David Craig, on July 22nd, 2025Tuesday blog
If you’re wondering why the ghastly Rachel Reeves is going to bludgeon us all with more tax rises in her autumn budget, here are a few possible reasons:
- £7 billion to pay for importing 25,000+ Afghans most of whom never did anything at all to help British forces during the pointless Afghanistan war. Moreover, housing these people will push up housing rental costs for ordinary Brits resulting in them having to pay billions more in rent due to a shortage of rental accommodation
- £15 billion paying for hotels, housing, healthcare, benefits, legal aid, mobile phones and much more to over 50,000 illegal migrants and to encourage tens of thousands more to come to Britain in order to make white British a minority in their own country
- £12 billion on Universal Credit to people who aren’t even British
- £150 million every year providing translation services to about one million people who want to live in Britain but can’t be bothered to learn to speak English
- £70 million to the new Jihadi regime in Syria so they can buy guns and bullets to slaughter the Christian and Druze minorities
- £70 million to one of the world’s richest countries, Singapore, to assist in that country’s transition to supposedly ‘green energy’. Incidentally, Singapore’s GDP per capita is around $84,734 compared to the UK’s at just $49,463
Hopefully you’ll have noticed that not a penny of the above £34+ billion is of any benefit to British citizens even though we will be made to pay for it.
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This is why Frank Chodorov called his book “Income Tax – Root of All Evilâ€. It will continue because everybody in this country depends on state benefits of some kind. They will never vote to reduced their own benefits and so all benefits will continue and increase, until the money finally runs out and nobody will have anything.
I reckon if we had a DOGE purge we’d liberate £trillions. Unfortunately they’d promptly find some other way of wasting those trillions – like giving it to the NHS to piss up the wall.
NGOs receive around £15 billion a year although exact numbers are opaque according to grok. That money, if the usaid debacle is anything to go by, ends up in far left hands who lobby for far left policies. The state then ignores all other voices and points at the far left shouting from their publicly funded platforms and agrees with every word they say. Climate and overseas development aid and grants probably triple this spending.
The waste is mind boggling in this one area alone yet 45 billion is less than 5% of government spending yet grok estimates for around 20 billion we could provide winter fuel allowances for uk oaps, reduce stamp duty to 1%, remove inheritance tax and provide adequate housing and care for military veterans.
The other 25 billion we could reduce corporation tax, reindex personal allowances to inflation and backdate before tories stole it and basically make uk competitive again. This is before we cut all the climate change spending which could reduce income tax by 50%.