How dare our Prime Minister make a slap-dash grasp for credit over a peace he very nearly sabotaged?
Keir Starmer is utterly embarrassing (Image: PA)
Keir Starmer gets more pathetic by the day. Against all the odds Donald Trump secured a historic peace deal between Gaza and Israel and the first thing our useless Prime Minister does is jump on his coat tails trying to steal some of his glory. It was beyond embarrassing watching him this week in Egypt pontificating to anyone who’d listen about how he’s going to help rebuild Gaza and how: “We stand determined to deliver a lasting peace and a stable secure future for the whole nation.”
Dear God, the man’s insane! He’s done absolutely nothing to secure this peace deal. And he will have nothing to do with making it last because he’s not even part of the story. How dare he pretend he had anything whatsoever to do with this historic deal when Britain has only ever been a half-interested bystander in negotiations. In fact, it’s worse than that – Starmer nearly sabotaged the whole thing with his idiotic and ill-timed recognition of Palestine.
And it’s not me saying that, it’s US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said that in recognising Palestine Britain caused the collapse of the Israel/Hamas ceasefire talks.
He also said the UK’s recognition of a Palestinian state emboldened Hamas to hold out for better terms. So, it’s clear to the world now that Britain has a Prime Minister who is to international diplomacy what Vladamir Putin is.
What the Hell was Starmer thinking of recognising Palestine at such a delicate stage of peace talks? Of course he did it to placate his pro-Palestinian MPs and antisemitic voters – because that’s all his recognising Palestine was about – and THAT made it harder for the grown-up leaders at the negotiating table to broker the peace.
More importantly, it emboldened Hamas into believing their savagery and butchery had been justified. Stupid Starmer could have cost those hostages their lives or at the very least prolonged their suffering.
Because why would Hamas release them when countries like France, the UK, Australia and Canada were giving them status by recognising them?
And so having nearly beggared-up the talks Starmer now has the brass neck to try and grab some of Trump’s well-deserved glory for pulling off the deal.
He clearly has no idea how preposterous he looked this week trying to pretend he had played a vital role in the deal when the fact is Keir Starmer has betrayed Israel – Britain’s oldest Middle Eastern ally – at every opportunity to placate the antisemites in his own party.
He even had dopey education secretary, Brigit Phillipson, on telly at the weekend saying: “The UK has played a vital behind the scenes role in securing peace.”
The Hell it has. And Mike Huckabees, the US ambassador to Israel quickly put pay to that lie: “She’s delusional,” he said. And he was quickly followed by Israel’s foreign secretary, Sharon Haskell, who rejected the claim that the UK had played any part in the peace deal.
But forging ahead with his insulting pretence Starmer, within hours of the hostages being released, then had the gall to say how much he felt for them and their families. “My thoughts are with them,” he said. “No-one can understand the torture and agony they’ve suffered for two drawn-out years.”
Well, he can because he spoke to some of the families last October and they begged and pleaded with him not to recognise Palestine because they said it would put their loved ones in danger.
But he ignored them and went ahead and did it. So how dare he now pretend to care they are safe when everything he did put them in mortal danger.
But what is it about this Government that it has to claim credit for things it hasn’t done. It does it with domestic affairs here – claiming credit for the success of Tory policies that had nothing whatsoever to do with them.
But then when they instigate an actual policy of their own and it goes belly-up they blame 14 years of Tory rule.
The truth is this Labour Government has achieved nothing since it came to power. Well, apart from almost bankrupting the country, increasing the already bloated welfare budget, rocketing the black hole from £20billion to £50billion, creating job losses, causing an exodus of our millionaires and sending small businesses to the wall.
There is nothing Starmer and his incompetent mob have done that will result in a better Britain. And there is nothing they have done in the wider world that will make it a better place.
All he has done since he became PM is fly around the world grandstanding pretending, he’s the dynamic leader of a dynamic country when nothing could be further from the truth. And he’s a fool if he thinks other world leaders don’t see him for what he is – an irrelevance.
And a dangerous one at that.
This week’s spectacle of him trying to claim credit for a deal he had naff-all to do with has been beyond embarrassing. Starmer has never even sat at the negotiating table with Israel and Gaza. Neither has Macron because both are insignificant minnows in international politics and both are despised and derided in their own countries.
There only one man responsible for the peace in Gaza and it’s Donald J Trump. It was his juggernaut diplomacy, his grit, his determination, his courage that made this deal happen.
It’s down to Trump that all those hostages are now safely back in the arms of their delighted families. It is because of him that both the Israeli and Palestinian people can afford to feel hope.
It’s because of him that seven major conflicts which could have escalated into war now won’t. It’s because of him and his raw courage that Iran is no longer a nuclear threat.
And he did all that in eight months as President. Starmer has been in power for 15 months and all he’s done is destroy a country that was prospering.
I would feel sorry for Starmer if he wasn’t responsible for the future of my country. Because he must know he’s a weak, ineffective man who is floundering in a job he was never capable of.
There are so many differences between him and Donald Trump, but the greatest one is that Trump has courage, guts and a political will. He knows exactly what he wants – and why.
Starmer has none of those things. He can only exist in the slipstream of great men and women. He can only watch them do extraordinary things, receive great honours, be applauded and pray that, by association, some of their star dust, some of their greatness will rub off on him.
Only it never will. Because when Starmer stands alongside great leaders and tries to steal their glory, as he this week with Trump, it only serves to expose his smallness and his shame!