The Mirror’s Kevin Maguire argues that Brextremists and Trumpists have proved they are unfit to ever govern Britain again, saying “they must never be trusted”
They must never be trusted again, inviting infamy as the British fools who sold out heroic Volodymyr Zelensky and assaulted Ukraine by supporting Putin’s puppet Donald Trump’s bid for the US Presidency.
Lickspittle Nigel Farage campaigned for his “good friend” Trump at rallies and fawned over America’s tinpot tyrant.
Chancer Boris Johnson undid the signature achievement that was backing Ukraine in an otherwise sleazy, incompetent and corrupt Premiership by ignoring alarm bells to endorse his fellow great deceiver.
Deranged Liz Truss cemented her descent into idiocy after that short-lived disastrous No 10 spell in falsely asserting the world would be safer with Trump in the Oval Office.
Naive Kemi Badenoch bought a Trump stunt in McDonald’s as proof he understood ordinary Americans’ lives because she once temporarily worked in one of the corporation’s burger bars.
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Shape-shifting Farage tribute act Robert Jenrick, currently plotting to seize Badenoch’s Tory tarnished crown, actually boasted in August last year, he would vote for Trump if he could.
Foot-in-mouther Suella Braverman was similarly gushing, the twice sacked Conservative former Home Secretary and onetime Reform potential recruit publicly declaring too she wanted Trump to be President.
Tory posh disciple Jacob Rees-Mogg was so besotted he gushed he’d love to emulate Trump and – seriously! – “build a wall in the middle of the English Channel” before Somerset gave the prat the boot.
And then there is 30p Lee Anderson, another Reform pickup from the Tories, who strutted as the England’s shouty Midlands version of the US Fat Cat tycoon.
As we shudder at a Trump putty in Putin’s hands, let us remember Desperate Donald’s British acolytes also missold the expensive tragedy that is Brexit with special mention for generic Jenryk, an opportunist vocal convert since the 2016 referendum.
Yanking Britain out of the European Union, the economy diving and migration jumping alongside longer passport queues, should be enough on its own for the above to never be gifted power in future.
The fate of Ukraine, US President demanding Kyiv surrender when America would rightly never, for example, sign away Alaska or California if Putin occupied its territory, seals the ill-judgement of Britain’s Trumpists.
Labour PM Keir Starmer playing a difficult diplomatic hand is stomach-churning whenever he lauds Trump to sustain a bromance in the hope the UK can be a minor restraint.
But send any of the true believers into Downing Street and regrets we’d quickly have a plenty, reduced to a 51st state.
The Brextremists and Trumpists have proved their unfitness to govern Britain.
Don’t get me started on feather-bedded £3m landowners
Wealthfare beneficiaries are loudly bemoaning again they may no longer be able to pocket nice fortunes without paying their fair dues to our country, a rich something-for-nothing brigade upset this time over speculation Rachel Reeves might shut a £2.1billion inheritance tax loophole.
The cash slipped to dodge the duty by giving it away at least seven years before the owner shuffles off this mortal coil has soared 40% over five years.
That’s lost tax that could improve health and education, enforce law and order or fill potholes instead of cascading inequality and privilege through generations.
Life’s lottery winners who pay inheritance tax are fortunate when a couple can leave a fat million before it starts applying and don’t get me started on feather-bedded £3m landowners and farmers.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer may do nothing, intimidated by a self-serving backlash. That would be a pity.
Jaundiced Jenkyns all over the place
There’s nothing like a dame when it’s clueless Reform reactionary Dame Andrea Jenkyns, the former Boris Johnson Tory fan woman now the ultra-Conservative party’s Greater Lincolnshire Mayor.
Surely playing herself in an adults-only pantomime in the Grimsby Auditorium is next after frightening shallowness was exposed in a horror performance on Channel 4 News with Krishnan Guru Murthy.
Jaundiced Jenkyns was all over the place when challenged how she’d deal practically with asylum seekers then collapsed completely when her interlocutor factually pointed out the vast majority of sexual crimes are committed by British-born people.
Right-whingers like Jenkyns want to single out the ethnicity of suspects to fuel fires, not douse flames. As a grandfather of Southport victim Bebe King observed, mental health issues and poor educational attainment correlate with criminal convictions. Releasing school records might be more relevant.
You got to be squidding us
They say that if you lie down with dogs you catch fleas but holy carp when poor David Lammy’s on the hook after fishing with bottom feeding American extremist JD Vance before buying a legally required rod licence.
I bet he’s let off with a slap on the wrist with a shop-bought dead old carp rather than netting the max £2,500 fine yet for heaven’s hake the hapless Foreign Secretary’s organisational skills are plankton level.
Next time he needs to mussel up and tell a US Vice President who ain’t no fintastic catch you got to be squidding us.
Going up
Now Labour’s conscience, former leader Neil Kinnock reminding voters what the UK Government should do by proposing the end of a poverty-creating vile Tory two-child benefit cap after earlier championing a wealth tax is top trolling. Starmer must hate him.
Going down
UK trade envoys are political Mickey Mouse jobs but Manchester Rusholme MP Afzal Khan is more Goofy, forced to quit his Turkey sinecure after visiting the Turkish occupied northern Cyprus pariah state. Talk about failing to use his noggin.
Speaker’s corner
“I was never really one for posters because why would you ruin the wallpaper?” And I’m never really one to knock the young yet £400million Warwickshire council’s 19-year-old student
Reform leader George Finch – still living with his mam – never putting up a footballer, pop star or even a map in his bedroom is a taste of Hard Right weirdos who’d fill Parliament should Farage win an election.