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WATCH: Dr Renee Hoenderkamp says she is 'tired of everything being controlled or banned' by Labour
Oct 18, 2025
Dr Renee Hoenderkamp has launched a blistering attack on Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Government, demanding they stop "meddling in our lives".Speaking on GB News, The Saturday Five star declared she was "tired" of the Prime Minister and his Government "sucking every last bit of freedom and agency out of me".FULL STORY HERE.
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So, I've been really tired this week, really, really tired, and I just wanted to talk about it
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I've been properly tired, not the need and nap kind of tired, but the state is slowly sucking every last bit of freedom and agency out of me kind of tired
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Everything's controlled, banned or about to be. I'm tired of working harder and harder and ending up with less
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tired of paying more taxes, getting less in return, tired of government deciding what my child learns
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about sex, family and everything else at school and treating me like an interfering bystander
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I'm tired of being told that maybe I won't even get a pension, the one that I've slogged decades for
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I'm tired of owning a car that I love, but I can't actually drive it meaningfully
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24 miles an hour, wrong turn here, wrong road there, wrong day, wrong engine, flash, another fine
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I'm tired of being told that my boiler has to go, that I can fly can eat meat can burn coal can use petrol then apparently everything I learnt at medical school is now wrong think Facts offensive Biology optional And heaven forbid that I might call a spade a spade and feel the heavy hand of the law
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And the worst bit? My daughter will grow up not even knowing the joys that she has lost
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She won't drive a car, she won't own anything, she won't work in the way that we understand work, that fulfilling work
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This global overreach in ever more autocratic and controlling government is sucking the fun and spontaneity out of life with every last ounce of freedom
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It is exhausting. René, well said. Bruce, in 1916, in 1940... You're not wild
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You can remember back for me. Back to the 40s. You had hundreds and thousands of British men who had run into machine gun fire because they believed that there were things that were more important than safety
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They believed that liberty was more important than safety Something has happened There been an inversion Now we look at liberty as a second order priority compared to the safety that Renee just mentioned How has that happened
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Consistently poor governments, consistently bowing to minority needs, forgetting what the backbone of
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this country is, which is the working class, construction, the blue collar jobs, the people
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that go out every morning at six o'clock in the morning. They're forgetting, I think they're
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Forget what family life is, what it is to enjoy life, what people need to do that
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People have just systematically over. For me, it's since 1997 predominantly that there has just been a decline, a massive rise in national debt, a decline in social standards, a decline in in living standards, which never, ever, ever seems to get better
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And the worst thing is, is I would say that the British people have a strong constitution
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They stand proud, but we're getting to a point in society now where people are in despair
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Lots of people are in despair and they crying out to see when is this going to end When is the good thing coming And all we told is everything wrong And then we never get any good news because come November we all going to get bad news
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Just quickly, just so I can understand the authoritarian instinct. Why is it that the left seems to be getting more and more authoritarian, Kai
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I don't think it is. I think it's I think it's a function of how the world operates these days
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and that governments actually, instead of really quite deep and fundamental change
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which may well be what's needed and what many Brits increasingly are turning to
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they tinker around the edges or sort of try to affect outcomes and things like that
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and legislate around what you can and can't do and things like that. I mean, that is..
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You add on to this, layer on top of this, the fact that we live our lives on technologies
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that can be maybe used for ill, but also that run our lives
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So things like digital ID you see as an authoritarian nightmare. But the fact of the matter is it's the way the world is going
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I think we're also at the mercy. We cannot just accept it's the way the world is going
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