Steve Scrase

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[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

🧵👇 THE BANK OF ENGLAND SHADOW STATE - JOHN HEALEY BUDGET.

Forget the ritualistic political theatre of red boxes and dispatch box debates. The true architect of British national decline operates entirely beyond the reach of the ballot box. When the Blair administration granted the Bank of England operational independence in nineteen ninety-seven, it permanently severed monetary policy from democratic accountability, creating an untouchable shadow state on Threadneedle Street. While the Chancellor is paraded in front of the cameras to absorb public fury over taxation and spending cuts, the reality is that HM Treasury has been reduced to a mere debt collection agency for unelected central bankers. The Bank prints the money, dictates the macroeconomic weather through volatile rate adjustments, and forces the British working class to indemnify its catastrophic systemic failures. We are governed by technocrats who orchestrate the devaluation of our sovereign wealth and will never face an electorate to answer for it.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

Even GB News can’t resist borrowing the legacy media playbook when they want cheap clicks.

On a morning after the Chancellor unleashes forty billion in tax hikes, cuts sovereign defence, and drives the state toward terminal stagflation, your digital desk decides the defining story is trying to manufacture an associative guilt trap around individual party members.

No party with hundreds of thousands of members can or should run a Stasi-style thought-police apparatus.

Leave the cheap tabloid gotchas to Channel 4 and ITV. Cover the economic destruction of the country instead.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

Nigel Farage says Reform UK cannot police its own members over Tommy Robinson support

https://t.co/Rstqz3WNzf

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

@NavyLookout @Forsvaret_no @COMUKCSG @HMSPWLS @HMSDauntless Sixty-five thousand tonnes of British steel carving through the Norwegian Sea with F-35s on the ramp and a B-52 overhead.

A magnificent sight. Now fund the fleet properly so she never has to sail with a single escort again.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

The math across this parliament:

John Healey’s stealth defence cuts: -£10bn (£2bn/yr)

State spending on asylum accommodation: £20bn+ (£4bn+/yr)

Cancel the hotel contracts for illegal boat arrivals, and you fund this entire "funding black hole" twice over with billions left to modernise the fleet.

The Treasury has plenty of money; it just prefers subsidising open borders over defending the realm.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

John Healey will cut £2bn from the defence budget despite boasting about filling a funding black hole.

Read more from our defence editors 👇
https://t.co/NRjU6sjGQZ

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

🧵👇 THE BANK OF ENGLAND SHADOW STATE - JOHN HEALEY BUDGET.

Forget the ritualistic political theatre of red boxes and dispatch box debates. The true architect of British national decline operates entirely beyond the reach of the ballot box. When the Blair administration granted the Bank of England operational independence in nineteen ninety-seven, it permanently severed monetary policy from democratic accountability, creating an untouchable shadow state on Threadneedle Street. While the Chancellor is paraded in front of the cameras to absorb public fury over taxation and spending cuts, the reality is that HM Treasury has been reduced to a mere debt collection agency for unelected central bankers. The Bank prints the money, dictates the macroeconomic weather through volatile rate adjustments, and forces the British working class to indemnify its catastrophic systemic failures. We are governed by technocrats who orchestrate the devaluation of our sovereign wealth and will never face an electorate to answer for it.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

Classic sleight of hand from UK Land Power.

You dumped the £63.6bn Defence Nuclear Enterprise—a whole-of-government strategic deterrent—into the Royal Navy ledger just to manufacture a "Navy First" headline.

Strip out CASD and Dreadnought, and your own chart shows conventional Maritime at just 14% (£18bn)—less than the Army (£19.2bn) and barely half the RAF (£27.8bn).

The footnote literally admits the MoD doesn't split budgets by service. Nice try, Nicholas.

[Nicholas Drummond @nicholadrummond]

This pie chart shows the split in defence expenditure between the three services. The yellow area also includes 12 AUKUS submarines within the Defence Nuclear Enterprise. Please don't say we need a Navy First strategy – we already have one.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

One carrier is doing cold-weather exercises with a single escort, the other is crawling through trials after repairs, and the SSBNs are forced into marathon deployments because Devonport’s refit backlog is in crisis.

Hulls floating on water for routine drills is not warfighting mass. Stop confusing peacetime flag-flying with genuine combat readiness.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

This is how you deal with broadcast hostility: take the fight directly onto their own set.

For months, ITV has poured investigative budgets into running undercover operatives, hidden cameras, and entrapment operations against Reform, treating an insurgent democratic movement like an organised crime syndicate. Yet the moment a representative sits across the table and challenges their editorial bias to their face, Robert Peston and the production team act as though basic scrutiny of their conduct is beyond the pale.

The double standard is breathtaking. Broadcasters will spend an entire year manufacturing undercover hit pieces on opposition activists, yet dutifully copy-and-paste Treasury press releases about hundred-pound energy bribes without asking a single critical question.

They are not independent arbiters of the news; they are partisan gatekeepers defending a collapsing political consensus. Refusing to play the role of the apologetic guest and holding them accountable on their own airwaves is exactly the posture required.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

ITV weren’t too pleased I confronted them about their behaviour…

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

This is student union politics masquerading as grand strategy.

Under First-Past-The-Post, micro-splinters and online vanity factions do not inherit national movements polling over twenty per cent with four million voters behind them. They simply split the anti-establishment vote in target constituencies and hand Keir Starmer an uncontested decade in Downing Street.

Issuing five-point ultimatums on social media is not transparency; it is performative amateur dramatics from people who prefer ideological purity in a broom cupboard over the discipline required to capture executive power. Serious political operators build national ground infrastructure, establish party balance sheets, and win parliamentary seats. They do not conduct negotiations via public tweet threads like a nineteen-seventies union shop steward.

The country is currently being dismantled by record tax extraction, institutional decay, and open borders. If your priority is manufacturing factional civil wars and convincing yourself that a fringe group is on the verge of a mass defection, you are not opposing the Uni-party—you are actively doing their work for them.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

@George763995637 Certainly is a beautiful sight 👍

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

🧵👇 At our zenith, Britain was the undisputed forge of the modern world. Our Lancashire cotton mills clothed empires, the Clyde shipyards built armadas that ruled the waves, and the blistering furnaces of Sheffield steel armed the free world against tyranny. We were a sovereign industrial titan. We relied on absolutely no one for our defense.

Today? The political class is popping champagne because a German defence firm (Rheinmetall) has kindly opened a factory in Telford so we can finally produce tank and artillery barrels on UK soil for the first time in two decades.

Relying on foreign executives to build basic munitions in our own country isn't a victory—it is the ultimate humiliation of our managed decline.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

ITV NEWS: RETAIL DISTRACTION AS NATIONAL NEWS.

ITV completed the broadcast trifecta by presenting this retail gimmick as the defining centrepiece of the nation's macroeconomic strategy.

When the British state consumes over a trillion pounds of national output, running news chyrons about a hundred-pound seasonal voucher is an insult to public intelligence. It treats the electorate like children who can be pacified with shiny brass buttons while their financial future is mortgaged away to service unelected central bankers and insolvent public sector balance sheets.

Not one of these legacy networks led on the collapsing capital investment climate, the ongoing hollowing out of our sovereign defence, or the mathematical certainty that these policies accelerate economic stagnation. The broadcast consensus has failed because it serves the political establishment first, the Treasury narrative second, and the British taxpayer never.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

🧵👇 ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA NEWS REPORTING: THE BUDGET 2026.

On a day when the state unleashed forty billion pounds in historic tax extraction, drove the national tax burden to levels unseen since the Second World War, and watched the OBR downgrade long-term productivity, the BBC, Sky News, and ITV all led their bulletins with the exact same retail bribe: a one-off one-hundred-pound energy payment.

This is Whitehall communications management at its most cynical. The Treasury extracts thousands of pounds from every working household through frozen tax thresholds, employer levies, and compounding inflation, hands back less than two pounds a week wrapped in a brass band, and the legacy broadcast lobby faithfully prints the headline without asking a single structural question.

The media does not report on the state; it functions as its PR department.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

🧵👇 SKY NEWS: THE LEVY SLEIGHT OF HAND.

Sky News dutifully swallowed the Treasury’s class-warfare bait by pairing the energy voucher with the headline hike in the Bank Levy.

It is economic illiteracy masquerading as financial reporting. Anyone with an introductory understanding of capital markets knows that banks do not absorb arbitrary sector levies out of benevolent civic duty. They simply pass the cost directly down the food chain into wider mortgage spreads, higher overdraft rates, and lower savings yields for ordinary depositors.

By framing this as Whitehall taking money from City bankers to heat working-class homes, Sky actively conceals the pass-through mechanism from the public. The Chancellor taxes the financial system, the banks quietly surcharge the British borrower on their monthly mortgage payment, and the government takes credit for handing them a token payment on their utility bill. It is a closed-loop extraction racket.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

"That problems from over there don't come over here".

Andrew, we spent decades and hundreds of billions on international development while illegal migration surged to record levels and public infrastructure at home completely buckled.

If foreign aid stopped problems arriving on British shores, our hotel bill for asylum seekers wouldn't be running into billions every single year.

And calling it the "other side of the coin from defence" when the British Army has been hollowed out to its smallest headcount since the eighteenth century is pure Whitehall delusion.

Charity begins at home, and national defence starts at the border.

[Andrew Mitchell @AndrewmitchMP]

My views on intentional spending are well known and long established.

International development spending makes people ‘over there’ safer and more prosperous.

That, in turn, means that problems from ‘over there’ don’t come ‘over here’.

It is the other side of the coin from defence. It’s about our national security and it’s spent in our national interest.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

The Treasury treats population expansion as headline GDP growth while hiding the catastrophic collapse in GDP per capita.

Adding 1.1 million people to a nation with a frozen housing stock, crumbling public infrastructure, and record peacetime tax extraction is pure mathematical insolvency.

We cannot keep taxing our way to prosperity while importing the population of a major European city every few years.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

You are asking the exact questions Whitehall and the courts work overtime to avoid answering, Cristiana.

The legal reality behind this makes it even worse: Joaquim Leitao was handed 12 months custody, suspended for two years, after being convicted of three separate offences against a 15-year-old child.

Because the court chose to suspend the sentence rather than impose immediate jail time, he completely slips beneath the automatic deportation threshold under the UK Borders Act, which triggers at an immediate 12-month custodial sentence. The defence invariably leans on standard mitigating arguments—lack of previous record, "rehabilitation in the community," and prison overcrowding guidance—to keep the sentence non-custodial.

The net result? The perpetrator walks free on Elm Grove, public disclosure of his nationality is buried, and deportation proceedings are bypassed entirely, while a teenage victim is left carrying permanent trauma.

A legal framework that prioritises administrative convenience and non-custodial quotas over child protection and public safety is fundamentally broken. Keep turning up the heat on this!

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

@TwmAtkinsig @jk_rowling Worrying she's still chair of the Labour party 🤦

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

@TheRoyalStnd78 @StevenJonMiller Do you speak on behalf of all of them?

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

A textbook Freudian slip. Healey accidentally told the country the unvarnished truth before catching himself.

Everyone knows Ed Miliband ideologically opposes North Sea gas.

The absurd reality of this government’s energy policy is shutting down domestic extraction in the name of Net Zero, sacrificing tens of thousands of skilled British jobs, and then importing liquefied natural gas from Qatar and the US with four times the shipping emissions at premium prices.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

Fascinating lecture on capital flight, Jeremy.

Remind the public: which Chancellor hiked Corporation Tax by six full percentage points, froze income tax bands to fleece the private sector through fiscal drag, and presided over the highest tax burden since nineteen forty-five?

You single handedly built the high-tax prison; Labour simply added another lock on the door, therefore, pretending to care about City competitiveness after spending your tenure treating the productive economy as an automated Treasury ATM is pure political pantomime.

[Sir Jeremy Hunt MP @Jeremy_Hunt]

Increasing the Bank Levy will make mortgages more expensive and the cost of living worse. Bankers are an easy target but it is also risky: banks in London already face a total tax rate of 46%, compared with 39% in Frankfurt and just 28% New York. Less profitable financial services = lower long term tax revenue