Jane Fleming

It depresses me but I fear Britain will have to go through another disastrous social democratic experiment, perhaps under the guise of Burnham's mythic "Manchesterism". There'll be rent controls, supermarket price caps, even higher minimum wages, a borrowing splurge to fund value-destroying schemes. Private development will be shoved aside unless it meets the plan and the state will try to direct the savings of ordinary families to their programme. We might get a wealth tax, probably in the form of a supercharged council tax system, and there'll be an assortment of windfall taxes as inflation surges on the back of higher and higher public borrowing. The only growth, which the state will brag about of course, will be growth from billions in inflationary spending by the government. At the end of this something may snap and the voters might turn to a return to radical liberalism again. Either that or Lord Woodhouselee's fear - the collapse of democracy and the return of tyranny.

I’ll always champion peaceful protest. But the Unite the Kingdom march organisers are peddling hatred and division. We’ve already blocked visas for far-right agitators who want to come here to spew their extremist views. They don't speak for the decent, fair, respectful Britain I know.