War is hell, but Starmer is pants
Unless you’ve been impersonating Rip Van Winkle, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White or Rachel from accounts, you’ll know that Trump is waging war on Iran. This has prompted the usual keffiyeh-wearing klowns to object to a regime getting its komeuppance for torturing and murdering women and gays simply for being women and gays. The klowns’ rationale is that if Netanyahu doesn’t like the Ayatollahs, they must be the good guys even though they murder women and gays for simply being women and gays. Ah, the Hope-not-Hate brigade has been exposed for what they are: Hateful no-Hopers. Meanwhile Greta Thundabunga, the Scandinavian and female (at a stretch) clone of Chris Packham, is bleating about Cuba, thus sending the message that the war with Iran is of little consequence, and there’s no longer a climate crisis. By careering from cause to cause, just like Packham, she’s trying desperately and failing comically to be relevant and to achieve something. Anything.
Starmer, epitomising the concept of deer in headlights, donned his diapers and vacillated in his support for Trump – the leader of Blighty’s most entrenched, staunchest and strategically necessary ally – citing international law. This is a bit rich given that Starmer has no time for British law, justice or due process. If he had, then the Pakistani Muslim rapist gangs would be subject to the full force of the law and not a token slapped wrist; jury trials that can be traced back to the 12th century and Henry II (who, for Lammy’s benefit, came after Henry I*) would continue; the strategically vital Chagos Islands would remain British; and the enforced-dying bill would die a death. But then it’s not really about international law, is it. Starmer is trying to protect his Muslim supporter base from the cabbage-brained breast-enhancer.
In any event, Starmer’s international-law stance is pathetic, embarrassing and dangerous on many fronts. For one thing, when a war breaks out, that’s a non-cryptic clue that someone somewhere is breaking international law. By whinging that you’re going to respond by following international law, Starmer is handing a copy of Waging War by Dummies to the enemy to enable them to pre-empt his next (non-)move and defeat if not destroy us.
Starmer, like the keffiyeh klowns, claims Trump’s war is illegal. It might be; there are arguments for and against the legality of his aggression. But given that the Ayatollahs have broken international law for decades, along with perpetrating human rights abuses by the quarry-load, and were weeks away from being nuclear-weapon ready (either by processing their own fuel stockpiles or taking delivery of warheads from one of their mates), then I’d say Trump was morally justified in going in now. Such a war in the Middle East was a long time coming and, if not now, then next year or the year after or in five years’ time… Negotiations have been / are / would be futile.
Had Starmer been a Churchillian statesman, he would have found a way to not piss off Trump without going full Dr Strangelove. That’s what statesmen do – they successfully walk a tightrope from end to end. But Starmer takes one look at the tightrope from the safety of his echo chamber before stepping back from the breach, dear friends, and finding solace in the arms of his Romanian play mates.
Having failed to man up either alongside or against Trump, Starmer scrabbled around for someone he might get the better of and look like he was doing something positive for Britain (first time for everything I suppose). He decided to attack the GDP-generating, job-creating, indispensable, pride-of-Britain oil and gas industry, when he should have shown solidarity with them. He – and Reeves and Minibrain – accused the industry and particularly the petrol forecourts of price gouging and profiteering. Thankfully the Petrol Retailers Association, who represent the UK's independent fuel retailers, shot back and explained in words of less than one syllable how the market works. When our PM, Chancellor and Minister for Hot Air don't understand how fuel is purchased, then is it in any wonder this country is being flushed down the toilet. Hold that thought. The PRA temporarily pulled out of a meeting with the Government in response to its inflammatory language that had probably led to abuse of petrol forecourt staff.
This whole affair has once again shown up Starmer and his Stasi for the cowards and bullies that they are. They have form, having adopted such tactics against the water industry because they think it’s more politically expedient not to acknowledge publicly the progress made by the privatised companies in the face of moving goalposts and arse-covering regulations. I wish Water UK, the trade association for the industry, would do a PRA and cancel a headline meeting with the Government in protest at its inflammatory language and twisted statistics. (Wouldn't that be a great name for a rock band?)
American Civil War General William T. Sherman infamously said, “War is hell.” Starmer, on the other hand, seems to consider war an opportunity to shore up his support amongst Muslim voters by being beastly to Trump, whatever the consequences for British Jews or even Christians.
Compare Starmer’s response to war with Maggie’s decisiveness regarding the Falklands and Kuwait. Chalk and cheese. Starmer falls back on the straitjacket of international law as defined and interpreted by those who don’t have Blighty’s best interests at heart. Maggie, on the other hand, was inspired by patriotism and female intuition.
Maggie is the bee’s knees, whereas Starmer is the horse’s arse.
Love him, loath him or be indifferent to him, Trump has the courage of his convictions, he doesn't dilly dally, giving his enemies time to shore up and prepare, he literally goes in all guns blazing. And who should raise his ugly head to critisize Starmer,none other than war monger Blair, The Perky to Bush's Pinky of politics. Bush's lap dog, so desperate to emmulate Maggies supreme leadership over the Falklands he let himself be led by the nose for his own vain self glory. Who could forget him grinning like a demented loon as we pulled out leaving caeos behind, thousands of out own dead and no proof neuclear weapons ever actually existed. Don't let us forget Barak Obamas famous "they will not cross the Red line" speech, when they dis cross it he moved it.
ReplyDeleteStarmer's not the worse leader in the worls, he's just not a leader, you put a pussy in a den of bitches and biters and said pussy runs away, tail between his legs.