Losing a War You Aren't In
Wars are deceiving things, so the last thing you should do is take the political class by their word when it comes to so-called "motives". And no matter what your thoughts are on Keir Starmer, he at least has the bureaucratic instincts to go through every single government agency, to at least keep us, currently, out of the war in Iran. Which is a good thing, even if it means the UK's prestige on the international stage continues to dwindle into a shell of its once lionised state.
Given the current US Administration's wont for war, Starmer's hand has been forced to appear fairly indifferent to the whole conflagration, so as not to appear too pro-Ayatollah, nor too pro-forever-wars. Unfortunately, Starmer, along with the rest of the hegemony of the recent ruling class, has positioned the UK to be in perhaps the worst possible position to "protect British interests and lives".
HMS Dragon mission delayed ‘because dockyard only works nine-to-five’
The warship is being sent to protect a British base on the island following its attack by Iranian drones last weekend, but its departure has been held up to allow staff to finish welding and other maintenance.
The government's commitment to fulfilling its union promises seems slightly counterproductive given the current circumstances. If the UK is worried about labour exploitation, even in the current climate, when it's trying to protect bases against one of the world's most preponderant terror regimes, then it seems a little one-sided on the economic front.
Oh, and whilst we're on the economy, so as to appear as if she's doing anything to help, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has called various meetings and talked to various ministers, which is what real action looks like, obviously.
Oil prices have, unsurprisingly, been as volatile as the odds for Iran's new Supreme Leader to last more than a week recently. But of course, so as not to upset Ed Miliband, the UK's push for a non-carbon economy strides on. Even forgetting the current situation, the UK's ludicrous push for Net Zero is objectively stupid. The UK is increasingly reliant on other countries to convert their energy for them, simply offsetting it so that a couple of guys at the UN can get a pat on the back from the climate-hysteria bunch. Which means that despite sitting on an unexploited gold mine–thle North Sea oil–which would almost certainly provide as a safeguard against the current oil inflation, the UK continues to push its citizens deeper into financial turmoil.
Can anyone down at Whitehall explain how the UK going fully green, and completely broke in the process (not that we already aren't), is of any help, given what's happening? Or is there, in fact, genuine worth in ensuring that HMS Dragon is ULEZ compliant? Just some of the questions that are probably of more use than half of what goes on in either chamber of Parliament.
As for "protecting British interests" on the home front: how's that going?
The Henry Jackson Society, a Right-leaning think tank, urged vice-chancellors to stop the spread of “extremist narratives” after it identified more than two dozen student societies that had glorified the ayatollah.
We needn't send warships, aircraft carriers and the like to officially be in a war with Iran. We've been fighting them for years, just not in plain sight. Given the above, why would any of Iran's surviving leadership bother developing nuclear weapons. It seems Britain has been defeated already. Regardless of whether most of the Iranian regime survives Israel and the US' barrage of attacks, you can bet your regime-kickin'-ass that it won't stop the Shi'ites from bringing down the West. They don't need leaders for that.
Of course, both Iran and Britain seem obsessed by who's their leader. Despite increasingly precipitous evidence of the lack of any character, virtue or dignity at the top, on both sides.
The evidence presented hitherto would, in most functioning societies, be enough to oust a leader, along with their accomplices, and perhaps even charge them with treason. That would be justice for the hordes of girls and women raped by Epstein and co. But on life goes.
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