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
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
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.