Gulf Streams

Seven MPs are expected to be desperate to have back the Whip of the party that is in third place in the polls, behind a party with no policies, and with both of them behind one of the two parties and three caucuses to have five MPs each, one in 130. Apart from Tony Blair, any other Labour Leader this century would already have been removed for having taken the party to third place at all, never mind behind the latest vehicle for Nigel Farage. Including Blair, none of them ever did.

Farage and Kemi Badenoch are both trying to present themselves as the franchisees of Donald Trump, who in turn praises the "very good job" that is being done by Keir Starmer. That sentence really does have something for everyone. Watch out for people who said "Gulf of America" for the Gulf of Cuba, as the Conservatives and Reform UK both will. But watch out even more for anyone who supported the military interventions of which the first looks set to be in Colombia. That will be all three of them. And for what? Denmark has been a member of NATO since day one, it has been part of almost every American-led war in that period, it is the base for the NSA's spying on European leaders, it was crucial to the Nord Stream lies, it always buys American rather than European military equipment, and it hosts the Pituffik Space Base, which used to be the Thule Air Base. Guess where? Yet Trump still wants to annex 98 per cent of Danish territory.

If there is a Gulf of America, then it is the Persian Gulf, where Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott have sought asylum. Specifically, they have done so in the United Arab Emirates. But although it is now considered one of the "moderates" in the Middle East, only last year the Statute Law was changed on a cross-party basis to stop the UAE from acquiring two small-circulation newspapers and a tiny-circulation magazine. Apparently, these things are now the Government's business. If you thought that there was now a Labour Government, then ask yourself why it would care in the least who owned the Telegraph, for which Tice writes fairly regularly, for which Oakeshott writes several times per week (now from the Emirates), and which is still always described as "influential". Influential over whom?

Although they are never going to satisfy people whose minds were made up, Trump may have declassified the files relating to the assassinations of the Kennedys and of Martin Luther King, but he is no more going to antagonise the Saudis by releasing the 9/11 files than he is going to antagonise the Israelis by releasing the files about the USS Liberty. The first, second and third parties in the British polls, all of which opposed a ceasefire in Gaza, now all support Trump's proposal to clear its population to Jordan and Egypt in order to settle Gaza with Israelis. If you doubt that Reform or the Conservatives think that, then ask them. If you doubt that Labour does, then ask Trump.

Trump has now pardoned the 23 peaceful pro-lifers, but only after the J6 rioters and Ross Ulbricht. There is no sign of his pardoning Julian Assange. Still, by declaring that biological sex was fixed from conception, Trump has caused a section of feminism to admit that each and every one of us was a distinct human organism from that point. One could hardly have a Y chromosome and be part of one's mother's body. And by turning his guns on DEI, a move welcomed by Liz Truss, he is making a complete fool of her, since she was an A-list candidate whose constituency association was threatened with an all-women shortlist if it failed to select her. This kind of thing did not begin with David Cameron. By 1970, even Ted Heath had had to promise that there would be one woman in his Cabinet, and there was simply only one credible candidate, Margaret Thatcher. The spycops scandal under her and numerous others is about to get the ITV treatment that I have been advocating for a year. Thanks to RedBird IMI, which owns All3Media, but which is apparently unfit to pay Oakeshott in Dubai.