretaries or decisions.
November 15, 2025
Agree, ministers are so out of control that they don’t know if there’s a financial black-hole, aside what the civil servants tell them nor why they’re raising taxes …..big government mantra ‘spend baby spend’
November 15, 2025
fairly obvious massive simplification of the tax and benefits system would enable far cheaper administration systems, far fewer admin staff, far fewer accountants needed by citizens, freeing lots of resources up for properly useful stuff. but of course it would need the politicians to stop meddling and leave a simplified system alone.
November 15, 2025
217 criminals were illicitly shipped, into the UK yesterday on the 14th November from France… our governments too big to see them
November 15, 2025
The media is reporting that 2TK is expected to place a call to Trump and tell him(Tump that is) that the BBC must get its house in order.
That has led to a lot of surprise with commentators, why is 2TK ‘telling’ Trump this, surely he should be saying that to the BBC. Even more 2TK as the man at the helm, he is the BBC’s ultimate manager no one else,he finds them their money and sits at the top of the hiring and firing chain.
Then others point out that the BBC is the Parliament’s propaganda machine so he will true to formed do nothing