I was going to start this blog with “more pigs with their snouts in the trough”, but that would be unkind to city mayors. There is a report that they are to be given part of the income tax earned in their area. Of course, if that were to happen, it would not stop there. They would, without doubt, demand more.
There would likely be a separate tax on earnings to bolster their spending power. Therefore, in certain areas under the control of a left-wing administration, there would be pricing in the shops as in America, where there is a federal tax and a local tax.
None of this could have taken place if Tony Blair and his administration, at the turn of the century, hadn’t torn up the rule book governing how the UK administrations worked. He split the country into four and gave control of parts of the government to quangos, committees and mayors.
To achieve this, he cancelled so many of the achievements of the 1980s and spent the wealth created during that period—so much so that Gordon Brown, who followed him as Prime Minister, sold off half the gold stock to balance the books. He also spent the money in the State Pensions Pot, leaving the cupboard bare for the Conservative–Liberal administration that followed.
With Sir Keir so unpopular, a worried Labour Party watched as other parties climbed in the opinion polls. Without a doubt, at election time, there would be a political change of government and the current party would be in the minority. Changing the Prime Minister must have seemed to be the answer.
And there, in Manchester, was the obvious solution: a mayor popular with his electorate who has never run a business, having spent a lifetime on the political left. As leader of Manchester City, his control of it has resulted in the biggest fall in living standards of any council area. He is perfect! The leaders of the party then went about putting together a scheme to impose this man as leader of the country.
This new, unelected British Prime Minister—with eyebrows—has indicated many changes during his two weeks in office. Although his becoming the new leader was presented as a big surprise, according to reports, it now seems that it was a planned event many months ago. Otherwise, why was building work started on what was to become the Downing Street of the North?
It is almost laughable. With the country getting deeper into debt by the day, Eyebrows announces that bus fares will be reduced by a penny. I do not know how much that amounts to annually in the real world, but surely it is no more than the price of a couple of cups of coffee in Starbucks.
In the meantime, immigrants, legal or otherwise, have no money worries, as the State ensures their comfort by handing them four times the amount to which a pensioner is entitled.
So, Eyebrows takes up the job by spending more money, flying backwards and forwards—at thirty grand a time—between the two unnecessary offices of government. He is so dedicated to his work that, after slightly less than two weeks with his feet under two tables, he feels tired and goes off on holiday, leaving the affairs of State to his scruffy—my word—deputy.
It is strange and contradictory. In terms of size, the British are minuscule compared with the rest of the world, yet, over the last couple of hundred years, they have taught other countries the rules of accountability in elections, voting honestly at the ballot box and selecting a government.
Yet the Labour Party—and there must have been some money in the background—has managed to shoehorn a Prime Minister into Westminster without the use of democracy.
Then we have Net Zero in the government. That zero is in the empty head of Ed Miliband, the man who believes the world can exist in a state of nothing. First, however, it has to be bankrupted by spending billions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.
He also believes that he can change and stop the three per cent of the world’s smog output that Britain spews into the air—and persuade the other 97 per cent of the planet to follow his thinking. In my opinion, you have to be empty-headed to think that way, especially as a minister in government.
Although I could cry for the remnants of what was once an honest, proud and ancient country—now suffering because of the dishonesty of some of its leaders—I feel certain that the British people will unravel this horror.
Take care.
Winston Churchill’s thoughts:
“Socialism is a political religion whose God is the State and whose priests are the bureaucrats… It is a philosophy of failure, the greed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal distribution of misery.”
Percy
