IN JULY 2024, Tory-hating voters handed a blank cheque, unbridled power and a full five-year term to a dud Prime Minister and a Cabinet of blundering amateurs.
Everyone knew it was an act of self-harm, but few could have predicted just how much ruin this gang of spiteful socialists could inflict in just 18 months.
A flatlining economy, soaring unemployment, rising inflation and an explosion in cross- Channel illegals are just a few of the charges against PM Sir Keir Starmer.
And this was before “peacemaker” Donald Trump rampaged back into the White House with a can of high octane in one hand and a short fuse in the other.
Trump is currently setting fire to the world order which has kept the peace in Europe for eight prosperous decades.
Meanwhile, the feeble EU and Nato military alliance flapped around the Davos economic summit like headless chickens as he threatened to grab Greenland.
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It now seems he was just having a laugh – at our expense.
The one upside to this madness is that he has forced all parties to address their failure to protect our nation.
Along with the rest of Europe, Britain dropped its guard and squandered the so-called “peace dividend” when Soviet communism collapsed in 1989.
We slashed defence spending, fantasising that this was the final victory for Western liberal democracy and market capitalism.
Now we know China, Russia, North Korea and Islamic extremists are rewriting that history at the point of a Kalashnikov.
Without US military support, Nato might as well be taking a knife to a gunfight.
RAGTAG OF LOONY LEFT
President Trump is unpredictable, but he’s not daft. He warned when he first entered the White House that America is sick of subsidising Europe’s welfare state.
It took two terms before countries like Germany put away their make-believe broomstick rifles and started to take him seriously.
Britain, under both the Tories and Labour, has not.
Starmer blusters about increased defence spending, but it’s a lie.
The cash has gone on pensions and overseas aid. No real increase will bite until 2035 – but military chiefs warn we need £28billion for modern weaponry today.
Starmer likes to be seen as Europe’s “Trump whisperer”, the only leader with a direct line to the White House.
But The Donald last week savagely branded the PM “weak” and “stupid” – weak on China’s planned London spy base and stupid for paying pro-China Mauritius a fortune to take our strategically vital Chagos Islands.
Trump accurately described “Mad Ed” Miliband’s multi-billion Net Zero lunacy as “catastrophic”.
Before backtracking last night, he also had the gall for a man who never served in combat to accuse brave British troops who lost 457 dead in Afghanistan of “staying back from the front line”.
The fact remains that defending our shores against enemies is the first duty of any UK government. Instead, we have spent decades whittling down our army, navy and air force and surrendering to unaccountable quangos, shroud-waving charities and the haughty BBC.
Even Starmer admits he has no authority as PM to make officials do as they are told on gender issues or immigration.
The doctrine of DEI – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – has created a malevolent Blob, more in favour of Hamas and Hezbollah than free speech and democracy.
Trade unions and public-sector class warriors are openly plotting to sabotage a future right- wing government, regardless of voters’ wishes.
Labour will collude with any potential ally – Scots and Welsh nationalists, Lib Dems, the demented Greens – to keep Reform’s Nigel Farage out of No10. None would stand up and fight for Britain.
Ex-Tory Cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg last week urged Farage and Tory chief Kemi Badenoch to find ways of working together.
“There is almost no policy difference between Reform and the Tories who, united, would command a winning share of the vote,” he said. “Divided, we risk letting a ragtag of the loony Left determine the nation’s future. It is essential we come together.”
Right-of-centre parties need an absolute majority to take on the Blob at all levels of local and national government.
Time will tell, but right now there is little sign of either Reform or the Tories securing those numbers.
Failure of right-of-centre parties to unite and fight, leaving a chaotic Labour-led coalition in power, would be a betrayal of this country and the end of Britain as a serious player on the world stage.
