United Kingdom: Organised Crime Capital.

I watched (for a short while, it was pretty boring) a TV documentary about fly tipping. The documentary team had apparently found links to fly tippers all over the country, showing that it was actually an activity backed by organised crime. 

Which got me to thinking: how many organised crime rackets are there running in the UK at the moment, how many organised crime syndicates are there?

I mean, we have the barbers that have proved by the Police to be fronts for money laundering, drug dealing, people trafficking and other organised crime activities.  

The same for nail bars, run in part by the triads.

Fly tipping, barbers, nail bars, drugs, slum landlords, money laundering, people trafficking, online scams, just how come organised crime has been allowed to flourish like this?

And it's not like the secretive organised crime of the past: this is very much visible, in your face, in the high street.

Is the reason it hasn't been stamped out is the amount of money being generated? 

Without the dark economy, the illegal economy, that pays only a fraction of it's profits in tax, would there even be an economy to speak of at all? Is that why the Police keep away and rarely prosecute?  Do they only raid an prosecute if the gangsters don't pay their dues? Have they been given orders to turn a blind eye as long as some tax is being paid? Is the government that desperate for income they would allow crime on such a scale to happen, as long as they get their cut? Is government, both local and national that corrupt? The answer appears to be yes.

I thought about it for a moment and then realised that whether it's the dark economy or the global corporate economy, both work the same.

The dark economy makes millions illegally, but only declares a small fraction of their income by way of the fronts, the legal businesses they use to hide the illegal activities. They pay tax on a fraction of the actual money they make.

But then the legal global corporations make millions, but only pay tax on a fraction of what they earn, due to legal tax loopholes, or the power to tell HMRC what they will pay, rather than what they should pay.

Both are doing the same thing. Effectively throwing crumbs from their table to the exchequer. The difference is the illegal guys stay here and buy Range Rovers, big houses and effectively re-invest in the economy. The legal global corporate cunts don't, they take the money out of the UK, they bleed us dry.

But it very much appears that to get on in business, skirting the edge of legality may not be enough these days to be successful. You have to push the envelope over the edge. 

The UK is fast becoming the organised crime capital of Western Europe. 

Reform Win Runcorn.

Well, as predicted, Reform won the night last night, winning the majority of local councilors, the Runcorn Parliamentary seat and a Mayoralty.

A number of councils are now under Reform control. It's now up to Reform to prove that can govern successfully at a local level, so the public can begin to trust them at a national level. They. Must. Not. Fuck. It. Up.

Reform's internal political shenanigans of the past has to stop and they need to nurture the local party machine as it heads into power in several local councils. 

The closeness of the race to be MP for Runcorn, just six votes in it, gives Labour cold comfort. I believe that if it wasn't for the issue around the sacking of Rupert Lowe and the various revelations about his actual immigration policy in interviews by Farage, Reform would have done a lot better. But some potential Reform voters wavered. 

It's this sort of thing Reform need to stop. They need a clear and concise message with detail to back it up. If as Farage says, they are the true opposition to Labour, they need to put together a shadow cabinet and Farage needs to allow the party to organically agree policy and stick to it, rather than the on-the-hoof laise-faire attitude to policy Farage has. Telling people what they want to hear, or creating soundbites, is not a viable policy and Reform will be ripped to shreds in a General Election.

But a win is a win. Reform have put a shot across the bows of the legacy parties. They have sailed past the Tories and more than square with Labour, they are overhauling them.

Labour has to think long and hard about strategy going forward. Tony Blair (of all people) has opened the door for Labour to pull back on the Net Zero nonsense. Bankrupting the country on the altar of ideology is not the way to win hearts and minds. If we must attempt Net Zero, then we must as I've said before take everyone with us. 

Enough of the sticks, the higher taxes, the directives, we need carrots and we need them now. For Net Zero to succeed, it has to be affordable and viable.

As I've previously blogged, renewable energy has had 15 years of subsidies. You'd think that by now the technology would be mature enough to pay for itself and there would be no need to incentivise companies to invest. After all, renewable energy is free, it's just the set-up cost that is required. Surely if you are getting energy for free and you are charging for it, you can make a bloody profit? If the set-up cost is too high to make a profit from free energy over the lifetime of the generation equipment, then it's not a viable option, is it? Don't get me started on the need to back up every single MegaWatt of energy with reliable fossil-fueled alternatives.

Then there's the clusterfuck of a policy that are the imposed changes on the automotive sector. Directives from on high telling manufacturers how many electric vehicles they must sell, while they can't sell them because people don't want them. Make the fuckers attractive, invest in the charging technology, make them cheap enough, give them enough range and people will buy them. Don't force dealers into underhanded tactics to sell customers vehicles that don't meet even the manufacturers expectations. That's just a dick move.

Anyway, hopefully there are consultants busy in meetings this afternoon as council after council fall to Reform, looking at what the people want and finding a way for the Labour party to deliver it. 

I'll be looking for more direct action against the illegal immigrants. I'll be looking for Border Force to be picking them up mid-channel and taking them right back to France. I'll be looking to the Government to make aiding and abetting people traffickers a criminal offense. I'll be looking to the Navy to then enforce that law by Arresting and impounding the French Navy boats that regularly assist the dinghies, rather than pick them up and take them back to France.

I'll be looking to the Government stopping the ridiculous policy of housing illegals and instead just sending them back to a country of their choice immediately if they turn up without documents to prove their identity. 

I'll be looking to the government to extract itself from any international agreement or body that hamstrings their sovereign right to control the borders of the UK. 

I'll be looking to the Labour Party to at the very least consign the current cabinet and it's ludicrous ideology to history, including Kier Starmer.

Minimum Rents in UK Set to Rise to £5000 Per Month.

 I, like most people in rental properties are bracing ourselves for a massive increase in rents this year.

The Labour government have come up with a cunning plan to reduce the number of immigrants in 4-star hotels and remove the poor optics of immigrants with taxpayer-funded mobile phones being handed taxpayer-funded benefits whilst living in high-end hotels funded by the taxpayer.

Instead, what they are going to do is pay landlords £5000 a month to house the immigrants in rental properties. 

Given that rental prices where I live and most of the places on the list of towns where this is being implemented is around the £1000 a month, you know what is going to happen.

Landlords are going to prefer the guaranteed five grand a month to someone who struggles to pay 1K. 

Instantly, overnight,  all across the country, the median rate for a flat will be £5k a month. 

So if you are on a low wage like most of the country, government policy took away your ability to pay for a mortgage and own a house, so you went into rental property where you could just afford to stay. 

Now government policy is about to take the possibility of renting away from you.

Not only that, but local councils have limits on the price they will pay in rent allowance. So if you are on benefits and suddenly your rent increases to reflect the new status quo of 5K a month, your benefits won't cover it. What will the landlord do if your rent allowance won't keep up with the new median? Yes, you'll be evicted.

So those on low wages and the unemployed become homeless and the immigrants become homed. 

Now tell me if that's not designed to cause tension between the immigrants and those displaced from their homes. 

Not only that, as the low wage employed lose their homes, they will more than likely become unemployed. Which means the burden of this 5K a month payment falls on fewer and fewer people. So taxes go up to pay for it. 

There can only be one conclusion: the government WANT there to be a conflict. They want a civil war and for there to be a war between the indigenous and the immigrant.

I can't see there being any other answer. Government policy is being designed deliberately to take ever more from the people already here and giving it to the people who have newly arrived. The end result can only be conflict. 

But here's the kicker: what sort of wage do you need to earn to get £5000 a month? That's just to pay the rent, no food, no heating, nothing else, but earn £5000 a month in order to pay the rent.

Guess. What sort of salary would you need to service that demand?

Ready?

Somewhere in the region of £90,000 p.a. 

Actually it may be more, because tax rates are higher, so more of your salary is removed to pay for the immigrants. It may actually exceed £100K to be able to guarantee to be able to pay the new 5K a year rate.

That means that property rental will be removed from huge swathes of the population. How many people do you know that earn that sort of money? 

This is going to be an interesting 12 months as the new normal begins to kick in.

Oh, I forgot to mention that the main corporate owner of multiple rental properties in the UK also has a stake in the company managing the payments to landlords. It's so fucking corrupt it's literally unbelievable. You wouldn't believe it if it wasn't an actual, verifiable fact.

Also, if you are homeless, you lose the ability to vote. So the government are displacing people into homelessness to replace them with people who are more guaranteed to vote Labour. Just yet another level of corruption eh?