I DON’T want to sound like Victor Meldrew but I can’t believe what’s going on in Westminster.
MPs acting like toddlers. Ministers running round like headless chickens.
They’re in meltdown because Downing Street thinks Health Secretary Wes Streeting wants to be Prime Minister. Someone accused MPs of being ‘feral’.
The poor kids threw their dummies out of the pram and demanded the PM sack his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, even though he’s the only reason they won their seats and have a Labour government.
They need to calm down and grow up.
Look what’s going on in the real world.
Our streets aren’t safe but you never see a copper on the beat.
Immigration is coming down but the number arriving by small boats is still going up. The numbers overall are so high no one can possibly know who is coming here.
The country’s in crisis but MPs are more worried about their own jobs than yours.
National debt is about to hit 100 per cent of national income. The ‘blackhole’ between what the government brings in and spends could be £20 billion.
Inflation is almost four times the level in France and hitting every family in the pocket every time they go to the shops.
Four million are being paid benefits but don’t have to look for work. I’m not being harsh, but no one thinks we’ve suddenly become so ill that millions are being signed off forever.
Housing is one of their top priorities and building homes could create some jobs, but construction has ground to a halt because there’s no confidence in the market and the planning system is a joke.
The biggest scandal of all is youth unemployment. A million people under 24 with no job, no apprenticeship and no skills. A disaster not just for them, but for all of us.
They’re facing a future with no work and the rest of us will be paying for it.
The number of apprenticeships was a scandal before Covid and has collapsed since. MPs should be getting up every morning determined to do something about it.
Unbelievably, they’re still waiving visa rules to bring people in for dozens of jobs including brickies, painters and decorators, carpenters and steel erectors. They’re still recruiting nurses overseas.
All jobs British kids could be trained up for.
I went to watch Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday but jobs were barely mentioned. No one spoke about immigration at all.
It was Remembrance Week so I invited a great British hero called Mervyn Kersh to watch it with me. He’s a hundred years old and took part in the D Day Landings.
He was younger than any of the MPs when he and his mates stormed the beaches of Normandy under German fire.
The MPs cracked their stupid jokes and bawled like school kids. I looked at him and wondered if he thought the country he fought for is in safe hands.
We’ve got the budget to look forward to next. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has to deal with the £20 billion blackhole but Labour MPs have put her in an impossible position.
She obviously can’t borrow more but they fight any attempt to make savings.
Earlier this year they stopped her saving even a tiny fraction of the ballooning welfare budget.
Instead they’re campaigning to increase benefits. And your taxes are going up to pay for it. I can’t see that ending well.
When I joined the Labour Party we used to fight for jobs. Now MPs campaign to keep people on welfare.
Work is the best way of tackling poverty.
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden represents one of the country’s youth unemployment blackspots.
He’s furious about it and is drawing up plans for jobs, skills and apprenticeships. He knows welfare has to be reformed and MPs need to get behind him.
Wes Streeting is hiring more doctors and bringing waiting lists down. And if anyone is tough enough to tackle immigration its Shabana Mahmood.
And Parliament needs to start standing up for the values Mervyn and his generation fought for: democracy, freedom and fairness. Take on the extremists, hate preachers and sectarian politicians who are dividing our communities.
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MPs should be working on these issues every day – not the childish bickering we saw last week.
They’ll be signing on as well if they don’t listen to the public, get the economy moving and get Britain back to work.