Starmer went to Washington to kiss Trump’sgolden ring just as a provincial would have a Roman Emperor’s.
The UK press thought the humiliating spectacle went well.
As a synopsis, on the Chagos Islands and Ukraine, our Prime Minister sought the backing of a foreign power in pursuit of his own foreign policy objectives.
Giving Chagos to Mauritius, to which they never belonged, wrapped in the quasi-blank cheque of ever-increasing payments, because inflation linked, into a distant future, is an obvious act of treasonous self-harm.
But, as Starmer is proposing the UK taxpayer cover the cost of the lease and US use, why would Trump stand in his way?
In terms of Ukraine, Starmer seems keen to put someone else children’s boots in harm’s way.
But the means are fully missing.
The Lion no longer has the head nor the soul for the fight.
Not only have the British Armed forces been depleted since World War II to such an extent that they “could not fight Russia for more than two months” as Lieutenant General Sir Rob Magowan, our current Deputy Chief of Defence Staff reminded us recently.
But, perhaps more importantly, patriotism, the salt necessary to feed the soul of the soldier-to-be, has been under sustained attack by the likes of Starmer and his league of Human Rights Lawyers and politicised bureaucrats for decades.
It is not surprising that the drip-drip effect of institutional self-loathing is reflected in the downstream collapse in national pride.
In ten years to 2023, pride in our history dropped by over a third to 64 per cent; while in that same period, the preference for being a British citizen above all other nationalities shrunk by a similar amount to less than half of our population.
While you look the other way, Starmer is committing an act of treasonous self-harm on Britain , writes Alex Story
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Part of the issue is the belief that British soldiers aretreated less well, given the sacrifices they endure on our behalf, than our Dinghy Channel crossing and soon-to-be newly minted multi-cultural brethren.
Lacking all possible resources but desiring to grandstand, Starmer needs someone else’s treasure and support.
So, cap in hand, he seeks America to provide “a backstop” to prevent Russia from attacking our troops, laying bare, in the process, the rotting corpse of an effete Great Britain.
But America has her own deep-seated problems.
Trump considers China, South American drug cartels and a runaway deficit top priorities - closer to home and far more pressing, because deadlier to US lives, than Ukraine.
Indeed, the United States is fighting her own “drug war”.
Fentanyl, an opioid produced in China, has claimed the bulk of the over 450 000 overdose deaths over the last ten years as well as millions of lost souls, who remain addicted. The costs to the United States, in terms of treasure, lost talent and tears are immeasurable.
The re-establishment of the United States’ Southern Border and the designation of Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organisations to better annihilate them is fundamental to the new administration.
So dire is the situation that, south of the border, these self-same cartels have been responsible for over thirty thousand homicides every year since 2018.
By late 2024, over three months, a war broke out between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most powerful gangs in Mexico. It left over a 1000 people killed or missing.
As a result, close to 10,000 soldiers have been deployed since January 2025 to restore the country’s borders that had, in effect, disappeared during the Biden era.
Finally, the United States’ deficit is running at $2trillion, more than six per cent of GDP. As of March 2025, debt stood at $36trillion, twice the size of the EU’s entire aggregate economy.
These numbers highlight the federal government’s fiscal incontinence and explain Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s last gasp and laser focused attempt to turn the ship of state around before it hits the practically unavoidable bankruptcy wall.
Only the dollars reserve currency status and the “exorbitant privilege”, and temptation, it represents, has kept this show on the road.
Bringing sobriety and health to America is crucial to Trump.
On this, and only this, will he be judged by his people.
They are his obligations, not international treaties that are, more often observed in the breach, by all signatories.
Should he fail, the United States will too.
In short, the US cannot afford Ukraine.
Starmer’s pleas for a “backstop” are not just a distraction for the United States, the problems of which are existential, they show that the United Kingdom is not a serious country anymore.
He believes that the United States has obligations to pay for the security of Europe, while European countries, including our own, allowed our defence to wither away, fuelled by a childish philosophy, that told him that the future would be a never-ending internationalist summer.
This Cicada world view enabled Starmer and co to believe you could dismantle and disarm Britain, rule the world through international bureaucracies backed by global regulations, while simultaneously attacking patriots for their racist and reactionary flag waving, without any consequences.
Further, he still believes that you can promote dear extremist friends such as Lord Richard Hermer, our current Attorney General, who enriched themselves as human rights lawyers beyond measure on the back of the taxpayer for perennially defending Britain’s enemies, shamelessly degrading and hollowing her in the process.
America is entitled to do what is in her interest.
European countries have no moral standing, not least the United Kingdom, when it comes to Ukraine or anything else.
Our leaders, across much of the continent, have allowed themselves to execute their nihilistic dreams of a world without manufacturing, fossil fuels and agriculture based on growth, dynamism, and a hope-killing regulatory model known as the European Union.
At home, consumption, imports, backed by a growing and an increasingly unproductive population, because purposefully lacking commonality, and debts are the social model.
This means that servicing the national debt is Great Britain’s fourth largest item of expenditure at £104.9billion, which is close to 100 per cent larger than the entire defence budget.
The deficit, as House of Commons researcher Matthew Keep wrote, is “£131billion, equivalent to 4.8 per cent of GDP” with no reserve currency status.
The chickens are already roosting at home.
And in the meantime, we hear firstly that our GCHQ, our intelligence and security organisation, recently broke off a 10 years organisational romance with Stonewall, the ubiquitous LGBT+ advocacy group but only because of pressure coming from the Trump administration; secondly that our parliament, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have been busy removing portraits of Churchill, Nelson, Thatcher and Queen Elisabeth I among others, from the walls of our institutions, replacing them with Yvette Cooper, an Unknown Woman and “Red Ellen Wilkinson”, an early member of Britain’s communist party, as “part of ongoing efforts to boost gender and ethnic diversity”.
The day is now far spent. Volodymyr Zelensky should take notes.
With friends like these, he is set to jump from the pan into the fire.
