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THENATIONALPULSE (Christopher Tomlinson) - KASSAM: The British Government is Piling ‘Petty Indignities’ on the Public on Purpose. Here’s Why: Tue Sep 29 18:29:24 2026

The British government is intentionally crushing the public under an avalanche of "petty indignities" so they are unable to push for broad national reforms, argues Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, on Stephen K. Bannon's War Room show.

The British government is intentionally crushing the public under an avalanche of “petty indignities” so they are unable to push for broad national reforms, argued Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, during a recent appearance on former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon’s War Room show. “How am I going to pay my gas bill? How am I going to pay my car insurance? What am I going to do when my mother or my father or my grandmother gets sick? … [I]t’s death by a thousand cuts, because then you can’t worry about anything outside of that. You can’t worry about what your community looks like. You can’t worry about three streets down, or three doors down even, from your own house. The entire ability to care about and curate your community, let alone your country, is ripped away from you with that particular tactic,” Kassam explained . The National Pulse is 100% reader-funded. If you value RADICALLY INDEPENDENT journalism, please JOIN THE NATIONAL PULSE or MAKE A DONATION today. “The tax burden in this country is unbelievable. The levels of energy debt are unbelievable, through the roof, skyrocketing… Getting worse,” Kassam noted. Official statistics support the statement, with Britain’s Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), a fiscal watchdog comparable to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, having forecast that taxes will reach a post-war high of roughly 38 percent of economic output by 2030–31. Frozen income tax thresholds are helping to drive that increase through a process of “fiscal drag.” This means that as wages rise, a larger share of earnings are becoming subject to higher tax rates, despite the value of those wages having falling due to inflation . For workers trying to cover ordinary expenses, this means their budgets are eroding via “stealth taxation,” without the government having to announce a controversial increase in headline income tax rates. With respect to Kassam’s warning on energy bills, Ofgem , Britain’s energy regulator, has pushed average July–September 2026 rates on covered household tariffs to the equivalent of approximately 35 U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity and 10 cents per kilowatt-hour of natural gas. Significantly, the regulator’s typical annual household price-cap figure, equivalent to $2,463, is a benchmark based on assumed usage, not a limit on what every household can spend. The rises are being driven chiefly by higher wholesale gas prices, caused by the Ukraine war, the Iran war, and the sabotage of the domestic North Sea oil and gas industry by the incumbent Labour Party and previous Conservative Party governments. The Labour government is currently pressing ahead with its Clean Power 2030 program . Taxpayers are already subsidizing some so-called green energy, with approximately $689 million spent through June 2026 under the Renewables Obligation to Exchequer scheme, which shifts part of the cost of green energy subsidies from energy bills to public finances. Crucially, this shift can lower the charge visible on a household bill, but still leave the public covering the cost via taxation. WATCH HERE: If you value the work of Raheem J. Kassam and his team, please JOIN THE NATIONAL PULSE or MAKE A DONATION today. We are 100% reader-funded. Join Pulse+ to comment below, and receive exclusive e-mail analyses.