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This appeared in The Daily Mail; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14134949/MATT-RIDLEY-Labours-car-industry-wrecking-policy-Chinese-laughing.html   Unlucky Luton. The miserable news that Stellantis, the owner of Vauxhall, is considering laying off 1,100 workers from its van manufacturing plant is a hammer blow to the town. What makes it all the more painful is the knowledge that the damage is entirely avoidable and the […]

Only today the tax-grabbing barons are public sector fat cats.. and you’re the peasant funding their gold-plated pay rises Next week, the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, apparently plans to raise the rate of national insurance paid by employers. But the government itself is a large employer, through the NHS for example. It has now occurred to […]