Six months of Starmer and the economy, green belt and juries all face being destroyed - Kelvin MacKenzie

Today is not only Black Friday on the economy but more accurately Brownfield Friday as Labour reveal the horror of what they have in mind for our house building using our our green and pleasant land before we sling them out.

As you will already know, Rayner has given developers go-ahead to push through speculative building on swathes of the green belt to hit their target of 1.5millionhomes.

What is incredible is that the South, which already has the highest population density in the nation, is to fare worst with compulsory targets which will override local objections. You the voter won’t be able to halt the developments. What happened to local democracy?

The one thing you can do is vote either Reform or Conservative in the May county council elections to ensure you have a group of politicians elected who will fight this government tooth and nail in the years ahead. The reality is that Starmer signing his own electoral death warrant BY giving a V-sign to local residents. They will never forget and will take their revenge.

The people I feel most sorry for are the residents of Sevenoaks, Fareham, Hertsmere, and New Forest who have learned they are to face a 500% increase in developments in their area.

I vaguely know Sevenoaks as my eldest son lives there. I can’t imagine where all these homes are going to be built. Further, the traffic is already dreadful. How can the town cope?

And it’s one thing to build the homes but can the local medical centres cope with the influx? The reality is that local people are having less and less kids yet our population continues to explode through legal or illegal migration.

Isn’t the answer to stop migrants arriving and therefore the demand for homes will be eased. Or is that too simplistic?

The man who announced this land grab to the Commons was a chap called Matthew Pennycook, the Housing Minister. Worth looking him up on Wikipedia.

People like him dominate the Labour benches. They either come up through charities or the trade union movement. Probably hate capitalism, don’t think much of local democracy and can’t wait to turn that local park into a council estate so they can reward their voters with massively subsidised rents.

Perhaps the darkest hour on Black Friday came with the Justice Secretary saying due to the huge backlog of 73,105 CASES waiting for trial in the crown court the government were considering dropping jury trial for some serious cases.

That would be a huge mistake. Juries are the cornerstone of our legal system. The first jury trial was held in 1220 and the seeds were sown by Henry 11 (1154-1189) who established a jury of 12 local knights to settle disputes over the ownership of land.

When Henry came to the throne there were 18 judges in the country – compared to more than 40,000 today.

I accept there is a crisis in our system and the answer is more judges and more prisons. The answer is not scrapping juries and leaving one man or woman to decide the defendant’s fate. Too open to corruption and manipulation.

At the end of an awful week for Starmer the UK finds itself in the grip of a recession, about to see our green belt destroyed and a jury system which has withstood 800 years of tyrants being dismantled.

All that after just six months of socialism. God knows what the country will look like at the end of five years.