Labour’s 18-months in charge of Britain has been a carousel of dishonesty.
Sir Keir promised a return of integrity to politics but has zero credibility (Image: Getty)
Is this really the best we can do? Sir Keir Starmer thinks of himself as a morally-driven legislative lionheart. The reality is that he is a political pigmy. In his pompous new year message the PM told an increasingly fed up Britain he would “defeat the decline and division offered by others” and promised this year would be when people feel “positive change” in their lives.
It was, by any measure, the most out of touch memo of recent times and one which failed to have basis in reality. Why? Because Labour has consistently lied in the 18-months since the lunatics took control of the asylum. And it is diametrically opposed to what people think.
In the final throes of the last Conservative government Sir Keir and Labour – popular only because of the widespread weariness of years of Tory rule – promised a new way of life.
Sir Keir told Britain there was a “crisis of confidence in our political system’s ability to deliver any change”. He added: “It is not just sleaze and scandal that have eroded trust. Just as corrosive has been the inability of politicians to keep promises made to the British people.”
Rather than bring integrity back to politics Labour has been dishonest in the extreme and at every turn with the manifesto on which it won the general election in 2024 now a charter of chicanery.
Ms Reeves has snatched £66 billion in two budgets (Image: Getty)
Labour said it would not raise taxes on working people but Rachel Reeves has snatched £66 billion in two budgets.
Why? Not to plug a fictitious black hole in the public finances but to embark on a warped mission to fleece those this party despises to its core: those who have the gumption to get up and make a better life for themselves.
So cowardly are the PM and his Chancellor they scrapped the two-child benefit cap in a move that increases handouts to 560,000 families by an average of £5,310.
It means government spending on welfare is set to rise from £333 billion a year in 2025/26 to £389.4 billion in 2029/30 as this country becomes increasingly languid and apathetic, egged on by this rotten Labour administration which has alienated everyone, from OAPs, small business owners, farmers, in a series of ill-judged and viciously ideological attacks aimed at rewarded the lackadaisical.
It is why the hope Sir Keir speaks of in a new message even he doesn’t really believe is certainly not what the country he nominally leads believes.
A depressing poll has revealed exactly what Britons expect 2026 to herald and among the predicted outcomes for the next 12-months are widespread social disorder, violent protests and riots, a recession, and a major cyberattack that disrupts critical infrastructure.
Given the turmoil plaguing this country it is hard to find any signs of positivity right now, especially when statistics show Britain attracted the lowest level of investment among the G7 nations this year, and household spending dropped to the lowest level in five years.
Everywhere you turn pessimism abounds – from the NHS, the economy, and the next election not ending to be held until August 15, 2029.
In short, a thick blanket of despair hangs above Britain like an unshiftable fog as Labour crushes the hopes of millions.
And no amount of pious platitudes from our flip-flopping PM will change that.
