Nigel Farage has come up with a totally brilliant idea for ‘when’ he becomes Prime Minister, in 4 years time. Brilliant. Like all his ideas. Because Nigel is the cleverest person in politics, by approximately 2,000 miles. Though looking at our government, that’s not such a heady position. And as well as clever, Nigel is also unfailingly charming, concise, open, devious, cheating, lying, duplicitous and sinister. I wonder if he’s a Gemini, like me? I have most of those traits, but without any fucking charm.

Nige’s plan is nick-named Robin Hood and serves a dual purpose.

To try to stem the massive outflow of our super-rich due to Rachel Reeves’ total fucking stupidity and lack of understanding of all things, Nigel will charge these guys and gels a one-off fee of £250k which will protect all their overseas assets from ever being taxable in the UK, up to and including when they die!!! They won’t pay inheritance tax, well, their kids won’t, on earnings and assets abroad. Ok, so they’re already in Monaco or Bermuda or Geneva, but they can keep an interest in the UK so that the benefits of their entrepreneurialism will hopefully stay in the UK to provide jobs and wealth and yes, tax.

And those 250,000 pound payments will be added up and divided evenly between the ‘poorest people in the country’, in its entirety, every year. Hence the ‘Robin Hood’ bit. Take from the rich, give to the poor. Oh, how wonderful!!! Then he gets the votes from both rich and poor. Or those who aspire to both.

But here’s my issue with Mnsr Farage and fiscal planning. It is the image of a bus, upon the side of which is a sign reading “LEAVE EUROPE AND THE NHS WILL GET £365MILLION EVERY DAY!!!!” That was a powerful message, a driver of votes towards Brexit. And four years later, the sum total of all added cash from Brexit into our health service is £37.42p. And unfortunately that is subject to capital gains tax.

Believe Nige at your peril.

Or Starmer too, for that matter. Mr ‘flip-flop’. He’s calling for a complete ‘de-escalation’ in Iran on Thursday. ‘Let’s talk, let’s negotiate, let’s pretend that there is no issue with Iran nuking half the world and treat their government as if they’re human beings’. Then the US bombs fell and he was ‘fully in support of the US, we can’t let Iran have nukes, now let’s get round that very same negotiating table’. Ever the weak man. Always taking the bull by the ear-lobes.

Because supporting Trump, which he absolutely has to, does put the UK in more danger, no question. But sometimes, as Israel did, with the complete backing of its entire population, you have to do the right thing. Which Starmer is now prepared to do. As long as the school bully is telling him that he has to.

Coming home today. Been fab. Been hot. Would say ‘been a blast’, but I think that’s inappropriate at the moment.

Happy Monday

A xxxx