The high priestess of economic illiteracy?

Monday bog

I’d like to spend just one more day focusing on the new mayor of the US’s reportedly wokest city – Seattle. Why? Because I believe this ‘economic genius’ is not just a problem for the benighted citizens of Seattle who voted for her, but because I have the feeling that she is a doppelgänger for almost all our Labour MPs.

If the citizens of Seattle and Britain want to vote for politicians who will crush anybody who works for a living with punitive levels of taxation in order to squander billions on their main voter base – the idle, the useless, the feckless, the unemployable, the can’t-be-bothered, the parasitic – that’s the voters’ choice and they must live with the consequences. But what is worrying is that politicians like this fine lady seem to have no idea that her city will need people with money to pay the billions in taxes she will need to fund her planned squandering:

Driven by their class envy, people like her loathe anybody who has made a success of their life. In fact, she is so filled with ideological hatred for those who achieve something, that she doesn’t even want them in her city. And she doesn’t seem to realise that her favourite social groups – the idle, the useless, the feckless, the unemployable, the can’t-be-bothered, the parasitic – tend not to pay much in tax. So, if she drives out the wealthier, where is she going to get the money she intends to flush down the drain?

We see the same attitude with Labour MPs. Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden seemed to sum up their attitude when he wrote to Peter Mandelson in apparent frustration about his meetings with backbench Labour MPs, writing: “Every meeting I have [with Labour MPs] is: ‘Who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?“

We saw the same class envy with Starmer’s and Reeves’s assault on private education. As many predicted, this led to (if I remember correctly) about 35,000 children being withdrawn from private schools and pushed back into state education thus putting more pressure on education budgets. As for the thousands of new teachers this class-envy tax was supposed to fund, well Labour seem to have gone pretty quiet about how ‘successful’ that was.

As we await the coronation of King of the North – Andrew ‘bugger-the-bond-markets’ Burnham – there’s one thing we can be sure of – there will be a massive class-envy-driven tax-raising attack on anyone not already dependent on handouts from our increasingly socialist/communist government. Figures of anywhere between £39 billion and £125 billion are being floated to prepare us for the coming shock.

For Labour’s main voting base – the the idle, the useless, the feckless, the unemployable, the can’t-be-bothered and the parasitic – the future looks bright. For the rest of us, ever-rising taxes, increasing impoverishment and national bankruptcy beckon.