Mr Burnham tells us he is going to re industrialise by buying more of our defence equipment from UK factories.
This happens to have been a Starmer government policy. It was always part of Conservative defence planning. Even the EU allowed some leeway on its procurement rules to recognise the wish of member states to have some domestic capacity. Still, there is nothing wrong with borrowing or continuing with old ideas.
What is wrong is adopting a popular slogan with no research into whether it is happening already and with no new ideas on how you can implement an established policy better. When Mr Burnham gets round to talking to the military about buying weapons, and to appointing a Defence Secretary to help him, he will be told some uncomfortable truths,
We need to buy quite a lot of US weapons because they have technologies and products we do not have for ourselves. We have bought some support ships abroad because they were under half the price and could be delivered in under half the time compared to UK yards. How will Mr Burnham find enough good value modern technology products to buy in the UK after so many factory closures and lack of R and D?
Mr Burnham has also announced a stupid and damaging policy of getting closer to the EU. They will only allow us to do that by relying more on imports from them and sending them more money.Their demands to foster more defence cooperation are particularly costly and one sided. I am more inclined to believe Mr Burnham will make more punishing concessions to the EU than he will magic new weapons from UK factories and shipyards.
Try doing some homework , Mr Burnham, before giving us unrealistic soundbites.
July 10, 2026
its like the big fuss Conservative ministers made during Covid that the country would massively increase the amount of PPE made locally, to reduce reliance on imports from China.
lots of well meaning words. lots of policy written and supposedly implemented.
guess how much PPE we make locally now?
July 10, 2026
Governments are full of big ideas very rarely carry them out and quickly move on to the next sound bite.
Smash the boats, Starmer.
Saudi Arabia of wind generation, Hunter
Reindustrialising. Burnham
No big idea to reduce power bills or reduce our dependency on imports.
Waffle waffle
July 10, 2026
‘…. and with no new ideas on how you can implement an established policy better.’
Anyone can see that our defence industries have been allowed to get away with shoddy work for decades. Military vehicles that cannot be used because they vibrate so badly troops cannot use them.
The industry recruit retired big shots from the forces whose main attraction seems to be the ability to persuade politicians to continue to sign contracts with them. They don’t seem to improve the quality or the cost of the product in any noticeable way.
Buying British should be a sensible approach, but the firms cannot be allowed to offer poor quality work with no penalties.
This should be a basic requirement of all public sector procurement, notably IT systems. Too much failure is simply accepted – the Post Office, NHS computerisation, civil service pensions etc etc.
There is no benefit in privatising work that is routinely and repeatedly done poorly by favoured big firms. Prison services is but one example.
July 10, 2026
A new PM arriving completely unprepared for government
Have we seen this one before ?
July 10, 2026
Many times before indeed almost always. Before election it is about winning the election, after it is always a completely new ball game.
July 10, 2026
So Mr Burnham WILL be PM after 322 Labour MPs back him, well there’s a surprise, he is just a MP so will the media stop referring him to The King of the North no he bloody well isn’t or The ‘Messiah, he isn’t a representation of us Northern Folk what next he can turn water into wine or walk on water, get real media we need a General Election Now so we can decide who runs our Great Country before we are totally screwed
July 10, 2026
Burnham is just a Cambridge English Graduate with zero grasp of physics, maths, engineering, climate, economics, defence, industry, logic, the private sector… could he not just write a novel or two or become a poet where he would do far less damage?
Reply You do have a stupid view that we all are prisoners of what we learned 18-21 and learn nothing in the many years that follow. Thatcher was a scientist who retrained as a lawyer. I read history and then qualified in Investment management. We all learn a lot from the day jobs that are usually unrelated to our first degrees.
July 10, 2026
In 1936, Keynes. famously wrote that paying people to dig holes and fill them back up would boost the economy.
Not really and certainly not remotely as much as getting them to do something more useful like building houses.
I suppose HS2 is a hole digging project, net zero and Covid lockdowns and Vaccines even worse spending money to do vast net harms.
Defence expenditure is in many ways like digging holes other than that it might deter a war or prevent us losing one. Other than and perhaps some spin offs in technical advances it is largely dead money. Alas dead money we have to spend given the state of things. Yet Burnham still wants to give away Chagos to (in effect) the Chinese and with a vast dowry too!
July 10, 2026
…and Keynes was educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics. Thought fixed exchange rates was the way to go. As you say, he advocated unproductive employment.
Some genius!
Most housewives who left school at 14 (in his generation) had a better grasp of economics.
July 10, 2026
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals can believe them”. George Orwell.
If they were not employed pointlessly digging holes they could be employed doing useful things and even if you just paid them to sit in a room for the day they would have had rather more energy to do useful things after their day in the room and needed less food fuel to eat .
98% income tax from double first (Greats) one Denis Healey – 50 years ago for example.
July 10, 2026
To reply:- Well some like yourself obviously do grasp both – it is probably easier for maths/science people to later move to other topics.
People who drop science after GCSE are usually the type of people who really do not have the right type of minds for science. Often they are almost incapable of grasping even simple maths and physics concepts like probability, chaos theory, statistics, energy, entropy… Hence we have almost all MPs voting for Ed Miliband’s insane climate change act and Nodding May’s net zero through!
JR it is not the degree or later training it is the type of brain people have that makes them choose which ways to go at 16 or so. That does not usually change much I find.
Remember the two cot death legal cast where some “expert witness” suggested that the chance of one cot death was 1 in X million so the chance of two was 1 in X squared million. So obviously idiotic immediately (even to a mathematically minded 15 year old). Yet none of the learned lawyer or judges spotted this and she spent years in jail wrongly convicted then killed herself. Lucy Letby similar in some parts of her case, all her fifteen convictions clearly unsound yet six judges have refused her any appeal.
July 10, 2026
Just as spiders and cuckoos are prisoners of their programmed brains from birth. No parental teaching at all.
July 10, 2026
“Reply You do have a stupid view that we all are prisoners of what we learned 18-21”
No JR, it is what people chose to study from say 15 onwards “indicates” their brain type and interests. They are to a degree prisoners of their brain type. So many types of intelligence and their choices are indicative of their brain types!
Intelligence is not a single, fixed trait measured by traditional IQ tests. According to psychologist Howard Gardner’s widely recognized Theory of Multiple Intelligences, human capabilities fall into distinct, specialized categories:Linguistic: The ability to use words, language, and writing effectively (e.g., authors, journalists).Logical-Mathematical: The capacity to calculate, reason logically, and analyze problems using abstract or symbolic thought.Visual-Spatial: The skill to mentally visualize and manipulate objects in 3D space (e.g., architects, artists).Bodily-Kinesthetic: High physical control, coordination, and the ability to use one’s body to solve problems (e.g., athletes, surgeons). Musical: Sensitivity to rhythm, pitch, tones, and melody.Interpersonal: The “people smart” capacity to understand others’ emotions, motivations, and intentions (e.g., leaders, therapists).Intrapersonal: Deep self-awareness, including the ability to understand one’s own thoughts, feelings, and goals.Naturalistic: The ability to recognize, classify, and connect with elements in the natural environment (e.g., biologists, farmers).Existential: A philosophical sensitivity to tackle deep questions about human existence and the meaning of life.
Reply Many people choose a subject to study when they could have chosen a very different one, and may go on to study or work with. very different topic.
July 10, 2026
To reply: indeed but their brain types rarely change that much.
It seems Anne Widdecombe died at home, let us hope she was not alone. Living alone is often rather dangerous statistically as no one to raise any alarm or call an ambulance.
July 10, 2026
You are perhaps wide of the mark….most Grammar schools took slightly more able pupils at 11 and educated them through ‘classical’ studies in the most mainstream subjects. None I heard of included economics, accounting, electrical technologies, chemical technologies, shorthand/typing, general wide-world taxation as an employees/employer – I could go on. Then those who were ‘pressured’ by parents/teachers sat a few useless A levels but could demonstrate an ability to cram often useless information to a decent standard. Then, universities took over and ability not really demonstrated by First, Second (1 or Desmond Tutu). Masters might follow or PhD. (exploring a narrow niche subject requiring a written thesis and an oral examination).
So, what use was all this? Where might the entrepreneurial spark show itself?
July 10, 2026
‘Reply You do have a stupid view that we all are prisoners of what we learned 18-21 and learn nothing in the many years that follow.‘
It is one of his signature topics which he frequently raises at length. A sort of twist on Plato’s Philosopher Kings, with an emphasis on mathematics and a more indulgent view of the lifestyle they would then be permitted to have.
July 10, 2026
Jonathan Sumption today in the Telegraph.
Britain is meekly accepting a court decision that could cost us trillions in reparations
The UK is uniquely vulnerable to the tarnished ICJ’s crude opinion on climate change.
Well this appalling government rather than Britain!
July 10, 2026
Good morning.
As exactly as I and others here predicted – no change. Except to the change in face, which to the Establishment was what really mattered.
And what ‘British’ companies was he thinking of ? BAE is a multinational. And if there is a British company, as soon as it starts to get big it gets bought up, like most British companies do.
July 10, 2026
@Mark B – if ownership is by the Nationality of those seen as holding the most shares, BAE and Rolls Royce could be classed as USA’s companies. Both have the security clearance to work of the US’s top secrete projects both in probability receive more funding from the US Defence Dept than they do the MOD. Rolls Royce in terms of quantity of goods manufactured, its US division has a larger scope, the worlds largest producer of RR Products, than the bit that is still in the UK
As far as today’s discussion goes UK Industry can buy or buy into those that are involved in US Defence, and the UK reciprocates. However the majority of Foreign purchasers, including Foreign Nationalised companies of UK Defence Companies have been from those Countries were a similar reverse situation would not be allowed – they protect their defence industry
It has become a one way street where to the UK Parliament so-called free trade means take what you want, nothing to do with a free and open marketplace
July 10, 2026
The United Kingdom relies on a multi-layered, but numerically restricted network to protect critical domestic military facilities.
The primary Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) asset is the Sky Sabre missile system. This utilizes an agile multibeam radar to engage multiple targets simultaneously up to 25 kilometres away. However, fewer than ten batteries exist globally, with several units deployed overseas to regions like Poland and the Falkland Islands. Airspace protection otherwise relies on RAF Typhoon fighter jets, via Quick Reaction Alert operations.
A strategic analysis identifies critical capability limits:-
Existing GBAD assets cannot intercept high-altitude ballistic or hypersonic missiles due to low altitude ceilings.
The limited number of available systems leaves several inland facilities unshielded by ground-based missile cover.
While Type 45 destroyers provide advanced naval air defence, engine problems and the Power Improvement Project mean at least half the fleet remains alongside in maintenance.
To secure the physical bases, the MoD is systematically upgrading perimeter infrastructure under the National Protective Security Authority framework. Standard boundary fences are being replaced with high-security palisade and rigid mesh designs fitted with anti-climb curves
Entry points now feature automated sliding gates with crash-rated Hostile Vehicle Mitigation technology designed to stop heavy trucks.
Through Project SENSOREM, bases are introducing AI-enabled thermal imaging and micro-radar to continuously monitor perimeters
At a time when the Russian FSB is apparently operating inside the UK with complete immunity, having undertaken many successful sabotage operations, I suggest that those responsible for the defence of the realm get real and start taking GBAD seriously.
July 10, 2026
I would also suggest that those responsible for the defence of the realm get real and ditch the Far Left’s energy sabotaging, economy wrecking, de-industrialisation and national security destroying policy called the Net Zero Strategy. Our enemies are laughing at us. One even subsidises its sales to us of energy generating and electrification devices using cheap coal, slave labour and ignoring the environmental damage caused by mining and toxic tailing lakes so as to make us impotent and dependent upon them for all our goods and energy infrastructure. Just wait for the inserted kill switches to be applied and the refusal to ship spare parts for our decarbonised country unless we toe the line. But at least we will have saved the planet.
July 10, 2026
Mrs Gold and I are saddened to learn that Ann Widdecombe has passed away. Ann was a colourful character who served in John Major’s government. Many will recall her description of Michael Howard as having ‘something of the night’ about him during Howard’s attempt to become Conservative Party leader in 1997.
She supported Brexit and became involved with Farage’s Reform UK party in her later years.
Ann may have done the country a great service by helping Howard to lose. She will be missed by many in her old Maidstone constituency.
July 10, 2026
RIP Ann Widdecombe – a formidable woman. She reminded me of some of the characters Margaret Rutherford used to play in films.
July 10, 2026
A good and decent woman who always spoke common sense.
July 10, 2026
Nearly always right as rarely her religious views misguided her as they also do occasionally with the otherwise excellent Jacob Rees-Mogg
July 10, 2026
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blessed With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I’m tired with waiting for this chemic gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old.
John Dryden
July 10, 2026
Indeed Burnham is yet another vacuous leader with a broken compass.
Very sorry to hear of the death of Anne Widecombe. Why was she not in the Lords when dire people like Hermer, Mandelson, Lord Cameron of Greenslade, Blunkett…
July 10, 2026
Sorry news indeed, probably not in the Lords because she spoke her mind and the truth rather too often, about policies which were being put forward by the Government and the leader at the time.
Reply She did keep changing parties Cons – UKIP – Reform so I guess those parties did not propose her
July 10, 2026
She changed religion too.
July 10, 2026
Reply – Reply
Anne moved because the Conservative Party moved in the opposite direction to her thoughts, so she did the honest thing and moved to a Party which had more (not all) polices more in line with her thinking.
How many UKIP and Reform people are in the Lords John ?
Reply No, she became a Eurosceptic late.
July 10, 2026
Report are she was blocked by people like Cameron for her strong Christian views and being right on Climate Alarmism and Brexit. She too read PPE after classics I think but survived it! A SHAME she was superior to circa 90% who are in the lords.
Reply In 2010 she was mot a Eurosceptic and as an MP would not help us who were. She joined UKIP in 2019, long after we had obtained and won the referendum.
July 10, 2026
To reply: thanks I did not know that. I like yourself was for Brexit even in 1975 – as a young teen. It just seems more logical as Enoch and Shaw explained it well. My parents had no strong views on this issue at that time.
July 10, 2026
Parental views – – I would venture to suggest a majority of voters were starved of meaningful information and conjecture as to what voting either way would mean mid and long term.
July 10, 2026
LL,
Because she was a devout Catholic with very traditional and correct views about family, abortion, marriage and pro life issues.
Sad really. She was an intelligent woman who was incredibly clear and principled in what she believed and how she lived and would have been an asset to the House of Lords.
July 10, 2026
+1
July 10, 2026
CW,
She was a convert, unlike Burnham who would arguably become Britain’s first Catholic Prime Minister.
Burnham offers a glib summary of influences in his life – Everton football club, the Labour Party and the Catholic Church, in that order. He probably thinks that will play well with potential voters.
July 10, 2026
She came to Catholicism, like Euroskeptism, very late.
She was very confident in her views both before and after changing them.
July 10, 2026
A beginner. Seems not to have any informed advisors either.
This is going to be a rough ride.
July 10, 2026
He has the same broken compass as Sir Two Tier Kier but has added some other 180 degree out issues too now.
July 10, 2026
Seems like even Rupert Lowe could benefit from informed advisors as to accuracy of his statements, one murder indeed.
July 10, 2026
So Jeremy Corbyn’s brother Piers will stand against Nigel Farage in Clacton by-election. He was described yesterday on Talk Radio as the less sensible to the Corbyn brothers. Well not really, Piers does have a few odd views here and their (after all he joined the Labour Party) but on Climate Change, energy policy, Covid Vaccines, Covid Lockdowns, giving dangerous COVID “vaccines” especially to children and people who had had Covid already, Blair’s appalling wars, the EU… he was and is right and consistent. He does have a 1st in physics albeit from Imperial.
This makes him far sounder than all the governments and PMs we have suffered under since Thatcher etc Ed.
Reply You do need to change your line on Kemi and net zero in the light of her making it clear pro net zero candidates will not be selected. Thatcher did not “bury us” further in the EU and did rightly oppose the Euro.
July 10, 2026
When Burnham takes office, Labour with have reset the previous useless PM with just another likely duffer.
July 10, 2026
Looks like we are in for an interesting ride, which many of us will not enjoy, more taxes, more waste, more so called re-distribution, more EU, more of everything that has failed so far, but with different words of explanation.
July 10, 2026
Nothing is what it seems with Farage and Reform. Today we learn that the police have been investigating their finances for over a year, people have been interviewed under caution though no arrests have been made. Yet.
Expect Farage to announce that he will be suing the police (and the Times newspaper) later today.
Count Binface will be standing against Farage at the forthcoming by-election. Martin Bell has offered his support.
Lets hear it for Binface!
July 10, 2026
There is a large section of the population who vote for raving loonies (current Labour government as evidence), so Count Binface is in for a shout.
July 10, 2026
With first past the post it will be essentially a two horse race, Farage or the best candidate with a chance of beating him! Bin Face, Fox, Piers Corbyn.
July 10, 2026
I was amused to hear that Laurence Fox would stand against Nigel Farage in Clacton.
When they announce the results and all candidates stand together on the stage, if I were Nigel Farage, I would throw a bucket of water on the fox and shout get away from that bin.
July 10, 2026
Its cheap PR
July 10, 2026
(And satirists aren’t really generally left-wing but rather more anarchic in a shake-things-up-a-bit spirit such as Diogenes of Sinope in Ancient Greece or even Laozi in ancient China – if not healthy conservative politics and philosophy CAN not necessarily calcify and those behind it CAN become pompous and self-satisfied with it – it’s why in a healthy marriage you often get the one who is conservative and the other who is more anarchic in healthy way and how they both challenge each to be sane and flourish).
July 10, 2026
all that investigation and no charges. Vexatious?
July 10, 2026
This was a slogan regurgitated a couple of weeks back by the sitting incumbents. Then they following day they approved the sale of the UK’s only manufacturer of warship gearbox’s.
The UK’s sale of important strategic safety and security is being sold off as quickly as possible so as to weaken and handicap the UK.
Not criticising the French, their Government protects their Industry which has to be applauded. Without the French Government owned Industries the much rightly maligned UK Aircraft Carriers wouldn’t exists, the UK’s Submarine fleet when its available couldn’t put to sea without the say-so of the French Government. Then you get the only Helicopters seemingly coming out of the UK are actually from a business owned by the Italian State.
The overall point I am making is that Foreign Nationalised Industry can ‘buy’ own and run strategic parts of the UK Defence structures that are vital to the UK’s safety and security. This is placing the UK’s defence structures solely under the control and whims of Foreign Parliament, just as UK energy is. All these purchases are made by Foreign State controlled entities that would never in a million years reciprocate, have an equal or balanced trade agreement with the UK allow the same in reverse. The UK Industry just can’t get to own similar operations in these Countries that find the UK an open-house. They all get to strengthen their defence structures while depleting the UK’s abilities and capabilities
July 10, 2026
We do have the National Security and Investment Act that requires approval of the sale of UK critical industry. If the sale is approved, that might be because the alternative is that the company sinks under the weight of tax, and disappears entirely.
July 10, 2026
I am sceptical, as politicians in all groups have in the UK have a proven track record of lying to get elected
Today writing in the new Left-Wing Euro Telegraph
“Kemi Badenoch has rejected former Conservative MPs as candidates for her party at the next election because they support net zero.
Under Mrs Badenoch, the Conservatives have rejected the target to achieve net zero by 2050 and pledged to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), in order to better protect British borders.
Writing for The Telegraph, Mrs Badenoch says she is building a “party for the future”, not a “retirement home for failed politicians”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/09/the-conservative-party-is-for-serious-people-not-a-retireme/
It will unfortunately take a lot of convincing, for her to show that her Party is in fact Conservative. If she was serious she could start by putting up a candidate to contest the Clacton Election. As one thing is for sure to date Reform have shown they are not a replacement for Conservative, for its ideas and thinking – they are just the ‘Other Party’, the party that isn’t signed up to the Uniparty Ideology.
The UK needs and is screaming out for a Conservative Party, not this LimpDem faction of the Uniparty that is now embedded. Now would be a good time for one to rise up, stand up, waiting another 3 years in hope and fingers crossed that things may change is the way to ensure a loss.
The feeling is the Lib Dumb CCHQ would sooner play semantics than real grown up politics.
Reply Kemi is leading the conservative party, choosing people with conservative opinions. There will be a Conservative candidate if Nigel Farage wins this pointless by election but is forced into a second one over the behaviour issues which Parliament are investigating. There is no need for a by election if he clears his name in the Parly Enquiry.
July 10, 2026
I understand the Report (on the first complaint) will be published next week and Farage has a copy now.
July 10, 2026
Its a question of whether Parliament is trying to suppress one faction or not for pure political gain, I ‘get the games’ but its time we had a grown up Parliament that starts working with and for the people
July 10, 2026
@Reply – that is also the contradiction. At the last General Election what was suggested was a Conservative Party, disenfranchised it vote base, it deserted them with that thinking. As a result, got rid of more Conservatives than were returned to Parliament. As a result, the looney left with just 1 in 5 of the electorate voting for them gained power.
This up-and-coming election no matter how stupid the Establishment thinks it is, has resulted in one party standing against ‘those’ that have lumped themselves as being the looney left brains-in-a-bin Uniparty (ConLabLib etc – unified). So, Kimi gets to confirm to her electorate in her neighbouring vulnerable constituency, that she will as she said in the papers recently will align with the ‘left’
The ‘ego’ of Parliamentary semantics in Parliament doesn’t get to be seen by the electorate as such the message is killed
A chance to put ‘new view’ portray the what no one sees as a Conservative Party in a ‘new light’ with all the ‘free’ media attention is a lost opportunity. As I suggesting waiting another 3 years in hope and fingers crossed will be too late. It is never about Farage, Reform its about demonstrating that there is something other than the ‘looney left’ It’s one of those elections even to lose is a win as the message gets out there. The Conservative message this time will be that of the brains-in-a-bin Party that they are ‘giving way’ too aligning with.
The mistake being made as more as more buy into the 2TK mantra is that those against what passes for the Establishment are radicle right-wing. What we have seen as Reform in action and their policies suggests they are more to the left than a traditional Conservative.
Why Parliament loses all the time, it is always them and not the Electorate. Apologise for the long response.
Reply There is plenty of choice including Reform, Restore, Advance, Green, Corbyn/Islam etc. UK politics has splintered out of frustration about the lack of delivery on prosperity and control of borders.
July 10, 2026
There are shortages of teachers and builders, so why is Badenoch wanting to attract them to the Conservative Party.
July 10, 2026
Teachers in the UK are over 70% femail and in my experiance are generally left wing, woke, climae alarmist, pro EU, art graduates. Only a small % have much grasp of science and/or know much about business, economics or the private sector.
Not sure we need any more of these as Tory MPs we have far too many already Kemi.
July 10, 2026
I’ll believe her when she disband immediatey, the parliamentary membership of the conservative environmental network (CEN) and a policy in the manifesto to disband the climate control committee (CCC)
July 10, 2026
OH, what factories are those then?
Those still operating are in a bad way, punished with excessive energy costs and forced to take foreign imports of steel because our capacity on that is limited. Support factories that make the many myriad of small components that go into any big project will not be there, so it’s not just the massive factories like BAe that need a great deal of help.
Building a war industry in Red Ed’s Britain will always mean cheaper and better to buy abroad.
If Burnham imagines he can re-industrialise without killing net-0 and pulling in massive investments from abroad to rebuild our industries, then he clearly has not understood the real issues.
July 10, 2026
So no Labour MP believes they are worthy of consideration as PM?
Or, insufficient colleagues share that opinion.
On that point they are all correct.
July 10, 2026
It has become the poisoned challice.
July 10, 2026
The difference between what really happened in this country yesterday, and what is being reported in the news on the main stream media is now massive.
At the moment we can tell via social media. The state seems determined to stop us knowing and banning that knowledge route.
July 10, 2026
Correct
July 10, 2026
“Mr Burnham tells us he is going to re industrialise by buying more of our defence equipment from UK factories.”
Re-industrialisation is impossible if he pursues the Net Zero Strategy, the whole point of which is to de-industrialise by sabotaging our energy, economy and national security with consumption emissions reduced simply through energy rationing and impoverishment
July 10, 2026
Do we even make any rifle bullets these days. The last I heard that feature of basic defence had been handed over to Holland, or was it Belgium?
July 10, 2026
Has Burnham got a brain? He has one chance to dump the bad policies being pursued by the present government. Net Zero must go or the UK will have no industry left. The Chagos deal needs to be dumped immediately, yet we are told he favours it. No indication that he understands the need to cut the overtaxation of people and business by reducing government spending.
Great that he wants to back the UK defence industry, but that will take years to rebuild.
I genuinely wish him well and hope he succeeds, but he looks and sounds like Keir Starmer mark 2. He also has the character fault of wanting to be liked, so he will be a very un happy PM within six months.
July 10, 2026
Did UK And USA really have same average salaries twenty years ago?
July 10, 2026
Roughtly and energy costs were roughtly similar too. Now ours are 4 times those in the US. Our taxes are higher and our costs of living are too.
July 10, 2026
81 ‘illegal economic immigrants’ invaded the UK yesterday 9th July 2026 …
July 10, 2026
The EU is keen for Britain to contribute to a d participate in EU defence programmes. I would not be surprised if agreements already in place include joint defence procurement. Whether they do or not Burnham woukd certainly yield to overtures from the EU.