It is not just the Mandelson disaster which has angered the country and makes the majority hungry for him to go.
It is his whole style and approach to government. He said something true when he said he prefers Davos to Westminster. This is the never home Keir, international law Kier, two tier justice Kier, tax the hard working Kier, clobber UK business Kier, put self defeating net zero policies before our living standards, our jobs, our incomes Kier.
He burns too much jet fuel and spends too much taxpayer money travelling the world in a vain search for famous friends and photo opportunities. Instead of building UK defences he pretends we can rely on a non existent EU security. Instead of stopping UK de industrialisation brought on by ludicrously dear energy prices and taxes, he seeks to make it worse by making us submit to higher EU carbon taxes and tariffs. Instead of helping people into work he slaps on jobs taxes, business taxes and farm taxes.
Labour policies effectively tell people not to strive to do better, not to work hard, do not try to grow a business, do not buy a better home or send your children to a private school. If you do the state will criticise you and send you a bigger tax bill. When so many things go wrong because of bad policies it is time for the Labour party to demand a change.
April 20, 2026
The feeling is evident in the words. However poorly expressed.
April 20, 2026
You mention Davos. That’s who he works for. His handlers will keep him in position until he’s completed his wrecking ball spree.
We have a colossal deficit trade wise with the EU so he wants closer alignment with them and is willing to pay billions to get it. They should be paying us.
As for net zero and continued mass invasion by military age mainly Muslims, again all Davos inspired policies. The man’s a charlatan and I fear he’s not done yet.
April 20, 2026
Before his political appointment he was a UK member of the Trilateral Commission.
April 20, 2026
“The UK had a trade deficit with the EU of £89 billion in 2025 and a trade surplus of £50 billion with non-EU countries.
“The trade surplus with all countries reached £0.6 billion in the three months to February 2026 compared with a deficit of £14.0 billion in the three months to November 2025. Exports increased by 3.0% and imports decreased by 3.1% in cash terms over this period.” (HoC, April 2026)
Britain needs to do a Trump with the EU. The rest of works fine. Only the EU is a black spot.
April 20, 2026
We had the faux Tories before (don’t let that happen again, please). I’m guessing they’re lining their next person up too. 3 years before anything can be done. That’s quite a few more swings of the wrecking ball. We were warned. Mandelson was only put there to keep Trump off Starmer’s back (and it worked for a while).
Even if Reform knocks these May elections for six, what can be done before 2029?
April 20, 2026
To strike a blow on this blog you are going to have to sharpen up.
April 20, 2026
Do I detect AI drafting style here? (must be very busy nowadays, so worth a try, perhaps?)
Sir Keir is who he is – a lawyer type, ardently sincere in his role. Trouble is, its the prevailing Party ideology – are they not all mostly Fabians? (True to the Society’s logo of a wolf in sheep’s clothing!)
April 20, 2026
Good morning.
We know and he knows that he does not have long. So he is making hay will the sun is shining and clocking up his air miles. Well, he may even leave a legacy. You know, the one thing we all remember them by.
Will I lament his passing ? No ! Why ? Because every time we get a new PM they turn out to be as bad or worse than all their predecessors. So hang in their TTK.
April 20, 2026
‘We know and he knows that he does not have long.’ – then again he knows as a a political religious follower he has done nothing wrong, its those that haven’t engaged with his personal, very personal ‘vision’ of rule by decree that are the problem
April 20, 2026
Strange that you never once said that Boris Johnson should take any blame
April 20, 2026
WHATABOUT !
April 20, 2026
He’s not the PM. Do you think that might be relevant?
April 20, 2026
He’s applying for his next career with the world’s power-brokers and/or in the Global Quangocracy. That requires him to deliver THEIR Agenda for the UK, not act in the interests of the UK and the British people. He’s a puppet, serving foreign Masters, and is a very dangerous one.
Red Ed is doing exactly the same thing.
April 20, 2026
+1
April 20, 2026
Starmer has demonstrated such fundamental inadequacy that there will be no career ‘progression’.
Bit like the Woke Pope making up Bible versus – when you misquote from the Bible, have a care, we can all read now and the Bible is in English.
Wow, no wonder the globalist woke platoon hate the British and always have done.
April 20, 2026
Must be so, what other explanation makes sense? The are not that bright as we know, but surely not quite so stupid enough to actually believe they are acting in UK interests, are they?
Looking at their actions:- Chagos, the Chinese Embassy go ahead, being anti-Trump, the Iran war, the net zero lunacy, the trade deal… are they acting for China. It looks rather like it.
April 20, 2026
He is also it seems serving the EU with his absurd positions of UK fishing, EU dynamic alignment, Northern Ireland, the Turing student scheme absurdly replaced by by the far worse (for the UK) Erasmus scheme.
April 20, 2026
All vry real observations and nothing to argue with John.
Starmer is the ultimate example of an organisational snake unaware it is eating its own tale.
How ironic it will be, when Starmer concedes he is personally responsible for the most embarrassing and most damaging diplomatic activity in British history via the Mandelson fiasco. He will be brought down by a career Labour civil servant, Olly Robbins from the Blair stable. The tail is finally choking the head.
The diplomatic folly didn’t stop with sacking Mandelson either.
To compound his diplomatic naivety, Starmer went on to block our key and most capable ally the USA from using bases they fund from using them in times of need simply because 2TK can and wants to align with the Muslim diaspora now living in the UK and (historically) voting for Labour in the UK.
He has to go.
April 20, 2026
“Much to his Mum and Dad’s dismay,
“Horace ate himself one day.
“He didn’t stop to say his grace,
“He just sat down and ate his face, .. .. …”
(Monty Python , 1971.)
April 20, 2026
Agree John
Clueless policies as to the needs of the people and the Country.
We need people to be encouraged, to strive, improve, invest, save and try look after themselves, instead we get exactly the opposite as the risk is much much higher than any reward gained for success.
April 20, 2026
Not just clueless but consistently 180 degree wrong on every issue.
April 20, 2026
Labour policies effectively tell people not to strive to do better, not to work hard, do not try to grow a business
That’s the liebour way they don’t want you to have your own money and spend as you wish, you can bet your bottom dollar that if it comes to crunch time with this weak kneed lawyer PM that he’s tells his fellow MPs that if he goes he’ll call a General Election and we know turkeys don’t vote for Christmas
April 20, 2026
Exactly. No chance of a GE. They’ll keep Starmer, to keep their own jobs. And a vote of no confidence wouldn’t work, thanks to Labour’s huge majority. So he’ll stay.
As a result, the integrity of politics in this country will be further damaged. The hope that citizens can change anything by voting is being completely destroyed, since the system is more and more obviously corrupt.
Who benefits?
April 20, 2026
Perhaps he already has, and it’s our only hope. But his handlers will want someone else in place from the Labour ranks for 3 years, so he’ll cave when that’s sorted out.
April 20, 2026
No turkeys get a vote.
Under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, which repealed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, the power to dissolve Parliament and call a general election has returned to the royal prerogative which is exercised by the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister requests (instructs) the King to dissolve Parliament and triggers a general election 25 working days later.
April 20, 2026
I am afraid that Sir Two Tier will escape today on a technicality. The Foreign Office was able to override the vetting and say it had been passed. Therefore Sir Two Tier was indeed told that the vetting had been passed and due process had been followed.
He will have a torrid time today over the “Google” search and his own knowledge of the liability that Peter Mandelson brought to the role but that will just bring his ability into question not his ethics unfortunately.
His party will unseat him following the local elections. Unfortunately given the dross on the Labour benches and who may replace him, I am tempted to vote Labour to keep this inept EU sand international order sycophant in place.
Better the devil you know.
April 20, 2026
I fear those even worse than Starmer are waiting in the wings for their chance to destroy the UK.
April 20, 2026
In yet another example of the megalomanic in the White House’ suspect loyalties, Trump has now extended the ending of Russian oil sanctions for another month. So far, the war criminal Putin’s regime has earned an estimated $12bn selling un-sanctioned oil to India and China. However, this has mode no difference whatsoever to the price of petrol (“gas”) at the pumps in Texas
It gets even worse. Trump’s “Secretary of War” Hegseth has delayed deliveries of munitions – particularly Patriot air defence missiles (Ukraine has a number of launchers) which have already been paid for. Citing “operational needs” following the latest “very good” telecon between is master and Putin
It is looking increasingly likely that unless this war ends soon, a nasty global recession will be the result. NATO – and particularly the militarily weak UK – are wise to stay out of Trump and Netanyahu’s middle-east war.
April 21, 2026
Gas prices in Texas remain as they were because there is no shortage, they pump it in Texas.
Some 62 tankers and supertankers are USA bound rather than gulf of Hormuz bound – another win for Trump.
Putting Russian oil on the market smooths out the supply and demand imbalance and thwarts the Iranian Regime.
No ammunition has been ‘paid for’ by Ukraine for years. The USA has pulled out of the NATO/Russia war in Ukraine, very wisely.
April 20, 2026
When it’s all in writing like that it makes you realise just how really bad he is. He doesn’t care about this country, he only cares about his EU “friends” You left off his trying to give away the Chagos islands John. He’s probably the most anti British prime minister of recent times, it seems as though he’s doing everything he can to destroy the U.K. whilst he can.
April 20, 2026
Starmer has repeatedly shown he is untrustworthy and unfit to be an MP never mind Prime Minister. How much longer can he be permitted to stay in office?
April 20, 2026
In the meanwhile, we can only sit and wait for whatever walking disaster is going to (sooner or later) replace him. I still can’t quite bring myself to imagine Angela Rayner at the wheel but it’s clearly a possibilty. That would almost certainly freak out the Bond markets. Here we are then – between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea..
April 20, 2026
Well I’m sure Keir Starmer will have more than one stiff drink when he finally knocks off today.
The more i think about it, the more I’m wanting him to stay on as PM. Dire as he and Ms Reeves are, I think we will still be better off with them, than under the likely alternatives. We have 2-3 years of our Labour ‘sentence’ still to serve. Much as I’m suprised to find myself saying it, I think we might be ‘safer’ under these two incompetants than the other alternatives. It’s a choice of (just) awful or (really) apocalyptic I’m afraid. Of course Starmer is unlikely to last till the next GE but we live in very strange times, so you never know…
April 20, 2026
Labour has always been the party of higher taxation. It would have been less bad had they not committed to not raising income tax rates. Also their apparent commitment to economic growth was plain silly.
A 1p or 2p rise in income tax would have been easier to stomach, and may have prevented the assault on private pensions and businesses.
April 20, 2026
The man is an incompetent charlatan. You forgot to mention the U-turns, grooming gangs cover-up, the attempt to pay to give away the Chagos Islands and now the lies around Mandelson.
He has to go. If Labour had any sense they would kick him out today. If he hangs on, he will cost Labour thousands of seats in the local elections.
April 20, 2026
If with think 2TK is bad. Look at what there is to replace him.
April 20, 2026
Starmer is a global socialist. He gives not a penny for nation states. Everyone is the same. We all have human rights and we don’t need anything else because we are just meat units of equal worth to the state. Work for the state, breed for the state, pay taxes to the state. That is the sum total of our lives. There should not be any such thing as national character. There is no reason for any one country to be different from any other. So they can all be ruled in exactly the same way and through the same set of laws and regulation. Therefore, only one government is required so national governments can all be dispensed with. We need to start with the EU and expand it it to swallow the whole world, expanding by deceit and stealth and when that doesn’t work, up the ante with bullying, locking up dissenters and then force.
April 20, 2026
“Time for the PM to own up and take the blame”
Wont happen, he is first and foremost a religious political animal. He created a 2 tier world, a them and us world to differentiate why he is so special.
The he has the backing of the Majority of Parliament, that live in fear, the owe this man their free-loading life. They ‘own’ his output, his direction, his destruction. Its called the ‘Plan’ – Mandelson is just a side show a comrade that couldn’t be hidden.
April 20, 2026
The ‘Plan’ has never been deviated from. In answer to his critics earlier this year he doubled down on those around were not pushing the ‘Plan’, to get back on track the focus is the ‘Plan’
Today’s excuse and rallying call we be that his followers must engage with the ‘Plan’ and they will forgive him.
Hidden reading dug up by the Express…
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2195457/i-read-keir-starmers-forgotten
The book ‘Beyond Brexit:’ The answer, Starmer writes is, ‘radical social’ change and a ‘close future partnership with the EU’
April 20, 2026
Reform and Restore is what is required.
April 20, 2026
And illegal immigration. The PM’s “Smash The Gangs” policy was simply to give a reason for cancelling the Rwanda plan and thus to ensure the continued invasion of fighting age men to join the “communities” building up in our country whose languages, beliefs, customs, laws and practices are alien to those of the indigenous population.
April 20, 2026
Lord Redwood you have summed up the ‘Walter Mitty’ world of 2TierKier perfectly.
As the majority in this Parliament are his religious disciples that hang on to his messages and direction, he has demonstrated similar traits to those that govern Iran. It his Law, and only his interpretation of that Law has meaning in his head. There is no place in his World for Democracy, or him being held to account by his followers.
So in a nutshell for the future of what is left of the UK a General Election has to be the only end game. If anyone thinks just changing the head of this corrupt cabal will change things they are mistaken this disease runs deep
April 20, 2026
Indeed a radical change is needed. Unfortunately all the candidates to replace Starmer – who should clearly now go on the grounds of integrity – would be the same or worse. The right needs to be on alert for an early election. A new leader might try to take advantage of a boost in support because Starmer has gone, as it is thought brown should have done in 2007. One things for sure: if the centre right forms a circular firing squad as proposed by the likes of Richard Tice, we will get another leftwing govt.
April 20, 2026
How come that once the possibility of Mandelson becoming the UK’s Ambassador in Washington the media was awash with the accusations of his deep connections with China and Russia. So, the general public could see a problem. And, Starmer wasn’t aware?
Mandelson was a high-risk appointment, given he had twice resigned from Labour governments for financial or ethical missteps around the turn of the century. And, Starmer wasn’t aware?
At the same time Karen Pierce as it was stated in the media her planned departure was described by commentators as being “edged out” or “sidelined” in favour of a political appointment.
Then we remember the Chagos Lies, the Laws that don’t exists. The lie with regards the electromagnetic spectrum, the lies on tax and so on and so on.
Then head in the sand of Parliament pretends it wasn’t aware?
But he (Starmer) of course has the overriding unshakeable support of what is becoming the must corrupt UK Parliament we have ever endured. Starmer will get to complete the next 3 years of destruction to ensure the UK is unrecognisable.
April 20, 2026
The problem is that the Labour Party can change the face but not the bad policies.
All the chickens have come home to roost.
The compromised MPs, so easy for whips to control, selected by the party machines, have no capacity to recover or even contribute.
April 20, 2026
Hoping Labour demand a change in policy has the same chance of success as hoping Reform adopt an open borders policy.
April 20, 2026
It will be interesting to hear what Starmer has to say this afternoon. He is a weak man and will bend the truth any way he can to absolve himself of blame in Mandelson’s appointment. But a much bigger scandal is his determination to take us back into the EU, without a public or parliamentary vote.
If you wrote a song for this PM and Labour government, it would begin, ” Everything we do is paid for by you.”
A rotten PM leading a rotten government.
April 20, 2026
From Guido
Scotland Secretary Douglas Alexander has taken the morning round ahead of Starmer’s Commons statement at 3:30 p.m. Alexander argued that the public announcement of Mandelson’s appointment happening prior to the security vetting process was the fault of “previous governments.” Questioned on by Sophy Ridge on Sky New
So Mandelson was the Conservatives fault ….
April 20, 2026
Excellent comments and appraisal that so many agree with – even the lefties on GBnews struggle to support this PM or find reasons for his actions.
I still struggle to match the progress of the Stock Exchange with the country’s performance and where we are headed. You correctly place so much of what is going wrong on Net-0, that untouchable aberration that has been pushed down our throats for too long, without any idea of when it will bear real fruit. Where is the plan that shows when key infrastructure and replacement of gas fired power stations will occur – clearly too far in the future and unlikely to save us from complete national de-industrialisation and decline to the levels of a third world country.
Starmer and his amateur crew use all the other actions noted, like high tax and a scarcity of housing, to align us with the future when Net-0 will be completely upon us, where energy will be available only to the very rich, because if you are not one of the big earners who may be able to insulate themselves against the ravages of net-0.you won’t make it except onto the list enforced population reduction.
April 21, 2026
Most FTSE 100 companies operate globally, so are less exposed to problems in the UK market. They are also somewhat undervalued in P/E terms, especially when compared to US companies. So given that about one third of global equity value now rests in just seven US Corporations, there may be some investors looking for (boring) value rather than (exciting) growth in these distinctly troubled times.
April 20, 2026
All those lovely $s the Chancellor isn’t getting due to not exploiting the oil in the North Sea.
April 20, 2026
“it is time for the Labour party to demand a change”
The only change that the Parliamentary Labour Party will demand of Starmer’s successor is more of the same.
Starmer and Reeves have made numerous disastrous decisions as our host has outlined so clearly above, but on every occasion, their back benchers have demanded that they go further, and cause even more damage to the country.
I suspect that any of Starmer’s likely successors, especially if it is Miliband, will introduce a wealth tax, as well as the higher council tax bands, and probably higher income, CGT, inheritance, and Green taxes as well.
Of course, they won’t raise any more revenue, thanks to Laffer, which they do not understand or believe in, but many more economically-valuable people will up and leave the country, including my wife and I.
April 20, 2026
Smile….
There are very serious
allegations … about the
chaos and incompetence
in the decision making in
the government”
bad decisions have
consequences”
they paint a picture
that actually leads to the
Prime Minister and the
buck stops with him”.
Keir Starmer May 2021
April 20, 2026
Today the Media is having fun with their running commentary
Sir Keir Starmer has admitted that he misled Parliament over Lord Mandelson’s failed vetting – but claimed it was inadvertent.
“The Prime Minister would never knowingly mislead Parliament or the public,” the spokesman said.
“He’s clear, though, that this information should have been provided to Parliament, should have been provided to him and it should have been provided to other government ministers.”
So everything is alright then?
April 20, 2026
If it is true that the Foreign Office did not inform the PM that Lord Mandelson had failed the security vetting for the role of US ambassador, then whoever made this decision, for whatever reason, has put the importance of the security of the country below that of this reason. Doesn’t this require there to be a more severe punishment than simply a sacking?
April 20, 2026
“When so many things go wrong because of bad policies it is time for the Labour party to demand a change.”
Why would they? The false CAGW scam and its “solution”, Net Zero, is sabotaging our energy, economy and national security and mass immigration, both legal and illegal, is destroying our economy, social cohesion and again, our national security. Socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor. It’s all going to plan.
April 20, 2026
“He [the PM] said something true when he said he prefers Davos to Westminster.”
Or, perhaps, Beijing to Westminster? The UK National Security Adviser, has taken multiple trips to Beijing, including reported “secret” visits in late 2025 and early 2026 to meet with Chinese Foreign Minister. Wang Yi. His SoS for DESNZ has made a secret deal with China. Mandelson is alleged to have failed security because of his links to Russia and China. And then we have the Chagos give-away to China leaning Mauritius…