With all eyes on Boris Johnson and the writhing convulsions within the Tory party, the huge cracks opening up in Labour’s policy platform are going virtually unnoticed.
Last week the main plank of its energy strategy collapsed, as Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves ditched the party’s promise to plough 28 billion a year into green projects.
She finally realised what every dog on the street already knew, that it would be ruinously expensive and the amount of borrowing involved could have caused a market meltdown.
So while it stays an aspiration which may or may not be achieved in the later part of a Labour-led parliament, it’s no longer a commitment.
Ms Reeves has done the right thing of course, but this U-turn leaves the party’s environmental policies even more embroiled in confusion than before.
They oppose expanding our own North Sea drilling, yet accept we’re going to need oil and gas for numerous years to come, leaving us at the mercy of despots like Vladimir Putin for our supplies.
Renewable may ultimately bridge the energy gap, but not in the foreseeable future. So, what is Labour’s plan to keep the lights on?
If it was left to the eco zealots of Just Stop Oil, the lights would be off already, not to mention the gas cookers and central heating.
Sir Keir Starmer claims to fight their misguided campaign to bring arterial roads and city centres to a halt.
So why did he whip his MPs yesterday to oppose new legislation to curtail these dangerous and often perilous protests? Could it have anything to do with the £1.5 million donated to the party by Just Stop Oil’s most well-known backer Dale Vince?
And it’s not just energy policy where Labour is at sixes and sevens. With the warm weather and calm seas, some 600 migrants crossed the Channel illegally yesterday, virtually all young men.
Sir Keir Starmer says he wants to end the influx of small boats, yet his party fiercely opposes any Tory plan to tackle the problem.
The Illegal Migration Bill, designed to detain and swiftly oust those who arrive unlawfully on our shores, is presently being held up in the Lords, largely by Labour peers.
Meanwhile, it remains a mystery where Sir Keir Starmer stands on the complex matter of whether a man can become a woman simply by saying that he is one.
Sir Keir Starmer is mainly seen in a red tie, does this mean he belongs to a satanic cult? Let’s face it, he’s largely bereft of humour, whereas Boris Johnson was a hilarious joker, whether it was on purpose or not.
These are oddballs that have absolutely no policies that support the majority and working people.
They don’t want to stop illegals from coming into our country. They don’t want to stop eco-warriors. They want to suppress free speech and our freedom of movement, along with stealth taxes through emission charges amongst other things. We must not deflect what the Conservatives have done in the last 13 years, although I certainly don’t think that Labour would do any better.
The Tories have done a terrible job, but we can’t blind ourselves to what a Labour government would be like, but look we have a country of millions, yet we end up with 650 ninnyhammers in the House of Commons, and it’s much easier to play the opposition than to be the one to lead.
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