Government works hard to make its broken Britain slogan come true

Since the government came  to office every problem they’ve encountered has been  explained as being the fault of their predecessors. They told us Britain was broken but they would  fix it.

It is true there were too many legal  migrants coming in. The Conservatives have apologised for that whilst pointing out that you do need a third country to send illegals to where you cannot negotiate returns to where they came from. The Conservatives successfully stopped  the large flows from Albania with a returns agreement. Rwanda would have worked if they had amended the human rights laws as some of us proposed and is now Conservative policy. Legal migration was also too high, though they did cut back substantially in the last year.

Labour made the migration problems worse by repealing important parts of the law like the prevention of an illegal arrival claiming asylum which the Conservatives enacted just before departing. Scrapping Rwanda intensified the small boats problem, as some were going to Ireland instead with Rwanda looming. Labour are considering opening up the UK to much more migration from the EU which had been successfully controlled post Brexit.

Labour inherited a shortage of energy and expensive energy prices. They decided to make the position worse by pushing for more renewables at much higher prices, and by re instating a complete ban on new UK oil and gas development.

Labour inherited a fairly successful housing policy which had boosted new homes to 200,000 a year or 1 million over the Parliament as promised. They have added to cost pressures in building, helped put up longer term interest rates and added tax threats to property ownership. They have seen housing output fall whilst promising 300,000 a year or 1.5 m for this Parliament. No expert thinks they will get anywhere near the target.

Labour did not inherit a broken economy. The first half of 2024 saw the UK become the fastest growing G7 economy. The run up to the tax raising Labour budget and the budget itself slowed the economy badly. Growth had been damaged by covid lockdowns in earlier years.

Labour inherited 2% inflation, after the bad monetary mistakes of 2022 by the Bank of England which Ministers failed to stop and which had triggered a high inflation for a year. Labour’s tax on jobs, pay awards and other inflationary measures has almost doubled the inherited rate to 3.8% with the Bank expecting it to go above 4%.

Labour inherited low and falling unemployment, down to 4% from the 7.8% in 2010 when Labour was last in office. Labour have put it up to 4.8% with more rises to come, thanks to the tax on jobs and extra regulations hitting employers.

Labour inherited a booming services sector trade, especially with non EU, and improving trade generally. Their EU re set threatens to damage non EU trade without gaining any big wins for our exports to the EU.

Labour inherited a public sector with low productivity. They granted large pay awards with no productivity conditions attached, and proceeded to hire more staff to perpetuate the productivity problem.

Labour created its own problems by offering to give the Chagos islands away with a large dowry, something Conservative Ministers refused to do. They have made a mess of policing demonstrations and following up on the rape gangs.

The Conservatives did a good job in boosting standards of Maths and English in state schools through a combination of Academies and the phonics method. Labour are undermining the Academies and the progress made.The PISA tables saw the UK at 28th in maths and 25th in  English in 2009, and at 11 th in each in 2023. Expect to see these ratings fall this year.

 

68 Comments

  1. David Peddy
    October 27, 2025

    Everything Labour have done has been wrong .Everything they have touched has misfired

    1. Lifelogic
      October 27, 2025

      Indeed, they have built on 14 years of the Tories who had essentially the same approach, but Labour have really taken it to new heights of insane vandalism.

      1. Peter
        October 27, 2025

        The question is can we get rid of them before the next general election is due?

        If so, how?

        I think they will just stagger on, with leadership battles/changes, until they have to face an election.

        1. Lifelogic
          October 27, 2025

          Indeed and they even have an incentive to leave as larger a mess as possible for the next lot – so the next lot get the blame!

    2. Oldtimer92
      October 27, 2025

      Even worse, they destroy beyond repair.

  2. Lifelogic
    October 27, 2025

    Indeed Labour inherited a mess and made it far worse. Cameron, May and especially Boris and Sunak spent hundreds of £ Billions on net harm Covid Vaccines, net harm lockdowns, net harm net zero rip off energy and net harm low skilled immigration. Vast levels of QE to debase the currency and cause inflation too. But yes Labour are far worse even worse than I expected. And I had very low expectations indeed.

    They are also putting VAT on state schools to wreck many of those too. It will raise no net tax. It is just bitter envy and educational vandalism from Bridget Phillips. Why should private school users pay four times over? We need far more private schools not fewer.

    1. Lifelogic
      October 27, 2025

      VAT on private school fees rather!

  3. Lifelogic
    October 27, 2025

    The NHS seeks an emergency £3 bn or they will have to ration care in the Guardian – well they have been rationing services for very many years many die as a result. Free at the point of use inevitably means rationing and delays how else can you match supply and demand without a price mechanism?

    Also China threatens Sir Keir Starmer with a breakdown in diplomatic links unless Britain backs Beijing over owning Taiwan – well given Starmer’s record of Chagos and the alleged spy prosecutions he probably will do so readily and a dowery for that too. After all he and Zealot Ed want to buy ever more net zero lunacy equipment made using coal energy off them.

    1. Ian Wragg
      October 27, 2025

      The government should be forced to publish the trade agreement milibrains agreed with China. The fact it is classified means it’s to our detriment .
      .

      1. hefner
        October 27, 2025

        assets.publishing.service.gov.uk, DfBT, ‘Trade and Investment factsheets: China’ 19/09/2025, next release 31/10/2025.

    2. Ian B
      October 27, 2025

      @Lifelogic – just over 12 months in, and irreversible harm caused. Now to think what they can achieve after the full 60 months.

      The idiots that created the 5 year maximum term in office without seeking approval now ‘own’ this destruction. Oh yes, another brilliant Conservative idea.

      Democracies generally seek approval every 2 years, even Trump who only came to power this January, (2025) will be faced with an election that could change things, his authority, in November 2026. 2TK will be on the throne without seeking approval for 2.5 times longer than the President of the US.

      1. Ian B
        October 27, 2025

        We learn today – Argentina’s president Javier Milei, after two years in office, the electorate got to vote as is their constitution right on the direction he is taking them. They call that democracy even in South America, in the UK tough, the Conservatives didn’t want challenge so ensured it wouldn’t be on the table. The UK Parliament doesn’t want to be seen as anything but a club for the few, a club to stroke ego while fighting the Country and its People

    3. Sharon
      October 27, 2025

      I read a comment in the Telegraph yesterday, whereby the writer had to have a private GP appointment because he couldn’t get one on the NHS. As he was leaving, a family of three, clearly not English speakers, handed the receptionist a piece of paper, and none of them paid!

      If the NHS is overwhelmed and now migrants are getting free private care, where is left to go?

  4. Paul Freedman
    October 27, 2025

    President Trump inherited enormous challenges 9 months ago and he is solving them all. Indeed many of them are only taking months to do. He also has the added pressure of global leadership which will be hugely time consuming for him.
    By contrast, Starmer has had 15 months in office and everything is getting worse. We should be seeing much progress by now but there isn’t any. It is clear he cannot do the job and he should resign. The country cannot take another 3.5 years of him.

    1. Ian B
      October 27, 2025

      @Paul Freedman – President Trump lives in a Democracy, and will seek approval for his directions in November 2026. Us here, live in a Marxist regime with 2TK as it dictator make things up to suit his ego. One set of elections already cancelled more cancellations muted to be on their way.

  5. Lifelogic
    October 27, 2025

    Some help for insomniacs, Sir Kier Starmer on Private Passions Radio 3 yesterday.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002l09n

    1. Berkshire Alan.
      October 27, 2025

      It is alleged that perhaps he could play the fiddle as well, perhaps with Lord Ali backing him.

  6. Berkshire Alan.
    October 27, 2025

    Anyone would think from your comments today John that the last Government was doing OK.
    I am not going to itemise all of the failures, but let us look at just some.
    Covid grants to Companies without any recourse, when simple smaller support grants could have been given only to those who had completed a recent tax return, and could have been made to the self employed under the same logic. No recent tax return, no grant being the limitation check.
    Furlough scheme far, far too generous.
    Tax allowances frozen for IHT, Gifting, and Income, so we had fiscal drag for many years.
    A constant flow of complicated new laws and regulation which just confuse an even more failing justice system.
    The introduction of Net Zero a total and utter fiasco, and a huge and expensive mess as it stands.
    The above and much more is why the Conservatives got kicked out, yes Labour are even worse, but then so would have been the Conservatives given the direction of travel.

    1. Mickey Taking
      October 27, 2025

      Any wonder that the electorate is, and will flock to the only hope in town….Reform.
      When all avenues are closed or closing what is left but the upstart to tackle the overflowing desk of failure report cards?

    2. Donna
      October 27, 2025

      Over the last century, apart from the 10 years of Mrs Thatcher’s Premiership when the course the Ship of State was taking was partly redirected, we’ve had:

      Tories bad, Labour worse; Tories bad, Labour worse; Tories bad, Labour worse.

      A large proportion of the electorate do now appear to have recognised the pattern.

      1. Berkshire Alan.
        October 27, 2025

        Agreed !

      2. Mickey Taking
        October 27, 2025

        But that is true for the older than 30-40 group who are experienced in government howlers.
        Under say 40 they will have got used to Governments appearing to do the opposite of commonsense.
        That simply builds apathy in politics and a state of shrugging it off or the clever and qualified look to leave these shores.
        The other group to leave are of course those with a business or entrepreneurial outlook, why would they stay being attacked on all fronts by a Labour government?

    3. Jim+Whitehead
      October 27, 2025

      B.A., and L.L., I do agree with your assessment of the Conservatives’ performance before the even more dreadful Labour successors.
      I had progressively lost trust in the party and its drift into uselessness and harmful policies.
      It’s that fundamental loss of trust which holes them below the waterline in my view.
      I do appreciate that MPs have to swallow so much that they might not wholly agree with in order to maintain Government direction but I gauge that there are so few Conservative MPs with whom I might have an agreeable conversation that my vote can never return in their favour. They are a lost cause.
      The philosophical fellow travellers are elsewhere, and integrity is a fundamental.
      I have been disappointed in the Conservatives (and consequently cast my vote for others) since Major eschewed the sense and direction which Margaret Thatcher had given us so too do I feel that the eminent wisdom and sterling advice of Sir John over the years has been scorned and ignored and that his words fall more agreeably to ears and minds of those other factions and might be best cultivated in that direction.
      His talent, has been largely wasted I think, and so much to the misfortune and disadvantage of the country that he has served so well (none better, I truly believe, as time and experience is revealing).

  7. Rod Evans
    October 27, 2025

    Sir John, you list the failing policies of the left wing side of the Westminster Uniparty, while at the same time acknowledging the failures of the right wing side. Your attempt to inject positive achievement of the Uniparty right wing amounts to improvement in a academic levels in children’s maths and English?
    The elephant in the room is energy policy which you only obliquely mentioned. The active destruction of our electricity generation plants by the Tories who favoured blowing up viable well constructed essential power stations will be a permanent legacy hanging round the neck of a failing political class.
    The fact this was done by the Tory administration while mandating Net Zero legislation is shameful and unforgivable.

    1. Donna
      October 27, 2025

      Agreed. The same applies to the Covid Tyranny – particularly the attempted mandating of experimental mRNA gene therapies and the relentless coercion to participate in what was basically a mass medical experiment with poorly tested products (which have subsequently been found to cause considerable very serious health consequences for some people).

      It is unforgiveable.

      1. Jim+Whitehead
        October 27, 2025

        Donna, Rod Evans, :
        Yes, that word ‘Unforgiveable’ is sufficient to impart the fundamental message.

    2. Ian B
      October 27, 2025

      @Rod Evans – while I agree I have an issue ‘right wing side’. Those you could be suggesting don’t even figure as centralists, middle of the road, they are so far divorced from the UK’s mainstream and like the other part of the Uniparty are Socialist WEF disciples before having anything to do with the UK.

      All that is need is a Parliament that will work for and with the Nation and its Citizens. We don’t need ‘blow hards’ that place Marxism, ego, and self esteem above every thing else.

      1. Rod Evans
        October 27, 2025

        Ian, I accept your clarification. Using the term right wing is simply to differentiate the old Labour from the Tory labour, or LibDems which they are principally aligned with, yet sit as Tory MPs?
        Cameron, or the Heir to Blair as he prefers to title himself has a lot to answer for. His easy “I agree with Nick” should have sent warning signals to all sensible/right thinkers.

    3. miami.mode
      October 27, 2025

      Totally agree Rod. Usual political stuff that it wasn’t quite right but, “hey, let’s move on”.

  8. Donna
    October 27, 2025

    Labour’s economic/tax policies could have been designed to cause Stagflation and their policies overall are so obviously counter-productive that they can only be deliberate.

    I think they are deliberately crashing the economy and demoralising the Nation in order to get us back into the EU. That is how the Establishment got us into the EEC in the first place, by wrecking our economy and presenting EEC membership as the remedy. The pro-EU Establishment hopes a repeat of the 1970s will have the same effect now.

    Two-Tier and Reeves are already blaming their economic destruction on Brexit and if they have to go cap in hand to the IMF, it will come with the “rejoin the EU and adopt the Euro” string very firmly attached.

    1. Peter Wood
      October 27, 2025

      Quite so, and we can expect higher inflation as the money supply keeps growing but economic activity remains stagnant,
      https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/money-supply-m4

      Government debt is happily rising towards French levels, so looks like Starmer and Reeves are well on the way to their target.
      https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/government-debt
      Wonder what Ms Reeves is doing in Saudi, trying to sell more Gilts perhaps…

    2. Ian B
      October 27, 2025

      @Donna +1

  9. NigL
    October 27, 2025

    And in terms of broken Britain we read today a report from MPs setting out the utter shambles concerning Migrant hotels costing the country billions. Ministers (starting with Tories) and officials ignored day to day management, opportunities to renegotiate etc allowing excessive profits and appalling service levels.

    So utterly incompetent from the start, zero understanding of project creation and then management.

    Why should the Labour Party, presumably with the same officials and levels of incompetent ministers be any different. We keep seeing ex Tory. Ministers saying they wished they had done something presumably to try and regain public trust.

    Could have, should have, would have. It’s pathetic. The system is utterly broken.

  10. Narrow Shoulders
    October 27, 2025

    The assumption was at the last election and the lead up to it that if Labour got in they could do no worse than the left wing Conservative government.

    By turbo charging the already socialist policies pursued by the Conservative governments Labour is proving that socialism brings countries down.

    If only Liz Truss had not reduced the higher tax rate and signaled further tax cuts while spending like a drunken sailor on gas and electricity subsidies, we could be so much better off.

  11. Old Albion
    October 27, 2025

    So Sir JR, you’re saying Starmer and the Labour party are incompetent. Who’d a thought it ………

  12. Lynn Atkinson
    October 27, 2025

    The EU is collapsing. That is not the problem. The problem is World Govt with the UN imposing world taxes. They already impose one and tried for a second, scuppered by Trump.
    Don’t focus on the EU while they impose the ultimate step, as stated and supported by Boris Johnson.

  13. majorfrustration
    October 27, 2025

    We always appear to be the fastest growing economy in the G7 whatever |Government is in power. Is the common denominator the fact that we have the highest inflation of the G7.

  14. Kenneth
    October 27, 2025

    The Conservatives did a poor job in government and were acting more like a socialist government than a Conservative government.

    The current government appear to be slightly worse.

    The Conservaties were booted out last time. Labour will be next time.

    Time for Reform

  15. Ian B
    October 27, 2025

    So many questionable events, that together poses the question who does the Parliament work for.

    This Parliament is pushing for the cute sounding ‘Workers Rights Bill’. When looked at in detail it amounts to the Labour Party’s sponsors, being able to search out more income by pressuring more individual citizens directly to be forced into funding the ‘collectives’, the unions, just to be permitted to work. In other words it would appear in a roundabout way more people will be ‘forced’ to fun the Labour Party.

  16. Harry MacMillon
    October 27, 2025

    This

    Government works hard to make its broken Britain slogan come true

    Everything they have done since coming into office has been negative, expensive or destructive.

    Are they deliberately trying to change Britain back into a third world country akin to the Dark Ages?

  17. Bloke
    October 27, 2025

    Too few folk voted at the last election, allowing Labour a vast majority.
    Those former Conservative voters abstaining caused much of the effect, but that party had gone awry with so much going wrong for so long. Reform was the only suitable party to balance the power, That opportunity won’t recur until Labour is ousted, but too much of the UK is likely to continue being destroyed in the meantime.

  18. IanT
    October 27, 2025

    My wife’s reaction on hearing of the recent prisoner ‘release’ was simply a shrug and “you couldn’t make it up”. Today it seems we’ve been paying millions more than we should for asylum acomodation – Quelle Suprise!
    Just two examples in the past few days. My friends and family have mostly stopped believing that government (both current & previous) are capable of running anything proficiently. After all, it’s “not their money” so why should ‘they’ care? It seems they don’t – unless caught out and shown to be totally incompetant of course.

    Meanwhile, human nature is hard at work. People are worried about tax, inflation and their future well being. They go out less, travel less, spend less. The black economy grows, cash-in-hand becomes more commonplace. Why buy a new car (an EV?) when keeping the perfectly good (petrol) one longer makes good sense. Why move (downsize?) your house when stamp duty, legal fees and all the cost & hassle of relocation are a deterent. Just sit tight and hunker down in your lovely old home. Why work harder to make ends meet when your neighbours are busy ‘working’ the benefits system and better off than you are? A pattern starts to emerge where people spend less, ‘avoid’ tax more & demand more ‘support’ from the State.

    This Government in failing to control public spending, thinks it can off-set its poor management by taxing the “wealthy”. Unfortunately, a form of Laffer-on-steroids will happen instead. Public behaviour is changing – a ‘work to rule’ caused by a mix of fear, uncertainty and apathy. Why strive, why be prudent, why work harder – or why even work? Tax income will decline and national debt increase. This has all the makings of a very steep negative spiral indeed.

    1. Donna
      October 28, 2025

      Very well put. People are circling the wagons to defend what they’ve got – not risking anything on the possibility of improving their lot because the disincentives are far too great, the likelihood of success is diminishing and – even if they do succeed – the avaricious State will just punish them.

  19. Dave Andrews
    October 27, 2025

    Even Countryfile have weighed in against the Labour government with a piece on the damage to farming through new inheritance tax laws. The misery inflicted on elderly farmers is just sickening. All for the sake of their senseless ideology, and they refuse to back down.
    Hang in there farmers if you can, until the next election can deliver a government that will see sense and reverse these measures. Maybe the next government can hold those in the present government personally responsible for the trouble they cause. Take away their pension, ruin them financially, after all that’s what they seek to do with the farmers.

    1. Mickey Taking
      October 27, 2025

      Several areas of farming land already sold, and up for sale in the Wokingham constituency.
      IHT being reduced by selling off well ahead of the demise of the owners.
      Which makes more land available for potential building of course.
      Is it happening in other areas?

      1. MBJ
        October 27, 2025

        Yes ..Todmorden

  20. Roy Grainger
    October 27, 2025

    “Scrapping Rwanda intensified the small boats problem, as some were going to Ireland instead with Rwanda looming”.

    Yes that was an interesting and under-reported episode because I suspect what actually happened after Ireland complained about this was that the Conservatives agreed that those who went to Ireland should all be immediately returned to the UK without appeal and that is indeed what happened. “It’s not our job to solve other countries migration problems” the Irish government said at the time. The Conservatives agreed no such reciprocal agreement with France of course on the basis that that was France’s problem.

    Reply What evidence is there of such an Irish Agreement? Nothing of the sort was reported

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      October 27, 2025

      Ireland remains overwhelmed by migrants.

      1. hefner
        October 27, 2025

        From the US?

        1. Lynn Atkinson
          November 1, 2025

          No from the EU. People returning to Ireland from the US are coming home.

  21. miami.mode
    October 27, 2025

    …there were too many legal migrants coming in. The Conservatives have apologised for that…

    Reminds me of an old TV programme ‘Get Smart’ where a bumbling secret agent makes catastrophic mistakes and simply says “Sorry about that, Chief”.

    1. Donna
      October 27, 2025

      They’re learning “apology not accepted” the hard way.

  22. Ian B
    October 27, 2025

    Sir john
    Parliament of 650 MPs a personal guess we would all be hard pushed to find just 10% 65 MPs working for the Country and its People. To many either freeloaders or working for what is essential Foreign Powers.
    Its not just one political group in isolation they all have an embedded wish to cause harm first, to ‘Break Britain’.

    Today it is reported…
    ‘Billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money were squandered on asylum hotels because of a “failed, chaotic and expensive” system imposed by the Home Office, a committee of MPs has found.’
    ‘Ministers and officials “neglected” day-to-day management of their asylum accommodation providers even as the cost of the 10-year contracts tripled from £4.5bn to £15.3bn, according to the all-party home affairs committee.’

    The report tends to highlight ‘just’ Ministerial failure, to me it is a failure of Parliament, as it is Parliament that holds the executive to account. It could be suggested that this review goes somewhere towards Parliament taking responsibility. But like everyone, the question then becomes what is Parliament its 650 MPs going to do about it – they own these failings. These are parliamentary failures.
    This another £15.3 billion joining the other billions being thrown away. A quick calculation on all the money reported, by the OBR etc as being ‘spaffed’ at nothing, NetZero, Chagos, etc. to achieve nothing. Shows they, the State, could today give every man woman and child in the County £15,000 each (all 70million of them) and it would not affect a single service, NHS, Education, Defence and so on, they would still be receiving their funding and without controls.

    These situations not only call into question the Government, but Parliament its self. If no one is responsible, what are they for?

    1. Mickey Taking
      October 27, 2025

      We should return to the idea of a Parliament of 100 to 150 experienced, technical, business types, few lawmakers who could remove nonsense laws in a stroke, create a fresh direction of travel.
      The existing cabal of parties and the sheep like MPs under the threat of 3- line whips makes the term democracy an absolute joke in UK.

      1. Ian B
        October 27, 2025

        @Mickey Taking – I would hazard a guess that coincides with the thoughts of the majority of the electorate and for the most part that’s what some think should happen. Drastically cut the numbers, increase pay and backup to get the right people… Then think Turkeys voting for Christmas, we can all just dream of the revolution.

        The USA population 340 million, House of Representatives 435, elections every 2 years and democracy works. The UK population just 70 million with 650 freeloaders in the House of Commons, elections maybe every 5 years, when they are not cancelled, and democracy becomes non-existent

  23. Ukret123
    October 27, 2025

    Great headline Sir John. It made me laugh but is sadly so true.

  24. hefner
    October 27, 2025

    Kind of O/T: ft.com 27/10/2025 ‘Tax advantage of UK self-employment at record high, analysis finds’.
    A median-earning self-employed worker will pay tax at 17% whereas a median-earning employee will pay 27% tax giving the former an annual £3,500 tax advantage on the latter.

    1. Berkshire Alan.
      October 27, 2025

      Hefner
      Hefner
      How about all the other overheads and costs, I listed many of them in posting on here just a few days ago.

      Just to name a few, NO Sick pay, No holiday pay, search and quote for your own work in your own time, pay an accountant, pay for office equipment, pay for trade vehicles, pay for tools of the trade, pay Public and Third Party Insurance, pay Professional indemnity insurance, pay trade association membership, pay for Gas and electric certification, collect and check payments receipts, fill in tax forms or pay an accountant, etc etc.
      Cost of premises or own home extensions, business rates, council tax. etc etc.
      Pay all of your own pension contributions.

    2. Wanderer
      October 27, 2025

      @Hefner. No holiday or sick pay for the self employed. Being one, I’m very ware of that. No pension contribution either. I have to plug on doing manual labour, aged 65.

      I wonder what figures are they using. Turnover or net pretax income for the self-employed? Salary plus pension contribution for the employee? Whose “median” (a different median earning figure for each class of worker or the same figure applied to both)?

      1. Berkshire Alan.
        October 27, 2025

        Wanderer.

        Just most self employed people do not earn the average median wage according to past HMRC comments.
        Although it does not say how many hours a week they are comparing, the “assumption” is made that they both work the same number of hours, but are Universal credits taken into account, or any other benefits gained included in either case. ?

    3. Sam
      October 27, 2025

      That’s s very odd statistic hefner.
      If you go onto HMRC and look up self employed tax rates they have the same nil band of £12,570 and then pay 20% on earnings up to when the higher band starts.
      The same as employed people.
      And as others have said to you there are other elements they have to pay for that employed people do not.

  25. Keith from Leeds
    October 27, 2025

    The question is whether it is stupidity, ignorance or deliberate policy? Should Starmer, Reeves and Miliband be sectioned? All three seem hopelessly out of depth, out of touch with the real world and talking absolute rubbish!
    A ruthless tax system is squeezing people and businesses in the UK to the point of disaster. Yet the Chancellor keeps telling us she has fixed the foundations of our economy. Miliband tells us wind and solar are cheaper, cleaner power sources, but then pays them massive subsidies when they generate power —and when they do not! While Starmer spends more time out of the UK, kidding himself that he is a world statesman, when he is regarded as a weak leader who, like a cushion, bears the imprint of the last person who sat on him!
    If it is deliberate, then they need to be tried for treason.

    1. Mickey Taking
      October 27, 2025

      Sectioned or accused of treason?

  26. Original Richard
    October 27, 2025

    “Government works hard to make its broken Britain slogan come true”

    Yes, very true. And it makes one wonder for whom they are working and what are their goals. Their Net Zero program will de-industrialise and bankrupt the country. The NESO Clean Power 2030 project requires rolling blackouts of 20-40% of demand, the amount depending upon how much we can get/afford to buy over the interconnectors, during peak times to avoid a total grid collapse. Together with mass legal and illegal immigration it will destroy our national security. The UN IPCC’s anthropogenic CO2 radiative warming theory is false as shown by climate history and the science of Happer & Wijngaarden and Shula & Ott. There is no climate crisis. Check the weather data. The oceans are not boiling (Al Gore) and the planet is not burning (UN Sec Gen). BTW climate action is only #13 in the UN’s list of sustainable goals so it cannot be an existential threat, can it? Well, it isn’t. It’s only a threat to our prosperity and national security.

  27. George
    October 27, 2025

    Hi sir john
    What about the clause 16 which cancels clause 8, 9 and 10 in the EU COURTS which allows all countries including the uk to return migrants
    THANKS

    Reply Under the Dublin scheme we took more than they would take back! Tiny numbers of returns allowed.

  28. Original Richard
    October 27, 2025

    “Labour inherited a shortage of energy and expensive energy prices. They decided to make the position worse by pushing for more renewables at much higher prices, and by re instating a complete ban on new UK oil and gas development.”

    They know renewables are making electricity ever more expensive. The ES&NZ Committee are continually looking for ways to hide the cost. At an ES&NZ Select Committee meeting on 15/10 the Chair asked the 6 energy company CEOs giving evidence to where the electricity renewable generating costs could be moved, suggesting gas bills, taxation or “elsewhere in the energy system”. At the same meeting the Chair asked them: “How well do you think you are doing in making it possible for people to make the significant changes in their lives that are necessary for that transition [to electrification] to take place?”

    1. Mickey Taking
      October 27, 2025

      Was it suggested the people should use candles for light in the dark winter evenings instead of turning elctricity lights on? Ideally turn every appliance off and go to bed by 9pm?

  29. Original Richard
    October 27, 2025

    “Since the government came to office every problem they’ve encountered has been explained as being the fault of their predecessors.”

    This argument isn’t going to work with a majority of the electorate. But then neither is the argument from the predecessors that they can fix broken Britain given their previous record which includes multiple broken promises on immigration, turbocharging Net Zero and allowing cancel culture, wokery and NCHIs to take over. Both parties are now seen as two sides of the same socialist uniparty which started with Blair and was followed by the “heirs to Blair” and the cry from the voters is now “We don’t believe you!”.

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