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Letter of the week: We need a General Election now
Dear Editor
Let us be clear: this electoral devastation of the Labour party is not the country rejecting Keir Starmer, useless though he is, it is a judgment on and total rejection of this Labour Government and the destruction it has already wrought on the UK. Political commentators seem to be avoiding this reality and heaping the blame on Starmer.
As for Starmer, is he in denial, gaslighting us or simply lying through his teeth as he claims that Labour are doing what the country wants but the only failure is not doing it fast enough? Quite the opposite, these local elections have allowed the electorate to show Labour that his incompetent government is doing the opposite of what they want. Starmer is now determined to show his anti-democratic credentials by reversing the democratic vote for Brexit with no electoral mandate.
We cannot have a General Election soon enough.
Roger Carter
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Restore Britain will win next time
Dear Editor
Local election results 2026: Reform UK has done extremely well due to being the only option.
Restore Britain, via Great Yarmouth First, tested the water. The result is clear. The tactic of concentrating your efforts where you believe you will win, well used by the LibDems, works. Use a rifle, not a shotgun as Reform did in 2024, amassing more votes than the LibDems with five MPs compared to 70+ for the LibDems – poor management and poor political judgement. Rupert Lowe got it right. In my opinion the indigenous population do not want to live in a Uniparty/Marxist/Islamic State. Restore Britain’s policies will, I believe, appeal to the majority of our indigenous voters, especially many of the 50 per cent who couldn’t find a party worth voting for.
With a huge war chest, support from Elon Musk, and a truthful, consistent, targeted campaign run by an excellent management team, who are not micro-managed, Restore Britain will win the next General Election.
When Restore Britain puts up candidates, Reform UK will have a major problem as it continues its slide towards the Uniparty, Islamic control and Conservative baggage.
Starmer has the silver bullet to remain in power. Picture the scene – some Labour MPs pop round to No 10 and express their views, which run contrary to the PM’s. Starmer may say: ‘Listen, lads and lasses, if you want me to change my globalist, anti-British strategy, whilst managing this country into obscurity with my Marxist philosophy – which, by the way, is going very well and with which my bosses are extremely pleased – I could call a general election. But be careful what you wish for – if I do call a general election you will all lose your parliamentary income together with your expenses, your perks, your pension and the status of being an MP. Is this really what you want? I think not.’ The MPs leave, tails between legs, and pray Starmer stays in power.
With his overwhelming and unassailable majority and the backing of the global elite, there is only one way to force him out of office and that would be a disaster for the Labour Party as a whole.
I think, because of the above, Rupert Lowe has sufficient time to get all the ducks lined up. When in No 10 he will then set about enacting and enforcing his radical policies which will rid us of so many evils with which we are currently living.
Ben Habib of Advance UK is a consummate gentleman and I applaud his generosity in complimenting Rupert Lowe on his success in Great Yarmouth.
The Right is not split, it is in the process of reorganising.
How I love true democracy with the arguments flowing back and forth.
Onwards and upwards!
Rob Williams
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Tracking the migrant express
Dear Editor
It’s May 8, election day.
Meanwhile, early morning: French search and rescue vessel Ridens leaves Dunkirk and when a few hundred metres offshore, turns right, to the east. Going very slow, migrant boat pace, (red and yellow track), it reverses its heading and heads slowly and a little erratically, West towards a point halfway between Calais and Dover. It never leaves French territorial waters. (Click on the images to enlarge them.)
At exactly 9:20 the speed drops almost to zero,
the boat Ridens turns back towards Dunkirk and accelerates to normal cruising speeds (yellow and green track).
Meanwhile the UK Border Force cutter Ranger leaves Ramsgate (blue track), and travels at moderate to high speed to a point halfway between Calais and Dover, and a few miles into French waters, where at exactly 9:20, its speed drops to near zero for several minutes, after which it turns back on a NW heading to British waters and then WNW direct to Dover,
again at moderate to high speed. After a stop in Dover Harbour (what do we imagine it did there?) Ranger puts to sea again and returns to its base in Ramsgate.
My guess is the tracks show another day’s work for a well-paid French crew and a well-paid British crew, at no risk to themselves in the calm waters of the Channel, who are facilitating a practice which is contrary to the laws of both countries and which puts the lives of the few hapless Muslim women and girls at disproportionate risk of death among the vast majority of fit young male Muslim invaders. Women do not have the same value and status as young men so the risk to women and especially to young girls and babies, is horrible. It is the women and the weak girls and the babies who die despite their numbers being minute compared to the hundreds of thousands of men.
‘We were only following orders’ is no excuse for me.
The French mariners and gendarmes will know, factually and morally, that they should, and easily and safely could, prevent the migrant crossings in boats which all mariners know are unsafe.
The English mariners also know they are not genuinely ‘saving mariners in distress’, and they know that if they returned the migrants to the French beaches, and faced the consequences, the trade would immediately stop. Nevertheless these crews take the 30 pieces and they ferry them, free of charge, ‘carrying out orders’, to England.
Shame on them all and even more shame on those who are in charge of the operations. Those who have not the courage to enforce the laws are at one with the criminals.
Paul Davies
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Process the migrants on the (choppy) high seas
Dear Editor
The total number of migrants crossing the Channel since January 2018 will, this week, exceed 200,000. Photographs in the press showed hordes of black faces racing to board a dinghy in Gravelines, France. Our prisons are already so full of foreign faces that UK prisoners are being released early and they are then committing more crimes. The only way to reduce this invasion is for the Royal Navy to replace the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and prevent the dinghies landing on British soil by towing them to a ship anchored out in choppy seas where they would remain until processed.
Clark Cross
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Starmer’s misplaced determination
Dear Editor
If Keir channelled even half the determination he shows in clinging to No 10 into tackling the issues that actually matter, like anti-Semitism, uncontrolled immigration and rising crime, we might actually be getting somewhere as a nation.
Alas.
Bill Kenwright
London
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Renting shake-up will mean more homelessness
Dear Editor
Described as the biggest shake-up to renting in England for more than 30 years, new laws giving tenants more rights came into force on Friday May 1.
Some consequences of this Act for tenants are as follows:
- More landlords will continue to exit the private rented market meaning there will be even less available accommodation for tenants. This will put even further upward pressure on rents.
- The longer times in which tenants can run up arrears and not pay rents, enshrined in the Act, will mean that landlords will be much more picky about which tenants they offer accommodation to. If there is any doubt at all about a tenant’s ability to pay, they will just not offer a let. And so, marginal tenants will have to go to the state instead. Because the state does not have anything to offer and because there are huge waiting lists for council housing, more people will sadly become homeless.
- All tenants who are evicted because they have not paid rent will be deemed to have made themselves voluntarily homeless and will not be able to get accommodated by the state at all. They will become permanently homeless. There will be a huge increase in homelessness as a result. (Note that under the old abandoned, so-called No Fault Section 21 process, in which landlords did not have to give a reason for repossession, even though in many cases there were arrears, tenants were not deemed by the state to have made themselves voluntarily homeless).
In addition, note that because the no-court hearing Section 21 route has been scrapped, the courts will get even more bunged up with cases awaiting a court hearing and the wait for justice in court, already over a year in some areas, will only lengthen further. Plus, there is the wait for a bailiff to enforce a court order on top of that time. And this is just one reason why landlords are exiting in droves and the ones who stay will become very picky about indeed about who they let to.
David Lawrenson
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The climate crisis is suddenly not so great
Dear Editor
Those who promulgated fear, panic, poverty and excess death – without question – should now be held to account.
It seems the United Nations World Climate Council has removed one of its most beloved threat scenarios from climate policy. The extreme image of global warming of four to six degrees Celsius by the year 2100 is to disappear in the next IPCC report.
The very prediction of RCP8.5, which for years has generated fear, justified political decisions, kept the courts busy and filled the media pages, is no longer considered a useful guideline for this century.
The impact of human emissions on global temperature is infinitesimal, as many have been pointing out for years. Yet this is exactly how alarmist journalism works: as with covid worst-case models, it takes the extreme margin of the model, turns it into the most plausible future probability, and provides politics with moral cover.
Roger Arthur
W Sussex
