The best indicator of an economy is how well the fairly well-off are coping. I'm talking about the people with enough spare income to be able to have a comfortable life.
Well, not any more. A sure-fire indicator that this year is when all the chickens come home to roost is the fact that the middle class and the upper-middle class are struggling.
As you may know, I work selling parts for sports cars. Cars that are generally not primary vehicles, but are sunny Sunday indulgences. Cars that are generally owned by the pretty well-off.
Well, sadly for the economy, we've had a number of calls since Christmas asking us if we would buy cars off customers. Sadly we don't deal in cars, just parts. But the number of calls is shocking.
And a pretty good indicator that even the well-off are feeling the pinch.
I don't know if it's a lack of disposable income, or the doubling of car insurance costs that is the factor. But it seems that the middle class cannot indulge themselves as much as they used to.
By that metric, I declare the economy Royally Fucked.
Good luck to anyone getting into power this year in the general election, because you'll need it to sort out the shit-show we have at the moment.
First cull on my list would be removing unnecessary legislation like "hate crimes" and offence laws. We're tying up untold Police resources looking for hurty words. We can't afford the indulgence and government is not your parent. If you can't stand being offended, then tough, grow up or grow a thick skin. If your parents failed to show you how life works, that's not government's problem.
Net zero needs to be abandoned. Why are we bankrupting millions of people to signal how virtuous we are to the world? Why are we spending billions to affect less than 0.1 percent of the worlds CO2 production?
There's a lot more that needs to be culled.
The Barton formula giving Scotland more tax revenue than people South of the border needs review. English and Welsh taxpayers should not be paying for the indulgences of the Scottish Parliament and their Marxist culture. We should not be funding an existential threat to democracy.
The same goes for any "Woke" or Marxist ideology. It should be defunded, so any charities receiving state funding should have it stopped if they espouse Marxist ideology.
We should not be funding immigrants inside the UK. If they want funding for community centres then they should fund it themselves from their own community. It's not Government's job.
The boat people should be returned directly back to France if they have no ID on them. Again, let's cut the crap and the cost and say that anyone presenting in the UK as a refugee without proof of identity (deliberate or otherwise) will be immediately returned back to whence they came. I'd also add that if the lawyers continue to thwart the government, then out only option would be to protect our borders with machine guns.
Kids? Women? I don't care. They will get a warning and then I'd be tasking the Navy to stand on the sea border.
I'd also be using the Navy to board any French vessel that aids and abets the trafficking of migrants across the channel. Captains will be prosecuted under UK people trafficking laws.
If we've created an absolute offense to prosecute truck drivers for landing in the UK for having migrants on their truck unknowingly, then the same applies to Captains on the sea doing the same or providing aid and shadowing dinghies rather than overtly stopping them from crossing.
Anyhow, off my high horse now.
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