- “Zelensky ‘refuses to sign’ Donald Trump’s ‘problematic’ minerals deal” – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reportedly “not yet ready” to sign a controversial minerals deal with Donald Trump that may see him give away billions in critical elements and revenues, the Mail reports.
- “Trump to abandon Russia war crimes prosecution” – The US has signalled that it could leave an international effort to prosecute Russia for invading Ukraine, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Starmer considers faster defence build-up ahead of Trump talks” – Sir Keir Starmer is considering boosting defence spending sooner than previously thought as he prepares for talks with Donald Trump this week, the Telegraph reports.
- “We can pay for a rapid rebuild of our military might – by using the hundreds of billions Miliband is planning to splurge on his fatuous pursuit of Net Zero” – Some more common sense from Andrew Neil in the Mail, which will of course be completely ignored by this doctrinaire Labour Government.
- “Keir Starmer shrugs off Trump as he prepares to give new aid to Ukraine and sanction Russian oligarchs amid US President’s war of words with Volodymyr Zelensky” – Keir Starmer is set to announce a new package of support for Ukraine days after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian President a “dictator”, reports the Mail.
- “Why Trump doesn’t see Putin as a real threat” – Russia is not a direct threat to the US in the eyes of this administration, says Sam Olson in the Spectator.
- “Trump’s comments are out of order, but Europe’s inaction is unforgivable” – Trump’s comments about Zelensky are out of order, but the Continent has no excuse for past inaction, says Robert Jenrick in the Telegraph.
- “Trump won’t make America great by wrecking NATO and the global post-war order” – Relentless optimism at home, but unyielding pessimism abroad: that is the disconnect in the President’s message, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Europe must be stronger, or it will die” – The Trump administration has caused the biggest rift between the United States and Europe since the end of the Cold War, writes Yascha Mounk in the Spectator.
- “The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right” – The Spectator‘s Freddy Gray feels that Trump may have a point.
- “Russell Brand is now one of Trump’s inner circle in Florida” – Russell Brand, having avoided charges over sexual assault, has relocated to Florida, where he is now besties with RFK, says the Mail.
- “Trump sacks US military’s top-ranked officer” – Gen Charles ‘CQ’ Brown, who went viral with an emotional video about discrimination in the army, has been fired by Donald Trump less than two years into his four-year term as part of a major shake-up of the US armed forces leadership, reports the Telegraph.
- “UK set to overshoot borrowing forecast despite £15.4 billion surplus” – Self-assessment income bolstered public sector finances in January but borrowing for this financial year is already £13 billion above last year, leaving Rachel Reeves with tough choices if she is to keep within her fiscal rules, reports the Times.
- “For Labour to avoid annihilation, it needs to cut spending now. Britain’s problem is that it won’t” – To defend itself, the UK needs to be rich. If we continue on our current path, penury and servitude beckon, warns Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Business Secretary was warned against lying about legal career a decade ago” – In 2015, Jonathan Reynolds was told not to claim he used to work as a solicitor – but dismissed the concerns, reports the Telegraph.
- “What would my Labour CV look like? Well, I was a successful jockey, actress…” – ‘Rachel from Accounts’ will just have to put up with the name – she deserves it, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Lord Hermer’s Kenya case ‘fleeced taxpayers’” – Keir Starmer’s Attorney General led a case in which the lawyers involved were accused of “enriching themselves” at the expense of taxpayers, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Apple axes top security feature in Britain amid row with Yvette Cooper” – Yvette Cooper has been accused of putting millions of iPhone users’ data at risk after Apple removed its top security feature from Britain in a row with the Home Secretary, the Telegraph reports.
- “Labour will use AI to snoop on social media” – The Government’s controversial disinformation team is developing a secretive AI programme to trawl through social media looking for “concerning” posts it deems problematic so it can take “action”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour must not kowtow to AI giants” – One might think Labour would want to protect the creative sector, which generates billions and supports countless jobs, but the party is prostrating itself before Big Tech, warns the Mail in a leading article.
- “Keir Starmer is doing a Boris on immigration” – Keir Starmer is just the latest in a long line of Prime Ministers who says that immigration has been far too high in the past and needs to be greatly reduced while doing the exact opposite, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Asylum seekers allowed to stay in UK despite lying in claims” – Immigration judges have repeatedly ruled migrants can avoid deportation despite being found to have lied about their cases and the risks they face at home, the Telegraph reports.
- “Illegal immigrant who stabbed wife to death wins right to stay in Britain after arguing he might have to face wrath of in-laws back home in Turkey” – An illegal immigrant who savagely stabbed his wife to death has won the right to stay in Britain – after arguing that he might have to face the anger of his in-laws back home in Turkey, reports the Mail.
- “Make our judges stand for election – then they would deliver common sense decisions” – It’s time for a shake-up, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph, after a series of outrageous judgments shows just how out of touch our liberal judiciary is.
- “One killed and police seriously injured in ‘Islamist terror attack’ in France” – One person was killed and two police officers were seriously injured in what Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terror attack” in eastern France on Saturday, after an Algerian suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” before going on stabbing spree, reports the Telegraph.
- “What’s True and False in One Health” – On Robert Malone’s Substack, Jeffrey Tucker sounds a warning about the WHO’s One Health agenda, which Deep State bureaucrats have already signed the Trump administration up to.
- “Energy Secretary Ed Miliband recruits Extinction Rebellion cheerleaders to Government roles to help push through costly agenda” – The Energy Secretary has quietly appointed the advisers who have all publicly expressed admiration for the radical action group which has repeatedly brought chaos to Britain’s streets, reports the Mail.
- “One last push before Germany goes to the polls: Final poll predicts large gains for AfD while frontrunner Friedrich Merz vows to lead Europe” – A final poll ahead of tomorrow’s German election has predicted that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will see a major increase in votes, but not enough to overtake Friedrich Merz of the CDU, reports the Mail.
- “A German Political Primer Ahead of Tomorrow’s Elections” – Eugyppius attempts to explain the arcane intricacies of Germany’s party system for clueless Americans and Brits.
- “How the humble heat pump pushed Germany to the far-Right” – The rigid Net Zero stance of Olaf Scholz’s coalition has become electoral dynamite, says Mattie Brignal in the Telegraph.
- “Focus on diversity and Net Zero if you want Government contracts, firms told” – Companies have been told to focus on Net Zero and diversity goals if they want to win public contracts under the Government’s new procurement rules, the Telegraph reports.
- “Hospitals hiring trans doctors unable to see their disciplinary records” – NHS hospitals hiring transgender doctors could be left unable to see their disciplinary records, senior medics have warned, according to the Telegraph.
- “Equalities watchdog issues warning to NHS board at centre of trans nurse row amid fears new ‘staff transitioning guide’ is unlawful” – The NHS Fife trans row ratcheted up further yesterday when the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) reminded the health board and Health Secretary Neil Gray of their legal obligations surrounding single-sex facilities in the workplace, reports the Mail.
- “Scotland’s public sector is in thrall to trans ideology” – No one, says Tom Harris in the Mail, would have predicted that such a simple question would cause such anxiety and confusion among our politicians: what is a woman?
- “Law lecturer ‘sacked over gender-critical beliefs’ handed payout” – Law lecturer Dr Almut Gadow who was sacked by the Open University after expressing gender-critical beliefs has been handed a payout from the institution in an out of court settlement, the Telegraph reports.
- “BBC hails drag queens as ‘inspirational mums’ on CBeebies site” – The BBC’s children’s website for under sixes has lauded two transgender activists as “inspirational mums” for International Women’s Day, reports the Mail.
- “Lawmaker’s attempt to be woke destroys her election chances” – Amanda Zavitz, a self-professed DEI advocate, was forced to drop out of Ontario’s upcoming legislative elections after shock audio of her remarks to a 2024 UN conference that “My secret is that I want to be a black woman” went viral, reports the Mail.
- “Who is responsible for the BBC’s Gaza documentary debacle?” – In screening How to Survive a Warzone, the BBC served as a mouthpiece for one of the world’s most depraved terrorist organisations, writes Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator.
- “Politicians are bad at running trains, building cars and installing phones – why would they be better at running football?” – In the Sun, Daniel Hannan looks at why Labour’s Football Governance Bill would be a disastrous move for England’s national game.
- “Knock knock, it’s the Thought Police: As thousands of criminals go uninvestigated, detectives call on a grandmother. Her crime? She went on Facebook to criticise Labour councillors at the centre of the ‘Hope you Die’ WhatsApp scandal exposed by the MoS” – Detectives were last night accused of acting like East Germany ‘s feared Stasi secret police for quizzing Helen Jones over her calls for the resignation of local councillors embroiled in the WhatsApp scandal, reports the Mail.
- “Firemen are too male and too white, say chiefs” – A report commissioned by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has claimed that the fire service is “institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Inside America’s ‘trans sanctuary city’ too busy shouting about Trump to focus on worst murder rate in decades” – The second-biggest city in New England is collapsing under the weight of its own wokeness, and convulsed by fears of Donald Trump’s second stint in the White House, residents told the Mail.
- “Britain is fast becoming an Orwellian surveillance state” – As is so often the case, Labour is simply pouring petrol onto a fire that was started by the Tories, writes Zia Yusuf in the Telegraph.
- “Within those fairly strict narrow limits, I would say that people should be permitted to say whatever they like, provided it’s not going to lead to violence. It’s not going to lead to a breach of the peace” – Watch Toby and John Benjamin discuss the limits of free speech on GB News.
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Wake up, and smell the Great Reset. You will own Nothing, and be happy.
Except that some people will not-own more than others.
That deserves a classic Orwell quote…
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Get everybody dependent upon the State appears to be the plan.
Getting everyone dependent on the State was all part of New Labours Universal Credit.
Tax peoples income away then give it back by way of UC.
Now we have the the Tories lending everyone £250 for their energy bill (whether you want it or not) and expanding the welfare state even further.
Klaus Schwab seems to be becoming a de facto president of the world these days, I wrote a short satirical science fiction imagining what the future may look like (if we’re not careful):
“Welcome To Schwabia”
http://participator.online/articles/2022/02/welcome_to_schwabia_20220226.php
The year is 2070, all the formerly independent nations of the world are now joined together in a single unified nation called Schwabia …
Don’t say that. The despotic old fart might just get off on it.
He bragged that Putin was one of the WEF’s young leaders, which leads us to ask some interesting questions about the current conflict I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v1pB8l6pQc
He speaks of “penetrating the cabinets” of many governments..
Putin was also a KGB Senior Operative – he knows exactly what Psycho Schwab is about!
The likes of Schwab want Russia balkanised and reduced to a collection of resource extraction colonies. Putin stands for the antithesis of this – a strong unified Russia for all of its ethnic groups.
Schwabia! Yes a cross between planet of the Apes and Nazi Germany!
You will own nothing …but Johnson and Sunak will own you …and they will be both richer and “happy”!
We will be zero!
I run a small biz
Since the pandemic started all hmrc staff have been working from home
It is impossible to get thru to them and when you do they frequently cut you off when they can’t answer your query. This is no word of a lie
They fined my business for an issue with a tax return. It was a cock up on their side but it is impossible to get thru to the right person to explain in detail why this is the case. They are utterly inept.
As a consequence our accountant has now said just take them to court about the fine. We will win 100 pc, Hmrc will pay all costs.
He said he has has done this with several clients already.
All because these bone idle civil servants can’t be arsed to go into the office and do their fucking job properly.
and the costs for you having to take these parasites to court, well its no skin off their nose, nobody will lose their jobs, they will just reach into the pot of money collected from us the tax payers to cover their mistake. Perhaps if the fine had to be paid from the HMRC teams own pockets they might be incentivised to actually do their jobs properly. Wheras now whats the downside for them.
Yep sounds about right.
In a similar vein for two years in March I’ve been trying to buy a flat which was repossessed by a government department in 2019. They repossessed it for an unpaid 4 figure ( almost 5 figure ) debt
Thanks to our oh-so-efficient civil servants
binge watching Netflixworking from home… They never answer the phone or answer emails ( conveyancing lawyers tearing their hair out ) so the chance of the govt recovering this debt is now zero as the mortgage against the flat has racked up so much interest.The
stupid fuckersvaliant government staff even publicly trumpeted this repossession against the debt as a triumph in one of their departmental magazines.I particularly admire their brazen online chat system. It tells you that you are in the queue and that there is no need to refresh the web page. However, it is clear that there are no scripts running on the page and I have twice been “in the queue” for eight hours with no change. To summarize, they have created a totally fake call centre queue, just to fob you off, with no hope of ever getting through.
All tax is theft – and they’re getting greedier and better at it every year.
At last. A fellow traveller. It is theft. Shocking that so few people will consider zero tax or at least local taxes only.
It’s not really Taxes that are the problem. It’s the administration of those Taxes which is so objectionable.
A number of places in the world are ‘Tax free’, Monaco and Bermuda spring immediately to mind, but having personal experience of Bermuda, Taxes are levied by means other than Income Tax. The administration of those Taxes are no less objectionable than ours.
Then there’s the political coercion associated with Taxes. Frankly, they are used by politicians to bribe the public.
It’s a subject that can run and run. Is Taxation theft? Not so much theft as extortion in my opinion. A government run Protection scheme no less onerous than a Mafia Protection racket. Except it probably doesn’t work as well and often it’s more destructive.
http://www.libertarianprepper.com/taxation-is-a-protection-racket/
They are installing Global “Catch Twenty Two” – they can do anything they like to you and you can do nothing about it!
The Globalist Banks and Black Rock and Vanguard Asset Holders are ultimately responsible and all the politicians are merely their useful stooges!!
Yep- amazes me that pretty much everyone thinks that it’s OK to just take 50%+ of someone’s earnings and that these people should do so willingly because they have to ‘do their bit’- as if taking risks, starting businesses, investing in the local economy and employing people don’t actually amount to ‘doing their bit’. A woman near us has spent years on benefits but recently started working after her youngest left school and she’s horrified by how much she’s having to pay in tax- and how much things like council tax have gone up now she’s paying the full whack. She very quickly became outraged by the unfairness of it all and what ‘her’ taxes were paying for…
I think the answer may be Common Law.
Much the same in the private banking sector where everyone is also STILL ‘working from home’, I’m afraid.
I was happily self-employed for 30+ years with minimal but satisfactory contact with the Public Sector (taxman mainly) before coming seriously ill 12 months ago.
The illness’ symptoms includes short and long-term memory loss, made worse by the medication and a pre-existing condition.
After 5-6 weeks in hospitaI I found that “DHSS” (they come in vavious guisses but ‘DHSS’ can cover all) had been very efficient. Various due monies had been paid into my two bank accounts, sufficient to cover bills paid out or on the way. I don’t remember giving anyone information about outgoing requirements but they happened !
Not smoking or drinking plus three cooked meals a day saves £200.00+ per week so no short-term financial worries.
Then things started to go wrong.
It’s not just me, digital chats revealed that the following Public and Private Sector wrongdoings are commonplace.
All of my bank and digital details are on my computer at home where I can’t go and without my Pass I can’t use the hospital cash machine.
No point going into lengthy detail but bank website
“I’ve forgotten my username/password”
link does not work. I can’t find a way to contact either of my banks or ‘DHSS’ by phone to ask for help ‘manually’.
I can’t do anything Digital that requires a password, happily Amazon and Mycare (NHS information/progress) are on my phone but not my bank details.
After considerable exploration (phone only, computer with details at home) someone at the bank finally answered their phone.
“Sorry, this is a Compliance office”
I’m the one with the thick head and memory loss. Sometimes have to ask who I’m talking to !
Opening my major Bank A app, “Homepage” link does not work so I can’t even check my balance let alone requests an email statement or transfer money as is now required.
Opening minor Bank B app just tells me my current balance, not how much got paid in nore where it’s gone.
Phone numbers lead only to irrelevant answer machines. I put it down to Office Workerd insisting on ‘working from home’.
Happily today is Sunday so I don’t have to think about actually talking to someone who can’t give me an answer.
Even more happily I am able to report that (despite numberless press complaints) the care I have been receiving for various conditions by numerous NHS staff of all degree has been wonderful and superb despite my being somewhat grumpy to say the least.
Sorry that this report is messy and overlong; blame iron the conditions and medications.
I hate to seem critical, but why are you still keeping information on a computer at home?
Over the last 30 years or so numerous organisations have developed secure online storage which is accessible anywhere from almost any device.
Microsoft’s One Drive is an example, Apple has it’s own system and there are numerous independent organisations. They take minutes to set up and are just a storage extension of your PC. No need for big hard drives any longer. My last laptop had a 500Gb drive that I eventually never used. I now have a MacBook with 128Gb of memory and I still don’t use that because everything is in ‘the cloud’.
I also run a home NAS (Network Attached Storage) where I keep movies and music. Even that can be accessed by a laptop or smartphone from almost anywhere in the world.
App’s such as ‘LastPass’ securely store passwords for you, individual to every site you ever subscribe to. These can also be accessed from a smartphone.
You could lie in a hospital bed and run your entire life through a smartphone.
Not my downtick.
By all means be critical, in a position way as you are RedS.
Call me old fashioned but I’ve never trusted ‘3rd parties’ like The Cloud, preferring to rely on hard drives and discs ( same accessibility problems of course).
It’s not as though I have any secrets to hide; just stuff downloaded from YouTube and, more recentl, ‘private’ medical information that I don’t care who knows about.
Time to change my views on that perhaps so your information will be a usefull start and currently I have all the time in the world to sort it out !
I seem to have One Drive app on my recently upgraded* Android so I’ll give it a go this afternoon. Thanks again for your advice.
*Upgraded but not all in a Good Way.
The Electoral Commission are exactly the same. Absolutely useless.
Not “useless” …try corrupt!
The base-line “Project” is the “Take Down of West” – accept that and it all makes sense!
It’s ok, all large WEF partner businesses will thrive.
But isn’t that part of the plan? Destroy the middle classes, the independent traders etc etc, all for the benefit of Globocap…
Also known as “leanness”, addressing the issue of “too many chiefs”, and “the Asian model”.
Yes of course it is!
Globocap maintained by Globocop – the ultimate tyranny we are being dream walked into by Spaffer Johnson an his Gang!
Where are Johnson’s 20,000 extra police ..or are they Militarised Robocops currently in Training?
Ought we to be worried? Yes!
Yes it it is. See what an ex-Wall Street big shot has to say and what’s in the pipeline. https://thehighwire.com/videos/financial-insider-exposes-covid-fraud/
It’s time that HMRC was placed under proper Government control with a senior minister having direct responsibility for it and encouraged to rein in what at times appear to be the department’s powers to make up the rules independent of Parliament as it goes along.
And do away with the role in the tax system of the lord lieutenants of the county? Not likely!
HMRC is a major government department. How much more government control are you imagining?
Until you accept government itself is the problem you won’t get far.
Most of government is a bureaucracy. The bit we see on TV is the showbiz component for the masses; a fat controller with a trademark messy blond haircut is the current court jester. The next one will be more clean cut to make it look different. Then they’ll appoint an ethnic minority, another woman, an ethnic minority woman and no doubt eventually a mentally-disturbed transgender woman of colour in a wheelchair to get the full set.
But the hidden part of government is a misanthropic machine that has a life of its own. It cannot be reformed, only dismantled.
Next PM – ‘clean cut’ and ‘dishy’! Swoon!
I used to argue this about New Labour- put a grinning moron in front centre and get him to tell everyone how different it will be, meanwhile it’s business as usual behind the scenes with as many new or stealth taxes as they thought they could get away with. So, you earn money and it’s taxed, then you spend some and it’s taxed, you save some and the profits are taxed, you take an income from it and that’s taxed, you die and then whatever’s left is taxed. Your original earnings aren’t worth much by the time you’ve finished ‘doing your bit for the country’.
The HMRC and its employees are like the rest of the Government in the belief that they somehow are in charge of a business, and that their job is to make as much money off its “customers” as they can, whether this be by fair means or foul, there is a disconnect in understanding that people’s jobs and businesses is what pays their wages and that they are supposed to be public servants, and not business people. During the past 2 years Government and the Public sector has swollen its ranks, again further evidence of profligacy. Unfortunately both main parties are touched with the same belief that they are running a corporation even though barely anyone in Labour ot the Conservatives has ever operated a business in their lives. I am sure that the loss of middle class and working class jobs is nothing to them because their friends in Amazon, Google, and the rest of the WEF will ensure that they are kept in the manner to which they are accustiomed, whereas the rest of us, well we will own nothing and be happy won’t we,
A naive article. The purpose of government is to increase dependency on government. Small businesses represent the very antithesis of this mentality. They are by nature independent and run by the independently-minded. All of that is anathema to a large centralized bureaucracy.
HMRC are doing exactly what needs to be done. This crisis, ostensibly not caused by HMRC, is a golden opportunity to further their plans. More control, less opportunity for tax dodging (as they imagine it).
The government is your enemy. When enemies fight there are flashpoints, some more visible than others. One of the most visible is the treatment of the self-employed who are by and large treated as tax dodgers not paying “their fair share” despite most of them employing chartered accountants and rigidly staying within the rules.
But that is not the point. The people behind HMRC are maddened by the freedom. They can’t easily take their cut from the source as they do with PAYE. They have to wait until accounts are submitted then retrospectively trawl through all that data to find the villains. That doesn’t work for the top-down central control brigade. It reminds them they aren’t fully in control. And this is all about control.
The above article illustrates the problem, government itself.
The “Making Tax Digital” push is just another way of the Government and its departments forcing people to do the work for them, ante up the money in short order, get the taxpayer to pay for HMRC mistakes, and avoid any necessity to explain themselves.
It’s a pity that HMRC “sweetheart deals” are available only to oligarchs, plutocrats and kleptocrats , after a bit of essential wining, dining and free ticketing, and not to Joe Taxpayer.
To pluck but one example out of the many, the burgeoning growth in pages of Tolley’s Tax Guide just goes to show that the entire tax system is now so labyrinthine that the people adding to it and supposedly running it can have, in many cases, no real notion of how it applies “by the book”, let alone to the realities of life and business for many.
https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/far_too_taxing_why_it_s_time_to_simplify_self_assessment
The tax code is a disaster. Except for them. If you run a chip shop you are intentionally baffled. If you are Amazon you get a buffet of loopholes that only cost a few millions to exploit.
Completely unreformable, despite what people think.
OR are we talking about the ‘cash in hand’ ‘non registered’ kind of employment which illegal migration thrives on. Getting rid of cash and forcing ID would answer those ‘problems’
I have no doubt that will be used as a rationale. The black market etc.
That’s a tricky one as the government generally avoids any examination of illegal immigration because of its scale and the many polls indicating a solid 60-80% routinely oppose mass immigration of any sort.
HMRC are a law unto themselves. In no way do they serve the interests of small businesses. The digital tax malarky is just one example. The .Gov website alone is a vortex of pain. But they don’t care.
If you are advocating getting rid of our government altogether, what is going to protect us from other governments? Are you hoping for all the people of the world to simultaneously reject governments?
Hear hear!
If this idea is true, then why not take it to its full extent: stop bankrupting ALL businesses through taxation?
Think about it, with great care. This is an apolitical question.
I agree. Never tax productive endeavour. It is self-defeating. Only people can pay taxes. So if we must have tax then an income tax and nothing more, including sales taxes.
Our Rishi burned money and now, in typical government form, expects Regular Joe to pick up the tab. Twas ever thus, sadly.
The HMRC have no soul. They actively lie and manipulate to reach their targets as do any unscrupulous Sales Managers.
This Johnson Government and their “Covid Great Reset Deep State Civil Service” have no soul – it appears that they despise and detest the British people and wish only to reduce and enslave them to serve the Globalists deranged Power Grab agenda!
Sunak is from the Christopher Holm stable and does what he is told, hence the lovey dovey headlines in the system press.
The 666 policy was to destroy small independent and collapse their economy. They had to do it stages otherwise it would look nefarious. Years 3 & 4 will see a great die-off (extrapolated to be greater than WW2) in the USA, UK (Ref) and Germany (Ref) hence a financial reset, which one is up to the individual.
My thinking is they have to create a dominant news cycle during winter with the excess deaths. A new wave and lockdowns again, who knows?
I have plenty of direct experience of this from when I was working. The approach of HMRC is a very blinkered one. They are a revenue collecting department first and last, and their ethos is therefore, first and last, to collect revenue. If they can’t get their dues in full, they have little patience with the taxpayer and prefer to close its business down and grab whatever crumbs might be left from the wreckage. There is also that ghastly trait that runs through all levels of government: the concrete-hard inhumanity that allows decision makers and minor operatives alike to inflict endless misery without any accountability or acceptance of any responsibility for the collateral damage. They are always just obeying orders and doing their jobs. It is the machine that is crushing you; not the myriad of cogs within the machine, that really have nothing to do with the unfortunate outcomes as you are ground down and spat out.
You see it again in that message: “We are sympathetic to wider concerns about jobs etc…” We all know they are just empty words, a glib lie designed to ease the conscience of the writer and provide a fig leaf of protection against any charge of indifference.
Our Government seems to hate small business owners. They seem to hate the idea of citizens who are not dependent on the State or the big conglomerates like Amazon.
Not just the small business – they just want ti steal their assets- in fact they hate the whole British population
(.But they just love Bill Gates!)
Yep – no back-handers on offer from SMEs: scratch the back of mega-businesses and many goodies will fall into one’s hands!
Quelle suprise! You could almost believe that it looks like a plan.
Little Rishi Sunak, like Sajid Javid, is one of Klaus Schwab’s prize poodles. Rishi and Javid are actually nothing more than corporate spokesmen.
A main goal of the plandemic was to close down the High Street and force all consumers to get their goods online from the likes of Amazon. Having people do their shopping online goes towards forcing a digital ID on them, track what a person spends their money on, and you’ll know quite a lot about them.
People get taken in by the likes of Sajid Javid because he held a relatively high position in the banking sector. As they perceive him to have been successful in banking, they therefore assume he’s very qualified for politics.
Another school of thought, though, is that Klaus Schwab sources the son or grandson of a respected Elder in a minority community. Then, if necessary, Schwab has the power to get this chosen person grade-inflated through school and university.
Then Schwab and his cronies have the wealth and power to bequeath this chosen person a high-ranking position in the corporate banking sector. It doesn’t matter if this chosen person is an imbecile that sits at his desk twiddling his thumbs and watching YouTube all day every day – the bank can afford it in order to achieve Schwab’s ultimate aim.
The ultimate aim is that this chosen person’s ascendancy to astronomical heights in the business world will give him almost royal status in his highly tribal ethnic community. Then this chosen person is shoved into politics and assured of perpetual re-election.
And it will be all the better for Schwab if this chosen person is a bit of an imbecile, or low-born like the son of a bus driver. People like this that are elevated to great heights will be very pleased with their status in life and with the royal treatment they get when they return to their ethnic communities; mundane things like policies will be lost on them and be found boring and distracting.
So, all Schwab has to do is send around a minion each morning and give him a script to read from. (Check out Sajid Javid’s body language in news footage and you’ll see that this man is much more a kebab takeaway manager than a politician.)
Schwab’s little Rishi Sunak will not be doing what the people want, he’ll be doing as ordered to by the scripts he is regularly given.
From Boris Johnson down, they are all corporate spokespeople – and a few of them actually aren’t even fit to be spokespeople.
Absolutely 100% bloody spot on.
Sunak hates small business, he’s already done much to try and destroy it and the self-employed.
He loves only Billionaires – that’s why he married one!
I’ve sent this article to my MP with a request to pass it on to the Chancellor and endorse the author’s opinion. Suggest everyone who agrees with it does the same.