Mr Burnham gave us all an unpleasant surprise when he decided to re open the Brexit decision taken in the UK’ s largest ever democratic vote. He has now compounded the damage by suggesting there was unwelcome interference in the referendum itself, some ten years ago.
His fellow Labour MPs won their seats in 2024 on a promise to respect the wise decision of the British people and to attempt only minor changes to the new relationship we have with the EU after exit. That was an important pledge which meant many pro Brexit voters felt they could vote for Labour or stay at home in protest at the choices on offer, safe in the knowledge Brexit was not at risk from the Labour government which the polls predicted.
The PM’s decision to go back on this promise followed close on the heels of his statements to get elected in Makerfield, a pro Brexit part of the country. There he said people did not want to re open the Brexit arguments and divisions. His thoughts when faced with voters on doorsteps were better than his second thoughts now driving government policy.
The basis of his change of approach was first said to be his wrong view that there had been economic damage from leaving which he could remedy with close alignment or rejoining the EU. Then he gave a podcast interview suggesting the referendum decision itself was suspect, as apparently he thought hopeless Brexit voters had been conned into voting Out through Russian subterfuge and distortion. He was corrected by a junior Minister saying whatever Russian interference there was did not change the result. This now seems to be the official Downing Street line.
It is never good politics to insult voters by suggesting they have got their votes wrong , that they were manipulated by evil forces, and failed to understand the superior wisdom the politician lays claim to. It is bizarre to think that in such a huge vote evil Russian bots and social media interventions could change people’s minds about something so fundamental as to how we are governed. Clearly some still find it difficult to grasp why many of us want the UK to control our own borders, set our own laws and avoid having to send large sums of money to Brussels. Remain politicians argue about narrow trade issues rather than seeing the big picture of the damage being done to the UK by EU taxes, EU dear energy policies, EU over regulation, and EU continental protectionism. Brexit Britain has been slow to change the poor inheritance from EU government now we are free to do so. Meanwhile our trade has continued to grow and we have a free trade agreement with the EU.
The referendum itself was of course of interest to a large number of overseas countries, governments and world bodies. Russia which does wrongly interfere in our public debates in underhand ways was not the only overseas force seeking to participate. The US government saw the President openly helping the Remain campaign. The IMF and OECD put out some wrong forecasts just like the domestic OBR to paint a picture of early economic pain if we voted out. The OBR forecasts were all disproved by what actually occurred, with house and share prices going up, unemployment going down and growth continuing against their view that the opposite would happen to all of those.
Mr Burnham should not have suggested Russia did influence the result in a podcast. When he finally got to make a statement in the Commons where he could be properly cross questioned, he produced no evidence to show how and where Russia sought influence, and certainly no evidence that Russia swung the result.
Labour was right in 2024 to accept the judgement of the British people that we wish to be self governed by our own Parliament. When MPs get it right we keep them. When they get it wrong we change them. EU government could not be changed by a UK vote, and was not susceptible to British public opinion as we were a modest minority part of the Union. Why doesn’t Mr Burnham understand our desire for sovereignty? Why doesn’t he get on and use the powers of self government we have restored to bring us greater freedom and prosperity? Giving power and money back to Brussels is the very opposite of his claimed belief in devolution.
October 15, 2026
As Brexit never really happened I’m not sure what he’s bleating on about. The Windsor Agreement was a travesty to keep us aligned with Brussels and despite a large majority the government refused to remove unnecessary EU legislation.
I voted leave and only remember Obama and the government misleading us over voting. Going to the back of the queue indeed.
October 15, 2026
Let me offer you the regular reminder that Brexit happened almost 7 years ago. You won. It’s rubbish, you hate it, but you were warned you would. You need to take this up with the Brexiters who promised you we hold all the cards and that the EU needs us more than we need them, rather than complaining aboiut Remainers who correctly told you the opposite is true.
Reply We were only fully out Jan 2021
October 15, 2026
John, Merz has just said at the WEF that the EU IS A DISASTER!
Are you going to argue with Blackrock Merz?
October 15, 2026
@Ian Wragg – the only conclusion is that they all without exception lie.
October 15, 2026
Take what you can get and come back for another bite at the Cherry when you can.
Brexit happened and all the Kings Men and Women in the woke and political class could not stop it.
October 15, 2026
and sadly those 5th columnists are alive and doing their damndest to damage any progress in UK growth and extrication from the seedy nasty lying little club of parasites across the short water.
October 15, 2026
IW,
We were saddled with BRINO – not a genuine Brexit. Thanks to the appalling May & Robbins and idle chancer Boris Johnson, who only looked out for himself.
Labour have followed a disinguous – get elected on promises you then ignore – basis.
Burnham has an agenda that he will pursue, by hook or by crook. So far, he is getting away with it.
Expect more nonsense like ‘Brexit was a failure’ ‘Most people now regret Leave’ to be splashed across the media
October 15, 2026
correct, we never had a proper Brexit.
if we had a proper Brexit the British fishing fleets would have expanded massively by now, and so on.
October 15, 2026
At the WEF today, in a bombshell speech, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz just called the EUROPEAN UNION A COMPLETE FAILURE in front of global elites by stating, “Germany and Europe have wasted incredible potential. We have become the world champion of over-regulation and zero growth.”
Let’s Rejoin why don’t we?
October 15, 2026
However, surely German Chancellors are famed for looking after number one, MGGA, or Make Germany Great Again!
October 16, 2026
The EU is Germany’s revenge for losing WWII.
It’s German Europe, their longed for Empire, that’s why it embraces Corporatism.
It’s is the Axis Powers risen like the Phoenix.
They were going to prove to us that Germans know best, the super race.
It’s a right bloody mess. Even Merz, a particularly nasty piece of work, has to admit it.
The Germans have failed again in our (Boomer) generation of the iteration of the long fought German war.
This time they have comprehensively beaten themselves and there are no ‘allies’ ready with a helping hand.
They are cooked!
October 17, 2026
Or rather it was favoured by France a) to avoid another military defeat and b) to ensure largely agricultural France would be protected., Of course Germany gradually took over again ‘economically’ with the great help of USA via the Marshall Plan.
October 15, 2026
You say ‘The US government saw the President openly helping the Remain campaign.’ The US was an ally. Russia was not. Mr Obama saw Europe as a bulwark against Russia.
October 15, 2026
That’s BS Steven. NATO had always been there to defend of Europe and can continue to do so. No need for Brussels to get involved. The US wants us to pay our share of the agrred costs involved which seems fair enough to me. We’ve been freeloading off them for far too long…
October 15, 2026
Surely NATO is the Bulwark against Russia, but sadly without the USA the European members of Nato are not strong enough, as Europe has not been paying its way for years.
October 15, 2026
Obama was trying to manipulate voters, whatever his reasons it was not acceptable for him to interfere.
THe IMF also piped up to tell us Brexit would be a disaster, with no evidence.
Both of these parties had no right to say anything but they sustained the bad news against Brexit to influence the vote.
Happily very few believed either of them.
October 15, 2026
Mr Obama was wrong to try to impose his weird views an a Sovereign people.
Russia was and IS NOT an enemy. Indeed unlike the Axis Powers, all of which are included in the EU, Russia was and is an ally and a friend, even when the former country, the USSR battled its way through the oppression of communism.
For a start they have opposed the Globalists and blown their dream of One World Government out of the water.
That is a friendly action.
They supply energy to the rest of Europe at very low cost, they have done so throughout the war in Ukraine. That is a friendly action towards European people whose demented ‘green leaders’ would see them freeze and starve.
They have absorbed a lot of direct hits inside Russia of, for instance, British weapons and have not retaliated when international law says they justifiably can. That is a friendly action.
October 15, 2026
And nothing has changed since Brexit Stephen, so what is your point?
October 15, 2026
Our growth is double that of Germany. Much more than that of the EU asa whole.
That’s a change.
October 16, 2026
Apart from what Lynn said, the perception that nothing changed was down to our useless politicians who refused to take advantage of the opportunities offered – WE could have been so much more if Boris and co had done BREXIT properly with no trade agreement and had actually used the powers Brexit gave.
October 15, 2026
Two days ago the head of MI5 told us Russia had interfered in the referendum. The interesting questions here are not why Mr Burnham has raised this matter of sabotage, but why successive Conservative Prime Ministers failed to
October 15, 2026
Probably because they didn’t think it had made any difference…
October 15, 2026
E S
Russia and China try to interfere with all European Countries, and the rest of the World, it’s been going on for Decades, it is nothing new, and no more than an experienced Politician, our security services, and successive Governments acknowledge.
Is anyone surprised ?
October 15, 2026
The Head if MI5 publicly rebuked the Burnham for claiming that Russia had distorted the Referendum result.
A first.
October 15, 2026
ES,
Doubling down on the original lie will not persuade people to believe it is true
October 15, 2026
Good morning.
The whole thing is preposterous ! To think that the Russians when all I can recall is threats from the US President and dark mumblings from the EU and EFTA countries.
Let us just face it, Remainers just did not have bad arguments for remaining, they had no arguments. They ran a negative campaign because there was nothing good about out membership of the Stupid Club.
October 15, 2026
+1 what is the point of electing MPs when nearly all their powers have been given away to unelected European socialist bureaucrats? We have almost no democracy anyway.
JR asks:- Why doesn’t Mr Burnham understand our desire for sovereignty? Why doesn’t he get on and use the powers of self government we have restored to bring us greater freedom and prosperity? Giving power and money back to Brussels is the very opposite of his claimed belief in devolution.
Well he is a dim, bitter, envious, chip on the shoulder socialist and an innumerate, scientifically, economically, & logically challenged English Graduate.
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy” Churchill.
October 15, 2026
Just compare the UK with Germany over the last 10 years and see who fared better economically. Don’t forget that Germany is the economic motor of the eurozone. It has failt to start.
October 15, 2026
Germany, like England, is now a case study for what happens when a country relies on immigration for its workforce and growth.
October 15, 2026
Agreed.
But the main reason is that the country (and all the West) has turned its back on God (as Nietzsche correctly pointed out but even more so than in his day) and Christian values of:
1. Work Ethic 2. Patriotism (taking love of country into consideration in business)
October 15, 2026
And when you’re he’ll bent on destruction of your power grid.
October 15, 2026
And eschews all known sources of energy.
Moreover they claim Ukraine blew up Nordstream. An act of war.
October 15, 2026
You have claimed most Ukrainians are really Russian in the past. So what is it, a Ukrainian trying to frame Russia, a Ukrainian taking revenge on poor support from Europe, or a Russian in reality taking advantage of the pipeline mapping they have been doing ….for years?
October 16, 2026
I am reporting what Germany said. They did not say Russia had blown up its own asset, the pipeline. They said Ukraine under the coke snorting comic blew it up.
I have never said ‘most of Ukraine is Russian’.the eastern provinces, where the war is waged, is ancient Russian territory inhabited by Russian speaking (like Zelensky who had to be taught Ukrainian when he became President) ethnic Russians.
Most of Ukraine is not Russian. The word ‘Ukraine’ means borderlands.
October 15, 2026
NS,
Germany and MERKEL were the root cause of many of our illegal arrival woes.
October 15, 2026
about 95% I’d suggest.
October 15, 2026
Germany also have insane rip off, net zero, energy costs just like the bonkers UK. This despite the fact that about 22% of German electricty comes from very cheap coal generation circa 5p per KWH in cost (and this is far more valuation, on demand, electricity too) but they charge more like 33p per KWH due to the mad, devil gas religion and huge market rigging.
October 15, 2026
But we still pay higher prices and have double the growth.
The EU, as Merz has said today at the WEF IS A DISASTER!
Any moron who wants to subjugate the U.K. again needs to be sectioned.
October 17, 2026
or might achieve higher status in the next GE?
October 15, 2026
JR: You say Burnham was wrong to claim that Russia influenced the Brexit result, without evidence. I agree. But then, what of your claim that Russia seeks ‘in underhand ways to interfere in our public debates’? Where’s your evidence? We are having public debates on energy policy, DEI and assorted wokery, and mass migration. I have not seen so much as a suggestion that the Russians are trying to influence these, much less seen any evidence that they are. As for Ukraine, to the extent that any ‘public debate’ is allowed here at all, the issue is surely whether we should go on interfering in their war with Kiev. Russia obviously has a point of view on that, just as we would have had, if Russia had interfered in the Falklands. This whole thing is a ‘nothingburger’, just Burnham trying to distract from multiple domestic problems he knows he is incapable of solving, or unwilling to tackle.
Reply See recent public statements from the Intelligence services re Russian bots.
October 15, 2026
We see Russian interference on media sites with right to reply. Ridiculous praise of Putin and Russia mixed up with right wing rhetoric. Do they think we’re fooled?
I heard the lies of the EU religious. I heard the lies of the EU haters. I made my own mind up and I wanted less people telling me what to do..
October 15, 2026
Relocate to the Shetlands?
October 16, 2026
If you add an EU layer of Government, you have MORE people telling you what to do.
October 15, 2026
I did, JR. Sir Ken McCallum said there had been 50 arrests in the last year over Iran-linked activities. He didn’t mention any in connection with Russia. Just the usual vague words about ‘pieces in Russian media, trolls and bot farms’. Nothing specific has ever been identified. This at a time when you might expect MI5 to take an interest in the security risks posed by the illegal invaders on our Channel Coast. But nothing from him about that. He did say: “Those who seek to cause mayhem on British streets… will meet an unflinching response.” That’s fine, except I somehow don’t think he wasn’t talking about them.
October 15, 2026
JR I am constantly accused of being a ‘Russian bot’.
They can’t deal with the facts so close down argument by claiming you are a ‘bot’. Surely a ‘bot’ should be easy to snooker in argument?
Anyway nobody on social media influences anybody.
Our Government should know this because they admit to spending many millions on ‘bots’ educated by the nudge unit to push British people to their preferred politics. Yet the nation remains solidly Brexiteer, anti-migration, anti-Climate Change, pro-low tax, pro-law and order evenhandedly delivered.
Not to mention, for instance that over 90% of adverts in the U.K. feature a multi ethnic family when in fact one 2% are multiethnic. This is war-level psycho-ops urging nihilism.
October 15, 2026
Re the Falklands.. drilling for oil given the go ahead.Can you imagine if we had lost them.
October 15, 2026
Like the majority of MP’s in Westminster. Burnham was/is a Remainiac. Westminster has never accepted the Brexit vote. It has quietly undermined our position as a free nation. And now is easing us back in the EU through the back door.
The process can only be stopped by electing a government that is open and honest in support of Brexit.
So far only Reform will guarantee to respect Brexit. However, they will not get elected to government alone.
The Conservative party mumbles about respecting the referendum, but do they?
A Right of centre coalition is the only hope of defeating the EUphiles of the Left. Unfortunately the parties of the Right spend more time insulting each other, rather than highlighting the betrayal of Democracy being driven by Burnham.
October 15, 2026
Isn’t blaming Russian influence a bit racist from the #BeNice brigade?
Typically two faced – well colour me surprised.
October 15, 2026
No politician since Brexit has grasped he opportunities that leaving the EU could have given us. It makes me sad that the British people tried to save our country, but it has been thrown back in our faces by an arrogant bunch of Remainers, who refuse to accept the democratic decision of the referendum. They then have the nerve to say we have been proved wrong and we should re-join the EU because a poll in London, where few are native British, has made a decision based on no understanding of the cost to us of re-joining.
October 15, 2026
@Christine – the UK Parliament refused the vote, the simple choice offered ‘stay’ or ‘leave’ and they chose as their terrorist punishment to keep the door forced open. The leave option, under Internationally recognised WTO terms, that people voted for, would have released the Country. Instead a lazy parliament refused to manage, govern, preferring to keep the assemblance of the rule from Brussels firmly in place as malicious punishment for the people wanting them to do their ‘job’
October 15, 2026
‘tried to save our country’
Only The Christian King of Kings can save our great country.
Our country (and all Western countries) are going to the dogs, because, as Nietzsche correctly pointed out, modern man has killed God (and his implication being you pay a big price for that).
‘I am come amongst you at this time… being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust.’ – Queen Elizabeth I
For God, kingdom and people.
October 15, 2026
Ed, the Lord expects you to stretch yourself, up and even beyond breaking point.
Did you not know?
October 15, 2026
Agreed Lynn – why do you say that to me though?!
(And also says, ‘my burden is easy’ – it can also be hard – depending on whether we’re being tested in a particular way or not)
October 15, 2026
+1
October 15, 2026
No war has ever been won in the ballot box.
October 15, 2026
An estimate puts it up to 100 MPs not even born in the UK! Just a small clue?
October 15, 2026
The democratic decision of the referendum was completed almost 7 years ago
October 15, 2026
And today Merz agrees by accepting publicly at the WEF that ‘THE EU IS A DISASTER’.
October 15, 2026
Yesterday I read that since 2014 3.7m jobs were created in the UK, Analysis by the Centre for Social Justice found the number of jobs recorded through PAYE). A not so surprising fact to many of us was that only 700k went to British nationals. A disturbing 3m of them went to immigrants. It makes me wonder how many jobs might be out there unrecorded via PAYE.
October 15, 2026
Now that Ed Davey has condemned the US decision to import Russian diesel, will he also stand up and condemn EU member states for continuing to import Russian oil and gas?
October 15, 2026
Including Mr Burn’em.
October 15, 2026
shipped via India.
October 15, 2026
Isn’t all that out of the Liberal Democrat ‘play book’ say what you perceive your followers want to hear, then do nothing as realities of the real world hit home. Burnham is our Walter Mitty, our cloud cuckoo land clown. Who is it that approved the costly pointless ‘No 10’ of the North, certainly not the People of the UK.
He has one and only one ambition and that is to destroy out of ‘hate’ the UK and the UK People. His is the extremist ‘numpty’ unable to govern & manage for the majority just play to a extremist audience. No one voted for his personal mandate, in fact only 1 in 5 of the electorate even support Labour, as was shown at the GE, then again in the recent Holborn & St Pancras by-election.
More people avoid voting that any time in modern history, why? because we are offered clowns, that has made the UK open to abuse from the extremists in our midst.
There needs to be a way of finding ‘democracy’ – soon or forget it all.
October 16, 2026
Like Finding Nemo. Democracy is for the few and not the many.
October 15, 2026
I’m a strong, strong supporter of Sovereignty but I think Putin is a much greater threat to our country now than whether he intervened in the Brexit vote or not.
MI5 have confirmed Russia is the number one threat to our great nation.
Let’s deal with Putin first general threat to us and the world first, and then come back to debating Putin’s influence in Brexit vote or not.
October 15, 2026
Now say exactly what makes you this such a thing?
Has he bombed us?
Have we bombed him?
Is he remained anti-Axis Powers?
Have we joined the Axis Powers aka the EU?
You can rest on a vague statement by MI6. Especially when they gave the PM a public dressing down for suggesting that Russia is a threat.
October 15, 2026
Lynn,
It’s not me who’s saying it but MI5. I just happen to agree with them. If you have an issue with them on this, then why not write to them: MI5, London, SW1P 4QE
October 16, 2026
They gave no proof. You believe blindly that they speak the truth. Think for a minute that they might not!
October 17, 2026
The more people in certain sectors of the Right (I’m right-wing but I believe in a more long-term and effective way than people who support Putin and Trump) undermine our national institutions such as MI5 and support Putin and Trump then the more people will associate such views with Brexit (for they associate Brexit with populism and populism with Trump and Trump with Putin).
If you want Brexit to succeed, then what you say here has much more influence in turning people off Brexit than actually doing anything to change people’s minds here in the UK about Putin or Trump.
I have some experience in branding / account planning, and understand how brands work. Brexit is a brand. Or should be considered one in a way if Brexit is going to succeed in the short to long-term.
October 17, 2026
And I’m right-wing Tory – not Reform etc.
And not saying anyone who doesn’t vote Tory is a bad person. Not at all. My commentary is about extremist views whether of the Right, Left, Centre – whatever.
Anyway, for me, being truly Tory is about taking a long-term view. And for me, supporting Putin and Trump is bad for long-term of our country and Brexit and the reputation of politics on the right.
October 15, 2026
Obamas – ‘back of the queue’ statement. Labour sending cohorts of ‘left-wing’ activist acolytes to aid the Democrats to keep Trump out of office.
‘a kettle calling a pot black’
Parliament is riddled with the wrong people all ruled by ‘Gang Bosses’ and not their electorate. The worst of all Worlds that has led to lies, and punishment for not following your ruler. The UK Parliament has itself lost its purpose, the ‘plot’, because they fight democracy and don’t fight for it. The fight the people and don’t fight for them
October 15, 2026
As suggested yesterday on this fine Blog, the enemy is there in the Palace of Westminster manipulating, lying and fighting to destroy the Country. Why would any one outside that house bother to interfere, their job is being done for them.
October 16, 2026
To be honest friends who live in Moscow say that Britain had been a laughing stock, but the Brexit vote caused many to acknowledge the sheer character, morality and courage of the British people.
Russia had not expected us to vote to Leave.
They know the details of the war level psycho ops the British people have been subject to for 50 years – perhaps more than most.
They did not think we had what it takes, but we showed them and the rest of the world that we still do.
October 15, 2026
In all of this Burnham is as transparent as his predecessor – With France and Germany following the lead of the UK, it is quite clear they are building up the justification for war with Russia.
I’ve been saying for a long time that the labour party wants us heavily involved in the Ukraine war, not for any humane purpose but to stay in power.
If we hadn’t had Starmer whispering support to Zelensky while Trump was making progress in bringing the conflict to a halt the war would have been settled by now.
In my mind that makes Starmer and Burnham war criminals, directly responsible for so many dead!
Starmer’s wish, now passed onto Burnham is for a major escalation of the war so that they can declare a national emergency so that elections can be postponed, keeping labour in power for an indefinite period – which is exactly how Zelensky has played it. He refuses national elections just as Trump has complained about.
Before that happens we must have our own General Election, but in any case, I just hope whoever our next PM is that they throw Zelensky to the wolves and help to bring about a just peace in Ukraine.
October 15, 2026
‘Trump was making progress in bringing the conflict to a halt the war would have been settled by now.’
You have to be pulling the proverbial?
The only constant issue is Putin and his desire to take back the sovereign nation Ukraine.
Progress? Nonsense….Putin has and will continue to play that fool Trump while he is the leader.
October 15, 2026
You have a distorted view of what actually went on – too influenced by socialist activists no doubt
October 16, 2026
No, I just follow up headlines via various news origins. So if Zelensky is deposed how exactly would that allow Ukraine to be at peace with the world’s most aggressive military leader?
October 15, 2026
Also, sovereignty and patriotism are GREAT things.
But the real country or Country is the heavenly realm.
At least that’s what Queen Elizabeth I believed and she was our great political leader!
She believed in her country. But Heaven was her real Country, and God her real King.
And as Shakespeare brilliantly pointed out, we’re all potential food for worms. Don’t forget Hamlet and the skull! Don’t get too comfy in this life!
So love your country and king (I mean in the way the king represents all forms of leadership in this country) but love The Country (Heaven) and The King (The Christian King of Kings) far more!
(Again, I am just repeating what famous people such as Queen Elizabeth I, Jane Austen, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke would have believed and taken very seriously – and joyfully!).
In Deo speramus
October 15, 2026
The Queen was NOT OUR POLITICAL LEADER. Neither is the King.
October 15, 2026
Hi Lynn,
You’\re wrong. Queen Elizabeth I WAS our political leader!
October 15, 2026
Agreed, King Charles is not our political leader (I meant constitutional head of state).
But Queen Elizabeth I, however, was our political leader. Yes.
Btw, also, there is a direct connection between our country and The Country.
October 16, 2026
The late Queen has even less Constitutional standing for most of her reign when she was a Suzerain, than the King.
She was NEVER our political leader.
Surely heaven is more than a country, which is by definition the home of a nation?
October 17, 2026
I never said late Queen. I said Queen Elizabeth I ..
October 17, 2026
(I was fond of the late Queen Elizabeth II but a huge fan of Queen Elizabeth I – she wasn’t perfect either but still a great political leader)
October 15, 2026
I worked for a big American multi national during the Brexit referendum. All British workers got emails instructing us to vote Remain.
There was a lot of foreign interference in British democracy, but most of if was on the side of Remain.
October 15, 2026
Imagine if we had a Zelensky, with his wisdom, courage, and patriotism, running our great country!
(Not in the sense of a war-time leader but sorting out all our serious peace-time issues i.e. high tax, high immigration etc).
Zelensky is a Jew who represents so many of the great qualities of the heroes of the Old Testament (not just being a war-time leader, with wisdom, courage and patriotism that goes with that, but also humour – Isaac means one who laughs – personality, charm etc). A great guy. A great Jewish person (not sure if he is practising or not).
October 15, 2026
Most important of all, “Why doesn’t Mr Burnham keep his promises”?
It would appear he’ll say anything to get elected, but once in power, he completely changes his policies to serve his personal ambitions rather than follow his own words in his manifesto.
This is not the way of a true Labour politician; It is the way of the dictatorial soviets in Moscow.
No wonder he now thinks they interfere in our elections!! He’s done their work for them.
This is yet another anti-democratic mess this pseudo-Labour government has got us into.
How much more can the Bond Markets and we take?
October 15, 2026
We had an expensive enquiry that concluded that there was no such interference and that the Russians preferred Britain to remain in the EU for predictability. The narrative lingers on with the all-purpose ‘baddies’ in the frame. The EU today is not the EU of 2016 – with the same globalist policies: open borders, more authoritarian and statist and with the same net zero policies as the UK. Note these policies are only for the West.
October 15, 2026
Burnham is just looking after his people, the same as when medieval monarch looked after peasants, he has divine powers and democracy be damned
October 15, 2026
Lying, especially for self-gain is one of the worst traits of anybody. Burnham doing it repeatedly to deceive our nation is disgraceful and he should be thoroughly interrogated and punished appropriately where proven.
Allowing the situation to pass for years and only then leaving it to a vote at election time is justice denied.
October 15, 2026
Fortunately he’s bad at that too.
October 15, 2026
This morning I have tried to post a comment twice which actually wasn’t accepted by Google.
My feelings on Mr Burnham and Manchester are not ones of admiration.He is part of a set up where politics are decided by a few people in positions of unsavoury power posing as legal representatives.
Facts and events are twisted to suit their agenda and anyone who tries to be sensible , truthful and factual are pushed down , doubled up,used and abused.
To step out of this and try and decide who speaks for the country as a whole is so difficult.The morons still go by letters and old fashioned classification to decide who is legitimate and honest..That’s a laugh!
October 15, 2026
It is worth remembering the picture used in the Makerfield by election was a cartoon chatter of Burnham rather than a real picture.
Make if that what you will.
October 15, 2026
Some of us probably think; ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if JR was able to approve Diary comments more often’.
I’m thinking; ‘I wish I had half the stamina of this man’
We know you are involved in a number of things, your articles and tv presence are sought after, and you are a guiding light in the economy and related areas.
You are not validated enough for the excellent work you do. Please don’t stop the multitude of things you do to add sanity to so many debates because you are very much appreciated.
Sometime, perhaps when you have 5 minutes free and are bored at the prospect of doing nothing for so long, could you write up your typical weekly schedule. That would be interesting to see.
October 15, 2026
In many ways I think this is just an attempt by the Remoaners to divert attention from the real main issues of the day, and in that they are successful. We should be talking about far more important stuff, Brexit should be settled.
October 15, 2026
Quite possibly MrBurnham surprised many bedrock supporters by how quickly and to what extent he
is decided upon radical change.Prisoners will not be taken.I suspect even shaky Lib/Dems are feeling
a sense of unease
October 15, 2026
I think you meant to add to you last sentence ‘at picking Ed Davey as Leader’?
October 15, 2026
If the Russians did attempt to influence the Brexit why is it always assumed that it was to favour Brexit? If the Russians are the extreme left communists and the EU are attempting to put together another undemocratic, authoritarian, far left USSR style state, run at the time by Mrs. Merkel who, when she lived in East Germany, was a senior member of the Communist Agitprop organisation, and who let flood in millions of ME migrants to destroy Europe’s social cohesion, it would make more sense if the Russians were assisting the Remain side rather than the Brexit side. Of course the Far Left want us to be controlled by the EU for socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor. Another example is the Left’s climate crisis hoax which would not have been invented if its “solution”, Net Zero, wasn’t sabotaging our energy and consequently destroying our industry, living standards and national security. It’s time we had a referendum also on Net Zero.
October 15, 2026
and there’s more.Another rip-off on cost of domestic electricity supply.The daily grid system charge.
Everyone know that through late spring late autumn this is a significant charge(%wise).Our power
interconnectors annual use(balance sales/purchases) is a several £billions deficit.I have just found
that the connector charge does not apply to exports but does apply to imports.Fact:Tks Boris!
Eu/Uk Regulatory Law:EU2019/943 2020 even though the grid is essential either way
October 15, 2026
Trump Is really helping to endanger the future of Brexit (and helping to sew the seeds of future socialism / Labour and woke as a reaction to the way he has behaved in particular now over Ukraine).
So many people in the UK associate Trump with populism and populism with Brexit (and so many now closely associate Trump with Putin).
So to help guarantee the future of Brexit, Brexiteers have to start getting serious now about challenging Trump (and Putin – and if not then people will associate more and more Putin with Brexiters/Brexit) wherever possible.
UK – sovereign, united and happy (that’s what we want!)
October 15, 2026
Just redding this blog I cannot see much to be happy about.