The Labour Manifesto set out two very clear goals or overriding themes. They would bring in a politics driven by a sense of service, not based on party or self interest. They would make sure if you work hard they would respect your contribution and give you a fair chance to get on.
A few days into the Mandelson crisis, and after living through two lethal tax raising budgets that clobbered many different groups of self employed, employees, and small businesses, the government looks well detached from these guiding principles they set out.
The Manifesto broke down these themes into 6 first steps they would take as a government, so things we could expect in say the first nineteen months.
1. They promised economic stability, keeping taxes, inflation and mortgages as low as possible. Instead they have helped put inflation up and have put through a series of punitive tax rises.
2.They would cut NHS waiting lists by offering more treatments and appointments. Instead they are trying to get the waiting lists down by taking people off the lists.
3.They would set up a new Border Command to “smash the criminal boat gangs”. Instead they scrapped the new law that illegal migrants cannot claim asylum on entry , and presided over a big increase in illegal arrivals.
4.Set up Great British Energy to cut energy bills. Instead energy bills have been hiked several times and they have signed up to more long term contract renewable power at very high prices.
5.Crack down on anti social behaviour. No evidence of that.
6. Recruit 2500 new teachers
The public certainly heard the promise amidst the election noise that they would smash the gangs, and they have been bitterly disappointed. They heard and wanted to believe the pledge not to increase taxes on working people and are angry at the big tax rises put through hitting employment and cutting take home pay and spending power.
February 9, 2026
I think you might find you are preaching to the converted.
February 9, 2026
Stephen, based on national opinion polls Sir John is preaching to the Country. There are fewer and fewer people who believe this Government is doing a good job – in any area.
February 9, 2026
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
February 9, 2026
Indeed is he even trying to keep his promises no sign of even this. The Labour government has a target to build 1.5 million new homes in five years and want growth, growth, growth but have policies that drive the complete reverse of this.
February 9, 2026
My Lord,
When a party can’t sort it’s own internal problems out it doesn’t give me much confidence it’ll be able to sort the national problems out.
February 9, 2026
Especially when a lot of those problems are residual ones from when they last had their grubby paws on the levers of power.
February 9, 2026
They do not seek election to sort out the problems or make our lives better. They are there to implement their pet projects and feather the nests of their donors.
It is all about power and who gets to write the cheques.
February 9, 2026
@Mark B – yes in a nutshell self serving to a fault, the electorate and the country are mere pawns
February 9, 2026
“It is all about power and who gets to write the cheques.”
And who receives them.
February 9, 2026
When has any Party kept to its manifesto? The media like to make a big brouhaha about them, but we all know they are empty promises, a theatrical, cynical element of a broken political system.
February 9, 2026
Most of those promises to the people were also made and broken by Sunak and many before him. Can you blame people for not trusting politicians? For a start we need conviction politicians and not career politicians.
Reply Sunak failed to implement his big popular promise to stop the boats so the Conservatives lost half their votes. He did not write a Manifesto as he took over within a Parliament.
February 9, 2026
And we need ‘convicted’ politicians, civil servants, special advisers, Quango heads and so on and so forth.
I believe that not until we see some brought to justice for their part in so many wrongs done here, will people ever truly believe we have people in Parliament who take the bare bones of the job seriously.
People in the general population have been slung in prison for less than some of the things done by some of these people (past and present) while in office.
February 9, 2026
‘we need ‘convicted’ politicians, civil servants, special advisers’ – yes lots of us would like convictions. But not a chance.
February 9, 2026
@Reply – I think there was more to it than that. that alone didn’t cause people to stay away from the polls. A massive majority and a mandate to overturn Socialist behaviours of a generation. Get Brexit done, so sign the Windsor Accord. Reduce defence spending to none excitant, NetZero, deindustrialise the Country, send UK jobs abroad. The highest tax and borrowing in peace time until now.
Then as now we cant find MPs that will work with the Electorate and the Nation, they all priorities themselves and ideology so fight the people and the nation. Parliament and Government has long lost its way in being Government for the People, by the People.
February 9, 2026
Yes I agree that professional politicians are the root cause of many of the problems. People should not see Parliament as a route to riches, even relative riches.
Only those with independent means should be eligible for candidacy. If that means a more mature house, so much the better.
February 9, 2026
Rishi Sunak was elected as an MP on that manifesto. When he became PM he was in a position to deliver on it. I don’t think he did.
February 9, 2026
Good morning.
Ah but remember, JR that manifesto promises are not enforceable and are only be considered aspirational. That is to say – they are not worth the paper they are printed on and, if you really think they were going to do that, then you were wrong and were stupid enough to believe them.
That JR is the state of politics today or, as the old Soviets use to say – “You pretend to tell the truth and we will pretend to believe you.”
February 9, 2026
Double think is learnt behaviour and is the tacit facet to belittle the masses and con them into putting the cross in the correct box.
February 9, 2026
Perhaps the funniest thing was watching Gordon Brown admitting to being duped by Mandelson while lauding the ‘integrity’ of Starmer!
Brown is commend the actions listed in this blog as being absolutely in line with the promises made.
It’s pointless trying to reason with madmen and liars.
We need to defend ourselves directly with all our might, and stop hoping that someone will turn up trumps.
February 9, 2026
In other words, you’re not angry with me – or even so much with politics – but projecting your own interior anger onto. me (and politics).
February 9, 2026
No, I’m pointing out that while apologising for being incapable of assessing the personality of Mandelson he proved incapable of assessing Starmer.
February 10, 2026
(And my comments might be boring but I’m not being rude and just trying to figure things out for myself in case I ever go into politics- like I’ve said before, learned a lot from Sir John and others on this website, including Lifelogic, and grateful to them for that. I’m sure I have stuff to learn from you but you’re so rude the whole time that it puts me off learning – or wanting to learn – what you have to say. If you want to be helpful in politics at least start off by not being so rude).
February 9, 2026
Big day tomorrow Sir John.
February 9, 2026
They’re all pretty rubbish. Lib Dems worse. Labour worse again (and socialist governments in Europe). Farage is not this hero people make him out to be. And nor Trump who some love to put on a pedestal. Nor tyrant Putin. And the Chinese president bit of a tyrant too but not as bad as Putin.
Only faith to God (in particular, the Christian One) can make a great benevolent leader – in both peace time and war – and make a country great in every sense – a leader such as Cyrus the Great. Or Joseph of Egypt, second most powerful man in the world after Pharaoh. Or Moses who was chosen by God for one reason only: humility. We’re like the Jews wandering in the desert (or worse). If the Jews had been obedient to God they would have only remained one year in the desert instead of forty. And it’s like even the faithful to God make things 40 x times worse by lack of faith to God. How much worse when there is little or no faith to The Almighty. You end up with a culture / civilisation (the whole of the West not just UK) in fairly rapid decline – including politics.
February 9, 2026
Let’s stick to our own people in our own country in the present tense for starters. Once our own country is operating smoothly, maybe then we can tell the rest of the world how to behave.
I came across the patrons we (Rodney and I) attracted for our work on recovering the Sovereignty of Britain:
Founding Patrons: Rodney Atkinson, Vladimir Bukovsky, Lady Fieldhouse, Professor Antony Flew, Frederick Forsyth CBE, Sir Julian Hodge K.St.G.,K.St.J., Toby Horton, Ruth Lea, Norris McWhirter CBE, Professor Patrick Minford CBE, Lady Neill of Bladen, Leolin Price CBE QC, Sir Alfred Sherman, Lord Stoddart of Swindon.
Tell me how to resolve and reverse our problems, or even one of them. Set out a strategy and do it yourself, rather like Rupert Lowe is dealing with the Rape Gang calamity as a lone MP.
That would be a welcome contribution.
February 9, 2026
Lynn,
‘Tell me how to resolve and reverse our problems, or even one of them. Set out a strategy and do it yourself, rather like Rupert Lowe is dealing with the Rape Gang calamity as a lone MP. That would be a welcome contribution’
– You’re very grrrrrrr – angry! There’s far more too life than politics (whether one’s a theist or atheist) x
February 9, 2026
Actually there isn’t. Politics is the core of everything. When that goes wrong we lose the 800 years of striving our forefathers paid.
We lose Britain.
You think I’m angry, yes I am.
February 9, 2026
Lynn,
‘Actually there isn’t. Politics is the core of everything’
Sure, politics is essential, but what about (whether you’re atheist or a theist), family, job satisfaction, friends / social life, having a laugh, exercise and sport and entertainment, romance and intimacy for married couples, culture and music and reading, travel, good and healthy food, psychological self-awareness and so on. These are all essential as well – not just to an individual but to a country and culture overall (and that can also drastically impact on productivity too and whether people make good citizens or not).
February 9, 2026
‘Frederick Forsyth CBE’ sadly died last year, a wonderful author, I have probably read all of his books, even enjoyed the Revenge of the Odessa recently. He will be sadly missed from my essential reading list.
February 9, 2026
Our patrons were cross party. It’s interesting to search them. Substantial people. Enoch Powell unfortunately died. He encouraged me to undertake the two unique aspects. Indeed Norris said it could not be done and Enoch argued the point, Norris accepted and became a very active Patron.
No elected member was invited to be a Patron, because they were our target.
The fields and buildings of Britain are superb, but nothing outshines the people. Our patrons were like an early starlink, linked and shining bright in the blackness.
This was a constitutional crisis. It still is.
I believe we need a cross party majority, a government of National Unity to get Britain to the point where our parties can recover themselves.
Starmer can’t continue and there is nobody to replace him.
What do you think? How do we deal with this unholy mess?
February 9, 2026
‘Tyrant Putin’, an elected, popular Orthadox Christian loved by his people and NOT in the Epstein Files.
What on Earth are you talking about?
February 9, 2026
The Epstein files reveal Zelensky as a ‘people trafficker’.
They also confirm Putin removed the children from Donbas to protect them from same. All are accounted for, happy and healthy and attending school. Film of some visiting their President in the Kremlin. He gets down on the carpet to shake the hands of tiny children. They are Russian, like him.
Why don’t British men prioritise British women and children?
February 10, 2026
MBS is in the files and the Prince of Wales is visiting him today. It just shows how very foolish and wrong it was to cast out his own uncle and feed him to the crocodile.
On the other hand, the much demonised Mr Netanyahu is not in the files. Though the socialist Ehud Barak who persecutes him decade after decade most certainly is.
February 10, 2026
Epstein is known to have had many contacts over more than a decade with (named Russians where I cannot easily find proof. Ed)
You might want to look where all these people are coming from and how they interacted with Epstein before stating that the Russian President is nowhere to be seen in the Epstein files.
Reply I agree we need to know more about the Russian connections to the Epstein group.
February 9, 2026
You are being too literal. Few people believed Labour’s promises. They expected this government to be even worse than the previous one, but couldn’t bring themselves to vote Conservative.
February 9, 2026
I doubt a majority of voters actually believe that manifestos will be carried out.
History tells them that they get government by the seat of its pants, largely ignoring their promises but reacting to events both internal and of the wider world.
A vote is cast on the gut feeling of who ought to make a better country for themselves and to a lesser extent the wider population.
February 10, 2026
I don’t think most people understood just how dangerous this regime was going to be. After all, Farage told them it would make no difference, that Brexit was complete and secure, and that it was safe to vote for them. As far as I am concerned, he will never be forgiven for that huge and unpatriotic lie.
February 10, 2026
When I say safe to vote for them, I mean safe to let them in by splitting the conservative vote.
February 9, 2026
Promises, promises, always promises.
As I recall the manifesto also presented the word growth as a priority.
If only we had realised, growth can also be associated with negative issues.
Growth in potholes, tick
Growth in street crime, tick
Growth in illegal migration, tick
Growth in physical attacks involving knives, tick
Growth in sleaze involving ministers and senior appointees, tick
Growth in Public Sector pay awards, tick
Growth in ministerial travel abroad, tick
They certainly kept that part of the promise…….
February 9, 2026
Growth in wealth and hard working people leaving, growth in unemployed graduates, growth in NHS waiting times, growth in two tier justice, growth in taxes and NI, growth in benefits claimants, growth in chances of civil war…
February 9, 2026
+1
The list of Labour inspired growth is almost endless, isn’t it?
I can almost hear the next PMQs session with Kemi inspiring a chorus of “Up” from her MPs when she lists Labour’s growth achievements thus far…..
February 9, 2026
They did what Labour always do – promised the earth, just to get into power.
Although things are falling apart, they continue to insist that things will get better.
The public are not fooled. Labour has been a disaster. I cant wait to see the back of them.
February 9, 2026
But they got in by default, voters being so sick of the successive hopeless outcome from Conservative governments and leadership looking like a spin the bottle for a winner at a raucous party.
Voters chose to abstain or support others – we’ve gone over that so many times.
February 9, 2026
But the public are fooled. That’s why we have a socialist government.
The gullible electorate vote for sweet lies, so in that sense the Labour manifesto has served its purpose, and can now be put in the bin.
Reply Most of the public did not fall for Labour lies. Labour got 34% support
February 9, 2026
Of those that voted.
The percentage should always be based on those eligible to vote as those who don’t turn up have not endorsed anyone.
If disengaged voters were included in the stats we might just get a better type of politics.
February 9, 2026
@Reply – 34% sounds good support for most elections in the UK. But when that equates to just 20% of the electorate it shows how dire things are. As you often remind us the Conservative vote abstained for the most part they were disenfranchised.
I know they shuffled the boundaries but in 2019 (so comparisons are hard to come by, 75K electorate against 84K) you personally received 30,734 votes a share of 49.6%.
In 2024 the new shower got in with just 25,743(in 2019 it was 23351) votes, a share 47.7% a change +15.4 on something that is not the same.
Conservative, votes 17,398 share 32.2% share change -23.3 – was that boundary change or just disillusionment.
I thought the crowd that got in ran an aggressive campaign even though the candidate lived in another constituency. The Conservative by comparison ran scarred tried to stay hidden and insulted the electorate by not finding a local candidate the result was as to be expected.
February 9, 2026
The problem is that the people don’t see any difference from the last tory government and this labour government, they haven’t learnt anything …..forget the manifesto we know best approach
February 9, 2026
Of course we saw a difference. Of course we knew that if we refused to vote Conservative we would get Labour by default.
We decided it was a price worth paying to pull up the Conservatives and force them onto the straight and narrow again.
That remains our only hope, a proper capitalist, democratic majority in the House.
February 9, 2026
Agreed, the Conservatives needed to lose in order to understand that they were going in the wrong direction.
February 9, 2026
are you convinced ‘they’ have woken up and will mend their ways? Else fooled once, twice and fooled yet again?
February 9, 2026
You can lead a horse to water – however NOT to lead it to water and watch it die of thirst is not a sensible action.
Many MPs are genuinely making a monumental effort.
Hats off to Rupert Lowe in particular. He’s a natural born leader.
February 9, 2026
Nothing Starmer says is a promise. He just says whatever is required on any particular day to further his own interest and the next day he will happily say the exact opposite. It is a lawyer thing, it’s what they do, but he thinks it applies to politics too.
OAM I read that NHS patients who die while waiting for treatment are being counted as reducing the waiting list. It’s one approach I suppose.
February 9, 2026
And one they will use to its full potential if the Assisted Euthanasia Bill is passed.
February 9, 2026
A family member has had a running series of concerns that the surgery/GP couldn’t get diagnosis/solution right. An endoscopy was sought and referred to hospital. A long wait involved but nearer the date it was cancelled….no reason or new date. Extreme anxiety followed with almost incapacity and pain involved until eventually the senior person at the ‘clinic’ admitted that bookings were being cancelled unless a cancer might be involved from the notes. Wait list reduced of course.
A private business was contacted and paid for scan investigations – finally the original need ought to happen this week, all this started out in October – just what does the NHS actually do for us?
February 9, 2026
@Mickey Taking. Most of us have such harrowing stories, yet we’re told the NHS is a sacred cow. Why do so many support an NHS that fails them?
February 9, 2026
the first one, but probably a second need for surgery to be yet identified, is an umbilical hernia.
Surely a decent GP, if at all possible to see a patient with as many painful troubles, might have spotted the source and the varied serious symptoms? Finally after a marked ‘urgent ‘ endoscopy cancelled we might learn of what else is causing the problems. Why do we have to be rushed into A&E etc in order to indicate this ‘Failure of Duty of Care’ has gone too far? Verging on unfit to practice?
February 9, 2026
Go to South Africa for elective surgery. It’s cheap, 1st world service.
The NHS is as dead in the water as Starmer.
February 9, 2026
Here’s a new old revamped name for the next Labour manifesto Jackanory, maybe that’ll have more credibility and reflect the Labour Party
February 9, 2026
This hopeless government led by an empty shell are doomed, the sooner Starmer goes the better. McSweeney taking the rap for Mandelson was just the act of a fall guy.
If Starmer clings on until the May elections, assuming we’re allowed any, that will be the end of him.
February 9, 2026
I don’t think anyone thinks politics, or the way the country is run, is capable of working. we need to raise the whole conversation up to a bigger picture level. a system where nobody is prepared to discuss the health care system because it has been given quasi religious status. the massive social engineering that goes on. the enemies within that have embedded themselves in key institutions. we dont have long, the enemy is ruling the streets and taking over our ruling bodies. normal party politics is not going to fix things. we have completely the wrong people being selected into it.
February 9, 2026
Indeed, but worse still they are pushing so many things on us that weren’t in the manifesto: Digital IDs, Digital money, Assisted suicide, etc, and they keep taking aim at certain groups for no logical reason and without any evidence to back up the changes they insist on making. Pensioners and landlords, Farmers and pubs are just a few of the targets they attack with spite.
They always knew that NET-0 would take priority and affect every promise they made – they knew perfectly well that energy prices would never go down, now all they can do is shuffle costs around to penalise us all.
I’m still being nagged to install a water meter, because of NET-0. The water company claim lack of water – Ha! That’s a joke when we’ve had so much rain, but like gas and electricity meters HMG and utility companies want the pleasure of cutting us off if we allegedly use too much or we become politically incorrect.
They should be concentrating on providing supplies, not penalising us for their failures.
February 9, 2026
Digital income tax returns 6 times p.a.
That should make small business decide to give up altogether.
February 9, 2026
It’s made me give up.
February 9, 2026
Absolutely – that is not only cruel, it’s idiotic
February 9, 2026
Got up this morning and was thinking about the alternatives to Starmer. I think I’d like him to hang on for as long as possible. He’s the least worse choice and it’s still a very long way to the next GE, unless of course the markets really do pull the plug. I still can’t quite imagine Rayner as PM (with Milliband as Chancellor?) but it’s a real possibilty now. What have we become?
February 9, 2026
Yes that’s what Farage said ‘I want him to stay forever’. 🤯
February 9, 2026
And at this time (15.45) it looks like the Cabinet feel that way too Lynn. How long that ‘Unity’ will last remains to be seen. Anas Sarwar misjudged the timing of his statement earlier it seems – although he may not care.
it’s going to be every man for themselves sooner or later…probably sooner…
February 9, 2026
A joke to protest at the Labour shambles.
Lost on you though, how sad.
February 9, 2026
Poor joke about a situation that does not lend itself to frivolity.
Did you think that Farage loves the present? He has the limelight and no responsibility.
I don’t believe he will stick around to be PM. He knows he can’t do it.
February 9, 2026
If there was half a chance that Farage could save the U.K. I would be out there canvassing for him.
I am sick with worry because he can’t deliver.
That means all of us fall too.
February 9, 2026
“4.Set up Great British Energy to cut energy bills. Instead energy bills have been hiked several times and they have signed up to more long term contract renewable power at very high prices.”
Well, Labour did say they would make us into a “clean energy superpower” and the dreadful Ed Miliband is definitely trying his hardest to achieve it. The reason for the transition has changed from “reducing prices” to “energy security by not relying on petrostates”, which in the case of gas for our electricity, would be the UK North Sea (still around 50% despite desperately trying to shut it down), Norway around 30% and the US about 10%. Instead we will be relying for all our energy infrastructure upon China, a state described by our security services as “hostile”. And the expensive long-term renewable power contracts will be like taking out a fixed mortgage at 9% instead of a variable one around 3%. NESO costs this Clean Power 2030 project at “over £40bn annually” and in their plan are rolling blackouts to reduce peak demand by 20% to prevent a total grid collapse. It is time we had a referendum to decide if we want to follow this ruinous path.
February 9, 2026
This is what happens when a PM takes more note of his advisors than the people wishes, takes more interest in and pursuing non-manifesto issues on a world stage …..not that much different from the past tories governments, SirJ is correct, there focus quickly changed from service to developing their own power
February 9, 2026
When the advisor thinks he is in government as per resignation letter yesterday.
Who voted for Morgan?
February 9, 2026
The problem is that the PM did NOT take the advice of his advisors and did NOT accept the 8n formation provided by the Intelligence services.
He made his own decision.
Another good one …..
February 9, 2026
Labour are a big time failure. No surprise, it is in their genes. Never in their history have they managed to run a successful economy, and under most other headings they are seen to be partial and social class driven.
Socialism can work but only from a position of national wealth. In microcosim the Quakers demonstrated it in the 19th/20th century. Other versions seem to work in Scandinavia, but in the UK Labour have never had the blueprint. Their approach has always been class warfare which is wholly negative.
February 9, 2026
Only the Mormons have made socialism work.
And the sacrifice and selflessness is great.
To each according to his need.
Of course collectively they did not mind owning Las Vegas and taking their cut.
So on reflection they needed the most brutal ‘free enterprise’ to sustain themselves.
February 10, 2026
The Quakers were Christians. That is why they prospered. God blessed them in their righteousness and hard work.
February 9, 2026
So the big question is.
Can you trust any government or politician today.
February 9, 2026
The Civil Service must be absolutely delighted with the breakdown of the so-called “governing party” as this gives them the opportunity and unfettered freedom to continue with their policies.
February 9, 2026
You forgot to mention that it was fully costed (I assume including large increases for public sector workers).
February 9, 2026
PM Starmer leads the party of non aspiration the party of Well fair he has failed to lead this country
I think he will be on his way by June
February 9, 2026
We,? I continue changing the country
Tim Allan Downing Street Director of Communications has resigned, are there any more.
Maybe 2TK is now in the clear, he certainly thinks so.
His speech today
In just a few months, we start the work of lifting half a million children out of poverty. A massive thing to do in this country because that means that lives will be changed. For decades to come, children who otherwise wouldn’t have fair chance and fair opportunity. Poverty holds children back like nothing else on earth. We must prove that politics can be a force for good. I believe it can. I believe it is. We go forward from here. We go with confidence as we continue changing the country.”
February 9, 2026
The speech might have heralded a few steps to ‘lift half a million children out of poverty’.
But however, until free school meals for all are financed, cigarette smoking banned, vaping banned, gambling banned, income tax threshold lifted to at least £15k, free milk to all homes where children live. We all could produce ideas of benefit but none will happen.
Why? snouts in the trough.
February 9, 2026
It looks very much that Starmer will be forced out – maybe as early as Wednesday, and certainly not later than May. The question has to be asked, can the Labour government then survive ?
If Labour elect a more left wing leader, as seems likely, there is no doubt that voters did not vote for a lurch to the left and the pressure will be on for a general election. Even worse, if Labour members voted for Miliband, they would be imposing a Prime Minister on us who has already been comprehensively rejected at the ballot box.
This is unprecedented.
Given Labour’s recent undemocratic tendencies, it seems unlikely that they will agree to go to the Country for a fresh mandate which they know they are extremely unlikely to get.
What can voters then do ? There is already a campaign under way for rate payers to stop paying council tax in areas where Labour have deprived voters of their right to a local election. This protest could be extended to many other areas of the relationship between the government and governed. Like policing, UK governments can only govern with the consent of the electorate.
Once Starmer gone, will be in uncharted territory.
Reply People should not break the law but design legal protests to try to get change
February 9, 2026
“4.Set up Great British Energy to cut energy bills. Instead energy bills have been hiked several times and they have signed up to more long term contract renewable power at very high prices.”
Our electricity prices are designed to increase further as a result of the May 2025 announcement to link the UK and EU carbon markets which is expected to bring the UK carbon price into closer alignment with the higher European price. The UK is also tightening its overall cap (reducing the total allowances available) to align with Net Zero targets, which structurally pushes prices up. There is absolutely no need to put a carbon tax on hydrocarbon produced energy as the market is rigged for grid priority to be always given to renewables and consequently hydrocarbon produced energy is only used for grid stability and back-up. So basically the government is charging us a tax to provide these services and to prevent rolling blackouts. This carbon tax also enables DESNZ to use as a trick in their LCOE calculations to make renewables look cheaper than hydrocarbons. It is clear that they consider expensive electricity prices and rolling blackouts the price we must pay for the PM to keep his international promises to reduce our CO2 emissions and look virtuous on the world stage.
February 9, 2026
“Can the PM keep his promises?”
Yes, but which promises and to whom?
To whom did he promise to give-away the Chagos Islands with a large dowry, continue with the economy sabotaging Net Zero agenda and encourage illegal immigration?
February 9, 2026
The problem is that without honesty and integrity at the top, in other words, the PM and MPs, the House of Lords and throughout the Civil Service, the UK’s standards decline. People look at what they do and allow their own standards to slip. So the decay spreads from the top to bottom of society. Why should someone on welfare be honest when they look at the example of our Government and MPs?
Keir Starmer’s reaction to the Brexit referendum showed that he did not believe in democracy and considered his judgment superior to the people’s. So the warning signs were clear, but the Conservatives did such a bad job that they lost the election; Labour did not win it. People considered them the least worst alternative. Now the people know they were wrong. Can Farage or Badenoch stop the rot and change direction?
February 9, 2026
The money is not there – what’s there is only going round and round – problem is we are not getting the growth we were promised with new trade deals.
February 9, 2026
I do find events funny, Political Events
‘Ministers were ordered by Downing Street to tweet supportively about Sir Keir Starmer in an attempt to quell the Labour rebellion, The Telegraph understands.’
“The thing that makes me most angry is the undermining of the belief that politics can be a force for good and can change lives. ” says 2TK. Isn’t that the problem, politics, not managing, not working with or for the people and the country. Just politics, an ideological fight against the people and the nation. – The UK Parliament doesn’t ‘get it’ it cant rationalise its purpose
February 9, 2026
Was it reported that Starmer got a loud round of cheers? I missed the reason, but assume that he has resigned?