Three things in life are certain death and taxes you knew about, and now socialists not understanding the law of unintended consequences.
It was 1950s Communist China when Chairman Mao introduced his ‘four pests’ campaign as part of the Great Leap Forward.
Purporting to be scientifically sound, Chinese citizens were mobilised to engage in a mass extermination campaign of sparrows as a means of increasing rice yields.
But lo and behold, it came to pass that with the sparrows dead, the food chain was heavily disrupted, which gave way to other bugs and insects which devastated the crops.
Jacob Rees-Mogg says the Government’s workers’ rights charter will ‘kill British businesses’
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As a result, as many as 55 million people died.
I’m not going quite so far as to compare Keir Starmer to Chairman Mao, but he appears as another socialist to struggle with the law of unintended consequences.
Look no further than Labour’s new workers’ rights charter, which is expected to come into force next year.
The charter will include a whole host of supposed rights which from the face of it…sound relatively sensible.
But when you engage in a scintilla of foresight and look at the fine print, the picture becomes ugly.
The Government’s own assessment of the costs this legislation will place on business is £5billion a year. However, business leaders are concerned it will cost much more.
But if you consider the fact that Labour has already sent our economy into stagnation, if not stagflation, by its increases to employ National Insurance and inheritance tax, this could push the economy into recession.
Perhaps even more importantly, the charter puts a duty on employers to prevent employees being harassed by third parties, such as customers.
In other words, controversial discussions about religion or trans ideology in places such as pubs or restaurants could be banned.
If such conversations are a risk for employers, then customers could be banned too. The entire policy could create an adventure playground for employment rights lawyers, and even the Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned it could curtail freedom of expression and be applied to overheard conversations.
You’ll be able to sue if you’re an eavesdropper. So there you have it. As Mao’s euphemistically named Great Leap Forward killed tens of millions, Keir Starmer’s euphemistically named workers’ rights charter will kill British businesses, destroy jobs and send our economy into recession.
As a mere side effect of worthiness, it will also erode freedom of speech. There comes a point where the unintended consequences are so clearly foreseeable that socialists can no longer pretend they are unintended.
Make no mistake, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is anti-prosperity and anti-freedom.
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