You know what? I don’t expect any British Prime Minister to go toe-to-toe with any President of the United States of America. Not even Keir Starmer.
Not because of some mythical “special relationship”, as that really is utter nonsense, but because we haven’t had a British Prime Minister who is willing to be an honest friend to the most powerful nation on earth for the vast majority of my lifetime.
I know the patriots (busy protecting “are girls”) would disagree with me wholeheartedly when I say cloutless Britain — once the envy of empires — now squats in the global corner like a has-been aristocrat clutching a faded tiara, and the aforementioned “special relationship” with the US means we are reduced to begging for pathetic scraps from Washington’s neoliberal feast.
Britain twitches on the world stage like a severed limb still jerking from one of those phantom nerve signals. Ask around the world what they think of us, and if you don’t want to do that, I can tell you we are seen as utterly fucking irrelevant, a racist little rock clinging to delusions of grandeur while the planet rightfully leaves it to rot in a pile of its own Brexit-fuelled misery.
Britain isn’t a serious country anymore. It’s a tax haven with a fucking flag.
I must admit, I’ll be a bit disappointed if I don’t get told to “fuck off and live in Gaza” after those last few paragraphs. We’re not allowed to be honest about who we are and where we came from, are we?
Starmer and his snivelling centrist suit
But I’m not here today to remind you of the fact that we have been taken hostage by a parasitic elite of hedge-fund ghouls, tabloid poison-peddlers, and Etonian sociopaths, as tempting as it might be.
As I said, I don’t expect Keir Starmer to show some guts and tell the tangerine tantrum in Washington that you cannot just go around inflicting regime changes or potentially colonise the world’s largest island under the false guise of national security.
But expectation and want are two very different things.
Keir Starmer — a sniveling centrist suit masquerading as a Labour leader — is the epitome of spinelessness. If Starmer ever had some sort of backbone, it dissolved the moment he got the slightest sniff of power while plunging a Remain-tinted knife into the back of Jeremy Corbyn.
Spineless
Starmer is an invertebrate. How can he ever stand up to a tyrannical fascist like Trump when he so easily caves into the British right-wing press’s hysteria over something like “fiscal responsibility”, instead of fighting for a redistribution of wealth that could almost end child poverty overnight? Can somebody ask him, please?
Starmer is an embarrassing imperialist lapdog, way too terrified to bark at his masters.
In case you have forgotten, Starmer is already complicit in genocide, refusing to call for an immediate ceasefire, arming Israel’s apartheid terrorist regime while Palestinians are being bombed into oblivion, and suspending Labour MPs who dare speak up for humanity.
Keir Starmer is a spineless weasel of a so-called Labour leader. He is too terrified to utter a peep against Donald Trump’s brazen imperialist rampage in Venezuela, lest he ruffle the feathers of his orange overlord across the Atlantic.
But outright betrayal is so much more than just weakness.
Betrayal
The capitulation to US hegemony has exposed Starmer as a complicit stooge in the long, bloody tradition of Western empire-building, all while pretending to uphold “international law” like the human rights lawyer he once cosplayed as.
Israel is still killing Palestinians babies. International law is a farce, Mr Starmer, you fucking awful wet rag.
We are witnessing the demise of rules-based order, and the best Starmer and his pathetic, arrogant media room PLP regulars can murmur is some nonsense about upholding international law?
Keir Starmer’s leadership is built on fear. He is scared of alienating the US, scared of rocking the NATO boat, scared of offending the toxic Murdoch press and scared of the City financiers who profit from endless wars and resource grabs.
He’s the ultimate Atlantic brown-nose, prioritising the special relationship over genuine solidarity with the Global South, where Venezuela’s people have suffered under US sanctions designed to starve them into submission.
Starmer is a danger to all of us
Starmer’s cowardice endangers the world. If Britain won’t call out its closest ally’s lawlessness, who will? Starmer’s passivity isn’t pragmatism, it’s moral bankruptcy, paving the way for more Putins, Netanyahus, and Trumps.
True internationalism means standing with oppressed nations against tyrants and bullies, not grovelling to them. If Starmer had a spine, he’d denounce Trump, push for UN sanctions on the US, and rally Europe against this colonial madness.
Keir Starmer is not a leader; he is a symptom of Labour’s terminal illness.
The Labour Party has been hijacked by careerist ghouls who fear poor and working-class people more than they fear the bosses. He’s despised because he is utterly empty. There is no vision, no fire, just a hollow suit echoing establishment lies.
If you want a leader who is a shamefully spineless quisling who would rather grovel to power than wield it for change, Keir ‘Rodney’ Starmer is your man.
Gutless.
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