Robin Bird @adler
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For those who are interested in avoiding the economic disaster that is being inflicted upon us, there was a well crafted article in Last Saturday's Daily Mail by John Redman. It is in the form of a letter to Rachel Reeves in which he explains what is wrong and why(supported by fact) and giving sound advice (again supported by fact) indicating how it can be rectified. Well worth reading and I would post a link if I knew how, sorry. -
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First may I remind you that the UK emits an insignificant 0.8% of global CO2 emissions. So our incompetent PM and his idiot Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, AND would you believe it, 470 officials go to Azerbaijan in the hope of improving his CV by grandstanding on the world stage. What makes this so ridiculous is that they are proposing to waste £'s billions of our money in a bid to become world leaders to net zero, while all the other major players are going in the opposite direction. The COP29 is obviously a fiasco such that the leaders of the USA, China, India, France, Germany, Argentina together with the leader of the EUC Von Der Lyden, not even bothering to attend. So while Starmer was grandstanding he was lacking an audience of any standing to watch him. So what did it cost us? a PM, a Minister and 470 pen pushers on a nice little Jolly, not to mention the carbon footprint to get them all there. During the election Starmer claimed, now conveniently forgotten, that the billions that he would spend on renewables would reduce our energy bills by £300 per household, whereas the OBR say that it will add£12 billion to our fuel bills this year.and that ignores all future subsidies and the estimated £100 billion required to upgrade the infrastructure to cope with renewables. All this to achieve nothing in global terms. What shows the stupidity of their policy is that India and China together emit in 6 days what it takes the UK a year to achieve, and they are actively pursuing an expansion of their coal fired generating capacity. COP29 celebrates reaching a deal of 300 billion dollars of aid, big deal, they haven't coughed up half of that promised on the previous deal. A further irony of COP29 is that it is held in Azerbaijan where 90% of it's exports are fossil fuels. With these idiots in charge what chance does the planet have?. One thing is for sure and that is we can expect much higher energy bills and many more vulnerable and poorly off people shivering or even dying from hypothermia. -
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The uproar over the budget changes to NIC and recent reports have generated some more arithmetic. We have a rate rise from 13.8% to 15% and a threshold fall of £9,100 to£5,000, so if you Take an employee on the UK average wage of £39,452 the employers NIC is increased by £966 pa, and per head. In the case of our premier retailers this cost amounts, Asda £100 million, Sainsbury £140 million, M&S £120 million and Morrisons £70 million, and only the Lord knows what Tesco will be. Now it must be obvious ,to even the least commercially informed among us, that no business can absorb these sums out of profits, alone therefore it means either price increases or cuts in costs. Now in retailing one of the biggest cost is staff wages and that is also the easiest to reduce by redundancy or lower salaries. The other easy option is higher prices. Whichever option that you choose, who ends up paying the bill?, so much for governing for "working people". This is lying hypocrisy of the highest order. -
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A survey by the Independent Schools Council reveals that, at September, the number of pupils in independent schools has already fallen by 10,540 against September 2023 based on data obtained from 1,185 schools out of 2,600 schools based in the UK. Schools with the lowest fees and those with less than 300 pupils showing the biggest loss. Now since the average annual fee is £16,000 p.a. the total VAT that would have been raised on the lost fees is £33.728 million, ( 10,540 X £3,200). The ISC calculate that the cost to the Education Dept. to be £92.8 million Please, could any of the group’s left-wing supporters explain to me how, in an attempt to raise VAT of £33.728 million by incurring a cost of £92.8 million makes any sense. Bear in mind this is BEFORE the tax is applied. This is government in total disarray led by Starmer who was educated privately through a bursary. Talk about “I’m all right Jack, sod you. -
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Although it was 80 years ago I can remember is as if it were yesterday, despite being almost 13 years old at the time. I lived on the SE coast at the time and we awoke to the sound of aircraft engines and on looking out there were aircraft from horizon to horizon, formation upon formation, all heading out to the sea. It was clear that something very big was going on long before the announcement on the radio. What was amazing was that this stream of aeroplanes continued throughout the day until dusk, it seemed impossible that we could have so many aeroplanes. Being so young I was unaware of the full impact of what was going on and that while I wondered at what I was seeing, only a few miles away men were being killed in their thousands, it takes time to come to a full understanding. -
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Received an Email today purporting to come from PayPal advising that a new app had registered with my account and asking for me to confirm it to be genuine and change the password. If you follow the links and use a mobile phone you could be tempted to accept it, I use a landline security for which there is no entry on the security window so I know this was a scam. -
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Just got my new bill and saw that the GLA charge has gone up, yet again, by 8.99%. Checking back I found the following facts:- In the period 2011/12-2014/5 my Council Tax remained static while the GLA Charge reduced by 4.78%. During the period 2015/6-2024/5, under the stewardship of Sadik Khan, the Council Tax has increased by 25.1%, while the GLA Charge has risen by 59.8%, so which you can add the ULEZ costs. So who is screwing Londoners?. God help us when/if Starmer gets into NO 10.
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