Author Archives: Chris Davies

Published 31st October 2021 This will be my last post on justchrisdavies.politics.blog. This site has now been migrated to a new and hopefully more user friendly site: justchrisdavies.co.uk Thank you for all your feedback on the legacy posts (which is one of the reasons for the migration) and I look forward to welcoming you onContinue reading “Say hello, wave goodbye”

Tories’ budget gamble is a wolf in sheep’s clothing £150 Billion of additional public expenditure; The end of the public sector pay freeze; Real terms spending increases for every government department apart from Defence; Reduction in Universal Credit taper from 63p in the pound to 55p in the pound; Living wage increased from £8.91 perContinue reading “Thoughts for the week: 30th October 2021”

I’m always amused by people’s social media biographies that say, “all opinions my own”. There is a positive (they are not part of groupthink at least in theory) but for me it always begs the question, who else’s opinion would it be if not yours? Before the pile on from those who work in highContinue reading “The Great Reset (aka the abolition of Liberal Democracy)”

“It didn’t start with violence, it started with words”. An Auschwitz survivor described the origins of Nazi tyranny. It is easy to forget that despite the unique circumstances in Germany that led to Hitler’s rise, the National Socialists were a small minority of the electorate until economic conditions created a vacuum. Conflating Cancel Culture withContinue reading “Time to check your cancellation policy”

Our precious NHS, 73 years in the making is now a hungry old dinosaur with chronic morbid obesity. The more money it eats, the greater its capacity to eat increases and the more cash it seeks to sate it. It seems a lifetime ago that the great British public were being beseeched to clap forContinue reading “The insatiable appetite of the NHS”

How do you solve a problem like immigration? Setting a cap of 100,000 net migrants a year and missing it spectacularly every year? Tried that. Burying your head in the sand as part of the political class and keeping it there so as not to be spoken of in the same breath as Tommy RobinsonContinue reading “Immigration: there is another way”

GB News: the end of the beginning I have immense respect for the encyclopaedic knowledge of Andrew Neil across a plethora of geopolitical and macroeconomic matters. His uncompromising excoriation of GB News on the BBC’s “Question Time” (which used to precede his successful “This Week” show) showed vanity, bitterness and weary disappointment. Like a heavyweightContinue reading “Thoughts for the week – 17th September 2021”

I have resigned my membership of the Conservative & Unionist Party. It has morphed into a centre left, statist, high taxation collective of unconservatives, more akin to newLabour than even Ted Heath’s imitation of Conservatism. I know I am one of many who either had, have or will take identical action imminently so don’t pretendContinue reading “The death of the Conservative & Unionist Party”

The Chinese Communist Party (“CCP”) thinks uber long term. It is no accident that they own 1 in every 5 dollars of US treasury debt. So Uncle Sam, with eye watering levels of leverage, blessed with their “anyone but Trump” president and committed to adding trillions of dollars more to the national debt pile hasContinue reading “We need to talk about China and then we need to act”

What a tumultuous period it has been since the 2019 General Election 20 months ago. An 80 seat majority would normally enable a Prime Minister to fulfil most manifesto commitments comfortably. Brexit got done. Well mainly. Northern Ireland would beg to differ. The Protocol cannot be kicked down the road indefinitely. The EU is inContinue reading “No really Boris, Take Back Control”