Seeing Keir Starmer glad-handing EU chiefs has Remainers as giddy as toddlers on Christmas Eve

Keir as mud

SEEING Keir Starmer glad-handing EU chiefs has the diehard Remainers as giddy as toddlers on Christmas Eve.

It is hard to make sense of the gibber as they plead with him to destroy Brexit.

They claim it has wrecked Britain economically. Germany and France are doing worse — but they put that down to Covid and war.

Did we not suffer from those too?

They tell us Brexit has had no benefits whatsoever. When scores of them are pointed out, they dismiss them or go strangely silent. It is risible.

One new benefit may be imminent if Donald Trump DOES hammer Brussels with tariffs while sparing us. Doubtless for some reason that won’t count either.

And when the Remainer mob rage against those tariffs, do they not realise they want to rejoin a customs union which imposes tariffs too?

It all makes as much sense as the PM imagining he can strike a better deal with the EU without some massive, fatal concession.

He should give it up.

Pull the plug

WE should be grateful to the boss of Ed Miliband’s “GB Energy” gimmick for blowing up Labour’s pre-election fictions about what it will achieve.

MPs needing votes last July claimed it would cut £300 from our bills and ­create 1,000 jobs in Aberdeen.

Turns out those are as fanciful as the “well-paid” roles the Energy Secretary imagines his suicidal dash to Net Zero will conjure up across Britain.

“GB Energy” boss Jurgen Maier reckons he might create 200-300 before 2030. As for 1,000? Maybe in 20 years.

And the “£300 off” . . . it’s a myth, to put it politely.

In reality bills under Labour have risen sharply — while OAPs have been stripped of their winter fuel allowance to pay militant train drivers nearly £70,000 for a four-day week.

“GB Energy” is likely to stand only as a monument to Miliband’s ruinous myopia.

Blunder armour

THE Whitehall bunglers who for decades have wasted billions on shoddy kit for our Armed Forces are infamous for disgraceful, complacent incompetence.

Review after review has exposed it. No lessons seem to be learned.

Unable to manage a project or drive a bargain, they have blown obscene sums on everything from ships to armoured vehicles to guns, none working as they should.

Even some of our body armour, bought in the 1980s and still not replaced, won’t stop troops getting shot.

If this Government ever increases military spending to proper levels, will it also finally give these failed MoD penpushers the bullet?

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