We now can see this government’s priorities. It is revealing to see how they wish to waste their limited supply of political capital.
1. Stop rich people giving money to rival political parties
2. Impose thousands of asylum seekers on small villages, overriding local opinion and Council planning powers.
3. Press on with give away of Chagos
4. Make more concessions to the EU against UK interests without getting anything back we want
5. Continuing the big increase in benefits for life for young people,removing the need for them to look for a job
6.Increasing the tax take from petrol and diesel by insisting on full VAT on the higher oil price, making the cost of living crisis worse
7. Accelerating the closure of our oil and gas industry by banning exploration, delaying production decisions on proven reserves and imposing penal tax levels
8. Failing to follow up the announcement of the end of rough sleeping with plans to impose a national solution in a policy area where Mayors and Councils have powers
9. Failure to explain how they will get to defence spending at 3% of GDP by 2030, the amount the Chancellor said was essential.
10. The failure to smash the gangs or stop the boats.
September 16, 2026
Many more damaging policies too.
See the latest New Culture Forum podcast. Labour EU reset will cost billions AND make us subservient to the EU.
Labour’s EU reset is the UK government’s strategy to improve and rebuild cooperation with the European Union. But how much do we REALLY know about it? In her explosive report “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER”, economist Catherine McBride OBE explodes many of the claims made by Labour about the benefits its EU Reset will bring and reveals the astounding costs and surrenders the UK will make if Labour gets its way.
September 16, 2026
The total cost of the Thirlwall Inquiry has reached more than £18.5 million in public funds. Also about £5m in costs both sides for the 15 Lucy Letby convictions – all the convictions, in my view, totally wrong but most certainly all clearly unsafe. Yet 6 appeal court judges will not even grant her an appeal not even for any one of them.
What a sick rip and off joke (the now two tier too) legal system is. Are Court of Appeal judges and inquiry heads now appointed on Jason Arday criteria?
Justice Thirlwall herself sounds hugely unimpressive.
September 16, 2026
The hugely unimpressive Lady Justice Kathryn Thirlwall (in the Thirlwall Inquiry anyway) studied Modern Languages at Bristol before converting to law. Why do the government seem to think she is a suitable person to advise on how NHS maternity units might be better run. £39million that would have been far better spent on better and more staff at the many sick joke NHS maternity units perhaps rather than on lawyers.
CCTV over every cot might well do more harm than good and waste money that could be far more wisely spent.
September 16, 2026
CCTV over cots is a good idea, as long as footage is kept long term to review difficult cases.
the thing she misses is patients only being seen by consultants twice a week, it should be twice a day. and pediatrics and maternity need to be far better integrated, not organised separately.
September 16, 2026
I would have thought the medical staff would revolt over having to do their jobs under a state of legal jeopardy.
No one can work under circumstances where a simple mistake turns them into criminals.
September 16, 2026
Who is going to be a nurse in a premature baby unit now ?
One inconsequential mistake on CCTV and you could end up on a murder charge.
No-one in their right mind will do this job from now on.
September 17, 2026
Or a doctor or even a cleaner. Plus they need professional body permission to practice to this can also often be used to threaten and control them if they for example have Covid “vaccine” realism views or the females refuse to change with men in the changing rooms.
PERHAPS if they stopped spending so much on absurd enquiries (18 million or so) that start with the assumption (quite bogus in my view) that Lucy Letby is clearly guilty and a bit more on better management at our maternity units and our dire NHS structures things might improve.
Why are English and Law Graduate lawyers so hugely over paid relative to doctors and nurses?
September 17, 2026
who would join the army or special forces with the way ours are persecuted after they leave.
September 16, 2026
We are fast reaching an ‘inflection point’ between the Globalists and the Nationalists.
September 16, 2026
I simply do not understand the thinking of so many MP’s now, because the policies they are supporting are so damaging to the future of our Country and its people.
I have lived within my means all my life, so why can the Country not live within its own, instead of borrowing and spending in my name, whilst forcing me to pay for that largess and incompetence.
Following the Party Line, often without debate, is not being loyal to the people who voted tfor them.
We are now an elected dictatorship without a rudder, and without any form of control.
It will all end in tears eventually, but not for those who make the rules that break us.
September 16, 2026
You do not have to as they are, by enlarge, irrelevant. They will do as they are told – end of !
Because you have to. Unlike the government, you do not have your own, ‘Magic Money Tree’ in the form of the BoE.
No ! We are what is known as, “A managed democracy.” We get to vote on who gets to ignore us, so long as we allow them to do as they please. Think of it as a safety valve used to protect the Establishment 😉
September 16, 2026
Good list. I would add:
11. Restrict free speech and access to independent social media.
12. Empower government to arrest, prosecute, imprison and debank its critics and opponents.
September 16, 2026
I would add completely ignoring their own manifesto.
September 16, 2026
@Wanderer
13. destroy democracy.
14. fight the people
September 16, 2026
@Wanderer
Then there is controlling the narrative
15. with wanting to bring in ‘preferred news outlets’ the Government ‘Green Paper’ is being brought in to established public service and trusted media organisations. Defined by the personal wishes of a corrupt Parliament.
Free thought, free speech to be banned – the salami slice of a corrupt system, lead by corrupt individuals that only have interest in self.
They(the UK Parliament) really hate the UK and its People
September 16, 2026
No 11
To turn us into a third world country
September 16, 2026
No ! To turn us all in some way or others, as depends on the State.
September 16, 2026
Good morning.
If you want to know the future, you must first look to the past. And the best places to look are where policies similar to those listed have been implemented. Places like, oh I do not know, Zimbabwe.
What we are witnessing is radical social engineering designed to destroy Capitalism and replace it with a larger state bureaucracy where, if you are not a servant of the State, you are in some way servile to it. ie Communism.
September 16, 2026
@Mark B – it is also always personal. The Workers Party trap, means you do as I, your leader says, dictates and everything will be fine. Just remember keep in step, stay beholden accept my terms and their wont be retribution.
September 16, 2026
“Simples” with the support of the UK Parliament they are running a political religious cult, that is all about ‘self’ their personal self. They do not even contemplate the country, the people of defending democracy it is purely ego and political terrorism.
September 16, 2026
They are the face of the, Punch and Judy Show. Their little ego’s and bad behaviours are tolerated so long as they show loyalty to the Puppet Masters. Witness a certain ennobled individual with questionable connections to a dead convict 😉
September 16, 2026
john, you mention illegal immigration quite correctly, but you miss the massive amount of legal immigration which is being rubber stamped and changing this country beyond all recognition. there is no support in the country for this. there is no support for the planned mass import of cheap labour, and the intentional refusal of the state to train our own population.
September 16, 2026
Yup, much as expected. At the last election I advanced in conversations what I thought should be an election winning strategy of saying: yes the Conservatives have failed on many fronts and deserve maybe 3/10 but Labour will be even worse. Everything the govt touches will be worse, and nothing will be better. I am surprised how many people, to whom this should have been quite obvious, are now surprised and disappointed.
September 17, 2026
yep
September 16, 2026
The boss of Labour’s biggest union backer has called for a return to the 1970s with the public ownership of utilities and reindustrialisation of Britain. Did any of them live through the seventies? Did any of the take into account of what they thought of great industries were before nationalisation that were then successfully destroyed by their socialist ideal of State ownership once it came into play. The Industries went because the Unions and Labour destroyed them, its that simple – they destroyed them no one else. They created high costs, low productivity entities that couldn’t compete on the World Stage
September 16, 2026
Embedded Labour supporters? as of the second quarter of 2026, there are approximately 6.19 million people employed in the UK public sector an increase of 33,000 over the year. This governments public sector wage growth has been running higher than the private sector, averaging around 6.2% to 6.3%. While the Private sector is said to be flat at 2.9%.
In tune with the Daily Telegraph campaign picked up in other quarters the triple lock is expected to be 3.9% mainly due to the high wage rises of the Public Sector pushing wages inflation up.
Political motivated personal ego has consequence, especially when there is ‘no’ ability to think.
September 16, 2026
I thought top of their agenda was to end the ban on Catholics advising the monarch over Anglican appointments.
Priorities.
September 16, 2026
13. Deal with the Rape Gangs. Why are Labour female MPs so quiet?
September 16, 2026
I’m sad to say we are witnessing the disintegration of our beloved country. Devolution started the rot costing billions without significantly improving the lives of Scottish and Welsh citizens. Nationally our revered institutions are failing, institutions vital to maintain the lifeblood of the nation. Why? Because government and parliament has failed to ensure our finances are properly managed, our borders are secure, our military is strong and law and order is properly maintained. Locally, across the country towns are decaying as local authorities fail to manage vital infrastructure. Burnham’s plans will increase the decay ruining the lives of millions by imposing a doctrine that failed decades ago. This is madness and must be stopped.
September 16, 2026
The destruction of our way of life is now about 60 percent complete I would say. It’s virtually irreversible and hasn’t been caused by the EU or a foreign enemy, but by the vast majority of our own elected politicians. The channel migrant crisis sums it up: MPs acquiescing in the open border policy have blood on their hands as they know the incomers have brought, and will continue to bring, appalling crimes including murder and rape.
An English way of life is no longer to be envied. The Americans and others can see that. Most of our own politicians simply don’t care.
September 16, 2026
There are things happening each day that speak loudly and confirm the UK Parliament want a personal idealogical fight with the People. In Piddington with a turnout of 90%, 82% of the people voted against this Parliament and its Government.
The UK Parliament cant listen, cant hear – its their personal self, very personal self, above common sense, logic and a future for anyone but them
September 16, 2026
Deja vu 1970s.
Feeling once again helpless on the Titanic rearranging the deck chairs as the band played on.
Not to worry, Labour’s in charge! Carry on wasting our money and resources.
The only difference now is we have lost our sense of humour to political correctness, wokeness and upended values of being proud Brits!
September 16, 2026
I can’t find any one of these points in the Labour Manifesto, which was quite good.
I can’t tick off any of the points in the Manifesto as having been delivered.
September 16, 2026
Whoever takes the batten off these people will have a huge clean up job which will take years.
The UK has a huge capacity for self harm, very difficult to understand.
September 16, 2026
Since socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor the priorities are clear. We’ve had socialism for 3 decades since PM Blair undermined democracy by passing powers to socialist headed quangos and the socialist judiciary. The following incoming governments with “heir to Blair” and “vote blue get green” selling pitches did nothing to reverse PM Blair’s damaging and anti-democracy changes and in fact ramped up his ideas of high wasteful spending to justify high taxation, made Net Zero by 2050 the law, the most damaging economic policy in our history, and allowed into the country millions of incompatibles to destroy our social cohesion. They even colluded with the socialist judiciary to import 40,000 under the cover of a super injunction. This government is simply continuing the Uniparty’s policies.
September 16, 2026
EU: Labour did away with the EU Scrutiny Committee very soon after they took power in July 2024.
Labour wants us to be part of the EU’s Made In Europe scheme. The EU doesn’t want that & is resisting.
Youth Mobility Scheme: Will there be a cap on numbers ?
Youth Mobility Scheme: Will we facilitate loans for EU students ? If so, will the EU be required to underwrite the debt ?
Youth Mobility Scheme: We originally proposed international course fees for study – We lost that one and fees agreed to be same as our domestic ones.
Channel boats: 01- 14 Sept inclusive – official figures: 912 illegal arrivals / 12 boats.
September 16, 2026
No 9. Hahaha the Chancellor has been metaphorically reincarnated (a person’s soul or spirit has been born again into a new physical body after death) from his previous life so why would he even contemplate anything he said as Defence Secretary?
September 16, 2026
Yes and they are far from honest or working for the benefit of the people of the UK.
This is not a government that will increase our potential or our resources, or even our personal wealth – they shy away from doing difficult things but have no qualms about imposing 2 tier justice or upsetting a friendly country we rely on. With their ideology running before them they are the true chaos merchants. Deep state corruption doesn’t even come into it, their socialist irrationality will be the end of us.
What sane government would pursue the policies listed?
There should be a health and wealth warning attached to all socialist parties but especially labour who have not just lost their way they have allowed their collective demons to rule their actions, and that alone makes them unfit for use.
Until we find a way to end the sickness that makes up the socialist psyche we will pay the price for their insanity.
September 16, 2026
Sir John – re your point 10.
A conspiracist would say that governments have been deliberately allowing these illegal immigrants in. I hold another view, which is that successive governments simply don’t care, regardless of what they say, do or spend huge amounts of money on.
They just don’t care!
September 16, 2026
Keir Group is stopping building houses, as the government drive to build cheap housing has no profit margin.
Makes a mockery of the Labour promises to increase house building.
September 16, 2026
No 4 the EU. Nothing exemplifies the EU more than capitalising on the ‘misfortunes’ of others than its offer to Canada of the first ever ‘associate membership’ bearing in mind Canada’s falling out with Trump. They know full well that Carney was an avid remainer but woe betide him if he accedes to their offer.
September 16, 2026
These people are beyond words
September 16, 2026
You have missed the most important (to AB) item which is aa change to a 1829 law allowing him, a catholic, to appoint C of E bishops.
September 16, 2026
You omit (as usual):- Spend yet more billions of our money on the corrupt black hole called Ukraine.
September 16, 2026
No. 2 – we shouldn’t house any immigrants, but it’s about time the so called leafy areas started to pull their weight by housing some of them.
I wonder if they’ll change their voting intentions now.
September 16, 2026
We have heard this before, but as we know the inflated Quango has a leader that isn’t listening and is certainly not hearing – it not his money, his wages but our hard-earned money that has a better more productive Home
‘Reform urges Healey to save £100bn by stopping sale of bonds
Richard Tice requests ‘urgent full debate’ on the Bank of England’s plans to offload gilts’
Then as John found we have a Parliament much like those elsewhere that isn’t listening and is certainly not hearing – it not their money. Then again the Socialist religion these people are hooked on have prioritised destruction, above common sense, logic and a future for anyone but themselves
September 16, 2026
Could not put it better myself
September 16, 2026
stopping large donations.I quite agree but I repeat the gist of my yesterday’s denied input.
To do it retrospectively is an affront to democracy
September 18, 2026
Britain never introduced retrospective legislation. That little nugget came from the EU.
September 16, 2026
55 illegals arrived yesterday
September 16, 2026
Paul Nowak as a director of the Bank of England is really going to help, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Clown world running this country
September 16, 2026
Literary devices are not understood these days,so the sarcasm will be missed.
We all have to bow to simple language which is direct and many other foreigners will understand as they are employed.
September 16, 2026
The government is motivated by extreme socialist hatred resulting in successful implementation of destructive policies, with a seasoning of incompetence or negligence resulting in actions and inactions lacking the motivation of hatred.
September 17, 2026
A great list. Correct on every point.So, lots of work for the government to do. Just do it.
Just a couple of things Lord John
The country is on it’s uppers. Labore have caused and perpetuaed this.
But maybe there can be a little light over the horizon.
1) You will have noticed:
Nissan has pledged £170 million to build a new hybrid SUV in Sunderland on the condition that ministers weaken the electric vehicle sales mandate.
Maybe “they” will listen to you now.
2) You recently received a report from me as to how the public health service in Singapore is (“co-“)financed. You didn’t send me any comment about that. Very disappointing. But now PLEASE REPLY this time. I have told you time & again how healthcare in Scandinavia and Netherlands (where I have personal experience of both) are CO-financed. (Simply put: taxation does the heavy lifting but visits to local GPs typically cost 20 euros, to specialists 30 euros. Patients with long-term ailments get a yearly ceiling, typically 200 or 300 euros).
Reply Thanks. I do not recommend the abolition of the key principle of the NHS, free care at the point of need.