ABOLITION NOT SILLY AWARDS

 

If the Council was serious about helping businesses it would come clean about the 10% it gets from Business Rates.

These stupid awards(one is for demonstrating diversity!) do nothing to assist struggling small businesses.

Business Rates strangle enterprise. 

The Conservatives have had years to make reforms but have done nothing. Joe Powell tells the Dame Labour will urgently review this pernicious and unfair tax.

Let's hope it does. 

The Dame knows of one well-known and highly regarded jewellery retailer paying £77,000 a year in Business Rates.

POPULAR KENSINGTON PRIEST PROMOTED

 

You don't need to be Catholic to feel great affection for Monsignor Jim Curry. 

Since 2008 Father Jim has been Parish Priest of Our Lady of Victories in Kensington. 

In all those years he has gained a reputation for his wisdom, kindness and Irish good humour. 

Pope Francis has now appointed Father Jim as an Auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Westminster.

The Dame sends congratulations to Father Jim and hopes he won't be completely deserting Kensington.

NO STYLE:NO SUBSTANCE

 

The Dame is of a generation when leaders of Great Britain looked the part. 

This trio look as if they are on the way to one of Grant Shapps's 'Get Rich Quick' symposiums in Las Vegas.

It's all so sad...

BRING DOWN STEPHEN WATSON!

 

Common touch

This is Stephen Watson, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester. 

In short order, he moved GMC out of special measures.

He may not have a degree in criminology but he does have a high degree of leadership quality.

He comes from a service family used to the leadership of men.

Very different from the incumbent here in London, Mark Rowley...a genuine product of leftist and useless Common Purpose.

        Common Purpose

RISHI'S BOLD MOVE!

 

Mr Gove has encouraged Mr Sunak to make a 'bold move' on housing. 

The result? 

The autumn statement will include a proposal to increase the stamp duty level from £250,000 to £300,000....what a puny effort to inject energy into the housing market.

This is all he can afford. Had he been a bit more careful in splashing out £70 billion during COVID and £70 billion on HS2 link there might be greater scope for real tax cuts.

This government revels in wasting our money.

The Dame plans to move from her 15-bedroom penthouse in the poorer part of Holland Park to a more compact bijou residence in Knightsbridge: she can't. The stamp duty would hit her too hard. Maybe the Dame's example is too extreme but a proper cut in stamp duty would encourage sensible downsizing.

Another initiative which will blow back in all our faces is the move to drive out non-doms.

Non-doms contribute a huge amount to the dynamism of the UK economy. 

Driving them into the arms of competitor economies sounds even more daft.

MET OFFICERS TELLS BRITISH JEWISH PERSON NOT TO UPSET DEMONSTRATORS!

 

This is the most extraordinary and unpleasant interaction between a not-very-bright Met officer and a British citizen. 

This British citizen has just left his synagogue and is trying to go home. 

In his way is a Palestinian supporting demonstration with various banners with anti-Jewish slogans.

The policeman tells the British citizen that if he continues to try to cross the road he will be arrested for potentially upsetting the demonstrators.

 Mr Falter said: “I was identifiable as a Jew but was otherwise like any other Londoner.

I was not part of any demonstration and was not wearing any stickers or carrying any signs, flags or the like.

“I was exercising my right to walk around my home city as a Jewish Londoner. A year ago, that would not have been controversial. But now, it is.

“Despite being told repeatedly that London is safe for Jews when these marches are taking place, my interactions with police officers last Saturday show that the Met believes that being openly Jewish will antagonise the anti-Israel marchers and that Jews need protection, which the police cannot guarantee."

The Dame has commented about lousy Met leadership: this is an example. It makes one ashamed to be British.

THE FLEETWOOD MAC TRIBUTE BAND

 

These are Emma Dent Coad's 'Inde's': not the Fleetwood Mac tribute band. The one on the left thinks he's in Hamas

One doesn't want to be rude but they look really rather sinister. Is the one right known to readers?

TOP GUY GETS RECOGNISED

 Well done, Ian. 

It is not just the present residents of Sutton who are grateful to you but those who come after. 

Without you, a prime piece of our community would have fallen prey to developers.