What I love about President Trump is that he has proved in just three weeks that no longer is a ridiculous out-of-touch liberal view the dominant force in our politics. For the first time since the Thatcher/Reagan axis, there is a conservative common sense attitude being listened to and being acted on.
Overnight Trump has made the eminently sensible decision to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports in the Olympics being held in Los Angeles in 2028. He did it by instructing the Department of Homeland Security to reject visa applications by males attempting to enter the United States while identifying as women athletes.
Simple as that. No long drawn-out legal battles, no big debates on television, no fights in Parliaments. Just boom. From now on women’s sports will only be for women.
And in a great move Trump has told the education department to ban transgender athletes from competing and if any school defies the ban they will lose its funding.
Why don’t we do the same? I presume because running our country are a couple of clapped human rights lawyers (Starmer and Attorney General Hermer) who made their money and their careers by acting AGAINST the common sense wishes of the British people.
In his whirlwind of action (all of which I applaud including his Gaza idea) he demanded change in two areas which I believe should be adopted in the UK. The first is that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is to go in all government agencies.
Even Heath Secretary Wes Streeting attacked DEI the other day when he complained that an NHS employee had said anti-whiteness was one of the attractions of the job. That woman’s wages are paid for by us. We should identify her publicly and have her fired.
Imagine if she had said anti-blackness was an attraction of the job. Her feet would not have touched the ground.
I tweeted the other day about West Yorkshire police spending £1.4million last year on 19 DEI roles. The cops are often saying they don’t have enough officers. Having seen the DEI pay scales (up to £94K) you can see that a quiet desk job would be a lot more attractive than being abused by thugs on the street.
Pleased to see that the private sector is beginning to get the message. BT, for instance, has abolished DEI targets for its middle management. Previously it had to hit a target to qualify for a bonus. How ridiculous was that. It has to be said senior management at BT are still being bonused on DEI targets. Stop that now.
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The tide is turning. In the US it’s quickly, over here much more slowly. Why doesn’t Starmer just announce no government agency will have DEI from today.
We are told repeatedly, and I believe it, that the UK is broke. Scrapping DEI will save tens of millions of pounds and stop the vast majority of the country being very irritated at the unfairness of important and well-paid jobs being handed out on the basis of ‘’equity’’ rather than excellence.
The other Trump idea I love is the way Trump and Musk simply shut down their overseas development agency which employs 10,000 and spent $40billion, yes billion, last year.
Tonight many of those employees will be let go and that is sad but it will give them an opportunity to do proper jobs rather than just sending taxpayers’ hard-earned money to people are neither grateful nor in some cases ever see it as it’s purloined by dictators and the like.
Already the US taxpayer will be pleased to know that a grant of $1.5million to an LGBTQ group in Serbia has been stopped as has $1.5million for electric vehicles in Vietnam.
It would surprise me if the spend on overseas aid isn’t literally halved. We could do the same.
We are spending £7billion a year on overseas aid. Why? We have enough problems over here. Keir Starmer is an investment which would stop migrants heading here.
Where’s the proof of that? They seem to be coming here for benefits and they are currently not being cut so the argument collapses.
We should learn from Donald Trump. He’s clever. Where’s our Trump? Hopefully it’s Farage and as Badenoch comes out of the shadows it may be her.
Change will only come from the right. If Starmer gets a second term only the train drivers will cheer.