The UK’s Fate Is Sealed & The Budget Proves It

The UK’s economy has been rotting for nearly two decades. Since 2007, GDP per person has grown a pathetic 7%. Productivity? An even worse 4%. And median household income has lagged so badly that the UK now ranks dead last in the G7. This stagnation is everywhere, in wages, in opportunity, in living standards.

And nowhere is it clearer than housing. What used to be a tough-but-manageable challenge 20 years ago has become mathematically impossible. In London, the average home costs 14 times the average income, and renters are handing over 41% of their paycheques just for rent, more than 60% once utilities and council tax are added. Home ownership is basically a fantasy for the average Brit.

Meanwhile, while we get poorer, the government takes more. The tax burden is now the highest outside the world wars, with electricity prices among the highest on Earth thanks to ideological net-zero policies that ignore the economic destruction they cause.

Given all this, you’d expect people to flee, and they are. Young people are leaving in droves, wealthier Brits too: 16,500 millionaires have already left this year, taking $91 billion with them. The only country losing more is China, and they have a population 20 times larger.

Labour’s Growth Lie

Starmer and Reeves repeatedly insist that “growth is the number one priority.” They’ve said it before the election, after the election, and right up to the release of the latest budget. But the Office for Budget Responsibility just downgraded growth forecasts for four of the next five years, and now we’re projected to be £40 billion poorer each year than before Labour took office. Worse still, the OBR openly admits that nothing in the budget is expected to increase growth.

Instead of fixing the economy, Labour actively sabotages it. Our tax system is so dysfunctional that some single parents and high-income earners face marginal tax rates up to 90 to 100%. Hundreds of thousands of people literally refuse promotions because earning more leaves them with less income. It’s an economic nightmare built by incompetence.

And what did Labour choose to focus on instead? Benefits and specifically, benefits that overwhelmingly favour immigrant families over British ones. Fewer than 15% of British families have more than two children, but 45%+ of families from certain immigrant groups do. So while British taxpayers foot the bill, they receive almost none of the benefit.

Why Are Labour Doing This?

First, they are desperately trying to stop a revolt inside their own party. Two coup attempts have already erupted, Labour is haemorrhaging local seats to Reform, and next year’s elections could be catastrophic. So this budget is essentially a bribe to Labour’s core voters handouts targeted at the groups most likely to vote for them.

Second, Labour is trying to gaslight the bond markets. By manipulating budget timing and leaning heavily on fantasy OBR forecasts (which have been consistently wrong for 15 years) they pretend national debt will magically fall by 2030. Reeves knows these projections are bogus. But for now, the illusion keeps borrowing costs under control and buys the government a little more time.

How Can We Protect Ourselves?

Taxes are going to continue to rise. Services are going to continue to get worse. £40 Billion last year, £26 Billion this year. Who knows how much we’ll see in tax hikes next year?

To be perfectly honest, protecting yourself from an overbearing government isn’t optional anymore, it is essential.

I’ve spent the previous 5 years running my business and learning how to protect myself, my assets and my family from exactly this problem.

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Tomorrow, prices will double and they will not come back down.

Stay stoic

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