British Politics

True, and on an unrelated note can I just say that I thoroughly enjoyed your latest TV appearance:

 

One prick in her life is enough.

 

Eh? How did you come to that conclusion?

 

Viceversa chico cubo

 

ExFuckingCuse me, Christopher?

 

No idea what you are on about mate

 

I'm not even going to bother watching that clip but I bet it's chock-full of woofters like you, fatty

 

So wife took the shots you and the children no ?

 

Correct. She toke tye Jansen or whatever itbis called. It is just one jab. She had to, to work on a yacht, I think.

 

Haha you think I am going to let my 5 year old and 6.75 year old to take jags?

 

Oh **** off with **** that is over 2 hours. Give me something that is 3 minutes max.(and I don't mean ER)

 

4minutes 45seconds. No thanks.

 

What amazing foresight Barbie Kardashian's parents showed.

Transgender Teen With Pattern of Violence Against Women “Anxious” to be Jailed With Women


IE — Limerick, Munster. A teenager who was “born a male but identifies as a female” is facing four counts of making threats to kill or cause serious harm. The accused, who has demonstrated a pattern of criminal and extreme physical and sexual violence towards women, is eager to be held in female custody while awaiting trial. Gardaí, the national police service of the Republic of Ireland, says 18-year-old Barbie Kardashian made threats of violence against two individuals in July, August and September of this year.

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https://www.womenarehuman.com/trans...making-death-threats-against-two-individuals/

 

“Boris is a fraud” me


Boris has totally lost touch with conservatism
The plan to increase taxes is the latest Labour-lite lunacy of a Government that only cares about polls

CAMILLA TOMINEY
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
3 September 2021 • 8:00pm

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People mistakenly think that Ed Miliband’s leadership of the Labour Party ended over a bacon sandwich. But it wasn’t that unedifying spectacle, or even the monumental folly of the “EdStone” that finished him off. It was a primetime TV encounter with Myleene Klass from the band Hear-Say.

Discussing the lunacy of introducing a “mansion tax” to “save the NHS” on ITV’s The Agenda, the incredulous singer asked: “Is that your only option? You might as well just tax me on this glass of water. You can’t just point at things and tax them. You need to have a better strategy.”

That was in November 2014 and Miliband was out the following May. Unbelievably, Boris Johnson is now planning to serve up an even bigger dog’s breakfast than Two Kitchens Ed with his tax rise to pay for the NHS and social care.

The problem is not so much that the planned hike of national insurance contributions for 25 million people represents a total breach of the Conservative Party manifesto, which clearly stated in 2019: “We promise not to raise the rates of income tax, National Insurance or VAT.”

The real dilemma for the Prime Minister is that it is yet another anti-Tory policy from a Labour-lite government so obsessed with polling that it no longer seems to have a feel for Conservative opinion.

More than any other since Tony Blair, we have an administration that cannot seem to function without consulting a focus group first.

You see it everywhere in its policy-making, from continually following the public during lockdown, seemingly afraid of getting ahead of what people would be comfortable doing, to refusing to tell everyone to go back to work for fear of it proving unpopular. And at the heart of this all things to all men cakeism, we have a Prime Minister who wants to be popular among every group, in every part of the country. Consequently, his is the Government that simply can’t say no.

Having spent the last 18 months peddling the sort of nanny state policies that would not have looked out of place in 1970s Cuba, Mr Johnson has jumped to the false conclusion that a nation that clapped for the NHS and carers will be delighted to pay more for them.

Certainly, if you believe the polls, the NHS is the most popular institution in the country. But the problem with the focus groups so beloved of No 10 is that they only represent a snapshot of opinion now – without telling you anything about the future. And depending on what you ask, they can mislead as well as enlighten.

The NHS is a prime example. People can love it while at the same time believing it is failing them. Just look at the furore over half of the public being denied a face to face appointment with their GP. What happens if the Tories hike up their voters’ taxes (and it is Conservatives who will undoubtedly shoulder the burden) only to see money sloshed back into GPs’ salaries with no appreciable benefit to the public?

This isn’t March 2020. We aren’t in lockdown any more and as the halo of the vaccine rollout slowly fades, the pull-together sentiment of last year is well and truly gone. Come Christmas, the full horror of an estimated 14 million on NHS waiting lists will come home to roost, along with the health service’s failure to properly diagnose and treat non-Covid conditions.

Meanwhile, as Liam Halligan warned in this newspaper on Monday, Britain is hurtling towards a winter of discontent, with inflation rising and debt skyrocketing, threatening to squeeze household budgets even further. As furlough comes to an end on September 30, a surge in unemployment will inevitably follow, with younger workers likely to be most badly affected.

So it frankly beggars belief that the Government thinks this is the right time to hit the very people who will be feeling most concerned about their personal finances with a National Insurance hike. With no suggestion that it will be extended to pensioners, this tax rise on employees will hit job creation at a time when taxpayers are already paying the highest bills in a generation.

Thanks to Tory prime ministers implementing no less than 1,651 tax changes in the past decade – of which 63 per cent were hikes – the tax burden under Mr Johnson is now likely to be higher than any since post-war Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

Some of the rises couldn’t be more un-Conservative. Take the corporation tax changes announced in the Spring Statement in March. Contrary to claims that our corporation tax rates will still be the lowest in the G7, in fact our effective marginal corporate tax rates are now going to be higher than those in France.

The final fallacy is that this hike will suddenly “fix” a system that was broken long ago. The money is expected to be split between the NHS and social care, with a suggestion that it will go first towards clearing backlogs and then increasingly into care. But what guarantee is there that it won’t all be swallowed up by a health service that can never have enough funding?

And let’s not forget that any Dilnot-style proposals to cap care costs at £80,000 will only result in increasing taxpayer burdens over time as the number of people requiring care inevitably rises.

A Government that was in touch with its Thatcherite credentials would know that increasing taxes – with the chance of no obvious benefit for the public – is a disastrous policy. This, along with the effects of net zero, how to pay for the cost of lockdown and the sorry state of schools present colossal problems that, if not confronted, could easily destroy the Tories.

Just look at the elections happening in Canada. Backward-looking Justin Trudeau thought he could capitalise on the strong support his government had gained during lockdown, only for it to unravel as voters’ minds turned to all the normal issues they were unhappy about, such as the economy. Now it looks like he will lose to the Conservatives.

As a Churchill scholar, Mr Johnson should be wise to the phenomenon of being punished at the polls even if you manage a crisis well – let alone badly.

 

wid