𝓤𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓝𝓮𝔀𝓼

As far as Keir Starmer and this useless Labour Government are concerned, the UK population have become little more than lab rats for their socialist experiments. The only question is how much socialism can be injected into a country before it becomes irrecoverable?

How much tax can be inflicted on a population before it buckles under the burden, and how much of Ed Miliband’s mad net zero zealotry can we take before our energy supplies collapse? We may also then find out to what lengths the unscrupulous Starmer would go to cling on to power.

Already, we have seen him try to cancel elections, break his manifesto promises and have us believe mobile phones have been stolen to evade investigations. It is a dystopian prospect that would make George Orwell shudder, but that is where this Government has taken the country in record time.

No one voted for this shambles, not even those who voted Labour. They thought they were getting a government that would “smash the gangs”, “grow the economy”, and one that wouldn’t increase taxes. All of those promises were like a piece of cheese held in a mousetrap, into which we all walked, and where we are now caught.

Instead of smashing the gangs, Labour has presided over an explosion in illegal immigration – more than 1,000 arrived last week alone – and the latest promises from the Home Secretary about getting tough on the issue, made only a few months ago, are already being watered down.

As for growing the country’s economy, under the stewardship of Rachel from Accounts, growth is down, debt is up, and we’re heading for an international bailout, last seen in the 1970s under another Labour government.

Drastic circumstances call for drastic solutions. If the public doesn’t want to be left at the mercy of a bunch of hapless, underqualified, inexperienced, ill-prepared inadequates again, then we need to make sure MPs feel the pain of their own bad decision-making, not just the public. It is time for performance-related pay for MPs.

No government of any party has managed to balance the books for over 20 years, with money wasted at home and abroad and a bloated welfare bill as politicians refuse to take any difficult decisions.

I propose that the salary of every MP is halved in any year the Government doesn’t balance the books, and that they are all ineligible for re-election if that happens for a minimum of three years in any five-year parliament.

Call me cynical, but I reckon we would then see a huge enthusiasm in Parliament for not wasting taxpayers’ money. MPs would start scrutinising expenditure rather than just calling for more and more money to be spent. It would also ensure that tax rates were not set too high, causing the biggest taxpayers to leave the country.

Without this, I don’t think any government will balance the books again in my lifetime. It must be worth a try.

Selina Scott, former breakfast TV host, has called for a boycott of trendy collagen products after discovering they are Halal-certified, meaning they are from a cow religiously slaughtered, having had its throat cut, while alive.

Collagen products have been hailed as a miracle anti-ageing product and are now a £10billion industry, but Selina is absolutely right to call this out. I wonder how many people would stop using them if they knew.

Selina has also supported the Bill I have introduced to Parliament to bring about the compulsory labelling of all halal meat and products. It is absolutely essential that people know what they are buying, and are told if an animal has been stunned before it’s been killed.

Selina said she felt “complete physical revulsion” that she was imbibing a product that had come from the pain and suffering of an animal for beauty. It is high time this changed.

Rachel from Accounts has busted the country, but it seems she and her Labour colleagues can still find money to pay all kinds of loony causes, like paying Mauritius to take the Chagos Islands off us.

Yet even I am shocked at their latest idiocy. The United Nations brought forward a motion that the UK should pay reparations to African states to compensate them for slavery.

The UK incredibly abstained on the vote. Yes, you read that right. If the brains of the people in this Government were dominoes, they would be knocking.

It seems Strictly icon Claudia Winkleman’s new chat show isn’t going as well as hoped. In fact, “dull” is the word being used to describe it, which could mean it won’t get another series.

My advice to Claudia is to quick step back to Strictly and beg for your job back before Miranda Hart signs the contract and becomes its new host.

I guess it might be possible to have a new double act presenting Strictly, Claudia and Miranda. I’d be up for giving that a twirl!

The new BBC director general, Matt Brittin, is unsurprisingly a former board member of the Guardian Media Group, so hopes are not high that he will change the politically correct Left-wing culture there.

If he wants to show things are different, he might want to overturn the ridiculous woke decision not to feature Bob Monkhouse comedy material because some of it made fun of women.

Bob Monkhouse was a brilliant comedian who was a regular on the BBC in my youth. The new DG urgently needs to get shut of the Boring Bourgeois Comrades that have ruined a once great institution.

I recently received a report from the Care Quality Commission about a local Cheshire hospital.

The report said “leaders didn’t prioritise supporting diversity or fostering inclusive and fair culture within the workforce … It was positive, however, that staff networks had been recently relaunched to champion equality and diversity”.

What hope is there when hospitals are being judged on this politically correct claptrap? The sooner these quangos are closed down, the better.