Britain is thinking small. It's time we started thinking like champions

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GB News's editorial director writes about what Andy Burnham's appearance at the Hill Dickinson Stadium says about the future of Britain

No one should ever be satisfied with winning the Carabao Cup.

At the start of a season, each elite football club, and its fans, should have towering ambitions.

Everyone should aspire to get their hands on the league title, the Champions League, if they are in it.

A team powered by the desire to be the best they possibly can be.

Set your sights low and you’ll see that all half-hearted gets is second best.

The same principle applies to countries and their governments.

That’s why this week, my heart sank a little, seeing our Prime Minister a little over-excited at his beloved Everton’s nervy 1-0 win over Wolves.

Now, forgive me if you believe I’m over-thinking, but it left me even more concerned about where 'our team', indeed our country, is heading.

Britain should only ever have a Champions League-winning mentality.

Last Saturday night, at London’s Royal Albert Hall, at the Last Night of the Proms, the crowd displayed the true triumphant spirit of this country, a nation that has done more than any other to innovate and explore around the world.

The annual, rousing, flag-waving blast of 'Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves, Britons never, never, never will be slaves’ is not only a wonderful, patriotic message, but it’s also a mission statement, a statement of national intent.

But the mood music we get from our leaders isn’t quite as optimistic. If the spectacle of the Prime Minister being a little overjoyful at the side of his progressive Canuck comrade Mark Carney – both in matching blue and white scarves – had been in isolation, then I maybe wouldn’t have been so concerned.

But that same day the Prime Minister spoke to broadcasters with a new gloomy tone that should strike fear into all of us in the GB News community.

He said next month’s Budget will be “challenging” but claimed not to want to do anything that would affect living standards.

We were also told that he and Chancellor John Healey had been alarmed at the scale of Britain’s financial black hole, blaming international pressures for driving up inflation and putting more pressure on your family finances.

The quick change in the mood of the government’s messaging is stark.

Suddenly, it seems that hope is harder to find than an Ed Sheeran support act at a bar mitzvah.

But the country can’t take much more negativity. We don’t want another Winter filled with discontent and uncertainty.

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But there’s already warning signs that this supposedly refreshed government is just like Sir Keir Starmer’s.

We used to build Empires, we led the Industrial Revolution, and we changed the world for the better.

But now people think so little of our Westminster leadership’s ideas that they would prefer to go it alone.

The brave people of Piddington illustrated that this week's voting – albeit symbolically – to be independent of Britain rather than have thousands of migrant men forced upon their locality against their will.

They said they were ‘listening’ but were going to carry on with the plan anyway – seemingly not bothered that our neighbourhoods are being changed forever by their failure to stop the boats.

And the idea the flow is going to stop anytime soon seemed to be a pipe dream from what GB News presenter Patrick Christys witnessed during his shocking investigation across the Channel a few days ago.

As we really listen to you, unlike any other British media organisation, we can hear there’s plenty of unhappy rumblings in other towns and villages across Britain.

It’s not just Piddington. And we stand with you. It’s got to be better than this.

We have no idea if Nigel Farage or Kemi Badenoch would deliver any better given the chance. It remains to be seen if Mr Burnham can come good.

But a run-up to Christmas with a Budget that drives up taxes and only benefits the already booming red tape manufacturing industry will be a hammer blow to families.

We can’t be happy with mid-table mediocracy, and we can’t keep on being told to accept less. You are all ambitious, hopeful people who deserve an elite winning mentality at the top.

A nation with a Champions League mindset rules the waves. Set your sights on the Carabao Cup, and you'll end up with a country so desperate; we celebrate simply when a bus or train runs on time.