Kanga rude
IT is staggering to discover that Australian senator Lidia Thorpe is 51.
She behaves like a stroppy, radicalised 14-year-old.
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What a ridiculous spectacle she made of herself with her foul-mouthed outburst at the King — and her social media account then posting a repugnant, violent image of him.
What damage she has done too to her own indigenous rights cause.
King Charles is not in Australia lording it over the colonials.
He is an invited guest of its government and paused his cancer treatment to be there.
He is fully respectful towards republican sentiment.
But most Aussies in fact want to continue with our monarchy and indeed increasingly like it.
Thorpe abused her position to bellow her teenage soundbites about “genocide” and historical wrongs, as if our King can be blamed for those in 2024 and as if she spoke for her nation. She doesn’t.
She barely speaks for anyone but herself and the Twitter following for whom this protest was presumably planned.
What a graceless and unpleasant idiot.
OAPs’ tax trap
IF they’re not already shivering in freezing homes this winter without their annual fuel payment, pensioners may be hit by a different sort of freeze.
Some 1.5million are set to be clobbered by 2030 if tax thresholds remain unchanged at the Budget.
In many cases, it will mean their meagre incomes nudge above the lower limit for the first time.
After 14 years of their living standards gradually improving, old folk will barely know what has hit them in just four months under Labour.
We would call it a double-whammy.
Except it’ll be a triple whammy if Chancellor Rachel Reeves does the unthinkable and hikes fuel duty too.
Millions of pensioners drive.
They’ll have lost their annual heating bung, been hit with tax bills and then forced to find £3 extra every time they fill the car.
All while militant unions are bribed with inflation-shattering pay rises.
Labour must stop using our OAPs as cash machines.
Last rights
WE are shocked — shocked — to discover Angela Rayner’s workers’ rights Bill will do next to nothing for growth and instead cost businesses £5billion.
And this is the Government’s own glum analysis. In practice it may be far more damaging. Increased workers’ rights aren’t much good if firms can’t afford to recruit in the first place.
This detailed report confirms what most of us knew from the off.
Rayner was a Unison shop steward.
Her Bill’s only real purpose is to turbo-charge power for her militant mates.
To hell with businesses, or growth.