In my youth there was general optimism that things year by year would get better, thanks to technology and progress. The luxuries of the few became the norm for the many as free enterprise companies made affordable cars, fridges, tvs, washing machines, gas central heating and other domestic comforts. By the early 1970s the technical frontiers had been pushed to allow supersonic jet travel slashing the time to get from London to New York and men were walking and driving on the surface of the moon. In the 1980s came the mobile phone and in the early years of the 21 st century the internet arrived to transform so much.
Today we seem to be going backwards. Supersonic travel has been phased out with no plans to resume. Men no longer walk on the moon as the US and China seek to get back there at huge cost with different rockets and capsules to the successful 1970s ones. We have decided to go back to wind power which was ditched for coal then oil and gas as they are more reliable. Power boats go faster and carry heavier loads than sailing vessels. Gas fired power stations work all the time whilst solar and wind power is intermittent. Wind power is bound to be dearer as you need back up for windless days, storage and extra grid capacity. The government tries to make gas powered electricity dearer by burdening it with high carbon taxes and only allowing it to produce when there is no wind which means the capital cost is higher per unit of electricity actually allowed and sold. The whole UK energy policy is self harm on a huge scale, burdening consumers with big bills and de industrialising the economy at a terrifying pace.
Householders are told they need to buy much dearer domestic heating systems and dearer electric cars, undermining the living standards and aspirations of people on modest incomes. This is the opposite of the post war consumer led growth that brought increased prosperity for the many. Now many do own cars government pillories motorists and invents ever more taxes and charges to deter use.
In Ireland there are big protests against greedy government using higher oil and gas prices as an opportunity to raise yet more tax from people needing fuel for their homes and jobs. In the UK people are angry about the way government cashes in, over taxing these necessities.
April 13, 2026
John, you never mention Agenda 30 from the UN which is being slavishly implemented by Western governments.
The whole Net Stupid, immigration invasion and deindustrialising is at the core of this dictat.
Resources are to be transferred to the BRIC countries at the expense of the west
Trump has of course exposed this much to the charging of our leaders but Starmer under the info Hermer continues to implement this regardless of the damage being done to the country.
One had to wonder why so many in politics hate their fellow men so much.
April 13, 2026
Precisely. And not a democratic vote in sight.
April 13, 2026
‘ In my youth there was general optimism that things year by year would get better, thanks to technology and progress. ’ ‘ Today we seem to be going backwards.’
Correct. We were fortunate to grow up in the best of times. We might not have had all the things that are now taken for granted but, year by year, we got more.
We were optimistic and expected things to get better. More bank holidays – New Year’s Day for everyone. Extended Christmas breaks. Foreign travel was becoming a regular event for most.
Free education enabled many to have a richer life than their parents. That situation has now gone into reverse.
April 13, 2026
“With capitalism it is man’s exploitation of man; with socialism/communism it is the other way around”
Trump “I am not a fan of Pope Leo” nor am I.
So Starmer ignites ‘Henry VIII powers’ row with move to adopt EU single market rules without MPs’ support
The UK Government will seek to pass a new law which would allow single market rules to be adopted through secondary legislation.
Why would Two Tier need to do that when he was gifted such a huge majority by Sunak et al. I would not trust Blair’s Supreme Court and the spider women types to block it though.
April 14, 2026
Lifelogic,
RE: Pope (religion)
My life been bliss ever since taking theism (the trad one of this country Catholicism/Protestantism) seriously aged 17 when I experienced a miracle in the English countryside. There was snow on the ground. And I went for a walk into the countryside from school (I wasn’t allowed) smoking a cigarette and with my sketch pad and began to sketch a beautiful church tower. In an instant, I experienced this intense joy/bliss/ecstasy fill me. All my rugby strains vanished. All by stresses and worries vanished soon after. And when I returned to school in a state of elation, I saw sparkling gold woven into the snow like a carpet for miles around. And when I got back to school I just got this warm greeting from everyone. And I couldn’t stop laughing. I felt like Scrooge after he wakes up on Christmas Day.
And for days, weeks, years many similar experiences – and dreams. Like in Shakespeare, ‘merrily, merrily, shall I live now ..’ So I’m utterly convinced of the divine and benevolent divine. I wish the same joy and blessings for you – and Lord Redwood and others here.
April 14, 2026
Very kind of you but I suspect rather unlikely for myself. But I do like Churches and Church music.
April 14, 2026
I’ll make a few requests that Someone up there will make it more likely to intervene in your life – and intervention always positive. If there’s No-one up there, then no harm done! But if there is, then only good can come from. I’ll do the same for Lord Redwood (and Lynn and others here in general sense) as I do for anyone I come across in any way in life. All best. Going to spend my time now on those requests instead of writing comments. At least for now.
April 14, 2026
“With capitalism it is man’s exploitation of man; with socialism/communism it is the other way around”
The other way round is ‘man’s exploitation of man’.
This Pope is a lunatic. Irrational and not sentient.
April 13, 2026
Good morning.
You get the government you voted for. And yes, I do know that this government got fewer votes than the last but, that is the fault(s) of the system that has never been addressed.
I do not think we are going backwards. What is happening is that for the first time ever is that all the wealth is heading East. The West, through various means, has priced itself out of the Global Market as investors look to maximise profits. And one way to do that is to go where labour and energy are cheapest – eg China.
President Trump recognised this and has sought to reverse the trend. Hence tariffs and “drill-baby-drill” programs.
People across Europe have finally realised that their governments are captured and that they are pursuing policies deliberately made to make them poorer. eg Selling UK Gilts at a loss and stealing farmers land. They are deliberately engineering a collapse to rob us of our wealth and working to replace us so we cannot resist / vote our way out.
You see it everywhere and either you sense it or, know it. Just don’t talk about it 😉
April 14, 2026
Yes, I also think they are deliberately engineering a collapse. Two-Tier has just made it clear that his primary objective is to get us under the control of the EU (and eventually back in) ignoring the result of the Referendum and he and will avoid what passes for democracy in order to do it. They are deliberately destroying our energy and food security; manufacturing and defence capability and will then tell us we must rely on “our friends in the EU.”
They are deliberately flooding the country with criminal migrants who have come from the continent and are gaslighting the population with the objective of causing civil unrest so they can impose authoritarian government.
Everything they are doing is deliberate.
April 13, 2026
As the advertising industry knows too well, consumerism is now focused much more on EXPERIENCE over THINGS (this is not about right or wrong but about consumer perceptions and desires – which is ultimately influenced by culture and society not by politics). So for example, it’s much more important where you went on holiday than what car you own. So keeping up with the Jones is whether you went to the Seychelles (high value or status) or Benidorm (low status or value) not (or not nearly so much) whether you own a BMW or a Ford Fiesta. And you can apply this theory right across the board and how this impacts the nature of the economy overall. Including energy. And cars. In old days, cars were more about performance and status. People don’t care so much anymore. They care more whether increased pollution means their children will be more vulnerable to pollution-causing diseases (and they will discuss this kind of things at dinner parties – including working class people who are now middle class. So a gas-guzzling car just becomes more uncool – like we see very clearly in the USA). They don’t care so much about man travelling to the moon but about that football game they travelled to Manchester to watch and that cost a lot of money – the game, the merchandise, the hotel, the food and the drink – compared to the 80s.
Consumerism is now – overall – far more about doing and being rather than owning. And with all classes.
April 13, 2026
I can see much truth in this with my sons EM. They certainly have very different expectations to my generation (I blame their Mother). They both have good jobs, earn decent money (by my terms) but also have a wonderful talent when it comes to spending it. It concerns me that they seem to spend more time worrying about the football results than their financial future. Fortunately, they have me to do that for them.
I’ve sometimes wondered if doing so is a mistake, as I won’t be around forever. However, every (well most) parent wants the best for their children and I made sure that they started pension plans much earlier than most (the secret to a good retirement). Hopefully some of “The Old F**ts” (their term of affection for me) wisdom will stick and I’m sure they will be glad one day that their Dad took the time to worry about them. They work hard but they certainly live lives (holidays, restaurants, clothes, kids toys/adventures etc) that we never had. I don’t begrudge them this – I just worry that it won’t last forever.
April 13, 2026
I don’t think the environmental credentials of EVs stand up to scrutiny. The extra mining of raw materials (I read a claim that it is 6x than for an ICE), the shorter lifespan, the emitting of more brake dust and tyre granulation as EVs are much heavier, and the state of our roads are a result of all these much weightier vehicles. Potholes become more prevalent after the freeze/thaw of a cold winter, but winters are milder so something else is affecting the road surfaces. A friend recently bought a 4 year old EV and admits that the range is down to 90 miles. So if the vehicle is only used for short local journeys and can be charged on a driveway then that might be acceptable, but for many people that kind of performance is not. And that range will only decrease with each passing year. Price of replacement batteries? And what happens to the old ones? Recycling uses lots of energy. And renewable energy is, as SJR says, intermittent, so not a lot of use for modern industries like data centres.
April 13, 2026
You mean nobody is laying down wine. They feel there is no future so take all the pleasure they can now.
What an indictment. No wonder everyone is depressed.
April 13, 2026
In the past we were all free to live, trade, work and love in 27 different countries, no permissions needed. Not any more
Reply We can still do all those things
April 13, 2026
And they were free to come here and live of benefits and demand a house. It wasn’t equal (unsurprisingly for our civil service).
Still are if they turn up on a dinghy.
April 13, 2026
In the past we were far more interested in going to America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand than any of the EU countries. Language learning declined all the time we were in the EU.
April 13, 2026
And armlocked into tearing up our orchards, destroying our fisheries and buying billions more of very expensive products.
Either you see clearly or you don’t. This Govt continues with the EU diktats (as did the Tories). We are not getting a better quality of life.
Govts and institutions are becoming more and more extractive.
April 13, 2026
Yes, no one’s stopping you leaving JB – in fact many are doing so….
April 13, 2026
Indeed – all these things are perfectly possible but you have a few more delays at the airport and more red tape – perhaps due to EU incompetence and spite. They would/could be even be more demanding if were still a member and under the thumb. As we see with the French and the “small” boats they seem to have no interest in sensible cooperation with the UK.
April 13, 2026
The other thing that makes us all poorer is more people pushing up demand for more housing, roads, resources. Energy, water, food, Infra structure… but the main problem is bloated and inept government, over regulation (almost always misguided), over taxation, anarcho tyranny, the net zero religion, indeed religions in general very often…some even soon to be protected from all criticism.
“With capitalism it is man’s exploitation of man; with socialism/communism it is the other way around” but the later is invariably far worse than the former.
Estimates of deaths caused by communist regimes range from roughly 20 million to over 100 million, with the highest tolls occurring in the Soviet Union and China. Major causes included forced labor, famine, mass executions, and deportations, with prominent examples including Stalin’s repressions and Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.
April 13, 2026
@Reply – only as far as the unelected unaccountable EU bosses that govern the UK allow. Simple’s, we are not free to drill for oil & gas. We have no control over fish taken from UK territorial waters. We can’t send those that enter the UK illegally back to their last safe have. and so on – the UK Parliament is not a servant of the people that were once said to lend them their powers, they are now subservient to their rulers elsewhere.
April 13, 2026
JR you had better speak to the Irish.
April 13, 2026
We can’t do any of those things without the permission of the host state. Seems you don’t know what Brexit means, Mr Redwood
April 14, 2026
JB: Just a reminder too that HMG was generous after our exit from the EU in accepting well in excess of 6 million applications under the EU Settlement Scheme even accepting applications long after the final deadline date.
April 13, 2026
There is widespread pessimism. I can’t judje if it is worse than the 70s (I was not working age then – blackouts seemed exciting).
On the Irish demonstrations I have seen reports in the alternative media that it is about more than the fuel costs; the rage against deliberate immigration seems to be a big factor, too. Also despair at the eletist government class.
April 13, 2026
The lack of optimism is fully justified – three more years of doom loop economic and energy suicide from this insane Labour government. Even then we only “might” get a sensible government who “might” to at least start trying to turn things around (but fighting against the powerful forces of the blob). Three years of scorched earth vandalism first – so likely to be at least 10 years before we see any real improvement at best.
Basically engineers and scientist have given you miraculous improvements in technology and vast reductions in manufacturing costs but the government’s lawyers, net zero nutters and PPE grad’s have given you ever more bloated government, ever more regulation and red tape, every more taxes, ever more benefit for the feckless, planning restrictions and higher and higher taxes have largely stolen all the benefits. Plus open door immigration has suppressed wages. Also they spent over £1 trillion on net harm “Covid Vaccines”, net harm Covid lockdowns and net harm Net Zero policies.
We cover all our farm land in hideous Solar Panels (giving us un-needed daytime summer electricity) but struggle to find land for people’s housing.
Dire dishonest politicians, civil servants and government experts using compliant scientists did however develop Covid in the lab alas. Plus scientists pushed by money & big Pharma did develop the net harm Covid Vaccines!
April 13, 2026
I’ve not been following events in Ireland too closely. To be frank I don’t care about the problems of the Irish. Too much evil crossed that border in my time and then returned home safely afterwards.
However I did hear a mention of ‘carbon taxes’ in one report and it occured to me that part of Dublins fuel tax problem might be sitting in Brussels. Mr Starmer seems to think moving closer to the EU will help solve his problems. I think it will just reduce his options.
April 13, 2026
Indeed despair at the “eletist government class” very understandable.
“Gas fired power stations work all the time whilst solar and wind power is intermittent. ” well they can do but they are forced to work intermittently to back up the wind & solar wasting much capacity, money and energy.
Circa 180 times more grid investment needed to connect up solar & wind than to large gas, nuclear or coal generators. This as so spread out and usually only working at 20% capacity but the wiring has to be able to carry 100%. This gets even worse as winter demand get higher and higher on cold days as people switch to heat pumps from gas, solid fuel or oil.
So the Rudakabana report says a very large numbers of reports to misc. authorities but nothing was done. So just like nearly all similar cases where police, social services, LEAs, mental hearth services just like Victoria Climbié Inquiry and so many others… They nearly always fail to do anything much that works.
But Sir Adrian says “he did not suffer from any mental health issues” (surely anyone who does such a thing certainly does have mental health issue – in my view) then he largely blamed the parents and things on the internet.
April 13, 2026
In my view Lucy Letby’s convictions are all very clearly unsound and I think the double refusal of any appeal by six judges is appalling. But if say they were all correct conviction then would anyone remotely sensible claim she did them but did not suffer from some mental health problems?
How are “mental health problems” defined by the medical and legal “experts” I wonder.
April 13, 2026
Everybody is disappointed that the American VP JD Vance failed to secure an end to the Iran war. Trump despatched his two real estate specialists Kushner and Witkopf with a strong record of failure in peace negotiations to assist Vance and, predictably, they made matters worse
Over the past 70 years or so, the Americans have an abysmal record of failure while using force to obtain diplomatic objectives
1) The Korean war, fought from 1950 – 1953, resulting in 33,500 Americans killed with an end result of no peace deal, just a cessation of hostilities and a Communist regime in charge of the North
2) The Vietnam war, fought from 1955 – 1975 with 47,500 Americans killed with an end result of a Communist regime running a unified country and a humiliating retreat from Saigon
3) The Afghan war, fought from 2001 – 2021, with 1900 Americans killed and an end result of the Taliban in charge of the country, following another humiliating withdrawal from Kabul
None of Trump’s “objectives” have been achieved. The Ayatollahs still have 450kg of highly enriched uranium. There has been no regime change. The IRGC still control the Strait of Hormuz. They are still firing missiles at their Sunni Muslim neighbours.
The UK’s very weak military means we have made the correct decision in staying out of the war in the Middle East.
April 13, 2026
Cars in my London Borough are only allowed to drive at 20mph. This takes us back to the early days of motoring – the top speed of a car was 20mph in 1895.
April 13, 2026
The whole energyy system in the UK is a monumental farce.
Relying on solar and wind that can only work part-time. Refusing to drill for our own oil and gas.
Importing gas, because without it energy would be insufficient for our needs.
Some of that gas arrives on diesel powered ships in the form of LNG. Which has to be turned back to gas. The whole process causing greater Co2 emissions than if we piped our own gas ashore.
Co2 the bogeyman trace gas. It actually comprises 0.04% of Earths atmosphere, of which UK contributes <1%
Miliband's madness, destroying industry and creating the most expensive energy in the developed world.
When will someone with power wake up to this ?
April 13, 2026
Clearly it all went too far.
Before Germany grew back it’s strength after WW1 to challenge the status quo everything and everyone had it’s place. The poor survived, just, while the elite lived in their own bubble, with a wide influence on those they controlled.
All of that changed with the wars, WW2 and WW2, the elite lost some of their control, those poor that had their lives shattered with new deadly experience abroad started to demand something better. A country fit for heroes never materialised, but due to the events of the 60’s and the social revolution, we all started to share some of the freedoms and life improvements the elites took for granted. The elites resisted all this change, all too aware of where it would lead.
Plans were laid early on in the 20th century by the elites which took decades to evolve, their intent was to regain control of the lives of those they demanded live in certain ways, without the luxuries they had now taken for granted.
With net-0 pushing the destruction of those things that drove the new era, it was then necessary to kill freedom and make justice a thing of the past. Many new laws came into being to confuse while wokism penetrated the social conscience to complicate life further. Digital IDs will once again allow the elites to do as they please while ensuring their inferiors are harassed at every stage of their day and made to do as they are indoctrinated to do without free will coming into play.
All of what we are seeing today is the result of freedoms given away too easily, but now the elites are thoroughly back in control, and we may never escape servitude again.
April 13, 2026
‘Built on coal, surrounded by fish’ that was the mantra. With nuclear power too cheap to meter. Go to uni, get a nice job and you’re set for life.
That optimistic picture has turned to ashes. Allegedly we have about 50 years of oil left and say 100 years of gas. Probably double that but then some limits will/may kick in. Cost going up, resource wars, mass migrations, Hormuz will look a negligible squabble. Mr Miliband might have jumped the gun a bit, our new windmills and grid lines will be rusting away by the time they are needed if they ever are.
Of course fusion power will save us. The physics are clear – but not for doing it in a little box, that may or may not be possible, we don’t know. Assuming it works I think it will prove even more expensive and even more difficult than we think. Probably 50 years or more away from feeding your smartmeter.
Our world in 100 to 200 years time may well be resource constrained. Having humans breeding willy nilly may be best left to survival of the fittest. But Parliament will be much the same, grossly inefficient and expensive. Hansard will still make dull reading and MP’s expenses more secret than nuclear launch codes.
April 14, 2026
There is much more oil and gas than that.
April 14, 2026
And MPs expenses are published.
April 13, 2026
Just as the Chinese relied upon utopian grand designs to inflict the Great Leap Forward, the UK is relying upon the very same to inflict the Great Leap Backward. In each case, quality of life for ordinary plebs ends up being destroyed as a result of the elite insisting “we know best”.
April 13, 2026
The common denominator being interference with the use and developments by world governments.
Obsession with controlling the masses’ working lives and pleasure pursuits.
April 13, 2026
Our gas and electricity market is rigged so there is no competition. Prices continue to rise and tax continues to be collected.
Doctrine v competition.
Socialist v laissez faire
April 13, 2026
I have to wonder, who is actually running OUR country today?
The common factor with the failings of differing Party governments is the Civil Service. Are there staff changes with the change of Government? The ‘Mandarins’ are the top dogs of the civil service and appear to be totally career-oriented.
Our problem with that is they will, of course, have much knowledge but very little experience of life outside of Whitehall and Westminster, and that’s our life!
If they are indeed showing our incompetent government ‘the way forward’ for the country, I suggest they and their Ministers get a real life in the back streets of Britain before dictating how we should live our lives. Anyone who has a business or a mortgage and works for a living knows what severe damage higher taxation can do to their profits, disposable income, and subsequent growth of OUR economy, so why doesn’t this Government and its Mandarins?
April 13, 2026
From the MsM – “European Union single market rules will be imposed on Britain without a full vote in Parliament under plans being drawn up by Labour.”
Does that mean we can do away with the UK Parliament, this shocking UK Parliament and stop paying MPs to defend our democracy, institutions, freedoms. 650 MPs now serve no purpose for the UK electrorate
April 13, 2026
You refer to ‘self harm on a huge scale’ which I completely agree with but cannot understand.
We are “shooting ourselves in the foot”over so many issues with the end result of handing things on a plate to other countries so they can develop further causing the UK to fall behind.
This is the first time I can remember where residents here are actively looking to relocate to where the opportunities are, the jobs are, the growth is, such as South America,India,China and where you are not taxed on anything and everything that moves.
The self harm caused by not using our own oil and gas reserves and resources is staggering and hands manufacturing to other countries who are not so obsessed with ‘net zero’ as the UK so those countries can then export to the UK at a premium price, what we ourselves should be manufacturing.
To suggest that all cars will be electric by 2035 and propose that heat pumps are to be installed in all houses is just living in Miliband’s fantasy land;It is simply not possible and will never happen
The UK is very compliant with International law when it comes to allowing anyone access to our shores at massive expense in benefits and housing to the UK taxpayer.The policy should be if these are migrants bringing skills and expertise to benefit the UK economy where there is a current shortage, then let them come in on short term visas, but where they are not they should be returned to their own countries.If Trump can do it and Australia does it, why cant the UK?
We desperately need strong leadership and control from Keir Starmer but as this is unlikely I foresee the continuing decline of the UK to become a high tax, high spend,low output, net zero obsessed, woke country that’s going nowhere.
April 13, 2026
Confirmation
Wes Streeting asked on Sky News if the Chagos surrender deal is dead: “No”
Then basically they are working on a ‘fudge’
April 13, 2026
In my school days there was one ethnically obvious diverse person in the entire school population. And unless you include the French teachers who were actually French there were none in the staff.
Today there are no schools like this, and the few that are left are hammered by Ofsted for not being diverse enough.
In Ireland there has been massive numbers of recent immigrants, and factually this had driven crime sky high, including rape, and the police have lost control of that.
We need to start having proper discussions about these issues.
People who are not pro British, who would never fight on our side in a war… should not be getting the support of the British state.
April 14, 2026
Is the rape not deliberate? Why bring in hundreds of thousands of young men in their prime?
Is this not the way to really replace the native European population in short order? Once all the women have a dingy child, whom they will protect, isn’t it over?
April 13, 2026
It will soon be the thirtieth anniversary of Tony Blair’s fateful socialist general election victory. During the period since, we have gone from being a rich energy self sufficient nation, with real capacity to make a difference in the world to nothing of significance.
Now we can’t even respond to our defence commitments to our own overseas bases in Cyprus? Our PM insists we try to look the other way, when our key ally and upholder of our freedom/defence, the USA, asks for our help.
Meanwhile we now have the highest taxation ever levied in peace time. We have farms being laid to waste by IHT and readied for solar panels, No more sheep and cattle in our countryside is what is being progressed. This simple policy of abandoning farming and accelerating solar power will crystalise our ever more expensive energy costs.
Those costs and loss of wealth creating sectors are impoverishing us and destroying manufacturing.
We have a social security and benefits bill now greater than the income tax take of the whole nation! We are deploying four large catamaran as supper taxies in the channel to enable the border forces to collect more people more safely from the seas off Kent. All very easily signed off at around £60 million cost so a bargain eh?
How much longer can this go on?
April 13, 2026
It comes from the top down, the PM and Government set the mood of the nation. We have an insular PM, who is weak, and presides over a weak government. It seems Labour is a sour organisation only interested in dividing up a smaller and smaller cake for welfare dependents, while overloading the productive sector of the economy.
They will soon learn a harsh lesson from reality, but it will be ordinary people who suffer as a result.
Perhaps Mrs Thatcher was the last recent PM who believed in the UK and had a vision for its future.
For this Labour government, there is a true saying which sums them up. If you don’t know where you are going, you wil probably end up somewhere else.
April 13, 2026
It isn’t only the economy and material standards that are going backwards by deliberate policy. The policies of Starmer’s Gang are taken frm the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. The classic two are:
1) the relaese of violent criminals to make space for Britain’s first gulag for political prisoners inthe knowledge that the criminals would target the hated bourgeoisie
2) the war against the kulaks private owners of farm land.
Then there is the war on private schools, private enterprise, private property.
What is new is the unholy alliance with the Islamists based on nothing more than shared hatred of the Judeo-Christian foundations of Britain – and America.
The most extraordinary thing about Starmer’s Gang is that whreas socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried, socialists still blame its failures on others: because they wouldn’t comply with socialist state direction. Now they hope the Islamists will be the catalysts to get it over the line. Certainly Starmer’s Gang is the doormat for Islamist entry into and domination of Britain. Starmer’s Gang seems not to understand that as in Iran in 1979 his new found allies, once free speech has been sufficiently suppressed, will dispose of their services and impose a caliphate.
The only consolation is that the success of Islam’s advance in UK means the IRGC doesn’t need to waste a ballistic missile on London – which is most definitely within range of Iran. Iran has spotted the weakness in Britain’s defence strategy. Post WW2 ballistic missiles have unilt now been exclusively armed with nuclear warheads. Defence rested on Mutual Assured Destruction. But there is no way Britain would lob a nuke on iran in retaliation for a missile attack armed only with non-nuclear warheads. UK has no air or land based defence against such an attack. None, Zilch..
April 13, 2026
Recently President Trump said he was going to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age and Iranian civilisation would be wiped out – or something like that – and today he attacks the Pope and releases an image of himself as an American Jesus??
April 14, 2026
And there was I thinking that the Church of Rome believes the Pope is God’s Representative On Earth, that the Wisdom of the Lord pours from his mouth.
And he instructs us that we Christians can live in Peace with Islam, he walks in the Mosque barefooted, but he ignores the pogram of Christians in Nigeria just next door.
The King of England lords the President of Nigeria to a State Banquet and never mentions the pogram of Christians.
And you cast aspersions at Trump.
April 13, 2026
Maybe the Iranians think Trump is just too crazy / nuts / round the loop to make a ‘deal’ with.
April 13, 2026
How the spinners, spin.
‘Rolls-Royce has been handed a £600m loan from Rachel Reeves to help accelerate the development of Britain’s first mini-nuclear power plant.’
Rachel Reeves has £600m to give out as a loan? Surely as with all Parliaments expenditure it should start as the Taxpayer will provide. Worded the way of the Press Release is Party Politics and Electioneering.
April 13, 2026
The ‘Plan’ Kier Starmer’s ‘Plan’ took another step today .
Hungary’s new PM urges Britain to rejoin the EU as Starmer talks up push to unwind Brexit… and dodge votes on taking Brussels rules
‘The comment came as Sir Keir again pointed to the Middle East crisis as evidence that he needs to cosy up to Brussels.
Delivering a statement to MPs, the premier said dealing with the fallout from Donald Trump’s war with Iran meant ‘a closer economic relationship with our European allies because Brexit did deep damage to the economy’.
‘The opportunities we now have to strengthen our security and cut the cost of living are simply too big to ignore,’ he added.’
The Iran situation has no impact on the UK. The UK Parliament ‘owns’ the dire state of the UK they alone have brought the nation down. The Donald Trump reference is another gambit to drive a wedge between the UK and the USA thinking that will ease that passage to come under more of the EU Yoke without discussion.
The USA is the UK’s largest trading Country, and yet the UK isn’t forced into accepting US Laws and Regulations inside the UK. 2TK will destroy that trade for his dream of a EU Marist State and for the UK Nation and its people to be destroyed.
April 13, 2026
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15729479/Hungary-PM-Britain-rejoin-EU-Starmer-Brexit-Brussels.html
‘The opportunities we now have to strengthen our security and cut the cost of living are simply too big to ignore,’ he added. All lies but still the ‘Plan’ he is sticking too.
April 13, 2026
Trump is mad no doubt – his behaviour is outrageous beyond all reason and leaves me cold – we can see the damage he has done as regards world relations and am afraid there will be no going back with this one. All Europeqn countries will now need to enter a period of reflection – the same as Canada is doing. However the chink of light that gives me best hope for the future is seeing the cult of Orban completely demolished last evening – could be a start.
April 14, 2026
Yes, the net zero, open borders cult is still alive and powerful and can demonize anyone who opposes it.
April 14, 2026
And Canada is exporting its Stasi to Ireland. Another bloody mad woman.