It is reassuring to see Conservatives in power who want to cut taxes. For too long, the party has wedded itself to the tax-and-spend shibboleths of the left, believing that it is government’s role to merely hoover up as much money as possible and then to spaff it around with vigour.
On mass migration: as a former Immigration Officer, I look on with mounting frustration and despair, as our social fabric slowly unravels.
What drives the purveyors of this disastrous deception of the great British public is beyond my comprehension: mass migration, overcrowding, parallel societies, imported sectarian conflicts-Leicester most recently-creaking infrastructure and incompatible social standards combined with the sheer lunacy of Net Zero and 'managed demand' will lead inevitably to significant unrest.
We cannot offer carte blanche to anyone who fancies a new life here in handout Blighty and the lib/left's wielding of the guilt weapon needs to challenged and dismissed.
This morning, while waiting for a train at our small local station, I was accosted by a young African male in a hoody. I saw him off, but this is just one isolated encounter now being replicated in many areas both here and in mainland Europe.
One cannot object publicly without incurring the wrath of the thought police, so the silent resentment grows.
As to our economic future, we need more apprenticeships for young people, too many of whom are sucked into useless wokish courses at universities; an end to mass migration, the removal of big tech's stranglehold on freedom of expression, rational dissent and debate, the aboltion of the licence fee-no longer justifiable either socially or economically, an immediate cessation of the thoroughly grotesque sexualisation of the very young by activists and teachers and a much needed drive to restore basic good manners, consideration and personal accountability.
Finally I agree again with Stuffysays: who amongst our leaders has the courage and integrity: Steve Baker, Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch and Sir Christopher Chope are the few whom I would recommend.
You forgot to mention who is going to lead us into this brave new world! The quality of politicians of any party in any country is well below the level needed to make any difference at all. I can see no capable, competent and courageous politician striding confidently forward to take control and fight off the dragons. The church of England is full of chinless namby pambys staring at their navels. The political parties are full of venal self-serving narcissists. The mega corporations aren't going to help (although my husband thinks Jamie Dimon might be an interesting choice for US president!) and the lobbyists are just working to their own narrow agenda. So where do we look?
A free market economy is one thing. But looking at the context of the current budget, my take is that Truss (because let’s face it, this is her budget) is actively seeking to achieve something very different- high inflation & high interest rates. (Since this is the virtually inevitable consequence of her economic policy in our current context, I think we should give her the credit of assuming it is intended.)
This would be a great policy for capital asset holders, and a disaster for the middle classes. In fact, it’s a vast transfer of assets from the middle classes to monopolistic crony capitalists.
This looks to me like cynical exploitation & corruption. Which isn’t the same as a free market by any means.
On mass migration: as a former Immigration Officer, I look on with mounting frustration and despair, as our social fabric slowly unravels.
What drives the purveyors of this disastrous deception of the great British public is beyond my comprehension: mass migration, overcrowding, parallel societies, imported sectarian conflicts-Leicester most recently-creaking infrastructure and incompatible social standards combined with the sheer lunacy of Net Zero and 'managed demand' will lead inevitably to significant unrest.
We cannot offer carte blanche to anyone who fancies a new life here in handout Blighty and the lib/left's wielding of the guilt weapon needs to challenged and dismissed.
This morning, while waiting for a train at our small local station, I was accosted by a young African male in a hoody. I saw him off, but this is just one isolated encounter now being replicated in many areas both here and in mainland Europe.
One cannot object publicly without incurring the wrath of the thought police, so the silent resentment grows.
As to our economic future, we need more apprenticeships for young people, too many of whom are sucked into useless wokish courses at universities; an end to mass migration, the removal of big tech's stranglehold on freedom of expression, rational dissent and debate, the aboltion of the licence fee-no longer justifiable either socially or economically, an immediate cessation of the thoroughly grotesque sexualisation of the very young by activists and teachers and a much needed drive to restore basic good manners, consideration and personal accountability.
Finally I agree again with Stuffysays: who amongst our leaders has the courage and integrity: Steve Baker, Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch and Sir Christopher Chope are the few whom I would recommend.
https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/those-who-speak-out-are-shouted-down-until-they-are-proved-right-says-neil-oliver/370448
More wise words from Neil Olver
You forgot to mention who is going to lead us into this brave new world! The quality of politicians of any party in any country is well below the level needed to make any difference at all. I can see no capable, competent and courageous politician striding confidently forward to take control and fight off the dragons. The church of England is full of chinless namby pambys staring at their navels. The political parties are full of venal self-serving narcissists. The mega corporations aren't going to help (although my husband thinks Jamie Dimon might be an interesting choice for US president!) and the lobbyists are just working to their own narrow agenda. So where do we look?
A free market economy is one thing. But looking at the context of the current budget, my take is that Truss (because let’s face it, this is her budget) is actively seeking to achieve something very different- high inflation & high interest rates. (Since this is the virtually inevitable consequence of her economic policy in our current context, I think we should give her the credit of assuming it is intended.)
This would be a great policy for capital asset holders, and a disaster for the middle classes. In fact, it’s a vast transfer of assets from the middle classes to monopolistic crony capitalists.
This looks to me like cynical exploitation & corruption. Which isn’t the same as a free market by any means.