Recent events have made me think of two quotes from the past, Harold Wilson's "A week is a long time in politics", and "The World turned upside down" from an English ballad of the English Civil War.

There are many reasons why I consistently supported Trump's reelection: the war on waste, the reining in of the various bureaucratic groups who overrode democratic decisions, free speech, opposition to net-zero, destroying the woke ideology, women's rights, support for Israel, illegal immigration and the re-balancing of expenditure, tax and spending. However, his actions over the war in Ukraine, Greenland, and internal dissent, have completely undermined any belief that I had in him, and he is set fair to overturn, and indeed destroy the Western world as we have known it since the Second World War.

I am appalled by his behaviour to President Zelensky, a brave man, and the insults he has offered to the valiant people of Ukraine. The infamous meeting in the White House was a disgrace, and one can only hope that that rude, and arrogant man, Vance, never becomes the President of the USA. They dragged America's good name through the mud, and look set to betray Ukraine, ignominiously demanding recompense for the assistance the US have provided in the war.

When we went to war in 1914 in support of Belgium, the cost was one third of the wealth we accumulated during the 19th Century. In 1939, when we declared war on Germany after their attack on Poland, it cost us the Empire, and reduced us almost to penury. The USA did provide help under the Marshall plan, but they also demanded repayment of the debt we accumulated under Lend Lease, something which was not repaid until the 21st Century.

There are more important things than money, such as honour, and the moral duty to help the weak against the strong. No one doubts that the US is right that the European allies need to pay a more equitable amount for the defence of the West, but Trump has exposed his county to opprobrium by his actions. Whatever the cost now we must step up, and emulate our forefathers, in supporting decent people against those, such as Putin, motivated by a lust for power.

There seems to be a growing tendency in public discourse to blame victims, rather than the guilty parties. We took long enough to actively oppose those who chose to blame women for being raped, because of the way they dressed, or their social activities, but now this absurd concept is being applied to political matters.

That Donald Trump should accuse Ukraine of starting the war against Russia is deranged. Putin is a dictator, who killed British citizens on British soil, whose political enemies have the habit of falling out of windows, or dying in his Gulag, and has launched a vicious war against a peaceful neighbour, yet somehow the Ukrainians are the guilty party.

Incidentally this inversion of the truth is also visible in the coverage of the war in Gaza. As one who is very much aware of the persecution the Jewish people have endured over centuries, for the supposed sin of living in other peoples countries, I find the refusal of so many so-called liberals to accept that they should live in their own state disgusting. Innocent civilians in Israel have been murdered, raped, or taken hostage, but still these supposed virtue signalling, and vociferous, commentators aim their criticisms at the nation which was attacked, not the terrorists who did the attacking.

The mentality of those who can see the world in this perverse manner was summoned up by Orwell in 1984 with the party slogans which the oppressed proles were forced to accept. "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength." We must totally reject these irrational claims which warp reality.

Does humanity never learn the lessons of history? The failure of Munich in 1938, when Britain and France betrayed Czechoslovakia to Hitler, when that unhappy country was kept out of the room, showed that appeasement of expansionist dictators is futile. The result was the carnage of the Second World War.

Yet here we are again. The USA is apparently intending to betray Ukraine, banning the latter from the negotiations, as it seeks to reset relations with Putin, something which will only encourage him to continue his relentless campaign to undermine the Western democracies.

In the nearly eighty years since the end of the German war we have come close, on a number of occasions, to nuclear Armageddon, but the logic of mutually assured destruction prevented the worst happening. However, we now face the possibility that Russia could rebuild its conventional forces to the point where, without American help, their tanks might roll westwards, so that, just as Tsar Alexander I famously watered his horses in the Seine in March 1814, as Napoleon fell for the first time, so might we see Russian forces at the Channel coast, this time with a stronger Navy than ours.

In the run-up to the Second World War, when Hitler was determined on crushing Czechoslovakia, he unmercifully personally bullied the President of that unhappy country, to the point where it was possible that the latter might have had a heart attack in the meeting. Thankfully, President Zelensky, being a younger and fitter man, did not succumb to the deranged attack made upon him, and his country, by Trump and Vance.

As we face the withdrawal of the US into Fortress America, with the possible consequence that an emboldened Putin might take control of Europe, one wonders if America would be able to survive as the only nation not run by those with the mentality of authoritarian Russia, Communist China and theocratic Iran.

Were Putin to be able to use the still large industrial strength of Europe to develop overwhelming conventional forces, capable of defeating the US, it would only be the use of the latter's nuclear weapons which could keep them free, something which would mean the end of humanity. The economic pressures on an isolated America, with its effects on her people, might lead to a collapse from within. We stand at a crossroads which may mean the end of the democratic world.

The bullying of President Zelensky, and the contemptuous treatment of the brave Ukrainian people by Trump and Vance, is setting back the conservative cause across Europe, the UK and Canada. Whereas the excesses of the woke ideology, and the failure of liberal governments to control immigration had meant that parties of the centre right were very likely to take power in most of these countries, within the next few years it now seems possible that they will see their support fall away, as electorates react to the arrogance of the Republicans in the US by turning back to left wing politicians. We have already seen the Liberal party in Canada, apparently due for certain defeat, revive, while opinion polls in many countries show a decisive reversal of voting intentions.

It is doubtful that Trump intended that his actions should have these results, but his disregard for the interests of any country but his own is so blatant, and so deplorable, he may find that he has fatally undermined the conservative cause in the Western world, something he may come to regret in the future. He has clearly forgotten that actions have consequences, and that, as it says in the Bible "you reap what you sow".


At almost the same time as the world marked the third anniversary of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the administration in Washington effectively switched sides, endangering not only the valiant Ukrainians, but also the peoples of Western Europe, and the UK. If we are to survive an assault by the Russian steamroller we must take immediate action to make ourselves truly independent, ensuring that our nuclear deterrent is absolutely under our control, while exploiting every domestic source we have for the production of energy, so that we can both rebuild our heavy industries, and bolster our Armed Forces.

However, what do we find? That green Fanatic Ed Miliband is on the verge of attempting to permanently block access to our potential fracking sites, while refusing to take advantage of the new gas field just discovered, and of the North Sea fields still holding large reserves. This self harm is in support of an absurd net-zero policy, which even if one hundred percent successful would make a negligible difference to global emissions.

Unless this man is stopped we can guarantee that much of industry will grind to a halt, domestic supplies of fuel will fall to the point where blackouts are inevitable, while vital services such as hospitals will cease to function. The idea that we can rely on foreign imports is ridiculous, even more so in the event of a new European war. The end of this road will see Russian tanks in Whitehall, as our military defences will collapse without access to sufficient fuel. Is that what people want?

On a seemingly daily basis President Trump threatens other nations, including allies, while insulting the latter's Armed Forces, even those of the nation which has been closest to the US for decades.


Internally the forces of law and order in the US seem to be out of control with unarmed women, and those already in custody, being murdered by trigger-happy federal forces, who are then defended by a shameless administration.

This is all very far from Ronald Reagan's image of a 'shining city on a hill', and one would think that great presidents like Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy are turning in their graves.

Trump has proved himself to be unstable, and one upon whom we cannot continue to rely. We must largely abandon massive expenditure on the welfare state, and move to a wartime position, re-industrialising at pace, obtaining as much of our energy from our own resources as possible, and restoring the Armed Forces to a level which would deter Putin from attacking. If we do not then we face defeat, and a shameful conquest, brought about by our refusal to face reality.