Agent orange
WHOSE side is Sir Keir Starmer on?
Is he for Just Stop Oil and happy to take their green tycoon backer’s £1.5million — or does he really find them “contemptible”?
Does he want further drilling in the North Sea or not?
Is he against the use of barges to house illegal migrants or not?
Starmer is now appearing to say anything that he thinks might get him elected on any given day.
It’s not only that he’s ditching long-held principles — nor is it even just the hypocrisy of his attacks on the Tories on emotive subjects like migration and the environment.
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Much worse, it is a problem with his overall judgment, part of a wider pattern of nearly always getting the big calls wrong.
Labour’s decision to choose a known Greenpeace activist and eco-warrior as their candidate to take on the Tories in Nadine Dorries’ seat shows that, underneath their leader’s chameleon colours, the party of opposition hasn’t really changed.
It will be up to the voters of Mid Bedfordshire to decide whether they want as their MP a man whose approach to making sensible political arguments includes standing outside the Home Office dressed as a zombie.
For now the risk appears to be: Go red, get orange.
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Island flopper
IT’S right that the PM has slapped down any suggestion of sending illegal migrants to remote Ascension Island while their asylum claims are processed.
Unlike Rwanda, Ascension has virtually no infrastructure, so it would have to be built from scratch at vast expense.
That’s aside from obvious security risks that would have to be managed thousands of miles from home.
The suggestion was Fantasy Island thinking and risked being branded as just another migration stunt.
More helpful would be Home Office lawyers making short work of asylum-seekers who made journeys by sea — then have their lawyers claim they are too scared of water to go on a barge.
Thinking cap
PRICE caps can be helpful in a crisis.
Putin’s war in Ukraine made support for families struggling with their bills a political necessity.
But now there is some evidence it is now killing competition among energy suppliers.
In effect, Ofgem’s limit has become the price — and that means bills are not coming down as fast as they might.
Artificially interfering in the markets is not usually a good idea in normal times.
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And while inflation is so high, is it really helpful to take market forces out of the equation?
The cap may no longer fit.
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