The current confusion over the leadership of Labour reminds me of the troubles that faced John Major. John Major’s blunt language telling his party to put up or shut up was his response to continuous briefing from undeclared people that the government would be much more successful if it were led by Michael Hesletine or Michael Portillo. Much newsprint was used running fantasy leadership elections in the names of the two favoured replacements, rather like Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting today.
I did not allow my name to be used against the PM, being loyal to him in public. In private I sought to get him to change policy away from the dangerous path he was walking which was bound to end in electoral disaster. When he resigned and challenged his critics the two Michaels would not put up , so I did. It was obvious on his course Conservatives were doomed and the country was suffering. I said to the party, “No change, no chance.” They chose No chance and we duly went down to a crushing defeat, out of office for 13 years.
Both the present PM and his critics can learn from these events. The PM is in a way facing down his critics, but so far lacks the means to close it down promptly. John Major’s short contest did close it down, and I helped by standing down my supporters as soon as we lost. Keir Starmer’s main critics are dragging out the agony and refusing to issue a challenge. The country is allowed to know several leading figures want the PM out, but not allowed to hear what their better plans are that might lift the country’s mood and start to tackle the big problems this government has created or made worse.
The PM has shown he is tone deaf and does not understand the mood of an angry people. Labour recently polled especially badly in areas voting Leave in the EU referendum. So why does he make his main idea for the future to cosy up to the EU, accept more of its laws, levies and taxes whilst ignoring the clear Brexit mandate he said he understood to win the last election? In this John Major and Keir Starmer have a lot in common. Both sacrificed their popularity and risked their job as PM for the sake of aligning more closely with the EU. John Major has gone to Keir’s aid in sympathy with his plight, understanding how unpopular a slavish pro EU policy that does not boost growth can make you.
John Major as Chancellor forced us into a bad European scheme to control our currency which ended in catastrophic failure after he had become PM. He ignored those of us who warned him of the dangers, and ignored us again when we proposed quicker and better ways out of the disaster the EU had delivered.
Keir Starmer is doing a series of expensive and bad deals with the EU with no support from the Opposition or from many former Labour voters. Far from boosting growth his re set will depress it further. Far from cutting our unacceptably high energy bills, entering the EU carbon tax and emissions trading scheme will increase energy costs more. Industrial recovery can only start with much cheaper energy, not dearer.
Far from helping more of our young people study abroad, Erasmus will limit them to EU universities only whilst spending far more of our tax money on paying for EU students to come here. Doing a deal to align our laws more closely with the EU threatens our trade deals with other parts of the world. It is unlikely to grow our goods exports to the EU overall given the UK policies that are banning some of our key past exports of oil, gas, oil products and petrol cars.
Giving away so much of our fish for 12 years stops us rebuilding our fishing industry and attracting onshore investment in fish processing and food manufacturing. The planned Youth Opportunity scheme will mean many more people up to 30 years old coming here looking for work, housing and government support when too many of our own young people lack jobs and their own homes. Paying the EU money for these Agreements will add to our deficit and require more economy bashing tax rises.
It is strange how the long shadow of Europe makes some of our Prime Ministers do so many unpopular things to appease the bosses in Brussels. The Uk voted to take back control. Any PM who does not understand that, or who fails to use our independence to make us freer and more prosperous, faces endless challenges to their job and authority. The PM has broken his promises on growth, taxes and illegal migration. More EU will not reverse these mistakes and will not make him better loved by the millions of voters who have left him.
Hitching the UK to a low growth over taxed over regulated economic zone will bind us into continuing poor performance, when we have the opportunity to break free. The problem for the country is the possible replacements for Keir Starmer may be no better or may be worse.
May 18, 2026
Good morning.
You would think so but, to them the past is the past and, this time it will be different.
I think he is well aware of the mood of the nation. His attitude and behaviour towards the Unite the Kingdom rally compared to the Palestinian protests tells you who he fears most.
Not strange at all when you factor in the fact that, both party and Civil Service, along with other interested parties are pulling his stings. Still no real news on that trial involving those Ukrainians’ ?
Unlike Switzerland we do not live in a democracy and, as time passes more and more people are beginning to see it. As soon as a political party puts forward Direct Democracy as a policy British politics will slowly give way to sectarian politics and endless hung or coalition parliaments.
May 18, 2026
It does seem very strange that once in government any resistance to the EU is diminished (Call me Dave being a Prime example) which suggests that civil service briefings are extremely pro-EU.
May 18, 2026
Starmer is not working for Britain, that is plainly obvious. We all know he prefers Davos to Westminster and they have a major influence on his behaviour.
It’s interesting that the Irish (government ed) admits Brussels are trying to stop an incoming government from reversing any of liebours agreements by imposing unrelated fines and levies. This demonstrates just what a bunch of anti democratic thugs they really are.
Farage will have to do the same as with the treacherous civil Serpents and adopt a siege mentality. Change is inevitable and Farage is the man to implement it.
Trump has called out the UN migrant population replacement pact, entered into by treacherous May at the end of her term.The so called conspiracy theorists were right all alone on climate change and illegal immigration.
Bring it on.
May 18, 2026
We have confirmation, as clear as can be, that the Labour party will do everything/anything to take us back into the EU. Our departure from the EU was mishandled by, what Andrew Niel calls, low grade politicians. This has given the Starmer/Streeting/Burnham team the opportunity to blame ‘LEAVING the EU’ as the problem, rather than the planning for negotiating a new trade deal and taking advantage of the freedom offered by leaving. The question to be asked, soon I hope, is which party will try to reverse Brexit and which will make identifying and exploiting the benefits of Brexit. I say party, because it is clear now that inexperienced, politically isolated party leaders are easily held hostage by their parliamentary colleagues who have different ideas.
There will be only one choice.
May 18, 2026
Which recent PMs have been working for British Interests non since Thatcher other than the few days of Truss who was rapidly removed by the blob, BoE and Hunt/Sunak’s supporters!
May 18, 2026
Yes what is going on in that trial?
I remember the “No change, no chance election well.” Tory MP (as we know are in general totally misguided, nearly all climate alarmist, pro EU and pro-net zero and Libdim) so they chose No chance and we duly went down to a crushing defeat, out of office for 13 years. Sunak buried the party again in 2024 but hopefully Labour will only get one term this time thanks to Reform.
In a recent interview with the BBC, a what would you like to say next Sir John Major BBC style of interview, he claimed he joined the ERM only to reduce inflation and it worked (and not as a precursor to the Euro which he would not have joined – sure we believe you Major). The moronic policy caused endless repossessions, job losses, suicides and businesses destroyed. But why did Thatcher appoint the idiotic John Major to be chancellor and then even let him join the ERM against the wise advice of JR and her economic advisor Sir Alan Walters?
We still have very many daft, essentially Libdim, pro EU, net zero, high tax, globalist Tory MPs like Sunak, Hunt, Cleverly… hence the ditching of Liz Truss!
May 18, 2026
I find it quite remarkable that the Labour (mostly) camp still bring up Liz Truss’ brief spell making foolhardy decisions when their chosen leader demonstrates being deaf, dumb and blind every week.
May 18, 2026
@Lifelogic – agreed and they still don’t get it, their vote at the GE didn’t all head off to Reform, they stayed at home disenfranchised. They will remain lost, if not for ever, unless it is the rank and file that do the guiding the choosing.
May 18, 2026
@Mark B +1
Agreed particularly the last para, denied democracy for so long people think it is what those that have command and control says it is
May 18, 2026
We would never vote for any party proposing Direct Democracy.
May 18, 2026
@Lynn Atkinson – might seem strange for you to say that, as it cuts out the Party, the party ruled by gang leaders so the people get a voice
May 18, 2026
The answer is to SELECT your own candidates so that they form the leaders in the Party.
But you allow the party machines to select ‘gang leaders’ then compound the error by giving the power to formulate questions and count votes, each time that costs £50 million.
Go back to basics.
May 18, 2026
@Lynn Atkinson, unfortuantly as you would be aware, this UK Parliament will fight democracy, the gang leaders ensure that
May 19, 2026
Lynn, if you were in charge of candidate selection in ‘Makerfield for the Tories, who would you stand?
May 18, 2026
Why not ? Nothing tried, nothing gained.
May 18, 2026
Well you cannot really count as a democracy voting once every four or five years (on the basis of a manifesto of lies for a party and MP that, once elected, will not even try to deliver it). This is what we have had for 40+ years. Further distorted by FPTP voting where you either vote for the top two (occasionally three) candidates or throw you vote away. In most seat now the Tories are not in the top two – so they will learn this lesson rather rapidly.
May 18, 2026
“Far from boosting growth his re set will depress it further.”
Every single thing Reeves, Starmer, Lammy, Philipson, Rayner, Hermer… have done so far has been disastrous and hugely anti-growth and yet they say growth, growth, growth is their priority. Are they all totally mad or actually evil?
May 18, 2026
I suspect both.
May 18, 2026
Because of the Starmer failures, Labour have been provoked into revealing their core ideology. Both of the would be leader replacements for Labour have expressed their deeply held views about Brexit. They, along with Starmer are determined to unwind the decision the nation took when we left the EU. They are desperately determined to return the UK into full EU compliance and membership of that constricting undemocratic bureaucracy.
Streeting’s position is the most open but his resignation from office along with his lack of resolve to actually challenge Starmer for leader unless someone else does too is revealing.
Burnham has to jump a very difficult high hurdle of winning a seat in Parliament before he can even throw his hat into the ring. There is absolutely no guarantee he will win the Makerfield constituency. If the centre right political parties do the right thing they will block Burnham and Labour will limp on into the conference season even more divided than they are today.
Meanwhile, the markets are moving against them, the big investors are increasingly nervous with Labour management. The outcome of that disquiet in the financial markets could invoke a general election as a reset option by government knowing they will be wiped out will make their decision to end the chaos all the more challenging for them. Unfortunately for Labour their is no other option the people have spoken, Labour will either heed the message delivered on May 7th or they will continue to grind on and destroy the economy.
It takes a brave man to admit when he is wrong. I do not think Starmer is that brave.
The chaos will continue, the EU will be presented as our only way forward by Labour.
What a mess?
May 18, 2026
The problem is that so many Remainers don’t listen to Brexiters and so many Brexiters don’t listen to Remainers. If people calmed down more and listened and were less entrenced and less tribal and acted more like team UK then we could have the best of both worlds: completely sovereign – out of single market etc whilst having excellent relations with our partners in terms of trade, security and culture!
Problem is I think more and more people don’t really like each other so much. Including those of their tribe (tribalism is partly about feeling connected but it’s fake connection). And our great country loses out as a result. Same problem in rest of Western world. But in different ways. In particular, USA. The collapse of Western Civilisation. But I do think it can be reversed!
May 18, 2026
Please stop and compare your allegation of ‘The collapse of Western Civilisation’ to what has gone on in N.Vietnam, N.Korea, parts of and acquired China, Russia and parts which dared to escape the tyranny and murders, and of course various countries in the Arab states. Perhaps you might reflect on the allegation?
May 18, 2026
I know Vietnam well! People there actually like each other! Compared to the West where people are becoming increasingly atomised and hostile and/or indifferent to each other. With family and community life falling apart all over the place. And complacency.
May 19, 2026
Does the Vietcong and the communist violent control of the peasants not count? Perhaps you are under 50 and have no recollection of the ‘civil’ war.
May 19, 2026
The EU doesn’t want to have “excellent relations” with a UK outside the EU. We humiliated the Kommissars by voting to leave their anti-democratic oligarchy. It wants to dominate and control us, and unfortunately the British Establishment is only too keen to comply.
May 19, 2026
OK but you’re just becoming entrenched and tribal like the pro EU bureaucratic WOKE liberals!
The way forward is:
Focus on all legal and political means possible for sovereignty whilst trying to win as many people over to your side as possible (both not just attack-attack-attack! Argggh!). That’s the kind of thing (on both approaches – that people such as Marcus Aurelius, Sun Tzy, Cyrus the Great and other great leaders would adopt. It’s cliched and ineffective – long-term – to just attack-attack-attack ..).
Then you will achieve sovereignty long-term whilst that will be safeguarded by strong relations with Europe (not necessarily the EU). Whilst the strong relations will also have great benefits in addition to safeguarding sovereignty.
(And if you want to get rid of your frustrations, go to the gym, long walk – or the pub. Seriously. I’ve come across so many people who go red in the face – not with me – about EU and achieving nothing – NADA – except damaging their health, humour and well-being in general).
May 19, 2026
But you’re just been shouty! You need to also TRY and persuade people why being sovereign is great. The problem isn’t just some Renainers but some Brexiters too. If we’d applied this approach to the whole Brexit debate Brexit would have been a great success! Never too late. So do you love your country more than your antipathy towards EU and the remain position? If more people follow this, Brexit will become a great success.
May 18, 2026
@Rod Evans – “If the centre right political parties do the right thing they will block Burnham” That would presupposes those haters of the UK and its People on the extreme left,(Labour, Libdums, Greens) do not as they usually in these situations club together to keep out the centre ground.
May 18, 2026
Streeting and Burnham have said that we must rejoin the EU. Burnham has strange ideas about borrowing that have already spooked the markets. And Ms Rayner wants more taxes to make her supporters more equal. God help us.
May 18, 2026
Re. The Guardian.
Burnham favours rejoining the EU, long term.
May 18, 2026
Well he had decided that is the way to win the by-election and the leadership! What he actually thinks as with most politicians who knows! I doubt he will win the byelection but they he will be the remove Starmer option so hard to call.
May 18, 2026
What a great way to promote growth – steal money off those who work hard, made it and know how to invest it well and employ people… and give it to the feckless, alcoholics, lazy ones. Pushing more and more of the wealthy and hard working overseas. 1/6 of the Sunday Times rich list it seems gone in just 12 months. Well done Reeves and Starmer!
May 18, 2026
Not only the rich but large numbers who wish it was that easy to leave our shores.
May 18, 2026
How nice of Major, who signed the Maastrict Treaty with no mandate, to extend sympathy to his fellow EU traitor, who aims to reverse Brexit with no mandate.
“It is strange how the long shadow of Europe makes some of our Prime Ministers do so many unpopular things to appease the bosses in Brussels.”
Not strange at all. He who pays the piper, calls the tune. And our PMs (and many of their Ministers) are in effect bought and paid for by the Globalists.
There are many ways of “buying loyalty” and a very effective one is the promise of “a job at the top table” and a highly lucrative career when you are forced to leave Office, as Blair has demonstrated so well. Major failed so was cast out by the Kommissars.
May 18, 2026
And David Milliband who ushered in the Climate Act and has a million pound job for a ‘charity’ .
May 18, 2026
Mainly Ed Milibrain was it not? but all but a tiny handful of our MPs voted for this total insanity without even a sensible cost benefit analysis (many £Trillion to do huge net harm) (note JR, Peter Lilley, Widecombe… did not vote for it). Why is Net Zero Theresa May in the Lords (Sunak I assume) and why has Kemi not withdrawn the whip from this disastrous, duplicitous, deluded, Brexit botching, anti-democratic and surely evil PM?
May 18, 2026
Withdraw whip? Because there are so many knives ready to be used by supporters of failed politicians who continue in the wings.
May 18, 2026
Yes, well remembered. And Clegg, who went to Facebook with absolutely no qualifications for the role.
Oh, and Alok Sharma …. remember him? The man who blew up 2 of our 3 remaining reliable coal-fired power stations and would have done the third if Johnson hadn’t been kicked out of Office before he the time.
May 18, 2026
Qualification for the roll does not seems to apply in politics. Witness John Major as Chancellor, Hunt, Hancock, Streeting at Health, Lammy as Foreign Secretary, Starmer as PM, all the energy secs I have seen, Philipson at education, Rayner was even offered Health it seems by Starmer.
May 18, 2026
The Government has admitted that the windmills and solar panels which Red Ed is plastering all over the country and coastline are environmentally destructive …. but they’re going to carry on doing it anyway.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15824193/Ed-Milibands-wind-turbines-social-panels-bad-environment-Government-privately-admits.html
So … they’re only occasionally reasonably useful in generating some electricity. They cost a fortune in subsidies and they ruin the environment.
I wonder when His Deluded Majesty – that great environmentalist – is going to admit the truth as well?
May 19, 2026
+1
May 18, 2026
I remember it well. At the time I was a Major loyalist in the lowly capacity I then held in the voluntary Party, and urged our MP to support Major. It was of course the wrong call, our host was quite right to say no change no chance, and so it proved.
The ‘what if’ history is interesting. Has there been a contest, Heseltine would probably have won – he would have been the best bet to hold back the Blair juggernaut at the time. Had he become PM I doubt we’d have won the ‘97 election, but it would have been much closer. With opposition support Blair could then have taken the UK into the euro. Had that happened we would have had an even bigger crash in ‘08 (leverage would have been even higher). the UK would never have accepted a Greek-style crutch as the EU would have ordered, Brown’s 25% devaluation and bank bailout couldn’t of course have happened and the UK would have crashed out of both the euro and the EU (that would have been automatic). It would have been hard Brexit 12 years earlier than the compromised Brexit we got. The Cameron years would of course never have happened (unless Cameron had reinvented himself as a hard brexiteer). Perhaps by now we would be booming under a Singapore-on-Thames type model which would have been forced on. Just as happened to Singapore itself in 1965!
May 19, 2026
I could never have been loyal to John Major though I did vote for him in his first GE but only as the alternative was even worse. His predictable ERM fiasco – supported by the blob, government experts and most MPs (rather like Climate Alarmism) was a disaster but then it perhaps stopped us going into the EURO and led to Brexit or rather a half Brexit!
May 18, 2026
The EU exports more to us than we export to its many countries.
The EU sends us more people than we send to it.
If the EU prevents immigrant’s coming here in dinghies then fewer immigrants would try to enter Europe and travel through the Schengen area.
There is no reason for us to pay the EU for anything, they benefit from us. This was the central theme of the referendum and the facts have not changed.
May 18, 2026
Even the French admit to having many problems with ‘refugees’ queuing up to make the crossing to UK, blaming the various welcomes available here.
May 18, 2026
“The problem for the country is the possible replacements for Keir Starmer may be no better or may be worse.”
Jeff Banks put it quite nicely yesterdsy. The choice was like choosing between having his right hand or left foot cut off. He didn’t want either.
May 18, 2026
It will be hilarious if Burnham is beatern by Reform in the forthcoming by-election.
May 18, 2026
A distinct possibility. Labour will be even more in disarray, apart from a chuckle from Starmer.
May 18, 2026
Excellent history lesson and how it relates to our present time issues.
Why are the socialist minded so keen on the idea that big is better – they don’t look at the detail and certainly do not get the concept of how bad having everything equal to everything else, as in EU ideology, is part of the downward spiral.
Survival is about original thought and the ability to observe and work with differences. Perceiving everything as being the same, as in the EU lumping thought and action together with all control aimed at making everyone and everything the same, is pure non-survival.
We should not be voting in non-survival candidates.
May 18, 2026
It is interesting that our socialists think that localism is best in all areas of our country except at the supra national level.
It’s almost as though they believe that the best way of ensuring their dogma is voted in at each level is have local mayors but an EU commission rather than an adherence to a belief that local is better.
May 18, 2026
Sir John, Lord Redwood, you are surely the Prime Minister we should have had all those years ago !
Burnham will be very lucky to win this particular byelection, given it is a strong Leave-voting area.
We must all hope that Reform put up a good candidate and beats him.
If Starmer then carries on, a General Election will come sooner, as soon as next spring after Theeves, if she survives, will have to rob us of another £20/£30/£40bn in taxes in the autumn budget just to keep the benefit system solvent.
May 18, 2026
Restore has already put up a very good local candidate, Rebecca Shepherd.
May 19, 2026
A fine name….shepherd leading the sheep.
May 19, 2026
Perhaps she is but restore are rather irrelevant under FPTP.
May 18, 2026
“The PM has shown he is tone deaf and does not understand the mood of an angry people” he cant read the room? But does he want to? Destruction seems to be the first and only ‘Plan’
I would put it another way he has an agenda a ‘Plan’ that is off script, that is his personal ‘Plan’ that isn’t about growing the UK, the UK Economy which is the only thing at the root of improving everyone’s life. It about him and his very personal political morphing into a religious belief of self.
His people have put it about that he is some sort of Global Statesman, I would phrase that to mean he is AWOL prancing around somewhere anywhere scheming on how to put next knife in the back of the UK Citizen. Anything he can find that not in his mandate with the people, is what he peruses. Chagos an unnecessary move that stabs the UK in the back with massive expenditure. More money, even more money to the EU. Giving the EU control of UK territorial waters, fishing, for 12 years – why, there is nothing in return just a destruction of another UK Industry. So on and so on, therefore costs, more costs, higher taxes, more borrowing all dumped the UK Taxpayer.
What he is not doing is managing the UK, he is not controlling the runaway expenditure. He can’t dump that on Rachael Reeves he is the one that approves her direction. The lack of energy security he can as PM and it is his first duty to the UK people to ensure we are safe and secure ensure, he denies our supplies ‘our supplies’ He refuses and uses Ed Miliband as ‘his’ excuse – it is not Ed Miliband it is him the leader the man in charge. All functions of his job that he chooses to neglect.
May 18, 2026
He loves these pretend efforts to un-seat him they play into his deception mode of operating, forcing people to look the other way.
Just to remind everyone once more he is in his mind the UK’s top legal brain and was appointment as such. Starmer served as head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) as the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the UK’s top political/legal manipulator. In other words, he is well trained at deflection and manipulation.
He is playing everyone, playing all those that wish to blame Reevs, Miliband, Streeting for their of piste damage and destruction. He runs the Cabinet, they get his approval.
May 18, 2026
‘ the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) as the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the UK’s top political/legal manipulator. In spades. Well said.
May 18, 2026
It seems the choice of PM is between the inadequate, out of depth, closed mind, don’t confuse me with the facts, current one, or two equally inadequate, out of depth, closed mind, don’t confuse us with the facts challengers.
Will they learn from the past, whether about changing PMs, or changing unpopular policies? Not a chance, the PM’s solution to Labour’s defeat is more of the same, and the challengers even more of the same, but even further to the left with policies voters hate?
Finally, as all three want to drag the UK back into the EU, none of them believes in democracy. If they want to take us back in, let’s have a referendum, with both sides laying out their arguments for and against, but without the Government bias of 2016.
May 18, 2026
@Keith from Leeds – not a thing I have thought about before, but maybe the Leader, the PM should be the Peoples choice – in a separate election. At the moment bad leaders get to stay as bad leaders unless a whole Party is ejected.
May 18, 2026
That’s more or less what the Tory Party do. The members chose between the last 3.
May 18, 2026
Why repeat the vote?
May 18, 2026
I will never understand why any British political leader would want to hand over much of our sovereignty to what amounts to an unelected and unaccountable foreign power. To claim that we would not lose sovereignty is wrong, as we’d have no control over our international trade, nor over tariffs, nor VAT charges, and who knows if we’d be future-proofed against further encroachments on our weakened independence? All at a contribution cost of around £10B per year and a massive trade deficit of around £100 B per year. It is crazy, just like the net-zero cruads also backed by the EU. What’s really in it for us? Penury?
May 18, 2026
@Derek – they call that democracy, by they I mean the UK Parliament, the BLOB – the fact you and I have no say is still in their minds democracy. Starmer was elected by just 26% of his constituency, some 19,000 votes yet he got to run a country
May 18, 2026
I wonder if Starmer’s alignment with the EU will involve a U-turn removing VAT from private school fees which is illegal in EU.
May 18, 2026
Sir John, today, your website is showing up as being not secure. Is anyone else finding this?
Reply How does it show it is “insecure”. I have recently asked the webmaster who runs it technically to fix the link to my X feed, which he has done.
May 18, 2026
I’ve just logged in again and it seems to be okay now. My apologies, perhaps it was my security that was at fault!
May 18, 2026
“It is strange how the long shadow of Europe makes some of our Prime Ministers do so many unpopular things to appease the bosses in Brussels.”
It’s not strange at all. It simply shows how the Uniparty was captured long ago. Ideology before national interest as defined by Lord Gus Lord Gus O’Donnell who, when Cabinet Secretary, said in 2011: “When I was at the Treasury I argued for the most open door possible to immigration….. I think it’s my job to maximise global welfare not national.” In addition to mass, uncontrolled immigration, the false CAGW ideology was devised so its “solution”, Net Zero, would sabotage our energy and cause industry to move to the FE and in particular to Communist China. There is no climate crisis and there is no historical or scientific proof that CO2 controls the planet’s temperature. Water vapour, which absorbs far more of the planet’s IR emissions than CO2 and is 10 to 100 times more abundant in the atmosphere than CO2 is by far the biggest greenhouse gas and does all the work of keeping us warm at the surface and radiating away to space the excess heat. Thermalisation has shown that the IPCC’s radiative warming theory is false and CO2 is simply a trace gas at 0.04% which needs increasing as it is a vital plant food.
May 18, 2026
Mrs May also sais publicly that ‘you do what is best globally not nationally’.
May 19, 2026
She also shed crocodile tears saying she loved this country.
May 18, 2026
I agree with you, the Prime Minister was elected although has we know by low vote of the population, so as I would not support anybody in Labour there should be a general election.
May 18, 2026
I have thought that since he was elected his main aim has been to bring the country to its knees and then advocate the EU as the knight in shining armour coming to our rescue and if we rejoin all will be well and we’ll be living in some kind of Utopia.
May 18, 2026
From the Telegraph
Tories split over whether to stand aside for Reform in Makerfield – MPs join Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg in calling for by-election pact
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/17/tories-should-stand-aside-makerfield-reform-rees-mogg/
I personally think any such arrangements are anti democratic. But then you reflect the extreme Left, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, all play the anti-democrat card to block the centre ground of the UK, its majority being properly represented. This causes a growing ‘none of the above’ elections, the abstentions being larger than those that get elected. The last GE of 2024 with an electorate of some 48million, Labour got a 9.7million vote – just 20% of the electorate support. Just over 30% could bee seen as voting ‘none of the above’, I would see it as they were disenfranchised and/or disinterested. In a democracy just the support of 20% of the electorate doesn’t suggest a support for any mandate.
That suggests disillusionment. So maybe in future playing the voter block card has some merits, some will love it as it causes proportional representation by the back door. It doesn’t solve anything but it hampers those, the ‘haters’, the left from digging their claws in
Its about time MPs, prospective MPs stood up and fought for democracy. As @MarkB stated earlier “we do not live in a democracy and, as time passes more and more people are beginning to see it” Parliament has spent more than 40years side-lining even the remotes notion of democracy, I would guess they see it as when they manipulate the outcome to be against the wishes of the People – another Starmerisum? Another EU directive played out?
May 18, 2026
I wonder what this government’s view is on the issue of EU shared debt, when it eventually comes. It’s already on the way to some degree as we know. What I wonder too is the latest estimate of the Euro Billions needed for the upcoming new accession states, with at least one of them due into the fold this year. I think we all also know of the UK/EU non-reciprocal issues we’ve faced and of some of the ‘problems’ since our EU exit, so it would be good to hear from time to time some detail of the solutions they’ve found from SKS & his team rather than the usual inability – reluctance to giving us a running commentary. I think we all know that this will be another case of “put up or shut up” like much else.
May 18, 2026
Estonia has today said it will not take any migrants and will not pay the €20,000 per migrant punishment.
Apparently many who join the EU don’t understand what they have agreed.
May 19, 2026
many who voted LEAVE the EU don’t understand what was agreed by those who promised we would LEAVE.
Others know full well it was deceitful, lying, possibly reasonable and they were rewarded with Honours.
May 18, 2026
@Diane – it would appear 2TK is already giving the as much money as he can for no gain
May 18, 2026
Hi
I listened to a speech by a baroness in the house of Lords she was amazing her speech on the government and the state of the country and the EU
Every word she said was a perfect description of how the country is deterating. I apologise for not remembering her name I now think different about the house of Lords
It may have been baroness sugg
Conservative please Thank her for her amazing speech
May 18, 2026
Conservative Baroness Finn and Liberal Democrat Lord Fox united to slam Rachel Reeves for a “truly disastrous” budget. See:-
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/house-of-lords-stunned-at-labour-s-disastrous-economic-plans-in-king-s-speech/vi-AA23nbpI
Is a well articulated reply to this governments inability to grasp financial basics and take the hard decision s promised.
Excellent response to this serious economic mission impossible.
May 18, 2026
Streeting ‘rejoin the EU’, Starmer ‘closer relationship with the EU’, Burnham ‘lets wait and see’
What they all mean – Lets go faster and harder at getting back into the EU ….even without a vote
May 18, 2026
what is of vital importance: I have just learned that my Member of Parliament holds the most junior rank
of Government.He is responsible for Migration(im?) and Citizenship.
Priorities exemplified
May 19, 2026
So….
As current people start their sentences
Every individual must look back at their life
and ask why they get involved in BURNING issues.
Money,Power,Self delusion Self aggrandisment,Distraction,Guilt etc
GUILT.
To read a few history books as to how England was a hundred.two hundred years ago.
Is eye opening.
My God
Don’t let personal guilt smother what is RIGHT, Humane and honourable.
May 19, 2026
Labour are such complete amateurs. Still crying their salty tears over Brexit.
Committing to rejoining the EU…thereby betraying Brexit…and they don’t even know the highly punitive terms and conditions the EU would impose (join the Euro, £12+ billion per annum for no good reason…no rebates…unlimited EU migration on top of the current unlimited non-EU immigration)…plus being forced out of the CPTPP…betraying our new partners.
The “adults” certainly are not “back in charge”.
May 20, 2026
Anyone who lived and suffered in the 1970s with the Labour Government will know that we want rid of the Labour Movement once and for all. They have no idea in this day and age of how to run, and make, the country and make it profitable. When you look up the backgrounds of those in office and probably a good many more of them as MPs, there is little real work experience having taken place in the outside world. The Tories have some of the same problem but not quite as bad which is why they are stuck where they are. As for those in government who have had a communist upbringing and are putting it into practice at this very moment they need putting in the Tower of London and forgotten as happened in previous centuries. Will we ever learn?
The EU is of the same ilk and needs avoiding like the plague. What my Father and Mother would think after they both served in the forces during the 2nd World War to save the Europeans from themselves AGAIN. How many times in history have we had the gloves off with one of other of the continental countries? We had a loyal and helpful Commonwealth and the EU made us dump them it all those years ago which some of us old enough remember. Shame on the politicians of the day and of those today who want to crawl back into the boiling pot.
As to Erasmus. It is would be better if the standard of English for British children was taught better in schools so that they could have a fair ground to take on the continentals who will flood our land when this nonsense comes into being. Most of the young people I hear talking today and those on TV cannot put a sentence together lucidly never mind with grammar to match. And we seem to have the letter ‘H’ being misused in many cases instead of ‘aitch’ as those of us of a certain age were taught. We had a workman working next door last week who had put up the guttering incorrectly on an extension (don’t ask me about my dealings with the planners over that please) and the rain was flowing into our garden. He couldn’t speak English so there you go. The English can’t speak their own language and nor can the foreigners. If they can’t speak the language of the country how will they get jobs or education in different languages? Daft beyond talking about it.