Our voting system delivered a large majority to Labour. It is true the Labour vote fell, turnover was poor and their vote share was very low. The electorate expressed their anger about the wrong policies and missed opportunities of the Conservatives, with many former Conservative voters staying home and some voting Reform.There was no switch to Labour or Lib Dem . People thought they could live with Labour’s bland Manifesto and wanted to believe in their two big promises, to smash the gangs and not put main taxes up.
You would have thought given the big majority and the weak voting base Labour would use the majority to show competence , get faster growth and stop illegal migration. They should have recognised the public wants a government that is competent and between elections concentrates on governing. Instead Starmer/Reeves used their majority to put through two hated big tax rising budgets, drove up unemployment, deterred investment and help fuel inflation. An often absent PM spent his time flying round the world giving away our islands, our fish, our money. Labour imploded, dumped the election winner and brought in a new leader to shift them further left, further away from their fairly cautious Manifesto.
The modest Burnham bounce is in danger of persuading them they did need a more political Prime Minister. Instead it is more likely the clever messaging will create an ever greater gap with reality, angering people more. Voters want a government with a majority to do some serious governing, not to play more politics. Why can’t they smash the gangs? Why can’t they get unemployment down? Why can’t they slow the giddy growth in people on benefits? Why cant Mr Burnham and Mr Healey agree a budget for defence? Why do they now say there will still be long NHS waiting lists in 2029?
Failure to take action to resolve some of these problems will mean dismissal for Ministers when they do hold an election.
October 12, 2026
Governments should indeed govern first but all ensure the state sector does only sensible things and to make sure these are done efficiently and cost effectively. No one other than some elected politicians in the state sector seems to have any interest in doing this. And pretty much all my life they have failed in this.
The voting system help Labour win a huge majority with a small vote but it was the net zero, open borders, tax increasing, botched Brexit Con-socialism of Cameron through to Sunak that really gifted it to them. The country needed even more high tax, net zero, open borders, EU alignment socialism like it needed a hole in the head.
October 12, 2026
Just listened to Andrew Griffith the Shadow Chancellor on the latest Telegraph Podcast. Asked who was his favourite Chancellor he said the dire Jeremy Hunt (at least he did not say (the even more dire) Rishi Sunak who wasted £ 600bn doing huge net Covid Vaccines and Lockdown net harms and even more on net zero lunacies). Lawson was the best but even he was fooled into shadowing the DM, and supporting Major and his ERM fiasco. At least Lawson became, late in his life, a sensible and strong climate realist. His book on this is very good for a PPE chap but he did initially win a mathematics scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford,
NO UK CHANCELLORS have left office with lower overall taxes than when they arrived Lawson came closest. Kwasi announced cut but the party removed him before they came in. From the current vastly over taxed and over regulated position we need huge tax cuts and a sensible energy policy.
October 12, 2026
Why can’t they smash the gangs? Why can’t they get unemployment down? Why can’t they slow the giddy growth in people on benefits?
It’s as plain as the nose on your face why Not it’s because it’s liebours main stream voters , the vast majority are from foreign backgrounds and useless sittting on there arses in front of Jeremy Vine with a can of white lightning slobbing it off all day expecting hand outs for doing nothing while us pensioners who struggled over the years to make a descent living only to be tax again and again but the workshy get every penny without paying tax to rub our noses in it, you begin to wonder was it worth it
October 12, 2026
They can’t do the things you ask because they don’t want to. Fabians believe in open borders, liebour want to increase the client state etc. Only problem is those paying in is rapidly reducing. Billionaires are fleeing the country as are young professionals.
We are way on the wrong side of the Laffer curve as is demonstrated by the forthcoming £1.90 rise in duty on cigarettes. It is estimated that around 70% of cigarettes smoked are illegal.
This government doesn’t realise voters will change their habits when being taxed into oblivion.
The Mansion tax will collapse the housing market as will bedroom tax and APD destroy the holiday market.
We are being ruled by thieves who have no interest in the welfare of the indigenous population.
October 12, 2026
During the specific operational period from June to September 2026, official data provided by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Royal Navy documents high-profile operations in the Channel monitoring Russian vessels. During this period both sides undertook live firing in the Channel area. (Source; ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
While broader 2026 data shows that dozens of Russian shadow-fleet tankers pass through the UK Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) on an ongoing basis, high-profile Channel transits during the specific four-month window June-September 2026 involved 4 sanctioned vessels: General Skobelev (sanctioned cargo vessel), Sparta (sanctioned cargo vessel), Smyrtos (sanctioned oil tanker, which was boarded and subsequently detained near Portland), MV Vulkan (sanctioned shadow-fleet tanker)
To protect these vessels from western interception, Russia actively committed naval assets. Between June and September 2026, three Russian warships were identified directly escorting or patrolling alongside these sanctioned fleets through the English Channel and North Sea; Admiral Levchenko (Udaloy-class destroyer), RFN Neustrashimy (Neustrashimy-class frigate) and RFN Admiral Grigorovich (Grigorovich-class frigate)
The Royal Navy logged a 25% spike in tracking activations during this period, spending 21 days out of the month of July alone shadowing these Russian ship movements, To maintain continuous observation as these Russian flotillas passed close by HMNB Devenport and HMNB Portsmouth in international waters, the UK deployed 2 frigates, 1 destroyer, and 3 offshore patrol vessels, alongside maritime helicopters; HMS St Albans and HMS Somerset (both Type 23) HMS Duncan (Type 45 Guided-missile Destroyer), HMS Tyne, HMS Mersey and HMS Severn (OPV), plus Wildcat helicopters from 815 Naval Air Squadron and Merlin submarine-hunting helicopters
The Royal Navy maintained surveillance until the flotillas exited the Channel, at which point tracking responsibilities were handed off to NATO allies off the coast of France. During the summer the Russians re-routed most of their sanctioned vessels over the Northern Approaches past the west coast of Ireland to avoid the Royal Navy. The Irish government asked for British help to monitor them
British Royal Marines recently trained with the US Navy in boarding operations, notably including live fire exercises.
October 12, 2026
The abiding mystery when it comes to socialism, as practiced by the left side of our political system is, why do they hate wealth creators?
One would have thought the available wealth and an opportunity to increase that wealth which they claim the elected right to distribute as they see fit, would encourage them to champion wealth creation. They do not do that?
In fact they do the complete opposite, then because the wealth creation is reducing they borrow the missing wealth they demand is their right to redistribute. The effect of their inability to grasp the importance of wealth creation, is ever increasing borrowing and consequently ever higher interest rates. The end game in that strategy is well understood. We have witnessed on many past occasions the socialists run out of other peoples wealth, then run out of lenders willing to advance them money at affordable rates.
Why are socialists so economically clueless and fiscally incompetent?
October 12, 2026
Good morning.
All governments since the Blair Reforms have been hamstrung. No matter what good intentions they may have they falter on the rocks of a new reality. And that reality is, they are no longer in charge. It is that, they just do not know it.
We need a political party and government that recognises that we are run by numerous QUANGO’s and the Supreme Court / Lawyers. Parliament, thanks to said Blair Reforms, have become and irrelevance and is no longer sovereign. The Civil Serpents run and control everything, without proper accountability. We have a system that cannot learn from failure and therefore, improve.