What happened on 1st June 2023 - with your comments in the Web

On Thursday, UK companies reported trading with Europe has been more difficult as Larry Summers says exit from EU ‘contributed to higher inflation’.

British factories have reported a 16th consecutive month of falling exports, with manufacturers warning obstacles to trade since leaving the EU are undermining business relationships with firms on the continent. The findings came as the former US treasury secretary Larry Summers said Brexit will be remembered as a “historic economic error” that damaged the UK economy and has helped to drive inflation higher.

Nowadays, more and more Brits become discontent with Brexit results and with a Conservative rule:

"This "historic economic error" of Brexit, as they call it, seems to be quite a boon for select big corporations, isn't it? For instance, a lucrative windfall from IR35 changes that would have been illegal in the EU and IT job visas doled out like candy, often undercutting local rates. So, is it an "error" or just a tidy wealth transfer from the common folks to corporate coffers?

Just as the workers of the Gilded Age found themselves betrayed by a system that profited from their labour while denying them a fair share of the wealth, so too it seems that the ordinary people who backed Brexit, hoping for shared prosperity, instead find themselves witnessing the concentration of benefits among the elite. Such are the echoes of history."

"Everything that this government has done has been designed to transfer as much public money, as possible, into private hands."

"I love that the country keeps voting for this and keeps being surprised by the results.

The Tory party is the party of aristocracy. They gave us an electoral system that only marginally qualifies as democracy and favours their own reelection. However, too many people vote Tory because they might get a 1% tax cut or something, but that never materialises, does it? At least not in my lifetime."

 "It will also go down as a textbook example of poor decision making. This was a one way door decision that has huge ramifications and is difficult to reverse. It is an absurd decision to make on the basis that for a brief moment in time slightly more people wanted to go through that door."

Meanwhile, the Mirror shared an opinion that Rishi Sunak is facing yet another Tory rebellion over tax - this time from wealthy MPs demanding inheritance tax is scrapped all together.

This time it is mega-rich Nadhim Zahawi, who was sacked as Conservative Party chairman over his own tax dealings, is leading a group of MPs who are demanding Rishi Sunak helps the rich by axing inheritance tax. Also mega-rich former cabinet member Jacob Rees-Mogg and ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel are among the right-wingers demanding that inheritance tax is scrapped.

Members of the Conservative Growth Group - allies of 49-day Prime Minister Liz Truss - are set to publish a paper trying to convince the Treasury to scrap the tax. They want to see Chancellor Jeremy Hunt abolish it in his Autumn Statement later this year - but the Treasury says only a small proportion of people pay it.

This united protest of rich and mighty against their after death taxes could arouse just a wave of sarcastic resentment:

"Shocker. He tried to avoid paying taxes when he was alive too!"

"Wait until he learns that in 5 billion years the Sun will explode and tax everything at 100%."

"A whinging millionaire, obviously worried he might have to contribute to society."

"Oh diddlums Nadhim, you'll never know going without will you, reducing your energy use to the standing charges costing more than you actually use, not eating any home cooked food because you can't afford it and don't want to get in debt. Existing on the utter pittance that is Universal Credit because of long term ill health preventing you from working and being bullied, vilified and demonised by your Tory Party, supporters, and trolls..Utterly pathetic from a typical Tory mulit millionaire evader. Go pull the other one! " - "And not forgetting this is a man who used taxpayers money in 'expenses' to heat his horses stables (Horses don't even need it!) "

"I am haunted about children across the world starving to death or dying because they don't have access to clean water or basic medical care. I am haunted by people being killed in wars started to make someone more powerful. I am haunted by children in this country who have to go to school hungry. I am haunted by the elderly having to choose between heating or heating. I am not haunted by being worried that my money would be taxed legally by the government I have been a minister in. Especially if I had tried to get the taxpayer to pay for heating my stables "

"Why care after he's dead. Not like he can take it with him"

Also on Thursday, the Guardian made their research to find out that two-child limit on UK welfare benefits ‘has failed to push parents into jobs.

The UK’s controversial two-child benefit limit, which restricts welfare payments to larger families in an attempt to force parents to find work, has failed to increase employment levels – but it has left hundreds of thousands of households in poverty, according to the first study of its kind.

The government introduced the two-child limit in 2017, arguing that removing eligibility for benefits worth £3,000 a year per child for a family’s third and subsequent children would “incentivise” parents to move into work, or work more hours to make up the difference.

However, the study says the policy’s impoverishment of larger low-income households has helped few parents get a job – instead, its “main function” has been to push families further into poverty and damage their mental health.

Impoverishing larger families because the parents actively choose to look after their youngest children “appears to be ineffective at best and discriminatory and harmful at worst”, the study says.

 That info raised more critics about Torie social policy.

"Generational poverty stops social mobility and keeps plebs poor and controllable. This is by design by the tories."

"Is this actually surprising to anyone?

I'd love to even hear the logic behind this. "If you have more than 2 children, then, even though you have more children to look after and care for, you should be forced to find work. Don't worry about the childcare costs that will outweigh your wage, you can just walk into a well paid job by printing out your cv and walking into businesses...""

"Keeps generations of plebs poor and compliant with no aspirations, education, poor health and unlikely to vote."