The Northern Star

British politics is running on empty: lifeless parties lacking vision for the future, angry citizens with nowhere to turn. If Brexit was about 'taking back control', why has so little changed?

Our new book, TAKING CONTROL, has the answers. politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo… 🧵(1/13)

Burnham is right that we should pay carers much better wages for the important work they do. But he immediately subordinates that point to his party's globalist preference for importing workers to do the caring.

And this should tell us that there is no serious policy to come from his warm words about careworkers, because foreign workers from poorer countries can always be found to do it cheaper, and keep the wages down.

If we paid our carers the wages we should then our old folk would be looked after by people they have shared this island with all their lives instead of foreigners from distant places who have just turned up hoping to improve their lives and send some money back home.

New on TNS. @peteray21 on why populism will disappoint those who put their hopes in it:

"The spirit of populism just isn’t enough to achieve its own inchoate democratic and egalitarian aims. To achieve them populism would have to become something other than itself; it would have to become nation-building."
thenorthernstar.online/2026/07/24/nat…

New on TNS.

Why national populism fails politically, and why Britain needs a politics of nation-building instead.
thenorthernstar.online/2026/07/24/nat…

New on TNS. Brexit has exposed our political parties and our bureaucratic elites as having no ideas adequate to Britain’s needs, argues @peteray21.

The only solution is forward to Brexit Max.
thenorthernstar.online/2026/06/23/fro…