- “I’ll govern ‘unburdened by doctrine’” – The Spectator has reproduced the text of Keir Starmer’s first speech as Prime Minister outside Downing Street.
- “Starmer kept cool when told he’d won, while staff roared like football fans” – The new PM kissed his wife amid rapturous cheers as news of Labour’s victory rolled in, reports the Times.
- “Starmer’s Cabinet: Thornberry ‘snubbed’ and McFadden made enforcer” – The victorious Labour leader is building his team – and alongside the anticipated appointments are one or two surprises, says the Telegraph.
- “Sir Patrick Vallance: From Covid adviser to science minister” – Sir Patrick Vallance has been made a peer and given a job as a junior science minister in Starmer’s first Government, reports the Standard.
- “Starmer kills off Rwanda plan on first day as PM” – Labour insiders tell the Telegraph that the Tory Rwanda scheme is effectively “dead”, given Labour promised to scrap it.
- “Migrants vow to cross from France ‘as soon as possible’ after Labour victory” – Speaking to the Telegraph, some migrants near Dunkirk have welcomed Starmer’s victory and say they’ll make the journey across the channel as soon as they can.
- “How Starmer pulled off a triumph with three million fewer votes than Corbyn” – Starmer has promised to fix Britain, but with no clear plan to do so, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “The elite liberals on our screens could barely stomach that Reform was the big story of the night” – Allison Pearson’s highlight of the wall-to-wall coverage of the election on TV was the mainstream media being forced to give Nigel Farage’s upstart party its due, she says in the Telegraph.
- “The seeds of Starmer’s downfall have already been sown” – This was not a vote for the Labour party, but a rejection of the entire political class, writes Sebastian Milbank in the Telegraph.
- “Labour election result most distorted in history” – Labour has won nearly two-thirds of the seats with third of popular vote, the most distorted election result ever, according to the Telegraph.
- “What I think – detailed thoughts on a historic election, the morning after” – Matt Goodwin gives his thoughts on the election result for his Substack.
- “The Tories have only themselves to blame” – Douglas Murray in the Spectator thinks he know where blame lies for the Tories’ historic defeat.
- “British politics goes Continental” – Labour won big. But the rise of small parties proves we’ve entered a new political era, says Luke Hallam in Persuasion.
- “The centre-Right is dying a slow death. It is an epochal change for politics across the West.” – The results of the U.K. election are in and Labour has carried the day. Does this mean the end of the centre-Right across Europe? asks Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Labour’s hollow victory” – On his Substack, Jack Watson reflects on the election result.
- “What the polls got right – and very wrong” – Voters delivered the big Labour victory everyone expected — but the industry must reckon with how its predictions varied so wildly, says James Kanagasoorium in the Times.
- “My 10-point guide to bashing Labour” – In the Mail, Boris Johnson sets out his 10-point plan for defeating Labour in 2029.
- “There’s no shortcut for the Tories. A divided Right will never win an election again” – Pretending that Labour’s majority is built on sand is a pure coping mechanism, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Early runners and riders to replace Sunak as Tory civil war begins” – The battle lines were drawn before dawn broke when critics rounded on the ex-Prime Minister, as senior Conservatives lambasted him for failing to listen to voters, says the Mail.
- “Who could replace Rishi Sunak? The potential Tory successors” – With so many rivals in the Conservative Party losing their seats, the odds are looking better for the leadership candidates still standing, reports the Times.
- “The Tory blame game: Scorned MPs rage at peerage for Sunak ally” – The ex-Prime Minister has been accused of rewarding aides who led a duff campaign after giving a peerage to Liam Booth-Smith, according to the Telegraph.
- “Next Tory leader needs to win over Right and shift party to the centre, says George Osborne” – The former chancellor’s suggestions come after ‘true blue’ seats like Kensington and Chelsea fell to Labour, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Tory ‘wets’ are finished. Good riddance” – There is one silver lining to this catastrophic defeat, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph. The Party is now more cohesively Right-wing.
- “Moment furious Labour MP Jess Phillips takes on pro-Palestinian mob” – The Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley suffered jeers by pro-Palestinian supporters after she beat a Muslim independent by just 693 votes, reports the Mail.
- “The terrifying pro-Palestine campaign that hurt Labour – and threatens democracy” – Some of the party’s biggest names have complained of shocking intimidation and abuse by those campaigning “for Gaza”, according the Telegraph.
- “The pro-Palestine independents who turned the Gaza war on Keir Starmer” – Barrister Ayoub Khan, who quit the Lib Dems over Gaza, is the new MP for Perry Barr, according to the Mail.
- “The successful Muslim Vote campaign is a snapshot of the future of British politics” – No one anticipated how many pro-Gaza independents would be elected to Parliament, writes Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “Britain can no longer ignore the new sectarianism” – Suella Braverman was monstered when she raised concerns about British politics drifting towards sectarianism, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph. But the election has proven her right.
- “‘The worst election I have ever stood in’” – Sectarian politics is now a reality in England, says Ed West on Substack, quoting Jess Phillips.
- “Jeremy Corbyn wins as an independent: ‘I’m the one they couldn’t put down’” – The member for Gaza, sorry, Islington North, has been re-elected, defeating his Labour opponent, reports the Times.
- “SNP figures left reeling after ‘cataclysmic’ election night” – The SNP won just nine of the 56 Scottish constituencies declared yesterday after voters deserted them following a series of scandals and controversies, says the Mail.
- “Donald Trump congratulates Nigel Farage on election win” – The next President of the United States has congratulated Farage on his election win, but not Starmer, says the Telegraph.
- “The culture war is about to get a lot worse” – The Tories deserved to lose, but the Labour landslide will keep the ‘woke’ movement on life-support for another few years, laments Andrew Doyle on Substack.
- “Disney heiress withdraws donations to Democrats until Biden is replaced” – Abigail Disney says the Democrats will “not receive a single dime” until they “bite the bullet” and get rid of the 81-year-old President, according to the Telegraph.
- “What did reporters who cover the White House know, and when did they know it?” – As President Biden lurches toward a withdrawal from the 2024 election that seems likelier by the hour, questions need to be asked about the media’s role in hiding his mental decline, says Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “Letter to a Liberal: Your Media Lies to You” – Biden’s senility was long known, but the media gaslighted the public until the gas finally ran out and they could no longer protect him, writes Paul D. Thacker in the Disinformation Chronicles.
- “How long until the ‘Joe must go’ faction prevails?” – If President Biden wanted to quash demands for him to step aside in favour of Kamala Harris after his devastating debate against Donald Trump, his July 4th appearance will not have helped, writes Freddie Gray in the Mail.
- “Church of England fears parish backlash over £100m slavery fund” – Bishop concedes there is anecdotal evidence that anger about the scheme has led to people stopping giving to their local church, reports the Times.
- “Right-wing AfD debanked by angry German grandmothers” – An option to donate has been removed from the AfD’s website in a victory for a debanking campaign group in Germany, says the Telegraph.
- “Fifty attacked in French election violence — and officials fear riots” – A strong police presence is planned for the second round of voting in France on Sunday, with officials fearing riots if the National Rally wins, according to the Times.
- “Who swamped the comps? Not us” – Refugee parents from the private sector have been promised a “welcome in a brilliant state school”. Mr Chips is dubious.
- “Thin-skinned megalomaniac rich bully wants Chinese style firewall for Britain” – Dale Vince briefed the Guardian this week that he is suing Paul Staines, editor of Guido Fawkes, for repeating a phrase Vince used in an interview on Times Radio. Guido has more.
- “Orwell hits the highways” – In Zero Hedge, Tyler Durden reveals that the EU has mandated that all new cars will now have to include Automatic Speed Limiters, preventing them from exceeding the speed limit.
- “At last I’m free” – Steve Baker clashes with Ed Balls and George Osborne on breakfast TV in an exchange many people on X think he got the better of.
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Two of the country’s main problems are caused by things that politicians either can’t control or don’t want to.
I’d suggest most of the the intractable issues mentioned can be resolved if the will and determination are there. If he only achieves half of the changes that he sets out to do, Donald Trump could be the man to show the U.K’s unimaginative and spineless politicians the way to do it. I hope he succeeds and in doing so, reveals to more of the British people, the devestation that has been done to our country by the poor, reckless -and often vindictive – decisions of successive post-war governments.
Well, even pandemics and cancelling winter fuel allowance don’t seem to kill us all off. One radical, and historically-proven, solution might be to forget aiming at fewer elderly, and bend the nation’s efforts to increasing the birthrate so there are more young people. Is it really beyond the reach of the nudge units and politicans to make family life attractive again?
People are sick on porn, Jon. Actual intimacy is just too much hard work and involves compromise. Instant gratification in all forms (not just that delivered by smartphones) and an education system which long ago stopped teaching how to achieve long term, well-founded health, wealth and happiness have led to an altogether rather pathetic and frustrated younger population who are settling for a very poor second in everything. At least they convince themselves that they’re doing it to themselves to “save the planet for future generations”..
A start would be to stop NHS funding of contraception pills. When people want to screw around aimlessly for their own entertainment, they can damn well pay for that themselves. As (somewhat determined) single, I don’t see a particular reason why I should fund it (indirectly via taxes) instead. Of what use are other people’s childless ‘sex lifes’ to me (or, for that matter, anyone)?
Oh we’ve got loads of younger people alright, especially men. The trouble is they come over in boats for the freebies, don’t speak English so they say and hate everything this country stands for, so would hardly be working to make it a success.
Governments will always end up being unpopular because people have unrealistic expectations of what they can achieve, which the politicians play up to. It’s a vicious circle.
I generally disagree with the article. Most of our serious problems are of our own making. With the human capital and infrastructure we have, there is absolutely no reason why this country cannot be much more prosperous and peaceful than it is.
Also the article fails to mention outside influence that have thwarted democracy, outsourced Parliament through captured institutions. Last night on GB News Ben Habib mentioned why are organisations like the WEF hated these days. MPs being responsible for their own constituents are being eroded.
Charlotte Gill, who has been mentioned here, on the DS, has found overwhelming evidence of malevolent networks working to destroy what so many past generations have worked hard to give to us, the current generation.
It’s not only the obvious destruction that is harmful, it’s the misdirection of the efforts of many well-meaning educated and enthusiastic people, wasting the diminishing resources that we have.
Just think how all those skilled engineers will feel when they realise the windmills they have helped to build are so wealth destroying, or the money wasted on Carbon Capture and Storage, or the Hydrogen Economy, or Fuels Pumps is noticed. Yes, build prototypes, but implementing full production, without prototyping, is shear madness.
Discussion needs to be Informed Discussion in order to keep waste to a minimum. It’s what Science requires. Maybe a few knowledgeable, patriotic Scientists wouldn’t go amiss!
Choosing the best investments, (for oneself and the community), whether in money, time, education, skills, knowledge or manufacturing, appears to be an undervalued skill. And if they don’t align, which they don’t, we are totally screwed. And it will be the weak and poor that suffer most.
When the enemy lies within the best efforts of the people to work towards a prosperous and peaceful future are thwarted. Not until the treachery of the British establishment is exposed and dealt with can we progress. We may only have one shot at resolving the treachery of the British establishment via the ballot box by getting four square behind Reform UK. Failing that a dark future lays ahead I fear.
I think that’s a reasonable assessment at least in the near to medium term
When referring to “the pension system”, you probably mean the state pension system, not all the other ones. Schemes that manage long term investments are quite different from National Insurance and the way the Treasury deals with it. Lots of places you can visit, like https://willdaywm.co.uk/private-pensions-vs-state-pensions/ ,
It would have helped if Brown and Balls had not destroyed our superb private pension system by applying the same sort of stupidity that we see with Rachel from Accounts. Then you can add the failure of 14 years of socialismlite that did not undue the tax raid.
You don’t mention mass immigration, and England’s disastrous finances could be improved by cutting the civil service.
So 5/10 Noah, could do better, happy Christmas!
He does mention it, only to say that there’s no point elaborating because there’s absolutely zero hope in the short to medium to term that anything will change in that regard.
I seem to recall every time I come back to England I have go through a barrier that won’t open unless I hold a particular document, furthermore I am not allowed onto the plane unless I have uploaded same document.
How the f#£@k then is it impossible to stop immigration overnight?
They can stop me coming, and I was born here from families that have been in England for 500 generations.
Being Christmas some merriment may not be out of place. “I was born here from families that have been in England for 500 generations”. It’s a good guess that by 2030, you can be cordoned off, next to Cutty Sark in Greenwich, charging tourists and the new inhabitants to see “a true Englishman” (last time I saw it was in Grand Canyon with Red Indians). Merry Winter Holiday.
You are being far too generous – 1/10 seems too much.
in relation to the energy crisis, and the fact Natural Gas is priced internationally, it should be noted that the highest traded price was on 23rd August 2022. Since then it has fallen by 72.5% in Sterling Terms as of today. So, no, the crisis is not caused by the international market, but by the stupid politicians and their drive to net zero – meaning increases in bills to pay for the unnecessary infrastructure and not using our own resources.
Yep. Graph here:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1302994/monthly-natural-gas-price-index-worldwide/
It’s not “Putin’s fault”. It’s deliberate UK government policy – which is supported by both Labour and Conservative wings of the Uniparty.
Noah has not seemed to notice the RUK and George Galloway use of the term Uniparty. Neither has he noticed that Elon Musk has started to use this as well.
Both Labour & Tory are contributing to their own decline by blaming each other for exactly the same policies they both enacted and follow.
It is a clever strategy to reset the narrative that only a vote for a different party will rid you of the Uniparties.
Our satisfaction with the government seems to be broadly related to how much government we have. More government means more people trying to manipulate the natural way of the market economy as if, like climate, there is one knob, and turning it one way or another will bring all the benefits we wish for. In fact every policy that I can remember has suffered from ‘unintended consequences’. The more regulation there is, the worse it is too, as we find links and relationships that weren’t obvious (maybe they were..). Can anyone name a government spending programme that has actually delivered the benefit that it intended. I cant bring one to mind and I go back to the days of Wilson. My advice to politicians would be ‘make yourselves redundant.’ Run the smallest civil service you can to deliver energy and food independence. Defend our borders, uphold our laws keep the streets swept and get out of our lives. Its really none of your business.
Sadly idiot voters keep expecting and believing that “problems” will be “solved” by the state.
They have been brought up to.
Go back to the 1800s in the modern world. Heck, I’d settle for the 1990s any day, free speech, edgy comedy. Don’t remember people getting attacked at Speakers Corner back then but there were fatwas of course. Salman Rushdie was in hideout around this area in Mid Wales, didn’t stop him taking risks and going into town from time to time, and that is to be expected, Ferguson & testing your eyes at a Castle or Wine & Cheese are other examples.
That is absolutely the point.
The real problem is that whoever is in “power” really isn’t.
The UK would be much better off if it was allowed to –
Bin net zero, buy cheap Russian gas. Open our coal fields and offshore gas/oil l fields.
Stop the lunacy of supporting Ukraine.
Actually make stuff again/ including growing more of our own food thus encouraging people to work.
Reduce immigration.
Get out of NATO, the WHO.
Encourage people to be responsible for their own health – and ban all “vaccines”
Teach kids how, not what, to think.
Consider abandoning Fiat Currency.
Enable the MSM to do their job as opposed to being used for brainwashing.
Can’t do any of the above though because The Banks, Soros, and Uncle Bill won’t allow any of it.
Consider that Putin does does most of the above…..
Hear, hear. Nail. Head.
Not difficult is it?
Very Very true.
There is the Bardbury pound option also.
Germany did similar in the 1930’s and quickly rose to an economic/industrial powerhouse.
Worked brilliantly at first -but the downside was that it upset The Banks after Hitler gave them the middle finger.
Didn’t go too well after that, neither would it now.
Unless every country did the same – just imagine, all the world’s debts effectively written off. Why not? – they’ve grown unimaginably rich at our expense.
The Banks do a necessary job, very effectively, but are ALSO a front for the Puppet Masters.
Similarly, there are many dedicated health practitioners within the NHS but, again, they don’t set or advise on policy.
It’s true in many disciplines: Academia, Schooling, Farming, Mining, the Oil/Gas Industries, Manufacturing, etc.
The overall problem is that the Financial World is driven by naivety of our current Law Makers in Parliament, acting out their fantasies of being selfish, vindictive Community Organisers.
“because there is no way to quickly reduce the number of elderly people”
Really?
What about a scamdemic and a (deliberately?) series of very harmful jabs? I live in a small Close with 23 residents, mostly fairly elderly. 4 had strokes shortly after “their” jab; one has “Long Jab” damage one moved into a Care Home and has since died.
What about an Assisted Dying Bill? And in due course, coercion to “do the right thing.” That should see off quite a few.
They could ensure that quite a few die of the cold or succumb to cold-related illnesses by withdrawing their heating allowance.
And in the meantime their quality of life can be so reduced that they die of misery.
Another Nail. Head.
Increased reproduction among Brits would also help. That won’t happen so long as the little people see lower income year after year, greater attention and enthusiasm for “others” and the general insecurity we all feel.
And of course only the most expensive actually succumb, so job done.
They already legalised euthanasia in 2020 through the PATHWAYS NG163 protocols. It was part of the death spike you see in April 2020.
The unpopularity of the elites have come about through a combination of over promising, unwanted and unadvertised agendas combined with widespread incompetence.
Their self centredness and corruption just add icing to an already sour cake.
The two problems mentioned, ageing population and energy are being exacerbated by measures which this government is taking.
Energy bills could be reduced massively simply by cancelling all the Nut Zero measures.
Old people could be better looked after by cancelling the foreign ‘aid’ budget – in reality nothing but a money laundering operation – and taxes could be reduced by the very obvious of putting a stop to ALL immigration.
Not difficult is it?
I would expound further but short of time just now.
Clearly, unqualified and unlimited immigration must be stopped. Every country has (supposedly) controlled borders for good reasons. Additionally, the totally unscientific Net Zero agenda must be cancelled and the funding of foreign wars and institutions terminated.
The NHS needs to be abolished and replaced by private healthcare, with insurance provided free of charge to those in financial straits (unemployed, etc.). This is how an excellent health service is provided in Germany, for example. The NHS is simply another hugely over-populated bureaucratic monster.
And why should an ageing population be a problem? One result is a lower requirement for housing expansion which may be detrimental to the building industry but is certainly beneficial to the quality of life. To counter the fall in income tax, older people could be encouraged to work part-time (and would in many cases enjoy the opportunity) and younger people should be encouraged to have children, primarily through tax-relief and other benefits. Russia, for example, even has a programme providing cheaper housing for large-sized families.
It could all be so simple: maybe that is the problem.
And how about a return of Nurse training schools so we don’t need to import so many. I hear it was Thatcher that abolished them. She was a real Marmite character.
27% is the tribal vote. Elections are won at the margins.
“… the Tories and Reform will need to reach some kind of modus vivend ibefore the next election or else the Right-wing vote will once again be split in many constituencies,”
NB. The Tories are not Right-wing, they follow the technocratic model of Mussolini’s State directed economy and society.
Assumption is doing some heavy lifting too. Reform doesn’t have to win all constituencies, particularly not strong Tory supported ones, it ”just” needs to win enough Labour constituencies. Boris did this, as did Margaret Thatcher. Last election it came close second place in over 90 of them.
Farage got badly bitten last time he reached a “modus vivendi” with the Tories “to get Brexit” done. Brexit wasn’t “done” except nominally and Farage got no thanks just a heap of ordure dumped on him.
He doesn’t seem the type to let a repeat happen and he has vowed to destroy the Tories – I think he will, not least because they are doing a magnificent job of destroying themselves, as indeed are Labour.
Next election will not be fought over the NHS and education, education, education, as is usual, but will be fought over gas boilers, motor cars, mobility, the economy (stupid) and the fact the British want their Country back. Things in American politics are called kitchen table issues – the things that matter to the common man, not elites and ideologues.
Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dem’s and others are all lock-step determined to ban cars, gas boilers, extort the populace to pay for their Net Zero lunacy and continue the immigration deluge.
Excellent points.
Still unwilling to call a spade a spade?
“Fertility” was higher in the past because young women weren’t hormon-bombed on expense of the NHS from the earliest onset of puberty to stop them from getting children at pretty much any cost. This is an absolutely homegrown problem and for the moment, it looks as if the solution will eventually be People who don’t inflict this on their daughters (but expect them to marry and get children) taking over because they’re … well … getting children. All the whining of pensioners (or people who’ll shortly reach pension age) how culturally backward this is will not stop it.
It’s the conservatively minded pensioners that have seen the ‘Blair Disaster’ approaching, though some thought they could avoid it, as they had more resources, while voting for the Blue Uni-party.
So I don’t think they will be whining. The 1% of the 1% may be discouraged, but I expect they will be able to fly elsewhere in their private planes, if they still exist.
Grandchildren keep the World going around.
Pensioner is really too broad as term. The people behind the so-called sexual revolution are pensioners now, or about to become pensioners, and I was referring to them.
Rupert Lowe discusses the state of Parliament and what he’s observed in the ‘Uniparty’, in this excellent discussion on The New Culture Forum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD77Zmulcvw
He’s such a ‘Down To Earth Sort of Guy’: we could do with a few more like him.
Outflanking Farage too.
Disagree completely. A sovereign nation that operates on behalf of its population can solve all these problems relatively easily.
the problem is the uniparty don’t have the will to do so and the unpopular blocking you talk about comes from other politicians, not the public at large.
as for older people; I’m sick of hearing this. If the nhs wasn’t clogged up with gimmigrants and part time workers, it would be able to care for the elderly, many of whom would still like to work if they could get that hip replacement etc done, or proper treatment for a long term condition.
i believe older age is badged at fifty now in insurance terms. Not everyone over this age is frail and a drain n society.
Noah:
Your second reason for high energy prices is rubbish. It has nothing to do with the gas price, as documented by David Turver in his excellent Substack and everything to do with the consequences of decarbonisation and Net Zero: requirement to build and maintain a 100% back-up electricity generating system, massive subsidies paid to renewables and the cost of re-wiring our National Grid and a completely dysfunctional electricity market (designed by idiots).
Depressing how so many attack the “problems” projected by the so-called narrative.
If you want to know why governments at the moment, including this one, are deep in the doo-doo, it is simply that they have been consistently lying to their masters – those who elect them, – and acting against their interests. It has taken the over-reach of the virus outrage to make that clearer and clearer as the days pass. The deaths from the jabs, already 20m plus world-wide, are just beginning, Such deaths have been forseeable from the very early days of 2021 to the meanest intelligence.
So when we consider any politician working today we are considering either an individual who should already have faced criminal charges or an individual who is supporting such people.
The failure of the rest of us to own the problem should come a long way ahead of our other manifold faults.
Let the rule of law be restored and corruption in public life become an offence with the gravest consequences for the criminal. Governments must rteurn to their servant status.