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How can people still think that Reform will form the next government when many of those that do get elected, either for central government or on councils seem to be under investigation for tax avoidance or racist comments The Reform councils that have been elected are reneging on their pre election promises. And if one imagines the faces of the Reform cabinet they are faceless because they’re still recruiting people for the job ( if they have a bit of racism in their cv so much the better). Though previous membership in the Conservatives party gives them an automatic pass.
Starmer has rightly refused to support Trump’s blockade. The Conservatives and Reform would have supported this illegal law (as they both ignore International Law) in the first place. Would they now support America’s blockade?
Lord Robertson, ex-Labour and ex-Nato, steams into Starmer and his government over defence spending. As per usual Starmer and his stooges are all mouth over defence.
“Britains welfare budget is now 5x its defence…” he said
Let me guess, the ‘five times’ figure includes pensions because we’re trying to make the numbers as big and scary as possible but when talk comes to cuts then pensions will suddenly be excluded. What’s the multiplier without pensions and what was it before July 2024?
Lord Robertson is a ‘Senior Counsellor’ at the The Cohen Group. Would anyone like to have a guess what industry they are involved in.
Lord Robertson is a highly respected Labour ‘grandee’ and ex-Nato chief, asked by Starmer over a year ago to assist with a future Defence review.
I repeat, asked by Starmer to advise.Robertson: “Britain’s welfare budget is now five times the amount we spend on defence. So I ask, are we certain that this is the right priority – jeopardising people’s future safety and security, while maintaining an increasingly unsustainable welfare bill?”
He was backed by fellow Labour peer Lord Hutton, who served as both defence and work and pensions secretary in the last Labour government.
Lord Hutton urged Sir Keir to grip the issue as the ‘defining moment in his premiership’, saying he has ‘a very, very short period of time to start putting this right and sending out the signals to Vladimir Putin’ that Britain is serious about defending itself.
He told Times Radio that the Government has ‘got to get a grip on the rising welfare budget’. But he warned that, almost two years in, ‘there’s no real sign that it’s got any agenda for correcting the very steep rise in welfare payments’.
Reeves and the Treasury are purely focused on Welfare, as opposed to defence.
Robertson goes on to say: “Three reviewers – a former defence secretary, a former general and a current foreign policy guru – were hired by Keir Starmer and John Healey to look at every aspect of UK defence, which we did with the aid of more than 150 experts and an unprecedented public consultation.”
Why all this sudden hullaballoo about defence spending? Who is attacking us? Let’s not forget that Lord Robertson is both a New Labour charlatan and an arms industry spiv.
Or is it simply that the rightwing media need to drag everyone’s attention away from the fact that they, and the Conservatives and Reform, have been so wrong about blindly backing Trump?
Starmer’s Welfare legacy:
UK – More paid out in welfare (£333bn) than collected in income tax (£331bn), for the first time.
Reeves and her treasury cronies have no financial headroom, after splurging £bns on public sector pay rises, benefits increases, scrapping of 2-child cap, increase to minimum wage. They’re having to borrow more just to ‘afford’ her credit binge.
Meanwhile, employers, esp hospitality are facing ever increasing costs, and now unemployment is surging.
None or v little growth.
Highest borrowing rates and bond yields of major economies.
Yes, all made worse by the war in the Middle East, BUT markets reacted the worst to UK because of NO financial headroom to ‘soak’ the current crisis up.Starmer and his troops are toast – will be hammered next month.
Glad chips in, while shirking from home.
Get on with your work, instead of wasting your work hours on forums
The number of people in England and Wales claiming the main disability benefit has hit a new record high of nearly four million, figures show.
Some 3.93 million people in England and Wales were claiming personal independence payments in January 2026, according to data published on Tuesday by the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP).
This is up by 233,080, or 6%, from 3.69 million a year earlier.
The number of claimants has almost doubled since comparable figures began seven years ago in January 2019, when the total stood at 2.05 million.
I wonder how many of these new claimants are a direct result of the austerity imposed on the working class by the Conservative government and continued by Starmer’s feckless lot?
I have noticed wilts that a lot of the channel crossers now have their walking aids with them, top rate pip incoming good advice from human rights lawyers
It’s not like white British people have ever taken the piss out of the benefits system. Ever.
Purely a new import, this.
They dont even need human rights lawyers these days;
just go into thick tok and plenty of benefits scammers/influencers on there.It’s an epidemic nwalton.
Welfare bill does seem a bit high though Glad, can’t be all off us just taking the piss
Many more green suspension’s today with there ante Israel hate or even death to UK posts? Seems you lot go a bit quiet even Dave’s army spout vile stuff but if it was a rwnj you would be all over it(rightly so)
I really believe the Allah Akbar mob have piggy backed onto the greens , got to be careful glad you don’t want to become a party of hate,as we know how much you dislike thatIn the news today I read that ICE has arrested an 89 year old woman putting her in handcuffs and leg irons. Do they really believe that an 89 year old can escape that easily? If Reform win we will have this in the UK having spent £2 billion of taxpayers money to set up an ICE type agency. Is this what we want in the UK?
For those on this forum who don’t know the difference between local elections and a general election, i can assure everyone that Starmer will not be toast in May, regardless of the result.
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