Brian Monteith

Why Afghan data breach cover-up is a genuine scandal "When politicians fail, they should be ready to accept responsibility, and only those that do should be given the opportunity for redemption" My latest @TheScotsman column on the Afghan data breach. bit.ly/4l3vces

Revealed: How the Starmer-Hermer bromance has delivered a legal way to by-pass Parliament. Attorney General’s new guidance: International law? Top priority. Our British laws? Hmm… Less so. National interests take 2nd place : facts4eu.org/news/2025_jul_…

Why warnings UK may need IMF bailout no longer look like doom-mongering "The repetitious evidence of the dire direction of travel Labour has taken us remains unrelenting." My latest @TheScotsman column for Tuesday now live bit.ly/40gPNEo

.@@DanielJHannan: “In Birmingham, one in four working-age adults is inactive. One. In. Four. Even at the height of the Great Depression, the proportion in our second city never rose so high.”

At 07:00 GMT today, UK's 'wind power' made just 5% of its electricity. Circled in red We imported a huge 31% (6 times more) from other countries (all those 'IC's circled in green) Where is 'Energy Security' in importing electricity? Where is it in fickle uncontrollable wind?

"Suddenly there’s a chorus calling for Labour’s cast-iron manifesto promise not to increase income tax, VAT or employees’ National Insurance contributions to be abandoned," reports Brian Monteith "The high-tax lobby is bidding to out-do themselves in what appears to be a…

Reeves is being lobbied to break Labour’s manifesto – the consequences will be dire "This is the Labour Party in government. Whatever is said publicly, the belief system is our earnings and assets are for the state to filch " My latest @Telegraph column bit.ly/44nbyow

EXPOSED: Bombshell report blows the lid on the ECHR's iron-fist rule over Britain as dangerous myths busted gbnews.com/politics/bombs…

Nothing quite became the late Norman Tebbit like his stoic acceptance of the unspeakable evil visited upon his late wife Margaret, and his devotion to her as she lived with the irreversible consequences of that evil. May they both rest in peace.

Pretty certain no one in Labour came out to support Liz Truss or any other Conservative politician when they were upset Seriously I despise the modern left because it's stuffed full of weapons grade hypocrites

How Keir Starmer has just signed up to UN 'commitment' that goes against everything Brexit was about "Surely if politicians are not accountable to the public then their tax rises become legalised theft?" My latest @TheScotsman column on Labour's perfidy bit.ly/4nI5IWy

One year on, Labour is claiming three big wins on the economy, but these are little to shout about... 🧵 1⃣ big increases in the National Minimum Wage This simply maintained the last government's policy of raising the NMW to 2/3 of median earnings and extending to younger…

The increasing share of national resources taken by the public sector – about 45% of GDP – is a direct cause of UK's productivity problem. Productivity across the public sector is still 4.6% lower than 2019, with the health service in particular an amazing 10% less productive 👉

My pitch at @iealondon yesterday… - UKTobacco & Vapes Bill is useless policy, I can’t believe anyone is backing it. - Tobacco Free Generation is a nothing-burger. Solves a problem solved by vapes, pouches well before anyone born after 2009 gets sick from smoking; - No effect on…

Just one more volte-face, Rachel, and it could be crisis averted "If Rachel Reeves wants to achieve higher tax revenues, she must cut Capital Gains Tax, not raise taxes even more." My latest for @Telegraph is about improving productivity @TPIProductivity bit.ly/3TR8ScC

This is grade A mission creep and a perfect example of the unintended consequences of having too many well paid, deeply ‘woke’, public sector regulators making work for themselves. Harassment, let alone violence, is already covered by the criminal, employment and contract law.…

Brian Monteith, aka @TheBluetrot describes Keir Starmer as the 'political defibrillator' that kept the SNP alive.

Palm Oil saves forests "It may be hard to swallow for virtue signallers, but anyone wanting to protect the rainforest should be looking at ingredients and rejecting other oils in preference to palm oil" My latest for @CSquireMagazine might surprise some. bit.ly/45zI0oE

Yet Stormont gave legislative consent to this? Almost as if they don’t understand the legal outworkings of the Windsor Framework.

How Keir Starmer’s biggest mistakes revived the SNP from the dead "The truth for Labour is his sidekicks are no better, it is the likes of Reeves, Miliband, Rayner, Streeting and Lammy who've sold him hospital pass policies." My latest @TheScotsman column bit.ly/4nqrVrO