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Reflections on the remarkable return of Donald Trump Source -Matt Goodwin - 06/11/24 This is what happens. This is what happens when you ignore what millions of ordinary people have been saying for much of the last decade. This is what happens when instead of addressing their concerns you jam even more mass immigration, broken borders, social disorder, woke policies, gender madness, soft-on-crime policies, high taxes, regulation, and cultural chaos down their throats. This is what happens when instead of treating your fellow citizens with respect you choose to berate them, once again, like you did in 2016, as “Nazis”, “fascists”, “MAGA extremists”, “insurrectionists”, “garbage”, and more. This is what happens when the only people who refuse to acknowledge that most voters do not want to live in a world with open borders, mass migration, soft-on-crime policies, high taxes, restrictions on free speech, forever wars, and the sexualisation of our children happen to be the very people who c

Joe Biden depressed Americans; Kamala Harris patronised them. So they decided to get Trump back Daily Telegraph 06/11/24 Link Trump has done it again. Graciously accepting victory on stage at Mar-a-Lago – “everybody up here is great” - Trump claimed to head “the greatest political movement of all time”, and JD Vance heralded “the greatest political comeback in the history of America.” It seems America has made Trump great again. The polls were right: Trump v Harris was close with a slight Trump advantage, sweeping the sun-belt and edging the rustier states in the north. A repeat of 2016, possibly more decisive. Even as the winner rambled into his mic – “we all think our children are amazing” – the pundits didn’t want to believe their ears. The mood on my TV right now is funereal, which is most amusing. How could crazy old Trump – on trial for countless crimes – win a second term? Because to millions of Americans, he’s not so crazy. As the results trickled in, a friend sent me a photo o

The Labour plot to syphon money from private households to public coffers Daily Telegraph  Link The dark secret at the heart of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is buried at the bottom of page 41 of the 205-page Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) assessment.  Labour’s policies, the fiscal watchdog deduces, are “shifting real resources out of private households’ incomes in order to devote more resources to public service provision”. Tax and spend is back in a big way.  HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) receipts are set to rise by some £40bn, the steepest hike since 1993, and over £70bn in additional expenditure will swell the size of the state to over 44pc of GDP – its most bloated since the early 2010s. Forecasts show ordinary Britons are net losers in this equation, with real household disposable income £276 lower in five years’ time as a result of the Budget.  The Chancellor’s changes to employers’ National Insurance (NI) contributions – particularly the bump in the main rate from 13.8pc to 1

 Jump to content UK News Website o Starmer took his party members for fools, and now he is doing the same to the rest of us Nick Timothy Daily Telegraph - 03 November 2024  Link Labour’s first Budget was an ideological act. It taxes and borrows and spends and, by its own account, will fail to improve growth, wages or the public finances. We know in future budgets the Chancellor will return demanding more and more. The consequences already show. Businesses are contemplating redundancies as they assess their growing wage bills. Companies are reporting price rises from suppliers. GP practices are excluded from the NHS National Insurance exemption. Family farming is in crisis as inheritance tax rules change. Government borrowing costs are rising and mortgage costs are forecast to stay higher for longer. And there was no mandate at all to do this. Before the election Rachel Reeves said “we don’t need higher taxes. What we need is growth… and I have no plans to increase any taxes beyond thos

Rachel Reeves’s Marxist attack on family businesses has sealed her party’s fate Source - Daily Telegraph  Link In an interview with The Telegraph, farmer Clive Bailye said the Chancellor’s decision is ‘the end of the line’ for family farms Credit: Lorne Campbell It is no exaggeration to say that the decision to penalise families who have built up businesses – be they service companies, manufacturers of cutting-edge widgets or long-established farms – follows a classical Marxist approach. The singling-out of particular groups, demonising or blaming them for a particular problem, then making them subject to punitive financial penalties – especially so they might lose their property – is a typical tactic of the far-Left. Marx and Engels never stopped writing about it. Now, Labour’s Chancellor of the Exchequer is targeting families and property rights. First it was 10 million pensioners losing their winter fuel allowance on the spurious grounds of needing to close a black hole in the publi

 We will not stop asking questions - no matter what they say Matt Goodwin 31/10/24 The people who rule over us, I recently pointed out, routinely blame ordinary people for “misinformation” while simultaneously concealing information from them. This trick —what I call the “misinformation trick”— is very clever if you can pull it off. Convince the public they are too stupid and misinformed to ask difficult and legitimate questions that might challenge, if not threaten, the elite consensus. You see this play out all the time, especially when it comes to issues the elite class would rather we not ask questions about —like immigration, multiculturalism, the role of Islam in Western societies, and crime. Wondering if there’s a link between mass immigration and crime? “Oh, you must be misinformed!” they shout in unison, while at the very same time refusing to share information they have on crime rates by nationality and immigration status.  Wondering if a mass influx of millions of low-skill