KEIR Starmer’s six lacklustre pledges are far from a blueprint for the better Britain he wants.
Leave aside that he has made many before this, to the public and his party, and kept almost none.
Even taken at his word, his ideas are vague, their funding entirely uncertain, and most could equally have been announced by Rishi Sunak.
Take delivering “economic stability”.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has mainly delivered that already, with inflation near the two per cent target, mortgages to follow and National Insurance slashed.
The Tories would cut NHS waits and tackle yobs too. Who wouldn’t?
And while Starmer at least recognises illegal migration is a problem, his “Border Security Command” seems to rebrand what already exists.
Plus, he would scrap Rwanda even if it works.
Great British Energy, and Ed Miliband’s 2030 “Net Zero power” fantasy, would never survive contact with reality.
In 1997 Tony Blair promised specifics to judge him by: Class sizes under 30, 250,000 off the dole and so on.
Starmer’s aspirations are woolly by comparison.
Where is the housing revolution or the NHS’s reinvention?
We sorely need both.
What is Labour’s big offer? Voters are still waiting.
HOW about a new public inquiry into why the Covid public inquiry is costing us £300,000 every DAY?
What is this preposterous £94million-and-counting circus for, beyond being a wealth-creation scheme for lawyers?
We do not believe it is genuinely sifting evidence to form a dispassionate conclusion.
It long ago decided who and what was to blame — Brexit, then Boris and his wicked Tories.
Every sinew is being strained and every convenient statistic cherry-picked to support that.
We doubt it will conclude anything useful when it reports . . . in late 2026.
God help us all if China’s bat-bothering boffins unleash a new virus before then.
BRITONS have an acute sense of injustice.
That’s partly why migrants arriving on small boats to cheat the system offend us.
And it is why the plight of 74-year-old Nelson Shardey offends us too.
Because while officials grant virtually anyone asylum, they threw the book at a man who has lived here blamelessly for 47 years thinking he was British.
Retired newsagent Nelson, originally from Ghana, put two kids through uni, did jury service and won a bravery award.
Now he’s told he’ll be 84 before he can officially stay permanently . . . and it will cost him thousands.
Is this the Home Office getting “tough” on migration? What a joke.
Target the REAL problem, arriving daily at Dover.
And tell Nelson he’s a Brit.
