By Dr. Vernon Coleman
The world is heading for disaster; a recession, then a depression and a sense of despair of a nature never known before.
Ed - cheerful opening line.
It’s all deliberate, of course. The destruction of the economy is being managed with great precision. In the UK, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Comrade Reeves has learnt from her mistakes and will, therefore, continue to repeat them until the British economy is in tatters. Inflation is too high (and likely to rise in the medium and long term) and interest rates need to go up so they’re going down instead – to benefit those with debts (e.g. the Government) and hurt those with savings.
In the UK, more than 1.2 million foreign born claimants are living on universal credit – and the figure is rising.
Sickness (much of it self-diagnosed ‘anxiety’ or ‘autism spectrum disorder’, concerns which have been encouraged by politicians, journalists and members of the very entitled royal family) costs £212 billion a year and is rising.
Taxes are soaring and red tape increasing so unemployment will inevitably reach record highs in 2026. Millions diagnosed as being ‘on the autism spectrum’ or ‘suffering’ from anxiety are content to live on benefits rather than working for a living. It is now officially possible to suffer from an illness within the autism spectrum called ‘rejection sensitivity dysphoria’ – a self-diagnosed disorder which occurs when an individual is rejected or criticised. I think it would be difficult to find anyone in the world who does not suffer from a disorder within the autism spectrum disorder.
The parasitic State is constantly expanding and only those who get their money from the State have financial security. Emigration is soaring, though the emigrants are neither those with Government jobs nor those on benefits. (Those who talk of net migration figures falling are presumably unaware that this is only because the number of people leaving the country is now close to the number arriving.)
The only people who can afford to have more than one child are billionaires and single mothers. People on benefits are the new ‘middle classes’. The former middle classes have been demoted. Six million Britons with jobs would be better off if they gave up working and accepted government benefits instead of wages or salaries.
In the UK, the next election will be won by those (civil servants and people on benefits) who are dependent on the Government. (Comrade Starmer knows this and will probably end up forming a Government with the Greens and Liberals. Every taxpayer should then pack their bags and leave. The Greens seem to me to be the most frightening, arrogant, oppressive and deluded group of people in the world.)
Global oil and gas prices are low but, thanks to Government policies, energy costs are higher in Britain than anywhere else in the world. (Literally) millions of people now have to choose between buying food or keeping warm. The puppet masters are doubtless well pleased with Comrade ‘Free Suits’ Starmer who has, with enthusiasm, continued and accelerated the destruction begun by his predecessors.
Starmer’s apparently complete lack of any sense of morality and shortage of intelligence were presumably responsible for his selection of the appalling untrustworthy Mandelson as British Ambassador to the United States (and his selection of his unelected chum and financial backer as Attorney General was a calculated insult to the British people). Comrade Starmer and his staff must have been the only people in Britain who regarded Mandelson as a trustworthy person suitable for a position as an Ambassador.
The EU re set will damage our growth, not speed it up
By johnredwood on May 3, 2026
The government is wilfully wrong in saying we lost 4% or 8% of GDP through Brexit. The graphs and charts of our GDP versus France, Germany and Italy show that is nonsense. The government is hopelessly misled in thinking its growth strategy will spring into life if we re set with the EU.
How will paying even more for energy once in the EU carbon trading and emissions scheme help? It is ultra dear energy that is deindustrialising us at pace.
How will imposing a carbon border tax on imports from non EU help? That makes business inputs dearer and squeezes consumer spending power.
How will adopting more EU rules make us more prosperous? Their rules add costs and impose bans and limitations on business activity.
How does bringing in lots of low paid and no paid young people to the UK boost per head incomes?
How does paying ten times as much for student support to help EU students much more than UK ones help us? Why stop supporting UK students to go to non EU universities?
How does giving away so much of our fish for so many years do anything but damage to our coastal communities and fishing grounds?
If aligning with EU laws makes you richer why is Northern Ireland worse off than GB, as NI does align?
Why did the UK growth rate plunge in the Uk’s first twenty years in the EEC, and fall further when we joined the single market in 1992?
Given how stretched our budgets are, why will paying more money to the EU help? Won’t that put up taxes or put up borrowings more, with higher interest rates as a result?
How does seeking more EU trade help GDP, when we run a large deficit with the EU and imports subtract from GDP? We run a surplus on non EU trade which is growing faster.
The EU re set could undermine or prevent our trade deals with the TPP, US and other large overseas economies. Why risk it?
People voted for UK MPs to decide our laws and run our government, answerable to the UK voters. Making us accept EU laws we cannot change or influence undermines democracy.