Rachel Reeves might not even be as bad as it gets (Image: PA)
And this, people, is what happens when you have an electorate so wearied by political failure, so jaded by being lied to and so underwhelmed by years of ineffectual leadership.
You get , and .
Listed in order of danger to the nation.
The good people of Britain have long stood by and wondered “what has happened? Where has my country gone?”
We are poorer, we are taking in hordes of people we do not know for reasons we have long forgotten, we are paying people not to work, life is harder, the nation is fractured, division is everywhere, the a vast bloated white elephant, our sense of British exceptionalism long, long dead.
And now we have a with almost limitless power – voted in by the British people not because they had any belief or faith in Labour’s policies (no-one even knew what they were) but because we collectively thought “they surely can’t be as bad as the last lot.”
They can. And they are.
Angela Rayner is a symptom of our times (Image: PA)
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Which brings me to Rachel Reeves.
A woman who’s economy with the truth means we can’t be 100% sure she even has a maths GCSE.. who is now in charge of Britain’s economy.
A woman whose days as Chancellor, it emerged today, are probably numbered.
A woman whose push for growth has been so successful the Bank of England this afternoon halved its growth forecast to just 0.75% – and hinted a recession was not out of the question.
While electioneering last year Reeves promised the British public no tax-rises. As soon as she got her hands on the Chancellor’s briefcase she brought-in new taxes and a catastrophic Autumn Budget 2024 which put UK tax revenue on target to reach its highest ever level as a share of GDP.
Thanks Rachel.
The way her tax hikes were structured, specifically employer National Insurance, placed exceptional burden on businesses and workers, thus hindering economic growth. The economic growth she was supposed to be boosting.
Well done Rachel.
The way she seems to be genuinely clueless as to how to really raise productivity in Britain (clue, it’ll mean axing cushy public sector roles which create nothing of note).
Oh dear Rachel.
Shouting to the world that Britain was an economic basket-case thus deterring anyone thinking of investing here.
Cheers Rachel.
Oh, then there’s the axing of the freezing our pensioners, shafting the WASPI women, hobbling the farmers… the list goes on.
Suffice to say this one time bank-clerk (or something) is now not considered much of an electoral asset by Sir Keir and his mates.
And we are told today Reeves is likely to be removed in a Spring reshuffle.
Normally at this point I’d say well Mr Starmer if you consider her too useless to remain as your Chancellor then please don’t wait a moment longer, get rid of her now.
Except that the alternative is said to be Yvette Cooper.
A Home Secretary who wants to give passports to illegal immigrants who arrive on boats – a tailor-made People Traffickers’ charter.
A Home Secretary who was forced to give in to public pressure for an inquiry into so-called Asian rape gangs but who is doing her best to ensure that inquiry will have no teeth.
Any more faith in Yvette than Reeves?
Me neither.
How did we get here? We allowed our British optimism to get the better of us – it had to get better, it surely couldn’t get worse?
It did.
I used to think British optimism was the best of us, an inexhaustible supply of quiet positivity and calm one-foot-in-front-of-the-other fortitude.
But the idiots and the spineless are now in charge (just look at Rayner’s new bid for an effective ‘Muslim blasphemy law’) and I fear the country’s optimism supplies have pretty much run dry.