NICK FERRARI: The Prime Minister doesn’t seem to be able to comprehend the price he’s making us pay.
Nick Ferrari says Starmer may as well dust off the white flag (Image: Shutterstock/Getty)
If any of you happen to be going anywhere near Downing Street over the next few days, perhaps you’d be so kind as to have a quick look at the roof. Because surely after the shameful decisions put in the spotlight last week, the white flag of surrender must be fluttering in the Westminster breeze. To deal with the sell-outs chronologically: Let’s start with the unfathomable insanity concerning the giveaway of the Chagos islands to Mauritius.
While the Bill may now been delayed due to a timely intervention by President Trump, the Prime Minister’s original decision still fits the pattern of surrender. The muddled thinking behind this act of near treachery seemed to be based on advice from government lawyers that not to proceed would upset the United Nations and risk breaching international treaties, none of which we are signed up to.
There’s some wishful thinking that by accepting judgements from courts that seem loaded against us and which we don’t need to listen to, we’ll be seen as a shining beacon of fair play in the “Global South”.
The same region that is home to tyrants and dictators such as China’s President Xi, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, the murderous Ayatollah of Iran among others – and viewed greedily by Vladimir Putin.
That is why President Trump was at least right once last week, as he posted on social media it is “an act of GREAT STUPIDITY”.
Until the most recent turn of events, our lawyerly PM – who irrationally seems to think the world can be controlled through the courts and due legal process – appeared prepared to commit to paying £101million a year for 99 years for
the privilege of ceding militarily crucial territory!
Has anyone got a bridge I can sell to the Prime Minister and his team of halfwits, led by Attorney General Lord Hermer and other doubtful duds? Meanwhile, looking on with glee is Beijing, basking in the news that their “super embassy” in London has got the go ahead.
The travesty of this sorry saga actually dates back to the Conservative administration and the mind-numbing lunacy of then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who allowed China to purchase the site of the Royal Mint, nestled close to the beating heart of London.
That said, even the at times supremely incompetent Tories knew not to allow China to build the Embassy on the scale that is currently being proposed.
As did the relevant local authority, Tower Hamlets. But this China-appeasing bunch currently in power have simply rolled over.
Past spy chiefs have been openly critical, and while not directly opposing the plans, current MI5 director general Sir Ken McCallum and GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler have warned: “It is not realistic to expect to be able wholly to eliminate each and every potential risk.”
Next week, Sir Keir Starmer is scheduled to go to China and likely sign some lucrative trade deals.
He’ll boast of incoming cash, job creation and job security.
But here’s the China crisis he seeks to ignore: is the price of jeopardising national security really worth paying?
