News Round-Up
- “Millions of working people will suffer from Reeves’s first Budget, OBR confirms” – The fiscal watchdog says that workers will bear 80% of the cost of the Chancellor’s rise in employer NI in the long term, through lost wage increases and lower income, according to the Telegraph.
- “The charts that show why Reeves has condemned Britain to a low-growth future” – After hitting Britain with £40 billion of higher taxes, Labour’s stated aim of achieving the best sustained growth in the G7 looks further away than ever, says Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “Jeremy Clarkson accuses Labour of ‘shafting’ farmers in inheritance tax raid” – Jeremy Clarkson has hit out at Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid on farmers in the Budget, reports the Telegraph.
- “Has Rachel Reeves killed the family farm?” – The vast majority of ordinary family farms will now have to pay inheritance tax, notes James Heale in the Spectator.
- “Families, businesses and pub landlords give their verdict on Budget” – Property owners, pub landlords, entrepreneurs and business owners have all raised major concerns over the changes in Labour’s first Budget in 14 years, reports the Mail.
- “Will BBC Verify call Labour out for their lies? Don’t hold your breath” – The licence fee funded fact checkers seem much more interested in witch hunting in Nigeria than in Rachel Reeves’s Budget, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s socialist future has now arrived” – The Chancellor won’t be able to blame the Tories for the ensuing failures of this 70s-throwback Budget, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Britain is heading for oblivion, ruined by Labour’s greed, malice and stupidity” – Reeves has condemned us to penury, thanks to her obsession with punitive taxes and higher spending, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “The markets don’t like this Budget much” – It seems that bond traders, such reliable judges of Liz Truss‘s budget, have gone back to being evil capitalists now that Labour is in charge of the economy, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Pressure on Starmer to reveal what he knew about Southport suspect – and when” – Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper are under growing pressure to reveal what they knew about the suspect accused of the Southport killings amid accusations it is “not plausible” for them to have found out only in the last few weeks, says the Telegraph.
- “Why has Southport not been declared a terror attack?” – Axel Rudakubana, the alleged Southport killer, has been accused of possessing a terrorist document, yet the police still insist there is no evidence of a terrorist motive. How can both be the case? wonders Duncan Gardham in the Spectator.
- “U.K. Government and media spread disinformation about Southport killer, evidence suggests” – Did the U.K. Government spread misinformation about the Southport massacre and use it to justify censorship and repression, asks Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
- “From our man on the spot, ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally report you didn’t see in the MSM” – The Unite the Kingdom rally was peaceful, patriotic and unfairly smeared by biased media, says Prof. Norman Fenton in TCW.
- “Iraqi Channel migrant avoids deportation over lost ID” – An illegal Channel migrant refused asylum in Italy and Sweden has avoided deportation from the U.K. after claiming he lost his ID documents, reports the Telegraph.
- “Israel is right to shun UNRWA” – No other country would be expected to tolerate an organisation with terror links operating on its soil, writes Daniel Ben-Ami in Spiked.
- “The UN aid agency that can’t shake its terror links” – Israel claims that a United Nations body in Gaza is collaborating with Hamas – and it could derail the provision of essential aid, warns George Chesterton in the Telegraph.
- “Calm down, no one is threatening to kill Mehdi Hasan” – The media meltdown over a joke about a pager is far worse than the joke itself, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “How Just Stop Oil ruined the National Gallery for everyone” – A spate of soup incidents has prompted new, airport-style security checks at the National Gallery and risks putting tourists off one of our many free museums, writes Etan Smallman in the Telegraph.
- “Joe Biden calls Trump supporters ‘garbage’” – Joe Biden calls Donald Trump supporters “garbage” as he wades into a row over the Republican nominee’s Madison Square Garden rally, reports Axios.
- “White House tries to cover up Biden calling Trump supporters ‘garbage’” – Joe Biden’s camp is desperately trying to explain away his recent outburst, says the Mail.
- “Vibes don’t matter. Donald Trump is still the underdog” – Hillary Clinton has a simple lesson to teach Trump’s supporters: the best way to lose an election is to assume you’ve already won it, writes Daniel McCarthy in the Spectator.
- “Over 200,000 subscribers flee Washington Post after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement” – Over 200,000 people cancelled their subscriptions in the first few days following news that the Washington Post would not endorse any presidential candidate, reports NPR.
- “On the road with an army of 2,000 migrants rushing to America before Trump can retake the White House” – The prospect of former President Trump back in office – and tougher border restrictions – is galvanising migrants to start walking now, says Robert Mendick in the Telegraph.
- “Did U.S. Government-sponsored disinformation make COVID-19 worse?” – A new U.S. House report exposes how the Fors Marsh Group orchestrated a COVID-19 disinformation campaign for the Department of Health and Human Services, writes Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “Tice slams Starmer for ‘information gap’ over Southport stabbings” – At PMQs, Reform MP Richard Tice takes Starmer to task over the recent revelations of the Southport stabber’s terror charges.
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MPs were gagged, apparently, and could not ask questions about the Southport child-killings. There was a clip of the Speaker himself declaring this but I can’t find it now, so here’s Isabel Oakeshott instead;
https://x.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1851598768594198863
We thought the last poisonous dwarf Speaker was the pits but Hoyle could actually be worse ( obviously doing the job he’s been given )
There’s twitterings online that the child-killing psychopathic jihadist is always drawn hiding his face because he’s got a ‘Muslim beard’. I’m not sure that’s the case because what’ll happen when it comes to the point when he takes the stand and has to speak? Surely to god they wouldn’t allow him to wear a mask in court?? Covering one’s face in court is never allowed is it? Especially as he’s now an adult. He doesn’t have the right to anonymity, like a cowardly PoS. We all, and especially those poor parents, have a right to see his ugly, evil mug directly.
Tice asks the question & Starmer gives a non answer ! What a human sewer that place is ! It’s pointless ! They knew Southport was terror related & still they smeared & locked up ordinary people for expressing their angst for those poor children & adults . Worse still, in prison they are amongst ROPeace sympathisers who had just had one of their own followers commit the murderous carnage . There are no words to describe these so called MP,s 🤯
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I note that the Global Times (yes I know – read it with a pinch of salt) has a comment on the EU tariffs on Electric Cars EVs;
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202410/1322168.shtml
In an indication of how things will go under this Government, I understand that the UK has no plans to increase tariffs beyond the standard 10% vehicle import duty. The BYD car company plans to import it’s Seagull model into the UK next year. This is a low cost, low range, small battery EV that is only really suitable for local utility travel;
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/byd/362943/new-byd-seagull-will-come-uk-2025-rival-dacia-spring
I suspect that Starmer/Reeves/Milliband will enthusiastically embrace the BYD EV imports as another part of their masterplan for the UK economy and an answer to anyone who queries their vision of an EV future for the UK. As yet we are still being allowed to continue to use our petrol/diesel (ICE) cars but will that continue to be the case in the future? Or will we all be forced into BYD Seagulls with our travel confined to local utility trips?
“The charts that show why Reeves has condemned Britain to a low-growth future”
When you give it away in big pay rises to the unions it seams like everyone has to pay extra to replace it!
Where is our daily paean to Gen DeWitt Smith?
Millions of working people will suffer from Reeves’s first Budget, OBR confirms
There has obviously been a lot of commentary about the net effect on wages offered on account of employers having to pay more NIC with a 1.2% increase. Although there are probably quite a few intelligent accountants in the Treasury, you’d have thought that this would encourage incentives to offer benefits that are “off the books”, cash free bonuses etc, in lieu of higher salaries.
Following Starmer’;s refusal to answer the question RTice put in the HoC about openness following criminal acts, a suitable FOI would be “Did the PM or any minister or any civil servant with their knowledge have any knowlwdge of discussions about witholding information ab out the Southport murderer or allowing fals information to be circulated”.
Clearly they did and people have gone to prison for commentringf who ought not to have been arrested.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/inheritance/jeremy-clarkson-labour-farmers-inheritance-tax-raid/
This has to be the most dangerous, underhand and nationally damaging item to come from this budget. A 20% tax on the value of a farm on the owner’s death will result in family farms being eradicated.
The net result will be that farms will be bought up by the big agri-corps, Monsanto and the rest and industrialised farming will take over and the real poisonings will begin.
This was a truly evil move and will wipe out family farming within one generation.
Control the food (and water) supply and the people are definitely controlled.
A calculated “improvement” on the Dutch method. Cynical, nasty, evil.
The irony is that if you want to improve the soil, help nature and ‘save the planet, the mixed family farm is an ideal style of operation.
Although part of the problem is that many family farms leave it too late, you can put the family farm into a trust as long as everyone is cooperative and helpful, but that is not always the case in the farming world!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-highly-imprudent-budget/
TCW takes apart yesterday’s criminal budget…
“Their watchword is the wicked austerity the previous government allegedly inflicted on the population. This is the primary untruth as the verifiable reality is public spending increased under Johnson/ Sunak by over £200billion (or some 20 per cent) in real terms over the five years of the last government. Outside war, that is an unprecedented record.”