How long has Keir Starmer got left? Labour in the UK are now below the Greens in the latest public opinion poll.
Pollster: Find Out Now, sample size 2717, 5-6 Nov., 2025 (government bold)
Reform UK 33%
Greens 18%
Conservatives 16% (Opposition)
Labour 15% (Government)
The top two parties are relatively new, while the bottom two are the old-school established parties. That must be significant.
It's all part of the plan; the UK has now announced pay-per-mile, after New Zealand announced it earlier this year. Governments need to do this so they can privatise the roads. Currently, fuel tax pays for the roads, and governments collect it. They need to move payment over onto a separate platform so it can be sold off.
I'll make a prediction; by February 2026 people will be crying, we are so betrayed. Remember hope and change and Barack Obama? Nothing changed, and there was no hope, Obama was working for Wall Street. This Mamdani bloke will be no different.
It's funny watching people lose it though, I wonder if anyone will actually move out of New York because of it?
Don't believe the hype, EVs are toast. The subsidies have ended, and guess what, they don't stack up as a sensible purchase.
Yeah, makes sense, it is alleged that the BBC spliced together words Donald Trump used during the January 6th, 2021 so-called insurrection, in order to make him look bad. If this is proven, heads need to roll.
Apologies to the novelist, Upton Sinclair, for my borrowing the title to his book Oil! The book is loosely based off the real-life oilman, Edward L Doheny, a man who knew how to get things done. The movie, There Will Be Blood starring Daniel Day-Lewis, is based on the novel, so in a loose sense, the Daniel Day-Lewis character is a very watered down Doheny.
Anyhoo...we have an Oil! situation developing in Venezuela and Nigeria. It is clear to me that before war is declared worldwide, the US is securing their supply chains. In the Senate they're closely examining shipbuilding, with Ted Cruz involved, and the White House is securing oil.
If you are investor in renewables, my advice is to get out of that as it will all collapse as soon as this war goes fully kinetic. Wind and solar relies heavily on China, and China is going to be rubble, so good luck with that. As well, oil will be cheap as Venezuela and Nigeria will go back to pumping as they should, the volume from which will bring down the cost of oil, making renewables uneconomic.
Anyway, Balkan Mapper has an interesting video up:
It does appear that England has a major problem; the fabric of its society appears torn.
This weekend, I'm making my Manifesto for New Zealand available free on Kindle. Each problem identified, as I see it, then comes with its solution.
There is a General Election due next year, and it will be, possibly, the most important in the country's history. NZ could go in any direction, sink or swim. Let's help it swim.
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| Ken Horlor's Manifesto for New Zealand |
The most recent political opinion poll from Find Out Now in the UK has Reform UK on top with 32%. Significantly, the second largest party are the Greens. Then, Labour and the Conservatives are in equal third. We see two relatively new parties now displacing the two much older parties.
Keir Starmer may even struggle to win his seat if an election was held tomorrow.
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Hehe, Jimmy Dore on Bill Gates climb down.
Maybe we should tax Bill Gates and take all of his money off him, to compensate for all the policies governments have adopted, that he promoted, that have resulted in people's lives being ruined.
Yes, indeed, Andrew is no longer a prince. Can the King do this? Probably he can, using letters patent. However, he probably cannot remove Andrew from the Line of Succession, that would require laws be passed through several parliaments around the world. By all means correct me on this.
I've noticed Australia is going full-on promoting its lies about how great its country is. For those who do not know, Australia is going down, sooner rather than later. They're living on borrowed time.
Some of their propaganda relentlessly attacks New Zealand. They do this to try and brainwash Kiwis into moving there. Australia needs Kiwis to sell up and take their money to that fly blown country, and prop it up with their superior skills. Australia is a Ponzi scheme.
I stopped posting answers to Quora because of these unfair attacks on NZ. The propagandists would put up a bunny question: which country is better, Australia or New Zealand, based on the following criteria (insert random criteria here), and then the answers had to conclude Australia, of course. When I proved, based on objective data, that NZ wins the prize, my answers were removed.
Now, on YouTube, the same sort of thing is happening. Bunches of videos are put out at the same time, all effectively attacking Kiwiland. Given the way these videos are produced and their timing, I've concluded the Australian government is promoting this nonsense.
Australia is getting desperate. China has started buying Soybeans from the US again, and they no longer need Australian iron ore. Not only that, Australia came 15th at the Athletics World Championships this year, New Zealand was fifth - suck on my big left one, Australia.
Oh, and Australia has an inflation rate higher than New Zealand.
https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/inflation-cpi/news/496897
Australia’s annual inflation rate jumped to 3.2% in Q3 2025 from 2.1% in Q2, marking the highest figure since Q2 2024 and surpassing market estimates of 3.0%.
Somewhat of a surprise this; Prince Andrew has lost his titles and will henceforth be called Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. He will also lose his residence, Royal Lodge.
However, this does bring with it the risk that Andrew could now put out a tell-all book, dropping the firm in it. Charles must be of the view that Andrew won't do that, or that Andrew doesn't have any dirt.
Hmm.
I wasn't going to say anything, but what the heck: Bill Gates has peddled his doom and gloom for years. Remember his very stupid idea to block out the sun? Yeah, and what qualifications does he have to claim expert status, I mean, he's a university dropout software salesman. Why do people listen to the fool?
I skimmed his latest piece, which amounts to a backdown, but what concerned me was that throughout, he never mentioned education. He seems to want a healthy population that is illiterate slaves. That's what I infer from his diatribe.
It's about time he retired from view. Just go away, Mr Gates, you're not helping, you're actually hindering.
I have drawn a logarithmic curve illustrating the link between the rate of income tax businesses may face and the rate at which start-ups fail within the first six years of existence.
At 0% tax, 10% of start-ups fail, while at 10% income tax, 40% of start-ups fail within six years. The argument here is that start-ups should not be subject to income tax within their first six years, the time when they are most vulnerable to failure.
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| Horlor Curve Logarithmic |
It is good to see the New Zealand government and the Opposition coming up with ideas that reflect totally different perspectives.
Labour are NZs Opposition party and they've recently announced a capital gains tax (CGT) as a central policy leading into the General Election in 2026. This is good because it makes them unelectable. CGT's are political kryptonite in NZ.
NZ doesn't need a CGT. You cannot tax your way to prosperity. Think like Texas.
Australia is often compared to NZ. Oz has CGT, stamp duty, and a means tested retirement at age 67. Meanwhile, NZ has no CGT, no stamp duty, no inheritance taxes, no gift duty, and retirement at age 65 is not means tested. These are key points of difference between the two and what makes NZ superior to Australia.
What NZ could do is lower taxes. Thinking like Texas means no tax and backing business. Businesses create employment and drive the economy forward.
Don't think like Labour. Once a CGT gets hold, it'll expand and morph into a wealth tax. NZ will end up like the UK, and no-one wants to be like that hellhole.
Then, this week the Minister of Education, Erica Stanford made her stand by introducing a new school curriculum for years 0-10. It is a knowledge-based curriculum, you know, students will have to know stuff. No more rainbow hugs and unicorn kisses. This is long overdue, and of course it's being panned by all the vested interests who want to avoid doing any work.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/577108/govt-releases-full-draft-of-curriculum-for-years-0-10
Prunella Scales has died aged 93. She was brilliant as Sybil, the wife of Basil in Fawlty Towers. The TV comedy is a timeless classic and instantly addictive. I remember recommending watching it to my children, and initially they doubted me, but they were hooked after just a few minutes.
About fifteen years ago, China unofficially stopped selling rare earths to Japan, heavily impacting their car manufacturing. America took note and started developing permanent magnets that did not require rare earths, the result, Niron Magnetics.
Niron Magnetics make permanent magnets 50% stronger, using the most magnetic material yet known, iron nitride. They have a factory being built in Sartell, Minnesota.
I always advise, best to not piss-off America too much as they do find a workaround.
Current so-called renewable energy is now economically viable due to the current oil price. But that oil price is held up by Venezuela's lack of output. They only pump about 900,000 barrels of oil a day, when they should be pumping about nine million barrels. Even at that higher rate, they'd have about 100 years of production left based on existing reserves.
The renewables sector is living in a false economy. The price of oil can only come down. That's because Venezuela won't continue to live in the Dark Ages much longer, plus new oil fields are coming on soon in Africa. As well, there is much oil yet to be discovered.
Study the graph which shows how oil reserves amongst the top five countries have increased. The graph starts in 1980; the year before I studied the oil crisis of the 1970s. I had a lecturer, a colossal fool this person was, an intellectual minnow who opined that oil was finished, nothing new was to be found, and it would all be gone by the year 2000. Back then, in 1979, people actually believed that kind of nonsense. There was also the big ice age about to happen, and it was in all the newspapers and magazines; we were preparing to freeze because oil was running out.
Well, how did that work out?
You know - science!
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| Top 5 Oil Reserves 1980-2015 |
I've been thinking of a reason the US may be about to take Venezuela, and the only explanation I can think of is that they want its oil. Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves by far, yet it only pumps daily about 10% of what it should be pumping. That's because, after decades of economic failure, their oil equipment is broken.
Right then, so what I think the US could do is take control of Venezuelan oil. To do this, they wouldn't need to occupy the whole country. All they'd do is control those areas where the oil fields are located, and also control pipelines and port facilities. Study the map to see where those assets are located.
Venezuela is surrounded by adversaries. Guyana is part of the Commonwealth and a former British colony, and likewise, so is Trinidad and Tobago. Then, to the west is Colombia, which is now fully developed and a member of the OECD. Only Brazil may be an ally of Venezuela, but it's through a jungle and undeveloped areas too far south.
The scenario would be to first crush all of Venezuela's oil exports, then occupy the oil fields. They'd need to take out Venezuela's military assets as well, and leadership in Caracas. But they'd just destroy the government and military assets, not take them on head-to-head.
Why is this a brilliant strategic move? If the US does this, then China is cooked. What has this got to do with China?
China controls the so-called renewables sector, wind and solar energy generation, and it controls EV battery production. If the US starts pumping Venezuelan oil at ten times its daily rate right now, the price of gasoline will halve and wipe out the renewables sector overnight. Why would anyone buy an EV, or install solar panels, or a wind turbine when oil is cheap and limitless?
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| Venezuela's Oil Assets |
