This week it was revealed that Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to make major cuts to benefits in her spring budget, with over £6 billion of welfare savings in the pipeline. These “will see far tougher tests imposed for a key disability benefit, some payments frozen in 2026, and major changes to the way Universal Credit is calculated”, according to one report.
Clearly the benefits system is a complete mess and one of many things bleeding Britain dry, with the UK forecast to spend £319.1 billion on the social security system in 2024-25. There’s no doubt that it needs a radical rethink and slimming down. But I wonder if Reeves could have picked on easier targets to make savings. Benefit cuts are controversial, and come with a real risk of harming vulnerable people, unfairly punished on behalf of others abusing the system. In short, why not go for some brazenly ridiculous things first (which I will show you in this article)?
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Johnson, Sunak and Cleverly are liberal? All lockdown enthusiasts. Very liberal.
And the Conservatives have been conservative?
And the Labour Party has been the party of the ‘Working Class’, like labourers.
And the Greens do everything to improve the Environment, like closing down North Sea Oil and Gas, so Britain will import the oil and gas they need, increasing costs, and the Carbon (Dioxide) footprint.
And Academics? Do they search for Truth and Wisdom?
These would have been the “Wets” so despised of by Mrs T.
OT,
“Ukraine agrees minerals deal with US”
Well, now there’s a turn up!
“Wave your Ukrainian flags and support the tiny little country of ukraine, totally innocent on the world stage”
You’ve been had, it was all about mineral wealth in the first place! Suckers
Trump calls Zelenski a dictator..humm..why?
What does he know that the rest of the world doesn’t?
Within a week of the dictatorship accusation, ukraine agrees without question to US mineral rights
What has Zelenski done? What does he want to keep quiet? Trump has never made smoke without the solid backing of fire
Europe has been left out in the cold because of their greed and dilly dallying
Ukraine will be split up because of its relative mineral wealth to Russia and the USA
There is obviously some serious “information” on Zelensky in the USAID Files. Rogan/Mike Benz.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2rXdCTkipx2Iu5dX1Gh0s5
Hopefully they will uncover how much of the ‘aid’ money Zelensky was funnelling back to Dementia Joe and the DemoTwats.
Surely no one thinks the Tories have changed their opinions. They are still high spending, pro-EU globalists. Big state, high controls, lax on justice and do on.
Just seeing the repulsive Andrew Mitchell sitting in the row behind Olukemi Adegoke at PMQs is enough to not vote Tory.
You could make an argument that for the last few decades most of the Western world held something like ‘Nice Right Liberalism’ values. It was comfortable and had the benefit of recognising and rewarding the right kind of people who held those values.
But you can have too much of a good thing – the recognition and rewards got out of hand and eased into corruption. A corruption that gradually eroded the quality of the ‘ordinary’ world, and became apparent to the ordinary person.
Once the ‘Nice Right Liberalism’ started to unravel (the treatment of Greece, Brexit, Trump, too much immigration, the failure of Biden) it could no longer be assumed to be a common set of comfortable values.
Even old comfortable broken down slippers must be replaced eventually.
They’ve certainly been at the BBC, and that’s all that matters.
The Japanese even have a word for children born to a Japanese parent and a gaijin: a half. So even these such children are not fully Japanese.
….. so do we.
Four more years of the Nasty Left Illiberals to look forward to.
The Kommissars Must Fall.
This is in today’s Israeli JNS feed, the best analysis/expose of the deep state bureaucratic machine’s gameplan I’ve seen. It precisely explains how they usurp elected government and grab power.
The approach is also used here in the UK, the USA and across the West.
Highly recommended.
https://www.jns.org/a-deep-state-doesnt-get-any-deeper-than-this/
So similar to DC.
There is no left / right paradigm.
There is no authoritarian/ libertarian paradigm.
There is only a debt slaves / internationalist usurers paradigm.
Russia is winning this battle.
USA is fighting this battle.
UK / EU has given us the forborne subverting this battle.
Blackrock only call the shots until they are challenged.
What a strange article.
So the circumstances of your bringing don’t define your identity, but Sunak, is a product of his upbringing. As are the “anywhere’s”. But not Scots brought up in Japan. Or in Norway for that matter.
I would think the last person who should be making this argument is Konstantin Kisin, who by his own admission loves this country and who in turn has been warmly embraced by his adopted country.
It’s a very muddled convoluted article which perhaps could be summarised as people will only integrate in a place if they want to and if the place accepts and embraces them.
Obviously if they come in droves as in Britain they might not all be welcome and if the place is especially xenophobic like Japan, then even a few may never quite fully integrate.
But any categorical assertions in this respect are just plain wrong, in my opinion.
I found it confusing in places.
If you take the example of Sushi Sunak, he has an Indian billionairess wife and his 2 daughters are Indian such that they could easily go back home and blend in.
David, I think your analysis is made even clearer by the approach to race. Nelson et al believe that someone living here can immediately become English. They believe that a bloke by growing his hair & saying he’s a woman becomes a woman. But conversely, the footballers Ross Barkley and Cole Palmer (who no one knew were anything other than 200th generation British) both turned out to have black grandfather/great grandfather, & so were ineluctably black, leading in the case of Barkley to the sacking of Kelvin McKenzie.
Likewise, Megan Markle, probably 15/16ths white claims to be black. Kamala Harris, at least 7/8ths white is apparently wholly black.
It’s a mystery!
Only to those living in the Real World.
The Nice Right Liberals were delighted when the Not-a-Conservative-Party selected Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke to become the new Party Leader.
She represents everything they believe: anyone can become British as soon as they pitch up in the UK; and in Nelson’s case, English if they happen to be born here. The fact that Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke’s mother flew into the UK to give birth and then went straight back to Nigeria is obviously irrelevant to them. As is the fact that the loophole which granted her British citizenship was closed shortly afterwards. She was born here – the fact that all her formative years were spent in Nigeria is irrelevant – in Nelson’s opinion, she’s English.
They crowed about having the first black, female Party Leader because that would sock it to Labour (ie diversity Rules). We were invited to believe that a First Generation Immigrant was the best available candidate the Party has to become a future Prime Minister in the UK.
And I’m sure that there are many in the Establishment and some voters, particularly in London, who agree with them.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of the conservatively-inclined country has taken a look at her and shrugged. They have nothing in common with her and they’re not impressed. Instead, (if they’re Conservatives) they’re hoping the Men in Grey Suits will dispense with her and find someone more electable before the Party is completely annihilated. And if they’re real conservatives, they’ve already jumped ship to Reform and Nigel Farage who IS the most recognisably English Party Leader in the country.
I’m astounded that the LibCON Elite don’t understand that Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke is the reason WHY the Party is tanking in the polls.
Thank you. I have taken a lot of stick elsewhere for my views. It would appear I am not alone.
Oh you’re definitely not alone. Interestingly …. and after I posted my comment …. I read this article from Matthew Goodwin in The Conservative Woman.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/kemi-badenoch-is-not-going-to-save-the-tories/
And who is surprised by that? Here is a woman whose first utterings as an MP were all about representing Nigeria where she was raised. Not only that she is obviously totally incompetent if she can’t beat the robot at PMQs given the wide open goals he is leaving. Even if they get rid of her in a couple of years, why would anyone trust a party still stuffed with socialists to deliver a conservative agenda?
Thank you for explaining clearly why I don’t see Badenoch as British.
Fraser Nelson also clamied that islam was “compatible with British values” and referred to the the treatment of Catholics in the past. Curiously, this got no pushback from Kisin. The most enthusiastic muslims are the Taleban, Isis, Hamas, the Iranian regime…anyone who thinks they would fit in with Nelson’s idea of “British values” is away with the fairies. Islam is a totalitarian, imperialist ideology masquerading as a religion.
The 16th century Catholic church demanded the death penalty for owning a bible translated into English and some 300 people were burned alive for owning one..the British state’s rejection of the 16th century Catholic church was a defining moment in the development of “British values”
Nice Right Liberals – or socialists as we commonly call them.
Having read the above article and listened to the whole of the interview, I think David McGrogan is wrong on several points. Fraser Nelson does not say that “there is absolutely no reason to be concerned about net migration figures of, say, a million a year”. I believe he said that he would be very concerned if immigration continued at this level. I believe he thinks that Britain could support and needs level of say 100,000. And I do not think that Fraser Nelson was taken to the cleaners. I thought that what Fraser said was a lot more sensible that what is written by David McGrogan. One can argue forever about what it means to be English but does it really matter if we have different views. I am not sure that I agree with Fraser but he is entitled to his opinion. And yes, by the above definition, I am a Nice Right Liberal but I also believe in Trump and Elon Musk except for Trump’s recent rants about Ukraine.
well written!