Zarah Sultana has called out leadership hopeful Wes Streeting in his cynical attempt to use the illegal war on Iraq to ‘shoot down’ war criminal Tony Blair.
Wes Streeting is, of course, right to acknowledge the “terrible cost in Iraq” inflicted by the West. But his support for continued arms sales to Israel as it wages its genocide against Palestinians lays bare his sickening hypocrisy.
It is a sickening hypocrisy that Sultana has easily exposed:
Against the Iraq War, yet was perfectly content to back the UK government arming Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Wes Streeting seems to only care about brown lives when there’s something in it for him.
*checks notes*
Against the Iraq War, yet was perfectly content to back the UK government arming Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Wes Streeting seems to only care about brown lives when there’s something in it for him.
Absolutely do one. https://t.co/vZpBNfpJuW
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) May 27, 2026
Zarah Sultana is absolutely spot on – condemning catastrophic Western violence in Iraq means absolutely nothing when we know Streeting has been supporting and enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza ever since it began.
For too long, Western politicians have thrown empty, virtue-signalling platitudes out in order to gain votes – clearly the intention at the heart of Streeting’s criticism of Blair’s involvement in Iraq. After all, Streeting will very much find himself in a similar position to Blair further down the line, when MPs finally accept that the genocide in Gaza is indeed the ultimate crisis of our time.
It is a crisis entirely man-made and made possible thanks to morally bankrupt politicians like Streeting and other Labour MPs in bed with Zionist Israel.
Retrospective condemnation alongside active participation in Gaza
In his original video, Wes Streeting attempts to win favour with voters by invoking the illegal war in Iraq – a war that people have widely recognised and condemned as such.
In doing so, he also appears to challenge the war-hungry US President:
When American presidents flirt with authoritarian leaders, when they undermine international law, when they embark on military adventurism, it’s really important that Britain is able to act independently and in accordance with our own interests and values.
Streeting then invoked the incestuous relationship between the US and UK when we allied up in the mass-murdering military campaign on Iraq:
If we’re in any doubt about that, just look back to the war in Iraq and what happened then, when loyalty to America replaced good judgment.
We can’t let that happen again and that’s just one of a number of points I’ve made in response to Tony Blair’s essay on the future of Labour today.
If Streeting thought it would get him the numbers to have a decent run at PM, he would be pro-Iraq War. https://t.co/lRga23VfP8
— Sean Biggerstaff (@Seanchuckle) May 27, 2026
What about Gaza, Wes?
Wes Streeting knows that most people will agree with his criticism of war criminal Tony Blair. People have widely condemned the illegal war in Iraq, and the millions who marched against Western violence and disastrous military intervention were only proven right.
But nobody wanted vindication. People wanted leaders to listen at the time – and to act to stop it.
It is a feeling that many pro-Palestine protesters and activists share and have made clear since 7 October 2023. Nevertheless, Mandelson’s buddy Wes Streeting has never intervened or challenged our ongoing complicity in a genocide happening today.
Therefore, he must not be forgiven for the countless lives he has had a hand in mutilating and murdering through ongoing arm sales and military cooperation.
Our memory isn’t as short as Wes’s though, and we remember how he fawned over Blair’s ‘appointment’ to administer post-genocide Gaza.
Speaking to LBC last October, Streeting had quite a bit of praise for Blair and his “great legacy”:
I also think about Tony Blair’s other legacy, great legacy, which is Northern Ireland, and there he showed that he could bring together sworn enemies to broker a lasting peace.
So, if Tony Blair can put those skills to use, if he’s got the confidence of both the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the regional players, as seems to be the case, then great. If he can make that contribution, and that can be another legacy, a positive legacy under his belt, then so much the better.
It’s funny how he’s not praising this ‘legacy’ now that Blair doesn’t appear over the moon with the former health secretary.
It increasingly seems that careerism is all Wes Streeting knows. Hardly anyone will feel surprised by that – but he has at least made it remarkably easy to underline.
Streeting has chosen to oppose a historical war because he believes it might further his career.
Instead, he could speak speak out about Gaza and Lebanon because it’s the right thing to do.
Crickets from Streeting on that score https://t.co/zDtoEwEWgQ
— Just an observer #Fromtherivertothesea (@meatfreemeals1) May 28, 2026
Voters see through him
Wes Streeting may hope to succeed Keir Starmer, but his attempts to recast himself will not erase what many people already recognise: he has done diddly squat to stop the mass-murder of Brown people today in Palestine at the hands of Zionist Israel, armed with British bombs and bullets.
Moreover, he has repeatedly treated allegations of antisemitism with far greater seriousness and emotion than Islamophobia in the NHS. This unsurprisingly has meant – even after mass-purging leftists from Labour – that Streeting only had a 4% favourability rating leaving him in the shadow of the very same leader he now wishes to oust.
Now, in an attempt to woo Brown voters and Westerners who rightly recognise the West’s criminal war of aggression in Iraq, Wes Streeting once again only highlights his refusal to acknowledge the egregious crimes against humanity still happening today in Gaza.
Therefore, voters must not be fooled by Streeting, and like Zarah Sultana says, tell him to:
Absolutely do one.
Featured image via Carl Court/Getty Images
From Canary via This RSS Feed.