I have a certain admiration for Mr Trump, and I know it is not the way everybody feels or agrees, and in some ways, I would concur with them.
He is a man of enormous talent not only commercially but also a determination to follow his ambitions.
He has spent four years dodging, which is not quite the right word, but he has swerved around all the nasties his so called enemies could think up and throw at him, who were in reality political opponents trying desperately to stop him from becoming president of the United States for a second time, that in itself says he is the right person for the post.
I cannot remember any other individual who has received the accolades of the people to lead them and once elected has hit the ground running, also being well prepared for the task and knowing exactly the steps he is going to take once in office.
It is a pity that in the United Kingdom the Labour party which had fourteen years in the wilderness of opposition to prepare for Government did not know what they were going to do when they were finally voted into power, other than to look amazed and destroy the very love the people had just shown them by cancelling the fuel allowance for the elderly.
It is also refreshing to see a leader of a nation as in the US President to be up front and say what he is going to do and doing it, and one of those first actions was to take a serious look at what money and who receives it by way of aid from the United States, and the reports stated that some strange organisations were being funded, so the facility has been partly withdrawn.
Isn’t it time for Britain’s New Prime Minister to do the same and take a serious look at all the billions of pounds being spent on aid.
So, there we have it an American President determined to reduce costs and remove terrorists and unsuitable people from the country while in Britain we have the opposite, a Head of Government who has been barely seven months into office and has driven taxes through the roof destroying businesses and pampering the illegal who arrive by the boat load on the country’s shores, and in some cases even encouraged.
But it does not stop there, there is a determination to be out of step with the rest of the world and go for Net Zero by 2050, forcing the country to abide by expensive rules to achieve this, while other nations have taken a different approach ignoring the fear of the Climate Change attitude of so-called experts.
This situation reminds me of a time back in the early eighties when the green and liberal thinking people created a similar fear and panic by publishing in factual mode that everything was coming to an end as the World would run out of power because there was not enough oil to be recovered and there would be none available by 1990.
In the meantime, while the country suffers financially following this dictate, we have a minister in charge of dealing with reducing the carbons released into the air and whose actions in my mind are of doubtful ability.
He has just renewed funding for the Dax Electric Power Station in North Yorkshire with millions of pounds which will total a billion plus over a period of this Government. Dax originally burned coal, it now burns wood pellets which we are told by experts create more carbon in the air than coal, it doesn’t seem to me a right choice for net zero.
Also, and further to that, the coal used to come from a local mine and now the pellets come from across the sea, three thousand miles away … you could not make it up.
Whereas Trump has chosen successful men to be part of his team in Government, Starmer has chosen for Chancellor, which is the most significant office of State, a person who it is alleged was no more than a clerk and who it would appear has been a little fanciful about her CV.
Take care.
© Percy Chattey 2025
