Do they think we are stupid?

The last week, with the Mandelson saga,  has truly exposed Starmer's hypocrisy.   The rot of Starmerosis has been exposed. Let's rewind the clock to January 2022 when Starmer was lambasting Boris for eating cake during lockdown. He cited "serious failure to observe’ standards for government, and lapses of leadership and judgement". Hmmm sounds like now. However eating birthday cake seems trivial to what has happened. This is certainly worse than the Profumo affair. Starmer's appearance on TV to "apologise" his decision to appoint Mandy was totally cringe-worthy. A few days before on Wednesday at PMQs he was forced to admit he was aware of Mandy's on-going relationship with Epstein and had been briefed but Starmer appointed him anyway.  His fake apology was a school boy attempt to deflect onto Mandy and blame him when it was clear he made the decision. If Starmer was a leader and took ownership for his decisions he would have said "I was aware of...

 I've discovered a new medical term "Starmerosis". It's a psychological condition where you think you're doing a good job but are in fact doing the complete opposite. Sadly it seems to be contagious and spreading thoughout the Labour party. ====================================================== Read next post on how Stamerosis has infected the Labour party

 Although Starmer describes himself as a socialist he clearly has liberal beliefs. He was incapable of defining what a woman is for fear of alienating the trans movement.  Clearly there are Starmer contradictions for example believing in fairness and rule of law but then going out of his way to deprive the Chagosians of fair hearing and  access to their own country..... Starmer believes is allowing liberalism - at least in terms of what he thinks is allowable but that liberal attitude also creates risks. In order to have a liberal attitude it makes the assumption that everyone will play by the same rules of fairness.  It is clear the world doesn't work that way and by allowing people to have views allows militant groups to have their says.  Ultimately that risk to fairness will allow some groups to gain power and undermine the very liberalism which allowed their views to exist. Once the illiberal minds gain how they will clamp down on liberalism. Liberalism is k...

 The plight of the UK pub is well known but this short blog post is actually based around my holiday to Malaysia. I was in the beautiful island of Langkawi in 2004 when the boxing day tsunami hit. Thankfully the island escaped the worst of the tsunami and things were quickly put straight and only 1 person died.  Back in 2004 it was pretty easy to get a beer in Langkawi. 21 years later I am back on Langkawi and it's not quite so easy to buy a beer. Thank heavens for Google maps - I can quickly search which restaurants, hotels and bars sell alcohol. The reason why it's harder to get alcohol is the percentage of Muslim population in Malaysia has changed significantly.  Back in 2004 it was 60% Muslim and has now increased to 65% in just  20 years. There are now dry hotels. We stayed in the beautiful Ombek Villa hotel which was fabulous but we wouldn't have booked it had we known it was dry. It just didn't feel the same without a beer or cocktail by the pool. However ther...

 Qweir Squirmer states he can't back out of the Chagos treaty as it's been signed. Surely Squirmer who allegedly has a law degree would remember first year law school where the process of law is explained and that ceding territory needs to be ratified by the king - in other words approved by parliament. Just because he signed a treaty does not give him absolute authority and the treaty is subject to parliamentary approval. Telling parliament that they must approve it because he signed it is arse about face. Any lawyer will tell you when writing a contract, and a treaty is just a contract, that you should cover all eventualities. The treaty should be wholly conditional on parliamentary approval.   Secondly I am hearing rumours that the treaty doesn't have other provisions or convenants for example preventing Mauritius from selling Chagos to China. Also I am hearing we still need to pay regardless  whether Diego Garcia is still there and payments are still due even if ...

 It is totally clear that Starmer doesnt seem to be following any logical rule book. I know humans can quite happily have conflicting beliefs but this seems more complex than that. I suspect Starmer is absolutely not an imperialist hankering for the good old days of the British empire. Quite the opposite - he seems to want to dismantle anything to do with Britain's hayday - except that is for soft diplomacy.  I'm inclinded to believe that Starmer has a self loathing for Great Britain and that penance is the only way forward. It's been an eventful start to 2026 and it has exposed some of the turmoil his poor little mind must be going through. On the one hand he says he respects International law (whilst just about every country that matters is busy ignoring it) yet ironically Starmer is busy ignoring domestic law for example by cancelling democratic elections, removing the rights to trial by jury etc. If we are entering a new era where Trump has given the green light to simp...