Pushover PM
NOT for the first time, Sir Keir Starmer has buckled under pressure from his own backbenchers.
In a televised address the Prime Minister said that, unless Israel meets a list of improbable demands, he will join France in recognising Palestine in September.
ReutersSir Keir Starmer has once again caved in to the Labour left with his threat to recognise Palestine[/caption]
Hamas — the party of terrorists responsible for the October 7 atrocity, who still hold 50 Israeli hostages — was given no such ultimatum.
Labour’s left-wing MPs are happy. After last month’s benefits revolt, once again they have shown how easily they can push Sir Keir around.
Meanwhile, the monsters of Hamas are rewarded for their barbarism with a propaganda coup.
But, beyond alienating our Israeli allies and infuriating President Trump, what will Starmer’s gesture politics actually achieve?
It certainly doesn’t bring a ceasefire any closer.
Or help to break the grip on power still held by Hamas, which continues to steal and sell on vital aid supplies.
Indeed, these callous thugs couldn’t care less if ordinary Palestinians starve to death.
Sir Keir should have concentrated on the best way of urgently delivering food.
Instead, he has shown himself to no longer be in control of his party on foreign as well as domestic affairs.
Price is wrong
BRITAIN’S economic woes get worse daily.
We are now mired in the worst of all worlds: Rising inflation is wiping out wages of those still in work, while thousands of others are losing their jobs as businesses struggle to pay hefty tax rises.
Whatever predictions the IMF made yesterday, growth remains negligible.
That means Brits are feeling the pinch more than ever.
Not least at the supermarket, where the British Retail Consortium says food inflation is likely to hit six per cent by the end of the year.
Labour’s disastrous jobs tax Budget continues to squeeze ordinary families.
There is a way out of this doom loop.
Cutting taxes, setting business free and putting money back in people’s pockets.
Don’s drill rap
ONCE again Donald Trump has nailed it.
Labour’s decision to ignore vast reserves of oil and gas under the North Sea does indeed make no sense.
It is madness to ban new offshore drilling while pouring billions in subsidies into uneconomic wind farms which produce power that cannot be stored.
When the wind doesn’t blow, it leaves us relying on imports of electricity — or the very eco-unfriendly method of shipping in foreign gas.
Tapping into our own North Sea “treasure chest”, as Trump rightly terms it, would help us keep the lights on.
And save Brits from paying some of the highest electricity costs in the world.
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