WHEN will Labour finally realise they are in Government — and have new responsibilities which go with it?
Keir Starmer claims his is no longer a protest party.
Why is Keir Starmer sending a small army to fight for one side in the election of our No1 global ally?[/caption]
Many of his backbenchers haven’t listened.
And now senior Labour staff have organised a US trip for nearly 100 activists to campaign for Kamala Harris against Donald Trump in the Presidential race.
The PM should have stopped it.
Instead he backed his volunteers, saying they’ve done the same in past elections.
So what? Back then Labour WAS a mere protest outfit and in opposition.
This time it’s our governing party, sending a small army to fight for one side in a foreign election — that of our No1 global ally.
The trip itself is electorally futile.
No American changes their vote at the behest of some young left-wing door-knocker from Britain.
Its sole purpose is for them to boast they “fought Trump” or “worked for the Kamala campaign”.
But Labour should not be picking sides.
And their naivety has now created for them a real reason to fear the second coming of President Trump.
He has already filed a legal complaint.
And he is highly unlikely to forget Britain’s governing party sending out activists, working to stop him returning to the White House.
UK IN TIERS
HOW damaging and divisive if Rachel Reeves really plans to exempt the public sector from increased employers’ National Insurance in the Budget.
The Chancellor can reasonably argue that it’s pointless for one arm of the State, the Treasury, to hike levies on other publicly-funded departments.
It will be damaging and divisive if Rachel Reeves makes the public sector exempt from increased National Insurance[/caption]
But much of this NI rise will fall on staff, in lower pay rises and hiring freezes, as employers recoup its cost.
Which leaves private sector workers alone shouldering the burden.
A two-tier Britain is ever more clearly being established.
The unionised public sector workers Labour favours get higher pay, cushier conditions and vastly better pensions.
Those at private firms see their wages worsen and are singled out to foot Britain’s bills.
And the folly of raising this tax at all is that it will trigger higher prices and an economic slowdown, as the boss of Marks and Spencer says.
What happened to the “growth” mission?
King Arthur
IN cricket-mad Australia they know a great innings when they see one.
And Arthur Edwards’ career as The Sun’s Royal snapper is just that.
He’s 84 not out, with 31 tours Down Under, an MBE and now the Governor-General’s Medallion for services to Oz.
Congrats, then, to this Sun legend.
The King told him to “take it easy”.
Knowing Arthur, we doubt he will.
