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Mark Fenners retweeted
There’s a lot of self-serving spin emanating from the UK government about how virtuous it is re fiscal consolidation.
Here are the facts.
Labour inherited an OBR budget deficit forecast of £87bn (3.1% GDP) for FY2024/25. After R Reeves’ 1st disastrous budget the actual deficit was £153bn (5.2%). Massive jump.
Labour inherited OBR budget deficit of £77bn (2.7%) for FY2025/26. After RR’s disastrous 2nd budget that turned out to be £133bn (4.3%).
So in its first two years it added over £120bn to borrowing/deficit (despite huge increase in taxes).
The OBR forecast it inherited for this FY2026/27 was £69bn (2.3%). It is now forecast to be £116bn (3.3%). That looks like an underestimate. More likely to be closer to £130bn again.
Inherited budget forecast for 2027/28: £51bn (1.6%). Latest forecast: £97bn (2.9%).
Inherited budget forecast for 2028/29: £39bn (1.2%). Latest forecast: £86bn (2.5%).
Far from fiscal consolidation Labour is forecast to borrow an incredible £260bn more over the 5 years from 2024/25 than the forecasts it inherited. Despite the tax rises.
Which will continue. Alone among G7 countries the IMF projects the UK tax burden to rise by 3.7% of GDP 2025-31. The only other country with a rising tax burden is France (0.8%). Italy is static. Rest of G7 have falling tax burden.
And let’s not forget Labour’s so-called ‘fiscal consolidation’ is all backloaded to end-decade. Unlikely to happen. So taxes will have to rise by even more.
Mark Fenners retweeted
In 2001, the Swiss implemented fiscal rules to avoid big government expansion. They want smaller government and wealthier individuals. They are pro business, pro growth and pro investment. They seek to attract wealthy individuals and highly skilled people.
Taxes as a percentage of GDP sits at 27%. Vs France/Germany and UKs 35%+. No CGT, Lower dividend and Corp taxes, no IHT.
If the anti-wealth brigade were correct about how the economy works, Switzerland would be descending into a hellscape by now. According to @garyseconomics we should be seeing people starving and freezing in Switzerland.
Instead it’s high tax France, Germany and UK with civil unrest and widening poverty. It’s almost as if wealth is actually a good thing.
Mark Fenners retweeted
My vote on Brexit was affected by disinformation. I voted Remain because I was told if Leave won there would be terrible consequences.
The BoE Governor told me he would raise interest rates - he lowered them.
The Chancellor said he'd have an emergency budget - he didn't.
The Treasury said unemployment would go up - it went down.
Goldman Sachs and others said they would pull out of Britain - they spent billions on new HQs
The Chief Executive of the NHS Alliance said there would be an epidemic of super-gonorrhoea.
As for foreign interference - The EU, the US and Irish Presidents etc etc all weighed in on the side of Remain.
Mark Fenners retweeted
The wealthiest don't pay inheritance tax - and they are fleeting Britain under your socialist government, leaving our country worse off.
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These are the 364 MP's who voted against a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation and Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs.
They deserve to be named and shamed . Never forget their betrayal in which they placed the Muslim block vote before children’s safety!
Mark Fenners retweeted
🚨 HERE IS WHAT LABOUR DID TO GREAT BRITAIN IN JUST ONE SINGLE WEEK
Take a look at the trail of absolute destruction Andy Burnham and his ministers inflicted on this country over the last seven days.
*Freed 700 convicted criminals onto British streets early, including violent domestic abusers and foreign offenders released into local communities on immigration bail.
*Andy Burnham confirmed on television that he could campaign to drag Britain back into the European Union, after his own aides admitted he ad libbed one third of his conference speech.
*Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy backed plans to force every household to pay a compulsory BBC levy on broadband and council tax bills, even if you do not own a television set.
*Financial Secretary James Murray imploded on live radio, unable to answer four times in a row how much his own Treasury energy policy will cost the taxpayer.
*Nature Minister Jenny Riddell Carpenter branded traditional British pubs, pints of ale, and pet black labradors a dangerous far right fantasy that never existed.
*Official figures revealed Shabana Mahmood is rubber stamping 1,100 permanent settlement applications every single working day, adding 200,000 people to welfare access in a single year.
Labour ministers do not have a clue how to run a sovereign nation.
They only know how to raise your taxes, police your online speech, empty the prisons, and surrender British borders to the rest of the world.
Retweet this immediately to make sure every voter in Britain sees the absolute carnage Labour caused in just seven days.
Mark Fenners retweeted
Dear Andy, you do know this is untrue, don’t you?
Highest energy bills in the world are due to:
* Reckless pursuit of net zero
* Blowing up our coal-fired power stations
* Failing to exploit our own fossil fuels
* Insane dependency on foreign oil and gas. The phrase “over a barrel” springs to mind
* Paying Norway £20 billion plus a year for oil and gas we could get out of our own North Sea
* Subsidizing renewables to the tune of billions by slapping green taxes on bills
* Putting an eco-cult and leftist ideology before the comfort and warmth of the British people
* Allowing good jobs to be lost in pursuit of all of the above
* Claiming your government wants to “reindustrialise” while creating conditions no manufacturer could succeed in
* Closing refineries and gas storage so the UK is uniquely vulnerable this winter and likely to have serious power cuts.
You’re welcome.
@andyburnham
I want to be honest about how we’ve got to a place where British billpayers are paying some of the highest energy costs in Europe.
Over the past 40 years, we’ve given up control of our necessities, outsourced our essentials and privatised the basics. Water, transport, housing. And of course, energy.
Now the public are paying the price. We haven’t invested in the infrastructure we need. Conflict overseas has pushed up energy costs and it’s hurting our businesses and families.
That’s why we need to take back greater control of our energy system.
This week, I announced Great British Grid, which will speed up connections and push down bills.
We’re also giving mayors, local leaders and communities a stronger role. With funding for People’s Power projects, communities will be able to build solar panels on libraries and town halls, hydro schemes in rivers or publicly owned windfarms on local land.
But it’s not just energy we need stronger public control over. It’s also water, housing, transport and care.
So we’re repealing the ban on public ownership of water companies. We’re building more council homes than this country has seen since the end of World War Two.
We’re reforming the leasehold system so families aren’t squeezed for every penny. And we’re opening up home ownership for first time buyers who can’t rely on the bank of mum and dad.
This week I also announced my determination to introduce a National Care Service, to put people above profit and to give pensioners peace of mind.
Together, we’ll rewire the country from top to bottom so that it works for all people in all places.
That is the only way to put Britain back on the right path. It’s the only way to put power back in people’s hands. And it’s the only way we will bring hope again.
Mark Fenners retweeted
Americans pay 1/6th of what we do for electricity.
America does none of what you are proposing - which will only make us less efficient.
90% of energy in the USA is fracked
That is the answer.
Not public ownership and not net zero.
Mark Fenners retweeted
Mr. Burnham, you're actually being completely dishonest in blaming privatization for the UK's high energy costs.
The nationalized energy companies were run extremely inefficiently before they were privatized in 1989. Privatization liberated them and enabled huge quantities of new investment. Over the period 1989/90 to 1994/95 the reduction in electricity prices in real terms was 10.0% for residential customers, 11.3 % for small industrial customers, 17.0% for medium industrial customers, 16.5 % for moderately large industrial customers, and 6.7% for extra large industrial customers.
Privatization revealed how grossly inefficient the state electricity companies actually were. Post-privatization reductions in staffing levels were achieved of more than 50% in the case of the generators and over 25% in the case of the distribution companies.
The efficiency improvements enabled huge increases in investment in new power plant and other fixed assets, including new facilities to reduce the environmental impact of emissions.
Of course you want to revert to incompetent union-controlled state ownership, ignoring the real reasons for high energy costs which can be found in your own government's energy policy. But please stop lying.
Mark Fenners retweeted
WHOSE SIDE ARE THEY ON?
One day, two headlines that sum up modern Britain
1. Foreigners get record £12billion in Universal Credit handouts
2. Burnham eyes £14billion Capital Gains Tax raid to pay for it
If you're a success, you're screwed. Jobless foreigner? Britain's got your back
Much more of this, we might as well turn off the lights & shut up shop
Mark Fenners retweeted
In just two years Labour have hit us with over £64 billion in extra taxes & over £244 billion in extra borrowing - and they’ve squandered the lot with nothing to show for it.
Fancy thinking that the answer is more taxes and more borrowing.
The mind boggles.
Mark Fenners retweeted
Remember this man abandoned the postoffice victims whilst on a 250k salery, & the Lib Dem’s take money from a pharmaceutical company that makes puberty blockers. Lib Dem’s sadly are just labour in yellow. Check out their policies before you vote for them
Mark Fenners retweeted
'I have never yet heard of an economy being taxed into prosperity. I have never heard of a poor person spending himself into wealth.'
Economist Arthur Laffer explains why he believes Britain has a 'totally dysfunctional' tax system.
Watch in full | spectator.com/article/livest… | @realartlaffer | @Simmons__
Mark Fenners retweeted
Parasite MP that's never had a real job, calls man with 17,000 employees a "parasite"... 🤦♂️
Mark Fenners retweeted
Jim Ratcliffe grew up in a council house. He created a business which has paid the salaries of thousands of staff and millions in tax. You, by contrast, come from a comfortable middle class background. Your career has been in politics and think-tanks. He has done more for this country than you are ever likely to. I understand why, as a Labour MP, you seek to demonise “the Right”. But this is reductive shite.
Mark Fenners retweeted
UK HOUSE BUILDERS YTD – PERSIMMON -15.30%, TAYLOR WIMPEY -26.25%, BARRATT REDROW -18.96%, VISTRY GROUP -58.98%, BERKELEY GROUP -16.15%, GALLIFORD TRY +31.54%, CREST NICHOLSON -59.76% - Well M/S Rayner?
Mark Fenners retweeted
French :
Quand le bâtiment va bien, tout va bien… L’opposé est aussi vrai.
🇬🇧
When construction is in good shape, everything is fine. The opposite is also true. 😂
Mark Fenners retweeted
Does anyone remember before the election, when Labour promised they would be careful with our money?
They promised us they had fiscal rules.
They promised no return to huge borrowing.
They promised our kids wouldn't inherit this huge debt.
Let's see how that's going...
Mark Fenners retweeted
Go f*ck yourselves @jennystrasburg @WSJ if you think I'll be part of your smear campaigns.
The desperate coordinated legacy media "hit pieces" are still being set up, this time at @elonmusk again.
The dispatches hit piece was supposed to discredit me, and they were to hit Elon with "oh look what he's done, and you supported him", but I completely destroyed them.
