Sir Keir Starmer's Britain

The Labour government was voted into power at the General Election held on 4th July 2024 and has over 400 MPs in Parliament.  Sir Keir Starmer is now the Prime Minister and has currently been in power just over 2 months.  

In that time he has brought in a series of new measures that are proving to be highly unpopular, not only with the general public but also with Labour voters as well.

At the end of July there was a very nasty incident in Southport where children were stabbed and the local community were outraged, thinking it was caused by an illegal migrant. This was later announced to not be the case but resulted in major riots in Britain.  Starmer's response was to arrest and jail people found to have taken part in the riots and in addition to crack down hard on any social media posts on the subject.  People who just happened to be in the street witnessing the riots, were also caught up in this and questioned by the police.

The next thing he did was to announce he was removing the Winter Fuel Allowance from 10 million old age pensioners, despite the majority being very hard up and terrified as to how they will be able to afford to heat their homes during the coming winter.  On Tuesday 10th September there was a vote in Parliament about scrapping this benefit and Labour, being in the majority, won the vote, despite widespread outcry at the unfairness.

There is talk too of removing old people's free bus passes, which they have been entitled to for many years. Also to take away the reduction in Council Tax for old people living alone, which we all pay to local councils.. Most old age pensioners live on a paltry £11,500 a year, which is their State Pension.

While removing pensioners' fuel allowance, Labour MPs still get their own heating costs paid on their second homes, as well as many other expenses.  The total bill for the winter fuel allowance for 10 million pensioners is about £1.3 billion.

Yet this government seems to have enough money to send more than £10 billion in foreign aid, as well as £3 billion a year to Ukraine ('for as long as it takes'). Our Foreign Secretary David Lammy recently met his US counterpart Anthony Blinken and they flew to Ukraine to meet Zelensky. Now Sir Keir Starmer has flown to the US to meet Joe Biden to discuss sending long range missiles to attack Russian cities.  Starting WWIII does not seem to be a very wise move.

Labour has long had links with the Trade Unions, who are their biggest donors.  Therefore as soon as he assumed office, Starmer was quite happy to please them by giving favoured sectors inflation busting pay rises, such as to train drivers and others. Doctors were given a 22% pay rise over 3 years.

Another of Starmer's policies is that he wants to prevent evictions of tenants in rented properties.  This of course puts off landlords renting their property and will make them want to sell it instead, thereby reducing the rented accommodation available, at a time when it is already in great shortage.  It is said that this policy will increase rentals by 10%, when it is already very expensive and unaffordable for many.

There is already a massive shortage of rental accommodation in Britain.  Millions of Britons are on waiting lists for social housing, yet newly arriving migrants have been jumping the queue for these cheaper homes ahead of the indigenous population.

We have a population explosion in Britain with estimates of 10 million people arriving here in the past 20 years.  Sir Keir Starmer's answer to this is to 'smash the people smuggling gangs' bringing in illegal migrants in small boats across the Channel from France. So far he has done nothing whatsoever to stem the tide of between 350-1000 people a day coming into Britain illegally.  He got rid of the Rwanda plan outlined in a previous article, immediately on taking office, which was meant to be a deterrent by sending people there if they arrived illegally. 

The next extremely worrying announcement is that Keir Starmer is releasing up to 5,000 prisoners, as he says the prisons are currently full. 2,000 were released on 11th September with gang members greeting them outside the prisons with bottles of champagne and cannabis joints (all filmed by mainstream media!)

There are apparently 10,000 foreign born nationals currently in our prisons and there have been calls to make room by deporting them back so their own countries can deal with them.  Of course this won't happen because judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) have previously prevented very dangerous criminals being deported, even when they were on a plane about to take off on the runway! 

The latest is that newly elected Reform party leader MP Nigel Farage, who has a one hour show three times a week on GB News channel, might be forced to relinquish his job because a new 'Modernisation' parliamentary committee has decided that MPs should not have two jobs.  Lots of MPs have had two or more jobs for years.  Perhaps it is only because Nigel is so good at getting the truth out on his evening programme and is so very popular with the public that he is being targeted.

It seems this new Labour Government is very keen to clamp down on free speech and it may only get worse before it gets better.  Thousands if not millions of people are waking up to this and the injustice of all of the above policies.  

We are getting unpopular policy announcements nearly every day from this new Labour government and quite frankly don't know what to expect next!

The Rise and Rise of the Reform UK Party

by Louise Mclean

When Rishi Sunak announced on 22nd May 2024 that there would be a General Election being held on 4th July 2024, it came as a surprise to everybody! No one was prepared, least of all the main political parties, except perhaps the Labour Party, who were taking their orders from the World Economic Forum, knew they were on course to win it. 

Reform UK had been steadily building and creating a solid political party since it was first registered in November 2018 by the party leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, which it replaced, taking the logo and turquoise blue colour of that party with it. 

Everyone had thought that a general election would be likely to be held in the autumn, giving the smaller parties time to get themselves ready. For Reform UK, it meant a mad dash to get everything into place. They had already chosen nearly all the 650 candidates for all UK constituencies but nevertheless there remained a great deal to be done. At the time Richard Tice was party leader. 

On 3rd June 2024, Nigel Farage suddenly decided that he would stand to win a seat in the election in the Essex seaside constituency of Clacton. He also took over the party leadership from Tice. He held quite a few rallies in Clacton which were very popular. People were thrilled when they heard he was going to stand as an MP. 

Richard Tice stood for Boston and Skegness and Ben Habib for Wellingborough and Rushden. Ben had fought to stop Northern Ireland staying in the European Union and unfortunately did not win the seat, which was a great pity as he is a very decent person. Many of these people had previously been Brexit Party MEPs in May 2019 when nearly 30 of them were elected to go into the European Parliament because we hadn't yet left the EU. 

Reform held a huge rally of 5,000 people at the NEC in Birmingham, which was a huge success. The whole campaign took off like a rocket! The Establishment were dismayed as they did not like any challenges to their Uniparty of Conservatives and Labour. 

Reform decided not to have a Manifesto, like other political parties but instead a 'Contract with the People' which listed a huge number of extremely popular policies, which can be found on their website, the No.1 being to stop uncontrolled immigration.  

It was testimony to how fed up the British people were with the millions coming in to Britain that Reform UK came second in 98 constituencies in the country! Though only 5 people were elected as MPs: Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Rupert Lowe, Lee Anderson and James McMurdock. 

Lee Anderson had previously been elected a Conservative MP for Ashfield in the 2019 General Election when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister. In March 2024 he was kicked out, when he was Deputy Chairman of the party, for making a comment about Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, saying Islamists had got control of Khan and got control of London. He refused to apologise. After that within weeks he joined Reform UK as he found their goals and values to be similar to his own. 

Lee was hugely popular with the country, as he is a man of integrity and as far as I can see, so are all five of the Reform MPs. Rupert Lowe, MP for Great Yarmouth is already donating all of his MP salary to charities and good causes in his constituency! This is what we want for Britain. Sensible policies and MPs who cannot be bought, blackmailed or bribed. 

In the end of course Labour did win the election by a huge majority, though its popularity is dropping fast after only just over 5 weeks of its 5 year term! As at yesterday's date Labour was on 33%, Reform UK on 21%, Conservatives on 20%, so Reform has already surpassed the Conservatives. 

The reason the Conservatives did so badly in the general election is that they had been in power for 14 years since 2010, had 5 different Prime Ministers (David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss briefly and Rishi Sunak) and far from reducing immigration as promised in 4 manifestos, they had massively increased it! 

In the 2024 general election, Labour added 211 seats for a total of 412 MPs, the Conservatives lost 121 seats and now have a total of 251 MPs. The unfair system of 'first past the post voting' meant that the Liberal Democrats got 76 seats with about the same number of votes as Reform who only got 5 seats!

 

Currently, party leader Nigel Farage wants to create a nationwide party infrastructure and get lots of Reform candidates on the Councils in 2025. His aim is for Reform to win the next General Election in 2029! 

Incidentally, as this is a Brexit blog, I should add that Sir Kier Starmer, our new Prime Minister, head of the Labour Party, is very much a Remainer, i.e. he would like Britain to be back in the European Union. Unfortunately as I wrote about last year, virtually all the EU legislation in the UK Parliament has not been repealed, so it would be fairly easy to slot us back in again. Hopefully this will not happen but nevertheless all the benefits and opportunities of Brexit Britain have not been utilised and so far we have had BRINO (Brexit in name only!)

CPAC - Farage, Orban, Trump and More

by Louise Mclean

The Conservative Political Action Conference was held this summer from 4th to 7th August in Dallas, Texas, with a big line up of speakers.  

There was a great deal of excitement at the conference because Donald Trump's 43 candidate endorsements had nearly all won their primaries and the majority of people in the audience were MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters!

On Thursday 4th August, Viktor Orban took to the stage to often rapturous applause, especially when he attacked the Woke agenda by saying: 'A man is a father, a woman is a mother and stay away from our children!'  He also talked about how Hungary had refused to take in any illegal migrants and how they had built a wall which had successfully kept them out. 

Orban is no fan of the globalists and their agenda.  He mentioned how Hungary was a Christian country which believes in the family. They have given tax breaks to married people, which has resulted in a doubling of marriages in the past 10 years and a halving of abortions.

Also attending was Nigel Farage who spoke on Saturday 6th August. He has attended before and he is due to attend CPAC in Sydney.  His speech was not as long as Orban's but he made it clear that the biggest threat we face is the 5th column inside our countries attempting to destroy the family unit, our Judeo Christian culture, our constitution and our history, through a Marxist education system infiltrating our schools, colleges and universities. 

Nigel also attacked the Fake News and how he was sick of hearing the accusation of white privilege in the English speaking countries. 

Farage said our conservative parties and elected representatives were not actually conservatives. The Americans have their RINOS (Republicans in Name Only) and he thinks the UK has the same, as Boris Johnson was elected as a Conservative Prime Minister but chose to govern as a liberal. 

Nigel said if America falls, we all fall and he urged the people there to fight back against all this and pointed out that the silent majority of the public are on our side. 

Nigel went on to praise Trump and pointed out how in 2018 Trump had warned the Germans not to be dependent on Russian energy and they had laughed at him but 'they are not laughing now'.

The highly anticipated big speech of the weekend came from Donald Trump on Saturday night.  He spoke of how the US is a nation in decline, how energy prices are sky high, when under his administration America had been energy independent. Now President Biden has been begging Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil, having closed down oil production in America. He said the US now has the highest inflation in over 40 years and that the Stock Market is at its lowest for five decades.  

Trump pointed out how the US had surrendered in Afghanistan and left behind $85 billion worth of the finest military hardware in the world.  He said the nation no longer had a free or fair press and free speech was no longer allowed.  The education system was failing badly, crime in Democrat-run cities was rampant and the economy was collapsing. Trump felt America was no longer respected or listened to. 

He also talked about the political persecution he has had to endure since 2016.  How he was accused of working with Russia, which was proven to be a hoax and was nearly impeached twice for committing no crime.

However he believed that soon the US would have its greatness again and the hard working patriots who built the country would save the country.  With all of Trump's candidates winning in the primaries recently, it certainly looks like the Republican Party will win the November midterms and make a highly successful comeback!

Two of the biggest stars at the conference were Republicans Kari Lake of Arizona and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Kari Lake had just won her primary for governor of Arizona.  Kari is a hugely popular ex journalist and does not hold back when speaking. Marjorie is also a very popular, straight talking woman, who has been continually attacked by the press. She actually went to visit the January 6th prisoners and reported to the world on the terrible conditions they are living in. Altogether there were nearly 40 speakers.

It does seem a bit of a coincidence that Donald Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago was raided by the FBI on Monday 8th August, the day after this important conference ended, ostensibly to find classified documents that Trump was purportedly holding.  The world is shocked that this could happen to a President of the United States but Americans are hoping that the candidates he has endorsed to stand in the midterms will be unstoppable!