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Plans to cut cash Isa tax-free allowance on hold.

There will be no immediate changes to cash Individual Savings Accounts (Isas), the BBC understands.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves was widely expected to announce plans to reduce the £20,000 tax-free allowance.

The Treasury is expected to continue to talk to banks, building societies and investment firms about options for reform.

A year into Labour's rule and their policies are damaging this Country beyond belief. These MP's are so out of their depth as were the previous Conservative MP's.

if there is one statistic that should ring alarm bells in government it is this: that the number of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in the UK has fallen to the lowest level since records began 18 years ago.

There were 1,375 FDI projects secured by the UK to the end of March, down 12 per cent from the previous year and the lowest since the data began to be compiled in 2007-08.

What is the government doing? Only increasing employers’ national insurance contributions and adding to the regulatory burden, and therefore the cost, with its new workers’ charter. Not much sign of “further and faster” there.

Coupled with the outflow of wealthy foreigners, their wealth, their business acumen and being replaced with scrounging immigrants, Labour are demonstrating exactly why the Country needs reforming.

This Country is sinking, and has sunk so low, that the traitorous government had to amend the Criminal Damage Act 1971 with respect to ‘Desecration of a war memorial’ and introduced a Bill to create the offence of desecrating a war memorial.

Where the term “desecrates” now includes an act of “urinating or defecating” on a war memorial.

1 Amendments to the Criminal Damage Act 1971

1A Desecration of a war memorial

Interpretation:

“desecrates” includes an act of disrespect including graffitiing, burning, spitting, urinating or defecating

Remember that when you see trench footage from the First and Second World Wars, of real British men and , if you include the 14 and 15 year old kids willing to lie about their age to defend this once great Country.

All those lives lost, for what?

What determines whether proscription is proportionate?

• the specific threat that it poses to the UK

• the extent of the organisation’s presence in the UK

The extent of the organisation’s presence with direct links to the UK.

Proscribed terrorist groups based or emerged in the UK:

Al Ghurabaa Islam4UK emerged in the UK

Al Muhajiroun emerged in the UK

Ansar al-Sharia based in the UK

Call to Submission based and operated within the UK

Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain emerged in the UK

Islam4UK emerged in the UK

Islamic Dawah Association emerged in the UK

Islamic Path emerged in the UK

London School of Sharia emerged in the UK

Minbar Ansar Deen based in the UK

Muslims Against Crusades based and operated within the UK

Need4Khilafah emerged in the UK emerged in the UK

Saved Sect based and operated within the UK

Shariah Project emerged in the UK

The top foreign nationals involved in UK terror-related offences from 2002 to 2021 were people from Algeria, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Somalia, India, and Sri Lanka. All these countries are among the top 20 nationalities engaged in illegal crossings of the English Channel.

Her Majesty’s Jihadists, it should never be forgotten that more British Muslim men joined ISIS and the Nusra Front, as these terror groups emerged, than were serving in the British armed forces.

Undocumented illegal immigrants should be seen as a huge security risk but the Labour government has an ‘open-door’ policy.

Unauthorized Immigration and Terrorism - while most immigrants are not terrorists, the majority of terrorists are immigrants.

Under our current immigration rules, almost all migrants on work or family visas will be eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain (ILR) after just five years in the UK, After ten years here, almost all migrants are eligible to apply for ILR – an eligibility period which includes time spent on a student or graduate visa. Once they have ILR, migrants can access Universal Credit, social housing, state pension, etc., and other benefits. It also puts them on the path to citizenship, and entitles them to surcharge-free access to the NHS. (As it stands, the NHS hardly asks tough questions about entitlement).

The number of people receiving ILR is already ticking up, as the long-term impact of Britain’s migration failure filters through the system. In 2024, 147,053 people were granted ILR, up 31 percent on the 2023 figure.

But a much bigger threat now looms, which could permanently damage our economy, our public services, and our society as a whole. Those who came to Britain in the migration explosion of the last few years – dubbed the “Boriswave” by some commentators – will soon become eligible for ILR. Those who arrived in 2021’s record-breaking migration wave will start to become eligible from 2026, with the number of eligible migrants growing with each passing day.

This will, in effect, bake in the ‘Boriswave’, making it much harder to reverse the damage of our immigration failure over the past few years. These newly-minted ILR recipients will be able to access our already-stretched public services, and will begin to receive taxpayer-funded welfare. With just five per cent of migrants from the 2022-23 cohort expected to be high earners, the vast majority of these new ILR holders will not be net lifetime contributors. In other words, we will be adding enormous strain to our public services, and paying for the privilege.

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This is already feeding down into the school system: Academic year 2024/25

https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics/2024-25

Schools, pupils and their characteristics:

38.4% of pupils in primary schools are from a minority ethnic background

37.8% of pupils in secondary schools are from a minority ethnic background

Of note - These figures do not include those where ethnicity is unclassified.

21.4% of pupils were recorded as having a first language known or believed to be other than English.

Only an idiot would ignore these facts, unfortunately your government is full of them. One prime example, Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, on Question Time:

'the majority of the people in these boats are children, babies and women'.

Home Office figures show 73% per cent of small boat arrivals in 2024 - or 26,999 out of all 36,816 arrivals - were adult males.

Retail sales fall in May

U.K. retail sales fell sharply by 2.7% in May, reversing the strong 1.3% growth seen in April, according to data from the Office for National Statistics released Friday.

The decline was driven largely by weaker spending at food stores, coming in below economists’ expectations.

Govt. borrowing exceeds forecasts in May

Britain’s public sector borrowing totaled £17.69 billion ($23.84 billion) in May, coming in higher than economists’ forecast of £17.1 billion, official figures showed Friday.

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Foreign nationals twice as likely as Britons to commit sex crimes against women

Foreign nationals were behind more than a quarter of sex crimes against women in Britain last year, official figures have revealed.

Some 26 per cent of the 1,453 sex assault convictions against women in 2024 were committed by people from overseas, according to a new analysis of Ministry of Justice data.

The figures, drawn from the Police National Computer, revealed an additional eight per cent of convictions involved offenders of "unknown" nationality, suggesting the true proportion could be even higher.

Despite making up just 10.9 per cent of the British populace, foreign nationals were more than twice as likely as the general population to be convicted of sex crimes.

Traitorous politicians, Conservatives and now Labour, facilitating in the rape and serious sexual assault on British women and children. We can't even deport some of these rapists because our politicians are more concerned with the human rights of those rapists, than the human rights of the victims.

The UK has sunk so low that even those Foreign Nationals Sex Crimes Data statistics do not come as a shock to anyone.

Wait...Starmer has a plan...

Keir Starmer has pledged to break up people-smuggling gangs in the same manner used to apprehend and jail hundreds of rioters last summer.

After a meeting with law enforcement agencies and cabinet ministers to discuss plans to stop small boats crossing the Channel, the prime minister said that the “high-level summit” mirrored the approach taken after disturbances fuelled by far-right activists.

We saw three year sentences for white folk posting online, so what should we expect for two Afghan nationals that were facilitating illegal immigration to the UK?

Not only that, but under their control a woman and child died.

Locked up and throw away the key, you'd think, especially as the Nationality and Borders Act increased the statutory maximum penalty for the Facilitation offences (section 25 and 25A) raising it from 14 years to life imprisonment.

So let's see if the sentences for people smuggling really 'mirrored the approach taken after disturbances fuelled by far-right activists.'

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/pair-jailed-following-fatal-channel-small-boat-crossing

Two men have been jailed for piloting a boat across the Channel to the UK from France...They were later charged with facilitating illegal immigration to the UK.

They were sentenced to eight months in prison.

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Department for Education figures follow predictions that white Britons will be a minority in the next 40 years.

White British pupils are now the minority in one in four schools in England.

In 72 schools, no white British pupils are recorded.

In 454 schools, they make up less than 2 per cent of the student body.

At Rockwood Academy, in Birmingham, for instance, none of the 1,084 students were recorded in the census as “white British”

Just 12 of the 2,779 pupils at Loxford School, in the London borough of Redbridge, were white British.

Let that sink in...

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The government is struggling to cut the amount of foreign aid it spends on hotel bills for asylum seekers in the UK.

New figures released quietly by ministers in recent days show the Home Office plans to spend £2.2bn of overseas development assistance (ODA) this financial year - that is only marginally less than the £2.3bn it spent in 2024/25.

The money is largely used to cover the accommodation costs of thousands of asylum seekers who have recently arrived in the UK. There are about 32,000 asylum seekers in hotels in the UK.

The Home Office is working with the Greater Manchester combined authority on plans to increase the amount of dispersal accommodation available for asylum seekers, with the hope it would reduce the use of hotels.

The supply of dispersal accommodation - which is longer-term, temporary housing - has not kept pace with record levels of asylum applications.

Labour promised in its manifesto to "end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds".

Contracts signed by the Conservative government in 2019 were expected to see £4.5bn of public cash paid to three companies to accommodate asylum seekers over a 10-year period.

Trust in political parties on immigration: Reform UK enjoys the highest level of trust when it comes to having the right immigration policies (37%), handling migrant crossings of the English Channel (39%), and making illegal entry more difficult (42%). Around 1 in 4 trust Labour and the Liberal Democrats on these issues, while the Conservatives rank last on all three measures. Trust in both the main political parties – Labour and the Conservatives – has declined steadily since 2023.

Two-thirds (67%) of British adults believe the total number of people entering the UK is too high. Just 5% think it is too low, while 18% say it is about right...

Never, in the history of British politics, have the working people in Britain felt so betrayed, demoralised and ignored. The state of this once great nation is a disgrace and we can't even defend our borders from the illegal immigrants looking to live off the taxes of our hard working citizens.

Reform UK is correct when they state you are worse off, both financially and culturally. We are ruled by an out of touch political class who have turned their backs on our country and its very own citizens.

Only Reform will stand up for British culture, identity and values.

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A 'Lee Rigby-style' threat to kill a British paratrooper has been uncovered by police.

Security has been tightened at bases in Colchester where two Parachute Regiment battalions are located and Army families have been warned to protect their children.

Defence sources have confirmed the suspect's identity and an image of him which was circulated by security officers at the Essex base.

All military staff at the base have been warned not to wear any uniforms or any clothing which would identify them as being military personnel. The families of service members have also been sent warnings.

Islamist terrorism accounted for approximately 75% of MI5’s counter-terrorism caseload in 2024

It is almost certain that Islamist terrorism will remain the most significant terrorism threat to the UK in the long term.

Illegal Migration Bill Projections:

The BBC reports that an illegal migration plan could cost £6 billion over two years.

Accommodation Costs:

The UK spends around £6 million a day on hotel accommodation for asylum seekers.

Enforcement Costs:

In 2023-24, the Home Office expects to spend £482 million on immigration enforcement.

Asylum Costs:

Home Office figures show that the annual asylum cost reached £3.96 billion in the year up to 2023, doubling from the previous year and six times higher than 2018.

UK signs deal to hand over Chagos Islands and lease back military base for £101m a year

A recently settled Somalian migrant was walking down a London street, he stopped the first man he saw and said 'Thank you for taking me in, for giving me a home and money to live.' The man replied; 'I’m Albanian.'

The Somalian walked on and stopped the next man he met saying; 'Thank you for giving me money, medical care and a school for my children,' however the man looked at him, shook his head, and said 'sorry, but I’m Romanian'.

The disappointed Somalian continued his walk and stopped the next man he met and again he thanked him profusely for giving him money, a place to live, and a school for his children.

The man replied saying 'I'm Ukrainian.' Finally the Somalian shrugged his shoulders and asked 'well, where are all the English people then?' The Ukrainian looked at his watch and said 'They're working.'

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The bosses of four of Britain's biggest banks are secretly urging the chancellor to ditch the most significant regulatory change imposed after the 2008 financial crisis, warning her its continued imposition is inhibiting UK economic growth.

In a letter sent this week by the chief executives of HSBC Holdings, Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest Group and Santander UK in which they argue bank ring-fencing "is not only a drag on banks' ability to support business and the economy, but is now redundant".

The CEOs' letter represents an unprecedented intervention by most of the UK's major lenders to abolish a reform which cost them billions of pounds to implement and which was designed to make the banking system safer by separating groups' high street retail operations from their riskier wholesale and investment banking activities.

In their letter to the chancellor, the quartet of bank chiefs told Ms Reeves: "With global economic headwinds, it is crucial that, in support of its Industrial Strategy, the government's Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy removes unnecessary constraints on the ability of UK banks to support businesses across the economy and sends the clearest possible signal to investors in the UK of your commitment to reform.

"Removing the ring-fencing regime is, we believe, among the most significant steps the government could take to ensure the prudential framework maximises the banking sector's ability to support UK businesses and promote economic growth."

Banks spent billions of pounds designing and setting up their ring-fenced entities, with separate boards of directors appointed to each division.

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Nissan: said it would keep two shifts of production of the Rogue SUV at its Smyrna, Tennessee plant, reversing a January plan to end one of the shifts later this month. 45.6% of Nissan vehicles sold in the US are made domestically.

Stellantis: The production stoppage at these two facilities (Canada & Mexico) resulted in the temporary layoffs of 900 workers from the company's powertrain and stamping plants in Michigan and Indiana.

68.2% of Stellantis vehicles sold in the US are made domestically.

Volvo: the carmaker would look to build more vehicles at its South Carolina factory in response to the tariffs. "We will have to increase the number of cars we build in the US, and surely move another model to that factory,".

Mercedes-Benz: also signaled that it was considering shifting production to the US. The German carmaker could start building another vehicle model in its Alabama factory.

36.5% of Mercedes-Benz vehicles sold in the US are made domestically.

Volkswagen: has confirmed it will add an "import fee" to the sticker prices of vehicles affected by the tariffs.

27.8% of Volkswagen Group vehicles sold in the US are made domestically.

Note: 78.3% of Ford vehicles sold in the US are made domestically.

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