Farewell to Sir Keir

The PM was not treated well by his party and suffered a major attack from Andy Burnham . I understand his personal sorrow as he comes to grips with the way his party abandoned him so soon after he delivered them a huge Commons majority.

I do not agree with his allies and friends who tell us he was a decent man who was a great success as an international statesman. He did not treat his closest advisers and supporters well, sacrificing and blaming  Sue Gray, Mc Sweeney, press secretaries and others as his errors became clear. He did accept a large number of freebies after years of criticising others  for similar conduct. He did not offer proper support to his Chancellor in the Commons when she was under such pressure she shed a tear.

He was certainly no great promoter and defender of UK interests abroad. His foreign policy was one of his worst features. His needless attempt to give away the Chagos islands and to provide a 99 year dowry of payments to Mauritius helped undermine the US relationship, sought to burden UK taxpayers when taxes were already too high and ended in failure.

His craven conduct towards the EU sacrificed twelve years of very valuable fish to the EU with no benefit gained in return. He refused to ban their damaging 100 meter plus industrial trawlers harming our seabed and raiding our fish stocks. He gave far too much money to re enter the Erasmus Student scheme. He did not see that Erasmus made UK taxpayers pay plenty of money to finance EU students coming to the UK, and offered less choice and support to UK students wishing to study abroad. Our UK Turing scheme was cheaper than Erasmus, only financed UK students and let them go to non EU universities as well as to EU ones.

His negotiations to accept more and  more EU rules and charges, especially in the food and farming area are doing more to harm the prospects for UK agriculture. The idea that the UK should accept dynamic alignment, the system where the EU imposes laws on us without us having a say or a veto, is rejected by 59% and supported by just 27% in a recent poll.

To influence big world political events the UK needs strong military forces to back up its seat on the UN Security Council. Instead PM Starmer withdrew our last frigate and last minesweeper from the Gulf region just before the Straits of Hormuz and the commercial waterways of the Gulf were blocked. He undermined the UK’s position in NATO by his failure to provide the money to back the Defence Investment Plan.

His errors over pensioner winter fuel payments, disability benefits, the steady climb in unemployment, the explosion in sick notes for life and the continuing poor performance of the economy are things even his friends disagreed with.

84 Comments

  1. Ian Wragg
    June 24, 2026

    Agreed Starmer has been the worst PM in my lifetime. I fear his successor will be just as bad. It says something when with a majority of over 150 liebour have to parachute someone in to take over.
    The EU must be salivating at the prospect of Burnham making even more concessions and handing over even more money. The Tories and Reform must make it clear that any detrimental agreements will be cancelled.
    It’s telling that only Farage is calling for a General Election because Badenough must realise the game is up for her party.
    Britain is now only a shadow of its former self after over 30 years of mismanagement. Hopefully very soon things will get better after these shysters are shown the door.

    Reply Kemi Badenoch did not argue against an early election. Conservatives want this government out.

    1. dixie
      June 24, 2026

      @Reply – Not good enough.
      The Conservatives burned almost all their bridges so need to act clearly and with humility. Not arguing against something or abstaining and relying on friends interpreting their intentions is utterly worthless.
      They need to be very clear about what should and should not be done, what they definitely support and what they don’t. Otherwise it appears they simply do not care … whereas others appear as fearful.
      We need actual fighters, not Walter Mitty’s, defending our interests against internal and external enemies.
      I want to know what hills they will die on, not a string of vague lawyer double speak.
      Manifestos have to mean something , be taken seriously by those making the promise otherwise why should I waste my time?

      1. dixie
        June 24, 2026

        .. don’t appear as fearful

      2. Ian B
        June 24, 2026

        @dixie – 100% agree. I fear that a disease has grabbed the whole of this Parliament. No one in that house seems to understand the meaning of being an MP, to much dancing around their ‘hand bags’ preening ego and contriving to fix the next election for themselves. The fight Democracy rather than fight to defend it

    2. Lifelogic
      June 24, 2026

      Starmer endlessly goes on about “convicted fraudster” Tommy Robinson (giving misleading information to the lender) but then he appointed twice resigned Mandelson as US Ambassador (once for serious mortgage issues and then allegations of using his ministerial position to influence a passport application for the Hinduja brothers, who had donated to a Millennium project he oversaw. ), This despite his having failed vetting.

      1. Lifelogic
        June 24, 2026

        Adidas, Uniqlo and Calvin Klein ads in UK banned over ‘recycled’ clothing claims by the ASA as they were only part recycled it seems.

        Strange the ASA seemed to have nothing to say about the countless entirerly dishonest “Zero Emissions” claims on EV cars. They are at best just “emissions elsewhere” cars. They also allowed the claims for the Covid Vaccines of “Safe and Effective” when the evidence was they ever unsafe, innefective and not even needed for most people even had they been safe and effective.

        They even years back allowed a bus poster in London claiming that “this red bus is greener than 57(? I think) cars”. In reality a bus can only really replace more like 5 cars often even fewer.

        This as bus average occupancy over the day can be under 10, plus they are large, cumbersome, slow, stop every few hundred yards or similar (causing others to use more fuel), cannot carry many tools, washing machines or similar plus they often force passengers to take very indirect & often irrational routes too and they need drivers, cleaners, safely cameras, ticketing…

        Keeping your old car running longer is usually the greenest (and least CO2 option) should this bother you.

        1. mickey taking
          June 24, 2026

          A stupid assumption that a bus carrying 57 (very rare) would be replaced by 57 cars! Passengers are not singletons every time. Some would not make the journey, others might walk or cycle. Are you listening London MAYOR – you could ban buses and reduce bus pollution!

      2. Lifelogic
        June 24, 2026

        Labour still determined to hand over Chagos it seems. Hermer “it is overwhelmingly in our national interest interests” told the Justice Select Committee. The sooner Hermer goes the better.

        Surely even just giving them away for free to the US would be far preferable than the deal Lammy, Starmer and Hermer were pushing?

        BBC to focus more investment in international viewers – “after all we get the licence fees even if we deliver total dross, repeats and climate red warning propaganda in the UK so who cares about the UK overseas we can advertise and get fees” I assume they thought!

      3. Lifelogic
        June 24, 2026

        fleur anderson mp (PM questions today seem to blame CO2 & Climate Change for a free falling on her house). She is of course quite right as without sufficient CO2 no trees would grow to fall on her house but then without CO2 we would have no food either and would all be dead.

        Trees do fall down and the climate changes Fleur, it has done for millions of years. It seems she has a BSc from York so I wondered why she was being so childish? It seems on deeper delving that it is a BSc in politics!

    3. mickey taking
      June 24, 2026

      reply to reply ….Badenoch should be thumping the table at every opportunity for a GE, whether she feels or knows the game is up for her party. It is far too early to expect the electorate to forgive, perhaps in the same way Labour voters might react to what the Party has been doing to life in the UK these last years.

      1. Ian B
        June 24, 2026

        @mickey taking – the boxed themselves in, in many ways. The Party was excluded from the leadership vote. They went for continuity than a refresh. If the new inexperienced faces that turned up at the last election had been given the reigns, there now after 2 years of Starmer may have been a fully fledged Conservative government in waiting.
        That’s what happens when the Liberal Democrats get to run things

        1. Lifelogic
          June 24, 2026

          We had them Running the Country with LibDem Cameron and LibDem Clegg. Loads or Green Crap, EU pandering, high immigration levels, energy lunacy and every higher Osborne TAXs and IHT ratting on IHT promises!

        2. mickey taking
          June 24, 2026

          I wonder how many ‘Winning here ‘ boards were displayed in Makerfield by the LibDems who triumphed with less than 1% voting.

      2. Dave Andrews
        June 24, 2026

        Too soon for another election. There’s still too much loony left naivety, that needs to be purged by economic ruin. They still haven’t learned the lessons of their grandparents.

    4. Peter Parsons
      June 24, 2026

      Worst PM in your lifetime? You’re doing very well using the internet at 3 and a half (which you must be to not have been alive during Liz Truss’ 49 days).

  2. Wanderer
    June 24, 2026

    To your list of his failings I would add the refusal to deal effectively with migration and rape gangs, the crackdown on free speech, and the rabid promotion of 2 tier justice.

    I think those issues point to why the population wanted him gone, and why we will be disappointed by his successor.

    1. Lifelogic
      June 24, 2026

      +1 and far more. You could fill a large book with his many truly appalling and in my view often pure evil failures. The VAT on school fees bitter class warfare (when they are already paying far more than they should be) damaging education for so many.

    2. Mark B
      June 24, 2026

      TTK was a tyrant. End of.

    3. Peter
      June 24, 2026

      Tim Shipman in The Spectator lists 42 Starmer failures on a theme that Douglas Adams said 42 was the meaning of life, the universe, everything.

      This is a key one:-

      ‘ His second foundational error, according to voters in focus groups, was his handling of the Southport killings of three young girls. The PM and his team denied it was a terrorist attack even though the perpetrator Axel Rudakubana had been referred to the government’s Prevent programme and had ricin and an al Qaeda training manual in his house. This created the notion that he would not tell difficult truths on security and cultural issues. Again, it still comes up to this day, unprompted.’

      1. Lifelogic
        June 24, 2026

        But we were told he was a Welsh Choir Boy!

    4. Dave Andrews
      June 24, 2026

      Add the farmers’ tax to your list. Vile.
      It will need a change in government to put in place those who understand small business should be encouraged not taxed like it was a societal evil to be stamped out.

    5. Ian B
      June 24, 2026

      @Wanderer @Lifelogic @Mark B & @Peter – in 100% agreement. The World sees it, but the UK Parliament doesn’t understand how disingenuous they have been in neglect, of job, of duty.
      As the management, the ones employed to hold the government to account, the ones that actually have the power to hire and fire the all own the dire output, the lies, the innuendo, the incompetence – no one else.

      1. mickey taking
        June 24, 2026

        Westminster is crammed with people, carefully selected over many years to be sheep when the hierarchy calls for loyalty. Gone is any belief that MPs vote according to their head and heart. Almost nobody risks the pathetic whip concerned that their hope for greater personal reward might be trashed by disobedience.
        Democracy? So all this time Starmer has ruled by lack of anyone with balls to defy publicly.

  3. Kathy
    June 24, 2026

    One of Starmer’s biggest betrayals is to the victims of the grooming gangs. As he resigned in a fit of repulsive self pity, he had the nerve to talk about his ‘beautiful children’ and how he wanted to be the best father possible to them yet he has consistently refused to acknowledge that genuine evil in our midst – the grooming gangs and their impact on other people’s children. That to me is and always will be unforgiveable. I can see that we can expect nothing different from Burnham should he become Prime Minister. Why do these people never feel the same outrage and despair as we mere mortals do?

    1. Lifelogic
      June 24, 2026

      Indeed and the many assault victims of some of immigrants he is encouraging to get on the small boats each day. About 1200 just in the last seven days.

      Each one likely to cost tax payers over £1m in housing and benefits plus often more with later arrivals of their families.

      1. Kathy
        June 24, 2026

        Exactly. I totally agree.

      2. Diane
        June 24, 2026

        LL: Figures for the 8 days – 15 to 21 June inclusive: Total 1939 arrivals in 29 boats
        Add that to the figures for the 3 months Apr – May 2026: 6934 arrivals in 107 boats
        ( Official figures ) We are just treading water. And where on earth are those almost 9000 people now.

    2. Lynn Atkinson
      June 24, 2026

      Have you read the Restore Report on the Rape Gangs?
      I look forward to private prosecutions.

      1. mickey taking
        June 24, 2026

        Didn’t know there was one, invisible publicity? Full marks to Rupert Lowe.

  4. Peter
    June 24, 2026

    Starmer was hated to an extent of no other British Prime Minister. Endless sarcastic comments, abuse by football fans, there was nowhere he could escape it. That’s why he liked trips abroad. He could not defend himself through explanation. He resorted to repeating the same things or gainsaying the accusations. ‘There was no two tier policing’ is one example, despite ‘two tier’ being his nickname.

    He was a huge liability to the Labour Party and did increasing damage. He had to go. I don’t believe he went with ‘good grace’. He was determined to cling to power at all costs. He blocked Burnham once but could not do so twice. Eventually it sunk in that he had lost too much support and he was forced to quit.

    Good riddance.

    1. Lifelogic
      June 24, 2026

      Even worse than Net Zero and Brexit Betrayer May or abandon ship Cameron, quite six months early Sunak, ERM fiasco Major or worse than ‘two world wars (as Starkey Puts it in his excellent video) and war on a lie Blair or sell the Gold and save the world Gordon Brown or £600billion borrowed and spent on net harm vaccines and net harm lockdowns).

      Even Jacob Rees Mogg talks of the early vaccine roll out as a Brexit Benefit. A shame they did such huge net harms and our UK experts were so incompetent or evil. Time he and Boris looked at the stats (and the government released the honest data). The recent Dr John Campbell videos with the sensible Prof. Angus Dalgliesh is very good.

    2. Peter
      June 24, 2026

      Starmer is useless in debate or when answering a question. When he could not bring on a substitute for Prime Miinister’s Questions, Starmer had resorted to waffle and running the clock down to avoid the awkward stuff.

      Private Eye reports ‘Speaker Hoyle is understood to have told Labour whips these preambles must stop. He is plainly being ignored.’ It lists 10 PMQs where he pulled off this trick.

      1. Lifelogic
        June 24, 2026

        He almost never actually answers any questions when I listen.

  5. Lifelogic
    June 24, 2026

    He was not remotely a decent or honourable man. His leaving speech on his “acheivments” was a sick joke he even included defence.

    Perhaps his worse things were his political prisoners in Southport etc., his denial of two tier justice, Chagos, appointing Hermer, not allowing (initially) the US to use our bases destroying thus our vital relationship with the USA, calling everyone remotely sensible far right, his doom loop economic agenda, his IHT attacks on farmers and small businesses, his endless taxes on working people and NI increases (that he promised not to do), his war on free speech, his refusal to allow an “asian” rape gang inquiry, his failure to even attempt to “smash the gangs” he did the reverse he encourage them, his lies that renewables and blocking drilling will lower energy prices and create jobs, his moronic red tape wars on employers and landlords (which also damages workers and tenants), his driving up of bond rates, his destruction of job opportunities especially for the young, his fishing deal and Erasmus…

    Truly an appalling PM (even with such heavy competition) and probably rather an appalling human too.

    1. Bloke
      June 24, 2026

      The title ‘Sir’ signifies outstanding personal achievement or distinguished public service. Starmer should be stripped of his which debases the currency of all those who bear the title with merit.

      1. mickey taking
        June 24, 2026

        We could probably remove half of the knighthoods without blinking. Deserved title? A joke.

  6. Lifelogic
    June 24, 2026

    An Indecent Man
    The truth about the most hated prime minister of all time.
    Nick Dixon (is surely right)
    Jun 23, 2026

  7. Lifelogic
    June 24, 2026

    You say:- “I understand his personal sorrow as he comes to grips with the way his party abandoned him so soon after he delivered them a huge Commons majority.”

    Not Starmer who delivered this huge majority but Sunak and the 14 years of serial Tory betrayals. Not Burnham who delivered the Majority in Makerfield but the vast hatred of Starmer and desire to remove him. Starmer talked of “the country I love” it obviously is not the UK which he seems to despise so which country is it? The EU, China…?

    1. mickey taking
      June 24, 2026

      ‘ “the country I love”
      borrowed from the crocodile tears of May. The same honesty we are used to from the legal fraternity representing murderers, rapists, hackers, City fraudsters – – – a list that could be miles long.

    2. Ian B
      June 24, 2026

      @Lifelogic – labour general election in 2019, 10,295,912, labour general election in 2024 9,708,716. He lost votes just not as many as the dire Tories. 2024 the election that saw more people disenfranchised than at any previous time.
      The UK Parliament still doesn’t ‘get it’ they all are the problem the have forgotten their job and duty

      1. Lifelogic
        June 24, 2026

        +1

  8. David Peddy
    June 24, 2026

    I agree.I thought his speech outside No10 on Monday showed a lack of understanding .
    He has not stabilised the economy. Unemployment is not falling : it is increasing

    1. Lifelogic
      June 24, 2026

      He even thought he had done well on defence and the boat people too!

    2. Dave Andrews
      June 24, 2026

      His speech just made him look a pathetic failure.
      If only he had come out fighting, enthusing the country with his vision of prosperity and well-being for all, but in that department he is woefully deficient.

  9. Rod Evans
    June 24, 2026

    Basically, Starmer was a wrong un.
    Sadly Burnham shares too many of Starmer’s traits other than his unique charisma…..

    1. Lifelogic
      June 24, 2026

      Well at least he is not an evil robot, perhaps he can reinvent himself from his lefty dope past? But given the make up of his dire Labour MPs he will struggle to do anything sensible – even if he wants to. He is trapped between the bond markets and his daft lefy MPs plus a total lack of any real talent within these dire MPs.

      1. Peter
        June 24, 2026

        LL,
        ‘ Well at least he is not an evil robot…’

        Starmer is portrayed as a Dalek in countless sarcastic videos now.

        I remember when politicians only had Mike Yarwood and ‘Spitting Image’ taking the mickey. Another sign that I am getting old.

  10. Mark B
    June 24, 2026

    Good morning.

    The PM was not treated well by his party . . .

    And neither were the protestors, the ones that did not commit any acts criminality, like Peter Lynch (RIP).

    TTK wanted to make an example of the native population.

    You reap what you sow. Good riddance !

    1. Lifelogic
      June 24, 2026

      +1

  11. dixie
    June 24, 2026

    Starmer chose that position and path, he deserves no sympathy at all, quite the opposite.
    But he was the figurehead of an organisation of people complicit in his actions and abuses of power, the whole party is utterly rotten to the core.

    1. mickey taking
      June 24, 2026

      True to Fabian beliefs, only Starmer and co wanted rapid not gentle gradual change. Destruction at all levels hurries change along – but at what cost?

      1. glen cullen
        June 24, 2026

        …and Burnham won the byelection shouting, ”change change change”

        1. mickey taking
          June 24, 2026

          A cover for Vote me, me , me!

  12. JP
    June 24, 2026

    Starmer was not a true leader and was unable to prioritise the right policies for our country It is good that he has moved on

    1. Lifelogic
      June 24, 2026

      He seemed mainly to be working to be working against the interests of the EU and their citizens.

      1. Lifelogic
        June 24, 2026

        Interests of the UK rather!

  13. Sir Joe Soap
    June 24, 2026

    I think there are three mental remnants from this short era.
    First, the lack of ideas, vision or any coherent plan.
    Second, the apparent deliberately destructive behaviour. Anything and everything to diss traditional Britons and British interests.
    Third, the question why was this done and who was behind it?

    1. Andrew Barnby
      June 24, 2026

      Sir Joe… spot on!

  14. Ian B
    June 24, 2026

    From yesterday’s media, Sir Kier’s passing shot, to me just another lie

    Labour is “determined” to get the Chagos Islands deal over the line. Attorney General Lord Hermer insisted he hopes the pact will be completed “in the coming weeks and months”. His comments to MPs on the Justice Committee.
    Lord Hermer insisted the Chagos agreement, which has also been criticised by the Tories, is “overwhelmingly in our national interest”.

    Bogus made-up laws at play all as an attack on the UK and the UK taxpayer, to fund what seems to be and old boys’ cabal. There is no Law, and the treaties that have been subverted in this situation say the opposite to what they is inferred.
    The other perspective this rotten UK Parliament, not just Starmer and his buddy Hermer, has agreed that the UK should get shot of this vital defence asset and get the taxpayer to pay others for the privilege. This money from the taxpayer is to be paid from the non-existent defence budget

  15. Steve Bullion
    June 24, 2026

    Farewell to Sir Keir.

    But he’s not actually gone yet.

    This could all stretch into September and beyond.

    Starmer and his cabinet need to be reminded that they are now a caretaker government – that means they should not be introducing new legislation or creating new opportunities to get closer to the EU.
    Indeed, they should not be proposing new ways of spending our taxes, they should simply be there to keep things on an even keel.

    Nobody is interested in bestowing Starmer any kind of legacy – he should now go quietly into the night!

  16. Ian B
    June 24, 2026

    Once one lie is told, then another to cover that. Lies just become the ‘norm’ and the truth gets drowned out.
    Having said that doesn’t Parliament have a roll, a hand in all this. If they get paid as their only job to hold the executive, the government to account, effectively the governments managers, and they don’t bother surely they also own the lies?

  17. Narrow Shoulders
    June 24, 2026

    Sir Two Tier has no vision he just wanted to stay in power.

    Without conviction he was doomed to fail and fail badly he did.

    Breakfast clubs and (further) decimation of our armed forces are his legacy. Along with forever being tainted by treating those he disagreed with more harshly than those he sympathised with. That is not Prime Ministerial behaviour. He was spiteful.

  18. Old Albion
    June 24, 2026

    Starmer was far and away the most hated and incompetent PM this country has had in my lifetime (i’m in my seventies) He should have gone months ago.
    I won’t list his multitude of failings, others have done so.
    I absolutely despised him. If I never see or hear from him again, it’ll be too soon.

    1. mickey taking
      June 24, 2026

      I found myself facing that ‘Starmer Stare’ knowing it hid that he wanted to chop our economic legs off at the knees.

  19. Richard1
    June 24, 2026

    Whenever leftwing office holders are forced out for being totally useless we always hear that they are a ‘decent person’ etc. as pointed out here this is not the case with sir Keir Starmer. In addition to the points noted by Lord redwood let’s remember the sanctimonious humbug in his hounding of Boris Johnson, his constant inane claims that Liz Truss “crashed the economy” (by which was meant gilts spiked for a day or so to a level they’ve been for the best part of a year under Starmer and reeves). Let’s remember also starmer’s hounding of army veterans and the grotesque abuse of the justice system to imprison people who had made (admittedly unwise and distasteful) comments on social media, while violent criminals, people calling for Jewish genocide and others walk free.

    We did not hear when Boris Johnson and Liz truss were forced out what decent people they are, though I’ve no reason to doubt that in either case.

    Against stiff competition from the likes of Theresa May and Gordon brown, Starmer has hit a new nadir and becomes our worst and most useless ever prime minister.

  20. Bloke
    June 24, 2026

    Starmer is a waster and caused so many bad outcomes for the UK. He spoke as if he were a friend yet acted in such hostile ways to our people that many saw him as acting as a bitter enemy under cover.
    His resignation speech ended in sadness and concern for his family expecting people to feel sorry for him, yet those of our people who suffered so much under the adverse conditions he caused received no expression of regret nor apology for the harsh treatment they endured.
    Good riddance to bad rubbish. More is likely to follow with Burnham, but the people are now much more aware, and Reform UK are increasingly gaining in organisation, professionalism and effectiveness to remove much of the contamination.

  21. William Long
    June 24, 2026

    In short, he deserved to go. Something that puzzles and concerns me is a recent report that the EU is hanging back on the ‘Reset’ because they think Burnham is likely to be an even softer touch; if so, heaven help us.

  22. iain gill
    June 24, 2026

    Burnham is flying lots of kites at the moment.

    He looks entirely like someone that the wokerati running the top layer of the public sector will be able to manipulate into doing anything they want.

    This is a hopeless situation for the country to be in.

    1. glen cullen
      June 24, 2026

      Would Burnham have stood in the by-election to be just an MP; NO! ….what conceit

  23. Original Richard
    June 24, 2026

    I expect Starmer believes he has been a success, apart from his failure to complete his traitorous Chagos giveaway, as socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor. A change of (Labour) PM will not make any difference unless there are massive policy U-turns to end mass legal and illegal immigration and Net Zero, both of which will require the complete repeal of all our (EC)HR and Net Zero by 2050 legislations to end rule by activists and judges. It will also be necessary to make big personnel changes at the top of the Civil Service plus at all our 400+ quangos, NGOs and regulators who although together they spend a third of the UK’s budget on their pet projects with no regard to how these costs will financed, are unelected and either are lefty (woke) political appointees or simply have become examples of Robert Conquest’s 2nd law of politics.

  24. Paul Townson
    June 24, 2026

    I agree , but others were to blame as well, we should have a General Election because who becomes the Prime Minister should be voted by the public , not Labour MP’s

  25. Barrie Emmett
    June 24, 2026

    A man totally out of his depth, his failures are monumental, but his personal arrogance, rudeness and his inability to accept his failures are the symptoms of incompetence. I absolutely detested his arrogance and rudeness at PMQ.

  26. MBJ
    June 24, 2026

    He seemed to have a problem with communication.No one knew what he was actually doing and he didn’t speak to the public well.
    At present many are trying to get the justice system to take up the zLucy Letby case.David Davies has already spoken about this.Many hundreds who have followed the case can see that there isn’t any evidence against Lucy and a lot of evidence in the unit she worked in ,for example raw sewage in the water and babies actually dying of sepsis,accounts by top neo natalists refuting any contrived diagnosis.
    A government should take the lead on this.

  27. K
    June 24, 2026

    Remember the day after the Boris landslide and your first comment to us was “I now have to think of the people who did not vote for me.” and Boris told us “The Red Wall votes are borrowed.”

    Well.

    This is where it got us. It’s your fault.

  28. Ed M
    June 24, 2026

    The problem isn’t really Kier, it’s that we in the West are turning our backs on The King of Kings (The Christian One) and on the best of our Greco-Roman heritage.
    If we turned more / much more to the King of Kings who created us, the moon and the stars, gold, hummingbirds etc, how amazing our country would be:
    1. Relatively low taxation 2. Relatively low immigration 3. Strong and exciting and stable economy (like the Quakers) and defence 4. Great leaders in Parliament (like Joseph of Egypt and Cyrus the Great etc) and low crime 5. Great education / more universities like Oxford and Cambridge 6. Great arts and architecture (more Bachs and Shakespeares and Jane Austens and more great medieval-like cathedrals and cities such as Venice, Florence, Bath, Salzburg, Rome) 6. More happy married couples 7. Happier families 8. More masculine men and feminine women 9. More love where instead of stale bread or breadcrumbs or complete starvation of love, people would be receiving fresh and abundant loaves of love (both tough and soft love) 10. People would just be more friendly and happy and relaxed and kind and patriotic and life would be more fun and colourful and sparky and mysterious in good way ..
    We can start off by at least by praying for our great country and for stronger leaders in Parliament.
    Dear King of Kings, please bless our country

  29. iain gill
    June 24, 2026

    I see that the electricity control centre is putting out messages that the margin of electricity available tonight to power the UK is below limits. It will be interesting to see what happens to the governments fantasy net zero nonsense if we are forced into power cuts.

    1. Iain Gill
      June 24, 2026

      mains electricity frequency is well out of spec tonight, as they are struggling to keep the power on

  30. mickc
    June 24, 2026

    Starmer didn’t deliver Labour a huge majority.
    The Conservative Party delivered Labour a huge majority.

  31. Keith from Leeds
    June 24, 2026

    rs and barristersStarmer was a total failure as PM, but why? Solicitors and Barristers study and review details of a case, then give their opinion as to whether the case is winnable or not. But they don’t make the decision; the client does. That’s why Starmer struggled to make a decision, unless it would damage the UK.
    He also had no people skills, which is why he allowed a hopeless Chancellor, a hopeless DPM, a hopeless Foreign Secretary, a hopeless Energy Minister, and several other useless Ministers to carry on.
    Sadly, his likely replacement looks no better.

  32. Ian B
    June 24, 2026

    To day in Paliament
    “Keir Starmer: I’ve built a stronger and fairer Britain
    Sir Keir Starmer defended Labour’s record and claimed he had built a “stronger and fairer” Britain in the past two years.”
    Deluded, and still doesn’t ‘get it’

  33. Sidney Ingleby
    June 24, 2026

    AsThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland the office of Prime Minister is in the “gift” of the Crown.We,the electorate,are not consulted.The King/Queen invites the leader of the party with the MOST
    MPs to take office.In the event of no clear candidate advisers-BuckHse and Westmin-get together to identify
    the Party leader to head a coalition
    Let’s be quite clear under the Premiershit of MrBurnem our future(economic and social)will be every bit as bad
    if not worse than the existing cligon

  34. glen cullen
    June 24, 2026

    186 ‘illegal immigrants’ invaded the UK yesterday 23rd June 2026

  35. Geoffrey Berg
    June 24, 2026

    Sir Keir Starmer was the latest in quite a long line of people recently who became Prime Minister but were unsuited to be Prime Minister. Apart from being a Socialist which is in itself daft he lacked the requisite skills. He claimed to be a patriot but as the blog list shows he was incapable of negotiating good or even reasonable deals for Britain (some of them such as Chagos were absurd). He, even though he was a multi-millionaire was so naive that he didn’t know Opposition leaders don’t accept gifts of clothing. He was useless as a political advocate and not much good at handling people, both essential, albeit rare qualities necessary for a modern British Prime Minister. He quite likely would never have been Prime Minister and certainly not with a large majority had the political idiots who proliferated in Parliament and represent the Conservative Party backed rather than sacked Boris Johnson (or possibly even Liz Truss). Burnham will be a better politician even if his policies are no better.

  36. Derek
    June 24, 2026

    This Prime Minister got nothing less than he deserved. His legacy? Being the worst PM in modern times.

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