Lame of thrones
REMEMBER in 2024 when the Labour Party promised to end the years of Tory chaos? How’s that going?
Andy Burnham’s leadership coup — our sixth change of PM in a decade — had already given even the Italians cause to laugh at us.
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Does anyone really believe Burnham’s new-look Labour won’t just be Welfare Party 2.0? Credit: Getty
Sir Keir Starmer’s insistence on pressing ahead with his woefully inadequate defence investment plan risks becoming a dangerous international shambles Credit: PA
Now Sir Keir Starmer’s insistence on pressing ahead with his woefully inadequate Defence Investment Plan risks becoming a dangerous international shambles.
Burnham wants a pause on the DIP until formally taking over after July 17.
But Starmer, who saw his Defence Secretary and Armed Forces minister resign over a measly spending increase of just 0.08 per cent, still wants to present it to the Nato summit on July 7.
Our military allies are looking on at this mess aghast.
THE SUN SAYS
Burnham is a man with no plan who could make things worse for a fed-up country
THE SUN SAYS
Labour must hold leadership contest to test Burnham properly & avoid disaster
Poland’s foreign minister says refusing to back diplomacy with force risks plunging Britain into global irrelevance.
Another European government source reportedly said: “It doesn’t matter how big your ambitions are. If you show up in a rowing boat, no one is going to listen to you.” Quite.
Burnham’s hostile takeover — and a Labour leadership transition dragging on for a month even without a contest — is effectively leaving the country with TWO Prime Ministers.
This might not be so bad if there was a sense that Burnham had any kind of proper plan to tackle his forthcoming Downing Street in-tray.
Desperate not to spook the markets, the self-styled King of the North insists he will unveil a “credible” economic strategy next week.
Yet the team pulling the strings behind him hardly inspires confidence.
The idea of Ed Miliband becoming Chancellor is terrifying.
Even the unions — sick of mass job losses caused by his Net Zero de-industrialisation agenda — are shuddering at the thought.
Burnham’s chief economic adviser Miatta Fahnbulleh is an advocate of wealth taxes (which have never worked in any country imposing them), anti-growth taxes on business and mass nationalisation.
More than half of Brits now live in households earning more in benefits than they pay in tax.
The only “credible” economic plan is one that reverses this unsustainable nightmare.
But does anyone really believe Burnham’s new-look Labour won’t just be Welfare Party 2.0?
Schools out
WHY are hundreds of schools rushing to close down because of the hot weather but others are carrying on as usual?
A heatwave like this is leaving us all feeling hot but — with a few sensible precautions — it’s possible to carry on.
The problem is that since the Covid lockdowns, the public sector is pre- disposed to shut itself down.
Yet again it’s children and parents who suffer.
