Under our complex constitution recorded in Acts of Parliament, conventions and Parliamentary rules a government with a majority can do as it wishes with laws, taxes and government decisions subject to public opinion and Parliamentary debates and votes. It cannot give our sovereignty away without a referendum vote or a clear mandate from a general election win where the surrender of power was a well highlighted issue.
This government is not offering a referendum on its so called EU re set yet it proposes to surrender major powers. In the election Labour promised to respect Brexit, keep us out of the single market and customs union, and seek minor improvements for food exporters and travelling musicians.
Instead it proposes to surrender our fish for 12 more years, pay large sums to the EU and sign up to dynamic alignment of our laws which is similar to going back into the single market. Meanwhile there is no guarantee that we will be able to export more food, there is no reward for giving away so much fish, no benefit for sending them so much cash and no easing of restrictions on musicians.
Dynamic alignment of laws will damage investment in the food industry, in digital and in healthcare in particular where we are beginning to get advantages from avoiding their worst over the top rules. Joining their dear carbon tax scheme and locking further into their energy market will drive energy prices higher and speed de industrialisation.
This disastrous re set will damage growth and jobs, make the government even less popular, and is against our constitutional practice. The idea that the EU would seek to impose a big penalty on the next government tearing up any such Agreement should warn any decent government off signing it. It means the EU thinks the terms they are getting are so good they would deserve compensation for ending them. This government seems to see it as a necessary poison pill to try to lock us into a bad deal. I assume the next government will want to end this likely rotten deal as soon as they win the election to take office.
January 13, 2026
Indeed looks like anti-British anti-democratic teachery to me – dynamic alignment with a Farage clause to lock the country in (should a sensible government be elected who wished to leave.
£9 trillion for May and Milibands net zero lunacy in a new report this equally damaging too – £300K per home. This is about right in my view. 30 million homes needing heat pumps, huge electrical grid expansion, extra insulation, vast expansion of wind power, carbon capture and solar, EVs (which to save any CO2 would have to be only charged on low carbon electricity as would the heatpumps) the vast export of whole industries, the vast damage to our ability to compete, to defend ourselves, for defence and to the economy.
Plus in the main it will just export the UK CO2 not really reduce it and CO2 and bit warmer for the UK are a net good anyway. Total insanity from May (and nearly all her tory MPs) and Miliband.
So what are the benefits of this vast “investment”? None what so ever it is all hugely negative. How did we end up being rules these Net Zero religious nutters (or are they deliberate treacherous vandals)?
January 13, 2026
good day to you LL
I see you won the “get the 1st post of the day” competition again
you got something setup to check for any changes to the site? or you just pressing the refresh button all night?
lol
January 13, 2026
ig,
LL is not always the first poster of the day.
Furthermore, his hegemony as most prolific poster on the site is now being challenged by others.
Perhaps he will pursue extreme measures, in the manner of Donald Trump, to restore the status quo?
January 13, 2026
@Lifelogic – and what the body that holds the Government to account Parliament , do? Nothing the majority agree and encourage this trettory. They all need to go, but they also support cancellation of elections.
January 13, 2026
@lifelogic – Perhaps the Farage clause will include a non-refundable deposit. £50bn in gold delivered to Brussels, no signature before receipt?
If you were the EU wouldn’t you ask? And if you were Starmer wouldn’t you pay?
January 13, 2026
No harm in asking is my approach to negotiation but then is Starmer negotiating for the UK or for himself or some other body. Nothing he has done so far suggests he wants to anything positive for the UK to me!
January 13, 2026
You voted for Brexit so our elected government could do what it wanted. Now here is our elected government doing what it wants. You might not like what it’s doing but tough, it’s Brexit and you voted for it
January 13, 2026
So manifesto in the bin, and lie to the voter
January 14, 2026
It worked, it’s the way to overturn democracy.
I see Reform saying exactly what people want to hear.
The only time it jars is when a person who in government did the very reverse lies to our face with Farage’s blessing.
We don’t need party, we need an agreement with candidates along the lines deployed in the BDI. A contract between constituency electorate and the candidate on pain of AUTOMATIC resignation if they deviate from the contract.
January 13, 2026
Walpole :
What you say is true except that a governmdnt should not ignore/deliberately go against the result of a referendum. Certainly not a government that obtained a measley 20% of available votes.
January 14, 2026
It isn’t going against the result of a referendum. The referendum decided we should leave the EU. And we left it, six years ago. If Starmer agrees to follow EU rules, that is perfectly consistent with the referendum, because we will not be following EU rules as a member of the EU. Because we are not a member of the EU, which is no more and no less than what the referendum decreed. Again, you might not like what Starmer is doing but tough, it’s Brexit and you voted for it
January 14, 2026
Walpole…so we agree to follow EU rules…but that is OK because we are not an EU member.
Very strange logic.
January 14, 2026
So we can unilaterally unfollow EU rules then with no delay or punishment.
That’s Ok then.
January 13, 2026
Can’t argue with your logic but dynamic alignment doesn’t appear to be letting future government doing what they want so the argument falls down there.
January 14, 2026
Dynamic alignment does not need a treaty. Lawson ‘dynamically aligned’ our currency to the D’Mark. The Germans did not even know about it. When the damage was obvious the ‘alignment’ was unilaterally stopped.
Walpole has fooled you.
January 14, 2026
Sovereignty means that the Government, elected ON A MANIFESTO, does what the people want. It’s the People who are Sovereign, not the Government.
January 15, 2026
Lynn, you are simply wrong. Under the UK constiution the people are not sovereign, nor is the government. Parliament is sovereign
January 13, 2026
Labour does not understand economic growth. They are too ideologically shackled to deliver it.
Today we grow at a paltry 1.3%. This is less than half our long-term average of about 3%. It is unrecognisable from the Thatcher highs of 5.5% and the Major highs of 4.9% Economic growth has downtrended since 2000. That downtrend has not been linear but the trend has been downwards.
To rectify this we need to address what has gone wrong since 2000. A full analysis will highlight various specific factors but there will be two main ones: the downtrend in labour productivity from 2000 and a continuously high overall tax burden. The former has been caused by excess legal migration diluting our output and the latter has been caused by fiscal irresponsibility.
Labour say its due to a lack of government spending and Brexit. Neither of these criteria are true and it suits their ideology to say so.
They scratch around on the world stage for deals and closer EU alignment as if the world might solve our economic malaise. The world will act in their interests and where there is any mutual benefit that will be a drop in the bucket compared with the shortfall in our GDP.
If Labour want our GDP growth rates restored they will need to cap legal migration at its long-term average of net 50k per year and reduce the overall tax burden to Major’s lows of 27% (the latter will take many years).
They will do neither so they will not deliver meaningful economic growth this year nor any year.
January 13, 2026
Labour is in survival mode, I saw the same condition with the Sunak Tory government ….its about getting through the day, satisfying there fringe voters, the advisors are in charge …”The Thick of it”
January 13, 2026
@Paul Freedman – economic growth, or the framework for it would release the Nation and its People to move forward and create a tomorrow. To emphasis, it is only the People that can do the actual achieving, governments cant, parliament cant, they can only create frameworks for it to happen or as now create frameworks for it not to happen.
The UK Parliaments this century are so wound up in personal ego, personal self esteem that they cant comprehend their own purpose. They prefer to keep their fight with the people and the nation, rather than work with them to ‘achieve’. Rather than get onside with the hardworking people of the nation, they prefer (no worship)
the ideology the religion of politics. It is their religion that is placed above common sense and facts
January 13, 2026
Good morning.
But we did give away our sovereignty. Back in 1972 the UK, without a referendum, joined what was called, The Common Market. In fact, the PM at the time, Edward Heath, later stated that, even if there was a referendum on join and the the UK voted to stay out, he would still have signed us up.
What I cannot understand is, what is the advantage of being a member of the EU ? Unless you are a terribly poor country or need a closed market to sell your goods there is nothing for you.
January 13, 2026
@Mark B – it off loaded the responsibility of Parliament to the unelected unaccountable relegating it to an order taking local council. Heath was a ‘Morning Cloud’ that evaporated as the day got going (perhaps to subtle for the younger generation).
January 13, 2026
You rightly say:- “This disastrous re set will damage growth and jobs, make the government (even) less popular, and is against our constitutional practice. The idea that the EU would seek to impose a big penalty on the next government tearing up any such Agreement should warn any decent government off signing it. It means the EU thinks the terms they are getting are so good they would deserve compensation for ending them. This government seems to see it as a necessary poison pill to try to lock us into a bad deal. I assume the next government will want to end this likely rotten deal as soon as they win the election to take office.”
It will as you say damage growth and jobs, make government even more hated but it will also kill our ability to defend the nation and at a cost of circa £300K per home and will no positives whatsoever. It is all entirely negative the vast cost and the outcomes! Another negative investment like the net harm Covid “vaccines” and Boris & Sunak’s idiotic paid for Covid Lockdowns that cost circa have a trillion. Net zero is more like £9 trillion.
January 13, 2026
Labour used to be all about the politics of envy however, now it is all about the politics of vindictiveness.
British politics has become poisoned by tribalism. In the past, one side won and one side lost. The losers accepted it but worked harder to win again next time. Today, the losers engage in dirty tricks to scupper the winner or who they think will win next time. The left are nasty and filled with hate,but the worst thing is that, like a cancer, they are in so many of the institutions needed for the smooth and effective running of our country. That is what the next government will really struggle to over come, especially if it’s a right leaning government. The MSM, the civil service, the unions etc will go into overdrive to block and hinder the incoming government.
January 13, 2026
The next incoming government should speak softly and enact change quietly. How about subjecting union fees to VAT? After all, it’s justified for school fees. Change the Equality Act so that the union is responsible for the misbehaviour of one of its members, rather than the employer. Unions are very good at making their members aware of their rights, so surely they can make them aware of their responsibilities as well.
Personally I would scrap VAT on school fees from day one, and later introduce a tax refund for parents who relieve the public purse of educational costs.
January 13, 2026
Nadhim Zahawi will surely damage Reform more than it helps this given his appalling history as the net harm Covid “Vaccine” pusher Tzar (the largest scandal of the past few years which will all be fully exposed very soon indeed), his HMRC tax issues and his support and even Chairman of the Con socialists and for net zero. An MPs for the whole of the 14 years of the disastrous con-socialism. He may have changed his views and become a useful, bright chap but his past does will not help Reform’s image one bit!
He should come out and say he was conned over the Covid vaccine safety and efficiency and demand release of the health and death stats. broken down by vaccine status. With his Chem Eng. degree he can I assume understand some stats.
January 13, 2026
You were one of the biggest vaccine proponents here, in particular for faster vaccinations for men, remember. How do you excuse your U-turn?
January 13, 2026
Had the vaccines been safe and effective then as it was rolled out by age and men of circa five years younger were similar risk to the older women then that roll out method would have saved many lives. But we know know the vaccines did not saves lives at all so this did not apply. The experts and Big Pharma got it wrong. Not 90% effective they clearly did net harm. Which is why they are not releasing the figures.
I perhaps foolishly assumed they had honest sensible people overseeing the trials. See the delightful Clare Craig on Mike Graham this AM and her excellent book!
January 13, 2026
Book is A Shot in the Dark!
January 13, 2026
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January 13, 2026
I agree. Not only did he not apologise for this role in promoting the vaccine, he actually lauded it as a great success. I was appalled by how he spoke at the press conference. Reform does not need dodgy failed ex-Tories.
Reply Not easy running a party. Turn down too many who want to join to keep it pure and you lose for lack of numbers. Accept in too many with different views and you alienate core supporters and lose.
January 13, 2026
This guy’s values are so far removed from the majority of Reform members, I can only think he is a Trojan horse placed in the party to destroy it. He believes in mass immigration, foreigners sending money back to their home countries and thinks what he did during the pandemic was a good thing. The vile things he has said about Nigel and the Reform Party in the past will not be forgotten, and he will never be trusted.
January 13, 2026
Why are we still discussing Brexit? If Johnson, Govey and his Lordship had managed to get a half-decent leaving deal out of M Barnier six years ago none of this would be necessary!
Another day, another Tory Chairperson and ex-Chancellor jumps ship and kowtows to the dreadful Nigel Farage. This one had to resign over irregularities in his tax affairs. Looking at their past posts on Twitter (now X) they do not get on.
Expect Zahawi to be offered an unwinnable seat at the next election. If he lasts that long
January 13, 2026
In fairness to Boris, by the time he took over Brexit negotiations, Mrs May & Olly Robins had already tied at least one hand behind his back. They (Boris & Frost) were also under time pressure. You cannot enter negotiations with anyone (let alone the EU) with a sense that “everyone is going to be even handed and nice” – it just doesn’t work like that.
For all his faults, Trump get’s this. He starts high, his demands are completely outrageous and he doesn’t reveal what his actual goals are in terms of settlement until he is well into that negotiation. Barnier understood this and took Robins to the cleaners. Starmer seems to think that by giving up front, he will get a better deal. No, they will take everything offered and then ask for more.
January 13, 2026
His main failure was pushing the net harm Covid “vaccines” which were largely ineffective and very dangerous on people even on younger people and children who had zero nead to take any vaccine even had they been remotely “safe and effective”.
This and supporting the Con-Socialists and Climate Alarmism/Net Zero for 14 years. But perhaps he has finally seen the light – if so he should say so?
January 13, 2026
What exactly do you think is dreadful about Farage? He was right on Brexit, right on Net Zero, right on immigration levels, right on the economy, right to a degree on the net harm vaccines, right of free speech… where he will ever be able to deliver given the blob and the electoral system is another question.
Zahawi should now say where he stands now on mRNA “vaccines” and indeed on Net Zero and point out how much he was conned by the medial “experts” and big pharma also by the Net Zero “experts” it seems. Thank goodness we had X to expose these government lies. To balance the endless duff agenda put out by the BBC “think” types.
When Ofcom and Starmer “ban” or fine parts of X will they also be banning scissor and glue too & just imaginations perhaps and all the other methods and software that can put different heads on to pictures of women in bikinis or nude? Or will it just be X? Artists/Painters surely must to be banned too?
January 13, 2026
Don’t look here at politicians’ failure to protect young girls from Pakistani rape gangs. Don’t look here at medical trials permanently damaging confused young people. Don’t look here at first cousin marriages and FGM. Look over here and be outraged about a few doctored images that have been available on multiple platforms for years. This isn’t about protecting women and children; it’s blatant censorship of our free speech.
January 13, 2026
Exactly!
January 13, 2026
Thank goodness you are in the Lords and can do something about it. Will your “introduction” date to the Chamber (February) reduce your effectiveness?
January 13, 2026
Richly deserved unlike alas about 90% of elevations to the Lords! Like Barroness Theresa May, Lord Adonis, Barroness Warsi.
Below is the dire list for all parties when Cameron left office in a fit of peak after promising he would stay on when he lost the Brexit Referendum and had not even prepared for either outcome. Generals have been shot for less negligence than this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34076465
This the full members 10% perhaps are relatively sensible 20% at best!
https://members.parliament.uk/members/lords
Hard to get much done with lefty, greencrap, pro EU, anti free speach, large state sector supporting woke people like the above stuffing the place out!
January 13, 2026
Sadly John, the public have now lost all faith in Politicians, of many colours, simply because they lie so often.
For decades we have seen our leaders prancing around the World, handing out £ Billions to almost anyone for any reason, as if it was Christmas day every day.
I see our Council are now complaining that Wokingham is the worst Government funded Local Authority in the Country, something the local LibDems always complained about, but they now find out it has got even worse not better, even with a LibDem MP representing us, thus proving that Government just do as they like no matter the arguments.
The LibDem Council are no better with its endless public surveys, the results of which are then completely ignored.
No wonder people are willing to give Reform a go !
Reply The Lib Dems waste our money and spend on things we do not want. They spent less than half the money sent them for potholes on road mending.
January 13, 2026
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Agreed, but some voters never learn !
January 13, 2026
Mr Jones has responded to our Host’s criticism of his cost to Wokingham, and a rebuttal publuished in our very own local (rag). It seems Mr Jones thinks he has achieved so much by mentioning Wokingham in every sentence in the House. Now we hear the ‘Council are now complaining that Wokingham is the worst Government funded Local Authority in the Country, something the local LibDems always complained about’.
Sorry – But I just had to laugh – yes it costs me more to have him employ a team than Sir John ever did, but he claims his performance outweighs what went before. Really? I wish I could have evidence of this apparent success story.
January 13, 2026
I have watched this government (and our civil services) approach to negotiating with the EU in wonderment. Negotiating is a series of compromises where all parties give ground on the other parties’ important points until a consensus is reached where all parties feel they have achieved a return worth agreeing on.
During this government’s negotiating I have never heard of one red line of requirement in order for them to give ground on an EU red line. All I hear is how this government wants more access to the EU various schemes.
This government is negotiating to rejoin the EU not to improve access by giving a little and getting a lot.
Germany, France and Spain now have terrible economies. We are in a position of strength but as ever our civil service don’t know (or don’t want) to capitalise.
January 13, 2026
The EU membership obsession has already destroyed one governing party and it will now do destroy this one.
January 13, 2026
The SNP will be happy
January 13, 2026
Glen – do you not remember the EU handoff when Sturgeon made it clear they expected Independence to give them quick entry into the little club? It was a clear ‘join the line’ in Trump’s language.
January 13, 2026
You say there’s no advantage for giving away our fish but it’s because we have been blackmailed so we can continue using the interconnectors for electricity
France threatened to switch the Channel Islands off if we restricted their boats and the same will happen to us.
Another win for Milibrain and his net zero madness.
January 13, 2026
Our constitution is for decent, honest brokers in parliament and government….which seems to have been the case, until now! Now, we have utterly dishonest, and dishonourable people using the constitution, twisting and misinterpreting what they can or cannot to do to serve their own agenda!!
I said during our departure from the EU, that the law was being used to break the law.
I may be completely wrong, but as a lay person, this is how it all seems to me! An abuse!
January 13, 2026
Ditto the ruinously expensive (rising to almost £1bn a year) Erasmus scheme which disproportionately benefits a higher number of EU students rather than UK students and is worse than the cheaper more targeted Turing scheme. I assume Starmer will sign up to multi-year membership with penalty clauses for early termination.
January 13, 2026
Perhaps Farage could run on a promise of exiting the deal and not paying the fine? Or promise a referendum on that course of action?
January 13, 2026
The reform party have promised to repeal the UK/EU Trade and cooperation agreement, repeal all EU laws and trade under WTO rules …gets my vote
January 13, 2026
We are witnessing a scorched earth policy adopted by Labour as soon as it gained political authority to act.
The Labour Party and socialists in general know they will be thrown out at the next election. They are determined to ensure their poison policies last for as long as they can by institutionalising them.
This kind of political activity would risk prison sentences or worse in less civilised countries.
January 13, 2026
Almost scorched earth ….The labour government is set to announce its intention to build a new (hs2) rail link between Birmingham and Manchester, the BBC understands …..more £billions
January 13, 2026
Since 2016, very few in the HOC had any interest in restoring our sovereignty so we are where we are, thanks to perfidious politicians. I await the coming of Reform, the only solution available short of revolution.
January 13, 2026
“Decent government”
We have a long history of Indecent Governments when it comes to the EEC/EU. Two-Tier is just the latest Indecent Prime Minister who is over-riding the wishes of the British people when it comes to the EEC/EU.
If the mandate to LEAVE and Take Back Control had been properly implemented Two-Tier would not be in a position to carry out his proposed betrayal and the EU would not be able to effectively make “demands with menaces.”
Since no Government can bind a successor one, Farage has clearly stated that a Reform Government will not be bound by Two-Tier’s “deal” or the EU’s demand for reparations if he wishes to change it. So if you want LEAVE and Take Back Control to be properly implemented there’s an obvious solution.
The EU seems determined to make us an enemy. They never learn, do they.
January 13, 2026
Yet more evidence of the malign incompetence of Starmer and this Labour government. Add the delayed local government elections, the destruction of businesses and even whole industries under the burden of ill-conceived taxes and regulations, the rise in youth unemployment and watch how the UK is being turned into a banana Republic, but without the benefit of the bananas.
January 13, 2026
The problem is;
a) They don’t ultimately care what “Brexiteers” want – we are (must be) all xenophobic racists
b) Any means justifies their ends, most especially in the march towards International Solidarity
c) They will cling to power for as long as possible and will make as many irreversible changes as they can before being eventually forced from office.
Blair fundamentally changed the inner workings of government and Cameron didn”t have the wit or courage to undo it. Starmer and his motely crew are continuing this work. Even assuming these things can be undone, this country has already been fundamentally changed and it will never completely change back.
January 13, 2026
You’re correct IanT
January 13, 2026
@IanT +99
January 13, 2026
As if we need any more evidence to show how this government is actively working against the best interests of the people of the UK.
No doubt as we slide back under the EU yoke we will see certain Labour figures take up high prestige jobs within the EU – That is the only excuse I can see for this treachery.
So no referendum and I don’t see any major discussions in parliament about giving everything to the EU – Our PM is surely exceeding his powers by doing all of this without consultation or agreement, which in my mind make it illegal, or very close to it.
January 13, 2026
Oh so wasteful. Send Starmer to the Chagos for extended Parliamentary recess!
January 13, 2026
At risk of stating the bleedin’ obvious. Starmer was a rabid Remainiac, he never wanted to leave the EU. Now he is the (most unpopular in history) PM. He is slipping us back into the EU through the back door. He will continue to do this until either Parliament challenges him (which won’t happen because the majority of MP’s are in hock to the EU) Or he is sacked off after the May local elections, if he allows any to be held.
Democracy at it’s best in third world Britain.
January 13, 2026
A deal of this sort does not surprise me in the least from the present Government; indeed I suppose I had expected it. The question is, which party can one trust to reverse it on coming to power? Sadly, the only one in my view is Reform UK. I have always voted Conservative in a General Election, and am a member of that party. However, the jury is still out as far as I am concerned, as to whether I feel the present leadership has got what it will take to put the country right, so for the moment I am floating between Blue and Turquoise. This might well tip the balance.
January 13, 2026
On the subject of Taking back control New figures on the cost of net-0 demonstrate just how we have been deceived:
https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Cost-of-Net-Zero-Turver-1.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
January 13, 2026
There should be legal constraints on how far a government can stray from its manifesto before having to call another election.
It is not just the politicians doing the things you complain about John, it is the entire ruling blob which infests the senior layers of the public sector and its various hangers on in its subcontractors. The blob decides what it wants to do, and that happens pretty much regardless of the political process a good 80 or 90% of the time. Layered on top of inertia, over dominance of arts grads, fashion, and so on.
January 13, 2026
Life under this Labour Government is like being in a car about to crash. You can see it is going to happen, but you can’t do anything about it. This is not only the most incompetent government of my lifetime, but also the most dishonest. Starmer is determined to tie us to the EU and pay billions for the privilege. What a despicable person he is.
Nigel Farage has already said it, Kemi Badenoch needs to say it to, that NO agreement entered into by this Labour Government will be honoured, and no fine for breaking it will EVER be paid.
January 13, 2026
Labour is a dangerous enemy of the UK and should be proscribed.
January 13, 2026
” It cannot give our sovereignty away without a referendum vote” …..It has
The tories did it with NI , and labour are doing it with the Chagos Islands, and our return to the EU ….and you just know that there are under the table disscussions about Gibraltar and the Falklands
January 13, 2026
Sir John, I am struggling with this and I would appreciate your advice. You assert the Government cannot give away our sovereignty without a referendum or clear mandate from a general election. Who says? Where is this written? How can it be enforced? What can be done if, through its massive majority in Parliament, Starmer’s Gang does precisely this?
I and I am sure many others would feel greatly reassured to know why this is true. It is not enough merely to state it. Starmer’s Gang, riddled with Fabians, doesn’t believe nation states should exist, let alone democracy. It has no hesitation in postponing local elections. Why not the general election? How can its abandonment of our sovereignty be reversed. Were it an impossibility as you state we should be able to challenge it and reverse it before a general
election. As far as I can tell we are completely powerless.
Reply It is a constitutional practice or convention. The sanction will be voting out of office tge government that betrays us
January 13, 2026
“It cannot give our sovereignty away ” yet May, Johnson, Sunak refused to take it back when they had the option supported by a democratic referendum. Parliament and the so-called State has fought like crazy to not take on the responsibility of managing the UK, they have ensured that the power to control the UK stayed with the EU.
Is it any surprise that 2TK seeing the support for reneging on the election result within Parliament and the State has pursued this traitorous trend with vigour .
As already stated by other on these pages today it is this same cabal that initiated and reinforced the NetZero lunacy that is destroying the very existence of the Country without proof or facts to support the direction taken would do anything
January 13, 2026
Yes I think Labour is on a scorched earth policy in anticipation of losing the next election.
Yes lets make it clear that anything that prejudices the UK vis a vis the EU will be repealed.
Lets consider reducing our contribution to NATO to the level of the lowest contributor and curtail our funding of the Ukraine war – any savings to be pumped into our own armed forces. Its time we thought UK first.
January 13, 2026
This “Deal” is not about creating a better life for the British People it’s about Starmer creating ‘friends’ in Europe and stuffing Nigel Farage. The man is deranged.
January 13, 2026
The Government has gone rogue. We are now going to have a politicised police force, academia, civil service and judiciary using political internet blocking in the UK, cancellation of elections, scrapping of trial by jury, the imposition of digital ID, mass immigration, both illegal and legal of migrants with cultures completely alien to the indigenous population, binding give away treaties and net zero to sabotage our energy, economy and national security. A scorched earth policy is being implemented to destroy the country for socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor and, as history has shown, the socialists do not believe in democracy or the principle of “losers’ consent’ for they are always right and the ends justifies the means.
January 13, 2026
The UK has a treacherous Marxist Prime Minister, energy Secretary and civil service with all of the institutions and universities lined up. Despite there being minimal elections support, given another 3 years they will have ruined the economy. Only if Reform calls for a mass uprising similar to the one in Iran will the country be saved. The move to cancel elections and close down communications is the latest communist tactic and should be treated as a traitorous crime with suitable punishment.
January 13, 2026
electoral support.
January 13, 2026
John, what are your thoughts on us having a written constitution. ?
Given we have in recent times had a number of Prime Ministers interpreting the Constitution to almost do as they like, is it time we clipped some wings with some written rules, rather than relying on historic records/culture/etc which seem to be being abused and bear no relation to what is happening in the World in more recent times.
It would be a huge change, and a huge job I know, but we seem to be frustrated and stuck with and in the past at almost every turn.
If we are going to have a democratic dictatorship, which in effect we have now, then let us have some rules with which it should operate and be bound.
Reply Given the people who would write it would make things worse. Huge task as most of our constitution is recorded in Acts of Parliament that would need amending
January 14, 2026
They (think it was Davey) have admitted that a Codified Constitution would include submission to the EU and UN.
How would anyone get out of that or stop it if you consented to the current political class codifying our constitution?
January 13, 2026
The trouble with those that complain, point out logical, factual errors of judgement and direction, they are labelled from the get-go as ‘right-wing fascist’s’ something abhorrent and distasteful. Typically all of us that post comments on JR’s welcome website. Typically the majority of the centre ground of the hardworking UK population. To those religious freaks in the UK Parliament moans are their badge of honour, the badge that tells them they have got things right.
It is something the media and Parliament cashes in on, it confirms to them that ‘what they are doing must be on track!’ its upsetting those that would never support the religion for which they stand for. They, those distractors are the blaspheming terrorists that must be gagged. Gagging them by repeating lies often enough that those that tell the lies start to see them as the truth, knowing that if repeat the lie often enough it becomes the truth. Gage the distractors by banning free speech, banning the rights to discover and assess reality.
January 13, 2026
As an aside. Does any one in Parliament understand AI, other than it being a tool to write their speeches and emails?
Banning one client(program/app) from one company under the spurious grounds of ‘keeping us safe’ shows they have no concept of AI at all.
UK Police & Data from NSPCC confirm the top sites for recording sexual offences against children are Snapchat 54%, Instagram 11%, Facebook 7%, WhatsApp 6-9%, X 1-2%.
All versions of AI can create images, including the ones MPs and the State uses, it is not restricted to just one version. Banning one and not all suggests the TwoTier State is in action.
January 13, 2026
The EU doesn’t really want Britain back again in any form they think we’re too much trouble but geo-political considerations are overtaking things and putting a different complexion on Europe as a whole. There was a time not so long ago when we thought all our prayers were answered and that we had that trade deal with the US in the bag? – but no need to say more.
And here’s the bottom line – if we are to push ahead and succeed in whatever way Government and our leaders need to take us then we’ll have to be prepared to parcel up the past, label it properly, and store it in the archives, because it is of no use to us in today’s world. We need fresh thinking now and we need a process of re-education to iron out the misconceptions we have of our ourselves and that are causing such difficulties in our thinking process – but only if we want to change
January 14, 2026
We don’t need a trade deal with the US or anyone else.
January 13, 2026
“It [the Government] cannot give our sovereignty away without a referendum vote or a clear mandate from a general election win where the surrender of power was a well highlighted issue.”
Was there a referendum for the initial joining of the EU with its vast contributory payments and the giving away of our fish?
Was there a referendum for the signing of the Maastricht Treaty?
Was there a referendum to make net zero by 2050 the law?
Was there a referendum for mass immigration, both legal and illegal?
Was there a referendum to give away the Chagos Islands with a mega dowry?
Was there a referendum to cancel trial by jury?
We’re going to need to legislate for referendums to stop our governments going rogue. A GE every 5 years is insufficient protection. And perhaps there will not be another GE….
January 13, 2026
As Sir John has shown, Zealotry is alive and well with the present Government (and some of its predecessors).
January 13, 2026
‘In 1971, an FCO memorandum known as FCO 30/1048 was drafted. This document details how the UK would surrender sovereignty if it were to join the E.E.C/EU. However, this document was classified as Confidential, and not released into the public domain until 2002’
https://constitutionwatch.com.au/the-attempted-theft-of-british-sovereignty/
The surrender of sovereign powers, as a consequence of signing the Treaty of Rome, Maastricht, and Lisbon, is in breach of the British constitution, as detailed in the Bill of Rights 1688 ….a Bill still in law
January 13, 2026
Forget about sovereign power it is an illusion – it was never meant to reach the common man. We need reform as to how we do thngs, about how we conduct our politics. Too many chancers and freeloaders are getting into positions of authority on the backs of hard working genuine politicos and some are even making it all the way to the Lords. It’s time for change.
January 14, 2026
The Lords is powerless and only a distraction. They can only delay.
Sovereignty is very real and valuable, the possession of the Electorate in a democracy.
No political power should be able to dilute this power by giving voting powers to aliens, or by ‘creating citizens’, no authority was ever given to politicians to set up a market in citizenship.
January 14, 2026
What about the sovereignty of Greenland and Venezuela
What about the sovereignty of Mexico Panama and Canada
We live in strange times with scary people in charge
January 13, 2026
It has to be said… the things Elon Musk says, how it evolves, shows a lot more insight into the UK, and a lot more sensible ideas about how to fix it, than is coming out of any of the mainstream political parties in the UK.
His tweets are a “must read” in a way that does not apply to any UK politician, with maybe some exceptions you could count on two fingers.
January 13, 2026
One finger – Lowe.
January 13, 2026
according to data from NSPCC sexual offences against children are recorded on the following platforms:
Snapchat 54%
Instagram 11%
Facebook 7%
WhatsApp 6-9%
X 1-2%
which makes the governments stance on X even more laughable
January 13, 2026
Its got nothing to do with protecting children …..they, our politcians, just don’t like Elon Musk …..and they’re under instructions from the EU who see him as a threat
January 13, 2026
“This government is not offering a referendum on its so called EU re set” ….& “Labour promised to respect Brexit…”
The majority of voters did not vote for “Brexit”…they chose “Leave”…to “reset” the relationship between the UK and the EU. Has the UK ever “left” ?
“Brexit” was a political choice, maybe with the intention of failure which would then support an argument to “Rejoin” ?
The UK and other Governments do not wish “Leaving” the EU to be seen as a success……
January 13, 2026
This Government knows it only has one term, so it is determined to destroy as much of our culture and wealth as it can. Lammy has given 240k to an ISIS terrorist and now plans to give another huge amount to a prisoner held in Guantánamo Bay. Are there no checks for politicians using our money for such dubious purposes? Surely this is funding illegal terrorism.
January 13, 2026
“I assume the next government will want to end this likely rotten deal as soon as they win the election to take office.”
Based upon the history of sociualism and socialist governments I think it is wrong to assume there will be another GE. Our current government appears to making sure that conditions will not be feasible for holding a GE. If we do manage to get to a GE I have read that even many Tory voters will be tactically voting Green/Lib Dem/Labour against Reform in order to continue with mass illegal and legal immigration, serfdom under the EU and Net Zero.