BY THE EDITOR
The nature of this Labour government is not to protect, but to plunder; not to govern, but to confiscate. For what is this Starmer-led regime, if not a band of licensed cut-purses, operating under the colour of law, whose depredations are so constant and so institutionalised that men mistake them for governance?
Where sovereigns of old took by force and called it tribute, these modern thieves take by statute and call it fairness. Their exchequer is just an elaborate snare, their tax codes a labyrinth designed not to collect what is owed, but to extract what is not and in advance.
The inflation they stoke shall be a silent burglar in every household; the regulations they multiply are chains upon enterprise; the debts they accrue are knives held at the throats of generations of Britons yet unborn.
And what do they give in return?
Not security, but surveillance. Not prosperity, but pious exhortations to endure less. They strip a man of his earnings, then sell him back his own coin as ‘benefits’ – taking first the pound, then offering back pennies, and expecting gratitude for their largesse.
No wonder wise money now mounts offshore, well away from their socialist mitts. No wonder wise investors – with a trillion plus dollars – queue to invest in Trump’s America while none queue for Reeves’ tax-grabbing UK.
Their great artifice is this: to make theft appear like policy, and plunder like compassion.
When they take from one man’s pocket to put in another’s, they declare it justice; when they forbid a man to keep the fruits of his labour, they call it equity. Thus the state grows fat while the citizen grows lean, all beneath the solemn incantations of the public good.
This is no equal robbery. As the fox takes the hen while the farmer sleeps, so too do these new rulers exempt themselves from their own depredations. Their pensions remain gilt-edged, their expenses generous, their sinecures secure – they lecture the common man on sacrifice while freely frequenting pop concerts and tailors’ shops.
The lesson is plain: when rulers cease to be servants and become beneficiaries, the nation’s wealth is merely a carcass to be carved. And this Labour government, for all its honeyed words, has shown itself most ravenous of all.
In this, at least, they are consistent: they take as kings but govern as thieves.
Out with them, fast.