AS humiliations go, it was a humdinger served with deadly disdain on home soil but with a global audience.
And judging by the gritted teeth expression that suggested he’d been fashioned from clay by Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman Animation, our Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer knew it.
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It came from US President Donald Trump and it involved the F-word — Farage.
“Politics is pretty simple,” he shrugged, as he offered unsolicited advice on how Sir Keir should handle “the thing going on between you and Nigel” as though they were a married couple going through a rough patch.
He added: “Generally speaking, the one who cuts taxes the most, the one who gives you the lowest energy prices, the best kind of energy, the one that keeps you out of wars . . . a few basics . . . And in your case, a big immigration component.”
And there you have it, in a nutshell. Politics for dummies, yet still the incumbent Labour government just don’t seem to get it.
Unlike Tony Blair and “New Labour,” who understood that attracting and maintaining wealth promoted the growth that any country needs to thrive economically, “Same Old Labour” seems intent on strangling it.
Consequently, its policies are causing a mass exodus of the wealthy, who are taking with them their assets, taxes, and the jobs they generate. Meanwhile, thousands in need of financial assistance are arriving on small boats, nurses/doctors are demanding more pay and state-funded civil service jobs are now at a 19-year high of 550,000.
You don’t have to be a financial expert to know that it is economically unsustainable.
Meanwhile, a Sun report revealed that nearly 50,000 businesses in the UK are on the brink of collapse as costs put them under “significant” financial stress — with Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s recent increase in National Insurance payments being one of the key reasons.
The “critical” financial level among bars and restaurants alone is up by 41 per cent. As former Reform MP Rupert Lowe posted earlier this week, there is so much bureaucracy and high cost involved in starting up a small business in the UK, “Why bother?”
Indeed. It also might explain why the UK’s “dark economy” is flourishing, with nearly 1,000 businesses fined a total of £37million for employing illegal workers last year.
It’s unclear whether all the businesses — including, natch, car washes, barbers and salons — have paid the fines, but it shows that Immigration Enforcement teams are working hard to tackle the issue.
Perhaps if they put the same zeal into preventing those working illegally from entering the country in the first place, the problem would largely disappear overnight.
But, yet again, Labour is showing the same paralysis that blighted the Tories for so many years when it comes to implementing blindingly obvious solutions that would have the backing of the majority of the electorate.
So little wonder that elections expert Sir John Curtice recently declared that Starmer has had the “worst start” for any newly elected Labour or Conservative Prime Minister.
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He says that voters “still don’t know what [Starmer] stands for” and right now it’s looking like Sir Keir himself doesn’t know what he stands for.
Trump is a wrong’un in so many ways, but he understands the basic principle that if you let people work, impose fair taxes, tackle crime and keep state interference in their lives to a minimum, they will take personal responsibility and thrive.
Slick operator Farage understands that, too, and, unlike the Tories and Labour, his claims that he will fix the UK’s problems remain untested.
So, unless Starmer sticks Trump’s vote-winning “basics” on the fridge in Downing Street and acts on them, his tenure will be as short-lived as Wallace and Gromit’s trip to the moon.
MOLLY HAVING A BAWL
THE Instagram account of hugely successful “influencer” (8.5million followers on Instagram alone) Molly-Mae Hague shows a carefully curated collection of artfully shot photos depicting a seemingly perfect life.
Beautifully blow-dried hair, designer outfits, luxury cars and holiday destinations, she’s selling her fans their dream existence while funding her own via lucrative brand deals.
Yet, in a couple of her recent live streams to fans, she’s seen sobbing and riddled with anxiety after having her chain yanked by online haters.
So perhaps those close to her might advise a spell away from social media altogether or, at the very least, the comments section.
And at the same time, those being outright nasty (rather than expressing any valid criticism in a measured way) to someone who is clearly struggling with their mental health should give her a break too.
It might just improve their lives as well.
As Nelson Mandela once said: “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
Sexy Syd is a jeanius seller
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AN ad for American Eagle jeans featuring Hollywood actress Sydney Sweeney has sparked an online backlash.
Why? Because the ad says “Sydney Sweeney has great genes jeans.”
Which, according to some, smacks of “eugenics”, “Nazi propaganda” and promotes “white supremacy”.
Sigh. Is there literally anything now that someone, somewhere can’t take offence at if they try hard enough? It’s an eye-catching ad to sell jeans, featuring a gorgeous young woman with, yes, great genes.
And that would apply equally if it was Naomi Campbell.
A CASE STUDY IN FEES
A VIRAL video shows a sobbing woman slumped to her knees at Sofia Airport in Bulgaria after a Ryanair flight left without her.
Apparently, staff said her bag was too big to take on board, she rammed it in the measuring thing to prove it wasn’t, they said no anyway, and she presumably refused on principle to pay the extra to put it in the hold.
Who knows? But considering Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary said last week he’s considering raising the current bonus staff receive for identifying passengers with “oversized bags”, it might explain why they’re so intransigent when a suitcase wheel or strap is one millimetre above the measuring line.
You need an ’ology in airline suitcase sizing to travel stress-free these days.
Meanwhile, me and my 55 x 45 x 25 hand luggage are currently stuck in Marseille, France, after a fire in the vicinity of the airport caused multiple cancellations, my BA flight among them.
I know, I know. Pray for me.
No time to age
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LOOKING sensational on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar UK, diva songstress Mariah Carey has given her views on getting older.
“I don’t allow it – it just doesn’t happen.” Er, right. Best scrap the £50billion a year anti-ageing industry then.
She adds: “I don’t know numbers. I do not acknowledge time.”
Which might explain why she’s notoriously late for pretty much everything.
SIGN IN GUEST BOOK
WHILE mum and dad are sailing around the Med on their £16million yacht, eldest son Brooklyn Beckham has glided in on an £85million super-yacht rented by his wealthy in-laws for, gulp, £1.2million a week.
How’s that for one-upman . . . ship. Geddit?
Except, of course, that David and Victoria paid for theirs with their own money.
While Brooklyn, reportedly on “no speaks” with his parents, is merely an invited guest courtesy of his marriage to Nicola Peltz whose father Nelson is a billionaire.
And he could just as easily find himself an uninvited guest if his heiress wife ever tires of him.
JENNIFER ANISTON is reportedly dating an American life coach and hypnotist called Jim Curtis.
She has liked some of his posts and, rumour has it, indulged in a spot of hypnosis herself after reading his book called Shift: Quantum Manifestation Guide: A Workbook For Coding A New Consciousness.
Cripes. The title alone is enough to send you to sleep.
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