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WELL that was a wish list of which the Right in Britain could only dream.
As Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Nigel Farage, Priti Patel and Suella Braverman looked on in Washington DC, Donald Trump showed them how it’s done.
In a bonfire of the wokeries, he tore up more than a decade of political kowtowing to trans rights campaigners, endless diversity targets and the relentless and financially crippling drive to go green.
Troops engaged to stop illegal migration is something Reform have promised and the Tories tried but failed to deliver: Trump did it with the flick of the Presidential pen.
Even gently tweaking spurious targets to phase out petrol or diesel cars caused Rishi Sunak a massive political headache when he tried it in the UK last year.
Donald Trump scrapped them entirely within ten minutes of being sworn in.
Censorship, working-from-home civil servants and vast government waste also went up in smoke in what President Trump called “Liberation Day”.
It used to be said that when the American economy sneezed the rest of the world got a cold.
If the same logic can be applied to America’s “common sense revolution” perhaps the tide will begin to turn over here on some of these issues once seen as politically toxic to touch.
