If 2026 is to offer us the change we want UK government needs to do less and do it better.
It needs to delay the idea it can bribe and force us to buy heat pumps and battery cars. The UK does not have the power stations to supply all the power this would need, and the grid is far too small. Save the money on the subsidies.
It needs to smash the gangs in the ways often proposed here, to save all the money on housing illegal migrants.
It needs to stop its ill placed generosity to the EU and foreign countries. We should not be giving away our fish and so much money to the EU nor the money and Chagos islands to Mauritius.
It needs to repeal some of the many EU originated laws that impede and delay building homes and infrastructure. Bats are treated better than people when planning.
It needs to tell the Bank of England to stop selling bonds at big losses and sending taxpayers the bill.
January 1, 2026
Indeed the latest lunacy from Miliband is to spend £13 bn on solar for homes. So tax people about 25bn was loads on collection and admin then give them back grants for things most people do not want. No only that but if you spent this money putting the solar in a sunny part of the UK like Bognor or Dungoness is would cost far less than putting them on hundreds of thousands of roofs all over the country and then connecting them to the grid in more northern and less sunny places. With all the admin required also far harder to clean and maintain on thousands of rooves than a single flat site.
The return per £1 doing the former would be at least 3 times the Miliband roof agenda, though even the former makes little sense as with solar you get the electricity mainly in the middle of the days in summer when there is little demand for it and storing it is far too expensive to be worthwhile in general.
So this scheme is really a way to piss money down the drain and bribe the electorate with their own taxes is it not Ed?
January 1, 2026
“waste loads on collection and admin.” rather!
January 1, 2026
Yes I won’t have solar panels for my house as I don’t want to buy them outright and have no wish to lease them, preferring an unencumbered freehold interest. Also, as you say, they are problematic in terms of roof maintenance and increase the costs of that.
January 1, 2026
Plus insurance, cleaning, fire risk, depreciation, finance costs and you get most of the electricity day time summer when you do not need it!
January 1, 2026
As far as the public are concerned john you are pushing an open door. The problem is Westminster od all stripes is wedded to the net zero lunacy and mass immigration.
It looks very much like we’re going from evolution to revolution. Not very promising.
Happy New Year my Lord.
January 1, 2026
@Lifelogic – with that money coming mainly from those that are impoverished, who cant afford to make the changes being forced on them. Then to send the bulk of this stolen money to China to pay for his lunacy. It could be seen as Millibrian funding the Chinese war machine so their promise to invade Taiwan in 2027 is kept
January 1, 2026
To do less indeed. First stop doing net damage – start by killing Net Zero, HS2, energy market rigging, subsidies for renewables, grants for duff degrees, vast net cost low skilled immigration levels, the no deterrent immigration systems, no deterrent criminal justice system, the no incentive to bother to work benefit system, leave the ECHR…
I see that Streeting is boasting about his ambulance purchasing plans no mention of how many of these will be EVs in the announcement I note. Yet back in 2020 (Boris and Handcock) the NHS became the first national health system to commit to becoming carbon net zero. They announced that they wanted to eliminate direct carbon emissions by 2040 and their indirect emissions by 2045.23 Oct 2025.
Total, very expensive and negative benefit policy insanity from them. Has Streeting finally realised this hence his reticence to mention the rip off and impractical EV ambulances?
January 1, 2026
How many patients will die and how much ambulance staff time will be wasted while having to recharge these ambulances for hours on end?
January 1, 2026
we have at least one electric fire engine. but then we also have at least one fire chief who is not a trained fire fighter. lots of box ticking, but quality of service very low, and no capacity to deal with the unexpected.
January 1, 2026
The fol even sent people back to their flats at Grenfell Tower when this was clearly insane from a 10 second glance at the fire on TV – so breathtakingly incompetent were the senior fire people! Trained into moronic stupidity it seems. Bloody stupid to clad the building too at a cost of millions just to save a trivial amount of energy!
Reporting on the explosion in Switzerland the BBC call it a fire and say it is too early to speculate! Never too early to speculate dear do you know what “speculate” means? Speculate – to form a theory or conjecture about a subject with the limited available evidence you have! I shall speculate as much as I like!
January 1, 2026
Too early to be certain maybe – but it is never too early to speculate!
January 1, 2026
Totally insane to have electric vehicles with their heavy, expensive, short lived batteries for ambulances or fire engineers. Fire engines tend not to get used that much so will never save any CO2 over what was needed to build them.
Yes, a brand-new multimilliom euro fire station in Stadtallendorf, Germany, which opened less than a year prior, was severely damaged in October 2024 due to a fire that started in an electric emergency vehicle, destroying the building and several others.
January 1, 2026
Perhaps Javid should volunteer to personally refund the tax payers will all the huge legal costs he caused by his crass Begum decision.
January 1, 2026
If 2026 is to offer us the change we want UK government needs to do less and do it better.
This government and all its supporters are only interested in bringing this country to its knees the only sure way of stopping it is a full National General Strike
January 1, 2026
The public sector won’t participate in a full National General Strike; they have the Government they want.
It needs the private sector, which is funding Two-Tier’s destructive policies, to down tools.
January 1, 2026
Well, I happened to be in a high-rise hotel room on New Years, in a big English city, and saw masses of fireworks on the horizon in all directions. The best fireworks display I’ve seen in England, and far better than the appalling treatment dished out by Sadiq Khan to those who were in London.
My reflection on the holiday period itself are deep sadness, feeling mad at myself, because I witnessed some extreme violent child abuse in front of me on 2 separate occasions, in 2 different English cities, and I didn’t intervene or call the police. I should have done but was held back by 1 being in charge of young children myself at the time, and feeling my own priority was to ensure their safety, and 2 facing the reality that even if I did call the police no good outcome would result. Those kids definitely need taking off their parents and putting into care, but care in this country would not guarantee their safety, indeed they are likely to end up gang raped if that happened. The cops would need about 4 people to deal with what I saw there and then, and the reality is that its unlikely they had enough people on duty to be able to deal professionally with what I witnessed, and the track record of cops/social services dealing correctly with this stuff is poor. I’ve been thoroughly ashamed of myself, and furious at the state of this country that even someone like me is unable to do the decent thing and save such kids from extreme brutality. And I mean real extreme physical brutality.
As for the country we are stuffed. Things are like a tinder box. The whole ruling elite have lost the plot, and everyone knows it. Even mild moderate people like me have now come to the conclusion that we need to remove passports on a mass scale and deport on a vast scale, reducing or stopping immigration is no longer going to be able to save this country.
Happy New Year John, and all your readers.
January 1, 2026
+1.
Don’t beat yourself up about it Iain. If you’d intervened, the chances are you’d have had a knife stuck in you or possibly been charged with a “hate crime.”
January 1, 2026
Donna
Agree, things can quickly escalate out of control, and who knows what people carry around with them nowadays, sad fact is particularly when you are more elderly, your physical state, reactions, and strength are not up to deal with confrontation (as perhaps it was when you were younger) if sensible reasoning fails.
January 1, 2026
thanks, my brain does not work like that
January 1, 2026
You do not need to MASS DEPORT. Just make ALL benefits, including access to the NHS, for British Citizens. And do this AFTER we have revoked British Citizenship for all foreigners who arrived in the UK post 1997*. We were never asked.
* I would go further back, but that would be too much.
January 1, 2026
I despair when I read comments like this.
I lived abroad from 2002 to 2008 and married a “foreigner”, my kids were born in foreign climes.
My wife jumped through hoops for her British passport and my kids are “foreigners” who have British citizenship passed on via their father. Would you strip them of being British?
Yes, there is a need to identify and deport a sizable number of incomers but tarring them all with the same brush is impractical and surprisingly intolerant from someone who is often quite thoughtful. Diversity is not a strength but some of the diverse contribute greatly.
January 1, 2026
@Narrow Shoulders. It worried me, too. My colonial (Australia, South Africa) parents came to Britain to join the fight at the start of WW2. My father became a much-decorated RAF squadron leader, and Chindit. My mother, who spoke fluent French, served in the SOE. After the war they went overseas for a few years, where I was born. The family returned to the UK in 1963 (my parents had indefinite leave to remain). I’ve been brought up as an Englishman, but I’ve never had British nationality. I’ve worked and paid taxes here for most of my life.
If a broad brush approach is used in a knee-jerk reaction against recent illegal invaders, I could find myself booted out. To where? I have no connection to my country of origin, no family or friends there, and barely speak the language.
I understand and share the frustration with illegal immigration, but dealing with it needs a nuanced approach or many people like me will end up as castaways.
January 1, 2026
ig: “Even mild moderate people like me have now come to the conclusion that we need to remove passports on a mass scale and deport on a vast scale reducing or stopping immigration is no longer going to be able to save this country.”
Correct. The Overton Window has now shifted so much that Labour’s current idea to open up more legal immigration routes to stop the illegal invasion across the Channel is no longer accepted.
January 1, 2026
A PACK OF LIES:-
The Prime Minister’s New Year’s Message
Things have been tough in Britain for a while.
For many, life is still harder than it should be. (Indeed because you keep rising taxes and pissing it down the drain)
You long for a bit more money in your pockets, a meal out, a holiday. (Indeed or perhaps just to pay the rent, mortgage or fuel bills)
The chance to make a special family moment extra special. (by turning the heating up for an hour or two perhaps)
In 2026, the choices we’ve made will mean more people will begin to feel positive change in your bills, your communities and your health service. (All lies they will be negative changes)
But even more people will feel once again a sense of hope, a belief that things can and will get better, feel that the promise of renewal can become a reality, and my government will make it that reality. (How will they get better when all the Labour policies are anti-growth, anti-business, anti-jobs?)
More police on the streets by March. (Misdirected police no doubt locking up “dangerous” people like Lucy Connolly)
Energy bills down and the number of new health hubs up in April. (Lies – the Miliband polices are for ever more expensive energy)
More funding for local communities. (if we think that might buy Labour votes)
And with that change, decline will be reversed. (decline will be accelerated)
That opportunity for you and pride in your community can be restored. (sure muggings up, knife crime up, phone snatching up, shop lifting vastly up, sexual assaults up, living standards lowered)
I share the frustration about the pace of change. (No Sir 2T Kier the pace of change is far too far and in totally the wrong direction)
The challenges we face were decades in the making, and renewal is not an overnight job, but putting our country back on a stable footing will become our strength. (you are destroying the foundation even more than Cameron, May, Boris and Sunak did)
Strength that means we can support you with the cost of living. (how can you do that other than by using higher taxes taken of us first then part given back, net zero is a vast increase in the cost of living as is you NI and Council tax and other tax grabs)
Rail fares, prescription charges, fuel duty.
All frozen. (Lies fuel cost up rail fares up)
£150 cut from your energy bills. (lie)
A boost once again to the National Minimum Wage. A major cut to the cost of childcare. (putting up the minimum wage is a tax increase. The company has to pay say £20,000 more in wages £10K goes back to the government in tax and NI and £10K to lower paid staff in higher wages which just about keeps pace with inflation) Leaving the company £20K worse off to pay increase to other staff or to invest in the future). The Childcare cuts are largely a lie too so many restrictions on it!
We are getting Britain back on track. (B/S)
By staying the course, we will defeat the decline and division offered by others. (B/S)
For all the times that have been tough, I hope the festive period has brought good moments. (well we get a good laugh whenever we hear Reeves and Sir 2 Tier going on about growth!)
Precious time with your family. (If they can afford the transport costs to visit and were not on EuroStar)
A chance to celebrate what’s most important to you. I wish you more of those moments next year. (what is important is to evict Labour and 2T Kier asap)
When things start to feel easier.
When politics shows it can help again. (Governments especially this one are the problem not the solution Kier)
When Britain turns the corner with our future now in our control, the real Britain will shine through more strongly. (Our control hardly you control perhaps you mean)
Happy New Year! (Sure Sir Kier!)
No Israel flag projected last night in Khan’s fire work show it seems! (when can we get rid of this nasty and incompetent man too please?)
January 1, 2026
Pace of change too “fast” and in the wrong direction rather!
January 1, 2026
No mention of the open door legal or illegal immigration, its huge costs nor of “smash the people smuggling gangs” perhaps it slipped his mind?
January 1, 2026
@Lifelogic – I read his synopsis of his efforts to-date – what planet is 2TK on to think that all he needs to do is drive his personal desire to change things through harder and everything will be all right?
January 1, 2026
+1
January 1, 2026
Indeed
Things can hardly get better when the Chancellor has already set up tax rises every year until 2031.
Just got notification from HMRC that both myself and my wife now owe them money due to fiscal drag on the personal tax allowance, and the fact that our State pensions are now taxed due to graduated pension contributions, and the fact that I delayed taking my pension for a couple of years (gaining a 10% increase in its value) Thus we now only get 80% of the triple lock increase.
Taxed to death, and then taxed afterwards with IHT.
January 1, 2026
“But even more people will feel once again a sense of hope, a belief that things can and will get better, feel that the promise of renewal can become a reality, and my government will make it that reality. (How will they get better when all the Labour policies are anti-growth, anti-business, anti-jobs?)”
He’s not talking about British people; he’s talking about his future voting base, who are yet to arrive.
January 1, 2026
the newly nationalised train operator is going to offer tickets at a massive discount in a few days, i fully expect it to be handled poorly, either leading to more train overcrowding, or other similar stuff. given how low they plan to charge for fairly long distance travel it just sounds like the majority who dont have much time for such stuff, or live close enough to a station to use it are going to be subsidising those with lots of idle time.
it will probably prove that unreliable over crowded trains are not popular no matter how cheap the fares.
January 1, 2026
Everything Two-Tier has done needs reversing and then pretty much everything the Not-a-Conservative-Party did in the previous 14 years (including the Brino, in favour of the real Brexit we voted for).
As Dr David Starkey has explained, that will first mean reversing the Constitutional destruction which Blair and Brown carried out. We’re now in the Last Chance Saloon and if we don’t get a Reform Government, which is prepared to dismantle Blair’s Quangocracy and the Civil Service Blob, this country is finished.
How Two-Tier had the nerve to issue his New Year message is beyond me. Only a few days previously he celebrated importing an Egyptian Muslim extremist; a man who has called for the murder of Jews, the police, for No.10 to be burned down and said that he’s a racist who hates white people and in particular the British! That, apparently, was Two-Tier’s top priority. And then we’re told that British taxpayers will be funding the building of new council houses …. for criminal migrants. You really couldn’t make it up.
January 1, 2026
Britain needs a new restoration David Starkey video!
January 1, 2026
@Donna. I listened to a podcasr (Daily Sceptic, I think) where one of the newest Tory MPs was interviewed, long form. I didn’t believe he was being honest about all his opinions (just my feeling on how sincere he came across) but he was arguing along the Starkey lines, that Parliament had given away its powers to quangos, judges and committees. They have cottoned on to that.
The window has shifted, but whether it’s just a ploy to get votes is another matter.
January 1, 2026
It’s a ploy.
January 1, 2026
The Daily Mail reports: “A nurse who says she was attacked by an Afghan migrant in a crowbar rampage in a hospital waiting room alongside five others has revealed the extent of her injuries and said she was “beaten nearly to death”.
How lucky we are to be so enriched by these people. I wonder if this was one of the 30,000+ Afghans secretly imported under cover of the Super Injunction, or if he was a dinghy criminal which the Establishment has REFUSED to deport?
January 1, 2026
No doubt he won’t be able to pay the nurse compensation. Shall we bill whoever approved his asylum application? Let’s call it vicarious liability; our judicial system loves that, especially when it comes to blaming employers for the stupid things their employees do.
January 1, 2026
The usual excuse is being trotted out “mental health problems.”
Who could possibly foresee that uneducated young men from 3rd world cultures, who have no respect for women or the rule of law, and who come from countries where violence is the first resort when you can’t get your own way, might have violent tendencies and “mental health” problems?
January 1, 2026
Sir JR, nothing you suggest will happen under Starmer and his corrupt cabal of Lefty lunatics.
A new government is needed, pronto. I hope Labour are wiped out in the forthcoming local elections (those that Starmer hasn’t cancelled) It may be the catalyst to the change so badly needed.
January 1, 2026
All these things and much more Sir John but we all know they won’t do it.
Whilst they are incompetant and dogmatic, they are also cunning and devious. Given enough time they will change our demographics and the laws we have lived by. They are determined to stay in power and re-engineering the social make up of this country.
We will be strangers in our own land.
January 1, 2026
@IanT. +1. I think they saw how the Democrats in the US rearranged the voting system, encouraged mass illegal immigration, catalysed the use of lawfare, eroded freedoms etc and decided that is the way to get and hold power.
January 1, 2026
And did it work ?*
It’s a rhetorical question BTW 🙂
January 1, 2026
@Mark B. Quite. As with most things they do, they haven’t factored that possibility in, and have no “plan B”.
January 1, 2026
You outline what is needed John, but unfortunately most politicians appear to now be control freaks, who think they know what is best for ourselves, rather than allowing us to make our own choices.
Taxation and Government Regulations and control will eventually strangle us to death.
January 1, 2026
Labour also need to stop pandering to supranational organisations such as the WEF, UN, EU as well as its trade unions and left wing activists too.
The majority of the British people have had enough of coming second to these entities which leach from us and only give us problems in return eg the UN net zero hoax, the WEF mass migration con, ECHR rulings, creeping EU integration, the array of hard left activist demands etc Incidentally, UK legal migration needs to be capped at its long-term average of about net 50k per year for everything else to function at their long-term averages too.
Labour need to be mindful Britain is still a democracy which means their prospects are in the electorate’s control. They need to stop playing the British people and start delivering for them.
January 1, 2026
My local small west country town now has four of the remaining shops which have put up Closing Down signs; with another one expected shortly (according to the staff).
Two-Tier and Theeve’s destructive policies have caused this … and in her NY message Kemi just told us to all cheer up because this year we will have the Winter Olympics and Football World Cup …. ie “circuses” designed to keep the proles quiet.
January 1, 2026
The best thing this government can do is just go. There is no prospect whatsoever they will do anything positive for this country. Perhaps TTK will be ousted by his own party after the May local elections and his replacement collapses the government soon after. Maybe then we might have an early general election and just maybe the electorate has the sense to elect sound people into office, though having seen the poll figures for the Green Party I do wonder about my fellow citizen.
Can anyone tell me one good thing this government has done?
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Me neither.
January 1, 2026
I can. 271,100 members of Reform (and rising) and around 30% in the polls … although I expect in reality it’s higher.
January 1, 2026
Happy New Year, my Lord, and thank your series of sensible posts. Now all we need to do is ditch Net Zero, reduce and redirect taxation, abolish the Human Rights Act, leave the ECHR, cut the number of quangos by two thirds putting ministers directly in charge of state activity, abolish reams of unnecessary regulation, turn back the boats deporting illegal entrants and foreign criminals, reinvigorate the police, courts and judiciary, reinvent a health care system, and wait three more years whilst this appalling government continues to wreck the nation. I don’t envy the next government.
January 1, 2026
To be even more brief Sir John, it needs to stop being incompetent.
January 1, 2026
Good morning.
For that to happen we need a change of government.
People think that it is TTK and the cabinet that is the problem. It isn’t. It is the backbenchers in his party. A party that, if rumour’s are to be believed, are seeking to replace him early next year. Personally I think that is too soon. Better to replace him next year. You can then blame all the problems on him. Doing so early means you have to accept all the problems now and will be tarnished with them.
This Alaa Abd El Fattah scandal has all but done for him. Happy to lock up Brits’ for hurty words, but moves heaven and earth for a real rabble rouser.
The hatred this man has for his own people and country is pathological.
January 1, 2026
Oh ! And Happy New Year to our kind host and all here.
Forgetting my manners 🫢
January 1, 2026
I decided to write to the Prime Minister expressing my concern that such a hateful extremist could be brought into our country, and he celebrates this and tells us it’s been his top priority. He then tells us he was unaware of this man’s social media posts, yet the Egyptian government say they informed him about it. Who to believe?
I also noticed that the form you have to complete to send your message states:
“Any contact which is threatening or offensive may be passed to the police for action.”
This statement is subjective. Who deems what is offensive? Kier might be offended that I think he is a liar and a traitor to this country.
I now await a knock at my door. However, the response I received stated that they are very busy, having recently received a high number of messages. So maybe, just maybe, I’ll get away on my planned holiday.
January 1, 2026
Cui bono.
The Egyptian government has noting either to gain or lose by stating the fact that they told our government of the behaviour of, Alaa Abd El Fattah.
The UK Government however ?
January 1, 2026
Christine, relax there are so many lies he told that you are safe from appearing before the beak.
January 1, 2026
It sounds as if you think we need a different Government from a different party; we are not going to get any of what you suggest from the present one. But is there a party we can rely on to adopt your agenda which is certainly badly needed? Mrs Badenoch is beginning to make the right noises but so did all her Conservative predecessors since Cameron (the Conservatives referring to her as Kemi all the time is irritating, and just makes me think she may be another Dave); has she got what it takes to follow it through into action against the ‘Blob’?
And what of the likely alternative, Reform UK? Farage has the determination, but will Reform be able to muster enough other people of sufficient ability and character to do what is necessary?
The outlook seems pretty bleak, which perhaps gives reason to hope we are near the bottom!
January 1, 2026
Since Kemi attended Davos I’ve written her off as just another WEF stooge.
I’ve been supporting Reform since its inception, and they are slowly building a formidable group of people. They still have a long way to go and need many more intelligent candidates to stand for elections. The grassroots teams are hard-working and determined to help Reform get elected. We need the Conservatives to stand down to give Reform a clear run in this year’s elections, if they aren’t cancelled.
All Sir John’s policies are Reform policies.
Reply No my policies are not Reform policies. I disagree with their wish to abolish the two child cap on benefits. Their policy to nationalise water is wrong and very expensive. Their failure to show spending discipline means they would be unable to offer tax cuts as they have now accepted by withdrawing their 2024 tax cut offer. I disagree with the cost and upheaval of proportional representation which they want. I disagree with nationalising steel without a business plan for its recovery, market tests for its costs and access to private capital. I disagree with Reform’s policy in Worcestershire of seeking approval to borrow large sums to pay day to day running costs. I disagree with its Councils consulting on tax rises in excess of the 5% cap. I think its plan to pay commercial banks nothing on deposits with the Central Bank would be too big a shock leading to a recession. Etc
January 1, 2026
reply to reply
I’m talking about the policies you list in today’s message, not all Reform’s policies.
January 1, 2026
reply to reply…..surely we ARE in a recession already.
January 1, 2026
Thirty years ago I wanted to put up a few solar panels on my roof but they wouldn’t let me because of planning laws and now that I’m nearing eighty years they are knocking on my door and want to cover the roof with them – they need to listen more to the people
January 1, 2026
I also enquired about panels 20 years ago and was told we were too far North (we live in the North West of England), that our roof faced the wrong way (it is South facing and gets the sun all day). Our house hasn’t changed, so why is Ed now wanting to put them up? This adds to my scam theory.
January 1, 2026
but back then we had available oil and nuclear, and few saw value in mirrors bolted to your roof.
Planning correctly viewed them as a monstrosity.
January 1, 2026
Dear Mr Redwood,
I wish you all the very best for 2026 and pray that you will continue writing what I deem to be one of the most sensible, understanding, enlightening political writing’s and, along with such consistancy revealing to the layman, feasibilty in many case’s.
Having a career of more than 25 years (now retired) of country development planning contracted, to the UK ODA, EU External Assistance programme, I folllowed your political actvities and writings and they always gave me useful insights in my country development planning etc, especially in the FSU. I took this career change after the UK governments agricultural policies commenced to destroy every norm and standard I was taught at Agricultural College (I was farming my owm small unit in Lincolnshire) National Food security, national feasible production, Nationally produced emergency food stocks production, environmentally but feasible practices, import substitution, country stewardship and assisting others etc. Apologies the rambling, I come to the point and that is what ?? happened to the national Uk government support to small business development and why has it almost disappeared. I remember well the support I received after leaving Ag’ Clollege and entering into small scale intensive horticultural farming increasinf holding size annually. I received the small business development funding, free advisory service from the Min of Ag for two years, employment benefits under the youth employment and training system, banking and finance encouragement etc. I was able to build something tangible, secure, appreciating and with purpose and a future national policy which supported this activity. The rather quick destruction of this kind of national policy left me sO SAD no options for future secure and reliable development, especially after joining the EU. The annoying/frustration was the act of destroying something which was rather well designed to support national food security/emergency supplies production and maintaining land and country side for the future. without replacing it with something equally psitive or better??
Reply Indeed, policy us anti farming and food when we need to promote more home grown produce
January 1, 2026
All agreed. #
However, owing to the many things that are declining in this country, and other essentials that are not being corrected, only a change of government would be likely to improve matters.
On reflection of yesterday’s Diary article from 2 Jan 2025:
I, having been born, worked, married in London to an English woman, and having parents whose ancestors, spanning over 300 years, were also born here; I assume I’m British.
Even so, living elsewhere is becoming a more attractive option for perhaps 10 years.
A Happy New Year to all.
January 1, 2026
we simply cannot rely on this current government to get anything right, determined as they are to emulate the worst aspects of the old USSR.
Certainly HMG has to be fought at every turn – if only to slow them down. They eventually do react to pressure, but that takes too long and the win is limited. Our only hope is that this regime will be forced to fall on it’s own sword – this is what we should work towards.
I’m sure Starmer has a plan to avoid a GE defeat, but that would involve war and all elections cancelled.
January 1, 2026
UK Governments supported by their Parliaments, have thick rhino skins and deaf ears when it comes to common sense and delivery.
Governments do not achieve anything when it is they that think they are the ones that do the work and pay the bills.
A good Government with a Parliament not full of numpties simply set out frameworks for others that can do the work to excel.
Laws, rules, are for the most part the prescriptions of religions, cults, political ideology, to force personal views on others – they have nothing to do with anything. They have nothing to do with working with the people, the masses, the minions, everything to do with fighting those that don’t take the knee.
Who on earth in Parliament thought that their personal Socialist metro view of West London could translate to have meaning out side the A406 let alone the M25.
We have a Parliament of religious freaks that think that they personally know better. That their personal political religion can be imposed from their lofty Walter Mitty that has any thing to do with anything.
A simple job to do, keep us all safe and secure, ensure resilience and self-reliance for us all and what does Parliament do wonder off and think they are building up their personal self-esteem. All they had to do was work with not fight against the people and the nation. Unfortunately they cant even comprehend the basics, it is they that serve, it is they that the people empower and pay – the minions are NOT Parliaments personal fodder/slaves.
January 1, 2026
2026 – A Happy New Year to everyone…
January 1, 2026
And you too mate.
January 1, 2026
Given that socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor then the current governing elites in Parliament, civil service, academia and judiciary will see 2025 as a success and will continue the transitioning of the country. Never forget that the HR act was designed to be anti-democratic and to create a two-tier justice system. Hence the title “Two Tier” is a badge of honour for an HR lawyer.
January 1, 2026
‘ You have the power to deport ‘extremist’, Home Secretary told’
‘Legal experts say Shabana Mahmood can use existing terror legislation to strip Alaa Abd el-Fattah of British citizenship’
‘Entering the UK without valid travel documents and prior permission (leave to enter or a visa/ETA where required) is generally a criminal offence and a breach of UK immigration law.’
‘A nurse has told how she was nearly “beaten to death” by an Afghan migrant armed with a crowbar.’
And what does Parliament do, they fight their own Laws. What does TwoTierKier do, he fights those that speak out against the tyranny being waged against the UK, he begs and facilitates the Worlds rejects to come to the UK
January 1, 2026
“It needs to delay the idea it can bribe and force us to buy heat pumps and battery cars. The UK does not have the power stations to supply all the power this would need, and the grid is far too small. Save the money on the subsidies.”
Correct. But it not about “saving the planet”. They know anthropogenic emissions of CO2 have no affect on the planet’s temperature and hence climate. CAGW is an excuse to implement their goal to transition to 100% electrification which enables them to control an errant individual’s heating, transport and much else through smart metering. This is why China is also so keen on electrification – but note not using renewables to generate their electricity. Plus of course, high wasteful Net Zero Strategy spending justifies high taxation and causes de-industrialisation, impoverishment and national insecurity.
January 1, 2026
From the Express, copied because it seems to be what the majority think.
“Starmer must think we’re all idiots – no one believes a word he says
Labour’s 18-months in charge of Britain has been a carousel of dishonesty.”
“It was, by any measure, the most out of touch memo of recent times and one which failed to have basis in reality. Why? Because Labour has consistently lied in the 18-months since the lunatics took control of the asylum. And it is diametrically opposed to what people think.”
(go to Express Ed)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2152333/Keir-Starmer-Rachel-Reeves-Labour
His own self righteous religion, only exists in his head. Sir Kier ‘Told Britain!’ says it all
January 1, 2026
“It needs to tell the Bank of England to stop selling bonds at big losses and sending taxpayers the bill.”
The Governor of the BoE when at Cambridge chaired the University’s branch of the Fabian Society. The PM was a senior member of the Fabian Society before he became an MP and the Chancellor is a current member of the Fabian Society. So what else could we expect but the use by them of a convenient device to make taxpayers poorer?
January 1, 2026
Well placed to seriously damage the economy.
January 1, 2026
It bears repeating that government that governs best governs least.
Defence of the realm including borders, law and order and minimal provision of benefits to those who genuinely can not help themselves (but not their relatives).
Too much international interaction raises the cost of government even further.
Let 2026 be the year of personal responsibility.
January 1, 2026
There was nothing wrong with our power supply or the grid two decades ago when we used coal & gas i.e prior to netzero
January 1, 2026
and a lot of electricity from nuclear!
January 1, 2026
I’m confident open borders and the continuing influx of illegal migrants will dominate 2026 whether Starmer remains PM or not. This issue destroyed Sunak’s government and unless immediate and forceful action is taken it will destroy Labour.
Government is not qualified to ‘instruct’ citizens what to buy, whether heat pumps, solar panels or EV’s. Their obsession with Net Zero is failing as more people realise the fallacy of importing energy from abroad whilst crippling our own industrial base simultaneously piling more costs onto energy domestic and commercial bills alike. Without cheap secure and readily available energy no modern industrial economy can function.
Seeking closer ties with a dysfunctional draconian EU is certainly a recipe for disaster and an expensive one at that. This EU that’s now sanctioning 59 EU citizens for expressing views on the Ukraine conflict they don’t like! These citizens, have broken no law, they cannot access their own bank accounts, cannot travel within the EU and have no right of appeal. So much for the rule of law and human rights in the EU? And Starmer, a former Human Rights Lawyer, wants ever closer ties?
Policing in the UK urgently needs reform. Foolishly, they bought into DEI and have failed to understand the crucial importance of patrolling neighbourhoods and towns, interacting with citizens, preventing and detecting crime and anti-social behaviour. Operating as quasi social workers rather than a police force has further diluted police efficiency and with it public confidence. The introduction of P&CC’s has been an abject failure and Labour’s intention to abolish them is a positive move. There are too many police forces, far too much duplication and waste and an absence of effective coordination. Discipline has evaporated from policing and with it a clear loss of public respect. The ‘Bobby’ on the beat’ who did have a certain presence and bearing has disappeared. Not only street patrolling has gone so has traffic policing with today’s driving standards aggressive and ill mannered. Speeding in towns is now commonplace. Our Towns and villages are scruffy and run down. Weeds abound in gutters, drains and verges with roads peppered with pot holes. So many local Councils have no interest in doing anything about it, so decline continues. It’s a depressing outlook.