Will the Manchester Messiah ‘do a Seattle’ on Britain?

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Two-tier policing yet again and again and …

Hopefully readers all noticed how quickly we were told that the prime suspect in the alleged murder of politician Ann Widdicombe, was a “white British man”. This has been repeated in every report since the discovery of the alleged crime. How different this ‘openness’ is when the suspect of a crime is a multi-cultural enricher! When a multi-cultural enricher is the suspect either we’re given no details of the suspect’s colour/ethnicty or else we’re deliberately misdirected: the Southport slaughterer was supposedly “a Welsh choirboy”, the Belfast beheader was supposedly “a Belfast man” (actually he was Sudanese) and so on.

Britain’s two-tier policing yet again and again and again and …..

Will Burnham ‘do a Seattle’ on Britain?

Here’s a jolly story you definitely won’t see on the BBC, ITV, C4 News or any other UK mainstream media.

Seattle’s new mayor, Katie Wilson, took office on 1 January 2026 and was sworn in on 2 January 2026. Katie Wilson won by 0.7% over her nearest rival. Katie, like the New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, calls herself a ‘democratic socialist’. But as we should all know by now, socialists only use democracy to impose socialism. And once you’ve imposed socialism, there’s never any democracy.

Katie studied physics and philosophy at Britain’s Oxford University but dropped out about six weeks before her final exams. She then did several ‘important, high-level’ jobs such as working in boat repair, construction and as an office assistant.

Anyway, one of democratic socialist Katie Wilson’s key campaign pledges was to increase taxes on the rich. Here she is mocking the rich and saying to her appreciative woke socialist admirers at a talk she gave at some university that she doesn’t give a toss if the rich leave the city:

Although Katie’s new taxes on the rich haven’t yet been implemented, the rich have realised how welcome they are in Katie Wilson’s socialist paradise and many have upped sticks and left. There are reports of some high-profile figures and business leaders relocating—and an Association of Washington Business survey indicating 44% of state business leaders considered moving their personal residences. But official census or tax records do not provide a verified count of departed millionaires.

Moreover, several major corporations have moved thousands of their employees out of the reach of Katie Wilson’s new taxes. Starbucks moved over 1,000 jobs out of the city and some estimates suggest that around 30,000 jobs have been moved out of the city. Both residential and commercial real estate prices have begun falling as people and jobs leave the city. Tax revenues have already started falling and the city is facing a $175 million deficit in Katie Wilson’s first year in office and an estimated $488 million deficit over the next five years. City departments have been told to make 5% to 10% reductions in their spending plans.

I could go on detailing this great Seattle democratic socialist ‘success story’. But I guess you get the picture.

If you go to YouTube and search for: “Seattle’s mayor begs millionaires to return”, you’ll find plenty of videos showing Mayor Katie Wilson attempting to do a reverse ferret as it begins to dawn on her dim democratic-socialist brain that her great plan to ‘tax the rich’ is turning into a disaster.

Will the Manchester Messiah do a Katie Wilson?

It seems that Britain’s answer to Katie Wilson, the Manchester Messiah Andrew Burnham, is approaching the governmnet of Britain in the same way as the great Seattle mayor, Katie Wilson. He’s going to ‘tax the rich’ and ‘make those with the broadest shoulders’ pay a ‘fair share‘. The Messiah has a great advantage over Mayor Wilson – it’s much easier for people and corporations to leave Seattle for another city or state than it is for people and corporations to leave Britain.

But although this inertia will mean that the disaster in Britain will be slower than the Katie Wilson economic car crash, it will be similar. And as tax revenues fall and Britain gets even closer to bankruptcy, what will the Messiah do? Of course, he’ll tax and tax and tax more and more and more driving Britain further into an economic doom loop. Though I doubt the (IMHO) financially-illiterate democratic socialist Manchester Messiah can even spell the word ‘economic’ never mind understanding what it means.

So get in the beer and popcorn as Britain’s new prime minister ushers in Britain’s new disaster movie.