Any new oil and gas investment is banned. The aim is to close down our industry quickly.
Any factory making petrol and diesel cars needs to be closed by 2030.
No new coal mines allowed. Industry largely dead.
Virgin steel manufacture. Only 2 blast furnaces left. How long will the government pay to keep those going. Industry undermined by high energy prices and taxes.
Aluminium All but one smelter closed by high energy costs
Coal fired power stations. All closed, many blown up to prevent future use
Oil refining being wound down. Grangemouth now shut.
Petro chemicals and chemicals being wound down
Most ceramics production sent abroad
Self employment reduced by hostile tax regime
Fishing industry decimated by Common Fishing Policy and so called Transition
Dairy farming was limited by EU shortage of milk quotas for UK
UK orchards were grubbed up with EU grants
Current farming policy gives grants to stop food growing
April 22, 2025
When do you ever see Mr. Milliband interviewed at length about his performance in government?
Or Rachel Reeves? Or Starmer?
They just carry on regardless. They never justify their actions in the media. Like Biden they give TV a swerve and stay at home.
So I am not sure what value a list has, if the people responsible will never discuss it.
April 22, 2025
Well they appear a bit on the BBC, Guardian, Observer (where he doubled down on his net zero lunacy this Sunday) but no serious interviews or questioning. See netzerowatch.com.
April 22, 2025
LL,
So all carefully arranged talks with soft questions ? Even PM questions are now filled with lightweights. Government is well shielded from criticism.
By the way, eight out of fifteen for you today. You are on a roll.
April 22, 2025
Milibrain and Reeves are not questioned because the lefty MSM don’t want to upset the lefty cart, and they don’t take the trouble to prepare good questions. Like Badenoch, they think more words make better questions. They couldn’t be more wrong. MSM research into Net Zero and human caused global temp changes is almost non existent, as is cost of debt, trade balances and budget deficit. Where is the MSM outrage at company closures and job losses.
April 22, 2025
In the Telegraph – Climate adviser racks up 40,000 air miles while backing tax on frequent flyers
Member of Ed Miliband’s committee accrues 11 times more air miles in last year than average Briton
So add the airline industry by restricting new runways, daft fuel rules and extra taxation.
I assume all MPs and civil servants declare and pay benefit in kind taxes on their airmiles? Might these not perhaps be considered backhanders or bribes to encourage people to spend tax payers money on upper class or extra flight tickets?
April 22, 2025
Agenda 30 goung swimmingly. All kicked off by treacherous May and slavishly followed by Boris, Sunak and now 2TK cheered on by the limp dumbs, SNP and Greens. Badenough now incharge of thr tories but not renouncing any of the policies and they wonder why the public kicked them out. Only Reform are committed to ending the net zero folly and exploiting our own resources.
We need our own Trump moment and a public enquiry into who’s driving this ruinous course. Ad if we didn’t know
April 22, 2025
Indeed. Kemi is doing a Sunak, we have the same mad & deluded policies as Labour but will drive over the cliff a bit more slowly.
She needs the right policies first and then she has to convince the public they might actually deliver after 14 years of the blatant betrayals by Cameron, May, Osborne, Hammonds, Boris, Sunak, Hunt… but not even the right policies yet!
April 22, 2025
Ian wragg:
Conservatives are stuck in a NoMan’sLand zone, needing enough years to clear by to dilute memories of their bad past.
Reform UK has a clean record, not having been around for long enough to go far wrong. Their Contract, or policies, embrace sensible actions that many voters agree are needed, reflected in their surge of popularity.
So many who voted Labour at the last election regret that choice bitterly now.
April 22, 2025
The list highlights just how much the country is being dis-mantled, bit by bit!
The question is – why are we allowing it to happen? Why is no-one stopping the government?
April 22, 2025
Peter
The list highlights just how much the country is being dis-mantled, bit by bit!
The question is – why are we allowing it to happen? Why is no-one stopping the government?
April 22, 2025
Plus private schools, provision of rented housing and property to buy industries, the car industry, the drilling, fracking and mining industries, all industries that use much energy, private medical services…
Which industries are they expanding? The largely parasitic ones – legal industries, the employment tribunal industry, the compliance with daft OTT regulation industries, the banter banning industry, the political prisoner industries, channel water taxis industries, human rights legal industry, hotels, phones, bikes, driving lessons for illegal migrants industries…
April 22, 2025
Also the road blocking, constricting and narrowing industries, the motorist mugging & camera industries, the rat control industries, the pot hole caused car damage repair industries, the hate crime industry, the insolvency industries, the benefits claiming advice industries…
April 22, 2025
More “industries” they are encouraging – the translation services industries, many criminal and black market (cash in hand) industries, many pointless or damaging state sector jobs in diversity, net zero, sustainability and DEI, many more jobs in restricting planning and making building more expensive and worse, many damaging jobs in grant farming in the mad net zero industries – wind, solar, EVs, heat pumps, many demolition of factories jobs and transport of factory machinery, oils rigs gear and generators overseas…
April 22, 2025
Ll. Why is no one in government questioning the practice of moving redundant electrical equipment abroad. Both RWE and EDF are shipping transformers and PF units to France and Germany. Germany is reopening Lignite fired power stations and recommissioning coal mines to feed them.
Britain is leading a race with no other entrants.
What is it that makes sitting in the HoC turn once rational people into complete idiots. Sure out of 650 MPs some must realise what’s happening.
April 22, 2025
Net Zero is now, very seriously, a religion. Apostates and Deniers are ostracised and their careers terminated. Mass hysteria plays a part too.
April 22, 2025
What is it that makes sitting in the HoC turn once rational people into complete idiots?
What is it about politicians with PPE degrees and often law degrees that often does the same?
It is perhaps not this but the types of people drawn to these careers or degrees. Only a very low proportion of MPs have much understanding of science, engineering, logic, physics, energy, maths, human nature… these people perhaps drawn to other careers.
April 22, 2025
IW : “What is it that makes sitting in the HoC turn once rational people into complete idiots. Sure out of 650 MPs some must realise what’s happening.”
They’re so involved with local social problems that they are left with no time or inclination to study the really important issues of our time.
I also find the Select Committee meetings to be a joke, at least those concerned with energy and Net Zero. They’re run like show trials. It is clear that the Far Left Civil Service (DESNZ) decide who gives evidence (only climate activists and renewable energy grifters of course) and issues the questions in advance to the activists/grifters and the Committee members. Evidence is never given to the Committee by anyone who does not support Net Zero. If a Committee member does manage to ask a question not previously given by DESNZ which the activists/grifters/Committee members do not want to public to hear the answer is always “we’ll write to you”. So if the Committee are all Net Zero activists themselves it is obvious that we can continue down a wrong path until bankruptcy and/or social turmol forces a re-think.
April 22, 2025
More jobs in tax compliance, shifting your tax base overseas, the tax avoidance and moving tax domicile industries, moving private school places overseas… in short exactly the reverse of what is needed!
April 22, 2025
Ross Clarke in the Sun today.
“In 2023, UK industries paid an average of 25.85 pence per kilowatt-hour for their electricity. In the US they paid just 6.48 pence. The reason we pay so much is directly thanks to government energy policy.”
4 times the price for electricity renders very many industries uncompetitive in the UK (they earn circa 50% more too and pay far less tax in the USA too). Plus we pay far higher standing charges for zero electricity first!
Miliband is surely mad, bonkers, corrupt or evil – I can see no other explanation. But the Tories ever since Cameron were just the same. Kemi is still hugely pro-net zero despite her claiming to be an engineer!
April 22, 2025
I think hotels are being dramatically reduced in number by converting them into ‘hostels for the aliens’.
The 10 year old in our family (public school at great cost) this Easter did not put his knife and fork together on the plate when finishing a meal. When I corrected him he told me Mohammed who sat next to him at school ‘ate with his hand’.
Just mentioning that. A little change which will destroy our nation.
April 22, 2025
UK socialism is a slow acting poison. Let us pray that this bunch of incompetent zealots face an early departure to oblivion. Strike the first blow at the local elections.
April 22, 2025
Indeed we have had essentially socialist government all my 60 odd years. Even under Thatcher we had unfair competition from the state sector in education, healthcare, housing, transport, finance, energy… and rather high taxation levels too!
April 22, 2025
Ex-Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick seems to think we will now finally get some broken down migrant crime data figures published.
Do however bear in mind that most migrants are youngish, poorish and males so one would expect rather higher crime rates. But also that for every criminal that is caught and brought to justice there must be well over 100 that are not, many never even reported!
Can we please also have figure for patients with new cancer referrals, heart attacks, arrhythmias, deaths and the manu other health issues broken down by Covid vaccination, dates, vaccination types or will the ONS and medical authorities continue to hide these. Why might that be I wonder? Surely if they have nothing to hide? It is very easy indeed to do this breakdown after all.
April 22, 2025
There seems to be no doubt from the stats that the Covid vaccines did very significant net harm so we surely need to know the full extent of this and why the authorities (often largely funded by big Pharma) pushed them. The vaccines are, amazingly, still being given out to some age groups!
April 22, 2025
Also can anything be done to reduce or mitigate the damage done!
April 22, 2025
There is no reversal to MRNA therapy.
April 22, 2025
If it’s that easy, why don’t you get the figures and analyse them. You seem to have plenty of time to post the same comments day after day after day on here. Do you never tire of it? Never give yourself a break? Never have a day off? Go on holiday and go offline for a bit?
When you’re on your deathbed, looking back over your life, will you be thinking ‘I’m not sure I posted enough on John Redwood’s web site’. Seriously, the mind boggles. Every bloody day the same thing.
April 22, 2025
It’s not the same, the argument and solution is the same because right is right and can’t be compromised.
April 22, 2025
Farms under attack with halving of IHT relief which also has cut investment in qualifying AIM companies. The consequence is that much needed capital has been and is being taken out of the market. This is evident from institutional investors, that aggregate individual investors, reducing their holdings. What is the point of funding promising startups if there is no follow up capacity to finance their growth?
April 22, 2025
Not just farms and AIM trading companies but all small unquoted trading companies that used to be exempt from IHT so a unplanned death can reduce the business capital by 20% – often killing it dead perhaps due to both the death of the owner and the huge tax.
April 22, 2025
Yep.
April 22, 2025
Not just farms that are affected by the Budget 25 proposals; Business property relief, BPR, affects many multi-generational family businesses where capital assets are owned and essential to the function of the enterprise. These include printers, breweries, transport and coach operators, even funeral directors.
The death of a principal shareholder can come at any time, it is especially harsh if fate delivers loss before the natural generational progression.
April 22, 2025
Next generation farmers are being discouraged from the typical struggle to make the best of our poor risk weather to earn a living often at below min. wage rate. Now they look at their parents and think why would I inherit and continue such a difficult living when the Government wants to cripple the very land land required to feed the nation! Sell it to pay IHT and do something else, possibly emigrate.
April 22, 2025
Yes, it’s deliberate destruction of large swathes of our previously productive economy. But it’s not “the Government” doing it; it’s been the policy of successive Governments, for decades.
Some have gone as a result of joining the EU, most obviously the fishing industry. Others have been dismantled and transferred to Asia, in response to the UN’s climate change objective of wealth redistribution. And others are being deliberately destroyed as a consequence of WEF policies.
They have all been destroyed by an Establishment which, as I said yesterday has, post WW2, had a policy of creating a Rules-based-Global-System and a One World Government. And in order to achieve it, they are prepared to destroy their own country and impoverish their own people.
It’s very obvious now that it’s deliberate. So why do people expect the politicians in the Westminster Uni-Party who have spent decades delivering the objective, to do anything different IF they get re-elected?
April 22, 2025
Donna
Very well put!
April 22, 2025
Dear Mr. Redwood,
@Donna
Yes, you can see why our pygmy politicians are so attracted to an international rules-based system of governance. Wouldn’t they just love to outsource everything to unaccountable, unelected bodies? No more pesky elections, of course – no need to consult the plebs. Just a cabal of technocrats to implement the dynamic-alignment rules and keep the masses in their places. Secret meetings and backroom deals with no recorded notes or minutes. The masses huddled into 15-minute city pens and denied cars and air travel. A dedicated ‘thought-police’ force to crack down on on-line hate speech and plenty of prisons for ‘far-right’ thugs.
It could never happen though, could it?
April 22, 2025
How true Donna. To Sir John’s impressive list one might add brewing (thank you Lord Young) and tobacco products, villains of other governments. I guess about 99 per cent of cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco are now imported, predominantly from EU countries, including high-wage Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany . One export-oriented pipe tobacco manufacturer persists in Lakeland but will it survive the latest law?
April 22, 2025
The buy to let Industry which renovated millions of homes and provided accommodation for those who could not or didn’t wish to buy.
A poll of our landlords society showed half have Dec to sell up rather than face the incoming legislation.
April 22, 2025
Pubs & Hospitality: Employers NI up, Employment Rights Bill costs, Flexible zero hours contracts banned
April 22, 2025
Roy
Plus state employees entitled to ‘work’ from home reducing the footfall in public transport and service bars during the reduced rush hour. Parking restrictions and banning of cars destroying the passing trade that once kept small city centre shops alive.
Removal of cash from daily use thus removing the entrepreneurial spirit at an early age. The electronic games fixation of the teenage community now dominates their lives.
April 22, 2025
Not just hospitality but all employment then the workers rights laws, the banter banning law. Plus the Tory attacks on the self employed are continued!
April 22, 2025
tax to death any leisure/pleasure industries.
April 22, 2025
On the ‘plus’ side, the UK is attracting nail bars, hand car washes by casual groups, Turkish hairdressers, human rights lawyers, food bank operators, marine passengers, many more consumers of scarce resources and plenty of extra benefits funded by borrowing.
April 22, 2025
…and a wider list of nearly every UK business as the state takes a very large share of their wealth and wastes it.
April 22, 2025
Sir John,
It would simpler to say, the ongoing destruction of capitalism by the Labour Party and the left wing in general, i.e. Greens, Liberal Democrats, Faux Tories(Liberal Democrats), SNP, Plaid Cs etc. make continuing any business here in the UK almost impossible. The priority on Growth so often referred to by Rachel from accounts is a priority to increase state control to ‘grow’ the size of the state. She never talks about increasing wealth.
We are being destroyed. Our businesses are being dismantled via state laws and licence rules. Our entrepreneurial spirit is being offshored because there is no scope for any new business ideas to be based here in the UK.
We have to remove the Uniparty mindset that has taken over in Westminster. We have to remove the Woke along with the Climate Alarmists that pervade our public spaces.
We have four years to prepare for a real change in direction of travel in politics. Everyone knows what they have to do.
April 22, 2025
Not forgetting the sabotage comprised within the order that Cuadrilla’s fracking test wells be filled with concrete.
An effective principal Opposition party – especially one that had our esteemed host within its Parliamentary ranks until quite recently – would be making these points vociferously day in day out. Is the Conservative Party unable to do so, or unwilling?
April 22, 2025
Ah but look at all the jobs being created by this wonderful government:
– DEI chiefs in the NHS and across the public sector, – NGO workers paid for by taxpayers’ money (working in such vital areas as protecting us from online harms or nature protection regulation),
– the booming “green economy” (why the new windmills off the South Coast might create 500 jobs!)
– the massive expansion of legal and other businesses involved in defending the rights and supporting the comfort of of illegal immigrants (thank goodness there is an unlimited supply of them!).
Truly, Sir J, your eye is off the ball today.
April 22, 2025
Far more than these.
Workers’ rights and extra costs halt hiring across businesses
Banks choosing customers rather than customers choosing banks
IHT ruining the possibility of passing on business assets and threatening the viability of the business itself.
April 22, 2025
Yes indeed John, but the list actually gets longer, because tax and employment policies are also undermining peoples work ethic.
Why bother if the State will eventually take most of what you earn or own, and tries to encourage you to purchase services and products that you do not want.
April 22, 2025
The first nine of the issues you list Sir JR, are being destroyed on the alter of ‘net zero’ The ridiculous charge to try and save <1% of global co2 (<0.0004% of the total)
Four of the next five are simply bullying by the EU. A construct we are no longer a member of !
The last one (self-employment hostile tax regime) is to increase taxes to pay for Labour's pet projects, such as giving the Chagos islands to Mauritius. Then paying circa £10billion for a 99 year lease on the airfield.
April 22, 2025
This country is and has been increasingly betrayed and destroyed by both Labour and Conservative governments. I had hoped that Reform might be the democratic antidote but events and pronouncements from them this year suggest that they too are just an adjunct of the uni-party and that salvation from that source was just a forlorn hope.
April 22, 2025
It could be that Bridgen might present a viable solution…. 🤞🏻when JR joins I will have hope!
April 22, 2025
Dear Mr. Redwood,
To your list you must add the countless thousands of grommet-makers, nut and bolt suppliers, shops, stores, factories, offices, businesses and all of their jobs that supply the major industries the government is undermining.
April 22, 2025
Most of these so called green altruistic policies originated during 14 years of Tory government and pandered to the EU , now Labour just continue and exacerbate matters with Ed the net0 zealot. Same is true in Germany, energy costs are a wider european problem…
The reduced local elections and Runcorn/Helsby By-election may send a stronger message to those currently in power they have the wrong policies. Let us hope and pray the electorate do just that!
April 22, 2025
It’s heartbreaking to read that list. What is happening to our once great country? I hope my grandchildren emigrate to a more progressive country if their parents haven’t done so. I keep dropping hints. It’s going to be very difficult if not impossible for the UK to recover from the wanton destruction being inflicted now. Was the sacrifice of millions of voung men and women in two world wars worth it?
April 22, 2025
I agree with many comments—and this from a government committed to growth! Let’s also not forget that our armed forces have been starved of cash and deliberately run down by the various governments for years. Yet the UK’s defence and security should be the government’s first and most important responsibility.
Just how stupid do you have to be to not understand what you are doing, or is it deliberate, as some claim?
Why is it that Chinese, Indian and most African countries don’t believe in Net Zero? Do they not have climate scientists? No, it’s because they know it is absolute rubbish.
April 22, 2025
This is indeed a depressing list, but the Labour Government could not have got it so far after less than a year in power, were it not for the strong foundations laid by the Conservatives over the last fourteen years.
Mrs Badenoch’s silence on industrial and agricultural policy, as on so many other things, does nothing to give any confidence that the new Conservative leadership will do anything to change things. It is as yet too early for detail, but we should by now have an idea of a direction of travel.
April 22, 2025
You could add Pubs, restaurants and a lot of High street stores, as well as too many family run farms.
While facilities decline there has been a huge increase in ambulances on our roads, delivery trucks of all kind, giving us less reasons to venture outside, what with grocery now commonly delivered, just like meals out.
Government policies will mean that there is little reason to leave the house, for work or even to visit the bank or enjoy a drink with friends. Who can afford treats out these days?
You can tell the state of our economy by counting the paying customers in restaurants!
With so much indoctrination around being ill, how many are now afraid to go outside while continuously checking their vital signs.
Why do we have a Turkish barber on every street?
Why is HMG turning this country into an economic basket case, with crime escalating there must now be more people prosecuted for thought crimes than those that commit serious crimes. It’s not just businesses HMG is undermining, it’s our very survival!
April 22, 2025
The call for growth is camouflage. The policy the government is pursuing is ‘degrowth’ a little referred to policy…
Degrowth critiques inequality and supports redistributive policies, public goods, and control over resources. Degrowth predicates universal basic services, reduced working hours, and more ‘equitable’ access to resources.
In short, it means us all getting more equal and poorer.
Of course, these ideas are too toxic to put before the public so they are disguised as concern for the environment.
April 22, 2025
Closing down UK fisheries ….
April 22, 2025
Undermining, mining under and killing off.
Going further and faster, going boldly and blindly where no one has gone before, but in a death spiral over a cliff and race to the bottom (as Corbyn used to criticise others).
Hypocrites on steroids in smart suits desperately trying to defend the indefensible nonsensical sand castles they keep dreaming about.
Reeves Vs Trump will be nonsense meets reality and chaos.
April 22, 2025
Closing down UK high streets ….
April 22, 2025
Closing down local indigenous taxi and delivery services
April 22, 2025
Closing down UK high street banks …..and the function of cash
April 22, 2025
Closing down our military & the manufacture of UK armaments and equipment
April 22, 2025
All these policies are of course all Net Zero policies, even the ones for fishing and agriculture as they cause emissions difficult to net zero without eliminating the industry entirely or by sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere.
Although the legislation was started by Laour in 2008 it was taken up by PM ‘heir to Blair’ Cameron and then turbocharged by the worst Conservative PM to date, Mrs. May, who made it 100% net zero by 2050 the law without a proper debate in Parliament, without a vote and without a costing so that all these policies are now decided by tax-payer funded climate activists and judges. PM Borealis Johnson then conned us with his ‘Net Zero Strategy – Build Back Greener’ with claims that we would have “electricity at the flick of a switch from abundant, cheap British renewables….”.
The Civil Sevice and their comrades in Parliament cannot believe their luck that it was a Conservative administration that pursued hard this economy and national security Net Zero disaster. Even today the Conservatives believe that net Zero is necessary and should be done to save the planet even though they think pursuing it will bankrupt us. It’s time they started to actually read the science and examine the data on climate change and not just swallow the Far Left propaganda nonsense from the UN, WEF, BBC and The Guardian.
April 22, 2025
The Anthropogenic Global Warming Hoax was incorporated into English law in 2008. This doomed us to industrial decline because manufacturing requires cheap reliable energy to compete. We cannot depend on financial services which has been bailed out before because of its innate casino-based methodology to power our economy or the pharmaceutical human guinea pig with a legal immunity for causing deliberate harm industry (i.e. ignoring and hiding adverse side effects) either. Furthermore, the majority of the population are neither crooked enough nor live where these activities take place. They want to work in honest productive employment which needs cheap energy: not much to ask, one would have thought but apparently beyond the liblabcon to provide.
April 22, 2025
Pharmacies: Wages, business rates, National Insurance and the rest. Expected by UKG to play a greater part these days in the UK’s health service but now thousands of them very likely to scale back their hours and also not have the ability financially to provide other services, e.g. the free medication delivery service. Reported a while back. Hopefully some assistance / remedy already proposed or is in the government’s pipeline.
April 22, 2025
Plus the small private farmers, the kulaks, who must make way fo rthe collectivisation of farming, Stalin style.
April 22, 2025
For the last 40 years we have had incompetent government. This government is keeping up that sorry tradition, but with a large dollop of evil thrown in for good measure.
April 22, 2025
“I have a little list”
Is that still on You Tube ?
The comments were pro and con.
April 22, 2025
More lies from the EU propagandists at Best for Britain to Be Subordinated in a Pan-European Federation:
https://www.bestforbritain.org/common_sense_deal_with_eu_urgent_as_imf_downgrade_uk_growth
April 22, 2025
So now where would you say is the best country to live?
April 22, 2025
USA. At least they see the problem and are fighting! fight! fight! fight!
April 22, 2025
Off Topic.
UK investigators have taken the fight against small boat smugglers to Germany in a bid to stop essential maritime equipment ending up in the hands of the ruthless gangs. The National Crime Agency have launched a joint operation with the German Bundespolizei (BPOL) to target equipment suppliers who are helping enable the smuggling gangs.
The move follows a probe which saw a boat and engine, sourced by a firm in Lower Saxony, seized by BPOL as it was being transported towards the Dutch border on 9 April.
NCA investigators, who were working with German partners, believe its eventual destination would have been people smugglers operating on the northern French coast. The marine company was previously identified as having supplied numerous inflatable boats and engines which had been used during life-threatening crossings of illegal migrants across the English Channel, but have now been visited by officers and warned about the consequences of continuing to sell to the gangs.
April 22, 2025
Dear Mr. Redwood,
Breaking News! Breaking News!
“Labour accused of ‘sabotaging’ Britain amid £2bn blow to tourism sector”
Labour considers giving local councils the power to introduce tourist taxes for overnight stays, while marketing authority VisitBritain had its budget slashed by more than 40pc at the start of the month.
No prizes for guessing what councils will do with their new powers!
Labour really does hate Britain.
April 22, 2025
The problem is we have a Prime Minister and Cabinet totally disinterested in the needs of the British people. We are a nuisance, we get in the way, because their principal focus is utopian world governance as proscribed by the WEF.
April 22, 2025
184 criminals arrived in the UK yesterday; from the safe country of France
A growth industry !!!…
April 22, 2025
The worse of all these is the damage done to food production which started with the EU when we thought we were going into a common market. We must have food and I don’t care what shape or size it is. We need it to exist. I think Starmer is deliberately going to starve us like Stalin did to Ukraine in the 1930s and Mao did to the Chinese. An easy way to get rid of people is to starve them.
April 23, 2025
I was speaking with a friend who owns a kitchen showroom; his business rates are going up so high that he’s worried about keeping it open, especially with the economic downturn.