UK on the rise
It might be best to whisper it, but the economy seems to be on the mend.
All doomsayingall those nasty negative ones UK forecasts merrily trumpeted by of labour opportunists as an ironclad fact come to naught.
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Yes, food bills are still eye-watering and the prospect of £2,000 a year in council tax bills is hard to swallow.
Meanwhile, inflation picked up again last month, meaning interest rates were due to rise again yesterday, bringing more bad news for borrowers. But there is every indication that both have now reached their peak.
The bank of England admits that it was once again wrong to be so gloomy and predict a recession.
It now expects the economy to grow in the first half of this year instead.
It is confident that inflation will fall “quickly” by the summer. It maintains that our robust banking system will easily weather the problems in the US and Switzerland.
Meanwhile, London has maintained its place as the No. 1 financial center in Europedespite all the jokes about losing business and flying high to Paris or Frankfurt.
The chancellor’s extension of the energy bill bailout should ease the strain on our pockets. The Windsor Framework finally works Brexit should also give investors more confidence.
We doubt the BBC and other Tory-hating media will give credits Rishi Sunak.
But his sober judgment is behind the dramatic turnaround since the Truss fiasco.
Clearing boats
THE Prime Minister of Albania is furious.
It is outrageous, he says, that his citizens are being criticized despite being easily the most dominant nationality here illegal on small boats last year.
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And despite the fact that many do to participate vicious Albanian drug gangs.
BBC Radio 4 (who else?) yesterday gave Prime Minister Edi Rama an undisputed platform to fillet the Tories and praise Tony Blair‘New Labour’, which he sees as the perfect government and the model for his own.
It’s a wonder we couldn’t hear the presenters cheering.
But in 2022 alone, up to two percent of Albania’s total adult male population came to Britain illegally.
Why, we wonder, are they risking their lives to leave Mr. Rama’s safe, socialist paradise?
Electric shock
IT IS alarming, though not surprising, to learn that a nationwide power outage would create chaos that we are woefully unprepared for.
Such disturbances were bad enough in the 1970s, let alone in our connected era.
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But there is also a lesson here for eco-warriors who still harbor their lazy delusion that only renewable energy sources such as wind and solar can power Britain.
Without gas, a new fleet of nuclear power plants, the predicted medieval hardships and shortages caused by blackouts will not be a scary fantasy.
They will be a normal reality.