MAY Day is a day of celebration to me and the Labour Party.
We remember our ‘martyrs dead’ who died in factory fires, mining collapses and calamities at sea while earning a crust for themselves and their families.
UK ParliamentLord Maurice Glasman is the founder of the influential Blue Labour group[/caption]
And we honour those who built the trade unions that protected people at a time when they were worked to death and dumped in a paupers grave.
The burial and building societies of County Durham were at the heart of this.
Britain has been blessed by our unique Labour movement. We never went Fascist and we never went Communist.
The Labour Party stayed close to its working class roots – and the working class overwhelmingly voted Labour. It was of them, by them and for them.
GettySir Keir Stramer has been warned to change course and get tough on immigration to win back voters who deserted the party[/caption]
But this May Day was not a day of celebration.
Our voters sent up a distress signal and we have to take it to heart.
We were destroyed in County Durham, a council which was Labour for 100 years.
A day of celebration was turned into one of lamentation. Our cradle had become our tomb.
Having said that, the Conservatives were the biggest losers by far.
But that is also a warning of what happens when a magnificent tradition is corrupted by greed.
The market worm had eaten into their patriotic soul and now they are a rotten apple. Thatcherism was their poison not their medicine.
They said: ‘take back control’, they said ‘controlled immigration’, they said ‘levelling up’. But they did the opposite and are no longer trusted.
Be under no illusions, this Labour Government faces the same odium and fate as the Tories unless it acts decisively to lead the country in the right direction.
I was invited to President Donald Trump’s inauguration and I witnessed first hand the energy of the MAGA rallies.
It was an act of defiance against the ruling classes.
Labour must beware – it is happening to us.
Nigel Farage may be a Saloon-Bar Thatcherite and a Putin appeaser, but he understands the anger of our people and knows how to direct it against us.
That is the terrain upon which we must now fight.
Labour must confront the problem that the bigger the State grows the more useless it is.
AI is our friend in restoring the effectiveness of Government and cutting it down to size.
Without that story of renewal, cutting the winter fuel allowance just felt wrong.
Net Zero by 2030 is a delusion, which is worse than an illness. Farmers and business both came friendly but are no longer allies. Things must change.
GettyLeader of Reform UK Nigel Farage cheers while addressing supporters and the media at Staffordshire County Showground[/caption]
So how does Keir Starmer change the dynamics of disenchantment to one of renewal?
First, he must restore our Armed Forces. It must double in size over the next five years.
Our sovereignty requires that we have the ability to defend our borders and support our allies.
Second, we need an industrial strategy to support our defence capacity. We must learn to build our own weapons and not go shopping.
I have been to Ukraine 12 times since the war, and I am convinced the partnership with Ukraine is a blessing for our country.
We must deepen and intensify our partnership with Ukraine.
London-Kiev must hold the balance of power in Europe against Paris-Berlin.
France and Germany are going down the drain. The EU makes action impossible. We are free of all that. We must seize the moment.
To underwrite the industrial strategy half the universities should be turned into vocational colleges linked to the needs of the armed forces and industry.
We desperately need a skilled workforce that does not rely on immigration.
Third, we must immediately leave the European Court of Human Rights and scrap the domestic Human Rights Act.
The ability to deport a drug dealer must not depend on the quality of chicken nuggets in Albania.
The industrial renewal can only be pursued by abolishing the Treasury and wrapping it into No10.
No business is run from accounts, unless it is bankrupt.
Fourth, water and steel should be immediately nationalised. It is unacceptable that our vital strategic assets are owned by hostile foreign powers.
Fifth, there must to be an immediate police and judicial enquiry into the systematic rape of young girls by ‘grooming gangs’.
This inquiry should have powers of arrest and the trials should be televised.
What has happened in our country is a sin and an abomination that no society can tolerate.
It has led to a demon unleashed inside our body politic and it needs to be exorcised by the public trial and punishment of those who committed the deeds and those who concealed it.
This should be led from No.10.
The Prime Minister is a great public prosecutor. He knows how to do this.
Labour must repair the broken covenant it forged with the working class of this country.
We called ourselves Labour for a reason. We must honour our tradition and return to our roots.
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