Starmer's Ukraine Bluster Masks Britain's Military Reality
Labour leader's promise of 'boots on the ground' ignores our hollowed-out forces and struggling economy
Allison Pearson is absolutely right in her Telegraph column today. As Sir Keir Starmer postures on the world stage with talk of putting British 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine, the stark reality at home tells a different story. Our market towns are struggling, with local businesses facing their worst trading conditions in decades. The coming minimum wage increase and changes to National Insurance thresholds threaten to push many small enterprises over the edge.
The Labour leader's hawkish stance on Ukraine appears to be little more than political theatre. How can we possibly consider military intervention when our armed forces have been hollowed out to just 109,086 personnel? Our Navy can't fully deploy both aircraft carriers, we lack adequate numbers of frigates and destroyers, and our infantry numbers are woefully inadequate.
Most tellingly, Starmer's commitment to our military rings hollow when we consider his party's consistent failure to support veterans properly. The same soldiers he's eager to deploy into harm's way are often left struggling with inadequate support and resources once they return home. Worse, soldiers who survive face decades of lawfare led by Lord Hermer applying international interpretations over British interests.
The cold facts are damning:
British debt stands at 98% of GDP
Tax levels are at a 70-year high
Our last high-grade steel manufacturing capability at Port Talbot is being sacrificed
We can't even properly defend our own borders
European allies continue to fund Putin's war machine through fossil fuel purchases
Trump's recent…ahem…diplomatic manoeuvres, while controversial, might offer a pragmatic path to peace. Meanwhile, Starmer channels Churchill while lacking both the military capacity and moral authority to make such commitments. His willingness to risk British lives in an unwinnable conflict echoes Tony Blair's ill-fated 'coalition of the willing' in Iraq.
The fundamental question remains: are British citizens willing to sacrifice their children for the Donbas? The answer, surely, must be no. Our priority should be rebuilding our economy, strengthening our defences, and protecting our own borders before making grandiose promises we cannot keep.
Starmer really is beyond the pale. 'Delusional' covers it. And, as the authority on totaliitarianism Zbigniew Brzezinski would have it, he is doing what all tinpot dictators do - mincing about on the world stage and trying to distract from the terrible problems he and his lieutenants have - willingly, intentionally - caused at home.
Well, it ain't working and we all see him for the total fraud he is.
Worse, the public have not been consulted on any war with Russia. He's clearly stark raving mad to consider it.
How dare he commit our forces to anything? First he decries whiteness, male courage, independent thought, truth and justice, denigrates the flag and the British Empire ... and next minute wraps himself in the Union Jack and acts as if we still rule the pink bits on the map. Ridiculous.