Labour made a few big promises which cut through with voters and are still popular with voters. Unfortunately instead of delivering them in every case the problem has got worse and they are further from target
1, Smash the gangs. Instead they watered down and repealed previous measures, to see a big surge in illegal arrivals by boat
2. Control inflation. They inherited it at 2% and have helped it almost double. Big tax rises and some pay awards have forced up prices. They offered £300 off energy prices sometime this Parliament but have spent the first fifteen months paying ever dearer prices, pushing up the retail prices.
3 Help more people into decently paid jobs. Instead unemployment has surged and vacancies fallen as their taxes on business and jibs hit home.
4 Build 1.5 m homes in five years, a third more than the previous government, In the first fifteen months completions have fallen and are way below the target rate. They think more planning permissions will sort it, but builders have plenty of available permissions. They cannot find enough buyers or make enough profit.
5.Be the fastest growing G 7 economy. We were in the first half of 2024 but since the new government higher taxes and borrowings have slowed the economy badly.
6. End chaotic Ministerial resignations and misconduct. Instead we have seen plenty of departures and embarrassments including Deputy PM, political Ambassador to USA, Transport Secretary, Chief of Staff to PM etc
7 Introduce financial stability and lower government borrowing rates. Instead we have seen substantial rises in 10 and 30 year interest rates despite base rate coming down a bit. There has been speculation about a debt crisis given the high levels of spending and borrowing.
8. Not put Income Tax, VAT or National Insurance up. They have decided to freeze Income Tax thresholds for longer so we pay more tax as inflation bites. They imposed a big hike in Employer National Insurance. They put up other taxes which have done damage and in some cases collected less revenue as a result.
The public wants the government to deliver on these eight pledges.They want a well run government avoiding tax rises, creating financial stability, growing the economy faster and getting borrowing costs down. They want to be able to afford a home of their own and want an end to mass migration.
They do not want digital ID, ever dearer energy and de industrialisation from extreme net zero policies.
When will we get any of those?
September 29, 2025
Good morning.
As we all know with past Conservative governments the Party Manifesto’s are a wish list and are not necessarily what they are going to do.
We would all do well to remember, because Labour certainly have, that this government was elected on a pitifully low turnout and share of the vote. Ergo. It has little mandate (despite the number of seats) to carry out its wishes.
TTK has recently given a speech. It was a bit of a mishmash of conflicting ideas and beliefs. On the one hand he talks of how people feel let down in the UK, then goes on to talk about wiping the debt of Third World countries. He thinks the two are good things but fails to realise that doing one indirectly affects the other.
No wonder they cannot so much run a bath. But they can make sure that they and their own are well looked after. 😉
September 29, 2025
Mark, their manifesto is indeed a piece of fiction to attract voters. Let us look at their planned actions & proposed laws to gauge their real intent:
– Closer ties with Europe, leading to more cost for the UK, higher net migration, less flexibility in policy
– Restrictions on free speech and an Islamophobia definition
– Stronger workers rights, at much higher costs to employers
– Digital IDs, which 2.4m have voted against in a few days
– Willingness to consider repatriations – payments for the Chagos Islands being an example.
Not many of these got airtime during the election campaign.
September 29, 2025
@Mark B. TTK’s answers to questions can be wierdly disconnected, too.
He was asked by the BBC if Reform’s immigration policy was rascist. He said it was, then talked for some time about immigrants concluded thus: “They’re people who work in our economy. They are part of who we are. It will rip this country apart. We are, at the moment, a leading member of the Coalition of the Willing, corralling and bringing together European countries to fight the aggression of Putin.
“Imagine if Reform came in and they were cosying up to Putin – the impact that would have on our security and defence.”
It’s as if he can’t link his talking points, he flips from one to another. Nothing coherent, much like his policies.
September 29, 2025
Reform is the target, inventing speculative policy results, why?
Well it is clear to the British public, the electorate being key, that Reform are the only offer in town that will separate from the uniparty and return to commonsense policies.
Starmer’s shit scared. Now talks in rambling nonsense.
September 29, 2025
I had to chuckle reading our good host and your connection with the previous government. It’s as though Sir J. is seeing what the rest of have long seen, for the first time, now he’s on the outside looking on at political party manifestos/promises. Perhaps now Sir J has joined us, he will understand what makes us, the hopeful public, so incensed at being condescended to, lied to and worse, by our supposed leaders who are in office to SERVE US.
Reply I gave similar advice to the last government to get spending under control, taxes down, growth up, control migration.
September 29, 2025
reply to reply… and did they listen and act on any of it? No!
September 29, 2025
They had a higher agenda to follow, and I’m not saying where from ….but it wasn’t from the british public
September 29, 2025
So is that a reason to stop telling them what is required? No!
September 29, 2025
“As we all know with past Conservative governments the Party Manifesto’s are a wish list and are not necessarily what they are going to do.”
They are not even a wish list, they are what the party thinks will help them win the election. Once elected the Tories did not even TRY to deliver for example “to the tens of thousands” actually we got 1 million plus! It was deliberate electoral fraud promise A to get elected then deliver B not “we made mistakes” as they like to claim.
JR correctly says “They do not want digital ID, ever dearer energy and de industrialisation from extreme net zero policies.”( inaccurate sentence left out ed)
A good podcast/video on the insanity of our energy policies on Triggernometry with Kathryn Porter an honest and knowledgeable energy consultant with a physics degree I think! Rather than PPE, Classic or Law like the government “experts”.
September 29, 2025
@ Mark B
“He thinks the two are good things but fails to realise that doing one indirectly affects the other.”
That’s the problem, the government thinks globally and with a Marxist mindset! It appears to care not one jot about the British voters. Though some seem more favoured over others.
September 29, 2025
Sharon if he thinks it’s important for 3rd world countries to have no debt, surely it must also be good if we had no debt?
Lets ask him to wipe out 3rd world debt on condition our debts are also wiped out.
September 29, 2025
@Mark B – what counts as political parties/groupings have blown their credibility, they have all told in-exactitudes ‘just’ to get elected and then swan off on ego trips looking to boost personal self-esteem. They have all put the creditability of Parliament and its chosen Government on the proverbial dung heap.
They think that because others have deceived to achieve control it is their duty to do the same.
Let’s be clear this is all MPs in Parliament ‘tarred’ with the same brush, they all have a responsibility to maintain the HoC’s credibility in holding the State to account.
All those elected,have failed their constituents, failed those that paid & empowered them. A total clear out is required – they brought it on themselves
September 29, 2025
Mark B: “TTK has recently given a speech……..then goes on to talk about wiping the debt of Third World countries.”
Perhaps this is how he sees the UK clearing its debt? Achieved through his Net Zero and open border/mass immigration from the third world policies? Never forget that Mr. Starmer, before he became an MP, served on the executive committee of the Fabian Society, a far left movement, whose logo is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
September 29, 2025
But during election, every party stands steadfast behind their own manifesto telling the voter that its their action plan, their plan for government …a reason for the people to vote for them
They need to be held accountable
September 29, 2025
Morning Sir John,
It would be nice if they were to concentrate on doing what was in their manifesto. That was, after all, what people elected them for.
I see they are talking about twelve new towns. I suspect they will struggle to find the tradesmen to build these new towns.
I have a novel idea for Labour… Cancel Chaagos and the unwanted Digital ID scheme and invest in training young people in building trades.. These are very well paid jobs and would boost our failing economy.
I wonder what gimmicks will come out of the Labour Conference or The Poor Man’s Fantasy Island as I prefer to call it.
September 29, 2025
I am not sure Labour have much support from the Poor Man now. It seems to be more for Islington Man in well paid employment in the public sector according to one recent survey.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/27/labour-abandoned-working-class/
September 29, 2025
Precisely.
September 29, 2025
Well said Cliff
September 29, 2025
Oh let’s train doctors and nurses too so we don’t need to steal these critically needed people from their own nations.
September 29, 2025
Lynn
Couldn’t agree more. Many of the African and far East countries from whom we steal their qualified staff, have a shortage themselves. Labour talk a lot about morality and ethics, and yet are happy to take poor nations staff who are needed in their own countries.
I feel we need to give free education to nurses and perhaps doctors so they don’t start life up to their necks in debt. It could be written off over five or ten years during which time, if they go abroad or leave the profession, they repay the full costs.
I believe we should also reintroduce the “enrolled” route to qualification for nurses rather than a university degree course for all nurses. Many potential nurses wouldn’t want a degree level education but would be great nurses.
September 29, 2025
When will we get any of those you ask. The answer is never. This government is the most devious and deceitful in memory.
The manifesto was a piece of fiction aiming to lure gullible voters.
The real objective was to reach net zero at any cost which means destroying businesses, impoverishing the population and taking us back to the pre industrial period
It was interesting that the Australian PM was at conference and he’s doing the exact same to his country. Just who is pulling the strings, as if we didn’t know.
September 29, 2025
Interesting this morning. On the first cool day of the year wind is today generating 1.76gw or 5% of demand. This is despite paying £200 per mwh to Orsted. No matter how high the subsidy if the wind doesn’t blow the windmills don’t generate
Is there no one in government who understands this .
September 29, 2025
We assume we can continue to obtain and pay through the nose for the Interconnected electricity.
If ever there was a threat to the nation’s power base it is this.
No wonder Putin has been developing and mapping the cabling ready to rip up the sea-bed when he wants to.
September 29, 2025
”the most devious and deceitful in memory”
The tories are running close, by NOT giving us the brexit we voted for !
September 29, 2025
‘They do not want digital ID, ever dearer energy and de industrialisation from extreme net zero policies.
When will we get any of those?)
I am not sure that we will. We seem to be set on a particular path.
Changes in those in power seem to have little effect. Some people put faith in Reform, but it is by no means certain they will eventually take power. If they do they may not bring about the changes people expect, if past experience is anything to rely on.
September 29, 2025
They are completely incapable of delivering their Manifesto “commitments.”
September 29, 2025
It’s a Labour government.
Manifesto = fairy stories to get elected.
In power, follow a Marxist agenda.
September 29, 2025
Thats it in a nutshell
September 29, 2025
Labour has a big issue in that it’s heart is ruled by metropolitan champagne socialists who have never needed to work in the private sector for a living so don’t know how business really works. They are blinkered by their policy assumptions that public “investment” creates growth”.
These idealogues are imposing their polices on working people without actually finding out what works and what working people want. Most working people want lazy and inept fellow employees sacked so they don’t have to carry the workload, they don’t want them to have extra sick pay that needs to be covered and they don’t want extra maternity entitlements.
Labour’s doctrine is everyone’s Achilles heel.
September 29, 2025
The first thing ‘workers’ want is a job.
September 29, 2025
When will we get any of the Labour manifesto promises you ask Sir John?
It will happen when;
1. They allow traffic to flow freely on what used to be open road systems, by removing pointless constraining features like road humps, chicanes at the entrance to rural villages, insane 20 MPH speed limits on roads capable of sensible 30 MPH and 40 MPH limits, policy of road narrowing by building out pavements, endless traffic lights and pedestrian crossings and so on. Removal of LTNs and one way routing policies, along with parking restrictions and congestion charging,
2. They repeal the Net Zero. legislation introduced by Theresa May appended to Ed Miliband’s Climate Change Act 2008. That would immediately open up our gas and oil production in the North Sea and bring in much needed revenue for the exchequer plus it would lower energy prices by reducing expensive imports.
3. Reduce bureaucratic interference imposed on employers by ‘trendy’ policy makers. No more DEI no more ESG, no more unworkable employee empowerment rights that are actively stopping companies recruit due to costs and loss of power to remove workers who do not perform as contracted.
4. They stop throwing good money at the French bureaucrats and police to control the migrants leaving French shores. It is obvious the French have no desire or reason to stop unwanted aliens in their country from departing. A simple diplomatic note to the French government that henceforth any vessel carrying illegal undocumented persons entering UK waters would be escorted back to France or Belgium or wherever its point of embarkation was. That would stop the boat migrant crisis in a week. WE know exactly where each and every migrant boat departs from they are all tracked along with the French navy escorts helping them make it into UK waters.
5. When they stop increasing taxation levels on spending and essential service providers.
6. When the police are instructed to police the laws that exist rather than spending time of social engineering practices looking at hurty words and people involved in open civilised debates with friends. Stopping phone thefts by electric bike riders stopping shop lifters by detaining them and imposing fines where appropriate etc. Removing undocumented drivers and their illegal uninsured vehicles from our roads.
7. When they stop wasting tax payers money bailing out overspending councils and public bodies that have no desire or penalties for exceeding their known revenue stream so borrow from government knowing ultimately government will write of the debts they run up. I won’t mention the BoE that has already been covered.
That little list would do for starters. Sadly it would be akin to asking the leopard to remove its spots for Labour to do any of them, so unlikely to happen during this administration.
September 29, 2025
All good points.
September 29, 2025
“There has been speculation about a debt crisis”
Speculate no more – it’s here! Spending is clearly out of control, with no plan to cut expense. 10 year gilts were 1.7% ten years ago, the 10 year rate is now 4.7% – so just rolling 10 year gilts over now costs nearly three times as much to service. No wonder Rachel was in tears!
September 29, 2025
@IanT – correctly it is more a spending, uncontrolled spending crisis. Spending without first secure how to earn and pay for things in a resilient and sustainable way is just heading for a crisis
September 29, 2025
A Socialist unveiled yesterday: ”People join the Labour Party because you want to change the world. Because you feel in your soul, fiercely that things can and must be better. So I totally understand why people are impatient for change.’ Jonathan Ashworth, Sky News, 28/09/2025.
How about stop burdening the British people with your global vision and your regressive interference and focus on delivering strong and sustainable growth here at home which will deliver prosperity for all. That is your job as the British government.
September 29, 2025
Mr Ashworth, like all of his ‘comrades’ (who much prefer to be called ‘progressives’ these days), is really strong on dogma & virtue singanlling but is completely useless at reconciling his political beliefs with practical policies that we can actually afford.
“Let everyone eat Cake – but first hang the Bakers and burn down the Bakery!” seems completely logical to these people.
September 29, 2025
Mr. Ashworth prudently does not identify for whom his Party seeks change so “.. things can and must be better”. Plenty will believe its constituency is the welfare scroungers, public sector parasites, and bogus asylum seekers – but perhaps Mr. Ashworth knows that.
September 29, 2025
Sir John
What you are describing is the need for someone to turn up in Parliament with a desire to do the job that their electorate has paid and empowered them to do.
It all circulates around a strong and growing economy, a country earning and creating the wealth to fund a tomorrow a future to fund the aspirational projects. Not sending what little is generated around for no gain. Not feeding ego with other people’s money.
The money comes first, as it is said ‘it is the economy stupid’
Your points 2-5 & 7,8 are all the same, the answers to the saturation are fed by just having an economy, a resilient and sustaining economy. All the ego projects, and those perusing them, first and foremost think it starts and end with spending other people’s money to boost their personal self-esteem, so they trash everyone else’s future, they fight them at every junction as it is their personal ego at stake. But who from the rest of us give a monkey about someone else personal ego? Its our future they are trashing.
September 29, 2025
Point 1 there is no ‘Will’ from those MPs sitting in this Parliament to stop the criminal invasion. No one else is causing it, no one else is funding the criminal gangs – just simply our MPs in Parliament ‘hate’ the UK and want to change it to another culture.
The 650 MPs are the sole legislators for the UK, the make, amend and repeal all legislation. Its not the legal system that is running rings around us, it is the MPs all refusing to change things, the Laws they make. MPs are the latest free-loaders in all this, it is their ‘Will’ or lack of it that has created this problem.
It is Parliament and its MPs that are taking money from the Taxpayer to Fund the Home Office and the Legal Offices(they say they are charities) to give these criminals the best advice and find them the best legal advice all paid for by the Taxpayer. All the time this hyper funding, of the benefits paid, the free phones, health etc keeps getting boosted by those sitting in Parliament they are saying lets keep it rolling.
Lets no forget it is illegal, therefore criminal to enter the UK without permission. Parliament its MPs fight the UK Citizen with their own money to ensure the Law can always be circumvented. The UK Parliament its MPs think UK Citizens are WAYCIST (thank you Donna) and right-wing fascists so need locking up and replacing
September 29, 2025
On the other hand I’m hoping that Labour will fail to deliver its promise (Mission #4) for Clean Power (well, 95%) by 2030. NESO has costed this at “over £40bn annually” and makes it clear that it will involve electricity rationing, euphemistically called Demand Side Response (DSR) of between 20% and 40% of peak demand by 2030 depending upon how much electricity we can import over the interconnectors. This cost is in addition to the £220bn already spent on subsidising renewables and the current subsidy of £26bn/year according to Professor Gordon Hughes of the Renewable Energy Foundation. All to demonstrate to the world that we are curbing our CO2 emissions, the gas of life that greens the planet and for which the real climate history and current science shows has no or negligible effect on global temperature.
September 29, 2025
Surely nobody expected labour to do what they said they would do?
That manifesto was just some kind of half-intent, designed to get them into power as they looked like a responsible crowd.
You will note that manifesto spoke nothing of digital Ids or surrendering assets or getting far too close to the EU.
As for where they are taking us – Imagine the worst possible variation of an Orwellian world, add in a super elite who would live like lords, while the rest of us are made effectively economic slaves, controlled at every stage, and you would get a vague idea of our future under this USSR style regime.
September 29, 2025
If any government ignores their own manifesto and introduces new policies (especially after only one year in government) ….they should seek a new mandate from the people via a confidence vote ie a general election
September 29, 2025
The answer to your closing question is: “Never under a Labour Government”, no matter who is leading it. Socialists will never vote for policies that will curb spending and impose discipline. And if Starmer is ousted, his successor is likely to be worse, and probably more likely to be able to ward off Reform, which at present appears to be the only hope; or will a rabbit leap out of the hat at the Conservative conference?
September 29, 2025
This is plainly a government all at sea. If Mr. Burnham wants to make his challenge he is constrained now surely only by his own appetite for risk and daring (and the career-cancelling prospect of losing any parachuting-in by-election to Reform).
September 29, 2025
The Home Secretary to- day is hitting the Media with deflection, trying to move to another interpretation of the problem of the Governments/Parliaments in-action of the Criminal invasion.
Rather than talk of the criminals invading, that is illegal, yet get to stay indefinite. The Home Secretary has chosen to attack those that arrive legally to make out they are the sole problem when they don’t leave after their visa has expire.
This is Labours(2TK) revised attack on Farage saying its racist etc. to suggests those that have a ‘legitimate right’ to be in the UK should be compelled to leave. Which I have not found to be true in any of his (Farage’s) utterances. 2TK’s attack is based on the premise that the NHS can’t survive without cheap illegal immigrants. Lawyer speak all over it.
To reiterate what most of us see is the problem, our shore being invaded, in a criminal act. These Criminals then get more protection, more benefits than the UK Citizen who are the only ones paying for these criminals.
Trying to change the narrative changes nothing. Government/Parliament doesn’t have the ‘Will’ to stop foreign criminal activity on our shores
September 29, 2025
O/T – Lest you are stuck for diary topics (as if!) proposing your budget measures before late November when the Chancellor disappoints us all would be illuminating please.
(I am not unmindful that you have identified in the recent past a good number of spending cuts that the Chancellor would be wise to make in light of the state of government finances.)
September 29, 2025
The catastrophic Chancellor is coming back for lots more money in November
Time to run !! popular destinations are Milan, Madrid & UAE
Oh and we now have a Housing Minister who has no idea how many houses they have built
No idea at all when interviewed by Camila
September 30, 2025
JP: Our leader’s Plan for Change and no doubt his New Towns Taskforce, intends to ” sweep aside the blockers to get homes built” and Mr Reed has also said ” whatever it takes to get Britain building” ( just like they are promising to do whatever it takes to stop illegal immigration, except we all have our opinion on that one ) Meanwhile, villages and many other other areas at risk of proposed ridiculous numbers of new housing, which in many cases appear totally unreasonable, irresponsible & often unacceptable, continue to fight for moderation and common sense and with public and local residents’ help, and finance their own legal actions & reviews to try to limit what is being imposed on them. I can think of several in my own region.
September 29, 2025
10:22AM ; Starmer has restored Britain’s reputation abroad, says Cooper..? – the delusion continues.
Cooper’s friends abroad just want to know what they can take, not what they can reciprocate on..
“There is a choice between a Labour foreign policy rooted in our belief that strength at home depends on our partnerships abroad, and whatever chaotic Right-wing ideology we end up facing at the next election with politicians who are happy for us to surrender our national interests or slide into isolation.” Cooper says..
So, putting the UK, its people, the ones paying ‘all’ the bills, before those wanting just want to ‘take’ as other have suggested, is a weakness?. Keeping one’s fingers crossed that those that just take might one day reciprocate, is ego talking, personal ego talking, because you have lost the plot, your way and are desperate to change the narrative. Labour which includes Cooper can’t protect UK resources from those that pretend to be our friends, 3 years of fish – we will give you 12, we don’t need our fishing industry. We will pay you to stop the boats, then as friends and buddies you ensure the criminals get safe passage. Our Lawyer mates want to make money, there is no Law on this Planet that says the Chagos Islands are not British Territory, so lets pay someone to take them of our hands, some of the money will come back to the UK, maybe in the UK’s Legal professions pockets.
Money down the drain, if the Taxpayer still has some lets steal it and send it abroad that is protecting the UK
All the threats to the UK come from within
September 29, 2025
It is time to make General Election manifestos a legally binding document, so the government can be sued and removed for failing to fulfil their promises. Equally, we need a recall law or system for MPs, so they cannot ignore what voters want.
Every problem we have, housing, the NHS, GPs, the Welfare state, dentists, overcrowded roads, and ever-increasing debt is down to uncontrolled immigration. We are not the world’s policeman or nurse, and if we continue to allow uncontrolled immigration, we will lose our UK culture. We cannot absorb nearly a million new people each year! Why are our MPs so blind to the problem? Why are they so blind to the Net Zero problem?
Meanwhile, the PM calls Reform and Nigel Farage racist, which means I have finally decided to vote for Reform in any local elections and the next General Election, after a lifetime of voting conservative!
September 29, 2025
Much of it is bog standard labour socialism and envy but Starmer’s Gang is particularly vicious with a targeted racist and anti-semitic, anti-christian and anti-British streaks. It is deeply nasty and damaging, designed to make reversal by a subsequent government impossible (a lesson from Blair and Brown).
It is no exaggeration to say Starmer’s Gang is an enemy of Britain, not just the enemy inside the gates but in the driving seat destroying the Britain it hates so deeply.
September 29, 2025
I see a nephew of one of the senior Taliban we were fighting not so long ago, and their family, have been given asylum in the UK.
An immigration judge granted the request despite none of the family speaking English.
This country is in serious trouble.
September 29, 2025
We should never have been in Afghanistan in first place. Absolutely daft war which lots of people thought even before we sent the troops in. Another consequence of this daft war. Many British soldiers lost their lives. And cost us billions of pounds that we could have spent instead on helping to turn the UK into the world’s second Silicon Valley.
(And we give Tony Blair a knighthood ??)
September 29, 2025
403 criminals were illicitly shipped, into the UK yesterday on the 28th September from France…..
September 29, 2025
Our Western culture and society crumbling all around. Politics means diddly-squat if it doesn’t have the materials to work with. Reintroducing national service (for about 3 months) would help. Some other Western European countries have it. It would teach young men discipline, rely on self, work ethic, how to work with group, toughen up, man up and become more patriotic.