The ban on VAT-free shopping for foreigners has cost the UK around £1.3 billion, which would have been spent here just by potential shoppers from China, never mind other nationalities.
They’re all going to Spain instead now.
Feet On The Ground
Tuesday, 3 February 2026
Treasury twits
Scrap Heap
The 3 million documents, videos and pictures released by the US Justice Department are Swamp Epstein. They contain fact; usually fairly harmless ones; fiction, malice and garbage. And they don’t contain the redacted stuff.
They can be used to ‘prove’ anything against anyone who was around during the life of the dead Mr. Epstein to people who are not bovvered about the quality of the source.
Rather predictable
His opponents and rivals are trying to give POTUS trumPut’n the Creaky Joe treatment. Five months away from his 80th birthday, he’s showing signs of dementia, he has an extra short attention span, he doesn’t know Greenland from Iceland, he makes more U-turns that Bier Smarmer, hence the TACO** jibe, and then there’s his habit of pointing a pistol at supposed friends and confirmed foes alike, etc., etc.
**Trump Always Chickens Out
Government by deadlegs
Labour’s cancellation of the Rwanda export plan for illegals wasted £715 million of our money. Now, the Rwandan government is demanding another £100 million.
Is this Bier going for Hit the Billion? Don’t bet against it.
File under ‘A’ for Attention-seeker
What does the Green party candidate for the not-Jonah Burnham by election have to offer? Legalizing prostitution, abolishing the police and transpicaters having more rights than anyone else. And she’s a Palestinian Pal. Not at all surprising given the weird nature of the bloke chosen to be the party’s figurehead.
The party of the criminal
Labour’s Plan for Crime amounts to letting bad guys out of gaol early; or not even locking them up; and letting the police forces of England and Wales dwindle instead of beefing them up.
Today’s Questions
1. Are all the jumped-up upstarts who are seeking attention by slagging off the remains of the Mandelsleaze any better than him themselves?
2. Is Bier Smarmer going to offer us a grovelling apology for making the Mandelsleaze his ambassodor to the Untied States and is Bier going to resign in shame?