1 January - The downward spiral of Labour’s Britain

What an awful year 2025 has been for freedom lovers, entrepreneurs, businessmen and anyone who loves Britain. Does Rachel Reeves from Complaints never stop dreaming up new taxes and increasing old ones? Has she no idea how a thriving economy works? A simpler question would be does Keir Starmer ever stop lying? At least the answer to that is only too obvious.

When Labour came to power in July 2024 I decided to keep a record of all the stupid things the tool maker’s son’s government did. Having lived under every post WWII Labour Government I am only too aware of how bad they can be. The deluge of mistakes and miscalculations by Starmer and Co. would be otherwise too easily forgotten. My forecast that Starmer would last only 18 months may be a little wide of the mark but I was right about him handing control of Gibralter’s border to the Spanish and the loss of Diego Garcia. Traitorous behaviour is in this Labour Government’s DNA.

Some of his changes are small but far reaching. Funding to combat Female Genital Mutilation has gone. The rules on MOT tests have changed such that up to a month of validity may be lost. The recommended minimum width of of roads has been reduced, there is an extra tax on the manufacture of gas boilers, you can no longer buy hot chocolate in Wetherspoons, proposed VAT on health insurance and taxi fares, the unemployed will no longer have to look for work to get benefits and Councils allowed to sell allotments without consultation. And that is just in the last three months. Don't even look at your higher tax bills and rocketing prices.

Labour has to go. May 7th is not too far away if London elections are not cancelled along with the 63 County Councils.

Below is not a comprehensive list of attacks upon the country, it is merely those that I noticed in 2025.

2025. The year when incompetence, stupidity and corruption ruled

Council houses to be built for illegal immigrants. (31/12/2025-125)

Kier Starmer welcomes Alaa Abd el-Fattah to the UK, a man whose only link to Britain is an English mother who was passing through at the time of his birth. Alaa admits to wanting to kill all white people and Jews and wishes to burn down 10 Downing Street. By contrast, the wife of a Conservative Councillor was imprisoned for eleven months for saying she didn’t care if immigrant hotels burned to the ground. (27/12/2025-124)

Labour outlaws killing lobsters instantly by dropping them into boiling water but continues to encourage killing cows, sheep and pigs by slitting their throats and letting them bleed to death. (22/12/2025-123)

Labour outlaws dragging a smelly rag through the countryside as it may encourage fox hunting. Next: Labour outlaws going to the shops as it may encourage shoplifting. Pubs may encourage alcohol abuse. Where will they stop? (22/12/2025-122)

Starmer abandons the daily press lobby meetings. (19/12/2025-120)

Starmer takes a further step towards rejoining the EU by conceding control of Gibralter’s borders to Spain. (19/12/2025-119)

Government moves to restrict car parking on new housing developments. (19/12/2025-118)

Starmer abandons the daily press lobby meetings. (19/12/2025-117)

Labour Minister Bridget Phillipson refuses to mandate females safe places in defiance of the Supreme Court ruling that sex is defined at birth. (18/12/2025-116)

Starmer proposes cancelling elections in 63 local suthorities. (18/12/2025-115)

After imposing £70 billion of extra taxes, Kier Starmer thinks it is a good idea to give the Europan Union £8·75 billion to encourage more European students into Britain. And unemployment reaches another new high. (17/12/2025-114)

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy proposes rewarding recipients of benefit payments with free TV licences once again encouraging the workshy. (15/12/2025-113)

Labour Government cancels restrictions on building on back gardens. (15/12/2025-112)

USA withdraws from the three month old technology trade deal with the UK because the Starmer government cannot be trusted not to leak details to the Chinese. (14/12/2025-111)

Labour Government removes Green Belt protection. (13/12/2025-110)

Department of Education admits that the plan to fund 6,000 additional teachers from the spiteful VAT raid on private schools has failed. The number employed in state schools has gone down by more than 400 since Labour was elected. (10/12/2025-109)

The Labour Government has decided to defer until 2028 the Mayoral elections due next May in Essex, Hampshire, Sussex and Norfolk & Suffolk. They were likely to lose all of them. (4/12/2025-108)

Labour MPs, including the two despicable dregs of humanity who represent Bexley have voted to gradually kill off British farming, and maybe farmers too, by subjecting farm land and equipment to the full impact of inheritance tax. (3/12/2025-107)

Funding for the prevention of Female Genital Mutilation has been withdrawn. (1/12/2025-106)

Having promised a £300 a year average reduction to annual electriccity costs, the price will go up again next January. The 6th increase since Labour came to pewer. (28/11/2025-105)

The validity period of a vehicle MOT certificate has been reduced from a year from the expiry date to a year minus one day from when the test was last passed, thereby reducing the validity period by up to one month. Cheating is the way of life under a Labour Government. (27/11/2025-104)

Chancellor Rachel Reeves imposes 43 tax increases to fill a fictitious (according to the Office of Budget Responsibility) black hole including forcing pensioners to pay tax following a further three year freeze on tax thresholds. Also an on-line gambling tax, adding National Insurance to pension contributions, a tax on taxi fares, pay per mile on electric vehicles, earlier repayment of student loans, higher tax on savings interest and dividends, a tax on expensive houses, fuel tax increased from April 2027. (26/11/2025-103)

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announces that employers will be forced to pay an 8·5% increase in the minimum wage oblivious to the effect on inflation and additional unemployment. (25/11/2025-102)

Mastermind David Lammy the Justice Secretary has decided to abolish trial by jury. (25/11/2025-101)

Wes Streeting the Health Secretary has decide to impose extra taxes on milk shakes and latte coffee. (25/11/2025-100)

A Government Quango has recommended that the width of road carriageways is reduced from 12 feet to 10 feet 8 inches to prevent motorists overtaking cyclists thus further wrecking the country’s economy which apears to be the Govermment’s ambition. (17/11/2025-99)

The unemployed on benefits will no longer have to spend 35 hours a week looking for work. (14/11/2025-98)

Ed Miliband has increased the levy on gas boilers by £100. (31/10/2025-97)

The Labour Government has given up on protecting England’s 224 chalk streams. The Chalk Stream Recovery Pack. England has 85% of the world’s chalk streams. (20/10/2025-96)

Interfering Government bans Wetherspoons and similar companies offering drinks in refillable mugs from providing a free second serving. (14/10/2025-95)

Government admits to sabotaging the trial of two alleged spies to appease the Chinese government. (03/10/2025-94)

Labour speaks of putting VAT on Heath insurance and private medical treatment. (29/9/2025-93)

In a further move towards his ideal of a Communist state, Keir Starmer says he will introduce a digital ID card which might be used to control everyone’s lives. (26/9/2025-92)

Starmer recognises the terrorist run ‘state’ of Palestine in order to shore up the extremists in his party. (22/9/2025-91)

Rachel Reeves proposes a 20% VAT rate on taxi fares. (21/9/2025-90)

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will triple the OFSTED inspection fees for private schools. (20/9/2025-89)

After Rachel Reeves wrecked the economy and AstraZeneca consequently decided to pull out of investing in a new factory in Liverpool (31/1/2025) dear Rachel has convinced AstraZeneca that it would be in their best interests not to invest £200 million in a Cambridge Research Centre either. (12/9/2025-88)

The Government has cancelled the £35 million grant for ‘grass roots cricket’ introduced by cricket loving PM Rishi Sunak. (25/8/2025-87)

The Office for Value for Money set up by Chancellor Reeves in her October 2024 budget is to be closed down after wasting £1·6 million of taxpayers’ money. Its CEO was paid £950 a day for one day a week. (23/8/2025-86)

The plan to make Councils consult more widely when imposing Low Traffic Neighbourhoods has been abandoned and they will be given free rein to do as they please. (15/8/2025-85)

Rachel Reeves will impose Inheritance Tax on the pension pots of those who die aged under 55 who were never able to access the money. This is new and described as “abhorent” by pension experts. (11/8/2025-84)

Rachel Reeves bow requires you to provide your National Insurance Number to your bank so that she can steal your money more directly. (8/8/2025-83)

To help fill the £50 billion black hole created by Rachel Reeves, the Government will no longer give free Covid vaccinations to 65 to 74 year olds. (6/8/2025-82)

Angela Rayner has given Councils permission to sell allotments without seeking Government permission. (2/8/2025-81)

Government removes exemption from landfill tax for unusable building materials taken from quarries thereby pushing up house construction costs. (30/7/2025-80)

Government recogises a terrorist state that wishes to wipe its neighbour from the face of the earth. Is there no end to the corruption within Labour? (29/7/2025-79)

A law proposed by the Conservatives to protect children from pornography was introduced today, 25th July 2025, by the Labour regime and immediately used to censor news of the anti-immigration protests. (25/7/2025-78)

Starmer indulges in more election gerrymandering by authorising 16 year olds to vote in all elections. He is desperate; this measure was not in the King’s speech. (17/7/2025-77)

With the assistance of LibDem loons, the Lords approves the Labour Government’s plan to make contentious banter in pubs and other public places, a criminal offence. (14/7/2025-76)

The first past the post Mayoral electoral system has been abandoned in favour of a system which gives Labour a better chance of winning. (12/7/2025-75)

The so called ‘Hillsborough Law’ which compelled Government witnesses to tell the truth at enquiries has been dropped. (12/7/2025-74)

Starmer does some sort of deal with the French to allegedly control illegal immigration but no one knows exactly what, not even Starmer who will make a formal announcement later. It is alleged that it may involve sending one immigrant back to France in exchange for receiving 17 less disreputable people in return, but no one is sure until the EU decides whether or not it is acceptable. A bigger shambles is hard to imagine. (10/7/2025-73)

OFCOM has permitted alternate day second class mail delivery and none on Saturday. (9/7/2025-72)

Unelected Attorney General grabs power from elected Ministers. We have a dictatorship. (9/7/2025-71)

Electrification of Midland Mainline (London St. Pancras to Sheffield) abandoned just south of Leicester. 7,500 jobs lost. (8/7/2025-70)

Glass tax to put 4 pence on a bottle of beer. 7p on wine. (26/6/2025-69)

Angela Rayner announces plan to fiddle Council funding so that southern towns will pay higher Council Tax than northern ones. (20/6/2025-68)

Government spends £500,000 to update its logo from GOV.UK which is a valid web address to GOV·UK which is not a valid address. (25/6/2025-67)

After 45 minutes of debate the Government makes it legal to murder your full term foetus. (17/6/2025-66)

HS2 deferred for a further two years. (17/6/2025-65)

An enquiry will after all be held into the Pakistani rape gangs but Councils. Police, Civil Servants, Politicians will be given a free pass. An immunity! (16/6/2025-64)

Rachel Reeves is changing final salary pension scheme rules to allow employers to raid the funds and the Government to tax them. (9/6/2025-63)

The EU Reset (betrayal) is allowing bottom deredging of the British sea bed by EU trawlers even though the practice is banned in their own waters. (9/6/2025-62)

The plan to recruit 6,000 more teachers funded by the vindictive class-warfare raid on private education has been abandoned. (8/6/2025-61)

Rachel Reeves cuts funding for nurse training. (7/6/2025-60)

Councillors to be deprived of the ability to veto planning applcations for up to nine houses. Larger developments to be subject to new rules which will penalise developers and may even confiscate thir land. (27/5/2025-59)

Starmer hands the Chagos Islands to Mauritious which has never had any claim on them and pays them £30 billion to lease back the defence facilities. Even agrees to notify the Chinese linked Mauritian government if we use the airstrip. (22/5/2025-58)

Starmer hands health decisions including pandemic lock downs to the Chinese dominated World Health Organisation. (20/5/2025-57)

Brexit effectively abandoned. (19/5/2025-56)

Labour cancels compensation payments to child sex abuse victims. (6/5/2025-55)

Labour to sell school playing fields. (28/4/2025-54)

Labour gives £14,000 to an Irish rap group that believes all MP{s should be killed. (22/4/2025-53)

Labour Government confirms its sympathy for rapists of young girls by cancelling the last vestiges of an enquiry into the gangs’ activities. (8/4/2025-52)

Wes Streeting (Health Secretary) quietly announces the cancellation of 18 new hospitals. (1/4/2025-51)

Another attack on farmers. Government abolishes the Sustainable Farming Incentive which funded conservation work. (11/3/2025-50)

Angela Raynor will not pay the going rate to farmers for land seized for solar panels or housing. (10/3/2025-49)

White, heterosexual Christians are to be punished more severely by Courts than ethnic minority groups. Justice Minister says she can do nothing to stop it. Allegedly David Lammy’s idea. (5/3/2025-48)

Additional tax put on packaging, measured by weight. Glass will suffer most, followed by cardboard and plastic. How green is that? The price of bottle of wine may increase by 20 pence, a small bottle of Coke by six pence. (3/3/2025-47)

Rachel Reeves reduces Cash ISA tax free limit from £20,000 to £4,000 this in effect increasing income tax. (1/3/2025-46)

The Institute of Fiscal Studies says that Kier Starmer’s 0·2% increase in defence spending by 2027 is fiscal sleight of hand and will result in an increase of less than half of that size. (26/2/2025-45)

Ed Miliband has announced a 6·4% increase in energy prices, the third such increase since Labour came to power eight months ago. In Bexley before the election the Labour Group campaigned on an immediate reduction to average energy prices of £600 a year. (25/2/2025-43)

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has forced Apple into abandoning its highest level of data encryption from today. UK Apple users no longer have the security offered by Advanced Data Protection. The dictatorship known as UK Labour wants access to your private data. (21/2/2025-42)

A huge new gas field is discovered under Lincolnshire, enough to fuel the UK for at least ten years. Energy Minister Ed Miliband immediately bans its exploitation. (14/2/2025-41)

Another attack on farmers. Government abolishes the Sustainable Farming Incentive which funded conservation work. (11/3/2025-40)

Angela Raynor will not pay the going rate to farmers for land seized for solar panels or housing. (10/3/2025-39)

Rachel Reeves reduces Cash ISA tax free limit from £20,000 to £4,000 this in effect increasing income tax. (1/3/2025-36)

A huge new gas field is discovered under Lincolnshire, enough to fuel the UK for at least ten years. Energy Minister Ed Miliband immediately bans its exploitation. (14/2/2025-31)

Prime Minister appoints new Health Minister. A woman - allegedly - who believes a woman can have a penis and anyone who identifies as a llama should be respected as they really are llamas. (10/2/2025-30)

Ed Miliband brings forward the ban on landlords renting properties with less than perfect insulation standards from 2030 to 2028 thereby making even more people homeless. (6/2/2025-29)

Angela Raynor proposes blasphemy laws for Islam only. (5/2/2025-28)

Ed Miliband’s Net Zero policy forces the closure of Vauxhall’s van factory in Luton. 1,100 jobs lost. (5/2/2025-27)

County Council elections cancelled. (5/2/2025-26)

Illegal immigrants will no longer be age checked. More beards in school classrooms. (1/2/2025-25)

Government introduces its Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill which will give illegal immigrants the right to citizenship. (31/1/2025-24)

Rachel Reeves reduces grant to pharmaceuticals giant, AstraZeneca from £90 million to 40 so the company abandons Liverpool and moves to Ireland. (31/1/2025-23)

£17 million taken from the mathematics teaching budget. (29/1/2025-22)

Energy Ministry orders the UK’s two fracking sites to be sealed with environmentally damaging concrete thus ensuring that the lack of Energy Independence will continue to put the country at a competitive disadvantage. (28/1/2025-21)

Home Secretary commissions report on Hate Crime and recognises that its implementation would criminalise almost everyone. She rejects it but fails to sack the warped minds that produced it. (27/1/2025-20)

The Minister of Defence has authorised the renaming of HMS Agincourt to avoid giving offence to the French. (27/1/2025-19)

The only pesticide which works on Sugar Beet is banned thereby rendering yet another major British industry unviable. (24/1/2025-18)

Chancellor Reeves decides to impose Inheritance Tax on Military Service Personel’s Death in Service Grant while exempting US Servicemen from VAT on school fees. (23/1/2025-17)

Prime Minster orders change to planning rules to inhibit challenges to major projects. (22/1/2025-16)

Rachel from Complaints has cancelled the grant given to farmers to keep their land in an environentally friendly manner. The Environment Land Management Fund. (16/1/2025-15)

Angela Rayner confirms the loss of ‘Right to Buy’ from which she personally benefited. (16/1/2025-14)

The tax on gas boiler manufacturers is reintroduced. (15/1/2025-13)

In a further attack on the farming community, the price of shotgun licences is to be increased by 157%. (15/1/2025-12)

Starmer will repeal parts of the Northern Ireland Troubles Act 2023 to allow him to pay compensation to Irish Terrorists imprisoned for terrorism. (15/1/2025-11)

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announces that Councils that manage to imposes smaller Council Tax rises will be punished with smaller Government grants. (14/1/2025-10)

The traitorous PM Starmer gives away the strategically important Chagos Islands (see 7/9/2024) to Chinese lovers Mauritius and despite the [fictitious} £22 billion black hole, throws in £9 billion for good measure. (14/1/2025-9)

Five months after cancelling a £1 billion Supercomputer and withdrawing half a billion earmarked for Artificial Intelligence (2/8/2024 above) the Prime Minister announces that the future of the UK lies in AI. Where Starmer is concerned, any form of Intelligence would be welcome. (13/1/2025-8)

The Labour Government has refused to back the call for a public enquiry into the child rape gangs arguing that an earlier investigation was good enough. As the Jay enquiry looked into only a handful of instances of child abuse, not grooming and only between 2011 and 2014, while the number of affected towns later reached more than 50 that would appear to be a good way of letting 40+ mainly Labour controlled areas off the hook.
Every Labour whipped vote supported keeping the lid on the scandal which one might argue is a vote to protect their colleagues and close to condoning what they and the child abusers did. Both Bexley Labour MPs have given us reason to believe that they think gang rape is something best brushed under the carpet and effectively condoned.
Interestingly all the top tier Labour MPs apart from Jess Phillips abstained. When the brown stuff hits the fan they will be able to say “it wasn’t me guv”.
Everyone who has read the Court reports will know that rape is an understated way of describing the torture inflicted on the young girls. (9/1/2025-7)

The interest rate on Government bonds has risen to the highest rate in 27 years confirming that Chancellor Reeves has successfully wrecked the economy. Bring back Liz Truss. (8/1/2025-6)

Deputy Leader Angela Rayner announced in Parliament that she aims to abolish Voter ID because reducing voter fraud is not in the best interests of her party. (7/1/2025-5)

The promised growth has not materialised. Industrial output has fallen to the lowest in the past 12 months. (2/1/2025-4)

The foul mouthed Labour Secretary for Safeguarding Jess Phillips has blocked an official Government enquiry into the horrific activities of the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs. Elon Musk has said she should be thrown into prison. Elon Musk is far too generous. (2/1/2025-3)

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has abandoned the Listed Places of Worship Grant introduced by the Blair Government 20 plus years ago and maintained through the Conservative years. The LPWG exempted Churches, Synagogues, Mosques etc. from paying VAT on repairs. The Labour Government thereby continues its vendetta against the architectural heritage of the UK. (1/1/2025-2)

More expensive Sustainable Aviation Fuel imposed on airlines at first only a 2% mix but rising to 22% which is estimated to add close to £100 per passenger to a long haul flight. SAF is being made at Drax from wood pellets impoeted from North America. (1/1/2025-1)

This list is extracted from the database that creates the Starmageddon file accessible from the banner above.

News and Comment January 2026

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2025. The year when incompetence, stupidity and corruption ruled