This government is more than one year into office. With its huge majority it could have changed anything over the last year that needed fixing. It has spent the year claiming everything it inherited was broken. It has gone on to break things on a much larger scale.
The Conservatives were cast aside because they allowed in far too many migrants to come and failed to deliver on their promise to stop the small boats. In their last six months they did toughen the law which started to reduce legal migration. The Rwanda plan was beginning to bring down illegal numbers even before flights had taken off.
Labour has now diluted the law changes. It dumped the Rwanda scheme and has presided over a big increase in illegal migration. It is proposing more safe routes for people to come.It is negotiating to let in many more young people from Europe. It has speeded up consideration of asylum claims leading to a big increase in numbers of claims granted. This is the opposite of the change many voters wanted.
We are now running on a Labour budget. By the time the Conservatives were kicked out inflation was 2%, the Uk had been the fastest growing G 7 economy for six months and unemployment had fallen to 4.2%. The long term Conservative record had brought many more jobs and much lower unemployment. In 2010 unemployment was 7.8% and inflation 3%.People felt taxes were too high in 2024 and growth should be faster.
Labour claimed the one day peak interest rates under Truss crashed the economy. They have pushed longer term rates well above worst Truss levels and kept them there all 2025 so far thanks to losing control of spending and borrowing.
Labour have put inflation up to 3.6%. They have put unemployment up. They have put taxes up. UK growth has been damaged. These again were changes people did not want.
Labour promised to end NHS strikes. In the first year they gave a large pay award to buy peace. This year strikes are threatened again with another very large rise being sought.
July 19, 2025
Starmer and his crew are useless.We have to find a way to get rid of them sooner than 2029 .
In addition to all of the above he is taking us back into the EU by stealth and this has to be prevented
July 19, 2025
Agreed. Clueless ineptitude sums them up.
July 19, 2025
Clueless and dishonest ineptitude. I expected them to be truly abysmal but they have even exceeded my expectations. Mad doom loop economics killing or exporting the geese that lay the golden eggs. The total insanity of net zero rip off energy (continued from the fools Cameron, May, Boris, Sunak but even worse) a new, one religion only, blasphemy law.
22 relatives for one Afghan migrant it seems. Will need rather a large house then.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/18/afghan-migrant-brought-22-relatives-to-uk-after-data-breach/#:~:text=Afghan%20migrant%20brings%2022%20relatives%20to%20UK&text=Afghan%20migrants%20have%20brought%20as,following%20a%20military%20data%20breach.
July 19, 2025
No recognition or investigations into the vast harm done by the Covid Vaccines by Labour either. Did these “vaccines” lower live birth rates in the UK by 1/3 for vaccinated women as in the Czech republic? How long lasting is this effect, how many given hearts Arrhythmias I personally know four people given these – what can be done if anything to mitigate?
Perhaps slightly less in the UK due to more use of the Astra Zenica jab which had other blood clot issues it seems. Labour seem to be continuing the hiding of data as “unequivocally safe” Sunak did. It will all come out despite their appalling efforts to hide it!
July 19, 2025
Plus they have set about their Gerrymandering of the electoral system with votes for children? Next stage votes for non citizens I assume?
July 19, 2025
Interested to read the ruling by Mrs Justice Yip last November in a Afghan asylum case that “The term “family member” does not have any fixed meaning in law or common usage. Indeed the word “family” may mean different things to different people and in different contexts. There may be cultural considerations … there is no requirement for a blood or legal connection”.
So, given this precedent, under the ECHR right to a family life clause, allowing Afghans already here to bring their family in can mean they can bring in anyone at all even if they have no connection to them other than a nebulous “cultural” one, so no wonder one of them brought in 22 extra people.
This isn’t particularly an ECHR issue, it’s an issue of activist UK judges setting their own laws.
July 19, 2025
Germany like the UK has signed up to the ECHR, but it doesn’t stop the doing what is right.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/18/germany-deports-afghans-after-striking-deal-with-taliban/
July 19, 2025
So why can’t we do the same ?
July 19, 2025
Michael Simmons in the Times – Alas we have Starmer, Reeves, Lammy and Ed Milibrain!
“A budget surplus, inflation at a five-year low and an upgraded credit rating. These are economic conditions Britain could only dream of. But they are exactly what Argentina is now boasting under the sideburned, chainsaw-wielding libertarian president Javier Milei.”
July 19, 2025
‘A government elected to change things’. I would not use that description. It was more a case of ‘anybody but the Conservatives again’.
Starmer mostly kept quiet and tried not to frighten voters.
‘What should we expect’ is a different matter. Initially, it might have been not much change from the previous lot.
A year on, anything could happen. There may be rebellion in the ranks and a new leadership.
Violent overthrow of the government does not look imminent. So it will probably mean ‘limp on until the next election’.
July 19, 2025
I watched the New Statesman podcast yesterday; long faces all, even they acknowledge Starmer is not doing so well, the economics chap was calling the Gilt bond price and debt level a difficult problem. Andrew Marr said Labour should stick to their principles and go for growth with higher income tax rates! The socialist experiment continues.
July 19, 2025
Doom loop economics, an insane energy policy, Net Zero, boats migrant double last years levels, vast unskilled migrant levels, the insanity of the Chagos deal, a back door return to the EU regulations, a mad workers rights bill, VAT attacks on decent schools and Non Doms, threat of a wealth take… what could possible go wrong!
July 19, 2025
Marr’s definition of “go for growth” sounds more like a coach instructing wing forwards to go for the opposing scrum half.
July 19, 2025
Sunak jumped because he could see what was coming down the line, not least the revelation that alk of Afghanistan had a right to settle here.
We now have Taluban sympathisers openly walking our streets and to add a cherry, left wing activist lawyers are encouraging them to sue us.
No other country would consider this nonesense but 2TK encourages it.
We’re now back paying into the EU budget with no say so hopefully Reform will repeal all this nonesense.
Milibrain has extended subsidies to wind operators to 20 years in an effort to prevent his dream being overturned but Reform has said they won’t honour any agreement from the seventh round of auctions. This should make the grifters think twice before committing billions on new useless windmills.
This government has to go before they ( make things worse ed). Epping isn’t being reported only on social media, I wonder why.
July 19, 2025
Epping was on Sky and GB News yesterday (and maybe others – but I don’t watch them).
Unfortunately, genuine local concern (and protest) was undermined by a few idiots who just have to cause trouble. I’m sure the presence of the ‘anti-racism’ mob didn’t help either…
July 20, 2025
In an example of Two-Tier Britain, when the pro-Hamas demonstrators are parading their anti-Semitism though the streets of London each weekend, the police have (and do) try to keep counter protesters, particularly if they are “displaying their Jewishness,” away for fear of the possible consequences.
Yet at Epping, where ordinary local people were protesting respectably about the criminal migrant hotel located only a few hundred yards from a school and yet another alleged sexual attack by a criminal migrant on young girls, the police ESCORTED a bunch of counter-protesters (some of them masked up) to the original demonstration.
In other words, they appear to have deliberately provoked a confrontation and I believe that is exactly what the Establishment wants: to provoke civil unrest so it can impose draconian, tyrannical rule (like the Chinese Government).
July 19, 2025
Reminds me of the Theresa May government
July 19, 2025
Not really, One lied about intentions the other is bare faced about the same ideas.
July 19, 2025
Ah ….but which one is which
July 19, 2025
King Charles can dissolve Parliament and request a GE. Perhaps enough signatures on a suitable petition could give him the will to do it.
July 19, 2025
Morning Sir John,
When the new government came in, I expected it to wreck the economy, because Labour always do.
I also expected them to make us a more divided society and I believe they have.
July 19, 2025
They simply did not ever have a plan, they just complained and moaned about everything.
The Conservatives had got so incompetent themselves, that the big moan worked to get them elected.
Now in power (without a plan) they are totally confused, they still want more and more spending, more and more control, but many of those on “the wealthy” whom they hoped to raise more taxes from are leaving.
They are rapidly finding out that you only ever get a meaningful rise in taxation by taxing the masses, and if you tax them too much, you kill aspiration, drive, and work ethic, because what is the point of working harder if you get nothing extra for the effort.
Major change is needed to the Benefits system, to government wasteful and unproductive spending, before you increase taxation, but that will not happen with Labour in control.
July 19, 2025
You forgot to mention the Chagos Islands, and the submission to EU legal control over our trading policies, oh, and also agreed to pay the EU money for telling the British government what it can and can not do.
Whilst uncontrolled migration is an important issue that needs to be controlled, the ongoing failure to deliver the Leave benefits that exiting the EU and all of its authority is still waiting by the electorate to be delivered.
July 19, 2025
“With its huge majority it could have changed anything…”.
That’s such an interesting point. A truly revolutionary Labour Party could have destroyed us by now. They would have had a plan and stuck to it. None of this floundering around.
I know they are destroying us, but it gives me some little glimmer of hope that they appear to be inept Marxists rather than disciplined, organised ones. Quite a lot of the damage we suffer stems from the rest of the blob, not Labour HQ. Maybe we can recover after the 5 years, if a Party putsch doesn’t put even more sinister and clever ones in charge?
July 19, 2025
Two-Tier hasn’t changed many things, other than the Rwanda policy (which was never implemented anyway).
As Lord Frost wrote in the DT yesterday, he’s just continuing with the same policies Sunak was implementing …. but more quickly.
They are both Puppeticians for the Globalists, delivering for the WEF. But Two-Tier is doing it more quickly and he is reversing Brexit even more quickly than Sunak and the Not-a-Conservative-Party were, after Sunak facilitated it with the Windsor treachery.
This country is effectively being de-constructed by the Establishment and the Westminster Uni-Party.
July 20, 2025
Much truth in this. But Chagos was a disaster, the VAT on school fees a disaster, the non dom attacks mad even worse than Hunt’s version, the edging back in to EU alignment a disaster, Miliband’s net zero made even worse, the NI increases a disaster, the farm and small business IHT disasters, the workers right bill dire too. They are much worse even than Sunak and Hunt!
July 19, 2025
It is a shame that the Main Stream Media are not taking this Government to task over this litany of failure.
July 19, 2025
This government is never going to increase the UK’s GDP growth rate in any meaningful way. The reason is the UK cannot grow like it did prior to 1997 when the UK allocates more and more of its efficient money to inefficient practices (eg excess welfare, excessive govnt borrowing, a bloated and unproductive public sector, net zero lunacy etc). We need to address all the inefficiency and lower taxes accordingly and then we will grow at pre-1997 proportions again. Those days were much better than today. We need to return to them.
July 19, 2025
A nice summary. The good news is that, on current polling, Labour would lose over 300 MPs. Their MPs know this.
I was surprised at the sheer political ineptitude of Sunak. It was clear, two years from the general election, that only vigorous executive action was going to save the party – but the government gave us sloth and indifference. It was clear that legal migration – very easy to fix – was as much of a problem in voters’ eyes as illegal migration, but what was done was too little and too late. It was also clear that there was no advantage in going to the country early, but that’s what Sunak did. It seems that political strategy isn’t taught well during PPE courses.
I see that Badenoch is planning a re-shuffle of her shadow cabinet. She’s the problem! A stretch objective for the new leader would be to achieve the same vote-share as at last July. I can’t see the Conservatives ever getting above that while Reform is on the scene. 24% would save the Conservatives’ existing MPs, and get them into government again – but only as the junior party in a Reform-dominated coalition.
P.S. I’m currently reading Burke’s ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’. What a beautuful piece of writing and political analysis. I wonder how many MPs have read it – or could write half as well.
July 19, 2025
SW : Sunak went to the country early because he was afraid that the Rwanda plan would work (it was already working without even flights taking off) and he knew that the red side of the incoming Uniparty had promised to cancel it. He was following the Treasury policy, set down by a previous Cabinet Secretary, Gus O’Donnell, who said in 2011: “When I was at the Treasury I argued for the most open door possible to immigration … I think it’s my job to maximise global welfare not national welfare”.
July 20, 2025
O’Donnel, Johnson, Sunak (and Two-Tier) and most of the rest of the Establishment are fully committed to UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 …. which means that the UK must be levelled down.
Why are they importing so many immigrants from the 3rd world: so that we can provide for them and they can transfer our money to their family / communities “back home” …. which sucks money out of our economy and injects it into theirs.
This is a specific “benefit” of mass immigration from the 3rd world into the west, which the UN highlights as part of its Agenda.
https://migrationnetwork.un.org/statements/investing-impact-power-remittances-sdgs
July 19, 2025
Whilst I agree that Ms Badenoch doesn’t seem to be getting ‘cut through’ as it is now called – I do think she has a very hard sell on her hands. Would Jenrick achieve better ‘cut through’ ? Maybe but I’m not convinced it would shift the dial that much and it would most certainly reinforce the view that the Tories can’t keep a leader for very long. The Conservatives have to keep up the hard slog and hope that (in time) the idiots running the show at the moment make them look much better than we currently remember. Their problem is that now the voters have an alternative that didn’t exist previously under the old two party scheme. I still think it is a four year race between Farage trying to put together a believeable government & policies and Badenoch managing to convince us that the Tories have purged themselves of their Lib Dem tendancy and seen the light (maybe that should be “seen the Right”) 🙂
July 19, 2025
The Tories have always voted for the wrong leader, even when they do it again and again. Look at everyone of them since Thatcher – not a clue between them.
July 19, 2025
Last month Force Border Force seized 2.5 tons (!!) of cocaine on a ship at London Gateway port. Maritime director Charlie Eastaugh said this bust was “one of the largest of its kind” Specialist officers, who had detected the shipment earlier this month after carrying out an intelligence-led operation, had to move 37 large containers to get at the stash.
Late last year RN patrol ship HMS Trent seized cocaine with a street value of more than £40m in the Caribbean during just one interception. This was HMS Trent’s sixth bust in 2024, bringing the total amount of drugs seized to £551.5 million. Apparently, the RN deals with seizures of this kind by taking samples from the packages after photographing and weighing them, retaining wrappings etc – and then splitting the consignment open and pouring the contents into the sea. There is insufficient secure storage on RN patrol class vessels to retain such large quantities of narcotics
One has to ask, what happens to the drugs now that Border Force have them under lock and key? Various estimates of the value of this seizure range from $100m to $132 million. Either way, it’s a lot of money. Similarly, what happens when the police seize large quantities of drugs and cash during raids? We never get to hear. Those of an uncharitable nature may care to ask the Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper or the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley
July 19, 2025
Perhaps we could quantify the value and send it to Zelensky as our contribution to the billions we promised?
Or else auction it – lots of bid from the political and ex-political class.
July 19, 2025
While you are asking those questions ,ask where all the ‘rescued’ outboard engines and dinghys are stored. There is no sign of them at the recognised auctions for seized and stolen/recovered property.
July 19, 2025
At the last election we had to throw out the useless “Left” Conservatives. We inevitably ended up with an even more useless “far left” Labour government.
If threre is any country left after this government has gone, hopefullly we can start putting the peices together again with a sensible centre-right government.
July 19, 2025
Clever move to allow children to vote, that should ensure more left votes, as children are impressionable, likely to be influenced by largely left leaning, state-employed, teachers and do not pay taxes. Why not 14 year olds btw? I see to remember having a view on a general election when I was 12 – perhaps I should have had a vote?
July 19, 2025
Apologies for the typo – should have been Americans
July 19, 2025
I would like to see an in-depth investigation into the Truss debacle. The way she was ousted by her own party was nothing less than a coup. Was it because she went against the Globalists? Something was very off about how it happened, and so quickly. In doing what they did, the Conservatives destroyed and consigned their party to history. I would like to know the players behind this and where they are now.
July 19, 2025
I felt that ,but at the time she seemed happy to let it go or was that bravado?
July 19, 2025
Labour may have been elected espousing change, but to date have produced change for the worse. The only reason they are in power is that the electorate refused to vote conservative, because they were seen as the “lite “ version of Labour, and had been since heir to Blair Cameron arrived at No10. They continued to be via traitorous May, all singing and dancing Johnson , and gently as it goes Sunak. Effectively ,a year ago in Parliament, there were circa 50 MPs who believed in a full Brexit and 600 who preferred it had never happened and were intent on reversing it. You were respected for being one of the 50. Labour are in effect the arse end of those who would reverse Brexit, and accompany it with unbelievable incompetence in just about all other fields of political activity.
Polls suggest that the electorate now know what to do at the next election. It would appear that Reform are well aware of the monumental task they will face. A task that goes way beyond Parliament to involve major surgery to the structure of the democracy we one had and the carcinoma that has replaced it.
July 19, 2025
I’m sure SG that the contraband seized by uk authorities will be put to good use. Probably sold at a massive discount to some welk positioned cartels.
July 19, 2025
Are the detractors like me alone in seeing what is happening, the real state of play, Lord Frost – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/17/awful-truth-about-labour-theyre-just-continuity-sunak/
Iain Duncan Smith – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/17/this-is-starmers-most-unforgiveable-brexit-betrayal-to-date/
July 19, 2025
Cheer up – it’s getting worse.
The British do nothing until things are so bad that the horrors are undeniable.
Pity the Labour benches are completely uneducated (I’m quoting the deputy PM who boasts of ignorance).
They will have to learn the lesson of Danegeld personally, and pay with their cushy elected jobs.
July 22, 2025
Some bright spark once said that the only way to make the British stand up is first to bring them to their knees.
July 19, 2025
Things can be changed as it has been proven time and time again.
First however we need to become a democracy have elections every 2 years, as is the norm for a democracy, forcing MPs to seek approval from their electorate. We need to end the cycle of Dictatorships and put the electorate back in charge.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/19/when-will-world-wake-up-argentinian-miracle/
It’s time the world woke up and noticed the Argentinian miracle, Moody’s upgrade shows Javier Milei’s free-market gamble is paying off
July 19, 2025
Its pity sad that our politicians can ignore the people for 4.5 years ….I’d go further and suggest that they choose to ignore the people e.g the illegal immigrants
July 19, 2025
Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, the red side of the Uniparty have left unchanged DESNZ’s Net Zero plans. Net zeroing our electricity alone has cost us £220bn or £8000 per household in subsidies since 2002 and now amounts to £25.8bn/year and comprises 40% of the cost of electricity. DESNZ’s Clean Power by 2030 plan has been costed by NESO at “over £40bn/year”. Not only would this “environmental” money have been better spent on, say, upgrading our water infrastructure (reservoirs and sewage treatment to cope with our massive increase in population through immigration) but the whole Net Zero project has caused de-indistrialisation and seriously damaged our growth with high electricity prices and wasteful spending on unnecessary electrification (windmills, solar panels, evs, heat pumps etc). Our electricity price will double again with not only subsidies for the chaotically intermittent renewables but also for the parallel hyrocarbon fueled back-up system needed to keep the lights on……except that I believe the plan is to use the Met Office and the BBC to make us so scared of CO2 that we willingly accept intermittency in order to save the planet.
July 19, 2025
Sorry, Sir John, you missed the point. When Labour said Change, they meant Change for the worse, and that is what they have delivered.
July 19, 2025
June 2025 “…inflation up to 3.6%” – or 4.4% RPI.
The government is losing its authority and so likely will deliver neither the changes needed nor those its supporters expect.
July 19, 2025
The Brexit negotiations were truly hampered and shackled by Parliament.
Well twotier just signed the truly awful agreement with the EU -with no debate in Parliament.
With this precedent, the next PM can just sign a WTO dealing with the EU. If the EU want to sell us cars then we can choose what we would like to sell to them – financial services maybe. Not one fish.
July 19, 2025
I have just received a document from Durham County Council.
They state that ‘most working age people now receive Universal Credit.’
That pensioners claiming UN are the lowest number in 12 years.
They want to levy Council Tax on income bands to ‘save administrative costs’.
They want ‘most working people’ to pay no Council tax at all.
That would include all the illegal migrants of course. Less than half working age people and a large proportion of pensioners will be paying their council tax, universal Credit and providing homes.
This can’t go on.
July 19, 2025
419 criminals were illicitly transported, in plain sight, into the UK yesterday 18th July from France……
And welcomed by british charities & government officials
July 19, 2025
Rather makes you wonder if there’s a Super Secret Injunction concealing a deal made with the EU/France that “we’ll take our fair share” of the criminal migrants. I’m convinced it’s all being deliberately co-ordinated.
July 19, 2025
Agree
July 19, 2025
The French navy are giving boats lifejackets (which they then take back) and accompanying them to mid Channel having requested our Border Force to come and collect. Border Force should refuse to collect saying that these boats are clearly not in any danger. What would the French navy do? Leave them alone in mid Channel or escort them back to France?
July 22, 2025
Indeed, Richard. The international laws behind the French action apply equally to Britain and UK should therefore immediately take the boats back to French waters – at least for the migrants to collect the identity documentation that France is required by international law to have issued to them before they got on the boats.
July 19, 2025
What should we expect of a government elected to change things?
Definitely not:-
“Every which way but lose” (not win) with this shower of charletons.
July 19, 2025
All true of course, nobody really wanted labour only one in five voted for them four out of five did not, but they did want rid of incompetent Conservative’s, who were not Conservative at all and who failed to keep their promises.
Today we still don’t have a Conservative party, we have a party full of woke liberals who dress up as Conservative and the party will NOT get re-elected unless and until all of that element of the party has gone.
I’m sure I don’t need to name names .
July 19, 2025
“With its huge majority it could have changed anything” interesting take on how the UK ‘now’ works.
My apologies for the sarcasm, but that’s all that’s left, I we talking Johnson or Starmer both with huge majorities storming off in a different direction from and fighting with the people they serve.
July 19, 2025
“Starmer and the EU are still trying to punish Britain for Brexit”
“Under our hapless PM, the UK is agreeing to pay for things that many smaller nations would not accept ”
Daniel Hannan @ the DT https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/19/starmer-eu-punish-britain-for-brexit/
What other so-called sovereign democracy has to take the rules and make payment to the EU for what they do inside their own domain?
July 19, 2025
John..I see very little difference between any government.Dirty competition prevails and good ideas are lost by the slow ministers lack of understanding of how things fit into the big picture.
When issues are brought to any of them they won’t take responsibility and pass on to others.They won’t believe things that they can’t handle or are persuaded by another not to act on impropriety.
July 19, 2025
the Conservative versus Labour arguments are over, they are both way too crap to consider supporting. I just hope one of the other parties pulls itself enough to be able to make a success, and quickly.
claiming the Conservatives were doing well with immigration approaches is frankly treasonous given what we know now about gang rape and mass import of afghans
July 22, 2025
For most people politics is about practical things that affect their lives. For Starmer’s Gang it is about ideology, albeit based on hate. The Conservative Party had no ideology. At its core there was a vacuum. So it was weak in government. It sought votes by pandering to the loudest and noisiest. It did not stand up to the EU. It did not stand up to any group or faction acting against the UK’s interests.
The Rwanda scheme was not in place long enough to know whether it would have been successful or not. The lesson from Australia is that off-shore processing alone is not enough. There must also be direct action against the boats and there must be strong internal or domestic laws that enforced. The Conservative Government failed to act against the boats and failed to put in place strong domestic legislation. It failed on both because it was weak, with a moral vacuum at its core. It could not, would not, stand up to France, the EU, activist lawyers or the ECHR. It had no excuse because Article 5 of the ECHR specifically provides for, “the lawful arrest or detention of a person to prevent his effecting an unauthorised entry into the country or of a person against whom action is being taken with a view to deportation or extradition.” Enforcing that provision would be supported also by the UN Convention on Refugees, by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and by SOLAS, not to mention UK’s own Offences Against the Person Act 1861. No excuse.
And ironically the Tory Party argues for UK’s FPTP voting system on the ground that it produces strong government. Well it certainly has produced a very strong ideologically committed Labour government with a massive majority in Parliament on only a third of the votes, that acts against the will of the majority and against the interests of the nation at every turn. Parliament does not represent the people of Britain. It acted against the will of the people following the EU referendum, and now is even more strongly against the people.
Britain needs rebuilding from the ground up. It is utterly broken.