Let’s take legal aid for asylum seekers from the foreign aid budget

Aid charities are complaining because more than £4bn of the foreign aid budget which totals approximately £11bn is being spent on dealing with migrants in the UK. International law allows the UK to spend foreign aid on the domestic costs of asylum seekers during their first year here. It covers their accommodation, subsistence, health, travel and education.

The more who come here the less there is available to help poor developing countries, famine victims and those suffering in war zones.

The more who remain here the less is available for everyone else.

Why is the legal aid that funds firms of campaigning lawyers working to keep people in the UK not taken from the foreign aid budget too? It is an essential part of the cost of their remaining here. If lawyers had to consider the fact that their legal aid funding was draining the body of the foreign aid budget their supporters might demand that they should be more discerning about the cases that they support.

Since international law limits the use of the foreign aid budget to one year perhaps those law firms whose clients stay beyond a year as they fight to keep them here but are eventually refused asylum should be held responsible for all of the costs the state has paid out on keeping their failed clients here.

Freeing up access to antibiotics from the medical professionals’ closed shop

When Therese Coffey admitted to sharing her antibiotics with friends and family and pushed to allow pharmacists to prescribe them without the advice of a doctor it was inevitable that the vested interests would move to state that it was irresponsible and even dangerous to do so.

The claim of the medical professionals is that people might not take the full course or antibiotics or take them when it was not necessary, risking the bugs mutating to become immune to the antibiotic in question.

The problem is that a growing number of experts believe that the advice to take the full course may be wrong and even lead to greater resistance because continued exposure to antibiotics is what drives the bugs to develop that resistance.

One might wonder whether the desire of the medical profession to prevent easy access to antibiotics has anything to do with protecting a closed shop or has contributed to the impossibility of obtaining a GP appointment as people queue to obtain everyday drugs that have become prescription only.

Perhaps the superior performance of health services in other European states has something to do with over the counter sales of antibiotics and other drugs thus freeing their medical professionals to deal with more serious issues.

It is difficult to see why British people should be considered less capable of understanding the symptoms they are experiencing or the instructions given on the packets than people in, say, Macau or some EU countries where antibiotics are freely available.

Hopefully the new Health Secretary will not shelve the plan to free up access to antibiotics.

The globalist backstabber Sunak has put personal power ahead of the good of the country and the future of the Conservative party

It is a very dark day for democracy and even darker for the Conservative party as the Globalist supporters of Rishi Backstabber Sunak have worked to Prevent Boris Johnson, the choice of Party members and the one man who could win the next election for the Tories, from standing in the leadership contest. The Labour party must be absolutely over the moon at the news.

Penny Mordaunt was decisively rejected along with Rishi Sunak when there was even a modicum of democratic input but that fact hasn’t deterred the Sunankites. Nor did it prevent Mordaunt from arrogantly refusing to support Boris Johnson.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with the budget and other policies presented by Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng but they had to go with the aid of the Bank of England playing politics and gaming the markets. The Liz Truss government was sacrificed to Sunak’s ambition. Along with democracy and the wishes of the country. The gloabilst backstabber Sunak has put personal power ahead of the good of the country and the future of the Conservative Party. Does anyone really believe that this man can put “trust” back into politics?

What will happen if Mordant wins? Another round of backstabbing and back room deals? Until only Sunak is left standing?

Those who voted Conservative for Johnson will be looking at their options at the net election. The real disaster will be if those options gain sufficient support to destroy our electoral system and install an undemocratic system of proportional representation designed to give them leverage in back room deals carving up power to the detriment of the voters.

But for now the choice for the Tories is stark. Backstabber Sunak or mortifying Mordaunt.

Who could Boris trust in a new cabinet?

Now that Liz Truss has resigned and Boris Johnson has expressed an interest in standing for Prime Minister again there is a question that he will need to answer.

Who on earth could he trust to be in his cabinet when most of the people who were there before stabbed him in the back and the same forces worked away to oust Liz Truss?

If only Boris would ditch the Greenery and Net Zero there wouldn’t be any question about him taking back the prime position.

Interesting times ahead.

The politics of envy always bites the hands that feed it

You have to laugh at the success of the anti-Conservative campaigners, strangely backed by many in the Tory party itself. They got rid of Boris Johnson, the one man who could have won the next election for the Tories despite his Green Eco religious affiliation. Now they have destroyed Kwasi Kwarteng’s budget which promised growth driving tax cuts only to replace them with Jeremy Hunt’s promise to cut costs and rise taxes – for everyone, not just the companies who create jobs and growth.

Enjoy your Socialist driven poverty because it is exactly what you asked for. Did you really think that the only tax cuts that would be cut were the top rate ones? The politics of envy always bites the mugs who fall for it.

Either the Tory party has to split and give the public a real choice or a new party will take over.

Their bigest problem is the left wing tendencies of the new intake. As Daniel Rivers said:

Daniel Rivers

The Tories thought that they had turned the red wall blue. They didn’t. What they did is change the name of the socialists who were elected to the red/blue wall and those newly elected MPs are now showing their true tax ’em high socialist instincts.

The tax cuts are the right thing to do but the problem is that once the Tories caved and got rid of Boris they have now taught everyone that all they have to do is throw a strop and they will get their way. Are we really going to be run by tantrum politics from now on?

Is smoking declining or are smokers turning to the black market?

Greedy governments and spiteful think tanks tell us that they have to keep on increasing tobacco taxes because it is good for our health to financially cripple us for daring to continue to smoke.

They also claim that smoking is declining in the population.

What they don’t realise is that by hiking taxes so much they have made it financially viable to smuggle cigarettes into the country and that many smokers are only paying £4.50 or less for a pack of 20 that would cost between £12.50 – £16.50 in the shops.

When a sniffer dog is praised for detecting 99 million cigarettes worth about £44 million in unpaid taxes it is clear that more people are smoking greater amounts than the hollier than thou “tax ’em till the pips sqeak” politicians and other controlling bodies are claiming.

Overtaxing and bans never work. They just create and drive criminality that is accepted among the general population and so undermines the rule of law. Even worse they disguise the real extent of any problem and encourage people to buy black market and possibbly unsafe products.