24 June (Part 1) - I told you so
As the first anniversary of one of the most calamitous days in British political
history approaches I took a quick look back at what was being said here a year or
so ago. The forecasts were surprisingly accurate which is not a sign of genius
but merely the benefit of a voting memory that extends back to 1964 when Harold
Wilson made his mark as a Labour Prime Minister by instantly wrecking the economy and devaluing the
pound. “The pound in your pocket” and all that.
But even after that collapse you could buy a dollar for 41 pence. it is more like 75 pence now.
Socialism
and economic stability has always been a pipedream and the promises made last
year by Daniel Francis, MP for Bexleyheath and Crayford have proved to
be every bit as hollow. Every aspect of the economy has
taken a dive. NHS waiting lists have been creeping up despite patients being
sent overseas for treatment. A friend who started hiccupping on Easter Sunday
and not stopped since has a hospital appointment next November for what could be
a brain tumour.
An ineffective Border Force and the illegal invasion has gone from bad to worse. Great British
Energy has done nothing. Formally set up last month it now has a website and a Chief
Executive Salary of £350,000 a year but it wil never be an energy supplier and
who would put their trust in it if it did?. Energy prices are higher now than when
Labour replaced the hapless Tories and their promised £300 reduction in the
average electricity bill is nowhere to be seen.
The only sort of ‘anti-social’ behaviour being tackled is speech
of which the Government disapproves using laws introduced by the utterly stupid Sunak and Co,
The ambition to recruit new teachers on the back of the VAT raid on education
(allegedly the UK is the only country in the world stupid enough to tax
education) was formally abandoned last month. The not especially large amount of money
raised by the class war on education is to be spent on housing the illegals.
Among last years’ forecasts was that Labour would be much the same as the useless
Tories “but with bells on” and I may have dropped a clanger there because they are
obviously far worse than that. The curbs on freedom of speech are punitive
except perhaps for the brainless chanting of anti-Jewish comment
on the streets of every major city.
There was even a reference to giving away Gibraltar and the Chagos Islands, lumped together as “sovereign territory”.
Labour treachery is a given.
Predicting ever more stealth taxes was not a very difficult one but the specific monetary
attacks on older people and the disabled was a bad miss on my part. I was on
firmer ground with “I will enjoy watching red voting lemmings crash on the rocks
below the cliff and become yet another generation that never votes Labour
again”. In retrospect, enjoy was not the right word. too many people have been hurt by Labour.
I was also wrong about anticipating relative personal immunity from Starmer’s tax raids
being neither rich nor poor but my net income has not come anywhere near rising at
the rate of inflation. Under Labour I am around £1,000 a year worse off than a
year ago and I am now a Lidl shopper rather than Sainsbury’s. ( A little
to my surprise some of Lidl’s own brand stuff is noticeably better quality than Sainsbury’s.)
The statement that Starmer is nothing but a liar was easy to justify even a year
ago and is widely accepted now but the
forecast he would be gone in 18 months may prove wide of the mark; but one can
hope. On the other hand “rich people rushing from our shores” was absolutely spot on.
The mystery is why polls are still showing 25% support for the most incompetent
Government ever. Train drivers, doctors, the workshy and the illegals
presumably.