As a fed up Brit, I've got Trump envy...

You know that feeling when someone you're in a restaurant with orders a dish that looks nicer than yours? I've got that feeling about America at the moment. Here we are, with this vacuous new Labour government who in six short months have tanked the economy, given away British sovereign territory and told us that if we're worried about the consequences of mass legal and illegal immigration, we are “far right”. With this Labour government, Britain has definitely got stuck with the ugly girl at the party, as we look over to the United States and the hottie they have chosen in Donald Trump. In just hours, Trump has done more than Keir Starmer has done in half a year. And they are all policies we can only dream of. If Carlsberg did Prime Ministers, they would look a lot like Donald Trump.

How about this for a bill of fayre to make Brits jealous: he has declared a national emergency on the southern border, deploying an army of US troops to stop people entering the United States illegally. If only we had such an approach in the English channel. Trump has signed an executive order to terminate the right to citizenship of the offspring of people who have entered America illegally. Who could argue with this? The border is there for a reason, as is the law. He has withdrawn from the Paris climate agreement, which works against America's economic and strategic interests. Imagine having a leader that actually cared about their country?

Because whilst Net Zero may be a loadable goal, there's precious little point doing it if China - America's main competitor - is burning fossil fuels for fun. For America to sacrifice itself at the altar of Net Zero, the world’s fastest growing religion, is to hand power and a competitive advantage to Beijing, the most dangerous regime in the world. I’m all for cleaning up the planet, and it’s clear the Earth is heating up worryingly, but the ideological lust for Net Zero doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

The evidence base for a mainly green future just isn’t there, not if you’re also going to have a functioning economy and a good quality of life for your citizens. Net Zero is an inherently bourgeois, virtue-signalling, middle class idea which will impact the poorest in society. Well in America, those folk now have a champion in Donald Trump. He might be a billionaire, but many of the people who voted for him are ordinary Americans who have been crippled by the impact of inflation, and the indirect cost of Net Zero. Trump is going to make life easier for ordinary Americans straight away, by cancelling America's unaffordable green revolution. Meanwhile, here, we have Net Zero fanatic Ed Miliband, who has cancelled North Sea oil and gas projects, consigning us to decades of high energy bills and an uneven energy supply, all whilst betting the house on flaky renewables.

Trump has gone even further, declaring another national emergency, this time an energy emergency, with a new policy of promoting fossil fuel production, including lifting bans on oil drilling in certain areas, in order to boost domestic energy supply. This will help American businesses to manufacture things, it will create jobs and America will become a net exporter in oil again, so they will actually make money. Plus they will become even more energy independent, not reliant on international bad actors like Russia or Saudi Arabia to keep the lights on, in contrast to us idiots here in Europe. Trump has signed an executive order redefining gender at the federal level, as strictly male or female.

The principle that there are two biological sexes is now law, praise the Lord. Meanwhile, OUR Prime Minister doesn't know what a woman is, and still thinks that if you have a penis, you’re a lady. Trump's arrival in the White House has seen the instant death of diversity, equity and inclusion programmes that hand out opportunities based on skin colour, gender and sexual orientation. Now, merit, equality of opportunity and the best person for the job are back, as common sense is gloriously restored.

It is amazing to think that woke lefties in this country think that a focus on skin colour, and policies like racial segregation - including black-only audiences for the theatre - is somehow progress. All of that divisive – and er, racist - crap is dying a speedy death in the United States, where Martin Luther King’s dream of a colourblind society has been restored. Trump is going to introduce tariffs, in order to boost US businesses, in a policy that underpins Trump's America First approach. When was the last time Sir Keir Starmer put Britain first? Like Britain, the American state is far too big and bloated and expensive, so a hiring freeze on public sector employees has been enacted, with a new directive insisting that if you work for the government, you have to actually work for them, and go into the office five days a week. Which is game over for those who would happily take taxpayer millions to sit at home all day, baking banana bread, watching Netflix and cracking open their first bottle of San Miguel at 4 in the afternoon, as they peruse their final emails of the day. Trump has hired the world’s greatest and richest entrepreneur Elon Musk to establish the Department of Government Efficiency. Wouldn’t that be useful here in the UK, in the NHS for example, which - inexplicably - is the largest employer of humans in the whole of Europe. That's not a boast. That is evidence of its wild inefficiency.

Elon Musk bought Twitter, sacked 80% of its employees, with the product - if anything - slightly improved. Musk will now do that with all US government departments. Imagine such a shake-up in Whitehall. Now all of this has happened in a matter of hours, whilst Britain faces four more years of government waste, anemic growth and woke political correctness in our public and private institutions, all under a globalist Prime Minister in Starmer, who prefers his WEF mates in Davos than his voters in Britain. The rap sheet against this wooden, dishonest and uninspiring man is damning: gaslighting the public over the grooming gangs and the Southport triple murderer, perpetuating the fiction that you can change your sex or that a dude in high heels is a woman, handing over strategically sensitive sovereign territory in the South China Sea, robbing pensioners as they shiver in their homes, launching a war on aspiration with a tax raid on private schools, and threatening the integrity of our food supply, with a vicious assault on our amazing farmers.

Trump in America and Starmer in Britain. The contrast couldn't be clearer. In the end it is leftism versus conservatism, state control versus individual freedom, ideology versus common sense. Watch America thrive over the next four years, as Britain once against learns the hard lesson that socialism doesn't work. Under Trump the future’s bright, the future's orange. Under socialist Starmer, Britain will just sink further into the red.