The prime minister was slammed on the programme.
Keir Starmer was torn apart on GB News (Image: Getty)
Keir Starmer was humiliated on GB News as the programme halted for a breaking update. It was announced that the HMS Dragon – the Royal Navy warship being prepared to protect the British base in Cyprus – is still in Portsmouth. Martin Daubney said: “It’s incredible that HMS Dragon is still off the shore of Portsmouth.
“It’s been described as the Royal Navy’s biggest humiliation and has made us a global laughing stock.” Reform UK MP Lee Anderson agreed that it is a humiliation before making a brutal dig at the prime minister over the ongoing illegal migration crisis in the UK. “This is probably the only boat that Starmer has stopped crossing the Channel,” he raged.
The politician continued: “Donald Trump was making noise six or seven weeks ago about what he was going to do. He was telling the people in Iran to uprise. He was going to send his fleet over, which he has done.
“Everyone in the world has been tracking in on the internet and guess what? We’ve got this ship stuck in Portsmouth Harbour.”
He pointed out that the UK task force was able to get to The Falkland Islands quicker in 1982 than the HMS Dragon has.
The MP remarked: “It’s incredibly stupid of us. It shows weak leadership from Starmer. He’s not a leader, he’s a lawyer and we are an international laughing stock.”
Daubney argued that this failure is the result of decades of underinvestment in the UK’s armed forces.
Lee Anderson branded Starmer a weak leader (Image: GB News)
He added: “The previous Conservative government, which you were a part of for a while, they’ve all taken their eye off the ball and here we are now just floundering, pointless, sidelined.”
Although he claimed the British military still has the best personnel, he observed: “You’re quite right in what you’ve said. Whether it’s a lack of investment over successive governments, we always seem to act far too late in this country.
“It’s far too little, too late. We’re always playing catch up with our military. I think this should be a wake-up call for the future, to start spending proper amounts of money on our armed forces.”
It is believed the British warship is not expected to sail to Cyprus until next week, as conflicts continue in the Middle East. The Type 45 destroyer had originally been assigned to a different mission, before Starmer confirmed that it would instead be deployed to the Mediterranean.
