Cold war
NOTHING more sums up the madness of Government thinking than not being prepared to fund 3.5 per cent of GDP on defence, but deciding it IS still fine to lavish tens of billions on Net Zero.
Britain is facing rising threats from the dictator regimes of both China and demented Putin’s Russia.
Our Armed Forces have been hollowed out and urgently need a vastly upgraded Navy, Air Force and hi-tech weaponry to become a proper global force again.
There is a real and present danger to this country NOW.
Keir Starmer says the UK is firmly on a war footing.
But he still won’t commit to anything beyond 2.5 per cent by 2027 — even as Nato leaders meet to agree to pledge five per cent.
Instead, the PM IS pressing full steam ahead with Labour’s £13.5billion Warm Homes scheme.
How much of a comfort will it be — as Russian bombers patrol our skies or Chinese cyber attacks knock out our infrastructure — that your roof has taxpayer-funded insulation and your shiny new heat pump performs worse than your old boiler?
Protecting Net Zero dreams over national security reality could prove an expensive mistake in more ways than one.
Kemi’s prize
VOTERS are sick to the back teeth of being taken for mugs over migration.
They are fed up of paying record taxes to put illegal migrants in hotels.
Just as rage-inducing is watching our Government being powerless in the face of foreign criminals using human rights laws to avoid deportation.
Years of broken promises have led to widespread despair among a disbelieving electorate.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch appears to be listening, with her policy review today putting the Tories on the path to quitting the ECHR.
Playing by the rules of a foreign court that is mis-interpreting outdated laws springing from the Second World War has got us nowhere.
Certainly the public is crying out for someone to end the madness.
Becks appeal
DAVID Beckham’s incredible career has taken him from kicking a ball with his dad in his local park in Chingford to becoming a global sports megastar, fashion icon and philanthropist.
The only thing missing in his glittering life was a knighthood.
That final goal has been smashed into the back of the net.
Sir Becks and Lady Posh — already with their own country manor — now well and truly have it all.
