By now, readers will have seen that President Trump has come out with an explosive condemnation of Keir Starmer and his Government.
Frankly, this post could hardly be more scathing, employing as it does such sarcastic terms as “our brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom and saying Starmer’s Chagos giveaway is being done “FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER”, and that "The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY”.
Goodness me. Or as my friends in Washington might say: “Wow.” You have to give it to the US President. He releases this bombshell on the day the Commons meets to give the final approval to Starmer's universally condemned Chagos deal.
What will Starmer's MPs make of this? For months, Trump’s apparent approval of his plans to give away the most important piece of military real estate the UK still possesses in the world has been one of the mainstays of the PM's defence.
'Trump likes it, so it must be okay', goes the argument.
No longer. In one fell Trumpian late-night flurry of keyboard activity, US support has been swept from under Starmer's already wobbly feet.
Not only are the Prime Minister's plans plain wrong, but they are an act of "great stupidity", thunders President Trump. I actually have one small critique of the US President’s characterisation. I’ll tell you why.
Branding Keir Starmer's Chagos deal 'stupid' is too generous. The devil is in the details - Leigh Evans
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Firstly, don’t get me wrong. President Trump is quite right to stand firmly against this disastrous deal. My difference with the President is that this has been done cynically, for reasons that conform with the Prime Minister’s bizarre, guilt-ridden view of the World and the UK’s place within it.
One might almost say that Sir Keir has shown more interest in being PM because of the power it gives him to enact these views than to concentrate 100 per cent on the problems besetting him at home.
So, President Trump is right to condemn the deal as an act of great stupidity, but he is too generous in failing to say Sir Keir is acting like an international rights lawyer against the interests of his own country.
And I comment as someone who managed to get a letter he wrote hand-delivered to a member of the Donald’s inner circle to be put into the hands of the great man.
The organisations I have the honour to chair, the Campaign for an Independent Britain (CIBUK) and particularly Brexit Facts4EU, published on Chagos long before it became fashionable to do so.
This culminated in the triumph of the letter.
Sadly, I cannot reveal how I managed this, or I would lose some very special friendships. What matters is that this letter was just one effort out of many different attempts to raise this with the Administration, which have all finally come home to roost. And roost in an explosive way.
At this point, it is important to mention our good friend Claire Bullivant of GB-PAC, who has toiled tirelessly and who truly deserves all the credit - and a medal, come to that.
A special shout-out is also due to GB News, who were the only channel to voice the opposition to this dreadful deal over many months.
I will single out one Editor, Adam Chapman, who authorised the covering of our report about that important letter. If only the BBC and Sky News were as receptive and open.
Now we must cross our fingers. I can only urge you all to inundate your MPs’ Parliamentary offices with phone calls and emails, insisting that they vote to block this deal this afternoon.
It will be nothing short of a disaster for the United Kingdom, for the US, and for the Western world if it is allowed to proceed.
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