This is the reality that is driving the UK to Bankruptcy. It is also the reason many are seriously considering removing business interests, assets and lives to alternatives outside of the UK. It is a disaster.
Keir Starmer — ever a man of his word til the end.
In June 2023 he explicitly ruled out ever indulging in a resignation honours list (BBC Radio 4 Today).
Today he’s marked his resignation with 21 peerages, overwhelmingly public-sector/legal jobsworths. Barely a single wealth creator among them.
Classic line up of the New Establishment which has run the country under Labour and Tory governments for the past three decades and is now firmly in control. Largely (if not entirely) with the following characteristics:
*Career almost entirely in public sector, often taking salaries from several sinecures at once as they work up the greasy taxpayer-funded pole.
*Associated with various ‘right-on’ causes.
*Largely middle class, London chattering class, Oxbridge well represented (of course).
*Fashionable left but not too left. Good mainstream Labour links.
Thus is the antediluvian House of Lords perpetuated by the Left as well as the Right as a comfortable state-funded retirement home for the well-connected ‘good and great’ past their sell-by date — when it should simply be abolished.
@aberdeenuni You need to act, not hide behind procedures. Your employee has publicly indulged in hatful speech and conduct. Your reputation is at stake.
@DPJHodges You are now hysterical, detached not only from the general public but reality. Something must have really rattled you. Get a grip and speak to some normal people outside your bubble.
"It's become effectively illegal to better yourself in Britain."
Think the future of the UK is just about arguing over tax rates? The truth is much worse. We’ve stopped building, we’ve buried growth in millions of pounds of paperwork, and we’ve flatlined productivity since 2008.
Gary Stevenson and the media want to referee a knife fight over a shrinking pie. Take every yacht because it changes nothing. The average person is missing out on thousands of pounds a year because the state won't let anyone create wealth anymore.
We are on a fast track to extreme poverty if everything has to be a gift from the state. It’s time to stop fighting over crumbs and start making things again.
@DPJHodges Pretty one dimensional commentary from you though, lop sided agitation we could even say! Plays straight in to the hands of millions who are pissed off with the same old same old.
Thoughts on Farage.
The anti-democratic lanyard class must be faced down, like Thatcher faced down Scargill and co. Going after family is contemptible, and they have to learn.
They’re lucky their intended victim was Farage - many mums and dads would be down at the Times offices right now brandishing a tomahawk.
I like Farage, but then I also like Kemi and Lowe. Their squabbles are silly, considering the dire state of the country.
Putting aside everything else, it is a disgrace that Farage as a significant political leader who might become PM, does not have publicly-funded protection. It is not in any way in the interests of British democracy that he is attacked or hurt. Quite the opposite
Dominic Cummings -
‘Whitehall will break the law to prevent Reform winning power. They’ll leak medical records, they’ll leak tax records. They’ll bug (Nigel’s) phone and leak that. They’ll do anything that they need to’.
https://t.co/a5DtIYwCIt