Doing nothing is not an option. People are angry about the current situation. Doubling down on current policy of higher public spending, higher taxes and a faster drive to net zero will make everything worse and hasten the demise of the PM to be followed by his party.
Labour needs to try to be the party of the workers again, not the Benefits party. It needs to reach out to the UK settled population and put an end to illegal migration and excessive legal migration. It needs to rebuild our defences instead of running them down.
It should be scandalised by the way net zero policy is rapidly de industrialising the UK. It should lift its bans on domestic oil, gas and car manufacture. It should drastically change energy policy, reducing taxes and high prices of energy for business and homes.
It should reform welfare to get many more people back into work, cutting the big bill.It should stop giving away money and islands to foreign governments. It should cancel the ill conceived and damaging EU re set.
Those who debate whether Labour should turn right to confront Reform or turn left to tackle the Greens do not get it. The public want results on clear problems. They want the promised economic growth. They want the end to illegal migration. They want the pledged lower energy prices. They want more jobs not more unemployment. They are not asking for more politics, more spin, a choice between two wrongly categorised other parties. They just want the government to govern well. They want them to solve problems, not make them worse as they have been doing with the wrong changes.
May 10, 2026
Good Morning,
At last there appears to be acknowledgement by Lord J that politics as has been for our lifetimes, a comfy duopoly, is coming to an and! We don’t need the labour Party and we don’t need the Conservatives Party.
As I heard a lady yesterday, we now have hope for genuine change, not just words without actions.
Democracy may well have saved us from the legacy parties’ lazy and selfish politicians. The next big obstacle to is the entrenched Civil Service. At least the challenge is known.
Reply It was never a comfy duopoly. We have been through the surge in the SDP Liberal alliance under Thatcher, the phenomenal rise of the SNP to five terms in government in Scotland, the rise of Lib Dems in local government and their disastrous period for themselves in the 2910 coalition government of UK. Northern Ireland has always had different parties. Your slapdash Reform nonsense underestimates the difficulties of turning this country round and getting big changes to government. There are no easy answers and it will require people who become Executive Councillors and government Ministers behaving very differently and taking control of a badly performing over extended quango state
May 10, 2026
@Peter Wood – we want, need to become a Democracy, not one that is interoperated by our rulers to make life easy for them. We need a Parliament that will defend ‘Democracy’, will defend ‘Freedom’
In the Democratic world that is seen as government for the people by the people. Yes Democracy is flawed, but it promises a way forward rather than being dictated to by Political ideologues that place personal, very personal esteem and ego ahead of reality
May 10, 2026
Quite so. I put it to the debate that democracy becomes corrupted by political parties. Consider the effect if all MP’s were independent, then every vote would be of conscience and fact, not what’s good for the party. MP’s would (mostly) vote for the interests of their electorate and country. Party means hierarchy and power and obedience to vested interests. Our present system needs major overhaul.
May 10, 2026
@Peter Wood – those call themselves the political elite, the political establishment ‘own’ the destruction of democracy. As it stands someone that calls themselves a party gang boss/leader gets to select who you candidate will be, this is reinforced by the money machine of donors, union membership fees. The whole lot needs a clear out, candidates should only be chosen by those they wish to stand for, the money for campaigns should only come from within the constituency. All those with power over other lives and their money should be challenged at every opportunity. The bit the establishment has lost, is a sense of duty, service, they no place ideology, self esteem and ego front and centre.
MPs may get elected on on platform, but the serve everyone, long before the Gang Boss and Self. Parliament is itself destroying itself
May 10, 2026
if Parliament were made up of independents they would very quickly sort themselves into parties or they would get nothing done.
Have you ever served on any sort of local body? A Neighbourhood Partnership or Forum? Everyone goes in as an independent but they have to make alliances with like-minded people to carry any weight.
May 10, 2026
‘The public want results on clear problems.’
What the public want and what it will get are two different things. If people are still expecting a saviour they will be disappointed. Experience over many different prime ministers should teach that.
May 10, 2026
But john Reform are the only party which is in tune with the public.
I know you dislike them but Starmer will continue with his futher and faster mantra which means more net stupid no stopping the boats and certainly no policies which will reduce the cost of living or energy prices.
Starmer will continue to talk about defence but actually do nothing, all the time dragging us into the EU orbit.
I hope he stays in post as he’s the best recruitment sergeant Reform could wish for.
Liebour have so much invested in their destructive policies they are incapable of change.
Reply Reform got only 27% national equivalent vote on thursday. I do not dislike Reform. I agree with some of their headline soundbites but see little evidence of any ability to implement serious change and witness too many poll chasing U turns. E.g. 2 child cap, triple lock, Doge policy, attitude to Trump, deportation of people granted leave to remain. Do they still want to introduce proportional representation and if so which system? This site is not a site dedicated to analysing and commenting on opposition parties. It is all about how to conduct government.
May 10, 2026
I worry about Reform’s economic policies which are morphing to appeal to the Labour Red Wall and looking increasingly like the existing political concensus.
May 10, 2026
And I worry that Farage is no Trump. He can’t stand up to the media which is why he keeps changing his policies. For example, he was going to deport every illegal immigrant who arrived in a boat. Then the media clamour about women and children arose and overnight he said: “I don’t mean women and children.” Straight away his policy was holed beneath the water because all the boats would obviously fill up with women and 17 year old children.
May 10, 2026
100% correct.
Why can’t they see it?
May 10, 2026
Keir Starmer claims to have a mandate by being supported by the British people.
In the UK General Election on 4 July 2024 about 48.2 million people were registered/eligible to vote. Labour Party received about 9.71 million votes. 80% did not support Labour or actively voted against them.
In the May 7 Council elections Labour reached only about 16% of the vote share in England and was heavily rejected by the Scots and Welsh in their national elections.
The support Labour had in 2024 has disappeared. Go away Starmer and take Labour with you.
May 10, 2026
When they say ‘mandate’ they’re referring to their parliamentary mandate ie 60% of seats …..and not the peoples mandate, as you suggest Bloke, they only achieved less than 30% of the popular vote
May 10, 2026
They got this huge majority on 20% of the electorate’s votes, 33% of the turnout. They only got it because Farage split the conservative vote in all 650 constituencies. He didn’t have to. He could have targeted his campaign and got a lot more seats for himself while denying Starmer a majority. He also handed the Liberals 70 seats. Five years hard labour was a long sentence to give the country and an enormous amount of often irreversible damage is being done. Farage said it would make no difference letting Starmer in and that Brexit was done and Brexit was safe.
May 11, 2026
Prior to a previous election Rose, Farage withdrew candidates to prevent splitting the Conservative vote and Labour from gaining power. In this last election, Conservatives could have reflected the favour, enabling Reform to gain more seats at Labour or Green expense, or both.
May 12, 2026
Farage did a half way house, where he split some constituencies and not others. So people like Yvette Cooper survived who would not have done. Look at all those ghastly people who survived and ask how different things might have been for Boris without them. Boris, Liz Truss, and Sunak were not able to repeal the HRA, the Equality Act, or come out of the ECHR, and a whole lot else. That 80 seat majority is always thrown in Boris’s face but it was not enough to do what needed to be done. Of course we can only speculate. If Farage had won all the seats he split, that might have been a different matter. But he didn’t, and he wasn’t going to.
May 12, 2026
On the other hand, Farage could have contested only those seats where there was a sitting remainer. That would have been useful, whichever party they belonged to.
May 12, 2026
Or you could say, that still meant splitting the conservative vote in non conservative seats, and letting in the wrong’un. So maybe he should just have opposed Conservative remainers and left the other seats alone.
May 13, 2026
In many ways, Rose, the best option is known only after the event. It is evident now that Reform UK has been getting its act together very well, becoming far more professional and effective. They seem to be assessing a wide range of strategy options and choosing which would deliver the best outcome as if they were playing a complex chess game focusing on whatever route would lead to the preferred final outcome. Some claimed that they did not intend to win outright in Wales as they needed more time to be prepared and capable of doing so.
May 10, 2026
@Bloke – that’s the bit their ego doesn’t get, support is when you are supported by the majority. The GE saw the nation disenfranchised, it could be seen that ‘none of the above’ was the largest vote by a country mile.
They refuse elections, the idea of seeking validation and approval for the direction being taken doesn’t suit there very personal ideology. The great comparison is that since 2TK was elected and before he will allow another election the people of the USA would have had 3 GE for those that represent them.
2TK has no mandate, no manifesto for the things he has dictated sine he sat in No10. On Monday he will double down on his ‘Plan’ and in the same week he will cause the ‘King’ to pronounce 2TK’s next bit of indoctrination. That wont be an elected on manifesto, or give him a mandate – its his own ‘wet d…..’ What he wont do is ask the People that empower and pay him if they approve.
Reply He has a mandate and would have public support for ending illegal migration and making UK fastest growing G7 country. He should do that.
May 10, 2026
@Reply – I disagree there. A mandate shouldn’t be something you pronounce after an election, tax increases, Chagos, deferring to the EU, etc. I would suggest what he says tomorrow to rally the troops and what the King’s speech says for him, will not and should not be considered a mandate. Based on his record he will personally see those utterings as a mandate, that would be a kick in the teeth for democracy and expose the deceit of Parliament if it allows it.
May 10, 2026
Ian he has a mandate to do what he specified before the election ie ‘end illegal migration and promote growth’.
May 10, 2026
Agree
May 11, 2026
In one way it is fair that when a party wins an election they are allowed to run for the whole term. However, it does not follow sensible logic when so much goes so wrong after just one or two years.
Imagine a company being allowed exclusive access to sell its product to the NHS for 5 years and after one year it was found to be killing patients. Tolerating the deaths for another 4 years before a better company was appointed would be idiotic.
In most ways the population is not dying from Labour policies and ineptitude, yet many are suffering badly economically, and some are even losing life itself from Labour incompetence.
Our nation needs an emergency brake to oust rogue PMs and their parties pronto.
May 10, 2026
Labour cannot do as the blog indicates because almost by its very nature its M.P.s and its members are impractical left wing idiots. Probably their best chance would be to make Wes Streeting their leader because he is relatively intelligent, pragmatic and focused on making things work (indeed rather better as health minister than his Conservative predecessors because he is less accepting of institutional failure and the professional civil service complacent acceptance of failure) but I don’t see Labour doing that as they are now allergic to ‘Blairites’. Instead Starmer is talking about redoubling his efforts to backtrack on Brexit which is a surefire way to lose the constituencies that most wanted Brexit to Reform and thereby the next General Election but Starmer’s and Labour’s inability seems to know no bounds.
The more urgent question for us on the right is what should we be doing? The answer really is obvious except to the leadership of both Reform and Conservative Parties is ‘unite the right’ for the next General Election. We should be saying that while Reform and the Conservative Parties will (at least for now) remain independent parties and fight each other in some local elections Labour has got the country into such a great mess and the prospect of either another Labour government or a coalition of the left is so horrific that at the next General Election the Conservative Party and Reform will make a deal to have joint candidates and a jointly agreed program for government (manifesto) for the next Parliament to save our country from economic ruin. That is the only way to ensure there is not a split vote on the right and thereby victory for the right. To do that both Conservative and Reform would have to take some painful decisions. The Conservatives would have to allow Nigel Farage to become Prime Minister (as he is a better and more charismatic politician than Badenoch or whoever and leads the faction that is getting more votes) and Reform would have to allow the Conservatives equal status and equal numbers in the coalition and probably allow all sitting Conservative M.P.s to remain in place when they could probably have beaten them, particularly in Essex, Suffolk,Norfolk and Lincolnshire in an election. It is time for the Conservatives and Reform to face reality that they are unlikely to win, indeed could be obliterated on their own but together they will win.
May 10, 2026
It shouldn’t be about uniting the right, rather enabling the centre ground, where most people are. The problem is that the centre ground are the most likely to be turned off by politics, and they don’t get motivated to go into politics or turn out to vote (there being no one they relate to). So we get the politics of extremes.
May 10, 2026
@Dave Andrews – I have always seen the UK’s majority as being conservative, centre ground. The last administration killed that when they deserted their electorate. As for Reform? they have made a mistake, they should have kept quiet and they would win any GE by just being the ‘others’. Different from the political establishment (conservatives, libDems, Labour) who keep lurching Left and further left. Even today those in power are still adding and compounding the situations that Blair/Brown started, just more so. A Parliament/Government has the right to remove the directions of the previous, but the all refuse. The people that own the debt pile, the high taxation the need to be in the EU are still there. Reform didn’t need a Policy, just a desire to work with and for the electorate, but they have been tainted and are morphing more towards the things the country wants to get away from.
May 10, 2026
Most people are not on the ‘centre ground’.
May 11, 2026
Mrs T moved the “centre ground” to where she was.
May 10, 2026
I will vote Labour if there is a prospect of Farage becoming Prime Minister.
May 10, 2026
and welcome in Burnham, Rayner, Reeves or Lammy as PM.
Enjoy it.
May 10, 2026
Not on your nelly
May 11, 2026
Higher quality than those in Reform who are TV stars and back of the fag packet politicians.
Take a close look at them.
May 10, 2026
John your wish list for a Labour government doing the basic task of government and doing it well are predicated on them having those fundamental principles as their core policies. Sadly as we can all see and are suffering Labour have policies that do not enable the basic roll of good governance to happen.
It is that very clear and basic, the gap between what the public want/need and Labour’s blindness to that, has resulted in them being smashed at the local elections and devolved representation.
Labour is all but abandoned in Scotland, is all but finished in Wales, it has no roll in Northern Ireland which only leaves England for them to operate in. That final area of representation is now disappearing too. Reform’s rise and the Greens providing the option of none of the above leave Labour’s Marxism floundering.
It is difficult to see where Labour imagine their vote for continued existence is going to come from?
Even the immigrant voters are deserting them. From the Keir to the Keir as they might be chanting soon.
May 10, 2026
Your first two Paragraphs are correct John, but that boat sailed many years ago, and the passengers have now moved on to Reform to see what they can offer..
There is not one Labour Cabinet Minister who has ever run their own business, or controlled a large commercial organisation, and few have ever even been a working Trade Unionist in a manufacturing plant, so what on earth do any of them know about what workers or business wants and needs in the real World.
Over the past 3 decades we have been taxed and regulated to death, just to feed political dogma and ideals, the real workers, strivers, investors, and savers have given up hope, because there is no longer any point in trying to make your own life better through your own effort, as the rewards are too little, and the financial risks are too great.
We have seen a whole range of Ministers accepting personal gifts, invitations to large scale events, and prancing all over the World stage at the taxpayers expense, because they feel they need and have to look the part and be seen as important, but little ever comes out of such trips other than more cost to the taxpayer.
Contrary to official figures people believe crime is growing, living off the state is growing, the civil service and local governments are failing, and the cost of everything is increasing (due in many cases to government policy).
Look no further than the shoplifting epidemic, and illegal immigration to see how the justice system is failing.
I could list a hundred more examples, but space will not allow.
May 10, 2026
An excellent contribution.
May 10, 2026
concur
May 10, 2026
The justice system (for example with shop lifting, phone thefts, fraud) and indeed the border control and immigration systems need to deter. Currently they do the exact reverse of this. We have anarcho-tyranny £100 fines for doing 23 in a 20 limit or staying 1 min too long in a parking spot. But prosecuted for 230+ shoplifting offences not even a slap on the wrist just asked to repay £200!
So much easier and more fun to raise money of the essentially law abiding than to tackle real crimes.
May 10, 2026
@Berkshire Alan – as with others, a great summation
May 10, 2026
Reform now need to perform for 3 years in the Councils they control.
Very sticky wicket.
May 10, 2026
Yes it will be but easier after following LibDems.
May 11, 2026
Great comment.
So, firstly, they simply don’t have the experience or skills to govern our country.
I would just like to add that they, secondly, don’t have a vision either for what they want to achieve except some vague notion perhaps of wanting to help the working class and vulnerable. But we all want that as well as help to help people in business to do well to pay for everything and so we want everyone to thrive – the rich, the poor and the vulnerable.
May 10, 2026
There’s absolutely no chance of what you say happening. Starmer’s article in yesterday’s Guardian makes no commitment whatsoever to a change of course. On we go with politician destruction of our way of life.
May 10, 2026
Even if the Labour government were to begin introducing sensible policies, who would believe them? Who would venture to start a new business, or invest in growth, while those in power are poised to soak them in tax and burden them with regulation?
All they are is their ideology, and even if those in government have seen it unravelling, they are set to be replaced by others who still hold to it.
Buckle up for 2029, it won’t get better until then.
May 10, 2026
Labour wreck the economy. Nothing new there, they always do.
Starmer is a ‘dead man walking’ fact. He has to go.
The country is crying out for change. That can only come from the Right. Reform are leading the way, but the Right needs to unite. For it is certain the Left and Far-Left will unite to twist democracy in an attempt to prevent a Right-wing victory at the next general election.
May 10, 2026
@OA. Definitely, the right needs to unite or we could have a traffic light coalition as the next government. Very roughly to get a plurality a Party needs a 5-10% lead over its main rival. Its the Party with the plurality which gets invited to cobble together a government. What if Reform fell short? They have a rough 8% lead now over the next popular Party (Labour). Can they maintain it?
Reply 7% over Conservatives
May 10, 2026
With FPTP at General Elections people tend to vote for the party most likely to keep X party out (otherwise you vote is wasted). Voters on the right especially know this. A small lead by Reform over the Tories is enough to make Reform favoured choice in most seats to keep Labour, the Greens, the LibDims, Plaid or SNP out. Some Tory local government places like Wandsworth had relatively good councillor in the past so to compare local government voting with General Elections rather misleads.
May 10, 2026
So why did so many right wing people knowingly let Starmer in? They each had a chance to keep him out.
May 11, 2026
Because we HAD to kill the Conservative Party.
We knew the Labour voters needed the same lesson we had from Johnson-the-Destroyer, May, Sunak, – and they have had it.
So the electorate have killed off both main parties, Labour are finished, (and the Lib Dem’s).
Now we the people, have engineered the chance to re align.
Restore has very strong support in previously Labour and Conservative areas. The voters find they have much in common so long as it is not called ‘Thatcherism’ or ‘monetarism’ they like it across the board.
I have been canvassing in the red wall and in solid tory areas. That is what I have found on the doorsteps.
Let’s not argue for the sake of it, this is not a Debating Society. We are trying to save our country and our nation.
May 10, 2026
Reform might do better if they drifted towards the centre, but it’s too late for that now, the die is cast.
I don’t believe the left and far-left will unite. They are fighting amongst each other, though perhaps some of the electorate will conspire to vote tactically just to keep Farage out.
May 10, 2026
Appointing Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown, despite all their negative historical activities, as advisers, suggests that Starmer is now embarking on a scorched earth policy to accelerate his mission of ruining this country in every conceivable way.
May 10, 2026
I was listening to Michael Portillo this morning and he described Gordon Brown as a ‘giant’. That would be a giant idiot who sold or gold and list billions, deregulated banks and then saved the world when it all went wrong, expanded buying hospitals on HP which is costing the NHS a fortune and called members of the public who don’t like mass immigration bigots.
As for Harriet Harman looking after women, some remember her support for PIE.
May 11, 2026
He inherited a very good set of books and left us bankrupt. It was he who thought of muddling up tax and welfare, and he has no doubt been brought back now to oversee the breakup of England for the benefit of the EU (among other mad globalist financial policies).
May 10, 2026
As so often, I agree with all you say, but can you see Starmer, or any of the likely candidates for his place, doing any of it? And for Starmer to see Gordon Brown as his saviour beggars belief.
May 10, 2026
Farage sees Blair as his saviour. He wanted Blair appoint as ‘Tsar’, and Mandelson as the US Ambassador.
May 10, 2026
merely thowing some corn to the chickens.
May 10, 2026
All good ideas but those are all the main purposes of a Labour govt! High tax, regulatory strangulation, expensive energy, uncontrolled migration, surreptitious Rejoin the EU. You could add ignore (selected) criminality where that supports a woke agenda. That’s what Labour MPs want power to do.
The journalist Tom Newton-Dunn points out that if Labour really want to save leftism they should force through PR – together the leftwing parties, labour, green, libdem, Celtic separatists – they could get a majority. Dangerous times.
May 10, 2026
They can’t force through PR. We rejected it with a supermajority.
May 11, 2026
Since we voted in that referendum, they have been stealthily introducing PR all over the place, mainly in their ever increasing layers of local government. It is two referendums they have refused to accept the results of, and eventually FPTP for the Westminster Parliament will be smeared as the anomaly.
May 10, 2026
The Labour I remember ( “Old” Labour) would not have been in favour of importing cheap workers to supress wages, so would not have been keen on the EU. They would have been very much in favour of “Made in Britain” (and the factories required to do it). They knew what a “worker” was because they’d probably once been him.
They were of course very much in hock to the Unions and we had terrible industrial relations but they also had the redeeming feature that they believed in this Country – albeit they wanted to Nationalise it all. I never voted for them after seeing inside a British Leyland factory and seeing the Unions ‘at work’ but I preferred them to the Lawyers that pretend to be Labour today.
Strange to say, I find them almost honest by todays standards – they certainly told a few porkies but not the outright lies and deceit that the new people peddle. Perhaps I’m just being nostalgic but I didn’t detest Old Labour as much as I do the New.
May 10, 2026
Tony Benn was one of the most eloquent opposers of EU membership.
May 10, 2026
Not to begin with. When he thought he was Wilson’s Crown Prince he was all for it. Only when the clever members of his party let him know he wasn’t up to it did he change and build an extra parliamentary rainbow coalition to win the leadership. That meant embracing all sorts of causes he’d never bothered with before.
Peter Shore was the intelligent and eloquent spokesman for national independence on the left.
May 10, 2026
Your suggestions to Labour sound like they’d turn it into Reform. I can’t see them going that far! I can see them dressing up policies to pretend they are going in that direction, but in reality not changing direction or even doubling down. This is the Libdem modus operandi, too: deny you’ve signed up to damaging policies and/or pretend they won’t be harmful, and claim they are popular too.
May 10, 2026
If you consider the reckless malicious damage and destruction created in less than 2 years, doing ‘nothing’ we be a bonus and a relief.
There is no one in this Parliament and its leadership that has a clue about managing or even being a government, so for them all to ‘butt out’ would give the country a chance to breath, recoup, and put things back in order.
The Political ideology dished out by this Parliament is about them personal being rulers of the worst kind. Not one of the wishes to work with the People of this nation, they want to fight, indoctrinate and punish.
May 10, 2026
Doing nothing is not an option ….”just watch Starmer”, they’re going faster & further at doing nothing
May 10, 2026
Only one thing for Labour to do now is to work to get the best possible deal with the EU. By the time of the next GE the Trump presidency will have passed and we’ll be all out of synch. There’s a lot of unhappiness about and the only chance Labour has now of increasing voter share and saving itself is to face up to Reform and declare for Europe.
Reply Try reading this site which shows how EU alignment will do more economic damage. Silly assertions in your comment
May 10, 2026
And we’ll be paying quite a lot into the EU budget from now on, thanks to Starmer’s reset with Europe.
What’s not to like?
May 10, 2026
‘you can brexit but you can’t leave’
May 10, 2026
So the current Prime Minister has resurrected Gordon Brown and Harriet Harmen but no new job as yet for Peter Mandelson. Gosh!!
How about finding Tony Blair something to do in Starmer’s Jurassic government to make the nightmare complete?
May 10, 2026
Gordon will want more benefits for the ‘hardworking’ voters, and another aircraft carrier to be built in Scotland – good for growth.
May 10, 2026
Bringing in 2 old cronies that never did anything worthwhile for the country will not do it – If labour were serious about finding out where they went wrong they would start a debate, an honest one on what modernisation means.
They have been pushing their version of modernisation down our throats without any agreement or explanation – how about they asked us what we wanted our future to look like!
We oppose their dictatorial style imposition of things like id cards with the implication that they know best – clearly they do not! We want government by agreement, not dogma.
They need to step back and look at the massive mistakes they were about to make.
May 10, 2026
If we can see what the problem is with such clarity, why can’t Labour ?
Is it because new MPs elected in the last decade have resulted in the Parliamentary party now being as far to the left as most of their supporters and activists in the country? (This was never the case when Blair and even Brown were leaders), or is it that they really are so out of touch that they cannot recognise what voters actually want ?
May 10, 2026
Thank you, Lord John, for helpfully itemising the things the government should do. (But of course it won’t.) We’ll be able next week to compare them with what it’s actually going to do, in the King’s speech.
May 10, 2026
The weird bit. This administration is following on the traditions of the previous administration only more so. What they could do is learn from ‘Jeremy Hunt’ having increased taxation and borrowing just for the ‘hell of it’, then in the run up to an election do nothing or slightly tweak things down a bit, all the figures that make people feel good will improve. So perverse logic the Government is doing a good job
By doing nothing 2TK could be seen to have improved the nations finances and well being. Just a year after taking the punishment things will adjust and seem better. The fact in comparison to the World the UK would have taken another massive dive wont figure. But that is not in 2TK’s delusional nature he appears for the most part to have a different agenda to the wellbeing of the UK and its People
May 10, 2026
People care more about their own finances than the country’s finances.
May 10, 2026
but imagine the two are somewhat linked.
May 11, 2026
Not really, the Government are happy to bankrupt you to save their own pet projects.
May 10, 2026
We need 2 x new parties in this country.
Both pro capitalism, patriotic, Christian in value (but not imposing religion on atheist/agnostics) and representing best of our Greco-Roman heritage.
1. Conservative Party – reformed
2. Liberal Party
Tories focused more on the wealthier middle class. And very much focused on protecting our sovereignty.
Liberals focused more on the poorer middle class. And focused on good relations with Europe without losing our sovereignty.
And let them battle without being rude, aggressive or vulgar. And remember we’re all human beings at end of day trying to make life better for others and ourselves!
Reply There are many more parties than this. Free speech and democracy allows more parties. The Conservative party is not a narrow party for the rich. Some rich are rich enough to be socialists whilst usually taking good tax advice to avoid the worst of socialist policy.
May 11, 2026
Indeed the huge problem Labour now have with their ‘tax the rich’ slogan is that they are themselves now the rich.
May 10, 2026
Lord Redwood I see you still choose to not include responses as replies to you when they don’t sit well with the point you tried to make. Your site your decision of course.
Reply I delete well known party propaganda from any party , anything that might be libellous, and anything which is obviously factually inaccurate whilst purporting to be factual.
May 10, 2026
reply to reply…..but my intended post was neither. No propaganda nor possibly libellous to an individual.
Content hardly unique on this site.
May 10, 2026
John’s site, John’s rules. I’ve always found him fair, and when he has opted not to post one of my contributions, on reflection I’m led to believe he was probably right.
May 10, 2026
Agree with your article and most of the comments. But Starmer seems to have a closed mind and does not listen to anyone sensible. Sadly, the Conservatives had the chance to rein in spending drastically, reduce taxes, leave the EU properly and drop the Net Zero nonsense. But they did not and paid the penalty at the last GE.
Starmer keeps talking about more of the same, plus rejoining the EU. How thick do you have to be to think that is a solution? As PM, he has been a complete failure and chosen a Ministerial team as useless as he is.
The only question is how much more damage Labour will do in the next three years.
May 11, 2026
Starmer has been consistent. He has always said he wants UK to be so closely aligned with the EU there is no difference. He is simply being true to his word. He is not thick as in stupid, he is thick skinned as all good Fabians and Trotskyites need to be. He doesn’t care about your opinions. He does not care about you at all.
May 10, 2026
It’s ten years now since the Brexit vote and we havn’t made that much headway with meaningful trade agreements – the old party system is shattered and nobody knows what the next GE is going to throw up. But since we are still a while away it is incumbent on Government to bring in some fresh thinking about relationships and with the EU in mind probably the best would be an alignment, that’s it we want to, because it’s clear America won’t be an option.
Reply Close alignment will damage our economy and our democracy. The EU is a low growth area governed by stifling bureaucracy.
May 10, 2026
Sayagain
It is suggested that 97% of businesses in the UK do not trade with Europe, but simply trade within the home market, or elsewhere abroad.
Why on earth cripple all of those businesses in the UK with European legislation and European costs (which British Customers will pay) for the 3% who may or may not benefit.
If you want to Export to any Country in the World, then you have to meet their Regulations, but their regulations are not imposed on us here so why do people think Europe so special, or a special case. ?
May 10, 2026
What we have now is money going round and round with little growth – to have growth we need good trading deals with partners we can trust- and here am not talking about rejoining the EU but to have some agreement with them like Norway or Switzerland. The fact that the EU has low average growth is neither here nor there because it the potential for exports that counts so we should be eyeing up a consumer base of 500 million plus on our doorstep and don’t forget we are planning for the next generation as well and the next – or would you prefer to leave them a situation where money is just going round and round
Reply So what could we sell them we do not at moment with tariff free trade?
May 10, 2026
How can the UK compete with the EU with our government’s policy of high tax and high regulation? The EU on the other hand can exploit eastern Europeans on low wages, which wouldn’t be allowed here.
May 11, 2026
Anyone can compete with the failed EU, that’s why is has a tariff wall and protectionist policies.
May 11, 2026
Yes the money needs to go round and round to help trade, but the problem is that every time it is spent the government takes a huge chunk out with taxation, so very little left,
First £100 spent the government takes 20% vat, second £80 spent the government takes another 20%, next £64 spent the government takes another 20%.
Then you have all the overheads, employment, and personal taxation as well as corporation tax, business rates etc, etc. to consider.
May 10, 2026
We calculated that EU admin was circa 15% of our costs (small fabrication/engineering) but all our customers were UK
May 11, 2026
And 20% of VAT went on its own administration. The other 80% went to the EU Commission for its own income. It is the EU tax and we should not be paying it at all now.
May 10, 2026
@Sayagain – EU rules & laws. EU owns UK territorial resources(fish) payments to the EU in support of EU projects, education & defence and many more. Things that would add to the UKs economy and/or would benifit the UK first if the same money was spent in the UK. We the UK as stated by the EU 10 years ago are a EU colony, they own us
I am one that would sooner our future was our democratic choice not that of unappointed unaccountable and unelected elswhere. Better we make our own mistakes, than we fund others.
May 10, 2026
Late reports coming out tonight of the PM’s forthcoming speech, sounds like he will announce sweeping changes as he battles to save his job. He will highlight his efforts to build new ties with Brussels and that his government will be defined by rebuilding our relationship and putting Britain at the heart of Europe. There we have it. He’s not letting go on this one
May 11, 2026
Yes but surely you can see the great advantages for UK’s governing classes, with all responsibility taken by Brussels and all accountability removed from themselves.
May 10, 2026
The PM has already told us that the recent elections have “strengthened his resolve to deliver the change he promised at the general election”. So he will not be resigning and as a Fabian his destruction of the UK will continue with no changes to his existing policies but to go “further and faster”. There will not be any early GE and we can expect Net Zero, mass immigration and EU dynamic alignment to further destroy our industry, social cohesion and national security. He will be moving the Party towards Green Party policies as they are almost perfectly aligned with his own personal beliefs and the local election results will provide the logic as he wants us to see it. It would seem unlikely that the unions would be continuing to back Labour whilst their Net Zero plot destroys industry and the jobs of their members. But the unions at the top are also Communists, as they always have been. The civil service and the activist judiciary will aid and abet our Fabian PM to achieve his ultimate goal for the UK Since Parliament, the major political parties and the civil service are all in favour of Net Zero the only way out of this national suicide will be through a referendum, as we found with Brexit.
May 10, 2026
He will be toppled, probably by an MP with a unfamiliar name.
May 10, 2026
stalking horses usually are.
May 11, 2026
Like Mrs Thatcher for example?
May 11, 2026
my point proven.
May 10, 2026
Labour should call an election…
Having first passed laws to make it so that only people with indefinite leave to remain here or British passports are allowed to vote or stand in elections.
May 10, 2026
Welfare certainly remains as something major which needs to be addressed and nobody can say that will be easy. In the Daily Sceptic 10/5/26 ( and seen elsewhere ) Husbands with Two or More Wives get Increased Benefits (from April ) Polygamy illegal in this country, fails to be so if the extra spouses were acquired outside this country. This is not a new thing apparently but how did we come to this. More detail on the articles.
Would say waste & accumulation of monies owed to the country also concerning. Be it ‘International’ Health Service issues, unpaid long term outstanding bills to utility companies, unpaid Student Loan amounts owed by many, both by UK citizens who may have left and other non-UK citizens, to name but three.
Starmer has been reported at times as not being accessible enough to his MPs so he should talk to them more. They are the ones who have been out on the doorsteps of late. If he can’t see now that a vast number of us have rejected his policies, including his sidling up to the EU which Labour appears to think is our saviour, then he never will. We need to see changed priorities, more transparency and a departure from the usual authoritarian, dictatorial, defiant, arrogant and patronising attitudes we’ve observed to date. I and many others often comment that apart from everything else which is bad enough, they are as a party so bl…. unlikeable.
May 11, 2026
I was not aware of this. Thanks for the tip. It is disgraceful. The article states:
‘The DWP’s benefits and pension rates 2026 to 2027 document states: “If the claimant is a member of a polygamous marriage and all of the members of the marriage have attained pensionable age on or after April 1st 2021, for the claimant and the other party to the marriage [the allowance per week is now] £363.25.
“For each additional spouse who is a member of the same household as the claimant [the allowance per week is now] £125.25.”
‘It is understood the DWP believe the number of claimants to be small although it has not been able to provide a number for how many second or third wives do claim the benefit.’
So this policy cannot even be costed properly. Yet another privilege for immigrants ( word left out ed)paid for by (law abiding Ed) Brits.
May 10, 2026
Berkshire Alan:the EU referendum gave “leave” majority for Wales and England.Remain:NIreland Scotland
and LONDON the only English region to wish to stay.I wonder why!Overall only a small majority of labour
voters elected to remain.Starmer has access to the stats but is deaf to cautionary advice.
Why do I doubt MrBrown is appointed to dissuade him from closure union
May 10, 2026
error apologies CLOSER UNION
May 10, 2026
196 ‘illegal immigrants’ invaded the UK yesterday 9th May 2026 …
May 10, 2026
Bringing ‘into Government’ Brown and Harman yet again reveals Starmer’s lack of judgement and absence of confidence in his own Cabinet? Unless he immediately changes course on immigration, welfare and economic growth he’ll not survive.
May 10, 2026
With the welfare budget the labour MP’S don’t have to worry about their seats they just sign on to welfare there are hundreds of claimant getting 60,000 pounds a year there are more claiming over 30,000 pound a year
May 10, 2026
the real problem, of course, is that politics is not going to fix anything, no matter who wins elections we are stuck with the same public sector, the same ruling class, I just don’t see any way this country is going to recover from the damage which it has been put through. the decent people really need to think long and hard about what we do now.
May 10, 2026
….have a revolution brothers? Ha Ha!
May 10, 2026
Lowe has the same opinion.
He is going to provide a slate of high quality individuals who are not professional politicians.
You can learn a lot from being on the receiving side of eccentric politics.
May 11, 2026
Did you mean eccentric posters?
May 10, 2026
The Reform gimmick about putting illegal immigrants in Green constituencies reminds me of Bristol City Council’s announcement years ago that wards which voted Conservative would have nothing spent on them. This is a very wrong headed approach, not least because it would have to be consistent with all policies across the country. Once elected, a Council or Government should govern for everyone on the policies they were elected on, not the ones the opposition stood and lost on. But then Reform are very wobbly on PR and it is on FPTP that integrity after an election depends.
May 10, 2026
The oddest thing about this Reform policy is that it confirms they would go on admitting illegal immigrants to the country and putting them up at public expense. The SDP would send them to Ascension Island on the ground that we should keep them on our own territory and thus have complete control, but not let them set foot on this land.
May 10, 2026
I await the mechanism for sending 50,000 illegals including families to Ascension, housing, feeding, controlling.
May 10, 2026
It’s illegal under the Representation of the People Act to bully and threaten so as to force people to alter the way they vote.
Reform should be charged.
May 10, 2026
Hilarious.
May 10, 2026
It does sound like a gimmick, but there again if a locality votes Green it would seem they want these illegal immigrants, so give them what they want.
May 10, 2026
The majority in that constituency might not have voted for illegal immigrants; and might not have voted Green. You also ignore my other points against yours. This departure would be revolutionary, an electoral abuse, and as Lynn points out, illegal.
May 11, 2026
So in Gorton and Denton that would mean 10,000 + Reform voters had illegal aliens at the end of their streets. Brilliant!
Reform never think anything through, it’s sounds good in the pub and everyone approves so it’s scribbled on the back of the fag packet and rolled out the next day.
They don’t even understand they are making fools of themselves.
May 10, 2026
I love Mr Trumps social media posts about the UK today. He is correct. With a world wide shortage of oil and fuel we should have our own oilfields encouraged to produce as much as they can. Our refineries should be put back into production.
It’s not rocket science is it.
May 11, 2026
Starmer has already announced his solution: take Britain into the heart of the EU. One can see the advantages for him. He and his Gang would no longer be responsible for anything as all would be decided by the EU which has no accountability to the people of Britain at all. Ergo public opinion in Britain would be utterly irrelevant. It solves everything in Britain from Starmer’s viewpoint. it would be great for the EU as well. the majoirity of the illegals crossing the Channel to Britain have already been served with deportation orders following the failure of their applications for asylum. So Britain would become the EU’s depository for illegal migrants. They would be flown in and the expense charged to British taxpayers. The boats would stop and nobody would drown in The Channel. Starmer would hail this as a win-win achievement. But the local elections show he might have miscalculated that in return the Muslim immigrants would vote Labour. The Greens have shown an even greater acceptance, even enthusiasm, to submit to Sharia. So increased immigration will now favour the lunatic Greens.
Islamic enclaves in Britain are set to grow in strength and number. These mini-caliphates will merge to engulf the entire UK.
May 11, 2026
Yes, correct. But did the Fabians miscalculate when they thought devolution and mass Islamic immigration would simply bolster the numbers of potential Labour voters or did they always see far enough ahead that these policies would eventually see the breakup of the UK through social and political upheaval?