So the nice fraud unravels. When Keir Starmer introduced himself for election, we had the imprecise impression that he was boring however straight. He is perhaps a bit lawyerly and nit-picking, however he was going to control this nation with a puritan hostility to sleaze.
Take a look at him at this time, so deep within the trough as to be virtually invisible. He’s nonetheless sporting a really costly pair of spectacles that have been truly purchased for him by a person who was later given a go to No 10.
Accepting the spectacles was greed. Giving the donor a go was corruption. Why is Starmer nonetheless sporting them?
He nonetheless swanks round in sleaze-funded fits. How can get away with it? Determined to attract a line below the scandal, he says he’s going to pay again among the freebies.
He’s writing out a cheque for £6,000 to cowl the price of some Taylor Swift tickets and different fripperies. However what concerning the specs, Keir? What concerning the tens of 1000’s of kilos price of garments that you just and your loved ones have apparently accepted from this identical Lord Alli?
Take a look at him at this time, so deep within the trough as to be virtually invisible. He nonetheless swanks round in sleaze-funded fits, writes BORIS JOHNSON
Why not cough up for the whole thing? What’s the logic of this £6,000 refund? The place is it supposed to go away the remainder of the freeboholic Labour entrance bench?
By their chief’s instance, they need to now be writing out big cheques for all these soccer matches and opera tickets and no matter else they’ve taken. The entire thing is rank, and chaotic, and above all it’s weak.
It was weak to take the spectacles, when the Labour chief is not at all poor; weak to permit another chap to purchase frocks on your spouse; and pathetically weak to assume you’ll be able to finish the scandal by writing a cheque for £6,000.
It’s the sheer spinelessness of this Labour authorities that’s now turning into really horrifying. Take a look at the entire catastrophe within the Indian Ocean, the place Labour has all of the sudden given up UK sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, an archipelago that has been British since 1814. It’s a complete unforced error, a pointless emasculation of this nation.
It implies that the clock is now ticking for Diego Garcia, the large air base that has been of such large strategic worth to each the US and the UK. Now we have agreed to offer it up in 99 years – the short while, should you assume like Beijing. Worse nonetheless, it implies that all the opposite islands within the Chagos archipelago are actually out there to be army bases for – you guessed it – the Chinese language.
Why did Starmer do it? What was the purpose of handing this significant nationwide asset to Mauritius?
Once I was Overseas Secretary, and later after I was PM, I had a few conversations with the Mauritians through which I patiently defined to them that their declare to the islands was utterly with out benefit. Take a look at the map.
The clock is now ticking for Diego Garcia, the large air base that has been of such large strategic worth to each the US and the UK
Mauritius is 1,300 miles from the Chagos islands. There is no such thing as a earthly purpose why they need to have sovereignty over Diego Garcia. Why have we so pathetically handed them over?
I’ll inform you why – as a result of our nation is now run by individuals who despise the legacy and reminiscence of the British Empire, and who essentially need it disposed of – as quick as doable. They take a look at all our abroad territories, they usually shudder with embarrassment.
They assume that in any international territorial dispute, Britain is prone to be within the improper. Certainly, they’re typically lavishly paid – like Starmer’s buddy Philippe Sands, one other Leftie lawyer – to show that Britain is within the improper.
I’m afraid they’re abetted by a number of Overseas Workplace varieties who assume – dementedly – that by publicly mutilating ourselves we are able to win the approval of the remainder of the world. They assume that by surrendering our outdated possessions, we are able to soften post-imperial resentments, and win ‘affect’.
I have to inform you that these persons are out of their tiny minds. We don’t win affect by displaying such weak spot. We earn contempt.
What do they assume, in Beijing, once they see Starmer pointlessly surrendering the Chagos Islands? They’re laughing their pants off. Would they do the identical? Not in your nelly. They’re buying new bases all over the world – not limp-wristedly handing over their rightful possessions.
For the primary time in a long time I’m now genuinely anxious about Britain abroad, from Gibraltar to the Falkland Islands.
That is what occurs if you find yourself ruled not by Blairites – as they pretended to be on the election – however by Leftie ideologues, individuals who secretly or overtly hate such very important ideas as US hegemony, ‘Western values’, Nato, an unbiased British nuclear deterrent or Israel’s proper to defend itself.
This week Starmer declared that he stood ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with Israelis as they got here below an enormous ballistic onslaught from Tehran. Actually? Shoulder to shoulder?
This is identical Starmer who cravenly capitulated to the Lefties in his occasion just a few weeks in the past and imposed an arms embargo on the one democracy within the Center East – at a time when Israel is below existential risk. Shoulder to shoulder? It could be laughable if it weren’t so nauseating.
Shoulder to shoulder with Hamas and Hezbollah, extra like. The world can see this weak spot, pushed by Leftie ideology, and it’s sapping confidence on this nation overseas.
There was a time when the UK was seen because the main European proponent and supporter of a free Ukraine: not below Starmer, I’m afraid.
Maybe worst of all is the systematic Labour weakening of Britain’s new-found constitutional independence. For Labour Lefties like Starmer, the EU is the last word progressive mission – the full burying of outdated outdated parliamentary sovereignty, the gradual erosion of nationhood itself.
So it’s no surprise that opposite to all their guarantees, they’re attempting to pull us again into the orbit of the EU; again into the magnetic pull of the EU authorized order, even when we’ve got no say in making the legal guidelines.
This week Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, introduced that she doesn’t thoughts if the UK is a ‘rule taker’ on such issues as chemical requirements, and naturally that will likely be only the start.
Rule taker. Savour these phrases. What does it imply to be a ‘rule taker’? It means you’re a vassal state, a colony.
There you’ve the results of Starmer’s mad Left-wing agenda: bonelessly to give up Britain’s former colonies, and switch this nation right into a colony of Brussels.
If we had been a rule taker in the course of the pandemic, we’d by no means have licensed the vaccines as quick as we did; we’d by no means have delivered the quickest vaccine roll-out in Europe.
Starmer’s fraud – much more insidious than the fraud of pretending that Waheed Alli’s flat was his personal – has been to wrap himself repeatedly, in each picture, within the Union Flag. He gave the nation the impression that he was going to face up for Britain.
The tragic actuality is that his Left-wing ideology is now weakening this nation, at dwelling and overseas. The earlier we Tories discover a new chief, and take the struggle to those champagne-quaffing Labour surrenderists, the higher for Britain.
