Former Tory Deputy Chair Jonathan Gullis has found a new role after losing his seat. His name is now listed on the notice board at Talk towers, where he’ll be hosting Kevin O’Sullivan’s show for the first time this Friday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. He’s a YouTuber now…
Gullis has been spinning for Tory leadership candidate Priti Patel since the race began. Guido wonders whether he’s eyeing up his options in case he’s made redundant from yet another role…
Pro-tax fanatics the Tax Justice Network got an inordinate amount of coverage today for their report claiming that a “global wealth tax” which copies that of Spain would raise £1.5 trillion. Spain’s applies to those who own assets over €3 million and can go as high as 3.5%. The tax was implemented in 2022 and raised a measly €632 million…
Along with fawning coverage from the usual suspects, the BBC had a representative from the campaign on this morning for a soft-touch explainer in which he was allowed to promote his agenda without substantial pushback. The report itself dismisses the obvious fact that people will leave if you implement a wealth tax as a “myth.” Helpfully ignoring that in 2022 Spain had net external migration of 727,000 – the highest in 10 years…
Naturally the Green Party jumped on the crank proposals to demand a replica in the UK. Wealthy Norwegians left the country after it imposed a wealth tax. The same goes for China. Sweden abandoned its wealth tax after it destroyed revenue. Spain’s combination of personal capital income taxes and wealth taxes is now resulting in marginal tax rates above 100% – which means that, by saving, the value of wealth shrinks. Literally crushing growth…
GB News bosses must think Nigel Farage is worth every penny of the reported million quid they pay him, his box office appeal enabled them to beat Talk TV into the ground and off the air – despite Piers Morgan’s braggodicous bravado. Nigel keeps the upstart channel competitive. Given no TV licence fee taxpayers’ money is being squandered, what’s the problem? Nigel is being paid a market rate for his talent.
Could it be that rival media personalities are despairingly comparing their pay? The bland auto-cuties on a mere quarter or a third of a million quid must be livid. We love to see it!
Vogue has now published its gushing meetup with the thirteen female Labour MPs it deems are “set to redefine what power means in modern Britain.” Hilariously 20% of them aren’t even Labour MPs any more…
Hard left MPs Apsana Begum and Zarah Sultana have already been kicked out of the party by Starmer for rebelling over child benefit. Vogue singles out now-independent Begum because she’s “Britain’s first hijab-wearing politician”…
Corbynite Bell Ribeiro-Addy’s primary contribution to the election was claiming Sunak’s “entire election campaign is going to be based on racism” – she spends the rest of her time heading up the APPG for “Afrikan Reparations.” Hard-left Corbyn fan girl MP Nadia Whittome mostly complains about NHS ‘privatisation’ in order to rehash arguments from 2019. If Vogue is to be believed the Socialist Campaign Group has its grip on the levers of power…
According to Labour sources a new SpAd is about to enter Downing Street – John Stevens, the current Mirror political editor, is leaving the Lobby to spin for the government. Stevens is going to work for Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Labour heavyweight Pat McFadden…
No stranger to a scoop, Stevens will have to fend off his Lobby colleagues from inside government. From memory the last Mirror political editor to make the jump to Downing Street was Bad Al Campbell, the jury is out on how well that went. Guido has approached Stevens for comment…
UPDATE: Move confirmed.
Alastair Campbell left the internet’s town square on tenterhooks last night as he revealed he was thinking of leaving Twitter because “Toytown Trumpy Fashboy” Elon Musk is running it. Displaying the level of analysis Alastair is known well for…
Like a lot of people, am thinking about leaving Xitter (copyright @LeightonAndrews ) given how truly awful it has become since Toytown Trumpy Fashboy @elonmusk took over. Staying for now on the grounds you should fight the far right wherever they are. But meanwhile have set up…
— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) August 14, 2024
Campbell was encouraged by former Change UK candidate Jessica Simor to join the alternative Bluesky platform. A great decision for Bad Al as his potential audience will be 1% the size of Twitter’s…
Other fans of Campbell said: “No one is forcing you to stay,” “No, just go, you won’t be missed by anyone,” and “Good riddance moron.” As usual Campbell says he’ll stay on the platform to “fight the far right wherever they are“. Dominic Cummings’ “SW1 NPCs” are best known for their insistence that they will leave Twitter without ever actually doing so. Despite Twitter apparently being like “Paris under Nazi occupation” the Musk-hating loons just can’t keep away…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”
