HAVING infuriated almost the entirety of this country with rotten policy decisions and taking freebies, this Labour government has now turned its eyes to the US.
“There’s 336million people there,” they thought to themselves. “Can we p*** all of them off? Let’s have a go.”
GettyAfter infuriating much of the UK population with rotten policies and freebies, Labour is now focusing on the US[/caption]
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It has been revealed that some 100 Labour Party workers have been SENT to the States to help Kamala Harris’s campaign to become President.
Labour says it’s just a bunch of people volunteering in their spare time.
Trouble is, the co-ordinator for the trip — Labour’s Head of Operations — was Sofia Patel.
And the volunteers were sent to swing states, where the votes were tight.
And Labour seemed to be offering to sort out the accommodation for those who were going. So it all seems pretty official to me.
This is now big, big trouble for Keir Starmer.
Back when I worked as a speechwriter for the party in the 1980s, people sometimes volunteered to go and work for Michael Dukakis, the Democratic Party candidate taking in Ronald Reagan.
But the difference then was a) Labour were not in government b) very few people went and c) it had nothing whatsoever to do with the party itself.
The leaders had more political nous than to allow that to happen.
Now Donald Trump is demanding that America’s Federal Election Commission should investigate.
It is, after all, direct intervention by a foreign government in a domestic US election.
Can you just imagine if the Russians or Chinese were to have done something similar?
Do you think they will say: ‘Well, golly gosh — that brilliant man Keir Starmer has sent a whole bunch of Brits over to work for the Democrats. How wonderful. I will change my vote to Kamala Harris as a consequence’.
It is also politically beyond stupid.
Dimwitted, idiotic and hapless.
As Nigel Farage said yesterday: “Our relationship with America when it comes to intelligence, when it comes to defence, when it comes to commerce, is our most important relationship in the world.
“And for a governing Labour Party to be seen officially acting on behalf of a rival candidate to the man that is going to win is a very major political mistake.”
Exactly right. Relations between Labour and this country’s most important ally were already pretty strained.
What with that plank of a Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, dissing Trump every chance he got.
And Trump remembers the nastiness from Labour when he last visited the UK.
Tea-sipping limeys
But that’s not the only reason why Labour is being stupid.
What effect does it believe that this news will have on the average American voter?
Do you think they will say: “Well, golly gosh — that brilliant man Keir Starmer has sent a whole bunch of Brits over to work for the Democrats.
“How wonderful. I will change my vote to Kamala Harris as a consequence.”
Nope, me neither.
Rightly, they don’t care for foreign interference in their elections.
Kamala Harris — not the brightest lass in the world — has already decided she wants nothing to do with it.
They think they can get by without that help. Perhaps especially if it comes from left-wing, tea-sipping limeys.
Indeed, Kamala Harris — not the brightest lass in the world — has already decided that she wants nothing to do with it.
“They’re not helping me,” she said.
Even she can grasp how this could harm her campaign.
I remember when the Guardian organised lots of leftie readers to send letters to people in the swing state of Ohio, begging them to vote for Al Gore, the Democrat, against George W Bush.
That little campaign aroused the fury of Ohio voters — and the state voted for George W.
Let’s hope Labour’s initiative has a similar result in all of those swing states — as I can’t wait to see how Starmer and Lammy get on with President Trump.
If only I could Connect with Vic
FANS of Only Connect are tiring of Victoria Coren Mitchell. And I don’t blame them.
Victoria Coren Mitchell doesn’t seem to have a funny bone in her entire bodyBBC
Every week she opens the show with a slew of words which make even less sense than the questions which follow.
I think she’s trying to be funny. But she doesn’t seem to have a funny bone in her entire body.
Maybe that’s how come she married David Mitchell, I guess.
Just play it straight, Victoria.
Sadiq’s a right stirrer
OF all the idiotic statements made in the wake of the shooting of Chris Kaba, the one from London Mayor Sadiq Khan must be the worst.
AlamyComments made by London Mayor Sadiq Khan seem to be an attempt to stir up racial hatred[/caption]
It seemed to me a deliberate attempt to stir up racial hatred.
Khan said that the “black community” had a lack of trust in the police.
But Kaba was not shot because he was black.
He was shot because he tried to ram a bunch of policemen in his Audi.
And the overwhelming majority of black British people understand that.
And they are not grieving for Mr Kaba.
THE Scottish National Party has just decided that there are a total of 24 different genders.
These include agender, which means you don’t have a gender. And pangender, which means you’ll shag anything with a pulse.
Or quite possibly without a pulse.
Still, it does make Scotland quite unique. The only country in the world with 24 genders but only two kinds of veg (neeps and tatties).
Rachel thieves
THE ghastly Rachel Reeves, our Chancellor, is to raid private pensions.
ReutersPension rumours ahead of the Budget seems like Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves rewarding those dim enough to vote for them[/caption]
But apparently she WON’T be taking any money from people who get pensions from the public sector.
It’s another case of Labour rewarding those dim enough to vote for them.
There is a growing divide between the public and private sectors.
Public sector workers often get paid more, work fewer hours, have longer holidays and take more days off sick.
Now they will see their pensions protected, too.
It’s a disgraceful policy.
Funks a million Johnnie
IT will be a very poignant Sounds Of The 70s this coming Sunday.
Broadcasting legend Johnnie Walker is hanging up his headphones due to ill-healthBBC
It will be the last time Johnnie Walker will be presenting the BBC Radio 2 show.
He has been gravely ill for a long time. He’s not so much at death’s door as inside, hanging his coat on the rack and taking his boots off.
But all this time he’s continued to broadcast his brilliant programme.
Which gives enormous pleasure to sad old buggers like me who wish we still lived in the Seventies.
And to a whole new bunch of fans who have suddenly found an affection for Jackson Browne and the Sweet.
So thank you, Johnnie, for those wonderful shows. And I hope you have a happy retirement for a decade and more to come.
Take it easy, as they used to say back then.
CONGRATS to South Kesteven Council in Lincs.
They are making all cab drivers pass a test in spoken English.
Locals are sick of getting into a taxi and not being able to understand a thing the driver is saying.
I hope this idea gets taken up by other councils. And also by the big corporations who have outsourced their communications departments to India, or Kazakhstan.
I’m sick of getting through to someone who says: “Meesta Rod, gravadlax gubbya smaug?”
Kemi top of the class
WELL said, Kemi Badenoch. She has insisted that schoolkids should be taught a new history curriculum.
GettyTory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch looks at contentious historical issues, like colonialism, from different sides[/caption]
One that doesn’t make the kids ashamed of being British.
But looks at the contentious historical issues, like colonialism, from different sides.
Quite right, Kemi – but first you’ll have to deal with the teachers.
Good luck with that.
Incidentally, I hope she wins the Tory leadership race by a landslide.
Especially when she provokes articles like this in the Pink News: “Six Times Kemi Badenoch Has Proved She’s No Ally of the LGBTQ+ Community.”.