The budget set up disaster for this government. It put Ministers in conflict with so many groups and interests
Farmers with family farms see their farms being taxed away from them with NI and Inheritance tax. They are on permanent protest.
Pensioners on modest incomes were mugged by the removal of their fuel grant just in time for a cold winter.
Small businesses face a large tax hike if they employ people. There has been a plunge in job vacancies already. The businesses will cut back more in April when the jobs tax hits.
VAT on school fees has led less well off parents to take their children out of fee paying schools, pressurising the state sector. Some private schools have closed.
The change of tax rules for investing in AIM listed shares has further damaged the London markets trying to provide money for business expansion.
The failure to Ā link well above inflation pay awards for some public sector workers to improved productivity means too much state borrowing
Allowing large increases in water bills, energy prices, and Council tax is pushing up inflation and hitting family budgets
The budget has stopped growth, increased inflation, increased borrowing and made the public sector less efficient and less affordable.
Now we see care homes and charities Ā saying they cannot find all the money to pay Ā the extra jobs taxes. Doesnāt the government care about any of this? Why wont it listen and mend its ways?
As I have pointed out there are easy ways to cut public spending by tens of billions without cutting services.
February 27, 2025
This less than amature govrnment are driven by envy and zealotry. They have no interest in the people as a whole. People and the nations interests are sacrificial to their cause.
What a contrast to Trumps first public cabinet meeting of positivity, even Elon Musk was coherent, which surprised me after his debut at the US Conservative conference with a chain saw. Perhaps he is a better judge than me in how to communicate with the american electorate. Here the chain saw would be more logical, but for different reasons, in the hands of the millipede.
Your list to disaster is correct and added to by the day. How long to the implosion. I believe that socialism thinks that from abject disaster comes forth a clear playing field on which they can disport themselves in all their extreme left lunacy. They, like many others before them, misjudge the British character under duress. They will not change it by importing population change either.
February 27, 2025
Agreed Agricola. Economic problems and social damage don’t matter if you are an ideological zealot.
February 27, 2025
A very good summary.
February 27, 2025
You don’t think what’s happening is accidental. It’s like the Chagos fiasco, everyone knows it doesn’t make sense but 2TK us ploughing on regardless. It seems there is unlimited funds for the Marxist dogma.
The iHT on farmers is particularly galling when the government are giving more than it raises to foreign farmers.
No Hihn, all is going to plan. Gas prices are falling but Milibrain says the increase in the cap is because of gas prices. He reckons by 2040 we can expect a reduction in prices. I’ll be dead by then but I’m busy spending my money to deprive the taxman.
February 27, 2025
High natural gas prices suits Milibrain; the price of ‘green electricity’ is based on the gas price. Hence, we buy the most expensive gas!
You’d have to look hard to find a government so intent on damaging their own country as ours.
February 27, 2025
Our government could pass a law, in which a percentage of gas is sold to the UK at a given price and the surplas goes to export under world market price
February 27, 2025
The current model might work for politicians ….it doesn’t work for the UK
February 27, 2025
Muskās chainsaw was an effective device, but would have been more so if it were switched on and running physically to cut something symbolic.
The audience noise was too loud to hear it, but fortunately it looked as though it must have been off as it was swinging too close to people on the stage for comfort.
February 27, 2025
While the content of the blog is true, it is not going to win any friends or influence people in the Labour Party. I think this website should instead attempt to win friends and influence people by making helpful suggestions for those seeking to replace Labour at the next General Election.
Reply The ideas on this site are made available to Opposition parties. I am usually willing to talk them through or do further work for those interested. I have been closely involved with the opposition to giving away Chagos for example.
February 27, 2025
Opposition parties, plural?
Not much noise from the official opposition party, so can only assume that you’re now in touch with the real opposition party. Good but 15 years late.
February 27, 2025
You have a point, Geoffrey. Concluding the piece with “Why won’t the government change its ways?” comes across frankly as naive and pointless. However, everything before that, all the damaging things that are being done to the country by those currently governing it, might not be known in detail to the large number of Conservative and ex- Conservative voters still getting their news from the BBC, etc. In this way, this site will influence people, I think.
February 27, 2025
Well said Sir John, every decision they have taken since the election has been wrong. They have broken promises and manifesto pledges too.
Their actions in stemming both illegal and legal migration have been equally as poor as the last government.
Everyone can see this and upcoming by-elections will be very telling imvho. They will be a one time government.
February 27, 2025
The economic damage which is being caused by this Government is either incompetence or it is intentional.
I am not sure which.
February 27, 2025
It’s both.
February 27, 2025
Intentional.
Makes it easier, and cheaper for ‘Larry’ to buy up on the cheap.
February 27, 2025
Ronald Reagan was described as following some of his wifeās mystical predictions on decisions. Maybe Keir Starmer has two zones on his office carpet marked out Yes and No, and decides on which according to where Larry the Cat finds more comfortable to sit. The way things are presently going, Larry is probably hiding down his trousers.
February 27, 2025
“There’s a rat in mi kitchen
What I’m a-gonna do?
I’m gonna fix that rat
that’s what I’m gonna do.”
(as UB40 sang in the ’80s-it’s just inspired me to play that tune that I haven’t heard for a long time)
February 27, 2025
They’d say Labour is caring, unlike the nasty Tories. Some of them might even believe it. But few people outside of politics would.
I’m finding my less wealthy colleagues see through the bluster. One has had his “affordable housing” rent increase by over 25% in the past 3 years. It’s Ā£900-odd for a small flat. He lives in fear of there being a mistake in his housing benefit, without which he’d be lost (due to time off childminding, he can only earn Ā£1200-odd). “Inflation isn’t 3% for me” he observes, adding ruefully “they want to make you dependent”.
February 27, 2025
Good morning.
From the latest interview on Tucker Carlson I hear that a rather lot of physical gold is leaving London and heading for the USA. The reason for this is lack of investor confidence in the UK. This on top with the rich leaving and people with high net worth skills also seeking a better life in the USA.
If things continue as they are, I wonder who will be left around to pay all those Uber drivers benefits ?
February 27, 2025
I don’t suppose things will continue as they are. Who’d have thought they would announce a cut in foreign aid to pay for an increase in defence spending? The Labour backbenchers are going to have to hold their nose on that one.
Even if they do roll back their insane decisions, they have already proved themselves inept for government.
February 27, 2025
I too was surprised by Starmer cutting the Foreign Aid budget in order to increase the defence budget until I heard the inside detail.
The money will be used to fund, not UK defence but to pay Chagos rental costs and also to try to hoodwink Trump later today that the UK is stepping up its contribution to European defence.
Smoke and mirrors all round.
Labour do not operate any policy to advance the interests of the UK.
When they talked about growth being a priority at the last election, what they failed to detail was growth of what?
Growth of socialist policies, growth of the public sector both cost and employees, growth of national debt, growth of taxation and growth of migration.
So far they are hitting all their targets.
February 27, 2025
Diego Garcia is safe. Lammy has said so.
February 27, 2025
On the issue of charities feeling the pinch, I speak only from my perspective of being a long time volunteer.
Perhaps they could stop being so officious in their recruitment of the many who wish to volunteer. It puts people off who want to give their time for free. In some cases you could be forgiven for thinking you were applying to the secret service.
I understand there will be the need to have some paid staff, but when you have a person giving time for free and doing a good job of it, why would some officious socialists within then decide to re-organise get rid of the non-paid competent person and replace with 3 paid people with fancy titles.
Having seen this, it just typifies for me the socialist mind set.
Of course charities will feel the pinch because people now will have less to give.
I’ve seen this already in the charity I volunteer my time with.
February 27, 2025
I’ve applied to volunteer at our local hospital having time on.my hands after losing the wife. The process takes about 3 months including a medical, induction and CRB check. I thought I was applying for a senior management job.
February 27, 2025
That sounds more rigorous than applying for a senior management role! I wonder how long it takes them to hire a new nurse.
February 28, 2025
Well done Ian.
February 27, 2025
The people employed by Charities will not feel the pinch. What did you think charities were for if not yo provide cushy employment?
February 27, 2025
Michelle
Been working for our local Lions Club for the past 35 years, all of us actually pay to be a member, all the Clubs running expenses are paid for out of our membership dues, signs of a true charity !
Agreed it is getting more and more difficult to raise money, as more and more obstacles are being put in our way every year, Health and Safety, Insurance premiums/restrictions, Risk assessments, Method statements, DBS checks, Local Authority Rules /Regulations etc etc etc.
Now just been advised we have to complete a risk assessment and method statement for a simple Quiz night would you believe.
Common-sense gone out of the window.
The voluntary sector is slowly shrinking !
February 28, 2025
Oh, my goodness. First of all, well done, Alan, for persisting to do good in the face of over-regulation. Do you think the over-regulation is there to force people to rely on the local Council, NHS led support instead?
Why do you need a method statement for a quiz night? Are you trying to get some funding towards it from the public sector? What would be in a risk assessment for something like that event? Do you have to anticipate everything that could possible occur, someone falling out with someone else, a fire in the pub or venue, a papercut requiring a plaster, someone tripping on the way to the toilet? The UK is going crazy.
February 27, 2025
The damage has only just started. The tax penalties kick in in April, just as the energy cap increases (again) and the above-inflation Council Tax demands land.
The Budget was so obviously damaging and going to lead to Stagflation that it has to have been done deliberately.
Two-Tier is a puppet of the WEF and I would imagine he received instructions that the Destruction Phase of The Great Reset had to be accelerated to achieve their aims.
February 27, 2025
The damage caused by the Reeves budget has been terminal for many businesses and will be for many, many more. The UK is well on its way to turning into a wasteland. The only question is what, if anything, will be recoverable when an alternative government, that actually understands how the economy works, gets elected to office.
February 27, 2025
The new SoS Health Wes Streeting has taken an axe to the hugely expensive QUANGO NHS England, their CEO Amanda Pritchard (who was in charge during the pandemic) has been forced to step down. A “government source” is quoted by the BBC indicating NHS England would in due course be a smaller organisation – meaning a lot of quangocrats are going to lose their jobs.
Streeting should not restrict NHS downsizing to NHS England. Since the Chinese plague virus epidemic NHS admin headcount has expanded to bloated proportions as the government has pumped in yet more money. Less than 15% of the extra posts have been clinically qualified doctors, nurses or lab people. Productivity has dropped dramatically.
Streeting should build on his excellent start and clear the new middle management empire-builders from a few floors in our hospitals, turning them into wards. Getting acutely ill patients off trolleys in corridors looks like a better use of resources than spending money on nice carpeted warm offices and desks for admin middle managers.
February 27, 2025
“It put Ministers in conflict with so many groups and interests” However it didn’t put ministers in conflict with the public sector which is 17% of the workforce (and increasing) and so their polling and vote is unlikely to go much below their current 25% when you factor in the households of public sector employees.
February 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025
The budget was political and not economic.
Dogmatic with the belief that talking about growth will generate it.
Once the markets turn our economy will be toast as it is so reliant on public sector borrowing.
February 27, 2025
We have to understand that Labourās entire perception of reality is very different from most who contribute comments to this site. Just read Left Foot Forward or the Guardian, which Labour ministers are far more likely to read than this blog. A classic example was an article by Will Hutton in last weekās Guardian where he encouraged the government to remove any remaining tax breaks on private firms, saying they āachieve nothingā. He gave no examples of how they achieve nothing however. William Keegan is the same – constantly calling for a return to EU membership without any rigorous justification at all.
Itās these sorts of people that the government looks to for reassurance that they are, in their own terms, on track. Coupled with the fact that no Cabinet members have worked in the commercial world and donāt care about borders, things are set to get even worse and itās very difficult to see how there will be any restoration of rationality at the next election.
February 27, 2025
Do not forget unused pension pots will now added to the value of your estate for Inheritance tax in 2027, so yet another swipe at the self employed with SiPPs and planned retirees who had planned for their future.
If over 75 then not only do they take inheritance tax when the holder passes, but any further withdrawals from the fund left to your family members after IHT will also be taxed at their own rate. So double taxation,
Given that Pensions have strict limits as what you can do with them this is in effect a retrospective tax because you cannot get out of it without any tax penalty.
Not difficult to get over Ā£1,000,000 if you live in the South if you are a couple, but remember single people with no children the limit is only Ā£325.000.
Why not take the family home out of the calculation for IHT or better still No IHT at all.
What encouragement are we giving people to invest in ir for their future, absolutely Nothing.!
February 27, 2025
@ Berkshire Alan “Why not take the family home out of the calculation for IHT…” – to see house prices balloon in the way agricultural land prices have swelled as buyers make purchases driven by tax planning considerations?
February 27, 2025
Sorry I do not see it that way, at least if the family home is taken out of the equation it helps to level up all areas of the Country by taxing disposable/invested income and not homes where property values in London for a two bedroom flat can cost over Ā£1,000,000
Many Victorian 3 bedroom terraced houses on the outskirts of London are Ā£1,000,000 plus.
People purchasing such properties in the South and other expensive areas are having to pay for these already out of taxed income, and many struggle to pay mortgages.
Yes fully aware some organisations benefit but the vast majority of ordinary families are now suffering, many of whom have never paid more than the basic rate of income tax on earnings in their lives.
February 27, 2025
Alan, the socialist left would like you not to be able to leave your house at all.
Did you spot the Changes to Tax for those looking to sell their businesses. Significant changes impacting small business owners. Effective from October 30, 2024, the lower CGT rate will rise from 10% to 18%, and the higher rate will increase from 20% to 24%. Business Asset Disposal Relief (BADR) previously known as Entrepreneurs Relief has also been changed. Qualifying business sales benefit from a reduced CGT rate of 10% on the first Ā£1million of gains. New rules the BADR rate will increase, reaching 14% by April 2025 and aligning with the new CGT rate of 18% by April 2026.
There have also been changes to Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), which limit sellers’ control over businesses once sold.
I’m not a peep out of business organisations, but I’m considering cancelling our subscription. I know two business people who sold up when Boris was kicked out; they said they could see the writing on the wall for this change.
February 27, 2025
a.tracy
Agreed that’s why I simply made a statement “what encouragement serve giving people to invest in the future” answer absolutely none.
Tax has now become legalised theft, and is being used as a weapon to control the people, and to redistribute their wealth/money, with the rules constantly changing, sometimes retrospectively.
In short is is dishonest politics.
February 27, 2025
This Labour government is actively progressing policies that are damaging to society and to the poor members of society in particular.
The old and the poor are being used as pawns, with socialist safety nets being quoted as sureties when either group comes under pressure by the tax laws/existing state payments changes are introduced.
The Net Zero attacks on manufacturers is equally pernicious. It is destroying jobs industries and whole communities. The UK mining industry which once led the world in extraction techniques, is all but gone. The steel industry that once represented the highest standard of quality production is now all but gone. The aluminium industry and associated down stream manufacturing is all but gone. The same is true for any industry using energy as a key cost centre for its production.
The ongoing war against wealth creation in general and against capitalism in particular by the left is now a world wide movement that has embraced and is championed by the institutions across the globe.
The easy decision to cancel local elections this may in areas where greater centralisation is being put in place is indicative of just how cavalier the left are when it comes to democracy and tradition.
We are in very troubling times, when the farming industry and its community are being dismantled for political reasons without any economic positive being advanced for destroying what is a foundation of rural society.
The time has come for a new movement to emerge that will re-establish the basic principles of democracy and champion sovereignty as the only stable and secure future for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
We need Reform
February 27, 2025
Their agenda, which I outlined yesterday is more important than the people of the UK. So, NO – they simply do not care about the damage they are doing!
They are not looking for good advice, and while the last budget continues to accumulate misery for many they are already looking at ways to further impoverish us.
We all know what’s going on with this rogue government working against the best interests of us all – They will not change their plans because now they fully understand their power — Socialism rules, meaning they can do just what they want and finally the likes of Ramsay MacDonald and Keir Hardie will see their frustrations about life under a Christian society finally put to rest.
It’s not just deindustrialisation coming to an end, they are determined also to take out Christianity and everything else that worked to our benefit before ignorant revolutionaries became powerful enough to subject us all to their irrationalities.
February 27, 2025
I think your first sentence should read “The budget set up disaster for this country.” Surely no one can now doubt the malevolence of this duplicitous government.
February 27, 2025
Two highly damaging aspects of the last budget were (1) to the inept Starmer’s prospects for a successful premiership and (2) to Reeves’ career in politics.
February 27, 2025
“Doesnāt the government care about any of this? Why wont it listen and mend its ways?”
No, I don’t believe they do care.
Someone from the Bruges Group once likened the globalists view of the people as looking down from a cliff and seeing the people as ant like people. Of no consequence. A good analogy, I thought!
A lot of our current and more recent government are globalist in their thinking, so no, I don’t think they do care. Their ideologies are far more important than the well being of the country!
February 27, 2025
It looks as if it is all going to plan for socialism depends upon people remaining poor. Unfortunately there will be no quick end to this as virtually the whole of Parliament and the majority of Parliamentary parties support the most damaging policies of Net Zero, mass immigration and high, wasteful spending to justify high taxation and EU/ECHR membership.
February 27, 2025
āFarmers with family farms see their farms being taxed away from them with NI and Inheritance tax.ā
This policy doesnāt appear to make sense when the money gained is so small. But this is because it is not realised that it is really a Net Zero measure to rid the country of small farmers who are likely to put up resistance to Net Zero measures such as re-wilding, solar estates and the elimination of fertilisers and pest control.
February 27, 2025
The budget has already damaged the country, and the Labour government with it. If events fall in proper sequence, the Labour government should collapse first, enabling the country to recover, eventually.
February 27, 2025
“The Project” or hidden agenda seems to demonstrate to the world how Socialist government can wrong the rights of Capitalism, Colonialism, Slavery and everything else that “their Truth” conjures up.
Thinking they were elected with a massive majority in 2024 that the country has been crying out for since Mrs Thatcher torpedoed “The Project” nearly 50 years and Brexit attempted to challenge it.
February 27, 2025
Your article is spot on. But the problem is that people like Starmer, Reeves and the rest just can’t cope with being wrong. They would rather do more damage than admit they got it wrong and change direction. They are full of vanity, pride and arrogance. It takes real humility to admit you are wrong and put it right.
Look at Milliband, a zealot who would rather sink the UK economy than examine the facts about GW/CC/Net Zero.
When the blind lead the blind, they both fall into the ditch!
The only question is how deep the ditch will be when we get the chance to vote them out!
February 27, 2025
You’ve left out the damage being done by the restriction of Business Asset Relief on Inheritance Tax for unlisted companies. That will probably do much more damage than the farm tax. It’ll cause the breakup of many family firms, even those which the newspapers are fond of describing as “national treasures” such as the fifth generation butchers and so on. It’ll act as a disincentive to start a business – one of the reasons I sorted my own business is that I’d be able to leave something behind. All economies need private capital – but the socialists don’t understand that.
February 27, 2025
@ Alfred T Mahan – certainly tax policy that promotes the break-up of “national treasures” amongst family-owned firms seems wrong-headed. Whilst not detracting from that point, I saw a research paper (“Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Nations”, Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen, published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (2007)) that said (in the synopsis): –
“Management practices also display significant cross-country differences with US firms on average better managed than European firms, and significant within-country differences with a long tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market competition is weak and/or when (b) family-owned firms pass management control down to the eldest sons (primo geniture).”
February 27, 2025
They donāt understand the difference between āspendingā and āinvestingā and they think ācapitalā is a synonym for greed.
On the bright side, Reeves looks dreadful – sick.
February 27, 2025
Agree
February 27, 2025
Big Brother – the last two weeks…
Mass bank spying powers creeping through Parliament;
Government’s proposed powers to spy on all of our bank accounts under the premise of dealing with welfare fraud is yet another piece of deceit.
Apple removing its most secure encryption tool from the UK;
The UK Government ordered Apple to create a backdoor that would effectively break encryption for millions of users.
Live facial recognition zone being wired up in Cardiff.
206,741 – 02 the number of faces scanned in Cardiff vs arrests made.
IT JUST GETS WORSE AND WORSE
February 27, 2025
Did you notice todays announcement that Police will get more ability to see all your details.
Every driverās personal information to be made available to police, Labourās Crime and Policing Bill to give forces access to data of 50 million motorists article in the Telegraph. The Crime and Policing Bill will give law enforcement the power to access some 50 million motoristsā data held by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
The DVLA data includes motoristsā names, addresses, date of birth, photographs, endorsements, convictions and relevant medical information that may affect their ability to drive.
At present, police can only access the data if they are investigating road traffic offences but the Home Office legislation will extend this to all offences to help the investigation of other crimes.
On the day that a female police officer was ‘suspended’ after illegally accessing police database and sharing case details with friends. She resigned, but what is appropriate action for someone with access to all our private information doing this? Does that mean she gets no record that she was dismissed for gross misconduct and can get another job in another service to do her snooping?
February 27, 2025
@a-tracy – this is not data for which there is suspicious or just reason to view, it is data to give authorities personal controls of everyone regardless
February 27, 2025
Exactly so – which is why we can do without an ID card system.
Recall the ID card is merely the system’s front end: behind it would be a vast interlinked series of data bases that connect records by individual, capturing all tax, NHS, education, property and vehicles ownership, court, police, welfare and all other State-gathered information. Granted all these records are held now: the point is that they are not connected to enable a single view of all.
February 28, 2025
The other scary thing is that they’re dressing up to be able to recover stolen phones by a new bill to allow police to enter any own without a warrant just to say they suspect you have a stolen phone in your home. Can they turn the whole place over and up-end every drawer and cupboard? What evidence do they have to show the householder that a stolen phone is tracking from your home? The British police force has lost a lot of trust in the past ten years. A decade ago, I remember trust levels being high.
February 27, 2025
Just a step closer to 1984
February 27, 2025
It gets worst
‘Product Regulation and Metrology Bill’
Otherwise know as the UK/EU re-alignment bill https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3752/publications
February 28, 2025
Uk product regulation and re-alignment with what? The EU? Even manufactured items we don’t export?
February 27, 2025
The last budget and net-zero
”Britainās car industry has suffered its worst January for two years amid concerns about sluggish demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and the threat of US tariffs”
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/
February 27, 2025
What of the government’s EU reset. We were given prior to the election limited info re the desired phytosanitary & food improvements which might give a little help to our food and dairy exporters, that we knew about but what of the largely unspoken and likely Carbon issues/ EU alignment which could mean we have a situation where carbon pricing is set at EU level with ECJ oversight, yes, back to the ECJ. This surely would affect costs, our food supply chains & much else no doubt and limit what we are able to do ourselves to reach something more sensible and in our country’s best interests. So what of our industries’ costs for energy if under EU rules, our energy policy overall and our trade with other nations. Not hearing much on this. I think we should be told. Another case of mission creep perhaps.
February 27, 2025
Large damaging taxes contrived to remove money from the economy is what the UK Parliament thinks they are employed to do. Itās a distorted view of the economy, to them an economy is what they take by increasing taxes by diktat, not about increasing taxes and wealth organically by growth. The Government doesnāt see the economy as how they manage the expenditure of āourā money but how they can increase their personal prolific spend ā then pat themselves on the back.
Reading todays media offerings on the Trump ā Starmer get together the takeaways on trade etc.
The giveaway of the UKās ownership of the Chagos Islands to a country that has never owned or even been there. Throwing money, not his money away
The PM suggesting that in the future he will increase expenditure on defense, will he? On real defense? The usual flaw he infers āheā and the UK Government is the funder and not the taxpayer. He is still insisting that the Ā£9billion a year payment for the UK owned Chagos Islands is some money the taxpayer has to throw away. It is still front-end money to be removed from the economy and our and our children future that every one pays back but not the PM ā all the while his pension and future is protected by Law.
Havenāt even got to the Miliband fractured logic that is causing terminal decline to the UK while the World marches on free of his personal ludicrous religion
February 27, 2025
More Trump ā Starmer get-together media speculation, that seems more about trashing the UK to make the PM look good with his EU Masters. Every part of the conversation they are having is set up to impact the UK’s fast declining economy
Chlorine-washed chicken from the US is likely to be off the menu, so they say ā yet that is exactly what UK producers do with Salad Crops and Water Supply Companies do with our water it is common practice. Salmonella is more of a nasty threat without it. Chlorine is just a EU nasty bit of their many pseudo trade barriers they have erected that have no meaning or are contradictory.
I am at a loss over the media hype with regards Trumps intentions because of UK VAT. VAT is on all goods and services domestic and foreign. In the same way that the US has Sales Tax on all goods and services. Maybe the UK Government don’t care and have refused to point the situation, in hope it will be a weapon to force the UK back into the protection racket that is the EU
Then the 2 Tier application of āfree speechā in the UK as the US has pointed out is a serious concern, as is the Government wishing to personal protect ‘itself’ by ensuring people canāt have private conversation (Apple Security). Then the desire for Government and its chosen authorities to have access to private details held by the DVLA while also distributing UK Health records as they personally like. These arenāt cases where suspicion or just a cause or reason for information exist in a legal sense, when it would be appropriate ā but a generalization to go on āfishing tripsā to protect the State from its People.
The is Century has seen the rot thrive in Parliament, 650 what appears to normal humans have forgotten their purpose. No longer do we elect people to serve and protect the people, but get people that want to control and force people to be in their own personal image
February 28, 2025
“No longer do we elect people to serve and protect the people,”
Yesterday, an MP was let off for punching a constituent in the face, who fell on the floor. The beating continued. The news article originally said the man had his hands in his trouser pockets. Does that sound like serve and protect?
Then “6 days ago ā In a chilling clampdown on free speech, two police officers pay a visit to a grandmother ā simply for criticising Labour politicians on Facebook” DMail “Detectives have been accused of acting like East Germany’s Stasi secret police for quizzing Helen Jones over her calls for the resignation of local councillors embroiled in the WhatsApp scandal exposed by The Mail on Sunday.” Detectives not PCSO’s! She is a school worker, would a crime like this go on her record if she’d not exposed this thanks to a doorbell camera recording the visit?
February 27, 2025
Parliament giving away the Chagos Islands is no different from giving away the Isle of Wight or Yorkshire ….any surrender of our land or decision to sell /buy sovereign land should be by referendum and not on the whim of a few politicians
February 27, 2025
There is worse to come, Iām afraid.
āThe Climate Change Committee @theCCCuk produced its latest Five Year Plan (the 7th Carbon Budget) this morning. It’s grim stuff for those who like free societies & economic prosperity. šā
https://x.com/LoftusSteve/status/1894692105190027776
February 27, 2025
And Manchester the hub of labour voters has all electric buses and the greatest number of homeless in tents recently removed from DT Peters square outside the Midland.Are their embarrassed to show the reality of the situation outside a posh hotel?
February 28, 2025
are they embarrassed and St Peter’s Square as AI predictive text corrections.
Can you imagine a future where AI mistakes could possibly cause havoc?
February 27, 2025
Very sad you see Starmer sucking up to that scoundrel Trump
February 27, 2025
The winter fuel grant was never more essential, with swingeing energy prices doubled and tripled from previous levels. Restricting the WFA to those receiving benefits ensures that Labour voters are rewarded, as most of that demographic does vote Labour. The excuse of saving a paltry Ā£2bn ‘otherwise the IMF would have intervened’ has brought ridicule and contempt on the current regime.
The OAPs should have got themselves elected, then they’d have free heating all day and quite a lot of evenings as well. MPs seem to regard that as a perk that other workers also have. The old mostly do not have any alternative but to spend the day at home. And unlike MPs, office workers do not have the right to remove taxpayer-funded heating subsidies from the elderly, while keeping them for themselves.
February 28, 2025
I find the funding for hospices one of the worst areas here. So what do they do, propose a killing bill which will be cheap and easy to administer (just look at The Netherlands where we have experienced this with a very dear friend) and Canada. Once a bill is passed it can be made to fit the required circumstances in existence very easily with the whipped people told how to vote. The Charities who will be most affected are the animal/wildlife charities who get no funding anyhow.