The budget was unpopular before it was delivered. Re running last year’s series of leaks and try ons of so many different damaging tax rises killed confidence and worried people. It gave an impression of a government that likes to harm anyone who works hard, saves, runs a business or dares to be successful.
On delivery the budget angered more. The freezing of thresholds broke the pledge on Income tax according to the Chancellor’s own words last year. The pensions changes broke the promise on National Insurance.
The media picked up the lies in the stories leaked to them ahead of the event. There was the misrepresentation of why they raised taxes, blamed on the productivity down grade which had been cancelled out by the overshoot of actual tax revenues.
There was the extraordinary budget statement that she is cutting the debt, when the budget plans £628 bn of extra borrowing over the next five years. I pointed this out in a Telegraph podcast.
Now we learn there were misleading promises on energy bills, where the extra costs of more renewable energy will be charged to bills but not mentioned in the speech. Claire Couthino was right to call for cancellation of the next renewables round on grounds of cost.
The budget failed for one simple reason. It proposed far too large an increase in spending. That meant too much tax and too much borrowing. The Opposition is right to highlight the surge in benefit spending meaning workers pay more to give to people who do not work. It is also true that the many losses of public bodies and the continuing dire productivity of some services I have been highlighting are too big a burden on taxpayers.
Too much talent and people with money are leaving as a result of a vicious tax policy.
December 4, 2025
Exactly – all was anti-growth a doom loop agenda. So what might go wrong? Reeves is not that dim far brighter than the average MP so surely she realises her doom loop, anti-growth agenda will kill growth and reduce the tax take? So why are they pushing this doom loop lunacy?
“Claire Couthino was right to call for cancellation of the next renewables round on grounds of cost.“ but she should also get off the fence and call for all subsidies of renewables and the pushing of EVs, heat pumps, public transport etc. to be stopped and called out for the hoax that it is. As Trump has done.
Most of these policies do not even reduce CO2 with proper accounting and anyway even a doubling of CO2 is on balance a benefit and not a problem. A bit more CO2 plant, crop and tree food is a net good.
December 4, 2025
As is slightly warmer on balance and even a doubling of CO2 would only cause very slight net warming. CO2 is only one of thousands of factors affecting the climate. Not even the main greenhouse gas!
December 4, 2025
Starkey&Mogg Episode 1: Lies, Damned Lies, and Starmerisms
Jacob Rees-Mogg Is worth watching also
Lord Kenneth Clarke gets brutally honest about Rachel Reeves, Nigel Farage and Margaret Thatcher.
The News Agents
He liked Attlee and even has high hopes for a Starmer Gov. He though income tax should have gone up rather than NI both are essentially the same tax on incomes Ken can you not see that! God help us! And he was a middle of the Tory Road man!
December 4, 2025
‘Doom loop’ is a newish entry and now a big point scorer in Lifelogic bingo.
December 4, 2025
Clarke was NEVER a Tory at all, much less a middle of the road man.
He stood at the despatch box and said ‘he chose not to implement the law in this case’.
He is faaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr left.
December 4, 2025
All going according to plan John. The total destruction of the productive sector in favour of the leeching public sector.
I understand that by the end of this parliament debt will be around £53,000 for every man, woman and child. This is preposterous and underscores the fact that as a nation we are bankrupt.
It’s only a matter of time before they raid our savings to pay down some debt ad Cyprus did a few years back.
As for the electricity bills, with that clown milibrains offering up to £248 pet mwh for offshore wind when gas generates at £55 before ruinous taxes, is beyond belief.
Luckily Reform have said they won’t honour any contracts from this latest auction so hopefully no one will bid
December 4, 2025
Perhaps a better way to see the position is to divide the state sector debt by the number of net tax paying (rather than net benefiting) households and you get more like £300k each. Plus thanks to lack of confidence in the UK and Starmer and Reeves we are paying far higher rates on this debts even than Greece! It will deteriorate further with the Starmer/Reeves doom loop lunacy.
December 4, 2025
Lifelogic
Report in the press yesterday (Neil Record) suggested that the public sector pensions scheme was on the hook for a £5.3 trillion bill, with many of the schemes paying as much as 25% of salary as the employers/taxpayers contribution on top of the usual tax allowance.
That forward cost/debt represents £203,000 per household.
Meanwhile the self employed get no employer contribution, because they work for themselves !
Reply Big problem that NHS, civil service and teachers schemes are unfunded with massive future liabilities. Parliamentary Pension fund is a fully funded scheme not needing taxpayer subsidy, as are most of the local authority schemes.
December 4, 2025
Being married to a retired NHS nurse, I see this as a kind of tax rebate from the excessive amounts I’m required to pay.
December 4, 2025
Notts authority pension scheme is in deficit like many others. As much as 25% of council tax makes up the shortfall.
December 4, 2025
When BT was privatised their pension fund was given a state guarantee too. so if the funds investments dont work out the state has to bail them out 100%, there are probably other hidden big liabilities like this around, I doubt the Bank of England has a good handle on them all.
December 4, 2025
Some local authorities are paying circa 50% of their revenues in pension payments!
I too, like Milton Friedman, am “in favour of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible,” but a 90% tax on all state sector pensions – above say £10,000 PA might be a good exception to this rule!
December 8, 2025
A large problem indeed. I am rarely in favour of more taxes and especially windfall taxes but a windfall tax on state sector pension above a certain level might be needed. To level the playing field between state sector ones and the private sector who have to pay for both and often have virtually nothing beyond the state pension.
December 4, 2025
The maths of the AR7 offshore and floating wind auction budget of £1.08bn in 2024 money announced on 27th October would see just 3GW awarded at the ceiling price as a maximum if there are insufficient bids. At £90/MWh, the maximum would be 4.2GW. That compares with the £85/MWh that Ørsted considered uneconomic when it cancelled Hornsea 4 and the result last week for the Irish Tonn Nua site just 12 km from the coast of just under €100/MWh, for which connection costs to shore will be much lower.
Perhaps the OBR were told in confidence there are no AR7 bids, and therefore no need to include it.
The budget for the AR7a auction covering onshore wind, solar, tidal etc. is due to be announced on 8th December and was also not estimated for the budget arithmetic, which also didn’t include any provision for AR8, with at least some delivery supposed to occur within the OBR forecast period and CP2030 Miliband programne which would require over 20GW to be procured.
December 4, 2025
Maybe Labour are hoping to unite the left ie Lib Dems, Greens etc as outlined in ‘The Spectator’?
They know their prospects are grim – but green stuff, boosting the public sector etc might appeal and convince the so-called lanyard class to rally to the cause. Labour may believe they can win votes in crucial marginal seats or throw in their lot with other leftish parties.
So politics as opposed to economics.
December 4, 2025
That which you highlight covers the incompetent and overt dishonesty of the socialism that currently rules us.
Fantasy takes over when they talk of AI Data Centres whose demand for energy far exceeds what the country can currently or in the forseable generate.
Their disdain for democracy manifests itself in their push to return to EU control, which coupled with their cancellation of local elections confirms their position. How long before they cancel the next general election. Add to this their plans to shrink the common law practise of trial by jury, the introduction of identity cards and yesterdays announcement of a mass surveillance camera facial recognition programme. It all arises from the prayer book of Mao, Lenin, and Marx, ably conducted by their acolytes Lammy, red Ed Milliband, and a fully complicit Starmer.
It will all end in tears when the erstwhile law abiding great british public turn round and say increasingly forcefully that enough is enough. If the flags on lamposts are an early warning ignored, then civil unrest is a natural progression. Only yesterday Starmer started defining sides in the usual left right narrative that infects his thinking. Totally erroneous as time will prove.
December 4, 2025
Good morning.
Which is the plan as, these kind of people do not vote Labour. But the kind of people that do vote Labour, they are both rewarding and brining in in droves people who do.
I think they call gerrymandering.
December 4, 2025
Dear Sir J,
I also read that the stealth taxes are destroying the pubs. This really needs to be highlighted. This is a sector that Reeves said she was going to help.
Pubs need to exercise their “Right of Admission” and ban all labour politicians and their families.
December 4, 2025
Pubs are being destroyed by Reeves stealth taxes. A real attack on our culture.
Pubs ought to exercise their “Right of Admission” and ban all labour politicians including their families.
December 4, 2025
I read that buried deep within the Budget is a plan to give local authorities powers to compulsorily purchase farmland at agricultural prices and then award themselves development rights, immediately raising its value from £10,000 an acre to £1.5m.
No controls are proposed on what they do with their windfall.
A better scheme for plundering owners and pocketing the proceeds is difficult to imagine.
December 4, 2025
Nick, are you surprised ?
December 4, 2025
Just establish some bat colonies on the land and it will be untouchable.
December 4, 2025
They have been doing this for 40 years.
30 years ago the Leader of Monmouthshire County Council announced that they were the biggest landowners in Monmouthshire. He told farmers at a meeting in my presence ‘just because there are no farmers does not mean there will be no farms.’
No wonder they beat us. Most of us are asleep and have been for most of our lives, apparently.
December 4, 2025
Four mayoral elections due to take place in May 2026 are set to be postponed by two years, Sky News understands. Elections for the new mayoralties of Essex, Hampshire and the Solent, Sussex and Brighton, and Norfolk and Suffolk will be pushed back until 2028.
More Gerrymandering from Starmer and Labour scared to death of the electorate. What next voting for over 10 year olds’, delays to the next general election, more protections for certain family postal voting systems, a new blasphemy law for just one religion, more benefits to encourage even more feckless living off the backs of fewer and fewer workers.
December 4, 2025
Labour have always courted the children found amongst the Electorate, they show them the chance of opening the sweetie shop doors but don’t tell the gleeful that prices will rise beyond their pocket money as the weeks go by.
December 4, 2025
I’m seeing it reported that there are Conservatives pushing for the postponements in Essex and Norfolk/Suffolk.
Reply The Conservative party very clearly opposes delayed elections, as the Leader has set out.
December 4, 2025
We are in a real mess both financial and political, but it would seem few politicians are aware of such, so they move blindly forward under instruction from those Deluded Ministers/leaders who believe they have the solutions.
December 4, 2025
With the productive sector of our economy being hamstrung so much, who is going to pay the interest on our debt let alone how the debt will be paid off.
December 4, 2025
Another utter nonsense – also really a lie – is that Labour are ‘lifting 500k children out of poverty’ or whatever the number is. This claim is based on analysis by left wing pressure groups and the left wing TUC. ‘Poverty’ is defined as being below 60% of the median income. Now that Labour have chased out a few hundred thousand rich and successful people, the median income will have gone down and a certain number of people therefore ‘lifted out of poverty’ though there has been no change in their actual incomes. Indeed the use of median as opposed to mean requires a large number of successful people to be forced out. Perhaps this is what they are up to? Just pushing out the odd billionaire only affects the mean so doesn’t ‘lift anyone out of poverty’. A good question for someone to ask reeves or starmer.
December 4, 2025
Richard 1
The State Pension is well below that 60% median wage !
December 4, 2025
The very reason that people should be encouraged to invest in Private Pensions, Savings, and other Investment methods, and not be penalised by taxation.
We surely should encourage self sufficiency, not trash it !.
December 4, 2025
When Trust is lost by a government, it cannot be recovered. The Conservatives learnt that at the last GE, and Labour will learn it at the next one.
We have a PM and a Chancellor who have both lied to the voters. The budget shambles being the most recent example. The only question is how much more damage will the terrible twosome do to the UK?
If Reeves does not go, whether she resigns or is sacked, no one will believe a word any politician says again.
If Government spending is not cut significantly, the UK will go bankrupt. If you don’t make tough choices while you can, even tougher choices will be forced on you.
December 4, 2025
Yes. Both main parties are done. We can’t trust either.
December 4, 2025
The £150 does not apply to every one. I have invested over the years in the following to bring down my costs. Solar panels increase loft insulation replacement of windows glazing units. So my average is around £1300 so my saving will be reduced.
December 4, 2025
We could leave, my wife is a British citizen (and yes, we knew she had to register and become one in order to stay – unlike some others apparently) but was born elsewhere. So my sons have dual nationality too. However, they have good careers here, nice homes ( albeit with large mortgages ) and children in school. There is the problem of the ‘other’ familes – the in-laws – the other Grandparents who would be left behind.
But the option is there and there are other nice places to live (not just tax havens) some of which we visited last year to visit family and friends. It’s not a serious option at the moment but just the fact it’s even been considered is a monument to failure by this and previous governments. Is there a future here for our Grandchildren? I don’t know but they will have the freedom to choose and might well be tempted to go and make a life elsewhere if things continue on the current downward trajectory here.
December 4, 2025
Good morning, Sir John
Whichever way we wish to see things, it’s hard now to image that it was not part of the plan all along. It was up and running long before the arrived in office, so much so they hit the ground running before anyone cottoned on.
Then the government surrounded its self with ‘gurus’ that are political ideologues, they sell their wares by undermining everyone and everything to arrive at a narrative that suits a Marxist regime.
The so-called leaks were never some background ‘person’ letting something loose that wasn’t intended to be out there. As demonstrated, they were clear attempts to change society by a drip, drip of fear.
As also shown by the latest from 2TK saying to the media – “We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU.”
“And we will have to be grown-up about that, to accept that this ‘will require trade-offs’. That applies to our trading relations across the world.”
In plain English screw you, screw the World, the UK’s destination is to be placed under the yoke of the unelected, unaccountable EU, and my administration will secure that.
Everything done to date has had that as the final outcome
December 4, 2025
So Labour are economically illiterate, who knew…………
December 4, 2025
As also reported in the Telegraph a family of 3 on benefits receives what it would take a similar working family £71,000 to earn before taxes. It was a benefit giveaway budget.
The real bit missing is how will the money be earn’t to pay all these extras, these debts, the interest on these debts. Enterprise and earnings have been cancelled and they are running out of people to tax.
With 2TK now seriously talking about severing our hard and newly earned trading relationship with the World to be sacrificed so as the UK is able to come under the EU umbrella as the only way forward. Although would the EU need another ‘basket case’
December 4, 2025
Not even 2 years in office with 3 more years of horrendous attacks to come. It is hard to rationalise, as someone that was director of public prosecutions (dpp), with all the preplanning that that job takes didn’t have all this laid as the intended manipulation even before the GE.
In the law you are taught not to ask a question that you don’t know the answer to, as the DPP he wouldn’t open his mouth unless all the traps had been set. So just 2 years and 3 to come.
No one should dismiss any of our woes as not being pre-meditated – part of the Plan
December 4, 2025
“Now we learn there were misleading promises on energy bills, where the extra costs of more renewable energy will be charged to bills but not mentioned in the speech.”
In order to give the impression that energy (electricity) bills are reducing DESNZ has started the process to move the exorbitant costs of renewables to general taxation writing on P28 of the recent Budget:
“The Budget is delivering a package of measures to remove around £150 of costs on average from household energy bills across Great Britain from April 2026.77 This will be delivered through the government funding 75% of the domestic cost of the legacy Renewables Obligation for the rest of this spending review period from 2026-27 to 2028-29 and ending the Energy Company Obligation which is currently funded through energy bills.”
Yes, Claire Coutinho needs to call for a halt for the next round of renewables (AR7) but not simply on the grounds of cost and affordability but also on the grounds of security of supply and national security. There is no way we can have security for our energy when chaotically intermittent renewable infrastructure is supplied by China, a state described by our security services as “hostile”. If Huawei were banned for supplying 5G infrastructure so China should be banned from supplying our energy infrastructure.
December 4, 2025
We just got an email from OVO advising that our energy bill will be going up from January.
What happened to that Labour promise that we would have a cut in domestic energy bills?
Are we shocked and surprised that promises are broken so easily? Not at all, in fact they are only just starting.
Batten down the hatches, ensure that safety belt is on, tighten the expenditure belt for a cold hard winter is already here and it is going to hurt those ill prepared for Labour government.
December 4, 2025
The cancellation of the ECO scheme was perhaps the best measure in the whole budget. Wasteful spending that had been heavily criticised by the National Audit Office has been eliminated. An example for so much else in government spending.
December 4, 2025
“Labour is proposing that police be allowed to compare photos of crime suspects from CCTV, doorbells and dashcams against facial images on government databases, including the passports of 45 million Britons, and immigration records.”
“The plans are part of a Home Office consultation launched on Thursday to establish a legal framework for all police forces to use facial recognition technology to catch wanted criminals and crime suspects.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/12/04/live-facial-recognition-cameras-planned-for-every-town-cent/
How many of us believe there will be another general election, ever?
December 4, 2025
Spying on the Citizen, all the citizens without ‘just cause’ is just spying and control
December 4, 2025
From the comments –
Jay Maxwell
Digital I.D. End of juries. Monitoring bank accounts. Facial recognition. ANPR. CCTV. Stopping local elections. Hmm, a highly intrusive state.
The 2TK is off to China to learn more…
December 4, 2025
Then we are reminded – Major providers of existing CCTV equipment are Chinese.
December 4, 2025
Then to rub it in today we hear – “Fury as Labour postpones even more elections – with critics saying they fear humiliating defeats”
Any one that thought 2TK(Kier Starmer the PM of the UK) would allow democracy is living in dreamland. Not forgetting ‘Digital I.D. End of juries. Monitoring bank accounts. Facial recognition. ANPR. CCTV.’
December 4, 2025
Simply put, it was a bad budget because it followed ideological purposes. It penalised and punished for no good reason. The nanny state sugar tax was utterly pathetic.
It was a bad budget because it took more out of the economy than it allowed growth to happen.
The UK economy is shrinking and along with it our hopes for a better future, This was a bad budget that set in place the seeds of destruction – even without the unsustainable debt our industry and commerce are falling apart.
Will there be anything left of the country by the next election?
December 4, 2025
Starmer cancelling more elections I see…
What is the word for a government that refuses to hold elections again?
December 4, 2025
Off Topic.
Elections for newly-created mayors will be delayed in four more areas of England, the BBC has confirmed, pushing back regional devolution plans. New mayors were expected to be elected in Greater Essex, Norfolk & Suffolk, Hampshire & the Solent, and Sussex & Brighton in May next year, but will now have to wait until May 2028. The government is expected to argue that more time is needed to reorganise local government in these areas.
But opposition parties are calling for the elections to go ahead as planned, with shadow local government secretary Sir James Cleverly accusing Labour of “subverting democracy”.
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice called the move a “deliberate, dictatorial cancelling of democracy”.
“There is just a fear of how successful Reform are doing, they’ve been talking about these mayoral elections for years and years, they’ve been getting ready,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Meanwhile, Liberal Democrat local government spokesperson Zoe Franklin said the party would work to see the vote next May does go ahead, adding, “democracy delayed is democracy denied”.
December 4, 2025
From the MsM..
‘Reeves triggers ‘havoc’ in the stock market as investors pull record £10bn
Experts blame repeated leaks and about-turns leading up to the Budget for ‘reactive’ withdrawals
UK investors pulled more than £10bn out of global stock markets over the last six months, the longest and most severe period of selling on record, according to data provider Calastone.
October was a record month for ditching stocks, with net £3.6bn of outflows. November was the second-worst month on record, with £3bn withdrawn from equity funds.’
Weirdly as opposed to other commentators, I don’t think Reeves is that capable, to have even thought it through as a plan. These leaks, ideas, plans, have got to be coming from more nefarious characters than her, she is just the ‘patsy’ having her strings pulled and lined up to take the blame when the ‘people’ find out
December 4, 2025
£10 bn over six months is peanuts compared to 2008 when the FTSE100 started at 6,457 in January and finished in December at 4,434 (-31.3%).
Reuters.com 31/12/2008 ´FTSE registers worst annual loss’.
The FTSE was at about 8300 on 02/01/2025 it was at 9700 at closing today. That’s +16.8%.
Maybe you should read proper financial journals Ian B , instead of the ‘MSM’?
December 4, 2025
@Heffer – a Labour Government that cost us dear, who’s debts from then we still haven’t paid down.
But still petty snipping without an opinion of your own, we are all used to it now
December 5, 2025
“£10 billion… is peanuts”
Are you serious hefner?
Another hilarious post from you.
December 5, 2025
hefner
Do some research and have a think.
Investors in shares tend to keep their investments for many years.
The change in the daily share price is less relevant than dividend yields they achieve.
You only make a loss if you sell at a price lower than you bought at.
December 5, 2025
MiB, Read again. Figures for 2008 were over a year, those for 2025 over 330 days. I know you feel obliged to add your two grams of … after everything I write, but it would help you not looking ridiculous if you were actually reading my comment first.
Sam, total value of London Stock Exchange is around £3.4-3.8 tn. So £10bn is … 0.3% and a slip happening over six months.
Learn about orders of magnitude. You’re not the only one on this blog talking rubbish day in day out as soon as it relates to numbers.
December 4, 2025
“It gave an impression” No, it reinforced that a socialist labour party likes to harm anyone who works hard, saves, runs a business or dares to be successful.
December 4, 2025
The budget hangover continues. Now we are being told the unannounced spending on additional pylon construction and cables to connect the nation to ever more expensive unreliable ‘clean’ energy will be £90billions. We are also being advised the £billions in uplifted price guarantees to those unreliable energy providers will be paid directly by consumers.
The much championed cheaper energy bills saving us £300/annum thanks to Ed’s promised low cost new energy policies are now seen for the lies they were when advanced at the last election.
We have an energy minister who does not understand basic physics or engineering and we have a Chancellor who does not understand basic economics. Add to that the final member of the unholy trinity of ignorance, one Justice secretary, Mr David Lammy. His solution to our inefficient judicial system is to remove a basic right i.e. trial by jury from the vast majority of criminal cases. That leaves the average citizen at the mercy of a judge who could have ingrained political bias against the views of people brought before her or him.
We will be reassured that all judges are unbiased and only influenced by the facts.
The truth is, as we have seen in so many instances in America, judges carry opinions that are far from neutral.
The less said about our PM and his role in matters of state are best left alone.
There is only so much horror anyone can take in one day, more Chagos islands anyone?
December 4, 2025
Thank you John – so grateful that you are out there arguing for common sense.
December 4, 2025
I think in the long run the biggest mistake the Treasury made was leaking false information to the newspaper political correspondents – they regard themselves as untouchable and won’t like that and will seek revenge. I note that even the Covid inquiry isn’t looking at the role the press played during the pandemic even though their performance was lamentably bad and damaging throughout.
December 4, 2025
Elon Musk saying today that the UK “is a police state”, it is hard to argue with him.
December 4, 2025
and there are levels of ‘police state’ around the world. Starmer and vicious gang are only just putting the state into action.
December 4, 2025
And that Caucasians constitute 11% of the world’s population.
We are on extinction watch.
December 4, 2025
Off topic, i watched the first part of David Dimbleby’s hatchet job on the monarchy. It wasn’t bad, but unless I’ve remembered wrong the 1/4 or so of the programme devoted to Boris Johnson’s “illegal” prorogation of Parliament was tendentious. It focused on the likes of Dominic Grieve and Jeremy Corbyn in their outrage that Parliament had been suspended but omitted the key point which was that, due to the fixed term parliament act, a general election could not be called when the government failed to get its key measure through parliament unless parliament agreed. What should have happened surely is John Bercow or Dominic Grieve or such like should have formed a government, with the Boris Conservatives in opposition, and they could have tried to get through the ‘soft’ Brexit they wanted, or reversed Brexit altogether. the public would have got a say at the eventual election. But parliament both blocked the government policy and blocked a dissolution, presumably as they feared an election (rightly as it turned out). Need to make sure history records this episode correctly.
December 4, 2025
Fixed Term Parliament Act was repealed by the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022.
December 4, 2025
Its shocking how easily people can arrive to England implant many of their own ways, that are often incompatible with a Christian way of life and values and have no work requirements but to now have many children on a state dependant benefit system that gives them an income greater than every person that works for a council, teachers, nurses, police, firemen, engineers, doctors, business executives, the list is pretty much endless. This give away then extends to many people on low incomes. Do less, get more state dependant subsidy. Children are a financial decision many make. This is blatantly buying votes to retain power. There has to stringent limits and a cap on any combination of benefits.
December 4, 2025
Socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor. So the Civil Service will continue with their spend, spend, spend policy to keep the current MPs in power for as long as possible so that their scorched earth policy – such as the Chinese Trojan Horse Net Zero program – can finally bring the country to its knees with the breakdown of our energy, economy. social cohesion and national security. 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 welfare”.
December 4, 2025
A very moral standpoint – could Gus advise how well the crusade is going in all the other relatively wealthy countries of the World?
December 4, 2025
SJR. I enjoyed watching the expression on the face of the Socialist magazine publisher on GB News last night, as you explained how the budget figures were wrong. It went from smug to panic.
December 4, 2025
Today’s industry that has given up trying to make stuff while Net Zero is putting costs up is the brickworks that was used to construct the Shard.
December 4, 2025
Sir John
We the people, the electorate, need to be asking parliament whether it feels that ‘leeks’ of actual facts before they get officially announced is more important to them than the ‘inexactitudes’ they get told officially. Which one portrays the credibility, integrity of all members of our parliament?
We need as the electorate to be able to form a position on those that serve, and in turn the attitude of the whole of parliament and its members, even to questioning the point of a parliament.
December 4, 2025
You should maybe ask advice from Poirot.
December 5, 2025
IanB
Another excellent post.
December 4, 2025
Hi sir john
I am a pensioner 78 I have a modest private pension I’m on the old pension which means I get up 70 pounds per week less than those on the new pension
I have worked all my life have been lucky not to have used the NHS for anything serious this government want to reduce my pension take away my driving licence and are going to restrict my concssionary travel pass
i see people who have not worked officially and on benefits being
Better off ex: my naybour on benefits doing jobs cash in hand driving around in a nice car and goes abroad for his holidays
Sir John please join reform we need your talent in politics
Reply I am in politics still as an adviser/commentator. I am not joining Reform.
December 4, 2025
@George sheard – think about it, if you are considered disable with mental health issues, not only can you drive keep your licence the taxpayer will fund you a new car.
December 4, 2025
The German Chancellor addressed both UK Parliaments today, his speech was enlightening.
“Democracy has made our continent strong,” he said. “Over the course of decades, it has ensured our prosperity, freedom and peace. But it is now in danger, not only here in Europe, but in many places around the world.”
“It took a while, but we Germans learned from you,” he said. “From how you love freedom as a partner, from your parliamentary tradition and culture of debate; from the conviction that democracy is not only a form of government, but a personal stance.”
Is this the same Parliament that in recent times has taken a different approach?
While the German Chancellor this was saying these things the UK PM, the Two Tier Justice man was announcing the cancellation of more democratic elections on top of the ones already announced. 2TK’s Government also announced that the UK Authorities, that’s not just the Police, are to continually monitor our streets using Chinese equipped CCTV, and those Chinese produced video door cameras. Door videos have the data stored centrally now the Government wants access to it. Checking movements and cross referencing them with the Passport Office Data base. Storing data on everyone’s movements? Why else would you need access to passport photos. It is sold as looking for known criminals at large, they already have the photos of the known criminals! So it is not them they are monitoring. So it can only be to control the masses.
In a creditable free democracy, the law protect society not on from nefarious acts but also the State. Again in a creditable free democracy the phrase is used of ‘just cause’ and even that needs signing off by a Judge.
The 2TK slippery slope
December 4, 2025
Mustn’t the desire to be judged by our peers, by removing jury trials. A politicised judge is seen as the way forward
December 4, 2025
Kemi is fab.Go for it gal.
December 4, 2025
Having same type of budgets all over the eu, I call them the WAR budgets.
December 8, 2025
This is an awful government, dishonesty is rife! What on earth can we do?