Labour’s first 100 days have reeked of greed, stupidity & pure spite – so do you feel like you’ve been cheated?

AFTER their archetypal 100 days of power, Tony Blair’s New Labour authorities was flying.

Blair surrounded himself with talent. Everywhere determination was slick, smart, competence.

Gordon Brown became Chancellor, a station helium would clasp for much than 10 years, instantly making the Bank of England independent.

David Blunkett was Education Secretary. Robin Cook the Foreign Secretary.

Two-fisted, “Two Jags” John Prescott was Deputy PM.

New Labour were caring, socially alert — but fanatically pro-aspiration, pro-growth, pro-prosperity.

The federation felt good.

But what volition we retrieve astir the archetypal 100 days successful bureau of Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government?

Labour depriving 10 cardinal elder citizens of the winter substance allowance adjacent arsenic they bargain disconnected the party’s national paymasters.

Labour giving sovereignty of the strategically important Chagos Islands to Mauritius — 1,300 miles distant — emboldening each nationalist person successful Argentina and Spain with designs connected the Falklands and Gibraltar.

And greedy, freebie-loving Labour politicians raising their snouts from the trough and asking — truthful what?

There was a revealing speech connected Sky News this week betwixt Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and presenter Kay Burley.

Squirming nether Kay’s interrogation that truthful galore elder Labour figures enjoyed free tickets to spot Taylor Swift, Nandy — vehemently rejecting each accusations of wrongdoing — attempted to marque a counterattack.

“Most of Sky News were astatine these events and successful these aforesaid boxes arsenic well,” Nandy sneered. “You were there.”

Big mistake.

“I paid for my tickets up beforehand 8 months earlier,” Kay replied quietly, arsenic the crushed opened up and swallowed the stunned Labour Minister.

Because Lisa Nandy could intelligibly NOT CONCEIVE of a satellite wherever a nationalist fig mightiness really wage their ain way.

This is the Imelda Marcos schoolhouse of socialism.

Whatever you want, from caller frocks for the missus to spectacles, suits, Taylor Swift tickets, large seats astatine the shot — idiosyncratic other volition ever prime up the bill.

Labour’s archetypal 100 days person reeked of greed, stupidity — and axenic spite.

From January, backstage schoolhouse fees volition nary longer beryllium exempt from VAT.

Spiteful policy

The affluent volition not notice, but an estimated 13,000 kids of mean moving radical volition person to find authorities schools.

Many of them volition beryllium successful the mediate of their GCSEs and A levels.

It is unforgivably cruel that Starmer’s Labour chose not to hold their spiteful argumentation until the commencement of a school year.

There was ne'er euphoria astir Starmer, but the state wished him well. We were relieved helium was not Jeremy Corbyn.

And aft the chaos of the Tories, 5 years of boring stableness and competence seemed appealing to adjacent those of america who did not ballot for Labour.

A Labour authorities had seemed inevitable.

The Tories were doomed from the infinitesimal connected April 17, 2021 that the Queen was pictured astatine her beloved husband’s ceremonial — a tiny fig successful black, masked and alone, pursuing the rules that we each followed.

When we knew that down closed doors, Boris Johnson and his flunkies had not been pursuing the rules with rather the aforesaid rigour — adjacent connected the eve of Prince Philip’s socially-distanced ceremonial — past BoJo was toast, and truthful were the Tories.

They telephone it the optics. But truly it is astir basal quality decency.

And that is wherefore determination is thing truthful repulsive contiguous astir this gimme-gimme-gimme authorities who capable their boots adjacent arsenic the state counts the pennies.

In Keir Starmer, we thought we were getting the sober prosecutor, a dull but decent nationalist servant airy years distant from Tory sleaze.

Ever consciousness similar you’ve been cheated?

PERSONALLY, I americium bittersweet that James Cleverly, the campaigner who frightened much than conscionable Reform UK, did not marque it to the last circular of the Tory enactment contest.

And the mode the Tories pain done their leaders, James Cleverly volition astir apt not get different accidental to go person for, oh, astatine slightest 18 months oregon so.

Britt’s close – it’s Goodnight, cinema, unless you’re Bond

BRITT EKLAND was a bully Bond miss successful a mediocre 007 film, playing Mary Goodnight successful 1974’s The Man with the Golden Gun – the canine days for the world’s favourite spy.

“This series, which has been scraping the bottommost of the tube for immoderate time, is present done the bottom,” sighed 1 professional of Roger Moore’s 2nd outing arsenic 007.

But Britt – Swedish, blonde, consummate swinging Sixties icon – ever seemed calved to beryllium a Bond girl.

So erstwhile the erstwhile Mary Goodnight reflects connected the aboriginal of the Bond franchise, the satellite listens. “I judge cinema volition slice retired and streaming is the mode to go,” Britt says.

“Yes, a caller Bond film volition prolong cinema for a while, but I americium definite the mode to marque wealth successful the aboriginal is streaming.”

Our viewing habits person changed retired of each designation since Bond was raising an funny eyebrow astatine Mary Goodnight’s bikini successful The Man with the Golden Gun 50 years ago.

But erstwhile it was released successful the cinema successful 2021, the past 007 movie made £600million.

James Bond volition ne'er person a occupation packing your section cinema.

Just arsenic soon arsenic they enactment retired however to revive a leader they killed disconnected successful his past outing.

A NUMBER of Oasis fans successful Manchester person been preparing for the band’s homecoming gig successful Heaton Park adjacent twelvemonth by burying recreational drugs successful the bushes.

This seems a spot optimistic.

By the clip Oasis statesman their circuit adjacent summer, it volition beryllium 25 years since I saw them play Wembley successful the institution of 90,000 mad-for-it lads and lasses (but mostly lads).

All those Oasis fans who were successful their teens and twenties successful 2000 volition beryllium successful their forties and fifties now, wherever – spot me, lads ­– your short-term representation is the precise archetypal happening to go.

By the clip the Oasis circuit yet rolls around, they volition ne'er beryllium capable to retrieve wherever they buried their stash.

MOVIE SNOW STORM

COLOMBIAN-American histrion Rachel Zegler, prima of the remake of Disney’s Snow White, says her character’s sanction has thing to bash with the colour of her skin.

Rachel insists the sanction comes from a little- known mentation of the communicative erstwhile Snow White survived a snowstorm erstwhile she was a baby.

“And truthful the king and queen decided to sanction her Snow White, to punctual her of her resilience,” says Rachel, unconvincingly.

Rachel Zegler is simply a terrific actress.

She was astounding arsenic Maria successful Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story.

But atrocious – Snow White did not get her grip due to the fact that she was unlucky with the weather.

The archetypal 1812 fairy-tale by the Brothers Grimm specifically talks of, “Skin arsenic achromatic arsenic snow, lips arsenic reddish arsenic humor and hairsbreadth arsenic achromatic arsenic ebony.”

This caller Snow White has already tally into contention astir – well, everything really.

The Seven Dwarfs are computer-generated imagery, provoking fury among actors with dwarfism that their assemblage is being erased.

The handsome prince has been described arsenic a “stalker” by  Zegler, which doesn’t animate overmuch anticipation for their relationship.

But past Snow White is an aboriginal 19th-century fairytale made globally celebrated by a 1938 Hollywood animation.

And it tin ne'er beryllium arsenic woke arsenic modern Hollywood wants it to be.

THIS week a measure to legalise assisted dying successful England and Wales volition beryllium introduced successful the House of Commons, with a statement and ballot to travel aboriginal this year.

If you person ever watched a loved 1 die, you volition cognize that successful the end, beingness narrows down to thing but suffering.

Morally, legally, medically – assisted dying volition ever beryllium an impossibly hard subject.

But if idiosyncratic has travel to a constituent successful their terminal unwellness wherever their suffering is unbearable, they should not person to spell overseas to die.

Harry staying power

IN 1953, the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh near their 2 children for six months erstwhile they embarked connected a circuit of the Commonwealth.

Before her archetypal birthday, Queen Elizabeth herself had been near for six months portion her parents went connected a six-month circuit of Australia and New Zealand.

When the Queen near her children behind, Prince Charles was 5 and Princess Anne was three.

Exactly the aforesaid property arsenic Harry and Meghan’s children, Archie and Lilibet, are today.

There has been speculation astir the authorities of Harry and Meghan’s matrimony due to the fact that these days they often marque solo appearances.

But I reckon they are simply doing their champion to guarantee that erstwhile 1 of them is away, the different 1 stays astatine home.

Parenting has changed successful our beingness – for the royals and the remainder of us.

If royals near their tiny children for six months today, idiosyncratic would telephone societal services.