I would like the PM to offer us some optimism about our individual futures and about the mission of our nation. Instead the government offers us a mixture of lies, false forecasts and gloom.
When talking about the future you can offer an absurdly optimistic forecast which is similar to a lie, you can offer an optimistic forecast which you might be able to hit which is spinning, or you can set out a positive direction which is safer.
The government’s problem is an increasing number of its promises are turning out to be lies.
The promise to avoid tax increases on working people has been broken.
The promise not to increase National Insurance has been broken with higher NI for those saving for a pension .
The promise not to increase rates of Income tax has been broken for the people who will be dragged into higher tax bands
The promise to smash the gangs shows no signs of being met, with numbers well up instead
The promise to get 1.5 m homes built is becoming increasingly impossible to keep
The promise to cut energy bills seems very difficult to keep
How many of these promises were lies?
When it comes to the past, lies are clearer cut.
They lied over black holes in the finances to blame the previous government for their decision to raise taxes when higher taxes were needed for their large spending increases.
They lie that Brexit cut GDP by 4% and damaged our trade.
They lie that Truss crashed the economy because she raised the ten year interest rate for one day only to 4.38%. All this year the ten year rate has been above 4.38%, the Reeves penalty, but they say that has not crashed the economy. The Truss excessive deficit was reversed before it was implemented. Reeves makes excessive deficits regular features .
They lie they have stabilised the economy, when they have undermined the bond market, driven unemployment and inflation up and growth down.
The petty lies also serve to undermine the credibility of what they say. Rachel Reeves misled us about her past jobs, her abilities as a junior chess player and her compliance with rules applying to her as a landlord. Angela Rayner misled over paying taxes on her homes. The anti Corruption Minister had to resign before being given a 2 year prison sentence for corruption abroad, a verdict she says is wrong .
December 8, 2025
Good Morning,
Complaining about politicians lying, especially by those in the UK in recent years, is rather like complaining there’s too much rain in November…
December 8, 2025
Indeed Peter – recalls the old adage about spotting a politician lying as his lips were moving.
I find it ironic that so many are still beating up Trump for his actions. Ironically he IS largely doing what he promised pre election.
December 8, 2025
Or the politician praising the Royal Navy in glowing colours and then saying rhetorically “and why do I say this?” “Because you are in Portsmouth?” shouts someone in the audience!
December 8, 2025
Politicians lie with impunity.
Trump ‘The Peacemaker’ is also a big liar.
Dreadful though it is, it occasionally has entertainment value. Starmer under the cosh from Beth Rigby, trying unsuccessfully to talk over her and using words like ‘headwinds’ he had been instructed to employ to excuse failure.
December 8, 2025
Agreed, but the members of this Labour Government are doing it far more blatantly than previous administrations.
I guess they know they have a “free pass.”
December 8, 2025
True but once elected they would be far better setting out a sensible vision that would work and then deliver it. Labour, two Tier and doom loop Reeves’s vision is higher taxes, more red tape, fewer working and ever more claiming benefits, rip off unreliable and so called “renewable” energy, more of the rich, the non doms and hard working leaving, more private schools closing down, open door to low skilled largely net dependent migrants then a back door rejoin the EU as far as we dare agenda… lower taxes take so more borrowing and higher taxes again shortly… A let’s kill all growth agenda and yet Reeves does a growth, growth, growth rain dance.
December 8, 2025
THE STARKEY THESIS PART 6 – Question & Answer session
David Starkey Talks video is worth watching.
He points out what a catastrophe it is that King Charle and William’s take this foolish political stance on the climate alarmism is and foolish too that No 10 has for many years permitted and even encouraged this damaging to the monarchy and the country lunacy.
December 8, 2025
Nobody can control Charles. He has indoctrinated his son.
They are both responsible for undermining their own position.
Charles was a unlucky name to choose for a future King.
December 8, 2025
indeed neither is very bright but surely they can see that keeping out of politics and especially out of the deluded war on CO2 where they are both wrong and hugely (do as I say not as I do plebs) hypocritical too. Stick to real environmental issues if they must. Not let’s destroy jobs and the economy, our defence and freeze elderly grannies agenda.
Man cleared of race-hate crime in just 17 minutes is barred from coaching his daughter’s football team for his ‘right-wing views’ I see. Without juries he would surely be in jail by now another political prisoner under Starmer’s war on free speech like 31 months Lucy Connolly. Debanked too it seems – not sure which bank! The process is the punishment!
December 8, 2025
Thank goodness for Toby Young’s free speech union!
December 8, 2025
But then The Crown Estate “manages” the seabed around the UK coast and earns significant revenue by leasing it for offshore wind projects. Profits reached a record £1.1 billion (over $1.3 billion) annually. Much of this doubtless from subsidies coming out of the pockets of his “subjects” in extra tax and utility bills and for many the loss of jobs and destruction of many whole industries too.
December 8, 2025
Unlucky? Perhaps they had a premonition?
December 8, 2025
Yes he never had any difficulty with living up to being ‘a right Charlie’.
December 8, 2025
@Peter Wood +1
It used to be the accepted trait of car salesmen, estate agents, even ‘the barrow boy spiv’, but the UK Parliament has out done them all. Parliament use to waffle on about the integrity and dignity of its members, yet they elevate failures of their members, the give those should never be near its buildings let alone in the same town honours, well paid appointments and a pat on the back. How low can the UK Parliament get? Well added to Sir John’s list they more than 50% of them support the cancellation of elections, support the now embedded to tier justice system. They are now preposing handing the dishing out of justice by politicised judges .
December 8, 2025
‘Power to the People’ episode from Yes, Prime Minister is apposite to the present local election debacle. In addition it epitomises the contempt that the civil service holds for the ‘fools’ in the HoC. A parody being re-enacted in real life.
December 8, 2025
It’s a liebour government, just like the tories before
them. Immigration down to the tens of thousands, actually went up every year. The brutal lockdowns now being seen as unnecessary and damaging. Failing to leave the EU and binding us with the Windsor Agreement.
Yes liebour lies but the other parties other than Reform lie.
Before the budget a kite wad flown saying the 5% vat on energy bills would be scrapped. As this id the easiest way to reduce bills , you have to ask why it’s not been scrapped. We all know the answer, they need Brussels permission because of Northern Ireland being in the single market and they don’t wish to advertise the fact.
We have over 3 years left of this lying, sleazy government time enough to do irreparable damage which is their mission.
Reply So why are Reform Councils putting spending and Council tax up by the maximum when they promised cuts? Do they still keep to their promise of proportional representation? ( not a good idea in my view)
December 8, 2025
Reform have only been in control of councils for a few months inheriting massive debts and overspend by the uniparty administrations. It will take time to sort out the mess but some very positive things have been happening. Cancelling climate change budgets and redirecting spending to flood defences for one. Saving millions not replacing vehicles with EVs etc. Give them time.
Reply They all accepted the inherited budgets for their first year, and all are proposing substantial increases in spending for next year. Worcestershire is seeking permission to borrow extra to meet running costs in both years when Councils are only meant to borrow for investment. When will they make the large cuts they said were easy?
The big national tax cuts they offered in the General Election have been abandoned. They back increasing the benefits bill by increasing numbers eligible, want to nationalise rail, steel and water which will be very expensive and have seen the government adopt their sensible policy of cutting overseas aid only to spend all the savings.
December 8, 2025
O/T it looks like the EU under pressure from the car manufacturers are going to extend the ban on ICE cars till 2040. This will leave the UK out on a limb, unable to meet the mandated targets and more models pulled from the showroom. The total collapse of the motor industry will be completed
Another positive in the deindustrialising process by the uniparty.
Reply I have called again for a long delay or lifting of this idiotic ban.The last government did delay it. This government is determined to close our industry by 2030.
December 8, 2025
@Ian Wragg – the EU and its member States are invested in industry and manufacturing for their future.
The UK Parliament guided by May, Johnson, Sunak and now Starmer have sort and primarily succeeded in smashing the UK’s ability to manufacture have an industrial base to earn and fund a future. What residue is left is primarily just assembly of foreign produced components. Even the Jaguar Land Rover future in the UK that is receiving taxpayer funding from Parliament and Sunak is in the hands of Indian Industry supported with Chinese imported components. Yet the same company without support makes new (new Models) Jaguar ICE cars in China
December 8, 2025
How will it go when Northern Ireland can still buy ICE cars until 2040 because they’re in the single market but you can’t buy them in the mainland. I see a business opportunity arising.
December 8, 2025
So another shipping company has stopped transporting EVS due to the fact once ignited they can’t be extinguished. Not good publicity now they’re as expensive as petrol motors to run.
Looks like he solution to no known problem us dying off.
December 8, 2025
@Ian Wragg – Northern Ireland, as you say! It least the will be RH drive and no restrictions on driving on the mainland.
We have a Parliament that is unable to think rationalise. NI is not alone in being able to sell us RH cars after the UK Parliament has banned the ‘sale’
December 8, 2025
To reply:- well the blob, central government and the legal system and the council workers will try to prevent them as far as they can – but give them a chance.
December 8, 2025
Face facts, Reform can’t control the election budget of Clacton.
Now like rats in a sack, they accuse their accuser of worse.
Farage has NEVER, in 30 odd years on the fringes of politics, been able to maintain a team, much less a team of capable people.
Rupert Lowe is a different proposition altogether, an instinctive conservative and a brave man defending his country for no personal benefit.
We need to get around him and the best need to form a team – JR?
December 8, 2025
Well he talks a lot of sense but “getting around” Lowe is not going to win power. Even reform will struggle in first past the post against the Socialists, the Blob, the Con-socialists, the often dire lefty judges and the dire Blair/Brown and now Kier/Lammy/Milibrain’s “long march through the institutions” how they captured power, subverted democracy and shape the narrative.
December 8, 2025
FPTP is what will provide them with a majority. After a certain % you are I. Unbeatable territory, see Starmer.
Even Farage knows this which is why that have ditched their PR ‘promise’.
Don’t be like Mr Gold and refuse to change your mind in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
It’s not worthy of you.
December 9, 2025
In 30 years Farage is the only one standing up against the EU in Brussels, support has been mediocre until the electorate noticed what the uni-party has done to us. Now perhaps woken up and smelt the coffee?
December 8, 2025
@Reply – I am no fan of Reform, there is little as yet going for them. I would vote Conservative every-time, but there is no Conservative Party! Its left the satge, deserted the Country. The party calling itself Conservative kicked all its conservatives out after David Cameron morphed in to being a Liberal Democracy Party, a ConSosialist, Uniparty.
Reforms only attraction is it is ‘not the Others’ We need the next stage of disruption to rebalance integrity and sensibility into our Parliament. Its a long haul and battle to allow the UK to become a Democracy
December 8, 2025
In recent history Blair kicked of the destruction of society, started the distortion and inexactitudes. Cameron came along and said he couldn’t (or wouldn’t) change the destruction and opened the door to the subsequent building of the attrition against the Nation and its people.
All those that followed had the authority and the empowerment of the electorate to adjust and realign the drift into obscurity and poverty, all refused. We quite rightly highlighted the heightened magnitude of the corrupt thoughts and deeds by this incumbent shower. But cast your minds back everyone this century has been engaged in the fight against the nation and its people. No Parliament can blame their predecessors. Their predecessors have moved on, each one of those sitting in the House of Commons own all ‘outcomes’ of today. Otherwise why are they there? Did they think the job was a free-loading ego trip? They are the only ones able to legislate, amend, repeal everything that causes our society to exist – no one else
December 8, 2025
I wouldn’t believe a word of whatever the PM said. He says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear.
December 8, 2025
Good morning
Let’s be honest for once.This would not be the first government to tell lies, and I don’t think it will be the last. So no surprises there.
What does concern me is our constanterosion of our civil liberties, with the removal of the of trial buy jury being the latest example. The claim that this is to help reduce the numbers is off. Is false as they have not stated trial by jury will be returned once the numbers have fallen.
It seems to me that we are being set up for the end of democracy as predicted by Lord Mandleson.
December 8, 2025
Agreed, the lies really started big time under the Blair government, with Alastair Campbell in charge of so called “spin” Unfortunately successive governments since then see that this is the way forward to buy them time, whilst they try and manipulate the economy, or anything else that they want to kick into the long grass.
We actually went to WAR on a lie, with the Governments production of a manipulated document.
No wonder our trust in politicians is at an all time low.
December 8, 2025
No wonder the lies continue, Mp’s are not allowed to call another politician a liar when speaking in Parliament, but they can expose anyone else with impunity in the house, under parliamentary protection.
Aware we need sensible rules/guidelines, but double standards ?
December 8, 2025
@Mark B – trying to manipulate with fairy tale stories. On the same lines of saying every area of the country must use ‘facial recognition’ provided by Chinese supplied CCTV to stamp out criminals? To that end these networks have to be supplied by data of passport photos – the very big lie. The so-called criminals at large these systems are looking for already have the photos of these criminal individuals embedded in the system – so the are 100% known already. The only reason to tie these systems in with passport photos is for ‘everyday tracking and control’. This concept is a Parliament in fear of and fighting the people.
December 8, 2025
It never ceases to amaze me that so many people seem to be surprised by Labour’s governance.
It’s not as if they don’t have form is it?
All their actions and words in opposition gave a crystal clear glimpse of what was to come, particularly regarding the boats.
By the time we get to a general election (unless Starmer finds a way to cancel!!) I imagine both Reform and Conservatives will have to re-write their pledges because what they think is possible today won’t be possible in 3 weeks time, let alone 3 years.
The full extent of the damage will probably not be known until whoever takes over gets the keys to No.10.
Remember the note left by the previous Labour government.
The finances won’t be the only thing in ruins and in many ways it’s all the other damage being done that will be the most disastrous.
December 8, 2025
I’ve heard that all these liebour MPs have Banana shaped beds so that they can have a good night sleep 😴
December 8, 2025
I’ve also heard they’re so bent you have to screw them our of their cars.
December 8, 2025
and they do seem to be rotten to the core when exposed to a little heat.
December 8, 2025
It appears to me to be deliberate demoralisation of the nation: a despised, demoralised, defeated people are more easily controlled, corralled and in due course “cancelled.”
The native British people are being controlled, corralled and “cancelled” by the Globalists and mass immigration. Within the next 30 years they will become a minority in their own lands.
There is nothing unintended about this.
December 8, 2025
@Donna +99
December 8, 2025
In the light of events, all those people who were deemed to support Labour into gaining office should now be entitled to break their promise. From school age, Britons are taught that it is a tick that means Yes, but a cross means NO! In conformance with the negative way this govt operates, they have adequate grounds to claim that their true intentions were misled and thereby yank Labour out of power with immediate effect.
December 8, 2025
Sir John,
As you know the art of politics is pursuit of the possible. Sadly our Labour politicians and also some past Tory ministers are guilty of spinning stories that are simply lies, issued into the public space for policy purposes.
The fact the Labour administration currently spinning lies is at a level even their own supporters can see through, is indicative of a failing political class.
It used to take years to fully appreciate the scale of new government lies, but thanks to two tier Keir and Rachel from Accounts, plus David mastermind Lammy giving us their best pearls of political wisdom regularly, we now recognise political nonsense almost immediately.
We have learned to be grateful for that small mercy…
December 8, 2025
The art of politics is NOT being in persuing of the possible.
Communism is possible.
This is a democracy, in a democracy politics is about maintaining your own electability and that means increasing the wellbeing of the electorate at a faster rate than your opponent.
December 8, 2025
Lynn, The fact communism has been/is adopted by politicians proves my definition right, those engaged in the political scene were able to achieve their communist ambition just as those in Germany in the 1920 and 30s were able through politics to achieve fascism from their National Socialist beginnings.
Pursuit of the possible does not rule out anti democratic outcomes, sadly.
Actually, if you look at what Starmer is doing he is pursuing totalitarianism, banning elections, delaying elections, putting police into political control to shut down criticism and arresting those speaking truth to power. Not to mention threatening those journalists who dare to challenge the preferred narrative of the left, think of Alison Pearson.
We live in dangerously troubling times.
December 8, 2025
‘the art of crafting words to suggest one thing, but can later be explained as the opposite’
December 8, 2025
Sadly I always think of the line that believing a politician has your interests at heart is like thinking the stripper really likes you.
The hysteria around a brief rate spike under Truss compared to the silence about the long term issues under Labour also indicate a lack of serious analysis or judgement from our media or vocal Left in society.
I don’t think we would be here if we didn’t have more faith in you Sir John but sadly your wisdom is usually ignored until it’s too late.
December 8, 2025
In a democracy the well-being of the politician and the electorate are tied together.
The politician can act in his own best interest because that causes him to act in his electorates best interest too.
That is British Democracy.
The Continental and other versions allow the political class to be detached from the electorate and not subject to the same laws, see the ex- Deputy PM (can’t remember her name) and Reeves being excused from the even handed application of the law.
December 8, 2025
Went out for Sundsy lunch at our local pub yesterday with our son and his family. I sat enjoying my grandson playing games and wondered what kind of future he had (and how long the pub would still be around).
December 8, 2025
The last budget front loaded spending with tax rise to come near the election.
We will be bust by then.
“Stop spending our money”
December 8, 2025
It’s the sweet lies that get politicians elected, such is the gullibility of the British electorate. That’s why we have a £3tn National Debt with a dwindling number of working people available to support it.
And these Labour and Conservative voters believe they deserve a state pension.
December 8, 2025
We are NOT gullible. We knew what we were doing. Killing off the traitorous Conservative Party so a real one can emerge (it’s NOT Reform) had to be done.
We knew we were going to go through the fire.
December 8, 2025
No! killed off due to becoming totally unacceptable. Lies, indifference, squabbling, corruption, collusion, scheming and self serving. Is that enough?
December 8, 2025
waiting for a phoenix? A think the tide will continue to drown the bird for a generation.
December 8, 2025
It’s surely gone further than “lies, spin and boosterism”? We now have a Parliament giving away our fishing grounds to the EU, giving away territory with a dowry with the Chagos Islands scandal, the Westminster spy scandal and the intended approval of a mega Chinese embassy. In addition we have the sabotaging of our energy, industry and national security by replacing cheap, abundant, reliable fossil fuels available from multiple sources including our own with “green” devices supplied by China, a state described by our security forces as “hostile”. Plus the deliberate inability to stop the invasion from across the Channel and the continuing of mass immigration. This should not be a surprise given that the Chancellor is a member of the Fabian Society as was our PM before becoming an MP (in fact a senior member) a far Left organisation whose logo is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. But it gets worse as the Civil Service and the national broadcaster, not just the politicians, are now giving us “lies, spin and boosterism”.
December 8, 2025
All part of the ‘Plan’, of the UK Parliament, of its chosen Government. It seems to be playing into the ethos of the WEF, destroy, destroy so as to redefine a World in your own ‘personal’, very personal image.
The bit missed is the ‘World’ is on a different track they are seeking growth, earnings, a way forward to improve the lot of their people and their nation. So they get to laugh at how stupid and naive the UK Parliament is, putting personal ideology before a future. The World doesn’t go to the WEF’s religious meetings.
December 8, 2025
Lying, lying to the People, to Parliament. While it is still lies, it is Parliament saying ‘up yours’ we define what dignity, integrity and honesty is. We, your UK Parliament seek to reward the liars, lying in Parliament is the way forward. Seeking to be dishonest in Parliament is the way forward. The World of the Politburo.
You the people those that empower and pays us, if you lie, if you are dishonest, if you speak out against us your are right-wing fascists. We your parliament, your rulers, will put you down, call you names lock you up, you have to submit to our personal two tier standards, we(parliament) are against the people.
Why do I keep emphasising ‘parliament’? It is because it is 50% +1 of its membership those that hold our systems and structures, their chosen government to account, that believe, think, and reinforce these personal double standards on us all
December 8, 2025
That’s too optimistic a wish. The PM knows where he is taking us but won’t explain it to the likes of you or me because his agenda goes against everything we believe in. We are headed for:
– a full on socialist state to rival China or North Korea, ruled with a heavy hand from Brussels;
– nobody will own anything and we will all be happy;
– we will all do as we are told without dissent – in future critics of HMG will be punished by being ostracized and then cancelled;
– any money or resources your earn or accumulate will be considered property of HMG.
No wonder they have to deceive us so frequently, but would we believe them if they told us the obvious truth?
December 8, 2025
Same old cycle get country in debt then general election followed austerity to get us back on line.
December 8, 2025
@Rodney +1 Good point
This one is even worse than usual – the debt is almost exceeding our ability to pay.
This time the socialists may just achieve what they’ve always wanted….
December 8, 2025
Not the same old cycle. This circle is broken.
December 8, 2025
Oh Yes
December 8, 2025
I’ll have some of what you are drinking!
December 8, 2025
A follow on from yesterdays Sir John’s Diary thoughts
“Donald Trump has warned that Netflix’s $83bn (£62bn) takeover of the studios behind hits such as Harry Potter and Succession “could be a problem”.”
“The US president said there was “no question” that the streaming giant’s deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) would raise competition concerns, given their combined market share.”
I see it as a brewing problem on content, content cartels, etc I don’t have any real answers other than the direction we are heading in is against a ‘free market’ and competition. ‘Tilly Norwood’ is one solution but these empires are trying have her banned.
Then back to today’s Diary offering, lies, spin a dysfunctional Parliament. ‘Tilly Norwood’ would maybe a better answer to our ever corrupting Parliament, certainly more believable
December 8, 2025
Liebours job and working tax is now fulfilling the Parliamentary Dream.
Employment slumps to 14-year low as Labour hammers jobs.
To the majority in Parliament that support this, remember when your electorate is feeling the pinch you supported this
December 8, 2025
I no longer understand what ‘government’ is for …..its not for the people!!! not even for the people that vote them in, their manifesto is meaningless, their budgets are meaningless, thier governance is beyond meaningless …unless you’re a european/internationalist
December 8, 2025
@glen cullen – on balance, on delivery of funding a future they are a waste of space and expense. My hobby horse it is not just those in government that are the problem it is more the more tan 50% of parliament that chose and hold them to account. there are some 325 plus individuals owning all today’s situation that could all change things today but refuse. Is that, they don’t care, they agree with direction or haven’t woken up to the mess they created and own?
Just changing the government, its leadership, to others with the same proven belief set changes nothing..
December 8, 2025
Agree
December 8, 2025
When have Labour been any different? You have to have a sour vision of the UK and its people to be a Labour MP.
Starmer and Reeves have been pessimistic about the UK economy since they were elected. Under the pressure of office, their real character has been exposed. They are little people with no talent for their jobs.
They are both proven liars, and who now believes a word they say?
Proper leadership is tough because you have to make hard decisions that many people will dislike. Often, those decisions are for the good of the UK in the long term, but cause short-term pain.
For many years, the UK economy has grown despite the government, not because of it. It just gets harder with Labour in government, even though it applies to the Conservatives as well.
December 8, 2025
The PM’s new control of the Nation and its people. Twist the intention of one thing to contrive a control elsewhere
reported in the Media and the Free Speech Union (FSU)
‘Safeguarding’ concerns being used to ‘silence’ people who speak out over illegal immigration by the Labour Party. The luxury of a jury, meant he was cleared by a jury after just 17 minutes.
Now branded right-wing and told less than a fortnight after his acquittal that a “child protection concern” made against him had been “substantiated” by the Football Association, in a private meeting with the local authority and the police. Who were judge and jury, concerned with ‘right-wing’ influences. The left are coming for the centre ground of the UK, those that show loyalty and work for the country.
The only ‘safeguarding’ is Parliament specifically TwoTierKier wanting protection from all his lies by calling those that disagree with him ‘Right-Wing’
December 8, 2025
SirJ you’re our loyal opposition by proxy ….as our official loyal opposition appears to be adrift, keep up the good work
December 8, 2025
@glen cullen +1 well said 100% agree.
December 8, 2025
Lying is a sign of mediocrity. How many mediocre leaders have there been over the centuries. So many. True leaders such as Cyrus the Great, Saladin, and others are rare. Notice how Cyrus the Great and Saladin, although still flawed, were pious. That God was their God not their own ambition (ambition – great as long as aligned with God’s). And that they received all their mighty power, wisdom, courage and sense of fair play from God. God (The Christian One, ultimately) who created the universe – and us.
(Like Bach who glorified God for all his music and that God was ultimately the muse of Bach. If only more in the world, including politicians, were more like Bach in humility, our world would be a much better and a more beautiful place).
December 8, 2025
By far the biggest lie told to us is that the world will end if we continue to burn fossil fuels. Both the historical and scientific evidence is that additional atmospheric CO2 has little, if any, effect on global warming or climate. They know this and for them the real goal of their proposed Net Zero “solution” is firstly to impoverish and secondly to control the population down to the individual level through the electrification of heating and transport and the use of smart metering. Happer & Wijngaarden have demonstrated using the IPCC’s own radiative warming theory that there is already sufficient CO2 in the atmosphere to cause all the warming feasible and hence adding more CO2 makes little, if any, difference. A phenomenon known as saturation which is endorsed by The Royal Society and which is akin to adding more kitchen paper to a spill once the first few sheets have already absorbed all the liquid. An effect which also applies to the biggest greenhouse gas, water vapour. Furthermore, Tom Shula has pointed out the empirical evidence that the IPCC’s radiative theory is invalid because the Pirani gauge, a simple device invented in 1906 to measure pressure, shows that heat loss at the planet’s surface is through convection and conduction and not through radiation.
December 8, 2025
It is not just the low concentration of CO2. Ice cores encompassing 800,000 years of atmospheric cycles from Antarctica (EPICA C) have shown two salient facts:
1) the interglacial cycle (the dominant warming and cooling cycle) is about 100,000 years long and we are only a short way into the current warming part of the cycle.
2) In all inter-glacial warming periods increasing temperature precedes CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. Therefore rising CO2 cannot be the driver of warming but warming can be the driver of rising CO2.
December 8, 2025
Another whopper of a lie is the cost of renewable electricity. The politicians, such as the Labour MP Barry Gardiner, continue to quote the DESNZ Electricity Generating Costs 2023 report that the cost of gas generated electricity is £114/MWhr and electricity generated from fixed offshore wind is £44/MWhr. They all know this isn’t true. The current weighted (by installed capacity) average operating fixed offshore wind CfD is £149/MWhr and the average price for gas for the last year or so is around £70-£80/MWhr and which includes a carbon tax of around £20/MWhr. The CfD price for the next renewables auction round (AR6) is £113/MWhr for fixed offshore wind and £271/MWhr for floating offshore wind which the CEO of GB Energy says we will need as we are running out of shallow water. And the worst of it is that DESNZ intends to sign contracts for this exorbitantly expensive electricity for 20 years! And of course these prices do not take into account the wider system costs of grid upgrades, grid stability measures and grid-scale storage.
December 8, 2025
Did anyone seriously expect anything different.
Cameron and Co were much better
December 8, 2025
by what yardstick?
December 8, 2025
As well as lying about Brexit (They lie that Brexit cut GDP by 4% and damaged our trade)…Starmer and Lammy are prepared to stab our new CPTPP Partners in the back…after only recently joining.
The UK’s reputation becomes trash under Labour…and leaving the CPTPP would be an immoral step too far !!!
December 8, 2025
I had forgotten that UK had joined CPTPP which is a model of how to do large trade alliances and utterly different from the EU. Britain’s membership is due to the efforts of Liz Truss, who led the negotiations as Trade Secretary, with formal signing in July 2023. Re-aligning with the EU will however make UK’s continuiing memebrship of CPTPP somewhat problematic.
December 8, 2025
Over 1.5 million signed the petition for a parliamentary debate “Call an immediate general election” including myself. We know that it will not happen as Labour has such a majority.
What can we legally do to bring the demise of this government?
December 8, 2025
Latest from the Telegraph is that illegals crossing the Channel are given a free “trip” if they swallow drugs and hand them over when they excrete them in their hotels.
You simply couldn’t make it up that at many airports we are x-rayed on leaving but illegals are not treated similarly when they arrive. Human rights, I imagine!
December 8, 2025
“I would like the PM to offer us some optimism”
You might as well adress that to a speaking weight machine.
Starmer’s Gang is not interested in any of what you propose. They know perfectly well that what they want to do is universally unpopular except for the Hard Left and those intending to sponge off others, including illegal immigrants. Their intentions in respect of what most British people want are malign and destructive. They are naturally authoritarian and will not toerate any discussion or debate. They know that if they were honest about their intentions there would be rioting and violence because voters would have no alternative. There is no mechanism by which the public can eject a hateful malign government other than through mass protests. Starmer’s Gang would respond only with force, lethal if necessary.
There is no guarantee of a general election in 2029, although everyone seems to expect one.. It is not required by the Dissoultion and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 which leaves the govedrnment in office after parliament is automatically dissolved at the end of its five-year term. Starmer’s Gang has form on cancelling or postponing elections.
The future for Britain is griim, whichever way one looks at it: one party socialist police state or caliphate.
December 9, 2025
Hi sir john
I’m 78 years old have worked all my life what you say is very worrying you are someone in a position to speak out and get listened to
What chance gave i got my country is deterating by the day .
Sir john please help our country
Thank you