Keir Starmer left many people speechless this week when he claimed the Conservative Party was “engulfed in a culture war”.
This man, along with Angela Reiner, solemnly “kneeled” in support of the divisive organization “Black Lives Matter” in 2020, and who defines what it means to be a woman. Remember, it's notoriously difficult.
If that doesn't spark a culture war, I don't know what does.
Starmer's real problem is that he's not only a card-carrying culture warrior, he's found himself fighting on the wrong side. And while many people in his camp seem intent on dividing our society into as many feuding factions as possible, the rest of us want some much-needed unity.
Rishi Sunak and the Tories want a strong and united country, while Starmer and Labor want to promote their metropolitan bubble views and interests.
The Conservative Party wants to help the people of our great country get back on track after a very difficult period in light of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
But there's good news. We are doing better than our competitors. Unlike European countries, our economy is not in recession.
The UK has just overtaken France in manufacturing and has the world's third-largest high-tech sector (twice Germany's and three times France's) and Europe's second-largest clean energy sector.
We want a productive and happy workforce that serves people, not a workforce preoccupied with equality and diversity quotas, pronouns and gender debates.
Of course, as a conservative I believe in freedom of expression. I don't want politics or disruption at work or school.
What we don't want is the public sector to be hampered by navel-gazing debates.
Taxpayers are tired of paying for “diversity vacations,” bogus “courses,” and public sector employees who climb onto ideological soapboxes.
That's why, in my department at the Cabinet Office, I am working with colleagues John Glenn and Kemi Badenoch to reduce the ballooning costs of equality, diversity and inclusion training, and to ensure that people reach high standards. We are working hard to ensure that you can enjoy our services.
Passport offices, which had been severely delayed since the lockdown, have managed to speed things up. Currently, if you order online, updates typically arrive in just over a week. The DVLA has also moved from naughty steps to catching up. This is because they are very particular about their work.
To this end, I will be writing to all 308 independent bodies, from HMRC and the NHS to the Environment Agency and rail networks, asking the right questions. I would like to know how long it will take to answer the phone and resolve the issue. We will look at customer satisfaction and feedback to help get these public institutions back on track.
Keir Starmer would make you think he changed Labor. Well, certainly he changes his opinion every day. But when it comes to his woke, politically correct causes, he hasn't changed his opinion at all.
This is another reason why we should not allow people to get sidetracked from all these issues and sleepwalk into the nightmare of a Labor government that fails to serve its people.