Labour: Cutting consumption with higher taxes, higher utility prices and higher prices in the shops will lead to mass unemployment

 

Even before the first budget is presented in Parliament, the Labour government has cut disposable income with higher taxes, higher utility prices and higher prices in the shops. 

In a reminder of what happened during the Covid Pandemic when lockdowns reduced economic activity dramatically to the point that the then Conservative government had to implement furloughs schemes to try to save ailing companies and prevent massive job losses, the Labour government now seems to intend to cause yet another financial crise.

Cutting disposable income in the United Kingdom while increasing the amount of monies thrown into a foreign bottomless barrel is a strategy for disaster. Money, money, money but not for Britain. Is this a government for the United Kingdom?

In the meantime, Prime Minister Keir Starmer travels around the world, organising new wars and leaving a trail of Pounds as he smiles for television cameras, but.... never mind... private donations for his wife's wardrobe are always welcomed.

When eve supermarket chains like Tesco are closing down branches, you can foresee what the future will be as numbers of cases of shoplifting in supermarkets increase exponentially.

 

Three by-elections: wasted opportunities for the Opposition

When you are trying to make a major political impact, you must ensure that candidates that are certain to win the election are heavyweight candidates. For whatever reason both Labour and Liberal Democrats play their cards wrongly. 

The Liberal Democrats chose a totally inexperienced 25 year-old and Labour chose a woman who can only perform well with soft interviewers. As soon as she was press for answers, she faltered. 

ULEZ was a major disaster for Labour in area in the outskirts of London where there are major difficulties for public transport and people are forced to use cards for their day to day activities and businesses. As it was expected, voters rejected Labour's ULEZ zone and gave the victory to the Conservative Party that maintained a strategic Parliamentary seat that was the now former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's seat. Labour wanted to make a good impression and failed miserably, courtesy of the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan that persists with his plan to include areas like Uxbridge as part of the ULEZ plan.

When you look at the leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer, he has the odds stuck against him. In an area where people are religious and traditionalists, the present himself as the man that thinks that women have penises. In an area where people unavoidably need vehicles to move around and to survive, Keir Starmer presents himself as the 'anti-car' candidate. Ordinary people who earn a meagre living don't need any more taxes, but Labour insists in creating new taxes at local level. Labour talks about parking permits to be paid for by local residents. ULEZ to be paid by local residents. Labour talks about company permits that will make local services a lot more expensive. In its elan to 'save the planet', Labour is sacrificing ordinary Britons. 

If finding jobs is difficult and especially for those with fewer skills, Labour wants to import more illegal immigrants. If finding accommodation is expensive and sometimes impossible to find, Labour wants more foreigners to take over the jobs done by local residents and more foreigners to take whatever accommodation is available leaving local residents with nowhere to live in. Labour supports cranky individuals that go around causing disturbance and preventing access to hospitals, to name a few of the things that a minute bunch of crackpots have been involved in.

When it comes to defend democracy, Labour is nowhere to be seen. Does Labour support closing bank accounts for political reasons? Well, Keir Starmer has kept quiet on this subject and this leads people to believe that he is very much in favour of political repression. As somebody stated, Keir Starmer keeps quiet because he has nothing to say.

An inconvenient truth: you can’t sell the green revolution to people who can’t afford it - Gaby Hinsliff

Even in the Labour Party some people are starting to realize the foolishness of Net Zero. As Gaby Hinsliff writes on The Guardian, 'an inconvenient truth: you can't sell the green revolution to people who can't afford it.'

The reality is that transport links in the United Kingdom are very poor. If you go out of the main urban areas, or even inside urban areas, the provision of public transpor is notoriously insufficient. Therefore, penalizing people for using cars or preventing people from using cars is madness.

Local authorities are using so called green policies to extract money that is in effect an increase in Council Tax. If you have to pay Congestion Charge and ULEZ, pay for parking and parking permits, you are in effect paying additional Council Tax because of the proceedings will end up in the hands of local authorities. 

Nobody has even calculated the impact of such taxes on the local economy in ways that will affect more those who have less. This wave of taxations has been promoted by the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and by all the do-gooders that want to make good with somebody else's money. And what would will be done when local economies collapse under the burden of taxation and people are forced out of work?

You can't sell the green revolutoin to people who can't afford it. This is something that Keir Starmer and all other proponents of Net Zero and the upper class weirdoes that go around making a nuisance of themselves should be thinking about.

Extinction Rebellion: yet more disruption as if we hadn't had enough disruption

Diane Abbott MP's participation during a LBC radio programme became legendary when having been asked how much money was going to be necessary to increase the number of Police officers she gave a figure that would have been the equivalent of spending £10 per Police officer.  

Since then, the Labour MP has complained that she has suffered torrents of abuse during her political career. When she was asked on radio, pressed for time, she gave a figure from the top of her head because she hadn't actually calculated beforehand how much it would be necessary to recruit Police officers that the Labour Party had been talking about for so long in Parliament and outside Parliament when criticizing Conservative governments past and present.

Policing rallies and demonstrations, enforcing Lockdown meaures and dealing with chaos and disorder while protecting public and private property does not come cheap. Police officers that would normally be carrying out regular duties have to be concentrated in big numbers on the streets to prevent public disorder and to deal with cases of violence when violence unavoidably erupts. Extra hours are piled up and all the monies invested in big deployments, arrests and legal proceedings consume even faster a very tight Police budget. As if the number of rallies and demonstrations we have been dealing with was not enough, the news kids on the block - Extinction Rebellion - are now threatening us with further actions and this time focusing on banking institutions. You can bet that, yet again, sizeable amounts of money will be taken out of the Police budget to prevent disorder and to deal with unavoidable confrontations on the streets. As we come out of the quarentine imposed to deal with a pandemic, and as numbers of peoples walking around rise, spring and summer don't look like seasons of the year that you will be able to enjoy, but more as seasons of the year that you will have to suffer thanks to people who believe that generating chaos and disorder they are promoting a healthier environment.

As new legislation is being introduced to tackle disorder, the very same people whose actions serve to justify the passing of stricter legislation are once again creating chaos on the streets and are now going to be joined by the new kids on the block and by other individuals who couldn't care less about any cause and are only around to engage in disreputable behaviour including violence and destruction of public and private property. As always, policing and clean up operations will be paid for by Joe Public.

Council Tax letters were already sent by local authorities including increases of the fees house owners have to pay at a time when local authorities are under additional financial stress, party because of the pandemic, partly because of expenses that rise year on year. So, less money for Police services and less monies for local services delibered by local authorities and this at a time when the Treasury is struggling with vast amounts of borrowing to deal with the pandemic and to protect peoples' jobs. Furlough schemes are basically state subsidies to support those who have lost their income and to keep those who are still working at work.

Any actions that could undermine the operations of vital financial services are a direct attack against the United Kingdom. Such actions can be said to be carried out to promote a healthier environment, but are the de-facto acts of terrorism at a time when the country is slowly, but surely heading towards relative normality. This is a time when we should be supporting the creation of new jobs. Extinction Rebellion doesn't care about jobs and this is also a way to say that Extinction Rebellion could not care less about millions of families in the United Kingdom that have lost their incomes or are struggling to survive with reduced incomes.