When will Starmer realise that his position is now untenable.
Those of you that watched PMQ's today could see his discomfiture over Mandelson and he finally had to admit that he knew about the relationship BEFORE appointing him.
Surely this suggests two possibilities a) His judgement is so bad that he is a danger in his present position or a darker situation that he was on or, in on, the take with him.
Based on his history on Freebies and cronyism the question must be considered since Mandelson's reputation for dishonesty was well know long BEFORE the Epstein affair.
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There are those that think that the rich do not pay their fair share of taxes despite the evidence that to increase their tax burden is counter productive. To evaluate this idea some measure is required and perhaps the most understandable measure would be to compare the tax paid as a percentage of total income. The following is such a comparison. Tax Bands Tax Paid %age of Income A) £0 to £12,570 0 0 B) £12,570 to £37,700 0 To £5,026 2 to 13.3 C) £37,701 to £125,140 £5026 to £40,001 13.3 to 32.0 D) £1,000,000 £433,688 43.4 E) £2,000,000 44.2 This ignore that the rich have a opulent life style and pay more VAT and Council Tax than most, also the employ domestic help and pay (indirectly) PAYE and NI. I wonder if many of the moaners would be happy to have almost half of our remuneration taken away at source. Ps. Sorry I set this out as a table but the system has removed the spacing -
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Cock Ups by Ed Miliband. Apart from the disaster of the Net Zero Insulation Scheme, reported elsewhere, here are some more. The taxpayer funded £4bn. nuclear power plant to be built in Recar is to buy 7,000tons of steel from China despite the same steel being available from UK suppliers. The reason? Because it is produced in “green” electric furnaces rather than coal fired ones. No mention is made of the fact that the electricity is produced in coal fired power stations or of the carbon footprint that will be made by transporting 7,000tons of steel halfway round the world. The irony is that the new nuclear power station is to be built on the site of the Redcar Steel Works that was closed in 2015 as unprofitable.. So much for British jobs and British industry. Now for more Miliband Lies. With Britain having the highest industrial fuel prices on the planet, Idiot Ed claims that wind power is 40% cheaper than gas. Not true, why? Here are the facts. Last year the average wholesale price of electricty per MWh was £80; so to persuade energy companies to invest, Idiot Ed guaranteed them a price of £91MWh index linked to inflation for the next 20 years based on 2024 prices which means that we are already paying £94MWh. The deal was so good that Germany snapped up 83% of the available capacity. Now the lie regarding the cost of gas produced electricity is arises because new gas plant produced electricity costs £145MWh and assumes that the plants only work at 30% capacity to fill in when the wind doesn’t blow or blows too hard. Furthermore the £145 includes taxes on gas put on by the Net Zero Policy (not applied to wind). Now, remove the tax and run the plants at full capacity and the price becomes£70MWH or less than the 2025 price. It is time for Idiot Ed to stop telling lies and for Freebie Starmer to fire him and put an intelligent green policy in place. -
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Did anyone see BBC Breakfast this morning reporting that Rishi Sunak and his wife have donated £500K to a charity that promotes numeracy. In the discussion it was revealed that 58% of our children leave school without a pass at O Level in mathematics. Since every second of our lives depends on numbers, even when we are asleep, this is an amazing statistic, but it explains at long last something that has puzzled me for years and that is the way the electorate vote the way they do, clearly over half of the electorate can't question or analyse and understand what they are voting for. While numbers may not always tell you what is the right choice they will always tell you which is the wrong one thereby narrowing the options and giving one a better chance of being right. -
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Freebie Starmer is now inviting 65 councils, over half of which are Labour controlled with thin majorities, to postpone their May Elections on the most flimsy of excuses. We all know how tenuous is his grip on power over his own party now he wants to deprive the electorate of their right to express their opinion, as he well knows that they will slaughter him and his incompetent government. Who does this bumbling useless idiot think that he is kidding? if this takes place then we are on the slippery path to a dictatorship. -
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I have often suggested that when deciding who to support that the wisest course is "to follow the money". In saying that I assumed that my readers would understand the import of that advice, however, in a recent comment one member, not among our intelligencer, thought that I was advocating support of Reform ,therefore a word of explanation is necessary. To understand the advice one must first accept the premise that to have good services and welfare one must first have a sound robust economy to fund it. In the City and over the World are the best best financial brains who control a large part of the worlds money and they are the Investment Fund Managers and they speak to us on a daily basis. In the simplest terms fund managers operate on the principal of maximising growth while minimising risk, therefore they study the political parties policies and evaluate their financial viability and on that assessment they act to protect the money of their investors, in the case of pension funds, US. In essence they work on the simple basis that when the forward indicators are good, go for growth with the increase of risk, and when the outlook is weak it is safety at the expense of growth, and they MOVE money accordingly. This activity is published in every daily newspaper for all to see, all you have to do is learn the language and read it, and that is what I mean when I advocate "following the money", and not being fooled by the lying politicians. -
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Mr Brummer, is a very highly respected financial journalist and author who I have followed, very profitably, for some years. He writes for the Daily Mail and last Saturday wrote a very strong article on the current mismanagement of the economy, exposing the outright lie we are getting from Reeves on the effects of Brexit. To those of you that WISH to know the real doom loop that we are in, I strongly recommend that you read it. It frightened the pants off me. -
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Tried to log on to Scooploop yesterday, Monday, at 0900 and using Google I got a screen that said that access was denied as Google had detected an irregularity in the response from Scooploop so the connection was no longer secure, the reason may have been due to a hacker attempting to access person al data, try again later. Can't remember the exact wording but that was the gist. Has anyone else had a similar experience? -
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It is now seven weeks since my wife passed away and I have thought long and very hard as to whether I should make this post but, in the hope, that I can save others some distress, have decided to do so. For those with funeral plans the undertaker will collect the deceased the same day and many will wish to be present when they do, my strongest advice is don't. I sat with my wife for two hours before the collection when the staff arrived they were very respectful and considerate and asked me if I wish to leave, I stayed and was wrong. I won't describe the procedure but would advise anyone to say their goodbyes and leave. I would not describe myself as an emotional person, in fact I have taken pride in being a realist, but I found this to be a memory that I would prefer not to have. -
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AstraZeneca has announced that it is "pausing" it's £200million investment, due to create 1,000 jobs in Cambridge, this comes on top of it's cancellation, of a £450million investment for Merseyside in January. Further, Merck ( MSD in the UK) has abandoned a £1billion London based research centre. This, if my arithmetic is correct amounts to a loss of £1.65billion in investment and only the Lord knows how many jobs in 8 months. Both companies have said that to invest in the UK is becoming "unattractive", Now if this is the way Labour creates growth can somebody explain to me HOW?. My next question is, how long can Freebie Starmer allow this stupid woman, Rachael from Accounts, continue to desecrate the economy -
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Did anyone watch last nights lunar eclipse?. By chance I have been watching a pair of wood pigeons who I think are nesting in a conifer close to me so I had my bird watching telescope set up in my bedroom which faces due east so I had a very good view of the eclipse right up to the shadow clearing the limb of the moon. Six years working at the Royal Observatory and this was the first time I have observed a lunar eclipse through a telescope, it was spectacular. -
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Recently saw an article in the press that was so bizarre as to be unbelievable but, after a week’s rereading and some research, am forced to accept it. The following information comes to light through a lawsuit in the Scottish Courts between a landowner and an EDF owned wind farm. It’s a case of when thieves fall out, honest men get their dues, The Dornell Wind Farm has 59 turbines and is on land rented from Christopher Moran (who in STRL has £658million) for up to £10million pa. who not content with that is suing Dornell for more. In pursuit of this claim the economics of wind farm energy generation come to light. Dornell, in common with all UK wind farms, generates insufficient revenue by selling power on the open market, to pay for its construction, therefore, it is paid a subsidy raised by the levies on consumer bills to put it into profit. The cost of supporting the UK wind and solar energy producers is £25billion a year which equates to a charge of £850 per household or about 40% of your electricity bills. Unbelievably some years Dornell makes more profit (up to £40million) by turning off its turbines than it does by generating electricity. Additionally, more £millions are made because of a loophole in the subsidy system whereby it is allowed to “trade” electricity it didn’t generate by selling the “credited energy” when the price is higher. On top of this Dornell gets “constraint payments” which are paid to wind farms when they have to stop generating because the National Grid is at full capacity and cannot accept the energy. The effect of “constraint payments” is to encourage generating companies to build, like Dornell, in remote areas where the Grid is most fragile, thus making poor land some of the most lucrative real estate in the country. As an example, Dornell in Moray, in 2023received £37million in constraint payments ie. half of its total income of £74million. The result of this cockamamie scheme is, upwards of £300million is being given to wind farms for doing nothing and, to date, the cost to consumers is a total of £1.8billion Despite these figures, Ed Miliband plans to double on-shore energy capacity by 2030 and reduce our energy bills by £300pa. Surely if you double the production then the £850 levy becomes £1,700’s. Naturally Mr Miliband does NOT tell us against what the £300 saving is to be made. The net result of all of this is for the energy generators and millionaire land owners to make fortune from the consumers who are paying for a blind rush to Net O to cancel out, NOT ELIMINATE, 0.8% of global emissions. YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING. -
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As seems likely in the next budget there will will be some form of wealth tax therefore some figures that appeared in the press at the weekend are worth examining and hypothesizing on. In 2024 10,800 millionaires left this country and a further 16,500 are projected to leave in 2025. Now it is reasonable to assume that these are all people with an INCOME of, or in excess of£1million since having assets of £1million is not uncommon, most people with a house in band F or above are in, or close to, that bracket. Now for the first £1million of income the PAYE tax revenue is £430,546's and for every £1million after that £450,000. Therefore in 2024 we lost £4.65billion in tax revenue and are projected to loose a further £7.104billion this year a combined total of £11.754billion. Now a person on an average salary of £40K pays £5,486 in tax therefore to recover this lost revenue the government needs to create the equivalent of 2,142,527 jobs. At present the job vacancies stand at 781,000 and the number of unemployed is 1,610,000. so there aren't enough jobs and even if there were there aren't enough people to fill them. These calculations ignore all the other taxes that these people pay, to whit VAT, Council Tax, NI on their employees and the PAYE that the employees pay. As stated this is hypothesis but I would argue that they must be of the right order since I have based them on each millionaire only having an income of £1million and we know that there are some who pay in excess of£450 million IN TAX. Surely these figures show clearly that wealth taxes are both stupid and counter productive. -
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My Mother used to manage a PDSA Charity Shop and one of the gifts was a full box of Silver King Golf Balls. At the time I was switching from cricket to golf so she gave them to me. I opened one of the inner sleeves and tried to uplay with-it but the moment that I hit it , it disintegrated into dust. That was fifty years ago. A few days ago I came across the box with three sleeves and two loose balls, all in the original box, so out of curiosity I checked on E Bay and to my amazement found that it is worth between £150 and £200 as a collectors item. I will not be parting with it however as it is the only thing that I have left in memory of my Mother. -
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I have just received my renewal demands for my house and car insurance, my house is up by 23.9% and the car by 30.1% amounting to an additional £410 pa. On querying these increases I am told that all insurance premiums are going up necessitated by the increase in NI costs in the budget. I think that it is safe to assume that the insurance companies, having been given an excuse by the Chancellor to raise prices, will add on an extra bit for themselves, they would be mad to miss such a chance. So much for Party that said they wouldn't increase taxes and Rachel from accounts who clearly wants to increase inflation, odd thing for a Chancellor to want to do. Any Lefties want to defend such stupidity?
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