Here in the UK we’ve just recently had our annual Budget, where the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Britain’s finance minister, sets out the Government’s taxation and some spending policies for the coming fiscal year. It’s something that I’ve often taken an interest in because tax and spend policies often have massive influences on the British economy overall.

However this year’s Budget by the current Chancellor Jeremy Hunt aroused little interest in me. I knew what it would be like, because I know what this failing unconservative Conservative Party government is like and that is a dying mess.

What we got from this year’s Budget, an occasion that the Government could have used as an economic rebuilding point, are the same buckets of rancid economic slop that the Tories have nearly always served up on Budget day. There’s more taxation across a whole load of fields from vapes to the vital industries that keep the nation running and in some cases keep the lights on. There is also going to be yet more taxpayers’ money hosed in the direction of renewable energy companies, whose products are increasingly seen to be greatly flawed, because of both intermittency of power supply, which brings with it the need for gas-fired back up, and value for money.

About the only positive thing I can think about when it comes to this Budget and that is Britons have got a few more months to ‘enjoy’ a 5 pence a litre fuel duty freeze. Whoopie do! We can at least celebrate that our government has promised not to fiscally shaft us for a short time I suppose. It is a Budget from a dying, tired government. When I heard the details of the Budget, I didn’t enthuse or condemn, I just went ‘meh’.

I didn’t even stop to think as a mind exercise, how any other of Britain’s many previous Chancellors would have fared dealing with the current problems, I was so underwhelmed by it. What did come to mind however, was the image of a once majestic Mammoth being brought down by a gang of early humanoid hunters, who’d just discovered that a pointy stick was better at killing Mammoth than a piece of fruit. It is, I believe, a good simile for a once great Tory Party, that has now very much become a big part of what is wrong with British society today. This Mammoth of a political party, once a party that was both grounded and flexible enough to become one of the most successful political parties in British politics, is now less than a shadow of its former self.

The sad thing is that it is not some earth-shattering, unforeseen external political event or series of events that has diminished or indeed killed off the once Mammoth-like Tory party. Those within the party and who have been in positions of influence have done that to their own party. It was the Tories, when they finally escaped the clutches of the Lib Dems in 2015, who failed to undo the damage done to the British economy, to the constitution and society brought about by the administrations of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. The Tories didn’t reform the migration system in order to make it work for Britons and not just in the favour of migrants. The Tories didn’t step back from Labour’s anti-free speech policies, but built on them and made them worse. The Tories also stood by and did nothing as one of the worst paediatric medical scandals in British history unfolded, that of the promotion of the idea of the ‘transgendered child’ and the subsequent drugging and mutilation of troubled children. Worse than that, this government took seriously the rantings of the trans cults votaries, resulting in still more children being funnelled into the maws of what I call the Gender Mengeles. The Tories have not protected Britain’s borders nor its people or even its economy. It used to be the case that whatever else the Tories might have screwed up, at least they could be trusted on the economy, but after the debacles of the costs of Britain’s open borders, the toleration of intolerable waste in the public sector, the agreement with the eye-watering costs of Lockdowns and other examples of fiscal diarrhoea, you can’t say that now. It’s now the case that you would look at the current Tory party in Parliament and consider none of them competent to manage the finances of a sweet shop, let alone the nation. This motley collection of the politicians from this most unconservative of Conservative governments has not got to grips with Britain’s problems, even though they have had nearly ten years in order to do so. Under the Tories many of the problems, including some that may become existential in the future, have been ignored and left to fester or worse still fed by a government that did not have the self confidence to stand up to divisive identity politics. The Tories didn’t even have the necessary gumption to try to stop the haemorrhaging of resources, started by Labour, into the pockets of those who promote the utterly poisonous and divisive cult of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE). The Tories have basically supported those who hate us and hate our society and by doing so are pissing in our faces and telling us it’s raining.

The Tory Party is now looking very much like Python’s Proverbial Parrot. It is almost an ex-party, now full of and run by those who are fit for nothing other than spending the money of Britain’s working poor, money that is coerced from them by taxation, on wasteful boondoggles and virtue signalling.

Talking of virtue signalling boondoggles, the Chancellor’s announcement that £1 million is to be splurged on a war memorial to those Muslims who fought for Britain and her Empire in the Second World War has apparently gone down like a cup of cold sick on social media. This is clearly the wrong announcement being made at the wrong time by a government which has become incredibly divorced from the ordinary British person.

Whatever the government’s intention might have been in making this announcement and no matter how much it might have been seen as a good thing in the London political bubble, to everyone else it looks like appeasement of Islam. It especially looks that way because those Muslims and others who fought for Britain and the Empire in the world wars of the 20^th century are already commemorated by the Cenotaph in London and the Commonwealth Memorial Gates also in London which were dedicated in 2002 by her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. There is also a memorial to the fallen at Britain’s first mosque in Woking in Surrey, along with other crowdfunded plans put together by Muslims in order to build a memorial.

Whilst it is right and proper to recognise those from across the former Empire, and latterly the Commonwealth, who fought for Britain against the Kaiser, Hitler and the Empire of Japan, it’s difficult to shake the impression that the Government’s announcement of public money for a separatist Islamic memorial was in large part an appeal by the Government for Muslims to like them. Well I doubt that will work. Those Muslims who are already loyal and integrated into British society and who are respectful of it, don’t need such a memorial as they will be well aware that their people’s contribution to war efforts have already been recognised by way of the memorials mentioned above. The Islamic extremists will just laugh at this announcement and see it for what it is according to their own ideology, which is a symbol of weakness in government. Those who wish to kill you will not be turned away from such thoughts by chucking public money at a gaudy bauble.

All in all this was a Budget from a government that is not governing in the interests of the British people. It gave little to the ordinary person or to small business start ups and nothing at all to those energy intensive businesses that don’t just create goods for commerce, but are vital to our national security. This was a Budget that helped the various green grifters continue to live high on the hog and which further taxed the regular man in the street to pay for this largesse. It was a Budget of cowardice and virtue signalling, a proper epitaph for a cowardly dying government drowning in error and thinking that chucking public money at ‘the latest thing’ such as the Muslim memorial will make all our myriad problems better. It was a rubbish Budget from an increasingly rubbish government.