Has any Government in our history ever been elected on a more dishonest prospectus than this one led by Keir Starmer? Even I have been shocked by the sheer volume of solemn promises that Labour made before the election that they have shamelessly broken now in government – and they don’t appear to have any remorse for it at all.
For socialists it would appear that the end justifies the means, and if they had to lie through their teeth to win the election then so be it. But it is doing huge damage to the political process, and it cannot be allowed to become the norm in British politics.
This week’s Labour betrayal is to the Waspi women. Time and again, Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall and an army of Labour MPs stood with Waspi women campaigners to promise that if they won the election they would deliver “fair and fast” compensation to them.
Many of those Waspi women would have voted Labour based on those repeated promises, and yet this week the Government announced it was reneging on that firm election promise.Now as it happens, and having been around the block many times on this issue, it was never going to be possible for any government to agree to pay £10billion compensation to the Waspi women.
No government would ask current taxpayers – who are due to retire at 67 at the earliest – to pay compensation to women for not being able to retire at 60.
It was always a non-starter as far as I could see, and perhaps my honesty cost me votes at the election. If that was the case, then so be it – surely it is better to be honest and lose votes than to hoover up votes on a lie. Of course these women are just the latest group to suffer from “Con Artist Keir’s” broken promises.
Other victims include pensioners with the scrapping of their winter fuel allowance; farmers and family businesses over inheritance tax; businesses and workers through the National Insurance tax fibs; students over the promise to abolish tuition fees which have now been hiked up; and those of us who pay energy bills who were promised a cut of £300 only to see them go up. The charge sheet of double-crossing is endless – and they have only been in power for five months!
How do Labour think anyone will ever believe their promises again? They may as well go without a manifesto at the next election – every -one knows anything in there won’t be worth the paper it is written on.
Nick Clegg’s Lib Dems were wiped out at the 2015 general election over breaking just one promise on tuition fees. Labour will deserve the same fate and more when the voters get to pass their verdict – that is, if Labour don’t cancel future general elections as they are apparently seeking to do with the local elections next year!
When the Conservative Party warned at the general election that a Keir Starmer-led Labour government would mean Shamima Begum being let back into the country, I think many people felt we had gone too far with our “scaremongering”.
And yet just five months on, we now have a Labour Minister – Angela Eagle – refusing to rule it out.
What on earth is there to think about? Begum, below, willingly left Britain to go to side with a terror group who want to destroy us, and she has shown little or no remorse for her actions.
The last Conservative government therefore rightly stripped her of her citizenship. Being a British citizen is a privilege, not a right, and you cannot possibly expect to keep citizenship to our country if you leave to help those who are at war with us.
Even the UK courts, which are often wishy-washy to say the least on these issues, upheld the decision to strip her of her citizenship. So why on earth would this Labour government even entertain the possibility of her being able to return to the UK? Answers on a postcard.
However, people shouldn’t be surprised. Remember, Keir Starmer – along with a large number of Labour MPs – inexplicably campaigned to stop a flight full of foreign national criminals from being deported, leading to a number of them committing further violent and drug-related crimes in the UK when they should have been repatriated.
I guess if you want some clear evidence that Labour cannot be trusted with national security, then look no further.
