My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Alderdice, is right to warn us all that our relative prosperity and power is waning.
I have always been happy to fully support this Government’s main aim, as set out in the general election and repeated in all the economic speeches that I have heard them make. They are right that this country can achieve so much more. It can grow much faster. It can unleash enterprise and develop more business. However, I fear that my noble friend Lady Finn set out in her brilliant speech just how, for almost two years now, this Government have done everything wrong if we wish to promote growth. They have clobbered entrepreneurs instead of praising them; they have taxed people instead of rewarding them; they have taken incentives out and made it more difficult to employ young people—they seem to have a grudge against young people. Now we are presented, in this gracious Speech, with what they think is one golden thread that I think will turn out to be leaden and depressing: the idea that an EU reset will somehow promote trade, which in turn will give us that missing growth.
Let me try to help the Government think this through. Quite often, Ministers here and elsewhere tell us that we have suffered a 4% GDP loss as a result of Brexit. But all the graphs and charts of what happened to GDP between 2016 and today, in the leading European countries and here, show that there is absolutely no sign of an extra 4% drop as a result of either our voting to leave or actually leaving. If you ask Government Ministers why they think there has been a 4% drop, they say that the OBR has said it. But the OBR report is a forecast, which says that between 2020 and 2035, the British economy might grow its productivity 0.25% per annum less than if we had not left the EU. It is not forecasting any drop in GDP at all; it is not even forecasting a drop in productivity—it says that it might grow a bit slower, and if you compound out 0.25% for 15 years, you get to roughly the 4% they all wrongly cite. Ministers must be honest with themselves and the public: there was no 4% drop, and their reset will not recover the 4% that they wrongly allege has disappeared.
Let us explore the idea that increasing trade would uniquely provide growth. I fear that Ministers are again mistaken, because our trade with the European Union results in a very large trade deficit, particularly in goods. It sells us a lot more than we sell it, so if we could agree a set of policies with the EU that might increase the exports of each side by, say, 10%, which is quite a sizeable number, the deficit would rise and our GDP would fall, because the EU would export much more to us than we export to it and we would have to close down things in Britain to receive the exports we decided were cheaper or better as a result of the changes. To have the same volume, we would need to grow our exports by 17% to match the 10% growth in
the EU’s exports. If you wanted to get more GDP, you would have to grow our exports a lot faster than the European Union because—I repeat to the Government—exports add to our GDP, but imports do not. If we import more German cars and close a UK car factory, our GDP goes down; it does not miraculously go up because our trade figures with the EU have gone up.
That is exactly the Government’s strategy, thanks mainly to their net-zero policies. My noble friend Lord Lilley set it all out very well. They are literally going to ban us making any diesel or petrol cars from 2030, five years earlier than they would stupidly ban them on the continent. Do they not see that that means that we would close our factories first, and definitely lose all the jobs, while Europe was still thinking about making more of these cars that people want to buy? The Government will say, “Well, we’re going to buy battery cars”. Yes, some people will buy battery cars if they cannot buy diesel or petrol cars, but most of them will probably be imported from China, or they might be made in eastern Europe and imported via that route, so the Government will not get more jobs, growth or economic activity from that source.
Here is my friendly proposal. I really want this country to do well; I want this Government to do well. I know that they are not about to fall—Prime Ministers might come and go, but they will presumably carry on governing—so I say to them: please govern well. Instead of having the wrong idea that promoting more imports from Europe and perhaps a few more exports to Europe will miraculously transform the position, I want them to put in place in Britain a series of policies for import substitution.
It is much easier for small companies to sell to people, shops and businesses near them than to go through all the hassle of exporting, however much red tape the Government think they can reduce. That would give our small businesses more chance by creating more opportunity for British production. It should be much cheaper and easier to replace imports than to try to develop exports to markets with different languages and customs which may not like what you are doing or offering. I know this well from my experience running industrial businesses, when we found that by far and away the most difficult markets to export to were France and Germany, although they were geographically much nearer. We always hired staff who loved the countries and spoke the language, but it was still much more difficult to sell there than it was to the English-speaking world, including America, or to Asian countries where English was the common business language.
We need to lift the ban on making our own petrol and diesel cars, because they have always been one of our leading exports to the continent. We need to lift the ban on getting our own oil and gas out, because they too have been leading exports to the continent. We need to get energy prices down, as my noble friend Lord Lilley rightly said. We have in the past exported a lot of petrochemicals and refined oil product, and if we are shutting all our refineries, petrochemical works, ethylene plants and so on, we will not export anything like that volume in the future.
The Government need a dose of reality and common sense and an examination of the data. It is not good enough for Ministers to say, “We will get the British economy to grow as soon as we have signed away our powers to make our own business laws and given some more money to Brussels”. They cannot identify billions of pounds of extra exports we can make at a time when they, through their policies, are ensuring that we export fewer and fewer cars and chemicals and less and less oil, gas and refined product, and are in the process of closing 21 plastics recycling plants.
As my noble friend Lord Hunt set out in another brilliant speech, there is no plan to save steel. Indeed, I heard the Minister say in her opening remarks that it is still the Government’s policy to go over to electric arc furnaces. They need to be honest to the workers in Scunthorpe: the Government are not going to permanently save the Scunthorpe jobs. They still want to sack all those people, but just a bit later, after they have wasted billions of pounds of public money on keeping open a works that is struggling to compete, in the way that my noble friend set out. I ask the Government to please level with the workers in Scunthorpe about the fact that their plan is anti-blast furnace and anti-burning coal in any sense, and to come to a decent settlement with them. The workers should not think that the Government have a solution to steel, because they clearly do not.
May 16, 2026
Exactly right as usual.
“exports add to our GDP, but imports do not. If we import more German cars and close a UK car factory, our GDP goes down; it does not miraculously go up because our trade figures with the EU have gone up.”
Do we have any British car plants left?
Similarly if we export our high energy industries like fertilisers, concrete, steel, manufacturing, AI, farming, food… due to high energy costs. Or If we import oil, gas and electricity rather than produce our own by drilling, fracking, nuclear… we lose the tax, the jobs, the gdp and cause balance of payments problems.
May 16, 2026
Why aren’t we in UK making and exporting our own cars to rival BMW, Mercedes, Audi?
We created the Spitfire, Lancaster bomber, mini, JCB, Aston Martin, Rolls Royce, Jaguar, Mclaren, London black cab, London red bus. We need to be more ambitious for our country here. High quality exports, great jobs, and motivational for our economy – come on UK!
May 16, 2026
Energy too expensive, borrowing expensive, housing and thus employees expensive, red tape, restrictive planning laws and employment laws, Ed Miliband’s insane agenda, 20 mph speed limits, road blocking, motorist mugging cameras…
May 16, 2026
The Germans built their car industry from scratch after utter devastation of WW2. Why can’t we have our wirtschaftswunder?
May 16, 2026
We set up the Volkswagen Factory for them, we provided honest money – the D’emark, Marshall aid was provided so they had capital to deploy.
Britain has been stripped of all those things which is why we complain.
May 16, 2026
The (West) Germans post war had a common objective which you could call ‘build back better’ ably assisted by the US Marshall Plan. In the UK who believes there has ever been a similar plan post war?
May 16, 2026
Lynn,
I agree (to a degree). But great things (business, the arts, culture, civilisation and human endeavour in general) NOT achieved by complaints alone. Have to move beyond that and think and act BIG! x
May 16, 2026
Mickey T
I agre (to a degree). But we got to move beyond excuses. Can’t live on excuses (and complaints) to ultimately achieve great things.
May 16, 2026
Ed, did you see the 2 million peaceful marchers today to Unite the Kingdom?
Do you see a new party offering genuine politics that are good for the U.K. – 3 months old and 3rd highest number of members – closing on the Labour numbers fast.
That is thinking and acting big.
May 16, 2026
UK manufacturers the major ones and owners (very few British).
2024 Aston Martin DB12
2025 Bentley Continental GT
2018 Jaguar XF Sportbrake
2017 Land Rover Range Rover Velar
2022 Lotus Emira
2021 McLaren Artura
2025 Mini Hatch
2018 Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII
2023 Vauxhall Astra
Marque Owner Parent
Aston Martin (1913–present) Aston Martin Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings PLC
Bentley (1919–present) Bentley Motors[1] Volkswagen AG
Jaguar (1935–present) Jaguar Land Rover Tata Motors
Land Rover (1948–present) Jaguar Land Rover Tata Motors
Lotus (1952–present) Lotus Cars Geely
McLaren (1985–present) McLaren Automotive[2] CYVN Holdings
MG (1923–present) MG Motor SAIC Motor
Mini (1969–present) BMW BMW
Morgan (1910–present) Morgan Motor Company Investindustrial
Rolls-Royce (1904–present) Rolls-Royce Motor Cars[3] BMW
Vauxhall (1905–present)[4] Vauxhall Motors[5] Stellantis
May 16, 2026
That we don’t have a British car industry with our own British-owned brands to rival the Germans – and even the French and others is a shame on our country and damaging to our economy. It’s something politicians should be addressing but don’t. A bit unbelievable and sad.
(And if we had such a car industry it would help support sovereignty and pay for it – as a country with its own cars – to rival the Germans etc not just niche sports cars – promotes patriotism in one’s economy)
May 16, 2026
We has to sell it to pay for the welfare bill.
May 16, 2026
OK. But you’re being overly negative. You remind me here of General Browning (Dirk Bogarde) from a Bridge too Far. As opposed to General Horrocks (Edward Fox).
De, de, de dedum, de, de, de … [music score] Cheer up!
May 16, 2026
It was a bridge too far.
That’s not a complaint.
That’s an observation from people who intend to win.
You are inculcated with the idea that pointing out what is wrong, ie genuine analysis, is ‘negative’. It’s POSITIVE because you need to know what to cut in order to win.
May 16, 2026
Lynn, you’re far too much General Browning in your comments. I wouldn’t want to go into battle alongside you (in your comments). But with General Horrocks (hope, humour, cheerfulness, encouraging).
May 16, 2026
We used to have a car industry, but it was destroyed by unions and dire management.
Obliging people to buy British and then not modernising with models the public wanted to buy just didn’t work.
May 16, 2026
I remember having completed a billing suite of software to reduce picked products stocks, produce delivery notes, create invoicing etc but soon after use I was told I’d need to create a reversal system to undo what had been issued. Why? Ah! Well Cowley had an unwarned ‘close the gates’ event so our delivery vehicle was refused entry, turn round and go back. Sums up union involvement in restricting a car industry.
May 16, 2026
In fairness, though, I think there was an element of war weariness too. And an element of the ruling classes being relatively laid back (stemming from Eton but all the way down the public school system from aristocrats down to the upper middle classes). Being too earnest was also seen as overly middle-class/trademan-like/bourgeoise/American/nouveau-riche/vulgar etc. And an element too of the loss-of-Empire melancholy. Mixed with what you say, as well.
May 16, 2026
Aeralis, a British aerospace firm developing a successor to the Red Arrows’ jets, has fallen into administration.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/red-arrows-aeralis-firm-next-generation-jets-collapses
May 16, 2026
@Lifelogic, I’m all for free and open trade. Unfortunately, the World, the WTO don’t play nice.
To trade as in manufacture in China there has to be a 50% Chinese ownership and a transfer of technology and the use of IP by China. So today we have the situation that a Chinese government owned manufacturer makes more Jaguar Land Rover products than JLR do themselves, some 400,000.
Then the other quirk much was made on JLR/Tata setting up a Battery manufacturing site in Somerset. The Taxpayer was forced to pay money into supporting the venture, while UK owned companies were sidelined, then the next kick in the teeth JLR didn’t have the technology didn’t know how to make the batteries needed so had to get the Chinese involved. So we now have Chinese manufactured components imported and assembled, but the technology remains in China and the UK Taxpayer gets to foot the bill.
Every one gets animated about Trump being, let’s say ‘Blunt’. The EU was charging import duties on USA made vehicles of 400% more that the USA was charging on EU Imports to them. When he tries to get them, the EU, to reciprocate they refused. So, he upped the rates unilaterally. The EU started crying ‘that’s unfair’ it unfair that the EU is charged the same as they charge the USA.
Free and open trade now should have the caveat, that those wanting to play should be reciprocating, playing to the same set of rules.
Most of the Countries you mention that have had their companies buying up UK enterprises, have the luxury of being protected in their home markets.
I am not blaming those that play the system, Countries & Companies, I am blaming the naive UK Parliament that just don’t get it. The UK Parliament is just exporting UK, wealth, money, know-how and so on to those that block similar in return. The UK Parliament refuses to protect the UK. That is why the UK Auto industry is gone the UK Parliament chucked it out
May 17, 2026
Companies have little choice but to use the system that pertains as best they can otherwise they go bust or get bought out by companies that do.
May 17, 2026
Mickey, bbc.co.uk 03/03/2011 ‘The wasting of Britain’s Marshall aid’.
Britain got $2.7 bn from the USA, Germany $1.7 bn.
Also ‘The lost victory: British dreams, British realities, 1945-1950’, C.Barnett, 1996, Pan Books.
May 16, 2026
Starmer’s vile attacks and video on the “Unite the Kingdom Rally” today are truly appalling. He talks of them pushing “Hate”. Well yes Kier they hate the Socialist, open borders, Climate Alarmist, EU realignment, tax and over regulate to death, two tier justice, wars on landlords, farmers, energy users, jobs, employers, car users… the vile counterproductive policies of your appalling government (and earlier governments).
Doubtless Two Tier Kier will be hoping for trouble so he can find a few new Lucy Connolly types to incarcerate for 31 months. What vile men Kier and Sadiq Kahn are.
May 16, 2026
Any Questions this week had Lord Finkelstein, Stephanie Flanders; Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran MP who chairs the Commons health committee and the minister for migration and citizenship, Mike Tapp MP.
So the essentially socialist, globalist Finkelstein the nearest the BBC could find to a right winger. No one from the most supported party Reform and no sensible Tory either. As far as you could tell all were anti-Trump, pro EU, pro Starmer even and three of them were clearly very anti-men and happy to openly state this.
Even talk of “parity of esteem” for “engineers” give me a decent engineer as an employee any day over 95% of the duff degrees offered by most universities. Indeed over most of the university lecturers too.
One of the questions seemed to compare Trump to Putin & Xi Jinping.
The impartial BBC!
May 16, 2026
Kemi supported banning the speakers.
The political class is classless, not a whiff of Britishness about them.
May 16, 2026
I would probably recognise the term Britishness, or better still Englishness, if we rrolled back to the nation as was pre 1939.
May 16, 2026
Try the 1980s.
May 16, 2026
Also, the British Army is definitely British not English!
So many of the great British generals from WW2 were ‘Irish’ (Anglo Irish – not English).
Wellington was ‘Irish’ (Anglo Irish – not English). And 30% of his soldiers at Waterloo were Irish (mixture of native Catholic Irish and Protestant British Irish).
And then the great ‘Irish’ regiments (again both Catholic Irish and Protestant British Irish) as well as the great Scottish regiments and soldiers from Wales and the Welsh Guards.
So ‘English’ is too vague. At least in the context of the Norman rulers of this country until the time of the Tudors. But even after the Tudors, the Norman families still carried on. And then the British army. All the Anglo-Irish such as the Duke of Wellington. And the same in Scotland. And Wales etc.
And the Tudors were Welsh (‘Tudor’ is Welsh Celtic in origin – not Anglo Saxon).
And large swathes of England are Celtic or Scandinavian in genes.
Being English is great. But not in classifying people overall from these isles. British is far more correct and inclusive, including all those who have served this country so well!
May 16, 2026
@Lifelogic – its incredible that this deluded man just doesn’t see that the bile and hate he spews out can and should be turned back on him, he is talking about himself when he talks hate and division
May 17, 2026
Indeed he is hated and richly deserves to be so by nearly every section of people other than illegal migrants and benefit claimant’s and lawyer and judges as his endless red tape – energy, english nature, employments, landlord, planning… creates so many pointless & parasitic “jobs”.
May 16, 2026
Very good speech Sir John but an absolute waste of breath with these chancers in power and a good many supporters on the opposite benches.
Liebour are intent on shacking us to the rotting corpse of the EU and no amount of blether is going to change this.
Ministers quoting the OBR is laughable as every prediction they have made has been wrong.
Milibrain approves 2 new windfarms with no connections to the grid so will be collecting subsidies from day one because they can’t generate.
I would love to k ow how many brown envelopes have changed hands to allow this travesty.
May 16, 2026
A lot of truth here. It links to this issue about us paying for a Swiss type deal or indeed any deal with the EU. The Swiss are net exporters to the EU and we are net importers as you say. So May should actually have been asking the EU for cash just as the EU do from Switzerland, instead of being the supplicant she was. The whole thing was disastrously negotiated with an absence of any type of brinkwomanship on her part. Thence on, we were behind by 20 yards in a 100;yard race.
May 16, 2026
You are talking to the hand, m’Lord. The face ain’t listening because their policies are ideological …. creating a United States of Europe and international Socialism governed by a self-selecting “Elite” (similar to the USSR) with the UK firmly trapped inside and unable to “make any trouble” with it’s pesky Anglo-Saxon traditions of Common Law, free speech, property ownership and a culture of free enterprise.
There is no economic justification for the Prime Liar’s “reset, just as there was no economic justification for Johnson’s “deal” or Sunak’s Windsor Treachery. The WEF and the British Establishment want us to be Associate Members, along with other non-members on the periphery of the Bloc (Turkey, Ukraine, Norway, Iceland).
It has never had anything to do with economics and still doesn’t.
May 16, 2026
Exactly my Lord but they aren’t listening. They are entirely consumed with their own affairs at the moment and will probably be so until September. Meanwhile our ship continues to sink. Ten year Gilts past 5.2% soon? Five year fixed mortgages already at 5.8% ACPR even if you have a 60% LVT. Many are going to find it very hard to roll their mortgages over in the coming months and years.
May 16, 2026
Need to bring back MIRAS.
May 16, 2026
But it’s on record. When we are all dead if an Englishman survives and wants to know what to do. He can lookup Redwood speeches.
May 16, 2026
Indeed!
I have one on a fix at 1.3% it will go up by nearly 5 times when it finishes in about 2 years!
May 16, 2026
From all of the measures advanced by this government since taking office, it is clear the prime objective is to weaken rather than strengthen the UKs independence.
We could ask why would they do that?
The only plausible answer is, they wish to force the UK back into the control of the EU by removing the core strengths the UK previously enjoyed.
This may sound like a conspiratorial comment. It is not.
Look at every decision taken by government since July 2024 and ask yourself, what is the effect of that government action?
If you conclude the impact of Reeves, Miliband, and Starmer’s policies have been damaging to the UK, then you have to look for reasons why they would knowingly destroy the economy?
The Labour demand for a return to EU subservience, is what lies behind these damaging policies, Return of the UK into the EU can only happen if the UK is weakened. That is exactly what their policies are achieving. They are weakening the UK economy.
John is right, this government will not stand down no matter what happens because they are on an EU sponsored mission. It is our historic duty to stop them. They are treating the voters with contempt we have to stand up for our rights and for our democracy.
Everyone needs to vote at every time of asking. We have to get rid of these enemies within as soon as possible.
May 16, 2026
@RE. You say “Return of the UK into the EU can only happen if the UK is weakened”. Is that because Germany and France want it to remain their show, or some other reason?
May 16, 2026
Action 1: destroy energy independence
Action 2: destroy manufacturing ability
Action 3: wreck farming (ie agricultural independence)
All in line with the EU’s original plan.
May 16, 2026
Not just farming all trading business now come into IHT unless very small indeed.
May 16, 2026
Has happened and continues to happen under all governments
May 16, 2026
You are up against fanatics on both the EU and Green Energy. They are not interested in factual reality. The truth is offensive to them.
May 16, 2026
Yes.
May 16, 2026
Indeed.
May 16, 2026
Dear Lord Redwood, the flaw, your flaw is that you are talking logic and common sense. Time and time again we have found ourselves ruled by ideology that panders to the political elite and the BLOB’s notion of they rule others serve. They don’t do logic and common sense. They continually want to turn democracy on it head, simply a democracy challenges those that have been leant powers and keeps things in check – our lazy leadership is only concerned with personal self esteem and ego. As such they fight democracy, therefore fight the people before they think of the reality of their own purpose in society. ear Lord Redwood, the flaw, your flaw is that you are talking logic and common sense.
May 16, 2026
Net Zero is deliberate economic vandalism. It has been devised to sabotage our energy, industry, economic independence and national security. It is intended that we become dependent upon China for not only our goods but also for all our energy infrastructure. The apparent cheap price of renewables is because they are manufactured in China using cheap coal power, slave labour and ignoring the environmental damage caused by mining minerals and leaving vast toxic tailing lakes from the manufacturing processes.. There is no climate crisis (see the IPCC Working Group 1 Table 12 in Chapter 12) and even the IPCC has finally admitted that the extreme RCP8.5 predictions are implausible. CO2 is a trace gas (0.04% of the atmosphere). Water vapour absorbs far more of the planet’s emitted IR radiation than CO2 and is 10 to 100 times more abundant in the atmosphere than CO2. Water vapour is therefore the biggest greenhouse gas and does all the work of keeping us warm at the surface and radiating away to space the excess heat.
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/05/14/shocked-silence-greets-rcp8-5-demise-as-implausibility-ruling-leaves-net-zero-fearmongering-in-tatters/
https://gbbc.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Premeditated-Industrial-Destruction-Final-6th-April-2026-with-added-security-issue-v2.pdf
May 16, 2026
Oh I love that ‘shocked silence’. Putting away the RCP8.5 scenario had been announced within a year of IPCC AR5 (5th Assessment Report) published in 2014. Already AR6 published in 2021/22 had abandoned the RCP (I.e specifying a global mean value of the radiative forcing) and working with SSPs (Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, ie scenarios for economic development, energy use, emission policies.) These various SSPs have radiative forcing equivalent to 1.9, 2.6, 4.5, 7.0 and 8.5 W/m^2. SSP1/1.9 to SSP5/8.5 translate (averaged over a number of models participating in the IPCC activities to global temperature increases from 1.4 degC to 4.4 degC.
May 16, 2026
And the proof of the pudding is on the MetOffice Hadley Centre website.
MetOffice.gov.uk UKCP18 Guidance: Representative Concentration Pathways. It presents results for various RCPs including RCP8.5 but surprise surprise this document is dated 2018.
Only 8 years before today’s big announcement! So I’m just wondering: are Pielke Jr and Chris Morrison such bad journalists they don’t follow properly their topics (Environment)? Just asking.
And OR will soon have AR7 to comment upon. How long will it take him to report its findings? Five years, seven years or even more?
May 17, 2026
What happened to the runaway temperature tipping point post 2000 we were all warned about hefner ?
May 18, 2026
Have you got proper scientific reference for that?
May 16, 2026
Sad as it is this country has to fall a lot further before voters turn out to change the course of direction. We are currently living off the wealth generated by previous generations. Too many people still have a very comfortable standard of living and don’t see the dire straites this country is heading to for. We are dying by a 1000 cuts. Every day this country gets poorer but its at such a slow pace most don’t notice. When I was a child the news used to show bar charts of our balance of trade. Maybe they should bring this back so people see the reality of where we are headed. The money from the bank of mum and dad will soon run out.
May 16, 2026
Voters have been trying for some time. We need a sensible option.
May 16, 2026
Recent polls and elections are showing the way.
May 16, 2026
Especially in Great Yarmouth where the two contenders were both on the field.
Makerfield is going to be famous, maybe we will get revenge for the Battle of Maserfield 641 where we lost the Great King Oswald of Northumbria.
May 16, 2026
What pains me is that you can lay it all out so clearly, but the PM, Ministers and Labour MPs can’t or won’t accept the facts. When a government is this unpopular, would you think they might ask themselves why, and then change direction? The PM’s approach is to do more that alienates people, and his potential replacements would be even worse.
Equally, it is infuriating that the media also ignore the facts and are dishonest in their coverage of the EU. The absolute last thing the UK needs is to be more involved with the EU.
Finally, I would love to see the voters of Makerfield give Burnham the boot and a stunning Reform victory.
May 17, 2026
Keith, your wish for Makerfield and Burnham are looking ever more likely. It is important the sensible side of the voting public come together to ensure they do not split the centre right vote.
Rupert needs to consider the immediate needs of the nation and leave the Field clear for Reform to win.
Blocking off Labours cynical attempt to ignore the electorate via Burnham replacing Starmer in what they would like to present as grown up party process in play.
It must be realised by all, Labour and ‘all’ its would be leaders, have openly declared they want to take the UK back into the EU, even though that is against the wishes of the voters.
We must do all we can to stop them.
May 16, 2026
Well said.
Unless this speech gets picked up by the media it will be drowned out by the inaccuracies HMG dishes out. Why don’t we hear more about great speeches from the Lords, after all, aside from the labour benches, the Lords has a vast amount of talent and experience – we need to hear more about sensible views from those that know what they are talking about.
Reply The BBC will not interview me or put these views out on their channel. GB News does.
May 16, 2026
Yes, so much for the unbiased approach to journalism by the BBC.
I suppose in a way that is fair, more people like me refuse to watch the BBC.
May 16, 2026
Scunthorpe: the Government is not going to save the Scunthorpe jobs. This Government has already entered contracts with other countries to supply steel for our infrastructure, to supply steel for our defence industry, because the UK Parliament, the UK Government has banned its production in the UK. This banning doesn’t reduce world emissions it increases them, logic and commonsense. Saving Scunthorpe, if that’s how they want to spin it doesn’t stop the ban.
Playing with the lives of the hardworking folk of Scunthorpe, is malicious deception, malicious punishment. This Government has already given the Scunthorpe workers jobs to other nations. Cruel and ‘nasty’ behaviour from a cruel and ‘nasty’ Parliament
May 16, 2026
OFT
In today’s media – ‘Keir Starmer has accused Mr Robinson of “peddling hatred and division”.’ I would turn that around, the man that has proven he hates the UK and its People more, creates more division is the man throwing the stones in the Glass House. I don’t know who or what Mr Robinson is and don’t care, or care to find out, but I would guess he is not ruining millions of lives of good folk that just want to get on.
What 2TK doesn’t comprehend is that the point of ‘Free Speech’ is that dissenters are heard and can be countered, with proper arguments, driving them underground changes nothing. In that context 2TK has a record of stamping on those that don’t agree with him – that makes him the worst of the worst
May 16, 2026
I looked on Sky for a report of what was going on. Some say 50,000 turned up others say 300,000. The Police report ‘thugs’ were arrested for injuring the Police, yet these incidents only happened were the police were stopping people joining the gathering. It appears to be a gathering of those that don’t like 2TK. The other gathering flying foriegn flags supported by the extreem left has been played down
May 17, 2026
The police arrested 11 … out of hundreds of thousands (the 50,000 attendance report is rubbish).
May 16, 2026
Elsewhere in today’s media,
Scunthorpe: the costs of keeping the plant alive are estimated by the National Audit Office to run to £1.5bn by 2028, or about £500,000 for every job saved. Industrial strategy does not come cheap, it would seem. What saved jobs?
Parliament seems to have the ability to drop a £1billion here there and anywhere, what it fails to do is earn a £1billion. They still ad-hear to the Socialist fairytale concept that money removed from the economy is earned by Parliament.
The Treasury is expected to raise(steal) £118bn from business in rates in England over the four years to 2029 and also it is poised to rake in an extra £12bn from the pubs tax. That is all money removed from the economy, seemingly money to keep the inactive more rewarded than those struggling to survive. That’s is money no longer invested in business growth, job creation, creating the wealth to pay taxes. A vicious malicious petty way to punish the people
May 16, 2026
Wes Streeting stated very clearly today during his speech that he wanted the UK back into the EU …..maybe it was always labour policy
May 16, 2026
Everything stops for tea .