What is “good growth”? He seemed to tell us we were going to get it over and over again. Well “good growth”, from what he was saying as far as I can tell, isn’t turbo charging our economy, rocket firing businesses and giving them the right atmosphere to grow, thrive, employee people (except by what seems to be his state enforced upon business apprenticeships when business are already struggling to employee people due to his predecessor’s actions) - it means growth of state - layers of state intervention, rules by how you may live your life, even more layers of government employment, state ownership of industry - all to be paid by by the ever more poorer non- governmental working class who pay the taxes to provide the funding for this. Add in devolution by splitting up our tiny country (not the whopping big one, Germany, he described as his reasoning for this) and this is, as you say magnified in by an indescribable factor.
The reason I presume that he didn’t take questions because the whole plan could be ripped apart by a few small questions - the biggest is who the hell will pay for this? Well we know that will be the ever dwindling number of people not employed in the state sector because they are the ONLY people who generate new tax revenue. From within the state that is just recycled tax revenue. With that extra burden we will end up with a recession we cannot remember in living memory. What about local taxation generation - given extra powers we will see an added layer of taxation without any control if it is “for the good” of that area so will council tax be replaced or will we be told any extra remuneration we earn over a state legislated amount per person living wage so we are “all equal” (exemption applying to anyone in high governmental office because of course none of their dictate ever stop them having all the luxuries in the world they want as the chosen ones) be taken to pay for the local area. One thing is for certain taxes won’t go down they will go up, which ever way you look at it.
And then I would ask what about the possibility of social enclaves….. as he said he wanted places to govern themselves for what is best for them…. Does that mean we will start to see places that no longer use the law of our land, do not use our language, where sectarian rule exists, the loss of rights for certain parts of our community…. If you are reading this I am sure you understand what I am talking about and who those people may be.
And finally I would put to me burnham that this is just a teenage temper tantrum that he has carried into his Middle Ages to take revenge on a long deceased prime minister who actually wasn’t the one who ruined his area of the country because it had been started by his own government before and therefore wants revenge. This isn’t about uplifting the country so the north is as rich as the south it’s about punishing the south for having the audacity of having the capital city for millennia. It is about that pure and simple. In all of that speech he just talked about the south and the north. Not once did I hear him talk about the midlands so are we to become the no man’s land between the two countries hilts his bitter twisted nasty little man wages his own little war.
He talks of a ten year plan. I suspect we will be trying (I hope will
Be successful) in removing him within ten months.
But then I never trusted Starmer and I never trusted him. So who do we blame for imposing him
We rebelled when Prescott tried to regionalise England, the better to fit into the EU, and it was dropped. Burnham's trying to do it through the back door. The left never, ever play with a straight bat. Democracy is something to be outwitted.
Watching that chattering muppet yesterday morning and swearing at the TV I felt depressed.I usually enjoy Wimbledon.I just couldnt raise interest.The number of Brits out is a sad indication of the blackness hovering over my country.
Hi Alex, I suspect that most of your readership understand what's happening. The question I ask is what can we do to protect ourselves from the impending communism which is going to sweep across the UK? I've read a few books over the last year or so about life in both Russia and East Germany in the late 70's into the late 80's. The parallels with them (Russia and East Germany) then and what's happening here now are quite scarry! As we've seen from the "covid moment" people in general are easy to manipulate and will probably be happy to be "looked after" and toe the line accordingly. A slight aside. One of my sons left the UK a little over 3 years ago. Today we were chatting and he said that whilst he thought the UK was failing then he's staggered by the speed of the decline and sadly said that he's not coming back!
Makerfield was won by Labour because Reform's campaign was so utterly amateurish. We all knew MONTHS ahead what Labour were planning, so where was the stunning 20 subjects clobber-Labour-like-never-before Reform newspaper ready to be delivered to 50,000 letterboxes/73,000 voters IN THE FIRST WEEK of the campaign? Reform went to a knife fight armed with pea-shooters, silly little leaflets with Nigel gurning AND IN SUNGLASSES, a no-no for political campaigning. Either Reform HQ are really, really stupid or have some very very clever enemy moles 'advising' them on what to put on silly little leaflets. Labour is 1000 times more cunning and competent than Reform's 'by-elections team'. Does it even have a by-elections team? Are they the same old losers from UKIP who advised Nigel badly last time? Or perhaps they're the same people who told Nigel he could take a long holiday after we all slogged our guts out to win the Referendum, and trust the Tories to deliver Brexit? Now there's a question, why is Reform so keen to take on old Tories who were the architects of Britain's downfall?
What is “good growth”? He seemed to tell us we were going to get it over and over again. Well “good growth”, from what he was saying as far as I can tell, isn’t turbo charging our economy, rocket firing businesses and giving them the right atmosphere to grow, thrive, employee people (except by what seems to be his state enforced upon business apprenticeships when business are already struggling to employee people due to his predecessor’s actions) - it means growth of state - layers of state intervention, rules by how you may live your life, even more layers of government employment, state ownership of industry - all to be paid by by the ever more poorer non- governmental working class who pay the taxes to provide the funding for this. Add in devolution by splitting up our tiny country (not the whopping big one, Germany, he described as his reasoning for this) and this is, as you say magnified in by an indescribable factor.
The reason I presume that he didn’t take questions because the whole plan could be ripped apart by a few small questions - the biggest is who the hell will pay for this? Well we know that will be the ever dwindling number of people not employed in the state sector because they are the ONLY people who generate new tax revenue. From within the state that is just recycled tax revenue. With that extra burden we will end up with a recession we cannot remember in living memory. What about local taxation generation - given extra powers we will see an added layer of taxation without any control if it is “for the good” of that area so will council tax be replaced or will we be told any extra remuneration we earn over a state legislated amount per person living wage so we are “all equal” (exemption applying to anyone in high governmental office because of course none of their dictate ever stop them having all the luxuries in the world they want as the chosen ones) be taken to pay for the local area. One thing is for certain taxes won’t go down they will go up, which ever way you look at it.
And then I would ask what about the possibility of social enclaves….. as he said he wanted places to govern themselves for what is best for them…. Does that mean we will start to see places that no longer use the law of our land, do not use our language, where sectarian rule exists, the loss of rights for certain parts of our community…. If you are reading this I am sure you understand what I am talking about and who those people may be.
And finally I would put to me burnham that this is just a teenage temper tantrum that he has carried into his Middle Ages to take revenge on a long deceased prime minister who actually wasn’t the one who ruined his area of the country because it had been started by his own government before and therefore wants revenge. This isn’t about uplifting the country so the north is as rich as the south it’s about punishing the south for having the audacity of having the capital city for millennia. It is about that pure and simple. In all of that speech he just talked about the south and the north. Not once did I hear him talk about the midlands so are we to become the no man’s land between the two countries hilts his bitter twisted nasty little man wages his own little war.
He talks of a ten year plan. I suspect we will be trying (I hope will
Be successful) in removing him within ten months.
But then I never trusted Starmer and I never trusted him. So who do we blame for imposing him
On us?
We rebelled when Prescott tried to regionalise England, the better to fit into the EU, and it was dropped. Burnham's trying to do it through the back door. The left never, ever play with a straight bat. Democracy is something to be outwitted.
Watching that chattering muppet yesterday morning and swearing at the TV I felt depressed.I usually enjoy Wimbledon.I just couldnt raise interest.The number of Brits out is a sad indication of the blackness hovering over my country.
Hi Alex, I suspect that most of your readership understand what's happening. The question I ask is what can we do to protect ourselves from the impending communism which is going to sweep across the UK? I've read a few books over the last year or so about life in both Russia and East Germany in the late 70's into the late 80's. The parallels with them (Russia and East Germany) then and what's happening here now are quite scarry! As we've seen from the "covid moment" people in general are easy to manipulate and will probably be happy to be "looked after" and toe the line accordingly. A slight aside. One of my sons left the UK a little over 3 years ago. Today we were chatting and he said that whilst he thought the UK was failing then he's staggered by the speed of the decline and sadly said that he's not coming back!
Makerfield was won by Labour because Reform's campaign was so utterly amateurish. We all knew MONTHS ahead what Labour were planning, so where was the stunning 20 subjects clobber-Labour-like-never-before Reform newspaper ready to be delivered to 50,000 letterboxes/73,000 voters IN THE FIRST WEEK of the campaign? Reform went to a knife fight armed with pea-shooters, silly little leaflets with Nigel gurning AND IN SUNGLASSES, a no-no for political campaigning. Either Reform HQ are really, really stupid or have some very very clever enemy moles 'advising' them on what to put on silly little leaflets. Labour is 1000 times more cunning and competent than Reform's 'by-elections team'. Does it even have a by-elections team? Are they the same old losers from UKIP who advised Nigel badly last time? Or perhaps they're the same people who told Nigel he could take a long holiday after we all slogged our guts out to win the Referendum, and trust the Tories to deliver Brexit? Now there's a question, why is Reform so keen to take on old Tories who were the architects of Britain's downfall?