Labour 2024: “Defending our security also means protecting the British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, including the Falklands and Gibraltar. “
“Labour will always defend their sovereignty and right to self-determination.”
So what happened to that pledge?
Chagos Attempted give away with absurd £30 bn plus dowry to Mauritius.
Falklands Withdrew crucial refuelling plane from Falklands airport. Failing to reinforce defences with naval commitment despite new Argentine claims
Gibraltar Sell out Treaty with EU to make Gibraltar a colony of EU, taking rules and tax/ charges imposition from EU, allowing Spanish officials intervene in border control and making Gibraltar pay money to EU.
Cyprus base Failed to send naval cover and to provide full defence to Middle Eastern threats.Aroused Cyprus discussion of asking UK to leave.
Bermuda and Cayman islands Stated wish to change their locally determined tax policies to drive business away from them.
May 5, 2026
Labour breaks Manifesto pledge
😂😂😂😂your not kidding Sir John, there manifesto reads like a chapter from Jackanory or Aesop’s Fables, hopefully people’s eyes have been opened up to this bunch of muppets in parliament but there again you never know what’s in a lawyers tool box to stay in power
May 5, 2026
@Mick – ‘muppets?’ or very clever manipulators? The top of the UK’s legal profession, the UK’s top legal manipulators are the leadership in Parliament. The art of deflection is being played out and it is the rest of us that are paying.
May 5, 2026
Starmer’s Gang is riddled with Fabians and is also in an unholy alliance with Islamism. So, obviously, it believes nation states should be replaced by a global socialist order ruled by people like Hermer, Starmer and the Gang. The EU is a vehicle tailor made as a very great step towards this aim. From Islamism it has taken the concept of taqqiya. So the manifesto’s purpose is to deceive voters. This lie is wholly justified by taqqiya. And indeed the EU is itself based on the lie that it upholds democracy, a lie because democracy cannot be extended beyond the nation state because a demos cannot exist beyond the nation state. Which brings us back to open borders and the socialist international, which is fundamentally anti-democratic. Immigration of anti-thetical cultures is intended to destroy the demos in Britain.
Where will it go from here? Look to Iran. A similar Left-Islamist alliance produced the revolution of 1979, whereupon the Islamists killed off their socialist allies and imposed a barbaric caliphate. The Left values individuals well below the collective. They despise and fear individual freedom and private enterprise. They do not ‘do God’ and do not value human life. We are all just meat units to serve the state. They are as content as their Islamist allies for individuals to be locked up or killed for demanding freedom or for expressing criticism of or opposition to their policies or to the beliefs of their Islamist allies.
Britain is becoming a tyranny, a socialist tyranny for now but soon to become a caliphate.
Reply I disagree strongly with Starmer/Hermer but do not agree they wish to create a new Iran style government in the UK
May 5, 2026
@Reply – the trouble is their actions, their ‘Plan’, their manipulations suggest exactly that.
May 5, 2026
Labour are losing most of the Muslim voters despite Two Tier Kier’s, Rayner’s etc. appalling and craven pandering to them.
A JL Partners poll released on May 5, 2026, indicated that Labour support among Muslims has fallen to 33%.
May 5, 2026
They’ve taken over the greens, thats why.
May 5, 2026
Oh what a beauty the internet is! In there one can find any ´intellectual’ justification for one’s craziest ideas and that will give any commentator (what they might think) a varnish of respectability.
Taqiyya is a Shia Muslim concept with quite a different meaning from what PG is saying it is.
Furthermore, even so, considering numbers it is thought there are 200k Shia Muslims in Britain whereas the majority (3-4 m) is made of Sunni Muslims. Obviously for any heated head a 5% minority of a minority (4 m) within a 70 m total British population can only be ‘very dangerous’ … and Britain is about to turn like Iran.
And then 😉 are the Persians Shias, that’s a question for our Iran/Persia specialist.
May 5, 2026
Reply to reply:- Serious papers have been reporting what’s going on. ‘Muslims are increasingly turning to Britain’s sharia courts, which are not part of UK law and operate as informal bodies issuing religious rulings on marriage.’ (The Times, Dec 18, 2024). Up to 100 mosques are to be built in Great Britain in the next three years (Daily Telegraph, Feb 3, 2026): ‘Unlike most of the 1,000 existing mosques that are converted warehouses, churches or community halls, the new places of worship will be of traditional Islamic design with a central dome and minarets.’ This is the direction of travel, whether you are able/willing to see it or not. Do you remember ever passing a mosque when you were growing up?
May 5, 2026
Everyone of the things you list has the hand of Hermer behind them.
Starmer will do the maximum damage he can during his remaining time as PM. The Chsgos deal is not dead and I’m sure he’s exploring every avenue to give them plus billions to Mauritius.
May 5, 2026
This is surely coming from pressure from China. Starmer seem to like obeying China and the EU and the climate alarmist hoax gang. This while running open borders & actively damaging the UK at every turn.
May 5, 2026
We should also remember the other Labour manifesto pledge.
We will smash the gangs of people traffickers bringing illegal migrants to the UK.
That is another pledge not just broken but actively abandoned. The physical evidence of that is the purchase of three new migrant catamaran support boats. Described as bigger and safer now being deployed into the channel to pick up ever more dinghy passengers mid channel enabling safe passage to the UK ports.
The abandonment of security support to the Falklands Islands is a preliminary position Starmer’s Labour has adopted prior to handing over control of the Islands to the Argentine administration.
The good news is the confirmation of massive oil deposits in the Islands marine territories will enable them to afford proper defence facilities under their own authority and control.
May 5, 2026
Starmer seems to have set the Argentine repeat performance off already by antagonising the US over Iran and Ukraine. Trump is costing up to his ally Millei and they are proposing the transfer of sovereignty of the Malvinas and the oilfields. Unfortunately the MoD has run down the navy, with rusting frigates in the dockyards and the aircraft carriers depending on allies for defence. The Argentine airforce has just bought F16s with missiles. The best hope for the Fslklanders would be a transfer to US protection and an oil deal.
May 5, 2026
https://www.navylookout.com/another-warship-quietly-withdrawn-royal-navy-now-down-to-just-5-frigates/
This article gives an account of the absolutely disastrous management of the Royal Navy to a point where it is almost useless.
May 5, 2026
Not just the Navy!
May 5, 2026
The Prime Liar and his treacherous Party are desperately trying to give the UK to the EU as a colony – in defiance of the result of the EU Referendum.
Why would they protect the British Overseas Territories when they are doing their utmost to destroy the independence and Sovereignty of the Motherland?
May 5, 2026
Seems so!
May 5, 2026
Good Morning,
Quite hard to defend external territories when you keep removing fighting vessels, airplanes and fighting personnel from the rosters. But giving money to the EU and their projects is no problem.
Whenever I see 2TK sitting down with Macron I know it’s going to be expensive for us. He thinks they respect him…. we have a completely delusional PM.
May 5, 2026
Gas and nuclear providing 62% of electricity this morning due to shortage of wind over Europe. Where is this generation coming from when idiot milibrains phases gas out in the next 3 years.
May 5, 2026
Doesn’t protecting overseas territories require an army, navy and airforce?
Our armed forces certainly can’t raise an offensive campaign due to lack of numbers and equipment but I am fairly unsure that they would struggle to defend territory too.
Perhaps Sir Two Tier thinks that Jason Statham and Arnold Schwarzenegger style one man armies are real and we have a few.
Welfare and public sector pay and pensions, NHS management, housing immigrants and net zero costs all come higher in the pecking order than defence spending. Perhaps Sir Two Tier and his acolytes think that Russia, Iran, China, Islamic Countries and North Korea will fight in international court rather than on the beaches and in the air
May 5, 2026
Surely 2TK is still the far left student politician he has always been, disguised in a solicitor’s suit and glasses, and thinks we should be decolonising in every way we possibly can.
May 5, 2026
A manifesto is not a contract … it is little more than a wish list …. which can be changed or ignored with impunity …. a flaw in the currect electoral process ?
May 5, 2026
Indeed a truly appalling record. But 3 more years of scorched earth, doom loop, net zero, EU alignment polices to go. These perhaps under Rayner, Burnham, Streeting, Miliband, Mahmood, Evette Cooper Balls… which is now the hugely depressing betting order. Let us how Labour are destroyed as much as is possible in the elections this Thursday. It will be interesting to see just how many, always have, always will vote Labour voters are left!
May 5, 2026
67% of Muslim voters no longer seem to support Labour. A JL Partners poll released on May 5, 2026, indicated that Labour support among Muslims has fallen to 33%.
Why would anyone support their doom loop, net zero lunacy, EU alignment anti British insanity other than benefit claimants? Even that support will not last long as Labour will soon run out of other people’s money to buy even their votes.
May 5, 2026
I’ve given up expecting any truth from these people, they are completely untrustworthy.
“My Word is my Bond” – No, not anymore.
Soon the ‘Strangers’ whose kindness (and money) we are so reliant on – are going to want such a large risk premium for their ‘kindness’ that we won’t be able to pay it.
May 5, 2026
It has been serial Lies Lies Lies from Labour.
May 5, 2026
Lies from all UK Governments – certainly since John Major right through to Starmer with the exception of Truss who never had a chance thanks to the blob, the BoE and the many Sunak supporting fake Tory MPs removing her so quickly.
May 5, 2026
The apathy shown by the electorate could mean them again by default. LibDem voters deranged like their leaders, the Greens who don’t even peddle green policies any more, Tories who can’t be forgiven for at least 3 more Parliaments so will it be the constant bitching about Reform personnel but ignore policies?
Destruction politics by default?
May 5, 2026
The Voyager refuelling plane withdrawn from the Falklands is now being used to bolster our participation in Middle East military activity, we’re told. Which planes is it refuelling, I wonder, and what are those planes doing?
May 5, 2026
The Gibraltar sell out is a big mistake.
Spain now controls who enters and leaves, and who can go to live in Gibraltar.
The PP and Vox will weaponise that when they get into government (probably next year).
May 5, 2026
The manifesto was not a serious document but just part of the process of taking power. This government are working to a mission to ruin this country in every conceivable way. Regrettably, in less than two years they have made good progress. The country can’t withstand another three years of this.
May 5, 2026
It is nothing less than the ‘hate’ for the UK and its People, coming from its leadership. The desire to destroy, the soul, the fabric, the character of the UK and its people was always part of the Project, the ‘Plan’ so as to build a compound in some weird ideological political personal image.
Those that think this crowd and their leadership are clueless and inexperienced, should think again these are clever, proven clever manipulators. They do not work for the UK or its People, the UK and its people work for them.
May 5, 2026
Think further over the weekend in meetings in foreign lands their was talks for the UK to give the EU around £1billion to be permitted to take EU Laws and Rules.
Yet the UK has no money for its own defences. Yesterday it was confirmed 2TK couldn’t find money to defend the UK until after the next election.
May 5, 2026
To judge Labour, look at what they do, not what they say. Everything they do damages the UK and all of us who love our country. Every Labour Government in my lifetime has always made life harder for ordinary people.
Dishonesty permeates everything they say and do. Why are they such sour, bitter people from top to bottom?
Surely there should be some way to stop their EU reset, which is only going to damage the UK economy further?
They are an utter shambles. We need a General Election, not another three years of misery.
Maybe this Thursday will deliver a massive shock, and Labour will wake up to the nightmare they have created.
But I doubt it. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first send mad!
May 5, 2026
Absolutely correct, Lord John, and utterly disgraceful treachery. But it seems that this is has been true of the whole of Parliament for some considerable time. How many times were we told that immigration would be reduced to “tens of thousands” per year to find it had risen to 10 times this number? Who said that renewable energy would make us the “Saudi Arabia of wind” and give us “abundant, reliable, cheap electricity at the flick of a switch”? The real question which needs answering is why the voters keep voting for these people.
May 5, 2026
The choice at the next general election will be much more important than either 2019 (Corbyn) or 2024 (Starmer)
The choice will be between Reform with the rump of the Conservatives, and Labour, together with any combination of the Greens, Lib-Dims, Plaid, and the SNP, the latter grouping will depend on how much support Labour needs to try and beat the Centre Right.
It will be very difficult for Reform and the Conservatives to beat the combined forces of the Left, but if we don’t, the country will continue its descent to third world status. This is why the two simply HAVE to work together.
I didn’t think the Country would vote for more Socialism after seeing what a mess Labour would make in its current form, but now I’m not so sure.
Thanks to a near-universal benefit culture, a very significant proportion of voters now seem to be willing to dump our current political system and we have the likes of Burnham proposing a move to proportional representation, which would make a left of centre grouping a near permanent certainty.
Very worrying times.
May 5, 2026
The more destruction the Starmer regime wreaks on the country – unemployment, poverty, inflation, debt, homelessness, killed off private sector, no food security, no defence, no energy – the more likely people are to vote for the envy and spite policies of Polanski.
May 5, 2026
As suggested here today and elsewhere, you cant get away from an alternative not to be spoken about agenda. People very clever at manipulating, paid lots of money to manipulate, deflect and deceive don’t give that trait up over night.
“Concerns around cronyism emerged shortly after Sir Keir assumed power in July 2024. He has promoted several people connected to him or married to those connected to him.”
“Starmer sold himself on far more than competence. He sold his Labour government as a purification ritual and himself as a Hercules, sent to cleanse the Augean stables of British politics. “Drain the swamp” was the populist slogan of a demagogue, we were told at the time; is it meaningfully different to Starmer’s statement that; “Every day there’s more sleaze, it stinks”. The messenger might be different, but the message is the same. ( Artillery Row, By Tom Jones 7 February, 2026)”
Without another election for 3 years, the UK’s corrupting system of democracy ensures everyone is powerless to validate or show disdain for how those we empowered and paid to serve act. As I have suggested before reflect on the USA, what ever anyone’s feeling about those in power there are the US Citizen will have gone to the polls 3 times before the UK Citizen is permitted an opinion. UK Politician’s get to wreak a Country and its People for 5 years with out challenge, taking it beyond a return to sanity. As we have seen suggested, manifesto’s, promises, all account for nothing because the UK People are not allowed to judge before it is to-late, that is not democracy that is a dictatorship brought to us all by a corrupting Parliament. The UK Parliament its 650 MPs own what is being done to damage the UK
May 5, 2026
A click bait piece in todays telegraph.
Labour MPs to demand Starmer’s resignation. Group of backbenchers reportedly plotting to challenge Prime Minister
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/05/labour-mps-to-demand-starmers-resignation/
A change of a leader will not make one iota of difference. The Local Elections have got nothing to do with anything at ‘best’ they will get branded as a protest vote, then ignored. Central government holds on to the bulk of local purse strings, from there they manipulate the ‘for’s’ and ‘againsts’. So nothing changes
The UK is desperate for a General Election. But we have a Parliament in fear of itself, the people and doing its job. As is often said ‘turkeys don’t vote for Christmas!’
May 5, 2026
Well it will make some differences. We need 180 U turns on every policy especially Net Zero, open borders, taxation, defence, vat on school fees, the non doms, worker rights, tenance rights and the other Doom Loop Economic ones. We will not get them all but It is easier for a new broom to do this.
Also every time I hear the robotic disembler Two Tier Kier I feel nausious.
May 5, 2026
Robotic disembler and serial vandal Starmer. He is surely a vile enemy of Britain he cannot just be the stupid can he? Today’s headlines in The Times £1 billion demanded by the EU to give to Ukrane but “Britain has no money for weapons until 2030”! But we do have billions for net zero, benefits for migrants and millions of other feckless people, subsidies for EVs…
To govern is to choose!
May 5, 2026
@Lifelogic – “he cannot just be the stupid can he?” some think he is. Back at the beginning of the year when the rumblings were reaching a crescendo due to enforced additional costs and impositions, that just seemed to appear by sleight of hand. Starmer came out and blamed his troops for not sticking to the ‘Plan’ That’s what he called it the ‘Plan’, it was something supposedly his team are fully aware of and they were letting him down, they(yes they) needed to get back with so that ‘He’ could get the job done.
Each day that passes we get the picture that there was the manifesto to get elected, then an internal one kept from the public on how ‘He’ would rule.
He rose through the ranks to become the Countries top Law enforcer, everything suggest he is fully aware of the direction he is taking the Country. He is able to keep to his ‘Plan’ through the Lawyer art of deflection and deception. After 2 years of total wrecking throwing ‘our’ money away on his personal pet projects, the answer is no ‘he cant be that stupid’.
There just needs to be an opposition that can unsettle his ‘Plan’. However they all seem to be off with the ‘fairies’ and don’t get the concept of a Parliament holding the Excitative to account
May 5, 2026
92 ‘illegal immigrants’ invaded the UK yesterday 4th May 2026 …just in time to vote
May 5, 2026
Farage said it would make no difference if Starmer got in and that Brexit was safe and Brexit was done. Can these things you list be undone should we ever have a different administration? He split the vote in 650 constituencies knowing he was lying. All he wanted was to destroy the Conservative Party and he may not even have done that, but he has certainly assisted in the destruction of the country.