I can’t ever remember a day when a British prime minister and chancellor had combined to cause so much gloom to spread across the country.
It was as though they had invented a drone which dropped bad news. The disaster for the UK began at midday when Rachel Thieves stood up in the Commons and started lying her head off.
It was all going to plan, she claimed. What plan? How to bankrupt a nation in 20 months? Hard to know which country she was talking about. Certainly not us.
Once she sat down, the Office of Budget Responsibility then issued its forecast, which actually pointed out it wasn’t going to plan, it was going to hell in a handcart.
Taxes at a record high of 38.6 per cent of GDP, our debt burden twice that of similar economies and jobless figures to rise to 5.9 per cent, meaning 1.9million people out of work, many of them in the 16-24 age bracket.
No wonder the Greens have captured the young vote. There is no hope for them under the Starmer and Reeves combo. Throughout her entire fibbibuster Starmer sat there looking as though somebody had shoved a rather large carrot up his rear end.
His gloom was caused by the fact that he knew, everybody in Parliament knew, the whole damn nation knew, that with the Iran war hotting up, the awful Reeves numbers were going to get a lot worse. And, more importantly, he didn’t have to be a genius to realise a bucketload from President Trump was heading his way.
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have invented a drone that only drops bad news on us - Kelvin MacKenzie
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And bang on cue, only a couple of hours after Reeves had finished her Spring Budget, the bucketload duly arrived with Trump saying he was not happy with the UK and ‘’this is not Winston Churchill we’re dealing with.’’
Actually, he’s not even Winnie the Poo. A devastating put-down. Even the Times leads on it. So, there we are. The economy is in ruins thanks to the Chancellor and the Prime Minister humiliated on the world stage.
All in a day. Starmer brought this all on himself. Firstly, he had said the US couldn’t use our bases in the UK and Cyprus and then said they could. We shouldn’t be surprised at this global flip-flop, as there have been 15 U-turns by the government since it came to power.
Mind you, he was very firm when Lord Ali offered to buy his suits. He said yes and stuck to it. The next humiliation came from the French, who decided to send an aircraft carrier to defend the Eastern Mediterranean, something that Starmer had been reluctant to do, as he said he didn’t want to be drawn into the conflict.
On hearing about France, he recognised that he might be accused of cowardice (and stupidity) and immediately ordered that a warship, currently in Portsmouth, head out to Cyprus. Why did it take the French to force us to do the right thing?
The reality is that Starmer knows that the Left and the Muslim vote don’t want Iran defeated. They quite like the idea of a nuclear Iran with mad mullahs having their finger on the button. Would they care if a nuclear bomb were dropped on Tel Aviv? I’m not certain, are you?
The truth Starmer and Reeves are dragging from the gutter into the sewer. I don’t give a damn about their future. Hard to believe with the latest polling putting the Greens at 21% and Labour at a record low of 16 per cent that he survives the May 6 voting disaster.
Broadcaster Michael Cruik, my Tuesday night colleague on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s GB News show, believes Starmer will survive, simply because you need 80 MPs to be nominated and you need the courage to stand up and be counted.
In some ways, if you are a Reform-Tory supporter, you must hope he does hang on as the General Election result would then not be in doubt.
Nobody, repeat nobody, of sound mind would give him a second chance. They utterly regret giving him a chance at all. For Reeves, in the thousands that are mentioned as possible contenders for No.10, she never gets a mention.
Even Labour MPs aren’t that stupid. So, there we all are. Currently lumbered with two of the biggest political duds in history. And taking a wrecking ball to our standing in the world and the economy. Makes you weep, doesn’t it?