Labour may have binned their outdoor smoking ban – but many economically damaging policies ARE still going ahead
Reality cheques
IT’S no good Labour pretending they always thought banning smoking in pub gardens was a bad idea.
When The Sun attacked it they repeatedly claimed it would protect us all from second-hand smoke. Even outside.
We are glad Health Secretary Wes Streeting says it’s not worth bankrupting pubs for.
But how did this obviously ruinous plan ever get as far as it did?
As Mr Streeting says, it was only after it was leaked to us that Labour realised how crazy it would be to inflict new misery on our struggling hospitality sector.
Plenty of economically damaging policies ARE still going ahead, though.
Hammering family farms with inheritance tax and clobbering businesses, care homes and charities with a National Insurance rise chief among them.
The Government might have convinced voters at least some of this was necessary to fix public services . . .
Had they not handed mind-bogglingly expensive pay rises to the militant unions.
Target Kemi
THE entirely predictable backlash against Kemi Badenoch shows she has rattled both Labour and Reform.
For all his bluster Nigel Farage clearly fears she will appeal to traditional Tories whose votes he now considers his.
Which is why he claims she has sent Reform’s membership soaring, that she is a Tory “continuity candidate” and that the “Remainers are back”.
That’s daft. Kemi voted for Brexit and believes in it.
And she is clearly very different from recent predecessors.
Labour too are discombobulated by a bright, blunt-spoken black female Tory who could dismantle them in debate.
Some of its MPs have congratulated her.
But too many secretly believe Kemi’s historic election doesn’t count because her opinions are “white”.
If Dawn Butler was alone in this half-witted bigotry we suspect Keir Starmer would have booted her out of his party.
She’s not. And he hasn’t.
Rash Beeb
WHAT was the point of the BBC’s programme about vicious gangster Chris Kaba if not to drum up sympathy for him?
Of course we understand his parents’ grief.
But the reality is that he was a violent thug with a long criminal record and opened fire in a packed nightclub only days before his own death.
Armed police didn’t know that when he tried to ram their roadblock in a two-ton Audi, endangering their lives.
But a jury unanimously concluded the officer who shot him was justified.
That innocent cop now has a £10,000 price on his head from Kaba’s gang, whose lust for revenge can surely only be fuelled by this documentary.
Yet the left-leaning BBC somehow considers it “in the public interest”. How?