Car parking wardens now outnumber UK soldiers - Starmer's only way of making money

Official data reveals we now have 82,000 parking wardens compared to 73,490 regular soldiers. But it's no surprise because they are the means to carry on leeching off drivers, with councils making £1.1billion profit in parking fines over the last year. Doesn't that say it all about Britain now?

Now that our industrial base has been largely demolished by net zero, this is the only way Prime Minister Starmer's Britain makes money - by looting the nation's citizens either through higher taxes, fines or bureaucratic charges. And yet it still needs more. Despite generating an additional £1.4bn from on-street parking charges and a further £876m from council-run car parks, council tax has risen by an inflation-busting average of 5%.

Yet rather than spending this on vital services, Labour ministers still feel generous enough to give 16,000 councillors a boost in taxpayer-funded pension funds, saying they "deserve it".

As we all know, this is a future liability that is only going to grow and grow. A quarter of our council tax already goes on paying town hall civil servants' gold-plated pensions.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves made it very clear this week at Labour's party conference that tough times still lie ahead. That can only mean one thing: more taxes.

Having already halted growth in this country thanks to her dud budget last year, loading new increases on the business owners who make money for the UK, she now needs to take more of our hard-earned money to fill a fiscal black hole created by her own ineptitude and Labour's spendthrift approach to the public sector.

And giving them pay increases, whether they improve productivity or not, is just one example of that carelessness. The truth is that this is a greedy government.

One that desires more and more of your money while wasting billions on paying illegal migrants £600 taxi fares to visit doctors that we, normal folk, have to get to by bus.

One that wants to pay £950 a day to transport one child with special educational needs to a boarding school twice a week - and these are just the scandals that have reached the pages of newspapers.

You can multiply that many times for the real figures that are hidden by civil servants who sign off on profligate expenditure with money that is yours and mine.

They're more than happy to be virtue signalling with our money rather than applying a bit of common sense. This is also the government that pledges to increase its military budget by 5% to meet NATOrequirements, yet is happy to dole out £30billion on giving away our military base on the Chagos Islands.

Again, this is done simply to appease so-called international justice demands from sanctimonious Labour figures such as Lord Hermer, a close legal buddy of Starmer.

It would be fair enough if this wild spending was being funded by economic growth, but know-nothing Labour has successfully stifled any future growth by levying the highest ever taxes faced by Britons along with a costly net zero project that whacks up electricity fees to a point that even incredibly wealthy American high-tech companies, such as Nvidia, question the viability of setting up business in the UK.

With government borrowing costs at record highs, it is little wonder that Reeves and Starmer are preparing us for even higher taxes in next month's budget.

It is the only way to maintain their reckless spending. It's also the only way to keep PM Starmer in power. Before the last election, he promised to put country before party, but having made a succession of unforced errors, losing key government figures, he is now in hock to his left-wing back benchers who want ever more money spent on benefits.

It would not surprise me at all if Starmer added yet more recruits to his army of traffic wardens in order to squeeze every last penny out of drivers.

Maybe they should all be given military training so if the worst comes to the worst, they could fill in vacancies within our shrinking British Army to confront Russia or any other enemy.

Still, by that time, having blown all our national wealth on vanity projects, Labour would probably be happy to hand over the enormous cost of running Britain to anyone else but them.

The next time you get fined by a traffic warden, remember this is your contribution to keeping this whole precarious, wasteful edifice going.