Huntingdon's Connexions

The last I heard, the workers on the railways had barely any jobs to do these days, and they and the workers in the emergency services were lazy, already overpaid, and obscenely greedy for being prepared to act to protect or restore the real value of their remuneration. How long after the Cambridgeshire train stabbings will it be before those were once again the lines? I give it until Thursday at the latest.

Similarly, the Armed Forces are pilloried as nests of woke except when it suits certain interests that they should not be, a change that never lasts anywhere near long enough to translate into doing anything for them, much less for veterans. We are a week away from the annual extravaganza of hypocrisy around those matters. Give it another year, and assuming that he had still not been charged with anything in any jurisdiction, then it might be time for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to hit back in their cause. No, of course he should not be stripped of his campaign medal. He has not earned much, but he did earn that.

Tony Blair will presumably be at the Cenotaph. He was Prime Minister when he met Jeffrey Epstein, yet he remains a Knight of the Garter. He, Gordon Brown and Keir Starmer, the only three living Labour Prime Ministers, have all been heavily dependent on Peter Mandelson, who remains a member of the House of Lords, and in receipt of the Labour whip there as a member of that party in good standing. Blair, Brown, Starmer and Mandelson are all Privy Counsellors.

For other reasons, although some of us would dispute that they were unconnected, either or both of the Labour Party and the Conservative Party might collapse in the near future. We have heard it all before, but it cannot be ruled out. "There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge," is attributed to Elizabeth II by Paul Burrell, so she never said it. Yet there are powers at work. And they would just about allow two of the Labour Party, the Conservative Party and the monarchy to go down, but not all three. If they could save only one, then which would it be? That question answers itself.