A Makerfield stitch-up?

Tuesday blog

Two short subjects today.

I suspect Makerfiled is going be a stitch-up by a ‘progressive’ alliance

Much huffing and puffing by commentators, ‘experts’ (real or self-styled), psephologists, journalists and others of their ilk about whether the King of the North – Andrew ‘f***-the-bond-markets’ Burnham – can win the by-election in some dump most people have never heard of. I suspect we’re going to see in Makerfield what we’ll see in the next General Election – a ‘stop Farage’, ‘stop Reform’ coalition of the ludicrously-misnamed ‘progressives’ – the UK-hating, open-borders-loving, EU-adoring, tax-tax-tax, Net-Zero-obsessed, free-speech-crushing Labour/LibDem/Green/Islamo-fascist parties.

As for the useless Tories, they’re so arrogant and so anti-British that they’ll probably try to sabotage Reform’s chances in Makerfield by putting up a Tory candidate.

Meanwhile Britain continues (as I explain below using simple arithmetic) to sink into depression and recession.

Rachel Reeves is (IMHO) a liar

I saw the economically-illiterate Reeves being interviewed a day or two ago. The BBC’s in-house rag, The Guardian, tells us:

“Over the first three months of 2026, GDP rose 0.6%, up sharply from growth of 0.1% in the final three months of last year and making the UK the fastest growing economy in the G7. Reeves said the figures demonstrated the government was on the right track in its attempts to significantly grow the economy. “We shouldn’t put that at risk by plunging the country into chaos at a time when there is conflict in the world, but also at a time when our plan to grow the economy is starting to bear fruit,” she told the BBC”.

Let me bore you with a little simple arithmetic:

• In the financial year March 2025-2026, the British Labour government borrowed £132 billion
• In the same financial year, the UK Labour government paid £111.2 billion in interest on government borrowing
• This meant that around 84% of the money borrowed in 2025-2026 went on paying the interest on our national debt
• As the government borrowed £132 billion and used £111.2 billion to pay off interest on government debt, this left a rather modest £20.8 billion to be spent on stuff in the UK
• The UK’s GDP in 2025-2026 was about £3.03 trillion. That’s £3,030 billion
• So the extra £20.8 billion the government had left from its borrowing after paying off the £111.2 billion in interest was equivalent to about 0.67% of GDP.

I imagine you can all see where this is going. Reeves claims that GDP growth of 0.6% represents a healthy booming economy. This is nonsense. Just the little bit of borrowing the government had left (£20.8 billion) from its £132 billion borrowing after paying off interest of £111.2 billion was worth 0.67% of GDP. So, all the supposed ‘economic growth’ was actually just money the government borrowed and spaffed away on the public sector and benefits scroungers. There was no economic growth. In fact the economy has declined over the last few quarters. In fact, if it wasn’t for government borrowing it would be clear that we are in a recession caused by Downing Street.

I believe this makes the (IMHO) waste-of-skin Reeves either monumentally stupid or a monumental liar.

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