Rough Shuffle 🔀

How have we lost to these people for so long?

Inflation isn’t some random phenomenon that just happens to a country. Political choices have made life so much more expensive for British families, and political choices can make life so much more affordable for British families. When the state grows too large, it spends beyond its means. That spending has to be funded. Through higher taxes, more borrowing, or printing money. Those are their options. All three drive inflation. All three make your food shop more expensive, your pint more expensive, your tank of fuel more expensive. High taxes make it more expensive to produce, hire, and invest - so businesses pass those costs on. Prices rise. Inflation soars. It’s a vicious cycle. And so many of those taxes are done through stealth. We all pay SO much tax but we have no idea because it’s hidden from us. That money is stolen from the people, and they don’t even know it. Frozen thresholds. Stealth taxes. State theft. I detest it. Of course, excessive and reckless state spending pumps more money into the system, so prices rise - the cycle continues. And when governments print money and inject it into the economy, what happens to the value of the existing money? What happens to your savings? Your wages? It all becomes worth less and less. This is not complicated - a bloated state makes a country more expensive. It makes Britain more expensive. It makes your life more expensive. So the reverse is also true. Cut the size of the state, and you reduce wasteful spending. Cut taxes, and you lower the cost of production. Restore proper discipline, and you stabilise the value of money. A Restore Britain Government would not manage inflation, we would tackle the root causes of it. We would not engage in unnecessary foreign wars that hike the price of oil, punishing British families at the pump and everywhere else. When fuel gets more expensive, everything follows. Britain needs cheap fuel, cheap energy. That means drilling, drilling and drilling some more. Domestic energy production is vital. Cheap energy makes everything more affordable. Everything. The drive for Net Zero must end - Restore Britain will halt that mad march to further bankruptcy . A country that lives within its means is a country people can actually afford to live in. And yes, that will mean many cuts, and many difficult decisions. But the hour is late, and nothing else will suffice. Any political party saying otherwise is lying to you. There are no easy fixes. That time is over. Restore Britain’s approach will be painful in the short term, but it will bring the cost of living down. It will make life more affordable for hardworking British families.