There's a point in every scandal when the curtain drops and you see the thing as it really is. We've reached that moment. Until now, Labour's defence was that Rachel Reeves went rogue – that she spun up a phantom black hole, misled the public, and panicked the markets all on her own. That alibi has just died. Downing Street has now admitted the truth: Keir Starmer knew there was no black hole. He saw the OBR's positive forecasts. He read the speech. And he signed off the lie.
This is no longer a story about one dishonest Chancellor. It is a story about a dishonest government. Reeves lied on 4 November because Starmer approved the script. She warned of a fiscal cliff that didn't exist because Number 10 told her it would fly. She talked Britain into fear so she could raise taxes not out of necessity, but out of political convenience – and she did it with the Prime Minister standing at her shoulder. The black hole wasn't an error, or a misunderstanding, or an early draft of the figures. It was a joint operation.
You can now see how the machinery worked. Treasury insiders whispered horror stories about £20–30 billion gaps. Reeves hinted at income-tax hikes she knew were unnecessary. The media was steered towards panic. The public was softened up. All the while, the real figures – £4.2 billion of headroom – sat on Starmer's desk in black and white. It is the clearest case of manufactured crisis we've seen in years: engineer fear, justify a raid, blame old villains, and hope no one ever sees the timestamps. The Treasury didn't attack the OBR for "breaching private space." They attacked it for telling the truth.
This matters because the lie didn't land in a vacuum. It moved markets. It spooked pension funds. It influenced interest-rate expectations. It shaped decisions made by families, businesses, and investors. It was market-sensitive falsehood presented as fact. Reeves now faces allegations of market abuse – and if she is responsible, then Starmer is responsible twice over. The First Lord of the Treasury is either complicit or asleep. If he knew, he must go with her. If he didn't, he has no business governing.
What we are seeing here is the end of the pretence that Labour is a sober, technocratic outfit of grown-ups. The mask has slipped. Beneath it sits a government that lies first and explains later; a government that treats the truth as something to be shaped for effect; a government that thinks voters exist to be managed, not informed. This is the same crew that slashed winter fuel payments, raided farmers, hammered private pensions, and slapped "punishment taxes" on groups it dislikes – all under the banner of a mythical £22 billion deficit they now cannot explain.
When Number 10's response to being caught is to insist that Reeves's claims were "entirely accurate," even with the OBR's timestamps staring them in the face, it tells you something deeper has broken. Honesty is no longer expected. Accountability is no longer offered. The belief seems to be that power justifies the lie – that the ends excuse the means. That is the mindset of a government in decay.
And now their MPs know it. You can hear the panic in the briefings. "This looks pretty bad." "Hard to see how they come back." "Rachel is tied to Keir." They understand the stakes: if Reeves falls, she drags Starmer with her. If Starmer survives, he survives as a man who nodded through a deceit aimed squarely at the wallets of the very people who put him in office.
Britain cannot be governed on this basis. A Prime Minister who signs off a fiscal fiction, then calls it "entirely accurate," has no claim to moral authority. A Chancellor who uses invented numbers to justify the largest tax raid in years has no claim to office. And a government that treats the public as marks in a political con has no claim to trust.
"The First Lord of the Treasury is either complicit or asleep. If he knew, he must go with her. If he didn't, he has no business governing."
I have no sympathy whatsoever for Rachel Reeves. I don't care if she cries in Parliament, or wherever else frankly. She should be sacked, and a Chancellor with at least a vague understanding of how business operates should be appointed.
My sympathies are with the working families who paying more and more tax to fund lazy scroungers who can't be arsed to work, yet end up receiving more monthly cash than the working family.
My sympathies are with the small business owners who have had to close their doors as a direct result of what Reeves has done to tax, regulation and the cost of doing business. Years of hard work, gone. Almost overnight.
My sympathies are with the British couples who want to start a family, but just can't scratch together the funds to make it happen. Yet a Pakistani family will receive thousands of pounds from our tax every month to have more children. Is that fair? Is that just? Is that right? No. No, it's not.
Working people. Good, genuine, decent and honest working people who have seen their standard of life wiped out by this socialist cabal driving our economy even further into the dust.
So no, I don't really care if Reeves gets upset or not.
She should have the decency to resign.
Weak, and woefully out of her depth. An secondary school economics teacher who regularly gets embarrassed by her pupils - that's her level.
This isn't misogyny, mansplaining, sexism or whatever else. It's the truth. The cold hard truth.
First female chancellor or not, she's done a shit job.
She should be sacked in disgrace for what she has done to our country.
What Reeves should announce today, but obviously won’t.
Everything costs more. Food, rent, mortgages, insurance, childcare, energy, basic goods, services, the weekly shop, a pint. Britain is getting poorer, faster.
People feel it, and they’re right. Inflation has eaten us alive. Wages wiped out. Savings eroded. Families poorer. Britain weaker.
We are getting ripped off. Why?
Because Britain is addicted to the size of its own state.
Here’s what Reeves should say.
Tax cuts. Lots of tax cuts.
- Raise the personal allowance dramatically - let people keep the first £20,000 they earn, minimum. No tax. It will cost, but the savings it will produce from encouraging people back into work will be vast,
- Slash Income Tax/National Insurance, especially on middle-earners who’ve been squeezed the hardest. This is uncomplicated, Rachel. REWARD HARD WORK.
- Remove the stealth taxes they all pretend don’t exist - fiscal drag and frozen thresholds which quietly rob the British people every year.
- Give overseas skilled British workers vast tax benefits to relocate their tax revenue and skills back to Britain. Bring them home.
- Cut back VAT, reduce fuel duty, cut alcohol duty, none of this sugar tax bullshit.
- Stamp duty, gone for British families. Let’s get the property market moving.
- Licence fee, scrapped. On the bonfire. Day one. More cash in the pocket for families.
Unleash British business
- Cut Corporation Tax to the lowest rate in Europe. Undercut them. Compete. Win.
- Push back dividend thresholds and taxes. If people are successful, ENCOURAGE IT.
- Abolish Business Rates for small firms. Bring our high streets back. Turkish barber/vape shop fraud crackdown too - let's root out the criminals.
- Slash Employers’ National Insurance - the single biggest reason small firms won’t hire more staff. OBVIOUSLY. We need to get that right down. Non-negotiable.
- Supercharge deregulation, especially for small businesses. A redtape bonfire visible from space. Let it burn.
- End the HR-ification of Britain. Bosses should be able to sack people, and they’ll end up actually hiring more because of that.
- Scrap IR35, immediately. Leave people to interface between themselves.
- Double the VAT threshold, possibly more. Overnight, vast growth will be unleashed from businesses hovering just under £90k. The figures show it already!
- Super-deductions for investment, including capital allowances and R&D incentives. Encourage people to invest and they will!
- Get police policing, and restoring some confidence for investment. Make Britain safer, and that will make Britain richer.
A brutal restructuring of the welfare state. And I mean brutal.
- No benefits for foreign nationals. If you arrive here, you contribute. If you’re here and you don’t? You leave. Billions saved, with one stroke.
- Mandatory work requirements for all those able to work. If you want support from taxpayers, you must give something back. A fair time to search for a job, but then you’re put to work. Picking litter or whatever else.
- Full disability fraud crackdown using data-matching and HMRC-style enforcement. Weed out the piss-takers.
- A cap on total household benefit claims - it should never pay more to stay home than to work. Never.
Drive for self-sufficiency.
- Domestic energy production on a huge scale, like we’ve never seen before. Drive that cost of energy down. Fracking. North Sea extraction. New nuclear. Gas storage. Cheap dependable energy = lower prices for everything. It’s that simple.
- Food security, with domestic output boosted and less reliance on foreign supply chains.
- Support British farming. Scrap the family farming tax. Use the public sector’s purchasing power to BUY BRITISH from our farmers. End dependency. Boost farming apprenticeships.
- A national infrastructure plan focused on logistics, ports, roads, and freight efficiency. The cheaper it is to produce and transport things, the lower prices fall. Places like Great Yarmouth with our fantastic port will boom. Stop building roads in Guyana, and use that money in Britain.
A robust plan to deal with the cancer of inflation.
- Immediate ban on money-printing (QE) without explicit Parliamentary approval. No more splurges by the Bank of England and that toad Bailey.
- Slash public spending - genuine far-reaching cuts. Nobody is safe. All departments.
- Foreign aid. Gone. Entirely. Billions saved overnight.
- Freeze all non-essential recruitment across the entire public sector (excluding front-line staff). A workforce pause, until inflation is under control. Then follows strict limits.
- A structured debt-repayment schedule, legally binding, to get those vast billion debt-interest payments falling. If you want some awful perspective - we now spend more on debt interest than on defence. No serious country on earth behaves like this. Britain does. It’s like some third world African tinpot dictatorship approach to economic affairs.
- We need to cut the debt, not just the deficit.
- Public sector pension liability - all off balance sheet. Needs a total overhaul as state employees are radically cut.
Stop importing poverty, crime and sex pests.
- Shut down all illegal migration with mass deportations, rapid removals, third-country processing, and no exceptions. Billions saved on abolishing asylum and related costs.
- Cut legal migration to net-negative, especially low-wage migration that undercuts British workers.
- Remove those who are a drain. If they’re claiming benefits, living in social housing, unable to speak English, refusing to contribute? Thanks, but your presence is no longer required. Bye.
- Deport foreign sex pests and criminals. Make our towns safe again. Watch how investment flows back into our dying high streets.
We must urgently cut back the bankrupt British state. Growth only comes from the following things.
A smaller state. Lower taxes. More people working. Fewer people scrounging. Cheaper energy. Stronger borders. Mass deportations. Actual production.
That is it. Reeves sadly does not have the balls to do what is necessary.
Britain needs an economic revolution.
Everything costs more, so much more and Britain is getting poorer, so much much poorer. People can feel it - it’s a pretty dreadful combination. Food’s more expensive, energy bills soaring, a pint costs six quid outside Central London. Childcare, insurance, mortgage payments. It’s everything and it is bloody awful. Inflation MUST come down.
It doesn’t feel like anyone’s got any answers. Well, there is one. The only one.
Brutally slash tax, radically tear away vast swathes of the state and eventually rebuild national resilience/confidence.
There is no easy solution. We are in deep, dark shit.
There is no other way to describe it. It will be painful. Very painful. Politicians need to be honest about that.
Britain has the highest tax burden since the Second World War. Millions are working harder than ever, yet becoming poorer every single month. Inflation runs rampant. The cruellest tax of them all.
Are we surprised it’s exploded? The Government printed hundreds of billions during lockdown, shut down the economy, wrecked supply chains, raised taxes on work and investment, and then acted totally baffled when prices soared. What happens if you inject such huge amount of money into a system? It all becomes worth less. This is obvious. It’s called ‘quantitative easing’, a fancy way of saying printing money and we need to ban it.
Inflation is a cancer. A tax that wipes out wages, savings, pensions. It makes life more expensive.
Here is the honest truth. You cannot fight inflation by taxing people more and growing the state.
You can only fight inflation by cutting the size of the state itself.
If we want to bring down the cost of living, we need to start telling the truth.
The state is too big, too bloated, too expensive and too incompetent. The debt is too vast.
The rich don’t suffer. It’s the poor who feel it. THAT is why we must change. Urgently.
In 25/26 it’s expected debt interest spending to total £111.2 billion. That’s 8.3% of total public spending and is equivalent to over 3.7% of national income. Think about that. If your family’s debt interest payments equalled that, how would you cope? Bankruptcy, is the answer. Britain is going bankrupt. We spend more on debt interest than defence. It is INSANE. We are spending too much, far too much. Try running a business like that. Good luck.
How do we fix it?
A pound taken by government is a pound removed from the productive economy, and fed to the unproductive state.
Cut taxes on work.
Income Tax down. Raise the thresholds. Farage now backtracking on this (huge error).
National Insurance down.
Let people keep more of what they earn.
REWARD HARD WORK.
Cut taxes on business.
Cut Corporation Tax - lowest in Europe. Reduce Business Rates.
Slash Employers’ NI so firms can hire again.
Ease dividend thresholds.
Tear away the frictional costs of doing business. Lubricate the system. Make Britain the easiest place in Europe to do business.
Tax breaks for long term investment.
When businesses produce more, supply goes up - and prices come DOWN.
This is basic economics.
Slash the size of the state.
Brutally. And I mean brutally.
Billions and billions in cuts. Right across the board - welfare in particular. If you can work, you MUST work. Support those in genuine need, but that is a vanishingly small number compared to current spend. Ban foreigners from claiming any benefits.
Asylum costs, foreign aid, dependent migrants. It all has to go.
Civil service pensions. Unsustainable. Need to be dealt with. It’s a time bomb.
We need Government to do a small list of things, but do it well. Protect our borders, people, interests.
Rebuild national resilience.
Build energy independence so families aren’t battered. We import SO much energy.
Drill baby, drill. Frack. Use what we have. Drive the cost of energy down, and everything else follows. This is not complicated.
Food security so supply chains can’t be held hostage. GROW MORE. Cost comes down, again this is not complicated.
A skilled British workforce so productivity rises and dependence on vast low-wage migration ends - target education. Reward businesses who train and develop apprentices.
Deport the millions of migrants who take more than they give. It is not our responsibility to financially support much of the third world. We have our own people and our own problems, thanks.
Ban money-printing, without Parliament’s express consent.
Crucially, tackle crime. Give people confidence to invest and reduce insurance costs. SO important.
Britain must become a country that lives within it means. Not spending more than we earn. In fact, raising enough to begin paying off that debt, and reducing those interest payments.
The cost of living crisis will only be solved by stripping back the state that is crushing our country.
There is no other way. The left will say ‘tax the rich’? The rich will leave. They are leaving. It’s already happening. They go, and take their tax revenue with them. This is OBVIOUS.
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
Collectivism ALWAYS fails.
We need cuts, cuts and then more cuts. Trust the people who actually work, build, produce and create. Give them the space they need to thrive, and we’ll all benefit. Generate wealth. Attract success. Cut inflation. Breed confidence.
It’s quite straightforward.
This is how we lower the cost of living. Put more money in people’s pockets. Rebuild the British economy. Make you and your family richer.
It can be done, it will just take balls.
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The British people are not stupid. We can use our eyes. We’ve all seen it. The increasing number of foreign gangs loitering around town centres, estates, parks, even schools. Don’t speak English, drinking, smoking weed, spitting, shouting. This is happening more and more and more. It did not used to be like this. It just didn’t. I get message, after message, after message. It’s ALL over Britain.
Might it have something to do with the 150,000+ illegals who have broken into our country? The vast majority young men, spread around the country in hotels and HMOs? Just 4% of all small boat arrivals have been deported. FOUR PERCENT. The rest? Hanging around our villages, towns and cities. Free to roam, free to harass, free to intimidate. In our sleepy little estates and villages. Sickening.
The five nationalities of these men this year? Afghans, Eritreans, Iranians, Sudanese and Syrians.
I make no apologies for saying I do not want unvetted men from these backward cultures allowed into our country. I don’t want them in our communities. I don’t want them on our streets. I don't want them here.
That is not ‘racist’. That is logical. That is common sense. That is protecting British people.
I want them detained. And I want them deported. ALL of them.
Imagine it. Many don’t have to… A group of these men, lurking around an estate. How would a young mother feel with her children? Having to walk past them in a dark underpass? These men who have NO right to be in our country. It’s vile what we are putting British women through. Not particularly pleasant for men either, to be frank. A huge criminal trade is developing around these networks of illegals - drugs are rife and far worse.
The residents of Epping, and so many other communities across our country? Knowing that these men have been committing awful crimes on local people when they have NO RIGHT TO BE IN OUR COUNTRY. It’s evil. No other word for it.
We’re allowing them to loiter around schools. Dangerous doesn’t even cover it. I want these men nowhere near children, nowhere near women, nowhere near any of us.
What the f*** is going on? Honestly. We go over and over this, we’re told it’s being sorted yet these men continue to roam our streets. Lock them up. And I wouldn’t make it comfortable. A tent and basic rations until they can be sent home. They are criminals, and should be treated as such.
I will continue to make this argument in Parliament as an independent MP, however unpopular it makes me. 24 MPs signed my mass deportation motion - mainly Tories, Northern Irish and independents. No Labour, no Reform, no Lib Dem.
Pathetic.
This is all some mad nightmare we can’t wake up from. The British Government proactively shipping these men in. WHY?! What is possessing our ‘leaders’ to welcome them? It is indefensible. Anyone doing so is putting the British people in harm’s way. It is that simple.
I have had enough. Britain has had enough.
They are not doctors, or engineers, or surgeons. They’re crooks. Chancers. Conmen. Criminals.
Send these men packing. All of them. Including those who have already been granted ‘refugee’ status.
Anyone who broke into our country on a small boat goes home. No exceptions.
Detain. Deport.
I am more confident than ever that the British people are with me.
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