Why we need to talk about the Labour Party.

Thieves in the temple.

Rishi Sunak announcing the general election in the rain looked like a boxer throwing in the towel before the gloves are on. If politics were a house party then the current level of optimism in the Labour party camp would lead to all the booze and snacks being caned before guests arrived.

It’s becoming increasingly hard for Herr Starmer’s crew not to grin with the sort of entitlement recognisable on customers walking their purchased shopping past supermarket security guards. Angela Rayner in particular will be doubling her IQ score by high-fiving herself, and wondering how she managed to wrangle her way into a promotion that outstrips her ability in the same way a vintage F1 car might be outclassed by a Red Bull Honda RB19 2023. She’s more out depth than a hamster at a giraffe party. Even Keir Starmer’s signature looks like he’s in a rush to a celebratory dinner, it sort of follows him out of the door.

Meanwhile, following his 2015 ‘eating a bacon sandwich loses an election’ box-office dud Ed Miliband is back for a sequel, this time as Secretary of State of Climate Change and Net Zero, while Sarah Jones is Shadow Minister (Industry and Decarbonisation), which should just read deindustrialisation. Jones has presided over the success story of Croydon Central since 2015 where she won the seat from the Conservatives by 165 votes. She’s someone yet to be introduced to hubris, after writing a book How to Win a Marginal Seat. Due to her google-safe name it’s unclear if she shares taxis to the World Economic Forum alongside Miliband; there’s a lot of Sarah Jones’.

The Labour Party recently announced its election ‘pledges’, ie. the usual simplistic guff that basically says: we promise not to destroy the country. In their policy document they declare not to spend more without tax rises. That’s a good thing in light of the national debt, but it’s basically a drug addict saying I won’t buy any more drugs until I see my dealer. We have already had a Tory government that has spent more than it raised in tax, which rather ruins Labour’s usual party trick, not that this will stop them from outdoing the Tories.

The pledges read exactly as you’d expect: we’ll make the underperforming/overfunded NHS better. Ok, they didn't say exactly that, but it’s what they mean. Others are: we won’t screw up the economy, will crack down on crime (presumably pronoun misuse) and increase border control. It’s as predictable as a DJ wanting to ‘get this party started’, but the main concern is what lies behind their intentions. After all, Herr Starmer is a member of the Trilateral Commission established by globalist David Rockefeller, and has already declared he disagrees with any deterrent to illegal immigration. Expecting Sir Kier Starmer to be representing anything other than his left wing globalist agenda is like seeking self-discipline in Augustus Gloop as manager of Wonka’s chocolate factory.

The huge UK national debt is already £2.7 trillion, the same as its GDP - the value of all goods and services produced in the UK over a year - and the interest alone is £4b per month. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt argues that "These numbers reflect the inevitable consequences of borrowing eye-watering sums to help families and businesses through a pandemic and Putin's energy crisis.” Relying on cheap gas, the tap of which is in Russia, while rejecting domestic investment in fracking, oil and gas is not ‘Putin’s energy crisis’ but of our politicians’ own making. Meanwhile, the necessity to help families with their daily bread was because the government prevented them from getting it via the brutality of Lockdowns. We locked people in their houses, away from schools, loved ones, careers and medical care, for a virus with an average age of death of 82 that only dangerously impacted those with existing mobilities whom could have voluntarily shielded. It was micro-managing risk on a national scale that seemed to eradicate any opposition party in parliament; little wonder our politicians enjoyed it so much, they were given the iron grip they all secretly dream of.

A week is long time in politics and over the past 2 years everyone has apparently forgotten that all the MPs (other than few notable exceptions) presided over printing £450b during lockdowns, because, shock horror, it’s costly to completely shut down society, and not just financially. £29.3 billion alone was spent on the Test and Trace programme that in keeping with most State-driven IT projects had the financial acumen of a drunk outside a bookies, but the empty roads, disinfected post, hugs through bin bags, taped off playgrounds, empty hospital wards and closed schools wreaked the sort of destruction Covid could only dream of.

So what does the Labour government have planned behind its pledges? Well, they’ve doubled down on an ambitious pledge to remove fossil fuels from all Britain’s electricity supply within just six years of coming to power; to have zero-carbon electricity by 2030. In 2022 - the most recent full year of data - 78.4% of UK energy was produced by coal, oil and gas, much of this of course imported rather than self-sufficient. Self-sufficiency is something the left wing frown upon, preferring that our needs and welfare are best provided by the paternal State, a sort of mass produced authoritarian version of mother knows best.

If there’s one thing Margaret Thatcher and Labour Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan achieved it was being ahead of the Net Zero curve by closing domestic coal mining. Not only are Labour refusing drill licences in the still viable North Sea but plan a higher windfall tax on oil and gas firms that could lead to the loss of 100,000 jobs in the industry. Talk about robbing a disabled man once you’ve kicked him to the ground. Net Zero altar is getting so bloody that Labour is now destroying the livelihoods of the people it was established to represent.

How the Labour party, the front bench of which looks like a bunch of bedraggled strangers at a bus stop, are going to provide the country and the sanctified cash-furnace of ‘our’ NHS, with reliable energy without breaking their pledge is a mystery. The answer to this is likely to come at enormous cost to the consumer. Labour intend to set up a State energy company - Great British Energy - to focus upon green energies that private investors find too risky. Yes, you read that correctly. The government thinks it’s better at business than people who can spy a good investment through a frosted cocktail glass. Most MPs have never had a real job in their life, and announced Great British Energy via a video misspelling ‘switch’.

This is the least inspired election for a long time. It’s choosing between two lame runners in general agreement on every main issue: pandemic intervention, high taxes, mass immigration, CBDCs, Net Zero. Might it be that the Tories are blamed for the UK’s economic downturn and cost of living resulting from the lockdowns that they, the public, clamoured for? If so then they’ve evidently forgotten that Labour wanted to shut down the country faster and harder. And let’s not forget Starmer declaring in 2021 that "We have to deal with the anti-vax campaigns because they will cost lives, and if we have to pass emergency legislation to deal with them, I'd be quite prepared to work with the government on that.” Just as he was equally quite prepared to work with needlessly destructive lockdowns.

It’s unclear how a population who reportedly want less immigration are voting for a Labour party with Yvette Cooper and a New Left liberalism towards open borders and a wish to return to the EU, but this election is about giving the Tories a kicking. The simplest way for Labour to win this election is keep a straight face while saying ‘it’s time for change’, and simply not being the Conservatives. Yet, it’s hard not to see the Conservative party as having been purposefully dismantled to allow a Labour government to apply the same butchering to the UK itself. It would appear that the swing to the more populist right of politics across Europe, thanks to authoritarian left wing policies, means that the same might occur in the UK, and the Labour Party knows they might only have 5 years to inflict their agenda upon the country. Hold on to your hats, before they’re taken from you. Everything the Tories inflicted on the country is about to get a lot faster and harder.