Category: EDITORIAL

Britain needs to get tough on knife crime suggests Matthew Steeples; we need a Giuliani-like figure to counter Mrs May

In a depressing reversal of fortunes, New York is now safer than London. With knife crimes rife in our capital and elsewhere also and murders happening daily, decent people are naturally shocked and shared.

In spite of our hapless Prime Minister – who it must also be remembered was the worst Home Secretary in history and the woman who closed so many of our police stations – suggesting there is no correlation between knife crime and a decline in police numbers, anyone rational would realise she is plainly wrong.

The solution? Britain needs not a lily livered Sadiq Khan type, but instead a Giuliani-like figure and we need one now. What is required is someone who seizes the phrase (which sadly got turned into a bit of a laughing stock) “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” and someone who cuts through all the excuses. Where are they when they’re needed? The answer: As Delia Smith once said: “Let’s be ‘avin’ ya.”

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Matthew Steeples feels sympathy for the croaky voiced Theresa May but suggests we’d all be better off if this ill woman was relieved of her duties

Yesterday, in what can only be branded one of the worst performances by a Prime Minister in history, Theresa May croaked in Parliament. She sounded like a strangled cat and certainly wouldn’t have got an “I want you” from will.i.am on The Voice.

Struggling to speak – but not even being handed a cough sweet by her Chancellor on this occasion – after the fourth worst defeat ever suffered by a British government, a haggard and badly dressed May showed once again exactly why she should be put out to pasture.

I’m suffering with a sore throat myself right now and though I’ve downed several bottles of Covonia and rather a lot of Glenrothes 12 Year Old, it’s – rather like Parliament’s attitude to May’s “my deal means a deal, means a deal” – not budging. It is time for the hectoring vicar’s daughter to take medicine and to change her ways. She truly is getting us nowhere and it’d be better if the Conservative Party did the kindest thing: pass the harridan a cyanide capsule.

#BringHerDown #MakeMarchTheEndOfMay #ExitBrexit

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Theresa May should be ashamed of herself for slashing police numbers at this time; she should instead be increasing them

Theresa May was the worst Home Secretary in history and now she is undoubtedly the worst Prime Minister also. She slashed funding for the police and fire services and she sacked as many people as she possibly could. In London alone, the number of police stations will decline from 149 in 2010 to just 32 in 2020.

Turning up in Salisbury yesterday to mark a year since the Novichok attacks there, Mrs May declared: “There is no direct correlation between certain crimes and police numbers.” She is wrong and John Apter, national chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales is right to state:

“I am really staggered beyond belief that the leader of this country has got her head so firmly stuck in the sand that she is not seeing the reality in front of her. It really is a very bad situation.”

“She again continues to have this contempt for the police and those that deliver policing by saying we have to question the responses to these case.”

With a stabbing epidemic on our streets and the threat of a rise in looting if Brexit does proceed, May should be increasing police numbers not reducing it. Shame on her and shame on her sorry excuse for a government.

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Matthew Steeples suggests Theresa May has lost control and urges readers to support a People’s Vote and the Put It To The People march

The phrase: “Like turkeys voting for Christmas” came to mind as Theresa May attempted to urge Parliament to “do its duty” yesterday.

This hapless harridan yet again showed her lack of control and the repeating, as ever, of her “deal means a deal” yet again confirmed this country is on a collision course to mass chaos. With talk of pharmacies considering hiring security staff to stop looting and no sign of organisation of how our borders will be managed, the out-of-touch Prime Minister needs to get a grip or get out of the driving seat.

It is time for Theresa May to admit that a People’s Vote is required and we urge our readers to sign up in support of such.

To register for the Put It To The People: People’s Vote March in London on 23^rd March in London, click here.

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In resigning from the Conservative Party Anna Soubry MP has proven herself to be a true patriot

Anna Soubry MP is first and foremost a thoroughly decent lady. I met her at a dinner in Knightsbridge and she spoke a whole lot of sense.

Today, however, Soubry spoke for the moderate majority in our nation in resigning from the Conservative Party. She has cut her ties with a lurching to the right movement that “embraces the turd that is Brexit” (as Conservative MP Dr Philip Lee put it on the BBC’s Politics Live) and in Winston Churchill-like fashion put her nation before her party.

Soubry is a lady worthy of celebration and others should follow her lead. This heroine of the hour is a rare thing: A brilliant politician and a true patriot.

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Brexiteer turned Britain fleeing tycoon Sir Jim Ratcliffe should be stripped of his title suggests Matthew Steeples

“Britain’s richest man” Sir Jim Ratcliffe is often described as a “prominent Brexiteer.” Now, given news of his relocation to the “Sunny Place for Shady People” that is Monaco, he should instead be remembered as a man who is, as Meg Hillier MP remarked, “sticking two fingers up” to the very country that honoured him.

Just as Porsche announced they are forcing customers to commit to a 10% surcharge if there is a no-deal Brexit and the airline flybmi files for bankruptcy citing “insurmountable uncertainty” caused by the Brexit process, that Sir Jim has decided to flee the very shores where he got pig rich is an utter disgrace.

As part of his plan to avoid up to £4 billion in tax, Sir Jim – who is also an advocate of fracking – just like fellow Brexiteer Sir James Dyson, has shown that he has no commitment to the United Kingdom. He should, thus, be stripped of his knighthood.

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Matthew Steeples foresees a need for the government to accept that their Brexit strategy is simply not working and change tact; news that Porsche will introduce a surcharge of 10% is proof of how bad a situation we are now in

“How does this end?” sensibly asked Alison McGovern MP after the government’s defeat on Brexit this week.

She was right to ask such a question and with the EU’s chief negotiator, Michael Barnier, stating that Theresa May has “failed” whilst achieving the impossible of uniting Kenneth Clarke and Jacob Rees-Mogg, it is now time for a change of tack.

Mrs May, as Rees-Mogg pointed out some time ago, is on a merry-go-round. It goes round and round but nothing changes. She blabbers on about her deal being “the only deal” in spite of no one else wanting it and meanwhile businesses quit our shores.

News that Porsche have asked British customers to commit to a contract committing them to a 10% surcharge if there is a no-deal Brexit further illustrates what a disaster we are now facing. We need solutions, not problems from our Prime Minister and we need them now.

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