Uncommon Sense

Starmer says of yesterday's election results, “... I take responsibility”. For Starmer though taking responsibility does not include admitting it is all down to his serial failures - quite the opposite in fact.

Mud sticks and I do tend to agree- extremely high probability this is all an attempt to push Musk into agreeing to censorship of X in some back room deal. If so, these people simply do not understand much.

Starmer insists he was ‘elected to change this country’ With such a small vote share at the last general election, this remark exudes the dangerously deluded thinking for which Starmer has become famous in the UK.

The UK's Labour Party won a landslide victory at the general election 2 years ago with a vote share that would normally signal defeat. It has ever since acted like its policies have national majority support. They don't.

Rachel Reeves is raising taxes at the fastest pace in the world, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. The Chancellor’s repeated raids on households and businesses will push the UK’s tax burden to a peacetime high of 42.1pc of GDP by the start of the next decade, the IMF forecast shows. Tax-to-GDP sounds fair, but it hides who really pays. In societies where a small group of high-knowledge workers funds most taxes while a large share lives on benefits or low-value jobs, the burden falls heavily on the productive few. Raise taxes and those high earners cut discretionary spending first — restaurants, travel, luxury — which hammers the service economy and low-skill jobs. Result? The economy becomes dangerously sensitive to shocks. Tax-to-GDP flatters the system; the real fragility shows up when the top 10% tighten their belts."

Reasons why the 2-week ceasefire will crumble into resumed conflict: - Iranian leadership is indeterminate because it has fractured into contesting groups. - Islamic leaders believe this is a Holy War against an evil US empire. Therefore, Iran will not negotiate in good faith.

Striking civilian infrastructure in wartime is “illegal and unacceptable”, António Costa, the European Council president, said after Donald Trump threatened to hit Iran’s power plants and bridges. He failed to remark that closing Hormuz is also illegal and unacceptable.

Having spent years repeating that it was impossible for US voting machines to rig the vote in certain states, Nancy Pelosi has just stated that we should guard against Republicans doing just that.

Andrew Neil is right UK, UK government Steve Reed must be well out of his depth to say what he says here. Iran has proved with its failed attack on Diego Garcia that its missiles can hit almost anywhere in Europe including London. Missile defence systems do not work when overloaded.

Sir Keir Starmer said that a swift end to the Iran war was needed to “reduce the cost of living” for the British people. It is a pity he did not think about that when stoking up war in Ukraine.

Rachel is a fool to make this claim.

Merz has said Iran is not NATO's war. But prevention of a Middle Eastern Armageddon obviously is. And on that basis, why is Ukraine the USA's war as he has insisted it should be?

UK's Starmer has refused UK military help to police the Straight of Hormuz. How likely is it that this is because Labour would lose up to 40 seats in Parliament if he supported the USA with Navy ships?

Hannah Spencer, the Green Part's new MP and Plumber. The UK is plumbing new depths for low quality of MPs in central government.

Paedophilia is a recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviours involving sexual activity with prepubescent children. What Paedophiliacs do to children is the same as rape.

Last evening, the FT had a brief placeholder article linked to the front page on the Labour government U turn on cancelling local elections this May. This morning, crickets.

As QC, he caused soldiers to be prosecuted for doing their jobs. As DPP, he targeted 100 or so journalists with failed criminal prosecutions. As PM, he tried to cancel jury trials, key local elections and has ordered the destruction of court archives. Starmer, the hated man.

Today, most people in the small 20% or so hard core Labour Party consider Keir Starmer to be far too right wing. The solution is to veer to the fundamentalist left. Meanwhile, the UK as a country of voters wants to veer to the hard right. How might this conflict resolve?

Lord David Frost has written in the Telegraph that "Under Labour, Britain is heading for its John Galt moment" This refers to a pivotal point of personal or collective withdrawal by productive, capable individuals from a system they perceive as exploitative, unjust, or fundamentally hostile to individual achievement and rational self-interest. The expression originates from Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged.

The UK BoE Governor has said the UK is on track for the worst decade of growth in 100 years. With Labour in government, this surprises only Labour supporters.