Office of Government Statistics (OGS) is a more accurate name than ONS

 The Office of National Statistics (ONS) should be renamed 'office of government statistics' (OGS). They report statistics as the government provides them and by parameters set by the government. This often does not reflect objective reality and can give a more favourable position than is really the case.

Take employment. According to the OGS, there's more or less full employment and a huge number of jobs!

If a person works an hour a week, possibly even less, they are classed as employed. Zero hours jobs where hours are scant are classed as jobs. This is how the government through the OGS claim full employment and millions of jobs.

Similar misleading statistics apply to inflation. The OGS claim inflation in October was 9.6%. This is simplistic and misleading. Inflation isn't even over the range of goods and services measured. The 9.6% is an arithmetical average and this doesn't reflect reality.

Inflation for staples like food is at around 20% whereas inflation for wine is negative.

The lower a person or family's income the more will be spent on products and services that are going up in price faster.

Conversely, the higher the income the less is spent on high inflation goods.

The vast majority of people in Britain today are low paid workers.

Low paid people like me and possibly you are the engines of the economy. We need cash in our pockets to spend on 'consumer goods' for the economy to grow.

There's a Tufton Street led #Tory experiment in 18th century free market economics, so there'll be nothing from them. And this is why ministers won't get involved in public sector disputes.

#Starmer the Labour leader has single handedly moved #Labour to be a Torylite mirror, so there's nothing from them.

To my mind, the question is, which economy will collapse first...

China or Britain?

Because they are both on the edge!

Sunak is the head boy, not the headmaster.

 Sunak is the head boy, not the headmaster.

In the current Conservative government, the headmaster's role is a job share between agencies based at 55 Tufton Street and the Insititute for Economic Affairs in particular.

'Starve the beast' the current government's economic policy isn't particularly secret but not many know the plan. The Labour leadership don't know it. Some Conservative MPs don't know and 'one nation Conservatives' keep their heads down and mouths shut. Just as MPs on the left of the Labour party are learning to do. Hardly any members of the Conservative party know. Influential journalists in the know touch on it but daren't say too much, as with Brexit. Gary Gibbons hinted at it when he interviewed Prime Minister, head boy, Sunak.

The foreign funded Tufton Street think tanks have been incubating this plan since the 1950s and multiple crises mean the time is right to strike. Part of the plan is to start the implementation under the cloak of a crisis. The opposition is so out of touch they don't even know it's happening. The opposition doesn't realise the choice of who wins the next election is the choice of the Conservatives, not the electors not you or me.

The Conservatives are experts at political marketing this is why they are the most successful political party in the world.

The Tory ministers who will implement the plan firmly believe in it. Like the plan itself, they've been incubated by Tufton Street and now they've hatched like economic triffids.

(Tories started as Irish bandits the Torries and have metamorphed into English economic saboteurs)

They'll be so convincing that Labour will follow the plan.

Tufton Street may have infiltrated the Labour party.

The damage will be immeasurable and it starts tomorrow.

The plan is called

'starving the beast'

The beast is the public sector and the Conservatives will starve it almost to death with savage deep, almost fatal, wounding public sector spending cuts.

If they can finish the job in two years they'll hand the mess to Labour to get the blame. But there'll be no way back.

Who can stop it? No one can. Prime Minister head boy Sunak might try because he doesn't agree with it (he's a decent enough Wykehamist). He may try and build a personal power base to slow it down or even stop it. But Tufton Street put him in the job and surrounded him with Tufton Street triffids. Powerful, behind the scenes forces, could rally behind the Prime Minister and drive Tufton Street out.

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Could the Truss leadership election be void?

We'll never know for certain but there could be a question about Mrs Truss' election to the leadership of the Conservative party and into the job of Prime Minister. 

Could some moves have taken place behind the scenes that Mrs Truss herself might not be aware of?

What if...

There's an influential faction in the Tory party linked to an equally influential (at this time) external think tank. That an MP who was 'incubated' (to use the words of a former leader) by the think tank became a leadership candidate.

What if this influential faction of Conservative MPs linked to an equally influential external think tank nudged just enough wavering MPs to vote for their candidate, even though their candidate was the worst in the race. Just enough votes to put the candidate in the final two who go to the membership for election.

The Conservative party is made up of mainly 

older, white men who live in the south of England

What if...

The influential faction of Tory MPs cynically knew that for reasons other than competence or ideology the membership would not vote for the other candidate over their chosen one.

If this did happen...

Could the election be declared void and the losing candidate, who just happens to be the better one, gets the job by default?

Starve the beast

Starve or starving the beast is an extremist right wing American economic plan to pull the government out of as much public sector involvement as possible. Its main advocate is Grover Norquist.

Starving the beast has three phases

1. Big tax cuts

2. A deliberate economic crisis

3. Under cover of the crisis swinging public sector cuts and deregulating the economy to take the state out of sectors normally publically funded.

Starve the beast.

The beast is the state, the aim is to starve the state of funding and force it out of areas of the economy.

It is an extremist right wing American plan to slash tax income thus forcing the government to make swinging spending cuts. 

In the UK version deregulation will parallel the spending cuts and the removal of the state from sectors of the economy.

Main targets

• Welfare is the main target
• Education
• Health
• Social security
• Local authorities
• Public sector organisations and corporations 

maximum privatisation minimum state.

Main protagonists in the UK

The Institute of Economic Affairs

Prime Minister Truss

Chancellor Dr Kwarteng

Mr Rees-Mogg

The European Research Group

Other right wing MPs Tory party donors and right wing think tanks.

Probable outcome of starving the beast.

The collapse of the British economy

Huge growth in poverty

Huge reduction in consumer spending

Recession even economic depression

Reduction in public spending and deregulation to such an extent that an incoming Labour government will be unable to rebuild the public sector.

The Labour party, Unions and others grouped together as the 'anti-growth coalition' will be blamed for the deliberately induced crisis and its disastrous consequences.

Opposition to starve the beast in the UK

The UK Conservative party is the most successful political party in the world. It detests Labour and unions. It believes it is at war with socialism. It believes deception to be an acceptable strategy in war.

Labour are not ahead in the polls. The Conservatives are behind in the polls. The Conservatives know they will lose the next election. 

They have two years to starve the beast beyond resuscitation.

There is no effective opposition to the Tories in the UK at this time

why there'll be a mass cancellation of energy direct debits

One thing's inevitable, people and businesses can only pay what they can afford for energy.

This is obvious and there are outgoings that take precedence over energy bills.

In due course, there'll be a mass cancellation of direct debits. 

It's not a question of 'don't pay' consumers and businesses will pay what they can afford.

This is inevitable. 

People and businesses can't pay what they can't afford. To use a cliche, 'can't get blood out of a stone'.

There will be an inevitable mass cancellation of direct debits. When will you be forced to cancel yours for example?

The quicker the mass cancellation of direct debits happens the better and if a growing tsunami of cancellations washes over Ms Truss next week she'll have to take meaningful action.

It's inevitable that cancellations will happen and if it's planned and controlled it becomes a 'market force' due to consumer action.

So, I'm campaigning for people to cancel direct debits now and notify the outfit that charges for energy in writing that payments are not being stopped but can only be what is affordable. 

Here's a link to a sample consumer letter https://bit.ly/canceldirectdebit

What no one seems to realise is that it's large sections of the energy sector that'll go bust and will have to be taken into public ownership for a while at least.

email to enough is enough about cancelling direct debits

Hi wesayenough.

One thing's inevitable, people and businesses can only pay what they can afford for energy.

This is obvious and there are outgoings that take precedence over energy bills.

In due course, there'll be a mass cancellation of direct debits. 

It's not a question of 'don't pay' consumers and businesses will pay what they can.

The quicker the mass cancellation of direct debits happens the better and if a growing tsunami of cancellations washes over Ms Truss next week she'll have to take meaningful action.

It's inevitable that cancellations will happen and if it's planned and controlled it becomes a 'market force' due to consumer action.

So, I'm campaigning for people to cancel direct debits and notify in writing that consumers are not stopping payments but are paying what they can afford. 

Here's a link to a sample letter https://bit.ly/canceldirectdebit

What no one seems to realise is that large sections of the energy sector that'll go bust and will have to be taken into public ownership for a while at least.

Regards

Graham Poulloin

cancel energy direct debit letter

 Your name

address

contact

date

reference number

Customer Support

Company that charges you for energy

They might not be a supplier

They might be part of the fake

energy market set up by Tories

Dear Energy Company

I have been forced by circumstances beyond my control to cancel my direct debit arrangement with you.

I will continue to make payments at the maximum amount that I can afford. 

This is not a protest it is a necessity.

If I were to pay what you demand I wouldn't be able to pay my rent/mortgage, council tax, buy food, go to work and look after my children. 

We could end up homeless, facing bailiffs from the council for non-payment of council tax, unemployed because we can't afford car insurance or tax and can't get to work. Feeding my children must take priority over energy bills.

I am sorry about this situation, it is not of my making and I must put these priority payments before you.

yours faithfully

your name