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Lewis Brackpool: The continued silence from Kier Starmer & Sadiq Khan...

The continued silence from Kier Starmer & Sadiq Khan regarding the violence, assaults and criminal damage perpetrated by hordes of cultural incompatibles is astounding. Both of these Fabian Society members represent the core sickness within the British state, enabling anarcho-tyranny to play out on the streets of Britain again and again. The under enforcement of genuine disorder and over enforcement of peaceful law abiding citizens.

Kathy Gyngell: Labour’s sinister Ministry of Truth...

Labour’s sinister Ministry of Truth is a step on the road to dictatorship 'Among the final utterances of failed Prime Minster Sir Keir Starmer is that Labour is considering forcing social media companies and platforms such as YouTube to give greater prominence to ‘public service journalism’. Strip away the velvet language and the meaning is brutal. Private companies are to be ordered to push state-approved broadcasters in front of the public while newspapers, independent journalists, online creators, sceptics and dissenters are shoved down the digital staircase.' https://conservativewoman.co.uk/labours-ministry-of-truth-will-destroy-free-speech via @theconwom

Pat Condell: This is pathetic...

This is pathetic. He has been a failure in every way. His behaviour after the Southport murders defined him as a man of no substance, a party apparatchik, an ideologue elevated by the party far beyond his competence and completely out of his depth in the job of prime minister. He lied his way into power and imposed a raft of spiteful policies nobody voted for. He tried to freeze pensioners and bankrupt farmers, while shovelling millions of pounds abroad. He tried to ignore the Labour Party’s Muslim rape gang scandal until he was shamed into announcing an inquiry. He enacted a blatant two tier justice system that discriminates against native white people, while he and his cabinet of second rate nobodies never tire of calling us racist. It’s no mystery why he is the most hated prime minister in living memory and why nobody will be sorry to see him go. His entire premiership has been an embarrassment. Unfortunately, the next Fabian globalist functionary will be just as bad.

Liz Webster: Big ruling in USA...

🔥 Big ruling in USA. US Supreme Court blocks Trump from scrapping birthright citizenship by executive order. In the UK, Starmer has shown far less restraint, stripping Shamima Begum of citizenship and repeatedly abusing executive power to withhold Mandelson documents and block scrutiny. Reform and the Tories love talking tough on citizenship. They should note how easily executives overreach when there are no real checks.

Deborah Haynes: Sir Keir Starmer's determination to...

🚨Sir Keir Starmer's determination to release a long-delayed defence investment plan ahead of a NATO summit next month risks doing more harm than good as officials scramble to meet what has become a political deadline. The UK's allies are increasingly concerned at a failure by the government to rearm at pace, despite the prime minister declaring "hard power is the currency of the age". Publishing the defence funding blueprint before Sir Keir meets with Donald Trump and other NATO leaders in Turkey on 7 and 8 July was meant to be a way of allaying such fears. But, rather than reassuring allies, such a move risks having the reverse effect if Britain fails to set out a credible plan to transform the armed forces from hollowed out to fighting ready. In a worrying sign, officials at the Ministry of Defence are scrambling to rush through tweaks to the defence investment plan after John Healey and Al Carns resigned a fortnight ago as defence secretary and armed forces minister respectively. The pair quit in protest at a failure by Sir Keir and his chancellor to fund the original plan properly. Mr Carns also criticised its content for not focusing on the right kit, with too much emphasis on large, expensive, legacy programmes such as fast jets, warships and submarines instead of cheap, disposable drones that have transformed the battlefield in Ukraine. Dan Jarvis, the new defence secretary, has said he is now working hard to secure the "right" deal for the military and to release the defence investment plan before the Ankara summit. However, this politically dictated timeline could result in a poor outcome for the armed forces, especially if any announcement is ultimately yet more decline dressed up as reprioritised investment, with choices dictated by fiscal constraint rather than what is needed. The fact Sir Keir himself is only going to be in office for a few more weeks only adds to the lack of credibility and seriousness about what should be the top priority for any government. None of this will impress fellow member states in NATO. Most importantly, when it comes to the alliance, the headline metric that countries are judged on - as faulty and fudged as it can be - is defence spending as a proportion of GDP. Allies, with the exception of Spain, committed last year to lifting this ratio to 3.5% of GDP by 2035 - an unambitious timeline advocated by the prime minister and Rachel Reeves even though countries such as the Baltic states wanted to go much faster, and are already doing so. Underlying the incoherency of this distant timeframe is the fact that much of NATO, including Britain, is saying the alliance needs to be ready for possible war with Russia by 2030 - five years before they agreed to hit the new defence spending baseline. This mismatch between threat and investment is why Mr Healey, the previous defence secretary, could no longer support the prime minister's plan for the UK's armed forces as it would only raise the defence budget to 2.68% of GDP by 2030 from around 2.3% now. He had instead been pushing to increase the level to 3% of GDP within four years followed by a clear path to move on to 3.5% by 2035 (or sooner). This would unlock tens of billions of pounds of additional money for the military at the speed of relevance. But the Treasury baulked and the rest is history. What NATO really needs to see from the UK - a country that prides itself as being a leading member of the alliance - is a credible trajectory for when it will actually hit the new spending targets and be ready to fight a war. And that is no longer in Sir Keir's gift.
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