Friends of the British Overseas Territories have arrived outside Windsor Castle to protest against Starmer’s surrender of the Chagos Islands. They’re hoping President Trump will have a quiet word with the King…
“The Chagos Islands do not belong to Mauritius. We urge Donald Trump to scrap the deal. Retain sovereignty, security and uphold the right to self‑determination.”
Braving the wind and rain for a good message…
Starmer and the Cabinet are now fawning over Trump as the state visit kicks off. It’s quite a spectacle given how they behaved in Trump’s first term. Guido is old enough to remember when several members of the current Cabinet signed an Early Day Motion trying to block Trump from setting foot in Parliament entirely in 2017. Including:
- Wes Streeting
- David Lammy
- Yvette Cooper
- Shabana Mahmood
- Jonathan Reynolds
- Peter Kyle
- Lisa Nandy
- Hilary Benn
- Jo Stevens
A few reminders of their past venom: Lammy called Trump a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath” back in 2017. Cooper marched to “take a stand against Donald Trump” in 2018. Even Starmer tweeted: “Humanity and dignity. Two words not understood by President Trump.” Looks like it’s just Sadiq Khan carrying that torch now…
Now that Sadiq Khan’s generous £170,000 salary makes him the highest-paid politician in Britain, the TaxPayers’ Alliance have crunched the numbers on just how much it costs Londoners to foot the wage bill for City Hall’s top brass. Brace yourselves…
It takes 347 band D London council taxpayers to fund the mayor’s new salary alone. For his nine deputy mayors (yes, nine), it takes 2772 hardworking band D taxpayers to cough up the cash. They also accepted generous salary bumps earlier in the summer…
In fact, combining the salaries of the mayor, his nine deputies, and his six other top aides is equivalent to 232,282 daily capped tube fares for zones 1-3 – or roughly 193,437 ULEZ charges. Co-conspirators living in the capital: is it worth it?
As the Trump state visit kicks off, Starmer has hit his lowest ever favourability rating, scoring a net -50 points according to YouGov’s latest poll. Is it any surprise…
Reeves is just ahead of Starmer, with a net popularity rating of -49, while Rayner comes in third-least popular with -40. Farage has a net -31 rating and Kemi scores -35. Who knows what Starmer’s rating will look like in ‘Phase 3’….
Along with a royal carriage procession…
As not a single return has been made under Labour’s much-vaunted “one in, one out” deal, the government can’t even say how many staff in the Home Office are actually working on deportation flights. When pressed in a written question, Home Office minister Alex Norris admitted:
“It is not possible to disaggregate staffing figures to isolate those solely focused on deportation flights and obtaining the specific information requested would involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by multiple teams. The Home Office does not hold any central record of the requested information.”
In a separate written answer on what proportion of staff are dedicated to enforcing deportation orders, the response was similarly blunt: the department does not hold that data. Co-conspirators will recall Labour’s manifesto pledge to “set up a new Returns and Enforcement Unit comprising 1,000 extra Home Office staff” – a promise that has gone rather quiet. Is it any wonder flights haven’t taken off…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”
