The Madness Never Stops – And We’re Paying For It

Good morning, folks. Or afternoon. Or whenever you’re reading this because let’s face it, half of you are probably scrolling in bed at 3 a.m. wondering why everything’s gone so completely bonkers. Welcome to another dispatch from the front line of reality. This is The Mike Graham Show on Substack – the place where we still call a spade a bloody shovel and don’t apologise for it.

Let’s start with the big one this week: Keir Starmer’s latest masterclass in how to make Britain look like a complete laughing stock on the world stage. The man flies off to Beijing – yes, Beijing – to kowtow to the Chinese Communist Party while our own streets are falling apart and small boat arrivals hit yet another record high. He’s there banging on about “partnership” and “cooperation” like he’s auditioning for a Xi Jinping fan club newsletter. Meanwhile, back home, we’ve got pensioners choosing between heating and eating, farmers being taxed into oblivion, and the NHS waiting lists longer than the queue for Glastonbury tickets.

Tell me something, Keir. When exactly did grovelling to a regime that locks up journalists, harvests organs from prisoners, and threatens Taiwan become the centrepiece of British foreign policy? Is this what “change” looks like? Because from where I’m sitting it looks an awful lot like the same old surrender-monkey stuff we’ve seen from Labour for decades. Tony Blair did it with the EU, Gordon Brown did it with the banks, and now Starmer’s doing it with the biggest authoritarian state on earth. Common sense? Nowhere to be seen.

And don’t get me started on the migrants. Sorry – “irregular arrivals,” as the Home Office likes to call them in their desperate attempt to sanitise reality. We had another 800-odd turn up last weekend in glorious sunshine, waved through like they’re on a budget Ryanair flight to Dover. Reform UK’s been screaming about this for years, but the mainstream media still treats them like they’re the problem rather than the people pointing out the bleeding obvious. The boats keep coming, the hotels keep filling up, the taxpayer keeps footing the bill – and what do we get from the Government? More platitudes about “smashing the gangs.” Smashing them with what, Keir? Harsh language and a strongly worded letter?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if you want to stop the boats, you stop the pull factors. You stop putting people up in four-star hotels. You stop handing out benefits like sweets at a kids’ party. You start deporting people who have no right to be here. It’s not rocket science. It’s basic border control. The kind of thing every normal country used to do without having a nervous breakdown about it.

But no. We’re too busy virtue-signalling. Too busy worrying about what some blue-haired activist on X might say. Too busy redefining reality so nobody gets their feelings hurt. We’ve got schools teaching kids that biology is a social construct, we’ve got the police turning up to arrest grannies for mean tweets while actual knife crime goes through the roof, and we’ve got politicians who think “net zero” means turning off the lights and freezing to death in the dark.

Speaking of net zero – or should I say net stupid – has anyone actually read the numbers? We’re supposed to hit these impossible targets by 2050 while China builds a new coal plant every week and India laughs in our faces. We’re decommissioning perfectly good gas plants, forcing farmers to slaughter livestock to meet emissions quotas, and slapping VAT on private schools so only the mega-rich can afford them. The result? Working-class kids get shafted, energy bills skyrocket, and the planet keeps turning regardless.

This isn’t leadership. This is lunacy dressed up as morality. And the worst part? They keep getting away with it because too many people in the media and politics are either complicit or too scared to call it out. Well, not here. Not on this Substack. We’re not afraid to say what everyone else is thinking: enough is enough.

Look, I know times are tough. I know a lot of you are fed up, angry, and wondering if anyone’s left in Westminster who gives a damn about ordinary people. The answer, right now, is not many. The Conservatives imploded under their own incompetence, Labour’s proving to be even worse, and the Lib Dems are still the Lib Dems – which is to say utterly irrelevant.

But here’s the good news: you’re not alone. There are millions of us out here who still believe in common sense. Who still think borders should mean something, that men shouldn’t compete in women’s sports, that free speech isn’t a hate crime, and that the Government should serve the people, not the other way round.

So stick with me. Keep subscribing, keep sharing, keep talking to your mates down the pub about the madness you’re seeing. Because the more we normalise calling out the nonsense, the harder it gets for them to ignore us.

Plank of the Day? Easy. Keir Starmer for thinking a trip to Beijing was a good look while Britain burns. Honourable mention to whoever decided electric car mandates were still a sensible idea when half the country can’t afford to charge their phones.

Right, that’s me done for now. Drop your thoughts in the comments – the unfiltered ones, please. No holding back. And if you’re not already a paid subscriber, consider hitting that button. It keeps the lights on (metaphorically – God knows how long we’ll be able to afford the real ones).

Until next time, don’t be a plank.

Cheers, Mike