Starmer and everyone on the left have deployed another moral outrage wheeze by jumping on Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s opinion in an interview that Britain has been ‘colonised’ by migrants. The PM said his remarks were “offensive and wrong” and demanded an apology…
From November 2024 to December last year the economy shed 198,000 payrolled employees. Everyone correctly blames Reeves’ first Budget for increasing the cost of hiring through various measures, most notably the NI hike…
ONS figures show the number of employees on payroll fell by 43,000 in December from November – the largest monthly fall since November 2020. Meanwhile estimates supported by the government’s own statements project that Ratcliffe through his petrochemicals company INEOS is responsible for providing – directly and downstream – in the region of 30,000 jobs in the last 30 years. That’s a whopping figure…
Additionally in 2018 Ratcliffe paid £110.5 million in tax to the Exchequer. That means that in the space of 13 months Labour has managed to destroy more than six times as many jobs as one of the most successful UK conglomerates has created. Maybe Labour politicians should focus their outrage on trying to produce conditions in which non-peabrained people can start and grow companies…
Starmer said to Robert Peston this afternoon:
“I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.”