According to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Brexit has been a major cause of the woeful performance of the U.K. economy over the last few years. That’s nonsense, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph. The truth is it was lockdown.
The trouble is, on closer examination Hunt’s argument does not make any sense. To start with, our departure from the EU didn’t lead to a hung Parliament. It was Theresa May’s idiotic decision to call an early General Election, followed by a catastrophically inept campaign, that sacrificed the Conservative majority.
And the years of political instability were only caused by a concerted establishment campaign to reverse the result of the referendum. If everyone had accepted the result in 2016, we could have moved swiftly on, and spent our time far more productively figuring out how to make Brexit work.
More importantly, it doesn’t square with the data from across the continent. German GDP over the last quarter after six months of zero growth, and it is forecast to slump into a full-blown recession early in the new year. French growth is slumping back towards zero too. If Brexit is the explanation for our poor performance, then how come the countries that stayed are doing so poorly?
In reality, it was lockdown that crushed the economy. During the pandemic we racked up too much debt, destroyed our work ethic with furlough schemes and home working, and created a backlog in the health service and in other public services that have crippled productive potential.
In its wake, we imposed huge tax rises to try to put the public finances back on track, including deeply damaging corporation tax increases that dented our competitiveness, and undermined the incentive to work with frozen thresholds that have sent tax yields soaring. By trying to blame Brexit all over again Hunt is simply deflecting his own responsibility for our current predicament, and that of his boss, the Prime Minister and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
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The Home Secretary does not decide what the police do. That is decided by a quango called the College of Policing and a trade guild called the Association of Chief Police Officers, or names something like that. Both have been fully taken over by the wokery and Blairism of the past 25 years.
Freemasons might have something to do with senior officers. They have been established for a long time.
I reckon the coppers were better when the freemasons were in charge, at least they were patriots.
I see Enoch Burke has been arrested again in Ireland because he refuses to conform and turn his back on his principles. Much admiration for him because he’s defiant in refusing to be bullied, threatened or to bow down to the wretched gender ideology which is polluting our societies and poses a serious threat to our kids. What a hero this man is, who just happens to expose the unethical and corrupt state of the law at the same time. Ireland’s police and judiciary, much like the UK, are a total disgrace, to put it mildly;
”BREAKING: Teacher Enoch Burke arrested at Wilson’s Hospital School after refusing to endorse and affirm transgender ideology.
Judge Barry O’Donnell, who made almost €400,000 from 2016-2018 representing TUSLA as a barrister, ordered his arrest.
TUSLA is the Irish State ‘Child Protection’ agency, an organisation saturated with LGBT ideology, urging staff recently to learn about cross-dressers and drag performers, and making acceptance of LGBT and transgender ideology a condition for fostering children.
What a mockery to expect Enoch Burke, a Christian teacher, to sit before this man and expect justice.”
https://x.com/EnochBurke/status/1830622162362745233
They would probably make it mandatory to have the jab before adoption. That is what seemed to happen to a mate who was in the adoption process. But I remember his partner was a Carer is that might have played a part. I remember him saying that he had to show that he had the jab — and me being outraged that he found entertaining more than anything.
I suppose Killing 80 year olds in the park is the new scumping or knock a door run is it?
All seems to be accepted as normal these days!
BUT, don’t you dare tweet about it!
https://www.gbnews.com/news/five-children-arrested-dog-walker-park-leicestershire
Are there any Non, Non-crime Hate incidents we can ‘commit’?
Or is it non-crime -hate- non-crimes?
It’s getting confusing.
I can image a principled officer saying, ‘get back to me when you have an actual crime to report because we are rather busy’. and then getting the sack by the Woke paramilitary wing of the Police.
Isn’t theft under £100 now legal by default. Just give the crime number and forget about it!
I remember being astonished to read a book called “The Strange Theory of Light and Matter” by Richard Feynman. —-I discovered that light can be in two places at once.
But I never knew Police Officers had this same remarkable quality. They can be apprehending someone who just wrote a naughty sentence on social media while at the same time arresting someone for carrying a knife or for actually having just plunged a knife into someone. —-Quite remarkable. ——But actually Police Officers are not light beams at all are they? And since they cannot be in two places at once perhaps it is best to be in just the once place and forget all about the naughty sentences.
You can’t use a word like ‘hate’ in this way because it doesn’t take a genius to see that to configure this word thus is essentially an attempt to pretenend to do one thing whilst actually doing another. And there is no place for black magic in our society. Kennedy talked about the perniciousness of secrecy and cited Athens where it was a punishable crime to shy away from difficult controversies. And hatred isn’t an anti-spritual state if properly applied. Perhaps hate the sin but not the sinner is the best formulation.
Peak Orwell Non-Crimes Are Crimes