Britain’s war hawks are very upset that Keir Starmer isn’t personally riding a bomb all the way to Tehran |
Have you heard enough pant-wetting about Britain’s “reputation” this week? Honestly, I don’t think any of us can bear the social embarrassment of not getting immediately involved in an obviously disastrous war in the Middle East. The awks of it. How will good old Britannia hold her head up high if she isn’t an instant ride-or-die for a US administration described by a former senior Nato commander as “gung-ho nutters” with “no clear understanding of how this thing is going to end”? You should be simply unable to stand it. You should have Middle East-catastrophe FOMO.
Opposition party leaders and politicians seem genuinely excruciated by the fact that Earth’s pettiest man, Donald Trump, sniffed earlier this week of Keir Starmer: “This is not Winston Churchill we’re dealing with.” Boo-hoo for you, pal. We’re having to deal with the Cheeto FDR, so everyone’s making sacrifices.
It’s often said that most things in Britain are about class, so maybe the Westminster meltdown about having at first declined our Paperless Post invitation to war is the geopolitical version of worrying you’re not keeping up with the Joneses. The Joneses in this case being a career vulgarian who addresses his nation in a baseball cap and whose defence secretary talks like a third-string capo in an AI mafia gif and is tattooed like a prison school desk.
Either way, it’s interesting to find politicians going so hard on the if-you’re-not-with-us-you’re-against-us stuff. This is very much not the view of the people, with polls showing UK citizens opposed to US-Israeli attacks on Iran by 49% to 28%. Pressed on this data indicating that wedged halfway up Trump’s colon is not actually where........