Starmer's Regime Collapses

Resignations confirm this is a zombie Government.

It’s all getting more and more pathetic. Even Labour MPs can no longer bring themselves to support this Government.

Keir Starmer’s big parliamentary majority won at the last General Election has overseen a shocking legacy in power.

Taxes whacked up. Workers and businesses punished. The welfare bill exploding. Illegal migrant boats continuing to cross. A weak border, national security emergency. Net Zero madness continuing with higher and higher energy bills. And a country furious with the Two Tier approach our institutions have been infected with.

Labour have simply accelerated the decline we witnessed under the Conservatives.

They’ve chosen to ramp up spending on the benefits bill instead of backing the defence capability our country needs.

And yesterday even the now former Defence Secretary John Healey revealed how dangerous Labour’s choices have become, in his resignation later in which he referred to the Defence Investment Plan:

“However, your DIP financial settlement - which I was first given in full on Monday afternoon this week-falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time.

“The extra support is backloaded when the pressure of operations and imperative to speed up readiness to fight is in the first two years and it rises to just 2.68% of GDP in 2030, when we will reach 2.6% next year with the investment we are already making.”

And so Healey set out:

“After explaining to you that I would not be able to accept a DIP settlement that does not give our Forces the resources they need, I am now left with no other option than to submit my resignation as your Defence Secretary.”

There was another exit as well, with Al Carns resigning as Armed Forces Minister:

“While I had no hand in the Defence Investment Plan, that distance does allow me to say plainly that it is not built for the threat we face.

“It is neither transformative enough nor sufficiently funded. We are asking our Armed Forces to operate in a more dangerous world on a budget written for a calmer one.

“I have sat in the rooms, seen the assessments, and spoken to the commanders who will be asked to do more with less, and I cannot in good conscience stand at the dispatch box and defend a level of investment I know to be inadequate to the task.

“A serious country funds its defence to meet the threat it actually faces, not the threat it wishes it faced.”

And so what the country is left with is a Prime Minister in Keir Starmer who has completely wasted his opportunity to deliver positive change, to the point that many of his own MPs have given up on him.

We now have a zombie Prime Minister and a zombie Government.

But more than that, no matter who replaces Starmer as the next Labour PM, this is a party that has shown it has no real plan for governing.

Just like the Conservatives, they’ve maintained a dreadful status quo that has failed at every level.

Hopefully we get an early General Election. The country can’t go on like this.