Going on the BBC often feels like stepping into a parallel universe. It’s a place where “Net Zero” is a religious dogma rather than an economic policy, where “open borders” are a moral good, and where the struggles of working people in places like Stanley or Consett are treated as abstract concepts.
This weekend, I sat on the Politics North sofa with Labour’s North East Mayor, Kim McGuinness.
The consensus in that studio was the same as it always is in Westminster: the public should pay up, shut up, and be grateful.
I didn’t go there to nod along. I went there to deliver a few home truths.
You can watch the full exchange here, but let me break down the four points they really didn’t want to hear.
1. British Families First
We are currently paying Universal Credit to 1.26 million foreign nationals. Let that sink in.
At a time when British families are being told there’s no money—when the winter fuel allowance is being snatched away from our pensioners—we are subsidising the rest of the world to the tune of billions.
I said it on air, and I’ll say it again: It takes the Michael out of the British taxpayer. It is time we prioritised our own. Reform’s plan proposed £300 million in support for British families, Labour’s plan is billions for foreign ones.
2. Net Zero is Industrial Suicide
The other guests spoke about “Green Energy” as if it’s a magical money tree.
Tell that to the factory workers in County Durham losing their jobs right now. Our manufacturers are being crushed by the highest industrial electricity prices in Europe, all sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero.
This isn’t an “economic transition.” It is deindustrialisation by design.
3. The Great EV Betrayal
For years, you were told to “do the right thing.” Buy an electric car. Save the planet. “It won’t be taxed,” they promised.
Well, you’ve been sold a pup.
Now that the government needs cash to plug the black hole in their welfare bill, they are coming for your electric car too. It was never about the environment. It was always about control and revenue.
4. Labour’s Hypocrisy on Children
This was the moment the room went silent.
Labour politicians love to preach about how much they “care” for vulnerable children. They weep crocodile tears in Parliament.
But when I asked Kim McGuinness why her Labour government refuses to fairly fund the councils that actually look after those children, she had no answer.
They are happy to mandate statutory services, but they are nowhere to be found when the bill arrives. And boy is that bill growing by the day, as more and more people meet the liberalised threshold for support.
The reaction in the studio was exactly what you’d expect: uncomfortable shifting in seats and defensive waffle.
But the reaction from the public has been very different. Because out here in the real world, people are sick of being lied to.
They know that a country that prioritises foreign nationals over its own citizens, ideology over industry, and tax over truth is a country heading in the wrong direction.
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