𝓤𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓝𝓮𝔀𝓼

This week marks the anniversary of Keir Starmer becoming Prime Minister. It also marks the end of his leadership. The far left of his party have seized control having forced him into a series of U-turns and a grovelling apology over his immigration stance and his ‘island of strangers’ speech.

Starmer never was a leader – he was always the Great Pretender. First, he pretended to be a Corbynista to get the Labour members to vote for him to become party leader. Then he sidled up to the trade unions for their money and support and then finally he pretended to be a Blairite, a wheeze to win over moderate voters at the general election. But as Starmer has proved, you can’t pretend to believe in everything and everyone, it ultimately exposes you as believing in nothing and no one.

The great tragedy is that Starmer’s leadership and vacuous mantra of ‘change’ was never put under proper scrutiny by the broadcast media prior to the general election.

So eager were the media to make the destruction of the Conservative Party the story of the election, they effectively gave Starmer a free pass – and didn’t put him under pressure about his plans for the country and how they would be funded. For a democracy to work, there needs to be a rigorous, impartial scrutiny of its leaders – especially those who are expected to be forming a government. Instead – just as they did during Covid, the broadcast media catastrophically failed in their duty, and we are all now paying the price.

We had a taste of the pain that is about to come last year with Reeves tax rises and the vindictive VAT on private schools policy, but with the wealthy leaving our shores in droves, and an ever increasing number of spongers arriving on our shores – those of us still left here and paying taxes – are about to get walloped again, and this extreme left-wing takeover is intent on hammering the middle classes whose views they despise and money they want.

In fact, Comrade Phillipson, the Socialist Minister who brought us the VAT on schools policy, is seeking evidence on how to ‘commence the socio-economic duty in the Equality Act 2010’, which would extend equality laws covering race, age, gender, disability and sexuality to also include ‘the inequality of social class’. Basically, Labour is preparing to introduce an equality law which will discriminate against the middle classes. As if their tax rises and economic policies haven’t done that already.

This latest attack on aspiration and on the hard-working, law-abiding citizen, is social engineering at its worst. It will be another Labour nail in the coffin of the UK and will serve only to push more of our brightest and best out of the country – a phenomenon currently running at one millionaire departing every 45 minutes – taking job creation, spending and tax receipts with them, and shrinking our tax pool further.

Starmer’s socialist experiment of trying to spend your way out of debt and tax your way to prosperity – has failed us yet again. And on this occasion in record time.

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What chance do children have when primary school pupils are being coached by their parents to tell their teachers they need ‘decompression time’ at the start and end of the day to adjust to the stressful school environment or that they need to leave the classroom for some ‘reset time’?

Why are parents feeding their children such garbage? The tragedy is that the people who will be damaged the most are these mollycoddled children ruined by parents more concerned in being seen as friends than parents. And these over-indulged kids will get eaten alive when they make it to the outside world.

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I was grabbed by the arm and whisked off to the opening night of Pete Townsend’s ballet version of Quadrophenia by a good friend of mine, Debbie Moore, founder of Pineapple Dance Studios and where the rehearsals had taken place.

The performance was exceptional. The story was of lost youth and hunger for social change. How apt, I’d found my way into politics around the same themes. It made me want to get my old ballet shoes out and get down to Pineapple Dance Studios, although I’m not sure even they would be prepared for that!

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What a disaster Keir Starmer’s Welfare Reforms are turning out to be. Forced to U-turn on his disability changes, another U-turn looming on the two-child policy cap and a gap in Rachel Reeves’ budget of £5billion pounds and rising rapidly.

But these benefit changes were never about reform of the system or helping people into a job. These changes were only ever to save Reeves’ job. Her disastrous Autumn budget left her short of money and so she went after the benefits budget to fill it. What a mistake that has turned out to be.

Sooner or later Keir is going to have to get rid of the hapless Reeves and with any luck he will be following her out of Downing Street soon afterwards.

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Glastonbury needs putting out to grass. All we see are ageing rockstars past their sell-by date and young non-entities whose only chance of fame is by spouting left wing tripe or vile anti-semitic chants. The BBC should be ashamed that they are still broadcasting this rubbish, surely it’s now time to scrap the licence fee one and for all.

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I was delighted to see all five Reform UK MPs – headed by Nigel Farage – support a Conservative Party amendment in the House of Commons which would force the Government to reveal the nationality and legal status of every offender sentenced by the courts. I hope this is the start of much greater collaboration between the Conservative Party and Reform UK both inside and outside of Parliament.