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Tuesday, December 02, 2025

No Matter How Many Scapegoats They Sacrifice, Starmer and Reeves Are Finished

 

 

Whatever the Prime Minister, Sir Kweir Smarmer, might say to the contrary, the near-term demise of his Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, now seems all but inevitable. The backlash that has followed Chancellor Rachel Reeves budget is likely to grow as the effects of Reeves' economic illiteracy start to bite, businesses close, jobs are lost and the cost of living continues its inexorable riset the neo - 

The sooner Rachel from Accounts resigns or is fired the better in as far as most of us are concerned. Starmer will no doubt want to choose his moment in the hope of limiting the damage, if indeed that is now possible but in the end he's a completely ruthless little shiyt nd will not hesitate to stab  his Chancellor in the back in order to save his own arse. In reality his asrse is already beyond saving and we should expect a change of Prime Miniter sometime next year.

But as with all political crises, as the incumbents try to hold on though all trust and credibility are gone there is the inevitable scapegoat – poor old Richard Hughes, chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), forced to fall on his sword in recognition of the “worst failure” in the fiscal watchdog’s fifteen year history – the early release of the OBR’s Budget assessment.

For Reeves, it comes as a welcome distraction from her own largely unrelated travails. But it is unlikely to save her.

Whether guilty of deceit or not, recent events have confirmed her as hopelessly out of her depth in the job. People say that Reeves and Starmer are politically inseparable, some even say he dares not sack her because she has some dirt on him nd would take him down with her (entertaining prospect but unlikely.).

It is admittedly the case that for Sir Kweir to fire Reeves now would be to repudiate all that Labour has so far done, and would therefore amount to one hell of a political somersault, but Starmer is not the kind of man who would stand by a friend if he could save himself by pointing a finher and reminding the public: It was her that shafted you. At the moment the Prime Minister is supporting Rachel but could that change if public hostility to the Labour government increases even more?

The cost of Britain's very high government borrowing means that Britons are effectively working hard to pay tax to line the pockets of overseas bond investors. In highly indebted countries like Italy and Japan the investors are to a large part nationals of those countries and so the money is recycled back into the economy. In Italy's case the European Central Bank owns another large tranche of its debt, the country is reciprocated with ECB support.

In Britain's case, its hard-earned cash is going out of the country and away to overseas investors, only presumably to be borrowed back again to perpetuate the cycle. But the Neo - Liberal concensus has collapsed as nations turn their backs on open borders, net zero, human rights scams and foreign wars. Why should ordinary working prople care about what's happening on the other side of the world when local problems that affect them directly are festering untended.

The number of businesses going under locally is honestly frightening. These tax hikes and policies aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet; they’re having real-world effects.

The private sector barely got back on its feet after COVID, and just as it was trying to recover, it’s been hit again even harder. Employers are closing down. People are being made redundant.

It’s heartbreaking. These businesses won’t come back. The people affected won’t just bounce into new work. And the worst part is, it didn’t have to be like this.

However all this drama is merely a distraction from the major disgrace and deception that has taken place. The fact is the labour government has cynically deceived the general public, businesses and its own backbenchers by using an untruth, namely a 20 to 30 billion shortfall, to justify raising taxes and penalties on the tax paying community. In truth there was no such deficit,

 The Labour leaderships intention long befre they were elected was to raise taxes and shaft working people of the UK in order to throw further sums of cash at certain sectors of the community in an attempt to buy votes and pacify the extreme left. It is totally unacceptable to hoodwink the public in thus way. Had they been completely honest and upfront about their intention to tax more in order to splurge more on welfarism and state dependancy the public dissent would have been plain ahead of any budget. Now they have been caught out, pedalling falsehoods and making lies of their committments to fairness and equality. How can we ever trust these people on anything. 

They have continued the freeze on tax threasholds , hurting the lowest paid and capturing more and more lower paid workers and pensioners as their snall salaries rise above the palty 12k limit.. disgusting double talk about helping the lowest paid is totally hypocritical. 

The issue over the OBR slightly early release of data in NO way absolves Starmer or Reeves from the real issue to hand they mislead parliament and the electorate deliberatley. As such they should both go as they have once again generated misery for those asset rich and cash poor.

Should they escape being forced out of office it will be one of the greatest injustices I have ever known. I can’t think of any other parties that would lie as often and as cynically as Labour do.

 

 FROM THE ARCHIVES:

 

The Truth Has Become An Enemy Of The State And Must Be Kept Hidden At All Costs
Several industries have grown out of the need of globalist governments to keep the majority of the population in a state of fear in order that We The People will not rise up against the oppressive policies related to climate change, health tyranny, mass immigration, surveillance and censorship, technological dictatorship, and the suspension of our civil rights and liberties ...

Tractors Are Heading For Central London As UK Farmers Protest
Scores of farm tractors from all over Britain were reported to be converging on Westminster as British farmers finally ran out of patience and pushed back against what they say is a lack of government support. Flying Union flags and displaying signs with slogan such as 'Save British farming' and 'No farming, no food, no future' they were gathering in London and plan to arrive in central London by early evening

The Theraputic Society Is Destroying Civilisation
Many of the problems afflicting Britain and its neighbours appear to be related to what has been called The Theraputic Society, Nanny State and paternalistic liberalism. As government grows, corporate industry and private business is increasingly coming to resemble the public sector, ruled less by economic rationality than by an intrusive bureaucracy functioning increasingly like an HR department.

UK Gov. Fossil Fuels U Turn Means Its All Over For Net Zero
The Announcement made by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak acknowledged at last that to keep the lights and heating on in our homes and the wheels of industry turning it will be necessary to start building new gas-fired power plants because the great science backed leap to transition energy productions to clean, green, pollution free, sustainable, renewable, blah blah blah sources has failed dismally.

Double Blow To Irish Woke Wonks - Voters Reject ‘Progressive’ Reforms to the Constitution By Big Majorities
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Corbyn's Politically Correct Hypocrites Hate Sexism But Approve Of Muslim Sexism
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Were Rotherham Abuse Victimes sacrificed To Save The Labour Party
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Miliband Promises Same Old Shite - Not A Word About Action Against Paedophile Sex Gangs
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The Left's Rhetorical Technique Explained
In the first of what might become a long if irregular series of posts with the collective title, "Left Wing Authoritarianism for beginners," your friend and mentor Little Nicky Nicky Machiavelli will expose the origins of the socialist left's propaganda technique and its apparent dependence on slogans, dogma and mantras. But first let's play a little game ...

The Hate And Prejudice The Bourgois Left Find Acceptable
The neo - fascist left are quick to jump on any of the forbidden pejudices, racism, sexism, homophobia, islamophobia and so on. But as we have seen, they find pejudice and hated againt Christians and white Europeans quite acceptable. The bourgeois metropitan set might think that is acceptable but where I come from it's called hypocrisy.

Ve Haff Vay Of Making You Konform. The Tide Is Turning against the Autoritarian Left
The left's self confidence has had a hint of desperation about it for a long time. From their constant whines about the sexism, racism and homophobia of the working class who happen to be the party's core constituency to the substitution of smearing UKIP for policies in the european Election this is a party of arrested adolescents throwing a hissy fit because people are laughing at them.

Secret Justice Threatens The Right To A Fair Trial
A move to extend the government's power to order court proceedings to be held in secret and without a jury from only applying to trials affecting national security to anything the government would rather we did not know about threatens the most basic principles of British justice and the right to a fair trial.

These stupid laws insult the public and threaten free speech When the law forbids us to insult or offend somebody, to insult or offend a religion, race, skin colour or sexual preference, free speech and other important democratic rights are under threat. When the law then goes on to say that anyone accused of these offences has no right to defend themselves and the word of the accuser is sufficient evidence on which to obtain a conviction then we have abandoned justice and are ruled by fascists.

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Thursday, July 04, 2024

The Men Who Would Be Prime Minister

Tomorrow we will know who who is going to be te UK's Prime Minister for the next few years (although the result is pretty much a foregone conclusion, but what do we know about the contenders, never mind the schmatlzy eulogies about their early lives and family backgounds, what do thse two shysters actually stand for.

Our best chance to judge came in last week's televised debate

For the incumbent, Rishi Sunak, who actually got an easier time than 'Sir' Keir Starmer, defender of terorists, enabler of rapists, promoter of 'chicks-with dicks' and 'men with mammaries' ideology, lockdown enthusiast, campaigner for open borders, surrenderer of sovereignty, friend of paedophiles, supporter of anti - semitism, apologist for warmongers and general gobshite, it was an oportunity to show he has a personality, but like an inept footballer he missed an open goal.

The most awkward challenge to Rishi was the squalid election betting scandal which had revealed that several of his close aides had placed bets on the date of the election only a few days before it was announced.  But a more substantive – and pretty much unanswerable – demand came from  audience member Harry Cole who wanted to know why, if the prime minister had so many effective government measures to offer now that he was running for re-election, he had not introduced them already. 

All told though, Sunak survived this. Nothing he said actually seemed to infuriate the audience.

The same could not be said of Sir Keir. On at least two topics, he induced what looked like genuine anger and frustration: his explanation of how he would stop the boats and seize control of migration would not wash. Sending would-be asylum seekers back to their home countries – as an astute member of the audience pointed out – was not a realistic option. Many of these boat people arrived without passports or documentation so it was effectively impossible to identify their countries of origin. And smashing the smuggling gangs was equally untenable because they were largely located outside this country. Nobody was buying the Labour story on this.

A rather more personal, weak point was his erstwhile support for Jeremy Corbyn. If you now claim to have been lying when you proclaimed that Mr Corbyn would make a great prime minister, said an audience member, why should we believe what you say now? Might you not be lying to us again? That was deadly because it goes to the heart of both the Starmer character and the credibility of Labour as what its leader describes as a “changed party”.

If Starmer can be a right hand man and ”close friend” to Corbyn, a Putin supporter, only 4 years ago, and then say he only supported him because “he knew he wouldn’t be elected”, then his duplicity is frightening. To also say that if a family member needed Private health care to survive, then he wouldn’t use it, then such callousness is even more frightening. The fact that he also did not vote for replacement of Trident would have now left us totally exposed to Putin’s current nuclear threats. I suppose he would say that he knew that his vote didn’t make any difference so he didn’t really mean it!

With commitments to throw even more money into the collapsing State Sector rather than face up to the need to dismantle their archaic bureaucracies, whilst also increasing taxes on the wealthy and businesses will simply result in them relocating off shore. The future under a Labour government looks extremely bleak and will certainly be far worse that the fourteen years of Tory misrule. The socialists will again be asking the World Bank for a bale out, a repeat of the financial collapse of the 70s, when highest tax rate was 98% and interest rates 16% with similar rates of inflation plus mass strikes, with the dead not being buried. 

Labour most emphatically have not changed.A leopard doesn’t change its spots. The extreme left of the party are quietly biding their time. If Labour win the general election they will not be slow in imposing their will.Just be very careful what you wish for.

Other than that it was all old news in the debate as it has been throughout the campaign, over and over again we heard the usual prepared lines from both party leaders. Sunak was like a broken record. I think he made the same promise about 'let me cut your taxes or you'll see them soar under Starmer' about thirty times. What was new was the ridiculous line he took about not suspending his candidates. "We have to wait for the authorities to finish their investigations, we can't prejudice this very serious matter". For heaven's sake, one candidate has already confessed! The others have left their jobs and gone to ground. It's not a complicated issue: they either bet just before the election announcement or they didn't and if they didn't why have they left their posts? They cheated and they broke the law. He should have sacked them on the spot, instead he failed to disassociate himself from the sleaze.  

Starmer on the other hand talked a lot about 'delivering the change the country needs without actually defining what he was going to change, Nelson's column into a banana? Stonehenge into a shoping centre? Buckingham Palace into accomodation for asylum seekers?

The only conclusion a voter can come to is that whoever wins we're fucked.

How fucked are we, you might well ask.

We're fucking fucked.





 

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Friday, February 09, 2024

Farmers Protest Movement Arrives In UK

Slow Moving Tractors Snarl Up Dover Traffic As UK Farmers Protest Over Cheap Food Imports

As Boggart Blog and other alt_news community reporters told the story of the farmers protest movement as it developed across Europe we were asked many times by readers why British farmers are not protesting, when they are equally hard hit by loonytoons net zero policies, high taxes and increased energy costs (due to green levies on traditional fuels,) and constant political pressure to let good land return to a wild state lest cow farts and nitrogen emissions from fertiliser. We had to admit we did not know what was holding our lads back.

News feeds are tonight reporting that following a partial cave in by the EU ruling bureaucrats to farmers protests (reported HERE, HERE, and HERE,) farmers in the UK are staging their own protests citing similar grievances to their European colleagues but focusing more on the way retailers are profiteering from cheap imports while British farmers, their costs driven up by high taxes and fuel costs and their productivity affected by Net Zero restrictions, cannot compete.

 

Tractor demo
The protesting farmers in Dover said they did not want to cause disruption but they wanted to raise awareness, Picture: PA Media

Today's Tractor protest clogged up roads outside Dover as farmers protested against foreign imports of food often from nations which heavily subsidise produce grown for export. Long queues developed on roads and there were angry exchanges as goods vehicles with tight schedules to meet were delayed for hours.

Kent Police told medi they were currently responding to an incident of "slow-moving vehicles" in Jubilee Way, one of the main roads heading to the port. Officers were collaborating with Port of Dover Police to keep traffic moving, a force spox said.

One farmer posted on social media that he was protesting over food trade deals done by the governmen which is determined to prioritise 'Net Zero' over productivity and jobs and will import food from anywhere rather than ease taxes and relax restrictions on CO2 emissions and use of fettiliser and pesticides to that British farmers can compete.

Jeffrey Gibson, from Yew Tree Farm in Wingham, Kent, said supermarkets were selling British produce at "cheaper than the cost of production" having used cheap imports to force down prices paid to local farmers, adding farmers would be taking their tractors to the Port of Dover on Friday evening

The protest follows similar demos in Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and several other EU member states in recent weeks. French farmers went as far as to  move tractors to blockade routes into Paris, and elsEwhere in france block motorways with stacks of straw bales and dup piles of manure outside government buildigs in city centres, arguing they had been hit by falling incomes, high taxes, environmental regulations, red tape and competition from imports. Across Europe, farmers have also ramped up protests in Poland, Romania, Italy and Portugal.

Mr Gibson said about 30 tractors had gathered on roads around the port but were dispersed at the moment because police had blocked off many of the roads, adding: "They are not allowing us anywhere near the port."

He said protesters wanted to raise awareness of how unfairly farmers were being treated.

He said: "We produce crops to the highest standards in the world, but have to compete with imported foods containing illegal chemicals and the government does trade deals with those countries."

He said Friday's protest was only planned at lunchtime and so far about 30 tractors were taking part.

But he added: "This is just the start of something a lot bigger unless the government start to take notice."

He said protests could escalate to the level of those seen in Paris and Brussels.

"We don't want to cause disruption," he said, "we want to get the message across."

He said protesters would stay out on Friday night for as long as possible to raise awareness of their cause.

Protest truck

 

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Wednesday, June 08, 2016

Little Englanders Jibe Lost The Debate And Probably The Referendum For Camereon

In spite of the crude and bungled attempt to rig last night TV debate, with ITV placing race-baiting plants in the audience whose task was to shout down Nigel Farage with idiotic accusations, and appointing a weak moderator who allowed REMAIN supporters in the audience to talk over Farage but was quick to cut off the several audience members whose questions had Cameron waffling, the UKIP leader was judged the winner.

The main thing we learned from the debate is that the establishment will try to rig the referendum. 150% of people elegible to vote by post actually casting votes perhaps?

It was easy to pinpoint the moment Cameron lost the debate and his job too in all probability. it was when he referred to LEAVE supporters as "Little Englanders". Not only did he antagonise a lot of undecideds, he showed one again how far out of touch with the public mood he is. And by using the term Little Englanders in entirely the wrong context (as lefties have for years) he showed he's a lazy bastard who can't be arsed doing his research.


The "Little England" movement originated among manufacturers in Manchester and found support among journalists such as Goldwin Smith and politicians like William Gladstone, one of the founders of the UK Liberal Party. The movement objected to the protectionist stance of Canada exemplified by the tariff increase of 1859. The manufacturers resented paying taxes to defend a colony that took few British goods when Canada could be absorbed by the United States, which was an independent country and Britain's best customer outside Europe. Canada had some importance as a supplier of wheat and timber to Britain, but its climate and northerly location meant that it had no significance for Manchester's cotton industry.

There was also a social element to the movement. The Manchester School resented the Empire for providing sinecures for the sons of the aristocracy when the same money could be used for tax breaks and public spending projects at home.

The Little England stance was adopted by the Liberal Party and embraced by its rising star Gladstone (1809-1898), a social reformer who opposed many of Britain's military adventures in the second half of the 19th century and was particularly incensed by the behaviour of Britain's colonial administrations towards naitive populations. Gladstone, though devoutly religious, did not accept the need to impose British religious and cultural traditions on people in the colonies.

The Little Englander movemement is particularly associated with opposition to the Second Boer War (1899–1902). For example, Arthur Ponsonby wrote of the Liberal leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's opposition to the Boer War: "The impression one got of him from the Press in those days was… that he was an unpatriotic Little Englander"

In a nutshell then, Little Englanders were opposed to political or cultural colonialism and therefore were true believers in diversity.

In other words, the Little Englander movement was a left-of-centre, "progressive" movement of its day.


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