IF Kamala Harris wins the US Presidential election, then Labour will have backed a winner.
But ironically enough, a Harris victory could be the worst news in the world for our floundering Prime Minister.
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Because can you imagine Donald Trump, if he is the losing candidate, informing his approximately 63million voters that he only lost because of foreign interference by the British Labour Party?
So whoever wins the US election, it will not be the UK.
Labour are sending almost 100 party activists to campaign for the Democratic candidate in key swing states on American soil. No surprise there.
During their long years in opposition, mouthy Labour backbenchers loved nothing more than lavishly abusing Kamala’s orange-coloured rival, Donald.
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“Trump is not only a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath,” David Lammy raved in 2018.
“He is also a profound threat to the international order.”
But sending party activists to America WHEN YOU ARE IN GOVERNMENT is infinitely worse than trash talk when you were in opposition.
It will never be forgotten or forgiven by millions of Americans.
It is astonishing that a British Government would allow its card-carrying party members to brazenly involve themselves in a foreign election.
Our most crucial foreign alliance is with the US.
Defence. Trade. The exchange of intelligence. All rely on the special relationship that won two world wars.
And all that is also put into jeopardy now — whoever wins or loses the US election.
The most successful alliance between two nations in history has been put at risk by the reckless actions of a Labour Party that acts more like some spotty teenage campaigner than a serious Government that puts its country before everything.
‘Right to go bananas’
Starmer has predictably attempted to play down the controversy by claiming that any Labour activists campaigning in the US would be there as volunteers and would be “doing it in their spare time”.
But that will not wash.
Trump is furious that a foreign political party is attempting to stop him becoming President.
And he has every right to be furious.
Just imagine how WE would have felt if American activists were on the doorsteps during our last General Election trying to prevent either Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer becoming Prime Minister.
We would have gone bananas.
And we would have been right to go bananas.
Donald Trump — who never needs much encouragement to go bananas — has a legitimate beef here, and has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission, the agency that oversees US elections, accusing Labour of “apparent illegal foreign national contributions” and “blatant foreign interference”.
‘King of his cock-ups’
Allowing Labour activists to campaign in a US Presidential election is brainless beyond belief.
Forget free Taylor Swift tickets.
Forget all those newly released lags singing Starmer’s praises as they get out of jail.
Forget the posh seats at Arsenal.
For Keir, this is the king of his cock-ups.
For all Starmer’s mealy-mouthed denials, this move to get Harris elected instead of Trump looks like it was sanctioned by the highest levels of the Labour Government.
Given that our Foreign Secretary once called Donald Trump a “neo-Nazi”, how could the perception be anything else?
And this stupid interference in another nation’s election endangers everything from Nato to our economy.
It doesn’t matter a damn what you, me or David Lammy think about the Presidential candidates.
The next American President is for Americans to decide.
This crass campaigning has real-world consequences, comrades.
So thanks a lot, Labour.
If Donald Trump loses, he will blame the British.
And if he wins, the new American President will simply hate us.
Cher a teen? It was Hall a very long time ago…
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IT feels like a lifetime since I first saw Cher, a bored teenager twiddling with her lank locks as she lazily crooned I Got You Babe with Sonny Bono on Top Of The Pops in 1965.
So next year it will be SIXTY years since that magical black-and-white moment.
So, it was a bit of a shocker to see Cher turn up to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, accompanied by young acolytes Zendaya, and Dua Lipa.
“I have a kind of love-hate relationship (with the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame),” Cher said.
“Because I thought, what do I have to f***ing do, y’know, to be inducted into this place?”
F***ing good question.
Because I don’t know what is more startling.
That the bored teenager I saw on a black and white TV on Top Of The Pops is now 78.
Or that Cher has not been in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame for the last 50 years.
Slave trade was global
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THE Commonwealth summit in Samoa, a six-day meeting with the leaders of 56 countries, has rung with the cry of demands for financial compensation for the horrors of the slave trade.
King Charles – who has heroically paused his cancer treatment to fly to the far side of the world to attend the event – has come under pressure to apologise for his “family’s involvement”.
But the reparations debate is not really about apologies.
The reparations debate is all about financial compensation.
People who were never slaves are demanding money from people who were never slave owners.
And I would be a more sympathetic listener to the demands for reparations if the debate was more honest.
To hear all the demands for reparations in Samoa, anyone would think that the British invented slavery.
And we emphatically did not.
You do not have to go all the way back to the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians to find the slave trade booming.
The slaves who were shipped from the Gold Coast of west Africa to the cotton fields of the USA and the sugar plantations of the Caribbean were sold into slavery by their fellow Africans.
One of the best holidays of my life was in Ghana, spending three weeks with an Ashanti family.
They were among the kindest people I have ever met.
But the Ashanti once had an empire.
And it was built on slavery.
Why does nobody ever ask any African nation to pay reparations for their part in the slave trade?
Slavery was not an invention of the British – although the British did more than any nation on Earth to wipe the stain of slavery from the planet.
And if our friends and allies can’t admit that historical truth, then it is impossible to see how the Commonwealth can endure.
Chris great like Ali
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LIKE Muhammad Ali, Sir Chris Hoy will inspire generations yet to be born when they face the greatest struggles of their lives.
Like Ali, Chris was a sportsman who towered above even the best of his time.
And like Ali, the way that Chris Hoy is confronting the prostate cancer that is killing him will give courage, consolation and solace to countless other sufferers.
Dignity. Guts. Grace. Grit.
And a humanity that allows a soul to count their blessings.
Once in a generation an athlete emerges who transcends his sport.
Muhammad Ali was that kind of inspirational figure.
And so is Chris Hoy.
Liam’s 1 dream
LIAM PAYNE, tragically gone at 31, wanted to be a pop star.
He wanted it more than anything.
In the bitter aftermath of his death, that is being forgotten.
Pop stardom was not an idle teenage fancy with Liam.
He was initially rejected on The X Factor at 14 before trying a second time on the 2010 series of the show – the series that spawned One Direction.
There has been a lot of talk about increased scrutiny of the entertainment industry after Liam’s death.
But you will never stop kids from dreaming of stardom.
Liam Payne was a young man who had a dream of singing to the world.
And whatever tragedy was waiting down the line, Liam made his dream come gloriously true.
AN inquest has heard how Natasha Johnston was walking eight dogs in Surrey in 2023 when she was attacked by an “unknown number” and killed.
Now there are calls to legally limit the number of dogs that can be walked at once (there is currently no limit).
Good idea.
Here’s an even better idea.
If you are lucky enough to have a dog in your life – walk it yourself.
KEMI BADENOCH, odds on to be the next Tory leader, says that Labour will not be able to call her prejudiced because she is a black woman.
Sadly, that will not stop them, Kemi.
The comrades believe that ALL Tories are intrinsically baddies – even though their party has never in its history been led by anyone but an old white bloke in an ill-fitting suit.
