Labour’s job destruction machine
By johnredwood on February 16, 2026
Labour has done its best to align the UK with the EU’s high rates of youth unemployment and has now succeeded, and with the EU’s higher unemployment rate where it is almost there. How has it done it?
- Ban on all new oil and gas, destroying and failing to create many high productivity high paid jobs. In line with EU decarbonisation policy.
- Ban on all new petrol and diesel car output by 2030, a more severe version of an EU policy, destroying many UK factories and jobs.
- Dear energy prices under an EU type emissions trading and carbon tax scheme, leading to mass closures in petrochemicals, plastics, paper, cement, ceramics, steel etc
- Coming adoption of more anti food growing farm policies from EU sources on top of anti food UK grant schemes
- Giving away 12 years of our fish to EU, preventing rebuild of UK fishing industry
- High taxes on employment and business premises destroying jobs in shops, leisure centres, hospitality and entertainment - UK policies
- Imports first policy in craven negotiations over trade with China and EU where we already run huge deficits. Imports cut GDP.
- Productivity collapse and huge losses in the public sector hold the UK back and keep borrowing, taxes and interest rates too high.Home made disaster.