Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Planning for the worst
M&S boss warns customer confidence dented by Budget worries
The boss of Marks & Spencer has said Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s pre-Budget speech had fuelled customer worries over tax hikes and warned shoppers were now “planning for the worst”.
Chief executive Stuart Machin said the retailer’s customers were “increasingly concerned about rising costs and taxes” and what might be in store in the upcoming Budget.
He said the Chancellor’s unusual step to deliver a pre-Budget speech on Tuesday did not help ease fears or give certainty to businesses and consumers.
Hmm - it's probably much more than Budget worries. Having to make a pre-Budget speech was bound to remind people yet again that this is the worst government in living memory, Keir Starmer the worst Prime Minister and Rachel Reeves the worst Chancellor.
Whether or not Labour voters know it, they are to a significant degree voting for the Fabian Society. This goes some way to explain the teenage ideology behind the absurd mess the party is making of its Parliamentary majority.
According to Copilot AI -
Senior government posts, including Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and Wes Streeting, are confirmed Fabian members, signaling continued influence at leadership and ministerial levels
While the Fabian Society does not openly publish a comprehensive list of its Labour MP members, credible sources and historical records indicate that approximately 200–220 Labour MPs are members of the Fabian Society, encompassing the leader, many cabinet members, and senior figures across the party. This represents a significant proportion of the parliamentary Labour cohort.
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Are they the crowd that allow you to take a herd of cows over London Bridge?
Scrobs - I think so, although being Fabians they usually designate the wrong bridge.
https://grokipedia.com/page/Fabian_Society
DJ - thanks, interesting and better than Wikipedia. There should be more political focus on the Fabian Society rather than other malign influences, but it has been very successful at staying in the background, avoiding all responsibility for the damage it certainly causes.
Even posting about it can come across as too abstruse, not quite in tune with the politics of today. 'Fabian' ought to be a politically damaging label but it doesn't seem to be.
"M&S boss warns customer confidence dented ..." Bah! I'll tell you who's dented our confidence. Ruddy Waitrose. They have stopped selling their excellent Sardines with Lemon. I look around the web and find others offering such odious stuff as sardines in sunflower oil, sardines with soya, sardines with chilli, et bloody cetera. Won't do. As useful as a Starmer in a business meeting.
dearieme - Mrs H and I were chatting about this kind of thing yesterday. A supermarket sells something we particularly enjoy but suddenly they stop selling it and we never see it again.
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