Starmer drama
THE people’s verdict could hardly have been more damning.
Voters gave Labour a kicking in the local elections for its failure to do the job it promised just two short years ago.
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Labour simply won’t listen to voters – despite a drumming at last week’s local elections Credit: PA
Failure to fix the economy; to solve the cost of living crisis; to stop the boats; to cut crippling energy bills; to strengthen the country’s defences; to control welfare spending; to reduce lawlessness; to fix crumbling public services.
Instead of listening, Labour continues squabbling over who should lead the ongoing failure.
Yet another “reset” from the Prime Minister today will make little difference — with or without help from two ghosts from Labour’s past in Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman.
If Labour MPs have no confidence in the PM, why should the rest of us?
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Keir “I’m going nowhere” Starmer is hanging on grimly knowing that — as bad as he has been — there is no obvious Labour candidate fit to take his job.
So, we’ll either get a lame duck PM held hostage to increasingly left-wing policies that were hidden from Labour’s manifesto, or a new Labour leader.
Neither will have a mandate nor support from the majority of the country.
Meanwhile, the critical issues the Government should concentrate on are playing second fiddle to the Labour melodrama, and we all suffer.
The cost of war
ALMOST forgotten in the midst of Labour’s chaos are the dire threats to the country’s economy, due to the Government’s woeful handling of the public finances and outside factors like the Iran War.
While the politicians bicker, Britain faces losing 163,000 jobs because of spiralling energy bills, fuel prices and other costs, and disruptions to supply chains caused by the conflict.
When forecasters the Item Club predicts a tsunami of layoffs, it is talking about 163,000 real people losing their livelihoods — many of them in the poorest regions — to be cast on to the growing welfare scrapheap.
Manufacturing, retail and hospitality — already taking a hammering — are predicted to face a jobs bloodbath as firms are forced to slash their costs.
And yet the only jobs that our ruling MPs seem concerned about are their own.
All kicking off
FOOTBALL’S World Cup kicks off a month today and you can already sense a buzz from across the Atlantic.
That’s the groans of ticketing chiefs and disgruntled hoteliers all over America who have seen a slump in bookings because of the rip-off prices for games and growing security fears.
A Fifa own goal these days is almost as predictable as a German win on penalties used to be.
But that won’t stop us from starting to get excited!
