Governments like setting themselves targets to give people a sense of direction and to demonstrate progress. This government is particularly keen on them. The art of good target setting is
1. Identify a real problem where more effort and resource can improve things
2, Set a stretching but achievable target
3. Put in the extra resource and leadership
4. Get public service buy in to success by showing how the target is being met and is popular with the public.
This government is finding it difficult to meet its key targets or even get us going in the same direction as the target.
The target to smash the gangs has never been in sight as numbers arriving increased under the new government. Their policy actually ditched changes the last government had made but had not fully implemented which would have brought down illegal migration faster than it was falling when Labour took over.
The target to build 1.5 million new homes is never going to be met this Parliament, and the policy of speeding planning permissions did not tackle the main reasons for poor housebuilding numbers. Taxing the economy into slowdown did not help.
The target to take £300 off people’s energy bills was not going to be hit because more renewables which the government keeps adding are dearer. Getting a modest reduction in bills next quarter by shifting some of the costs onto general taxation is a fiddle, not a win. We still have to pay dearer bills but some of it is taken out of increased taxes.
The target to cut NHS waiting lists has led to some reductions mainly by removing the dead, the recovered, the double counted from the lists, not by more throughput and treatment of patients. Whilst it makes sense to get more accurate lists it is not what was implied by a target to reduce waiting. People are still waiting too long who need treatment and there are still too few treatments and consultations.
The education target seeks to reduce the gap between the best and worst performing children. Surely the target we want is one to raise the performance and opportunities of those who are not doing well. This government’s target could be advanced by cutting resources and effort to teach those who are doing well to bring their achievement down to closer to the average. This would not be a good outcome.
February 26, 2026
Good morning.
All Socialists are. Tractor production anyone.
Targets to a Socialist is a form of justification when, on rare occasions, they are met. It is a; “See ! Socialism really does work.” And when they are not met there is usually some excuse.
The best governments are the ones where there are no targets. That is because they are leaving things to themselves. But they have to be seen to be doing something or why all those people in Number 10, the Civil Service, QUANGO’s and both Houses of Parliament doing ? Truth is, we do not need them. Well, ‘most’ of them.
Less is more.
February 26, 2026
One target we can’t criticise is this governments haste at giving away assets. Chagos is still on the agenda.
Gibraltar is being actively transferred to Spain/EU without even parliament oversight.
Our fish have been given to the EU indefinitely and the ruinous Net Stupid targets are being pursued with vigour.
Agenda 30 would seem well on track.
February 26, 2026
Target met.
February 26, 2026
@Mark B – agreed. Repeating the same mistakes over and over, is not Government it is not what a Parliament should be for
March 1, 2026
+1
February 26, 2026
The NHS spend loads of money and misdirect funds not to actually treat people on waiting lists but to fiddle these waiting lists and to pretend they are getting better for political reasons. Other departments do the same. Waiting list for waiting lists or you cannot go on this list until your other condition is dealt with or have had other tests which might take 12 months…
February 26, 2026
Keeping waiting lists lower than they really are is done in several cynical ways..surgery gate keepers make ‘seeing’ a GP as hard as possible, a telephone call is not likely to result in a referrral as seriousness does not travel well over the transmission. Once a date for investigation is finally achieved appointments will later be cancelled if cancer is unlikely from the notes. A fresh date is not provided until complaints are received. Other reductions arise from ‘staff shortages, theatre equipment issues, staff illness etc’.
February 26, 2026
For the first time, I’ve had a lot to do with the NHS this past year. Some things have been excellent; for example, they saved my Dad’s life after leaving him on an A&E side ward waiting to be seen for what seemed an eternity, the first time in his life (80) he’s ever required an operation. In fact, his GP practice didn’t know him. Other things, I’m shocked at what I saw visiting every day for months on end. Then my mother ended up in a frail elderly care ward. I actually said to my husband, these death pods are preferable for me if I end up in here, and I’m very concerned about them and their potential misuse. You get no opportunity to share your thank you for this xyz or share your concerns about xyz (eg food presented to elderly people with restricted diets from the food range they can’t eat and no time to help them to eat), so the NHS doesn’t get customer service feedback – and this is a monopoly on emergency care and most other elderly care. You daren’t complain or moan in there whilst leaving an elderly parent under their watch. There was one nurse who honestly deserved a medal, yet she was seriously thinking about leaving because of weird groupings of shifts, daft targets, being taken for granted, doing more than her share etc. I actually wrote a thank-you note and specified where she worked above and beyond via PALS, so she hopefully got some recognition, because frankly, they’d be lost without her.
February 26, 2026
The police too like to say things are not crimes and so do not take a crime report whenever they can get away with it. Things like oh no you cannot report that as a crime as it was not your property that was stolen or vandalised & lots of other ways too. This was not breaking and entering is was civil trespass!
February 26, 2026
@Lifelogic – to a Socialist Parliament the growth and money spent on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is money well spent on the Nations Health. Indoctrinating ‘discrimination’ as that is what it is a a Socialist ideal
February 26, 2026
Someone in my family has been waiting to see a specialist in a hospital for months and was eventually given an appointment one month hence. We decided to visit the relevant department and personally and politely request an earlier one. Without any problem an appointment for the following week was offered. When they attended this new appointment the Consultant actually thanked them for being persistent and said that it had been “helpful”. Go figure!
February 26, 2026
Targets set by governments have a bad history, they are often worse than manifesto promises. Worse, because the government and/or the institution dealing with the issue often wangles the figures to make it appear something is improving, or at least not worsening as fast as before.
I remember even in Mrs T’s administration a variation of this tactic was used when water pollution limits of some kind weren’t being met: she just raised the limits. Magically her government had curtailed any breaches.
So, all governments get up to shenanigans. Our current leaders are just worse. There’s been the general slide in honesty and competence over the years, socialism favours command by targets, and this lot are exceptionally useless at managing the public sector.
Reply I do not recall the alleged water incident. Can you clarify?
February 26, 2026
Prob. Related to EU Bathing Water Directives.
Lifting daft expensive limits is often very sensible. Let’s start with the lunacy of net zero targets, fracking was killed by absurdly restrictive “earth quake” restrictions which were more restrictive than could be caused by a passing truck. Especially given all the pot holes they fail to fix.
Mogg yesterday claimed Kemi was scrapping net zero is she really? And what do all her MPs who nodded May’s lunacy through without even a vote think of this?
Reply Yes, please try to keep up. The Conservative party led by Kemi and Claire Couthino have set out a new policy of going for cheaper energy including fossil fuels. The party is fully behind this, and agrees with what I and others have written about the huge damage being done to UK industry and jobs by government high energy prices with carbon taxes.
February 26, 2026
A small point but did you ever refer to David Cameron as Dave or David on these pages?
Isn’t she Mrs (Ms?) Badenoch or Kemi Badenoch?
Just as our Prime Minister should always be referred to by his full name of Sir Two Tier.
February 26, 2026
@Reply – to most of us they would suggest that now, wouldn’t they. But when they had the powers enjoyed the collective responsibility of government, they by ever measure refused. They were clearly in agreement with the position taken by government then as they choose to stay in office as Ministers, and follow the collective agreement and accepting the collective responsibility.
February 26, 2026
Merz of Germany has given up on heat-pumps altogether. They admit they don’t work. They allow gas and electric heating, but can’t necessarily provide the gas or electricity.
Politicians should not be involved in these issues at all.
February 26, 2026
They still seem to be rather on the fence and quiet about this. Do they now finally accept that even a doubling of CO2 from current levels will not be damaging prob. On balance a net good. Plus the daft things they were pushing heat pumps, evs, walking, renewables, public transport, killing UK high energy industries do not even save any world CO2 plant food to any real extent anyway.
February 26, 2026
Haven’t heard anything from the tories about reopening shale-gas fracking nor repealing the CCC
February 26, 2026
It was something to do with nitrogen levels (?) in watercouses and inshore waters, as I recall it. I think it was an EU-derived regulation which we were breaching costantly, possibly a gold-plated import from Brussels. I don’t remember the detail but was impressed by the raising of the bar being used as an instant way to “solve the problem” – it was the first time I was aware of this tactic. Environmental types were furious.
February 26, 2026
The problem with the NHS is that government has had to fund health services for an additional ~10 million people since 2000. Of course, waiting lists have increased accordingly
The UK population has increased by over 10 million since 2000, rising from ~59 million in 2000 to an estimated 69 million by 2025. This growth, primarily driven by high net international migration (the “Boriswave”) and to a lesser extent natural change (births minus deaths), has been relatively consistent – with rapid increases in the 2000s and 2010s
Access to our free healthcare is a major driver for the boat people and other economic migrants
The population is projected to continue growing, with forecasts suggesting it will surpass 70 million by 2029 (Source; ONS)
February 26, 2026
” high net international migration (the “Boriswave”) and to a lesser extent natural change (births minus deaths), ”
The two are related. The majority of immigrants are of cultures that practise much higher birthrates than native Brits.
February 26, 2026
The NHS charges hospital visitors £4.50 per day x 7 = £31.50 per week, but I’d estimate £50 per week for most patients.
However, they seem very reluctant to put a till on reception in A&E to charge people without NI records in the Spine. Visitors aren’t charged in advance for treatments; you don’t pass go in France, Spain or the USA, for example, without handing over your EU Healthcard, debit or credit card/travel insurance details. The foreign aid department should be invoiced for charity cases we treat for people without the above. The workers in the NHS want to be all benevolent until it comes to their pay, and then they’re often very militant.
February 26, 2026
Quite, it should be very simple to input national insurance number or credit card or insurance policy at triage.
After 6 months itcwould be normal.
February 26, 2026
There are no wait times for the New British who are front of the queue even for free dentistry.
February 26, 2026
the targets in the NHS just lead to corruption and fake figures. the only real way to fix things is to hand buying power over to individual citizens.
February 26, 2026
NHS targets could be improved if health trusts were no longer required to include lifestyle diseases in their figures. They would then steer resources towards genuine health conditions, leaving those with lifestyle diseases resorting to private healthcare in desperation.
Next step formally remove the obligation of the NHS to treat lifestyle diseases.
February 26, 2026
Interesting Mr. Andrews, so you would like to see more desperation?
Merciless, pitiless soul…
February 26, 2026
At the moment it seems everyone is in desperation, lifestyle or genuine disease, with unavailability of GP appointments and endless waiting lists.
February 26, 2026
Self inflicted.
No doubt t you would prefer endless subsidy.
February 27, 2026
Self-inflicted? Typically ignorant and enlightened view of the smug and self righteous
February 26, 2026
Indeed patient choice does not exist in the NHS and it is the key to Australia’s health system producing far better outcomes at only slightly higher cost.
February 26, 2026
Yet some people get great treatment on the NHS in private hospitals! My friend’s mum, living in Wales, is going to be treated in a top-class private hospital in Liverpool.
There are social media posts doing the rounds suggesting people ask what hospitals (inc Private ones) can do their care from the ‘choice pathway’. There is something bizarre going on.
February 26, 2026
Blair tried to setup patient choice in the NHS, but it was half hearted, only ever partially worked, the NHS apparatchiks worked against it, was poorly implemented in the crap IT systems Blair spent billions on, and some of the remnants of it remain. And yes for some ops, in some parts of the country, the NHS routinely subcontracts it to private hospitals, mostly because the NHS simply does not have the capacity or competence to do them properly.
Lansley reforms were a shambles from the beginning, with more silly ideas about how IT could change crap business processes in the NHS.
We need far more real ongoing patient choice in all parts of the treatment cycle, not just the beginning, and we need proper buying power in the relationship with primary care so that they are incentivised to see us when we want to be seen, in a timely manner, and actually seen by docs not pretend docs, and they do the basics of primary care like the rest of the planet does (like taking out blood there and then and not sending us to another queue elsewhere in the NHS for that).
Mostly we need to copy the Australian or New Zealand healthcare systems, top to bottom, and no compromise on it.
Etc
February 27, 2026
Don’t get me started on the Lansley 2004 contract. GPs able to stop providing evening and weekend care for £1600 pa, they didn’t expect 95% to say ok no more evenings and weekends, causing the ambulance problems and A&E problems we have now out of hours, although some recorrection has started to take place, and its probably costing us a lot more to give 10% of service resumption back. GPs used to rate evening and Saturday morning cover between five surgeries in our town.
February 27, 2026
yes the old system of local GP’s sharing out of hours duties amongst themselves worked very well in reality, they would all sort out the issues of scheduling each others holidays, and adapt to someone being ill etc.
better still is what happens in other countries where not only do local GP’s do out of hours cover, but there are also minors clinics staffed by docs where anyone can go without appointment and get seen straight away (so that they do not need to waste time off work).
the current UK system, radically different in different parts of the country, varies massively in quality. in some places we still have local GP’s in a marked up “doctor” car doing the urgent stuff. in other parts of the country its a minimum 6 hour triage to speak to a doc 200 miles away.
February 26, 2026
Beating the competition is the best form of target. It provides a real measure as well
February 26, 2026
@Narrow Shoulders +1 – but you have a Parliament incapable of understanding that
February 26, 2026
I wonder what the U-Turn target is? They seem to be doing quite well with them.
February 26, 2026
Not well enough….
February 26, 2026
The government seems to have a socialist/communist mind set. Therefore nothing they do will perfect success, only more debt and costs to the alarm clock electorate. They are not honest brokers at all.
Looking at how quickly they’ve jumped on Misley Mandarin and the other three Chaggosians , it begs the question as to why they can’t act that swiftly with the Kent coast daily invasion!
February 26, 2026
I suggest it is because they have a secret deal with France that we will “take our fair share” of the criminal migrants.
February 26, 2026
Yes I am impressed with Reform’s leader going to the Maldives by private jet to defend the right of the Chagosians to their islands.
I wonder how he managed to recognize them when he can’t define or recognize a Briton?
Perhaps he accepts that they ‘feel’ Chagosian. I’m beginning to feel like a Cahgosian myself and wonder what standard married quarters at Deigo Garcia are built to. Whose with me?
February 26, 2026
It is worth pointing out targets are simply ambitions, they are not policy statements with any meaningful data to support them. Targets are put out to sound as though something is being done.
The government came into office saying they will build 1.5 million new homes in their five year period to resolve the housing shortage.
There are just two things wrong with that.
1. building 300,000 houses/year will not resolve the housing needs of an ever expanding population.
2. In the period already in office the rate of house building has declined to a new low.
There is no chance the government can build what they set out as a ‘target’ unless they change the rules of measuring. Instead of new houses they will change their metric to ‘new accommodation’. Once they do that they will count houses of multiple occupancy as an achievement.
The scheming that goes on is a disgrace but what else do we expect from the likes of a Labour administration?
February 26, 2026
Very valid comments – this government is going nowhere fast.
Since the new year I’ve noticed a deeper professionalism to these posts – our host has never been unprofessional, but now his posts come with a fresh breath, with precise detail and specifics even clearer.
I wish I had the stamina this lord.
February 26, 2026
He has always delivered excellent value if only government had talken his wise advice. Just Marjor ERM fiasco and the Covid lockdown lunacy.
I am hoping JR will help get the real broken down figures for the net harm Covid ‘vaccines’ released hopefully not after 30 years, Unsafe and ineffective. Then we have the threat to jury trial and the refusal to grant lucy Letby her 15 long overdue appeals! Then to reverse the Doom Loop insanity
February 26, 2026
“good aims or fiddling the figures?” or today as the conspiracy theorist would have it, is the day that the postal votes win the election.
I know, off topic and feeding into the chattering class, recent history shows us they have a point
February 26, 2026
“targets to give people a sense of direction” then you have to ask whose direction, the peoples the country’s? or is it meant to mean personal political ideology and the ‘one size fits all’
February 26, 2026
Good morning Lord Redwood, surely even you recognise the ‘Plan’ call it the Socialist WEF Fabian Society Plan, is not a plan for the country or its people. Its a Plan for self gratification and social engineering to bolster the Politburo and it members.
The sound-bites of new homes, lower energy bills, the NHS and education are just that – sound-bites. New homes are not built buy Parliament, they are built by having a strong economy. Energy costs are not derived from Parliament stealing money from the Taxpayer to pay their friend’s, they are built by enterprise fulfilling need. The NHS 70 years of trying, repeating the same mistakes and Parliament still doesn’t get, still doesn’t understand why other nations do it better. The NHS is a Socialist endeavour seeking to fit every one and every situations into a common doctrine, when that was never the problem. Education through the endeavours of Socialist doctrine and engineering has become the schools of WOKE, schools of containment, not the schools of learning through endless Parliament interference, education is about learning how to learn not dictated indoctrination.
Parliament has yet to understand the greatest impediment to this nation and its people is them the 650 MPs all seemingly clueless, but wanting to use power to control. Parliament should be ensuring the people and the country is released to become the best they/it can. Parliament ‘cant do’ but it can enable. There I go again even believing that any one in Parliament understands the difference.
February 26, 2026
It is very easy to set a target, and give the impression to the world that something is being done. It is far harder to do the work needed to ensure that the nuts and bolts are in place for the target to be met. If the target is a serious one, with a real chance of being achieved, all that work should have been completed before the target is announced. There is no sign at all that this sequence is being followed by the present Government, and the Energy Cost target is a prime example with the actions and policies of the Energy Secretary being diametrically opposed to the requirements of the target.
The NHS waiting List target can only be achieved by radical reforms of the NHS which will not be allowed by Labour MPs.
February 26, 2026
Targets are easily fiddled unless a hierarchy of contributory targets is set concurrently – basic Balanced Scorecard stuff. For example NHS waiting lists can easily cut simply by removing patients from the list, reassessing them or asking if they still want the procedure. So all those in the decision limbo are not on the waiting list. An amazing cut of 20-30% can be achieved overnight! Headlines in the media. This is exactly what Blair did. Another way of cutting waiting lists is to send a bunch of patients to be treated privately. Again, no real improvement in NHS service is achieved but politicians can make headlines and fool the public.
I would never trust the NHS to set its own targets. It will always be an exercise in BS. What is required is an external team of interim managers/consultants reporting to an external independent authority. First step is to define what performance is to be considered, then establish current performance, next identify the causal chain of main contributors (+ve and -ve) to performance (Pareto Rule) and then set about improving each of the main contributors.
February 26, 2026
In my haste I omitted the very first step: benchmark by looking at the best performing systems both in and outside Britain.
February 26, 2026
Will the UK Parliament get sight & any commentary today, a major by election day, of HM Government’s aims, targets and actions relating to the several hundred pages of the forthcoming Gibraltar treaty ?? In case not, some info to keep us all going on the Facts4eu website today!
February 26, 2026
NHS spending has doubled in 17 years with “no impact” on the nation’s health, a former health minister has admitted.
Lord Bethell, a Conservative minister under Boris Johnson, said Britain was facing “a social, moral and economic disaster” because billions of pounds were being wasted.
February 26, 2026
Maybe we should give the doctors a bigger pay rise ?
February 26, 2026
“France is strengthening its grip on Britain’s energy market as utility giant Engie unveiled a $14bn (£10.3bn) deal to buy the entire power distribution network for London and the south-east of England.” More UK money bolstering the coffers of the French Government.
Not blaming the French government, but the anti-UK stance of what is supposed to be a UK Parliament. Would the French even entertain the notion of the UK running their energy?
February 26, 2026
Then you read further the deal is financed not by French money but by loans against and the selling of the companies assets. Loose, loose for the consumer
February 26, 2026
Kind of O/T: Last year Iberdrola (Spanish utility company) bought 88% of Electricity North West via its subsidiary ‘Scottish’ Power. Right now, ENGIE (the French energy company) is to buy UK Power Network (responsible for the power lines in London, the South East and part of the East of England) from its previous owner, a Hong-Kong based conglomerate.
In both cases OfGem tells the new owners they should invest without increasing the consumers’ bills …
ft.com 25/02/2026 ‘Engie to buy UK’s biggest electricity distribution company in £10.5 bn deal’.
February 26, 2026
I presume you welcome these investments by these foreign companies hefner.
We could go down the little Englander route and restrict outside investment in the UK or be open to world investment thus enabling our UK companies to have investment access to world markets, which at the end of 2024 was £ 1850 billion
February 26, 2026
I wish the government would scrap its Net Zero by 2050 target. But socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor and the false CAGW myth and its Net Zero “solution” is the perfect vehicle to sabotage our energy, de-industrialise and ruin our economy and destroy our national security. The ERoEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested) of renewables is too low to be sustainable and the current low prices only exist because they are purchased from China who use coal-fired power and even slave labour.
February 26, 2026
Have they written an NHS England target to reduce NHS maternity negligence payouts?
NHS Resolution analysis estimated potential liabilities for maternity negligence claims since 2019 amount to £27.4 billion (more than the total spent on maternity services £25 billion over same period!).
February 26, 2026
‘fiddling the figures?’
Like NI, we’re giving away Gibraltar under another treaty to the EU ….the statement in the house today is another disgrace
February 26, 2026
Off todays topic i’m afraid.
Last night I watched “The Zero Line – Inside Russia’s War” on BBC 2
As a former soldier, I found it deeply disturbing – if only for the sheer brutality it described. If anyone doubts the need for us to re-arm to some sensible level of defence spending, this documentary should be enough to persuade them of the urgent need to do so.
February 26, 2026
Oh don’t worry, macron and Starmer apparently moving nukes to Ukraine so they can deploy them.
Glen Diesen asking if it’s time to leave Europe.
February 26, 2026
Hi lord john
I waited 13 hours in A&E At good hope hospital or as it’s known
NO HOPE HOSPITAL
which is very unfair on the dedicated staff
Its the management that’s causing the problems
the ever increasing number of patients.
For the same services
Thank you
February 26, 2026
605 ‘illegal immigrants’ invaded the UK 25th Feb 2026 …with tens of thousands waiting in north france for the next boat
February 26, 2026
A full battalion!
February 27, 2026
GC: The total 01 Feb to 26 Feb inclusive is therefore 1276 arrivals in total 20 boats.
Official figures. Just this week’s arrivals will have put up the hotel count and costs presumably. Treading water.
February 26, 2026
Whatever the merits of your piece today we have a more pressing problem at our door.
Thanks to the congenital tweeting of the President of the USA, the defence of the western world has been thrown into chaos. A chaos from which Starmer has benefited positively, from doing the right thing, for once.
Trump has put a question mark against NORAD in a silly spat with Canada that encouraged Canadian provinces to secede. This questions the sovereignty of Canada. Resulting in a move towards an independent NATO, comprising Canada, UK, France,Germany, Spain, and a few others. The Five Eyes intelligence agreement is also in question, because Australia and New Zealand have publicly recognised the insanity of Trump’s suggestions on Canadian sovereignty.
Additionally, Trump has managed to unify Canada politicly by demanding a new advantageous oil supply agreement, which Carny described as turning Canada into a discount gas station. Trump had demanded to continue buying cheap, discounted, crude oil from Canada, to the detriment of Canada, to the tune of $895 Billion, over the next 20 years. It has awakened all Canadians to the fact that, over the past 20 years, the USA has bought crude oil at a discounted advantage of $890 Billion.
The tweetfest has blown up in Trump’s face. US refinery companies have plummeted in value, Warren Buffet has invested in Canadian refineries, and division has arisen between Trump and the Pentagon. The special relationship with the UK is in question, and US influence amongst its allies if fast dissipating. No doubt Putin is dancing a jig in the Kremlin.
Watch this space.
February 26, 2026
The so-called “renewables” that the UK Government is so keen on are causing serious damage to the environment and the economy. Worst of all, they are not self-financing after over 20 years of billions of taxpayer money: wind farms, solar panels, battery banks, EVs, hybrids, and heat pumps are still being propped up by taxpayers.
Also, the solutions chosen are unreliable energy sources, so you need huge amounts of gas on standby. This means you need twice the infrastructure :/ Gas turbines don’t like to be switched on and off at will, they are meant to run continuously, 24 hours a day. Each time you turn Gas turbines on and off they get damaged and will eventually fail when you need them :/
I’s about time the UK Governament stop listening to lobbyists with vested interests in so-called “renewables” and talk to energy analysts like Kathryn Porter to get a reality check and look at how France makes the most of truly net-zero Nuclear Energy 😉
February 26, 2026
‘Aims & Fiddling’
When political groups and individuals in the run up to elections start blatantly blowing their own trumpets, seemingly under the cover of this or that body controlled by them has achieved this because they were run by this us, this individual or group. This chest beating is seemingly funded by the taxpayer. “New in your face banners proclaiming our Parish is doing exceptionally well and prospering under the management of…” then there are the posters declaring “the Tube/Transport service is now better than it has ever been thanks to the direction of the Mayor” when does that stop being a local need to know announcement and blatant taxpayer funded electioneering, especially in light of forth coming elections.
Were I live there has recently been a traffic accident in a remote spot, no injuries other than pride just like there are many such situations daily. But, with an election on the horizon up pops the local MP and his parties councillors for a photo opportunity with the local press, why? Why weren’t the councillors from other party’s involved.
This to most of us is the corruption riddled through out our systems passed down from above – Parliament
February 26, 2026
Something is seriously wrong, when “Octopus Energy urges Starmer to ‘embrace’ Chinese technology”, see FT article…
Energy experts must make decisions for the UK environment, economy and long term energy security, not Octopus 😕
https://www.ft.com/content/0741966d-f5e6-4978-9606-5caa4632ae7d
February 26, 2026
Would that be the same chinese who are supplying Iran with hytec missles and weapons ….our friends
February 26, 2026
Targets wrong or sums wrong ?
‘Vauxhall owner Stellantis has posted a massive €20.1billion (£17.5billion) loss after ‘over-estimating’ the desire for electric cars and being forced to roll back a number of its electric vehicle pledges’ GBNew
February 26, 2026
so the democracy observer volunteers are saying there were high numbers of family voting, ie multiple people in the same voting booth, in the by-election. I hate to think what the postal voting will have been like. foreign flags outside most of the polling stations. if that was a foreign election we would be calling it out as not fair or democratic. this country is in a bad place.