An Election Manifesto Commitment by the Labour-a-Tory Party
We will establish a new U.K. supermarket chain ‘National Self Service’ (NSS) which will offer everybody in the U.K. access to free food and beverages at the point of shopping.
There are some conditions to this pledge:
- You can only enter an NSS store with agreement from your General Provisioner (GP). You cannot see your GP face-to-face to discuss your shopping needs. Call or email them explaining your position. You should get a reply within a few weeks. You are entitled to get an appointment at the store within 18 weeks, but waiting lists can be longer.
- When you arrive at your assigned store, you will usually need to wait for a trolley to become available. At busy times, this could take several hours. Other customers may be given priority over you.
- When you enter the store, you may find the produce you wanted is not available today or is not of the standard you expect. You may be offered an alternative product or be given a new time to visit.
- If you can afford to pay for your supermarket goods yourself, you can opt to see a private GP shopping assistant. They will guide you to a non-NSS store, ensuring you receive all your goods quickly and conveniently.
- We aim to have 1.5 million people working in the NSS, as more staff are bound to deliver better service. This is twice the number of staff that the current ‘Big 4’ supermarkets employ. Many of the staff will not be working in the store itself. Rest assured, they are all heroes and play a vital role.
- To reach our target staffing numbers, we will recruit specialists from around the world. We expect to welcome a quarter of a million overseas staff and their families into the U.K.
- The Government will fund the NSS from public spending, with an initial budget of £160 billion. At the same time, the Government will introduce a Supermarket Insurance levy, paid by employers and workers, totalling 20% of the income of the 20 million workers of Britain. The other two-thirds of the population will pay nothing.
It couldn’t happen, could it?
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What could go wrong?
Don’t be giving Sunak or Starmer any ideas…
Does life imitate art?
I sure hope not.
Brilliant! Well done to Peter Burden.
Don’t give them new ideas! A few years ago, declaration of some kind of panic demonstrated that supermarket retail is a fine art, balancing supply and demand for all kinds of things. E.g. the one I use sold out of toilet paper at the drop of a hat, and they had to ration it for a while!
That was weird, people were panic buying toilet paper and pasta. Why? I imagine homes where you can’t get in the door due to ceiling high packs of both.
No toilet paper – but at least you had a hat.
It was a perfect illustration of what happens when the state interferes in the free market.
Things go pear shaped for a while and then the free market – i.e. working people using their brains and coordinating among themselves – sorted it out and life carried on.
That’s the problem. The socialist state is constantly being propped up looking functional by the part of the economy that is left to free exchange.
Whenever free exchange is taken out of the equation completely and. can’t fix the deficiencies of the central planners, it’s a mess.
Like the NHS.
Hate Week, Newspeak. It’s a dangerous thing to write anything these days. Who wants to be the next author to be responsible for the future son of Woke et al? I’m not at all sure George intended it. For that matter I doubt the guy who wrote into the script of Star Trek the communicator envisioned people walking down the street and crossing roads in front of cars. Is the writer of the script to blame or Nokia?
I think to myself. “How do I keep Labour from being the government”? Do I just vote Conservative and hope for the best? But they are so low in the polls it might be better to take the chance to give them a bloody nose instead for not being Conservatives. ———————-But then I think to myself “What is the most important issue today”? In my opinion it is NET ZERO. This is the single most important issue going forward for the welfare and prosperity of everyone in this country. But both Labour and Tory are fully on board with this total crap. What party isn’t? —The answer is REFORM. (or so they say at the moment). So taking emotion or allegiance out of the equation I should based on my current world view be voting REFORM. —–5 weeks to decide.
Net Zero is, of course, just the current Bamboozlement, the mass killer Covid having been the previous one. So we probably should vote for Reform, but what we actually need to be looking for are fewer policies [but all based on facts, rather than beliefs], much smaller government, and no other big ideas. Will Reform stay sensible? It will probably require new leadership to get over the line, who might that be? Farage is the Boris Johnson of Reform, great banter and appeal, but forget the daily grind
Climate change policies and Net Zero were there before Covid. Covid came and went but climate tyranny is still there, and I don’t think people understand the extent to which this will lower their standard of living. If as I suspect a large proportion of the population think that all we need to do is switch away from fossil fuels to wind and sun and everything will tick along just fine and we will have saved the planet then I truly feel sorry for them. But they are living in a dreamworld.
Absolutely brilliant article. Made my day!
Just one quibble: National Insurance has nothing to do with the NHS. The NHS is funded from general taxation.
Is Labour’s 20% VAT on independent schools fully costed? No it is not.
It is not even thought through.
Want to find out yourself?
If you get no reply to the following email which I recommend you send – putting your constituency at the bottom and copying in your own MP if you can – you will know there is no fully costed policy.
to: rachel.reeves.mp@parliament.uk
cc. keir.starmer.mp@parliament.uk, bridget.phillipson.mp@parliament.uk
Dear Rachel Reeves,
Where please can I find the fully costed plan for Labour’s proposed 20% VAT on school fees?
Hopefully you should be able to reply by return as you say all Labour’s fiscal policies are fully costed.
Many thanks,
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And if you do not get a reply then you will know that Labour’s fiscal policies are not fully costed and that Reeves is repeatedly not telling the truth when she makes that claim.