Hidden agenda
JUST 16 words among the millions released as part of the latest Peter Mandelson files dump will serve as an unwitting epitaph for Keir Starmer’s Government.
In a WhatsApp exchange with the disgraced US ambassador, the now Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden complained: “Every meeting I have is, ‘Who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?’”
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The newly released Mandelson documents reveal Keir Starmer’s Labour is focused on ‘who can we tax’ to fund more benefits Credit: Alamy
Pat McFadden vents about the ‘taxes for benefits’ meetings and says Labour backbenchers are ‘asking the wrong questions’ Credit: Alamy
That one line is likely to forever condemn Labour as the Welfare Party.
McFadden’s frustration reveals what has been clear for some time: deluded Labour MPs will ALWAYS prefer to back Benefits Street over the nation’s grafters.
Yesterday’s publication of thousands of documents shed no new light on why Keir Starmer made the disastrous decision to appoint Mandelson.
It did, however, lay bare the drift, dysfunction and poisonous back-stabbing swirling at the heart of his Government.
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But the real lasting damage comes from the contents of McFadden’s phone which — whatever ministers say publicly — means any pretence Labour will ever reform welfare is surely now dead.
Not least if Starmer eventually falls and is replaced as PM by a more left-wing figure like Andy Burnham.
He wants MORE tax to pay for MORE welfare and MORE giant spending.
Voters deserve to know the truth, however depressing. Yesterday, they got it.
Unbearable
THE loss of an 18-year-old son in a senseless murder is unimaginable.
But the horror for Henry Nowak’s parents has been made immeasurably worse by the difference in how police treated their son and his murderer.
Drowning in his own blood having been stabbed five times, Henry was handcuffed by cops who automatically believed false claims by his Sikh killer Vickrum Digwa that he’d been racist.
After Henry died in the street, suspect Digwa was taken to a police station and even allowed to choose his own food.
The contrast between the red carpet treatment for the killer and the inhumane attitude towards innocent Henry is, as his dad Mark says, “unbearable”.
Hampshire Police continues to defend its officers. Now that the bodycam footage of the arrest has been released, the public can judge for themselves exactly how and why these terrible mistakes were made.
Ball in the USA
THE World Cup build-up may have been a touch on the miserable side.
Fifa exploiting fans with insanely high ticket prices and hotels and travel firms trying to rip off fans.
But yesterday the arrival of England’s heroes in Florida to begin their preparations blew all that away.
We may have suffered SIXTY YEARS of hurt. But England still expects.
