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Unexpected? Surprise? No! Totally predictable

Thursday-Friday blog

Here are a few recent headlines from the mainstream media about UK inflation:

  • BBC: “UK inflation unexpectedly jumps to 3.6%”
  • Financial Times: “UK inflation unexpectedly rises to 18-month high of 3.6%”
  • Guardian: “UK inflation unexpectedly rises to 3.6%”
  • Independent: “Inflation in surprise rise to 3.6%”
  • London Evening Standard: Inflation in surprise rise to 3.6%
  • MoneyWeek: “UK inflation unexpectedly jumps to 3.6% in June”
  • Bloomberg: “UK inflation unexpectedly rose to its highest level since January 2024 “

Here are a few headlines about the UK’s falling GDP:

  • BBC: “Reeves disappointed after economy unexpectedly shrinks”
  • Sky News: “The UK economy unexpectedly shrank in May
  • Financial Times: “UK economy unexpectedly contracted 0.1% in May”
  • Scottish Financial News: “Surprise 0.1% fall in UK GDP”
  • Guardian: “May’s unexpected 0.1% decline in GDP will make depressing reading for Rachel Reeves”

In her October 2024 budget from hell, our useless excuse for a Chancellor hit businesses with tens of billions in extra costs – increase in the minimum wage, increase in National Insurance contributions, increases in business rates. Moreover, new horrors are coming such as Red Angie Rayner’s disastrous “Employment Rights” legislation. Though probably this should be called “Unemployment Rights” legislation as it will lead to a massive increase in unemployment. Plus, of course, we have crazed Ed Miliband’s highest energy prices in the world.

Given this assault on Britain’s businesses in order to fund massive pay increases for our useless, do-nothing, skive-from-home, parasitic, worse-than-useless, incompetent, failing public sector, is it any wonder that GDP is falling, inflation rising and that we’re heading from recession?

So why are we repeatedly told that the rise in inflation and fall in GDP are “unexpected”? They’re not “unexpected”. They’re totally predictable. I believe that so many of the media using the words “unexpected” and “unexpectedly” and “surprise” is a form of brainwashing. A version of the “Nudge Effect”. Our mainstream media no longer report the news. Instead they have become propagandists for Labour and so they try to portray our rising inflation and falling GDP as something surprising, something which has nothing to do with Chancellor Reeves’s economically-illiterate, growth-crushing policies.

Our politicians are incompetents and liars. Our media are deliberate liars. Our public-sector bureaucrats are incompetents and liars. And it’s us who have to pay for all this incompetence, manipulation and lies.

2 comments to Unexpected? Surprise? No! Totally predictable

  • A Thorpe

    Perhaps on day we will see “government unexpectedly gets something right”, but that is too much to expect.

  • Paul Chambers

    I read that Rachael from Accounts is running workshops over the Summer break to try and teach the labour arts grads who have never worked a day in their lives the realities of the uk financial situation.

    Hopefully Rachael will just be helping and they bring in somebody who understands it. But it really is astonishing that labour were so detached from reality in their taxpayer funded luxury beliefs they didn’t realise the one thing the useless tories did do was spray vast amounts of borrowed money all over the public sector and NGOs. In fact too much money combined with woke dei obsessed incompetent management. But Rachael from accounts didnt know any of that and ended up crying in the commons as the reality started to dawn of her. Absolutely astonishing who are these people and how can they be so ignorant.

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