Let’s face it, Sir Keir Starmer couldn’t wear braces because he hasn’t got a backbone.
On Saturday, he goes on TV to tell us that he won’t be supporting the US by allowing them to use our RAF bases because, according to him and the cowardly lawyers in his government, the war wasn’t legal.
This receives a huge round of applause from the Left and Muslims up and down the land.
Quite rightly, Trump’s people made it clear the ‘’special relationship‘’ meant nothing if they couldn’t even rely on the UK to support them when they were taking out a global terrorist on the verge of possessing nuclear bombs.
Australia and Canada stepped up to the plate and told the US they were right behind them. Starmer, despite the fact that we are the second most important military power in NATO, remained hidden behind the sofa.
Twenty-four hours later came the reverse ferret.
He returned to our TV screens, but with a fresh message. Having spent the night changing his underpants, he decided to allow the US to use the bases. Mind you, he said, it could only be defensive. Is he mad? Is he stupid? Has he totally lost the plot?
In what way, with missiles flying all over the Middle East, can it possibly be defensive? The man is a total charlatan.
The about-turn makes him and the nation look beyond weak, but it will come as no surprise. As we all know, he has a history in this area. He emerged with a First from the School of U-turns and after 21 months in power has 16 distinctions.
Our PM couldn't wear braces because he has no backbone. This Iran U-turn is true to form - Kelvin MacKenzie
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Alison Pearson, the Telegraph columnist, made a good point on X when she asserted that Starmer and his fellow lawyer, the Attorney General Lord Hermer, would have decided between 1939 and 1945 that regime change in Germany was not compatible with international law.
It was her last point I liked best: we need leaders, not lawyers.
Starmer’s time at No.10 has been nothing short of a disaster. For the voters, for the economy, and I’m happy to say, for the Labour Party.
He doesn’t believe in anything and feels that being a greasy, stab-you-in-the-back type of lawyer, he could ‘’handle’’ President Trump. No, he couldn’t. He neither has the intellect nor the political ammunition.
I doubt Trump will forgive Starmer for being effectively bombed into the war with the Iranian drone come down on our RAF base in Cyprus. I suspect trade deals will become tougher. Trump likes rewarding his friends and damaging his enemies.
With the Greens, the Lib-Dems and the majority of his own party all shouting ’the war isn’t legal’, Starmer will look more and more pathetic as he speaks out of both sides of his mouth, saying I agree with you on one hand and I disagree with you on the other.
There was never any doubt, as far as I was concerned, he would be slung out after the May elections. This latest U-turn makes it an absolute certainty.
These are dangerous times, and what we need from our government is certainty. They are a divided house. Starmer reflects this.
The only section of society enjoying the nation’s discomfort over Iran will be followers of Islam. The deputy leader of the Greens, Mothin Ali, was pictured at a protest in support of the destabilised Iranian regime on Saturday.
So, we have living here, a political leader who doesn’t fight for thousands of young victims murdered by Khameini’s thugs but for the thugs themselves.
How is that possible, and how is it that there are UK voters who find that attractive?
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