Did you see that video I put out over the last day or two? I think it came out yesterday where Rachel Reeves was placed on the floor of that Morrison’s petrol station only to have her uh attitude handed to her by an English worker coming out of the garage, spotted her, thought this ain’t a bit of me and had a pop and said, you know, get Kia Starmer out, look what you lot have done to the country, blah blah blah.
and he pulled up alongside her and and he said, “You know, see these these are English flags.
Get Star out and he drove off and it’s been it’s been m it’s been met with mixed reviews online.
I mean, me personally, I buy the guy a pint all day long.
” But you know, she said, “That’s not very British, is it? He’s not British.
He’s English.
He just told you and he’s got the flags to prove it.
” That being said, that that comment alone just showed how completely out of touch and devoid of any sensible kind of reality this lot are, you know, and they continue to sit in the House of Commons, which belongs to the people, by the way, and make our lives a living misery.
There’s a couple of clips I want to show you.
And the first one is uh coming up right now, and it’s this one here.
And uh this involves the speaker.
So, let’s have a listen.
Before we come to the UK, sorry, before we come to the urgent cost on motorist, the urgent question, I’m going to repeat what I’ve said to the house at the start of the parliamentary session.
The government’s own ministerial code makes it clear that important policy announcements should be made in the first instance to this house when it’s sitting.
Some people seem to have very short memories.
We’ve had the last three days of this announcement being dripfed to the media.
That is not in line with the government’s own rules and it is unacceptable.
These bike benches of either side are elected to this house to hear it first.
Not to be outside of Morrison’s petrol station.
Not to be on a bus.
Not doing it to Tik Tok.
These members should be respected.
I uphold this house and I respect the members.
If the government doesn’t, the government’s got to get its act together and recognize the value of its own backbenches.
Right. We now come to the urgent question.
Uh Mr.Speaker, uh, may I begin by agreeing with you and to say that how disrespectful it is that this U-turn on fuel duty has already been released to the media earlier this week.
The news was plastered across national newspapers on Monday.
the shadow chancellor and I saw each other in the studios early this morning when I was out there talking about the free unlimited bus travel for children uh that we’re free unlimited bus before we go into anything else I have one question who pays for it going to be the chance is going to be updated updating on this earlier today the sorry sorry say to the minister I don’t think it’s a good example that we was in the studios rather than telling this It’s confirming my problem that you somehow that Sky or BBC is more important that the backbenches who’ve been elected by constituents across this country are hearing it second.
It is not acceptable.
So don’t think it’s a bonus to tell the house now.
Speaker, the chancellor will be coming along to the house further later on today and she’s going I think the point I was making was that you said that you were doing the studios.
You’re here now.
I think it should have been here first.
Do we both agree? Minister, Mr.
Speaker, my apologies.
I was intending to say just then that the chancellor will come to the house and will give a full statement on exactly everything including the matters that we are discussing today.
I mean, I’ve had that problem before uh many times w with this where things get leaked to the media and they get the ump in parliament.
I mean, there’s one thing that Lindsey Hoy said there, which is quite right.
They’re all elected by constituents to represent them.
I mean, let’s get it.
The majority of them aren’t.
They’re they’re there for party before people.
But, you know, that that’s the whole idea why it should work.
But the basics is he’s got the ump that she got caught on Morrison’s car park getting shouted at by an Englishman.
uh you know that’s the whole that’s the whole thing of it.
Now there’s another video I want to show you here uh which is actually labeled truly terrible and it’s got a picture of Rachel Reevesh well let’s have a listen to this sh and see what was going on.
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Promises made by a Labor government.
Promises delivered by a Labor government.
And I commend this statement to the House.
I’ll commend her to the funny farm.
Thank you.
Thank you, Madame Deputy Speaker.
And could I thank the Chancellor for advanced sight of her statement, though, of course, the press got even more advanced sight of it.
Madame Deputy Speaker, the decision taken to cancel the increase in fuel duty is welcome.
It has been a long time coming.
Maybe a long time coming, but consider the timing.
The Conservative Party has been campaigning against the fuel duty rise for months, but the Chancellor has defended that policy repeatedly.
That left motorists and businesses worried about even higher fuel prices in September.
It was always obvious that the fuel duty increase would need to be cancelled.
Obvious to everyone except the chancellor.
So, can I ask why did the chancellor fight us on fuel duty for so long? Why has she been so hellbent on raising fuel duty during an enemy an energy crisis? Well, inevitably, Madame Deputy Speaker, the Uturn has finally come.
But Madame Deputy Speaker, it is astonishing to hear the chancellor claiming that the government can afford to help households because the forecasts have improved.
I can answer the one about fuel duty.
They’ve had a massive kicking at local elections and now they’re trying to look like the good party because they got a very important uh bi-election coming up where they want to shoehorn Burnham into that house which is something we can’t allow to happen.
I hope people don’t fall for this.
Is the chancellor seriously suggesting that the economic outlook is now better than at the time of the last fiscal forecast when we have had the Iran conflict to which our economy is highly exposed thanks to this government’s ruinous choices? The chancellor has just pointed to the IMF forecast being upgraded this week.
But let’s be very clear about what is going on here.
The IMF adjusted their growth forecast for this year up slightly to 1%.
But until April, they were forecasting 1.3%.
So where exactly is the supposed growth dividend? Will she directly address that point? This is exactly the same game that the government played last year when they U-turned on cuts to the winter fuel payment.
They claimed then they were U-turning because the economy was improving when of course it was due to political pressure.
Nobody brought it then and nobody is buying it now.
Once again, we have a weak government caving into the inevitable after spending months defending a truly terrible decision.
Madame Deputy Speaker, the Chancellor claims the measures announced today will be funded by a number of different tax measures, but most of the measures she mentions are already in place and baked into the OBR’s forecasts.
So given the chancellor has not announced any measures to control government spending, can she confirm that in fact the measures she is announcing today will be funded at least in part by yet more government borrowing? And can she confirm whether fuel duty rates will still be rising to the same level as previously planned after December or whether today’s announcement will mean a permanent reduction in fuel duty? very important point he made there.
All of this stuff they’re talking about, who’s paying for it? They’re either going to take it off of, you know, higher earners or they’re going to borrow, they’re using other people’s money.
That’s what socialists do and eventually they’ll run out of it.
Madame Deputy Speaker, whilst we on this this side of the house welcome some of the measures the chancellor has taken today like the increase in mileage allowances, this is all very minor compared to the inflation this government have fueled since coming into office and the tax rises that the chancellor has imposed.
Today’s announcements will bring little comfort to the hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their jobs, to the countless businesses that have folded, and to those high streets which are now hollowed out.
The reality is that we are in a terrible position to deal with the consequences of this latest energy crisis.
Thanks to the actions that this government has taken, the chancellor claimed growth is up.
It is actually down.
She claimed borrowing is down.
It’s 75% up compared to the plans that she inherited.
She claimed she’s fighting.
If you listen to that figure, 75% up.
And if you look at the national debt, you think of the interest payments alone, we will never ever clear that debt.
Inflation.
We have the highest inflation in the G7.
She claims she’s cutting energy bills.
Energy bills have gone up under this Labor government.
And of course, she didn’t mention unemployment.
Surprise. Why? on the energy.
Madame Deputy Speaker, on energy, this government have made a conscious decision not to exploit our own natural resources in the North Sea, weakening our economy and our energy security whilst importing oil from Putin’s Russia at the cost of Ukrainian lives.
Doesn’t matter where you’re importing it from.
It could be out of Mongolia for all I care.
The problem is is We’re not using our own stuff.
We’re sitting on barrels and barrels and barrels and all sorts of stuff and we’re being prevented from using it.
That’s the problem.
Families and businesses are facing Families and are facing rising costs and rising taxes.
People are losing their jobs.
The country is hurting.
If the chancellor was serious about the challenges we face, she would commit to getting spending down, tackling the benefits bill, getting taxes down to strengthen our economy.
But thanks to the chancellor’s mistakes and the weakness of this dying government, this statement today is all we get.
Does the chancellor really think this is enough? Does the chancellor really think this is enough? And what’s going to happen when she gets up and responds? You know full well what is going to happen? All of those quite valid points that he uh he’s come up with, she’s not going to address any of them, is she? Now, let’s return to the story and have a look what she says.
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Thank you very much.
Um Madame Deputy Speaker, let me take uh the issues that the shadow chancellor uh has raised.
First of all, in on fuel duty, uh when I became chancellor of the excheer, uh the uh freeze in fuel duty was uh due to expire under the plan set out in the final budget of the Conservatives uh within a matter of months.
I have frozen fuel duty twice already and I’ve frozen it again uh today.
And indeed, I have frozen it with more than three months to go before the increase was due to happen, giving people plenty of time.
You might freeze fuel duty, but if you look at the overall cost, if you look at what puts that overall cost, fuel fuel duty is just a a phony number just to lower us all into thinking that you’re doing something.
I have always said since u the Middle East conflict began that uh I would keep an eye on what was happening to oil and gas prices and set out plans uh ahead of the uh change dune to come to effect in September.
We’re still waiting and that is exactly what I’ve done.
But I’ve also gone further in three specific areas with additional support for holers, additional support for red diesel particularly helping the rail um uh um freight industry and farmers and also the higher mileage rates.
And the shadow chancellor says he welcomes the changes on mile rates.
Mileage rates was the first time they’ve been increased since 2011.
So if he welcomes them so much, why didn’t they increase them when they had 14 years in government? That’s the first dig at the other side.
I mean, at the end of the day, you could increase the mileage rates, but you know, the cost of fuel’s gone up, the cost of repairs has gone up, the cost of motoring has gone up.
Everything has gone up.
So, how much is that mileage rate actually going to swallow up that extra? It’s just not.
It’s farical.
on the um Iran conflict.
Well, let’s remember that this is a war that the UK did not start.
That this government chose not to join, whereas the Conservatives and reform were cheering on that conflict every step of the way.
Well, how come we have got American aircraft and personnel flying in and out of this country heading in that direction and using bases of ours in they’re using this as a whipping tool.
you know, it it don’t wash with me.
It just doesn’t wash.
It’s it’s yet another excuse to justify higher costs.
And the impacts on the UK economy and the global economy would be much more severe if we’d have heeded the warnings of con heeded the um pleas of reform and conservatives uh to join that conflict.
The shadow chancellor talks about inflation and growth.
Uh well inflation yesterday the numbers showed that inflation had fallen.
We’re the only country in the G7 where inflation fell last month.
The OPR uh sorry the uh IMF have revised up our growth forecast and we had the fastest growth of the G7 uh in the first quarter of this year.
And the shadow chancellor says uh um is this going to be paid for with new borrowing? No, it’s not.
uh if you cherish chancellor had been listening he would have heard the changes we’re making around the foreign branch uh e exemption uh that will raise hundreds of millions of pounds a year which is why we are able to afford the package that we have announced uh today the shadow chancellor mentions uh high streets well because of the pride in place uh money that I announced at the budget because of the banking hubs and indeed because of the changes we made to business rates which have actually seen business rates uh for retail and hospitality come down and come down significantly compared to the plans we inherited from the Conservative government.
We can reinvigorate our high streets.
How about you just tell us what’s going on instead of having a dig the whole time? The arrogance of these people really piss me off.
Chancellor mentions borrowing.
Well, borrowing has fallen below 5% for the first time since 2019 because of the actions that I have taken as chancellor and borrowing is expected to fall in every year of this parliament.
5% of what Chancellor? A billion, a trillion, two trillion? 5%.
What’s that figure? 5% of what? Very different from what happened under the Conservatives.
Employment and activity uh remain in the top half of the OECD and of the G7.
And the biggest benefits boom became under the last conservative government when the shallow chancellor was the work and pensions secretary.
Biggest rise and on oil and gas.
Oil and gas will play an important role in our economy for many years to come.
But we also need to invest in renewable energy which is why we announced yesterday restrictions in the number of judicial reviews that are holding up investment in clean energy.
We need to invest in many types of energy.
We need to invest in gas.
We need to invest in oil.
We need to invest in coal.
We need to start getting into the North Sea again.
We need to start looking at nuclear to a degree.
There could be some use for renewable energy, but you you will not run an entire country’s infrastructure on the back of renewable energy.
It’s just not going to happen.
It’s for the birds.
It is a shame that the Conservatives uh um voted against our planning and infrastructure act.
It’s a shame that the Liberal Democrats abstained on it, but we are determined to get Britain building, including the energy infrastructure we need to get uh bills down.
And just um a couple of weeks ago, I announced changes around tiebacks to make it easier for oil and gas companies to exploit their reserves of oil and gas in the new North Sea.
and Jack Doron Rosebank would have gone ahead if it hadn’t been for the last government messing up the way it uh um legislated.
Uh and we are u going to be announcing uh uh shortly uh uh the decisions the secretary of state for energy and net zero will make those decisions.
But I am very clear, oil and gas will play an important role in the UK for many years to come, adding to our energy security alongside investment in nuclear, in small modular reactors, in floating offshore wind, in onshore wind and solar.
Opposed by the party opposite, a lot of what she said, oil and gas, from what I understand, we’re actually buying it in.
We’re buying it in.
And then, you know, we end up with higher bills.
And when they talk about their green energy subsidy and all the rest of it, we end up with higher bills.
It really is a joke.
There are very uh clear ways of saving a lot of money on all of this.
I mean, Restore Britain, for example, have come out with a great energy policy.
Go and have a read of that and it really is a refreshing change to what you’ve just heard.
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