Truth To Power: Labour: From Landslide to CHAOS in 14 Months

September 13, 2025

So many western politicians are USELESS these days! Why? Because they go into politics for all the wrong reasons. They enter politics to MAKE MONEY, MAKE A NAME FOR THEMSELVES, FOR THE PRESTIGE IT OFFERS THEM, and FOR POWER. These are all the wrong reasons to enter politics!

In years gone by, before the age of the career politician, people went into politics AFTER BEING SUCCESSFUL in their chosen fields. They had made their money, so now they wanted to GIVE SOMETHING BACK—THEIR SERVICE—TO THEIR COMMUNITY AND TO THEIR COUNTRY.

Because they generally had plenty of money behind them, they were generally not bribable, or at least far less so.

Further, in years gone by, people entered politics from all kinds of professions and fields, so they brought with them into politics a plethora of skills and knowledge. Then, all was changed; then graduates started coming out of universities and going into politics to make their careers, make money, and make a name for themselves. This is when things started to go awry. This is when people started going into politics for all the wrong reasons. We can all see the results this change has brought with it! — © Mark Alexander

Rob Groves: Is This Labour’s Most AUTHORITARIAN Move Yet?

Aug 2, 2025 | The Labour government has gone full authoritarian, banning the direct action group Palestine Action as a “terrorist organisation” and criminalising peaceful protest. Elderly citizens are being arrested for holding Palestinian flags and Private Eye cartoons. In this week’s Truth To Power, I expose Labour’s chilling embrace of Tory anti-protest laws, and how it’s destroying civil liberties in Britain.

Starmer Says 16-year-olds Should Be Able to Vote because They're 'Old Enough to Pay Taxes'

THE GUARDIAN: Keir Starmer has defended giving 16 and 17-year-olds the vote in UK parliamentary election on the grounds that teenagers pay tax. He told ITV News:

“I think it’s really important that 16- and 17-year-olds have the vote, because they are old enough to go out to work, they are old enough to pay taxes, so pay in.

And I think if you pay in, you should have the opportunity to say what you want your money spent on, which way the government should go.

So I’m really pleased we are able to bring more young people into our democracy and give them a chance to have a say over how their taxes are paid and what they are going to be used for. » | The Guardian | Thursday, July 17, 2025

Such hypocrisy! The same argument could be made for the right to smoke. If a man is old enough to fight for his country, if a man is old enough to get married and sire children, then he is also old enough to decide whether he wishes to smoke, or not.

Giving such young people the right to vote is a very cynical political move. Labour prime ministers are fond of reducing the voting age because young people are generally more inclined to be left-wing and therefore vote Labour. It was a Labour prime minister before who reduced the voting age — it was reduced from twenty-one to eighteen. And that was Harold Wilson some fifty years ago. Starmer is behaving true to form.

For what it is worth, in my humble opinion, regardless of political leanings, sixteen-year-olds are far too young to vote. Far too young, too! What does a sixteen-year-old know about politics? – © Mark Alexander

Labour’s Islamic Blasphemy Laws | spiked podcast

Feb 7, 2025

This is an OUTRAGE! If this ridiculous law is passed, it will have to be REPEALED asap. – © Mark Alexander

Authoritarian Labour's Attack on Free Speech in Pubs Strikes at the HEART of British Culture

Oct 18, 2024 | NCF (New Culture Forum) Founder & Director Peter Whittle addresses Labour's latest attack on British pubs.

Labour's Plans to End Democracy: David Starkey

Jun 30, 2024

The Beginning of Labour's Police State: David Starkey

Aug 7, 2024 | This video was recorded before the events in Southport.

Rob Groves – Truth To Power: Are Labour Really Plotting to Undo Brexit?

Aug 3, 2024 | Removing the two-child cap on Universal Credit and social security in the UK would cost the government 2.5 billion pounds this year according to the Resolution Foundation. And would alleviate deep poverty for over a million children. But we’re told that we can’t afford 2.5 billion pounds. Apparently, however, we CAN afford Brexit, which costs the UK 32 billion pounds a year, according to the Office of Budget Responsibility!

It’s so obvious that the Labour government needs to ditch Brexit, which is proving to be a drag anchor on the British economy. But is it likely to happen, and what would the process look like?

Großbritannien-Wahl: Gewinner, Verlierer und Überraschungen | DW Nachrichten

Jul 5, 2024 | Großbritannien hat einen neuen Premierminister: Labour-Chef Keir Starmer fegt seinen konservativen Vorgänger Rishi Sunak mit einem Erdrutschsieg aus dem Amt. Nach 14 Jahren Tory-Regierungen will Starmer jetzt den Politzirkus á la Boris Johnson beerdigen und bodenständige Arbeit für sein Land machen. DW-Korrespondentin Birgit Maaß über den großen Sieg von Labour und die genauso großen Erwartungen an die neue Regierung.

John Curtice: By-election Results Leave Tories with Mountain to Climb

BBC: This was another disappointing election night for the Conservatives, with two by-election defeats and two gains for Labour.

Not only did they lose Kingswood, where Labour needed a relatively modest 11-point swing. They also lost Wellingborough, where an 18-point swing was required for the seat to change hands. » | Sir John Curtice, Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University | Friday, February 16, 2024

Alhamdulillah! Somebody give them some poison to finish them off! Take pity on them! Put them out of their misery! Once and for all. They’ve had fourteen years in office and not only have they given us that ridiculous Brexit — which I will never forgive them for, especially depriving me and my compatriots of our European citizenship — but they have heaped misery and poverty on so many Brits and heaped millions and billions on the one percenters. The economy is in an appalling mess. Chaos abounds. A new Victorian Era beckons, to boot. And the best Sunak can come up with is tax cuts for the rich, a perpetual smoking ban for young adults, lies and delusion. He cares not a jot for the working poor who have to go to food banks to feed their children, or for the homeless who are destitute and who have to sleep rough on our streets. Sunak was raised in a bubble, was educated in a bubble, and lives in a bubble. The man is shameless. How on earth can he sleep at night?

I used to be a dyed-in-the-wool Tory voter. After this mess and after robbing me of my European citizenship, I shall never vote for them again.

I dislike Labour; but I despise the Tories.

As a Welshman, I am beginning to think that the best thing that could happen for Wales is to become an independent country in Europe, just as the Republic of Ireland is. Being independent in the EU has brought prosperity to Southern Ireland. It could do the same for my country: Wales. – © Mark Alexander

Michael Lambert: The UK Has No Future Outside the EU

Feb 3, 2024 | It is now four years since the UK finally left the EU. The period since Brexit under an incompetent and corrupt Conservative government has brought economic decline, social division and poverty to millions. Every week brings more economic bad news. Under Rishi sunak, the Tories are deeply divided and the prime minister has resorted to regularly lying in order to defend his lamentable record of incompetence.

Labour will inherit an economy in severe difficulty and decline and, even though it is widely accepted that Brexit is responsible for many of our problems, Keir Starmer has repeatedly insisted that under his leadership, the UK will never seek to rejoin the Single Market, the Customs Union of the European Union or agree to freedom of movement, or attempt to return to membership of the EU. Britain, however, has no future outside the EU and seems destined to continually decline.

Michael Lambert: STARMER - Sitting on Fences

Oct 14, 2023 | Last week was the Labour party conference in Liverpool. The mood was optimistic since it is now widely expected that Labour will form the next government with Keir Starmer as prime minister.

In his keynote speech, Starmer failed to mention many of the major issues facing the country such as global warming, AI, fraud and electoral reform. He spoke about various reforms including ending non-dom tax relief, ending tax relief for private schools and reform of the planning system to facilitate the building of many more houses. However, in a speech marked by meaningless management speak he said very little about how all of his proposed reforms were to be paid for.

Towards the end of his speech, he did acknowledge that growing the economy would entail expansion of business. The current Tory cabinet and the 31-strong shadow cabinet have virtually no business experience and it is doubtful if they really understand that backing new small businesses is crucial to the success of the economy and is the only way that all of the reforms Starmer wants to make can be financed.

‘Seismic Night in Scotland’: Labour Crushes SNP in Rutherglen and Hamilton West Byelection

GUARDIAN EUROPE: Michael Shanks wins contest Labour considered a crucial test of apparent turnaround of its fortunes in Scotland

Scottish Labour’s Michael Shanks has won the Rutherglen and Hamilton West byelection in an overwhelming victory over the SNP that his party leadership declared “seismic”, and a clear demonstration that Scotland could lead the way in delivering a Labour government at Westminster at the coming general election.

In a result that exceeded Scottish Labour expectation, Shanks beat his closest rival, the SNP’s Katy Loudon, by 17,845 votes to 8,399 – a majority of 9,446 and a resounding swing of more than 20 percentage points.

The result marked a “seismic night in Scotland”, and proved that “Scottish politics has fundamentally changed”, said the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar. Voters were sending “a very clear message that they are sick of two tired, failing, incompetent governments”, he added. (with video) » | Libby Brooks and Severin Carrell | Friday, October 6, 2023

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Keir Starmer: Labour in Power Would Not ‘Want to Diverge’ from EU

THE GUARDIAN: Party leader says he would not bring in lower environmental and food standards than in Europe or reduce workers’ rights

Keir Starmer at the Global Progress Action Summit in Montreal on 16 September, where he blamed most of the UK’s conflict with Europe post-Brexit on attempts to diverge from it.Photograph: Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images
Keir Starmer has gone further than before in outlining his vision of a future UK relationship with the EU, saying Labour didn’t “want to diverge” – in comments that were immediately seized on by the Conservatives.

The Labour leader was speaking at an event in Canada bringing together liberal and centre-left politicians, where he said that “most of the conflict” since Brexit had arisen because the UK “wants to diverge and do different things to the rest of our EU partners”.

“Actually we don’t want to diverge, we don’t want to lower standards, we don’t want to rip up environmental standards, standards for people that work, food standards and all the rest of it,” he said during a question and answer session on Saturday at the event in Montreal. » | Ben Quinn, Political correspondent | Thursday, September 21, 2023

Michael Lambert: World Class INCOMPETENCE - Every Week!

Sep 2, 2023

Hope for Labour as Sunak Shows Tories Are Out of Ideas

Jan 7, 2023 | This week prime minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer both gave speeches aimed at outlining their policies and strategies for the coming year. Whilst Sunak's speech contained many vague, vacuous and meaningless aspirations, Starmer's speech included plenty of new ideas. Sunak barely mentioned Brexit, in a single sentence referring to the agility of UK regulations post exiting the EU as being an opportunity to seize. Starmer reminded us that he had been a 'Remainer' but that he had been unable to disagree with those who had voted to leave. Whilst Starmer mentioned global warming, AI and an ageing population, Sunak failed to mention any of these major issues. Sunak presented his five pledges including legislation to stop small boats crossing the Channel whilst Starmer outlined his proposals to devolve powers from an over-centralised Westminster.

Labour: We Don't Need 'Another Round of Cuts'

Liz Truss' Ex-colleague Says She's Been Humiliated, and Labour Could Let Him Back into Politics

Rory Stewart is a former Conservative international development secretary, a host of 'The Rest is Politics' podcast and the CEO of charity Give Directly.

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng are not up to their jobs. The Conservatives are no longer up to the job of governing this country, either. They have been in power for far too long. They are stale. We need change in this country.

Brexit was a very stupid idea. We should never have left the EU. It was national suicide. We shot ourselves in the foot. We are Europeans. Our destiny is in Europe. We need to return to the European Union asap. The adolescents have had their time in the spotlight; now it is time for the grown-ups to take control again. – © Mark Alexander

Nach dem Fehlstart von Liz Truss wittert Labour-Chef Starmer die grosse Chance auf einen Machtwechsel

NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: Der Labour-Vorsitzende Keir Starmer hat seine Partei aus dem Griff der altlinken Corbyn-Anhänger befreit. Nachdem Liz Truss mit ihrer Schuldenwirtschaft die Märkte aufgeschreckt hat, will er die Tories erstmals nach zwölf Jahren wieder von der Macht vertreiben.

«Eine fairere, grünere Zukunft»: Keir Starmer bei seiner programmatischen Rede am Labour-Parteitag in Liverpool. | Jon Super / AP
Seit dem Wahlsieg von David Cameron im Jahr 2010 sucht die britische Labour-Partei verzweifelt nach einem Rezept, um die strategisch gewieften Tories von den Regierungsbänken zu verdrängen. Nun bietet sich der Partei erstmals seit Jahren eine realistische Perspektive, bei den spätestens Ende 2024 stattfindenden Unterhauswahlen an die Macht zu kommen – wenn nicht aus eigener Kraft, so doch dank der Unterstützung oder Duldung von Liberaldemokraten und schottischen Nationalisten.

In den Hotel-Lobbys und Bars in Liverpool, wo die Labour-Mitglieder noch bis am Mittwoch ihren jährlichen Parteitag abhalten, war in den letzten Tagen statt des üblichen Fatalismus eine neue Zuversicht greifbar. Und Labour-Chef Keir Starmer erklärte bei seiner grossen programmatischen Rede am Dienstagnachmittag: «Dies ist ein historischer Moment für Labour.» Labour im Umfrage-Hoch » | Niklaus Nuspliger, Liverpool | Mittwoch, 28. September 2022

Labour May Abolish House of Lords If It Wins Next Election, Leaked Report Reveals

THE GUARDIAN: Exclusive: Constitutional review by Gordon Brown also recommends devolving economic powers

Gordon Brown was commissioned to undertake the constitutional review by the Labour leader, Keir Starmer. Photograph: Russell Cheyne/Reuters
Labour is considering abolishing the House of Lords and replacing it with an upper house of nations and regions, as well as handing sweeping new powers to local regions and devolved nations, a leaked report has revealed.

The constitutional review by the former prime minister Gordon Brown, which has been seen by MPs and shadow cabinet ministers, recommends devolving new economic powers, including over taxation, and creating new independent councils of the nations and for England.

The review, seen by the Guardian, recommends: » | Jessica Elgot Chief political correspondent | Thursday, September 22, 2022