Donald Trump arrives to speak during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center (Image: Getty Images)
The political tectonic plates are shifting. , even though not officially president yet, is shaking up the world, emboldening the right of the political spectrum, and has the lefties on the run. He is single-handedly providing a much-needed counterbalance to global supranational bodies like the and the , and is crushing the liberal left elite’s misplaced views of self-loathing of our cultural and industrial past.
Like a modern-day Marvel plot, and his team of hand-picked superheroes are on a mission to Make America Great Again, and with it free the Western world of its defeatist mindset and managed decline.
The UK needs to get onboard with this. The country is crying out for leaders who will Make Britain Great Again, stand up for and be proud of our heritage, our history and what we have done for the world.
Unfortunately, with , and at the helm, it is more like Make Britain Even Poorer as they destroy our economy and play fast and loose with national security.
In fact, thank goodness is getting involved with the Chagos negotiations. national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, is currently hot-footing it to Washington with his tail between his legs after he foolishly negotiated the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, and with it compromise the UK’s and the USA’s national security. Clearly didn’t expect to win the presidential election and is now paying the price for backing the wrong horse.
Next in sight is the corporate world, which has been largely hijacked by the woke, politically correct brigade and has lost its way. Already, right-minded campaigners like Robby Starbuck have started to expose this woke agenda. Starbuck’s latest legal victory against Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer, will force them to no longer consider race and gender to boost diversity when granting supplier contracts. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) is now being replaced with MEI – Merit, Excellence and Intelligence – and it cannot happen soon enough.
is injecting into the US a common sense renaissance, and making people hope that real change is possible, and decline isn’t inevitable. I have to say, my particular favourite example of this fightback, has been Michael Westwood – landlord of the Waggon and Horses pub in the West Midlands – starting the online petition last Saturday calling for , to rid us of this backward-looking socialist Government. It now has around three-million signatories.
Of course Michael doesn’t think an election will be called, but he along with a chunk of the public is expressing concern over the dramatic left turn this country is taking without any democratic mandate, as Starmer hid his socialist intentions from the public at the general election in July.
Let’s hope what is happening in the US comes to the UK sooner rather than later.
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How out of touch are the liberal lefty political elite? I was joined on a panel discussion on LBC, hosted by the excellent Iain Dale, by a journalist, a political adviser and a Labour MP, all of whom were extolling the virtues of electric vehicles, and pontificating about how we all need to drive them, how cost-effective they are, and how the Government needs the targets to stop petrol and diesel cars in order to force us plebs into the brave new world of EVs.
When I asked which of them had an electric vehicle, there was tumbleweed and stunned silence. Would you believe it – not one of them had one and none of them even drove. It’s all too typical of the out-of-touch political class telling everyone what to do when they haven’t a clue, and don’t do it themselves. No wonder the political establishment is so reviled by the public.
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This week in Parliament I raised the harrowing case of my constituent whose daughter, aged just 25, took her own life when trying to come off antidepressants, which are renowned for being particularly difficult to give up. It’s time we stopped pushing so many people – particularly young people – on to these drugs. At the very least we should ensure there are clear warnings about the side effects of withdrawal and do more to provide a safe path for those seeking to come off them.