{"id":222135,"date":"2025-10-24T07:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222135\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:35:07","slug":"keir-starmer-declares-war-on-own-country-hes-blowing-uk-to-pieces-personal-finance-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222135\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer declares war on own country \u2013 he&#8217;s blowing UK to pieces | Personal Finance | Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">Labour\u2019s assault on Britain began with Keir Starmer\u2019s decision <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2123318\/politics-live-nigel-farage-keir-starmer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to surrender sovereign territory to a foreign power<\/a>. We&#8217;ll even pay them \u00a335billion for the privilege, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2093609\/starmers-chagos-islands-betrayal-cost-ten-times-more-claimed-foi-request\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10 times more than the PM claimed<\/a>. He chose his target well: the Chagos Islands, a strategic British base in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Our own PM now stands accused of selling us out to China, which is building its own base right next door.<\/p>\n<p>This is the act of a man who places the interests of hostile foreign powers ahead of our own. And he\u2019s continued in the same vein.<\/p>\n<p>The first duty of any government is to defend its borders. Labour has failed spectacularly.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2125274\/Channel-asylum-Labour-boats-small-dinghies-Starmer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Every day the small boats keep coming<\/a>, and Starmer\u2019s attempts to stop them are so feeble that if he were a coastal commander, he\u2019d be court-martialled for dereliction of duty.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t help that Britain has a fifth column of immigration lawyers and judges, eager to smooth the passage of entryists. <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2017173\/Migrants-Channel-smugglers-asylum-crisis-judges\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Even if it means declaring a balding migrant a child<\/a>. Like the government, our legal system now seems to operate against the very people it\u2019s meant to serve.<\/p>\n<p>Our American allies aren\u2019t the most reliable, especially under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/2125355\/express.co.uk\/latest\/donald-trump\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>, but at least they&#8217;re alert to the threat from China. Starmer isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Labour waved through <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2122876\/China-threat-Beijing-London-embassy-Labour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a vast Chinese spy centre in central London<\/a>, while energy secretary Ed Miliband signs off Beijing\u2019s technology in our power networks. That\u2019s aiding and abetting an enemy power in all but name.<\/p>\n<p>Talking of Ed Miliband&#8230;. what\u2019s the first thing a hostile regime would target to cripple Britain? Our energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>When the Luftwaffe tried, they sent bomber fleets. Miliband does it with green levies, carbon tariffs and ever-rising power bills. In a combined attack, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2125280\/ed-miliband-blasted-North-Sea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he\u2019s also torpedoed our vital oil and gas industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly we see the real purpose of net zero: zero growth, zero resilience and plenty of zeros on the end of our energy bills.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, net zero is starting to sound like a secret enemy code.<\/p>\n<p>The signs are there when Miliband makes his speeches, flailing his arms like a crazed foreign demagogue. Yet Starmer keeps him in post, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/1981363\/Ed-Miliband-s-fanatical-renewables-charge-left-UK-mercy-of-authoritarian-China\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to continue his sabotage in plain sight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The PM has placed his most ruthless saboteur right next door in No 11 Downing Street. Express readers often ask me whose side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/rachel-reeves\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Reeves<\/a> is on. It certainly isn\u2019t ours.<\/p>\n<p>The Chancellor has hammered businesses, gutted manufacturing and left our shipyards and heavy industry in ruins.<\/p>\n<p>She insists she\u2019s \u201cfixing the foundations\u201d, but that\u2019s just cover for her real mission. She\u2019s now left Britain perched on a debt time bomb, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/finance\/personalfinance\/2079351\/rachel-reeves-has-triggered-ticking-timebomb-could-explode-any-day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">primed to explode at the moment chosen by the bond market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Day after day, the evidence mounts. The enemy isn\u2019t at the gate \u2013 it\u2019s all over No 10.<\/p>\n<p>I began this as an ironic joke. Having finished, I\u2019m not so sure. Starmer\u2019s Labour is waging total warfare on the UK, and right now it\u2019s winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour\u2019s assault on Britain began with Keir Starmer\u2019s decision to surrender sovereign territory to a foreign power. 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