Actually, Green is the colour of the Autumn Budget
It’s the ‘Day After’ the Autumn Budget and it’s worse than we thought. The Westminster MSM are howling in unison about how terrible it all is – just look at the headlines this morning in the usual place (link). Only The Sun- scroll down to the bottom – provides the sticking plaster, writing something silly about the footie World Cup kicking off on Sunday. The less said about The Star the better.
The various economic editors, Tory Bigwigs, commentators and other ‘writing heads’ are out in force, trying to explain to us what it all means. Well, at first glance it means that the Tories have gone full red: taxing ‘Teh Rich’ and handing out more to ‘Teh Poor’. It’s what the Left has always clamoured for, isn’t’ it!
Far worse though are those aspects and long-term consequences which the Westminster MSM are mentioning in little paragraphs hidden here and there, hoping we’ll overlook them. Here’s one such paragraph (my emphasis)
“The Treasury’s own analysis showed that more than half of all households will be worse off from measures in the Autumn Statement due to the scaling back of energy support from April next year. The other 45 per cent will benefit from almost £90bn in higher welfare payments over the next five years.” (paywalled link)
Let that sink in: nearly half of British households are on benefits. Why is this not worthy of a general outcry? Why is nobody asking how this bill can be paid for when fewer and fewer people are working productively, with the public sector taking more and more of revenue and the business sector, especially the small businesses, being hit by exorbitant energy prices and higher taxes? Oh – I’ve learned a new word! See this (my emphasis):
“The OBR also warned that over the next two years, household disposable income will be compressed by 7pc. It will reverse gains in living standards to leave them at the same level as 2013, underscoring a “lost decade” for the economy. This year’s 4.3pc fall alone represents the biggest drop since records began in the 1950s, as the surging cost of living erodes wages.” (paywalled link)
My living standards have been ‘compressed’ for years, not least by the rapacious council taxes which have and will claw back any rise in the pension so generously given by the government.
Note that inflation is mentioned. Allegedly, Hunt wants to combat inflation. How this is going to happen when fuel duty is going to rise by 23% and all manner of surcharges, especially on ‘energy concerns’, are being implemented? It must be by magical accounting, a magic which is inexplicable. It’s not as if we peasants haven’t learned long since that industries and businesses will recoup any ‘duty’, ‘surcharge’ and ’tax’ the government puts on them by raising the prices we have to pay. Our income will indeed be ‘compressed’, and by more than the OBR projects.
Meanwhile, the government is gently trying to nudge us into accepting all those illegals populating our hotels. One of their propaganda outlets, the DT, writes:
“The increase in migrant labour will help to buttress Britain’s economy as Mr Hunt imposes higher taxes on earnings, jobs and investment. The OBR said that an increase in migration would help add to the potential size of the economy.” (paywalled link)
Yes, dears – those illegals will be made to work! Where? With small businesses going to the wall, with big businesses relocating, there remains only the black economy, which means no taxes for the state. One final point deserves to be mentioned in regard to ‘immigrants will add the economy’. It’s straight from the OBR. They demonstrate their independence by being critical even though Hunt has followed their ‘advice’:
“”We [the OBR] expect this positive labour supply effect to be offset by the growing disincentives to work provided by frozen tax thresholds in an environment of higher and more persistent inflation,” it said in its latest economic forecast. Richard Hughes, chairman of the OBR, said this formed part of a conscious choice for a more bloated state. “This higher tax burden pays for a larger state whose total expenditure rises from 39 per cent of GDP before the pandemic to 47 per cent this year, before falling back to 43 per cent in five years’ time,” he said.” (paywalled link)
Where is the outcry that government expenditure has risen to nearly half of the GDP? Nowhere! This is why Labour will just go through the motions criticising a budget they’d have been hard pressed to better! Certain ‘writing heads’ have chimed in last evening already, trying to ‘help’ Sunak and Hunt with arguments such as “we” having to accept that all this misery, the current one and the coming one, are global, thanks to the pandemic and that war in the Ukraine. Here’s one such, by Matt Goodwin, sociologist, showing that being good at modelling doesn’t make one a good economist.
The one point missed across the board is that this budget isn’t actually ‘red’, it is deeply ‘green’. Higher energy prices thanks to surcharges, higher fuel duty, inflation curbing consumption: all of those promote green policies where people will give up their cars and live more frugally on their ‘compressed’ incomes. Small businesses consume energy, big industries are producing CO2: best let them go to the wall. Fraser Myers, deputy editor of ‘Spiked Online’, is the only one to have pointed this out in his email newsletter last evening. He also asked why ‘Teh Left’, wailing about ’austeriteee’, is so quiet about this manifest implementation of Net Zero. No answer needed …
There’s one other aspect: the ‘useless human beings’, the ‘unproductive’ being kept by the state. This has been subliminally applied to the old, with the criticism of the terrible rise of the state pension. Overlooked is the fact hat ‘the old’ have to pay the inflationary prices and taxes as well as everybody else. Even just buying food is consumption which contributes to the GDP … The unspeakable phrase about ‘useless human beings’ comes from the ‘guru’ of a certain Mr Schwab, Yuval Harari. Here’s his entry on the WEF site and here’s a bit more about his ‘philosophy’ which could have come straight out of 1930s Germany.
Given that this budget is full in line with Schwab’s “great re-set”, that it is deeply green, that this government and the ‘loyal opposition’ are agreed on Net Zero, that Labour simply goes through the motion, that the MSM are signing from the same green government propaganda hymn sheet – given all that rest assured that the ‘useless human beings’, especially the elderly, will soon feel the full force of Net Zero.
Surely, now that they’ve been promised a bit more state money they’ll shut up and cope with their ‘compressed’ real incomes by dying quietly and quickly. Cynical – moi???
I saw a rainbow today Viv. Around lunchtime. So God has renewed his promise, not to flood the world again. In spite of our wicked CO2 !!
And if this wasn’t enough, the United Nations (UN) are apparently working very hard to decide as to who will pay for ‘climate damage’, although the United States have had no input in these discussions according to the BBC, and we all know what side of the fence they lie on, and it will not be on the side of this country or its hardworking citizens. I wouldn’t mind betting that the UN will arrive at a point in the not too distant that the country who will be forced to foot the majority of the bill no doubt behind closed doors and shrouded in deep mystery will be the home of the Industrial Revolution from the 18th century and that is you will have guessed by now, will be the United Kingdom. And I bet anything you like, that our present prime minister will agree to it, and if he does it will indeed confirm that he is the much talked about enemy within. The world including this country is run by muppets…….
How many more reasons do we need for government to actually represent us and tell the UN to Foxtrot Oscar and stop supporting it.
Achtung! Attention! Alert! Troll alert – Dont feed the troll.
Weapons to Ukrainium need to be paid for? Should not have been sent in the first place. And, it is not up to GB to fight anyone.
Next up no doubt – finest health service, blah, bla… world, blah, bla. . .
Biscotte……. G..O..A..L!!
Spot the stalker!
Biscotte….You are not serious about anything, politically or otherwise. I would rather read what HA has to say any day, rather than you, an utter waste of time. I just cannot be bothered with you any longer, just go away. That is the last thing I am going to say.
So, we will pay ever more money to central and local government for a continuing degradation in services that was unimaginable when I was younger. I’ve travelled on trains in Sweden, Germany, and France. Their rail services surpassed our own decades ago. Once, in Singapore, I needed to see a GP. I got an appointment within 20 minutes and had to rush from my hotel to get there in time. A simple prescription, which I collected on the way out without need to find a pharmacy, took a few minutes of a half hour appointment most of which was then spent discussing life in Singapore generally.
I mention these snippets not to suggest that these countries are nirvana or that overall they are better run than ours (though most are in the round), but to highlight that our own services, in a country with a supposedly “rolls-royce” civil service and home to the mother of parliaments, is on course to being at a third world level in the provision of services. This pay more for less trajectory appears unstoppable.
There are huge problems with housing, GP appointments, and school places (to name just a few issues) all caused by or greatly exacerbated by excess demand from rapid, historically unprecedented levels of immigration. The government’s solution? Bring in another 1.1 million people on visas as they have done, letting even students bring dependants and stay for two years after studies complete (not that overstayers are ever traced or deported). OBR and Treasury orthodoxy is to inflate GDP with immigration (but not GDP per capita) and at a rate that services cannot keep up with. This is not real growth – the welfare bill will continue to grow and be an ever greater burden on the productive sector – but nominal accounting growth. Our quality of life is sacrificed for numbers in a Treasury spreadsheet.
Pensioners spent a lifetime of taxation unlike the “Bennie” receivers. (eg the one person families/slags sat on their a*ses watching TV or playing with their smartphones in their taxpayer funded homes.)
The weapons sent to Ukraine have to be paid for.
(Still, it’s better than having to fight the Russians ourselves). More then £2 billion so far.
No comment except God help us. They can’t wait to get rid of us oldies because we remember how things were and should be; some of us have escaped the brainwashing, and can see through all their lies and crimes. Well I for one am a tough old bird and they won’t get rid of me that quickly. The useless human beings are the mindless useful idiots who do the bidding of these devils.
Well said Mary. Never give an inch! What disgust I feel with the British people in their demonstration of timidity, ignorance and cowardice in standing up to the enemy within.
Seconded Jake.