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Let’s remember the stirring tale of Monty Pythons brave Sir Robin…
Now let’s talk about the equally cowardly Sir Keir Starmer and his pathetic apology for a Foreign Secretary. David Lammy
Lammy’s evasive performance in Parliament on Monday laid bare the government’s spineless stance on US righteous bombings of Iran’s nuclear sites. Dodging questions on UK support on EIGHT occassions, Lammy weakly claimed that no legal advice had been received, leaving MPs fuming at the government’s rudderless position. His limp call for Tehran to “take the off ramp” of negotiations ignored the reality: Iran’s uranium enrichment expertise, a “stepping stone” to nuclear weapons, won’t vanish through wishful diplomacy. Yet wishful diplomacy is all the UK has left. We are an international laughing stock.
Lammy’s refusal to clarify Britain’s role—despite reports that the horredous Attorney General Lord Hermer had warned against offensive operations—smacks of cowardice. He confirmed the US didn’t request or need Britain’s Diego Garcia base for strikes, but this only underscores the UK’s geo-political irrelevance. His vague pledge to protect British assets in the region was posturing, not policy.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer fared no better, and was exposed as out of his depth. His call with President Trump yielded a Downing Street analysis that conspicuously dropped Starmer’s de-escalation mantra, meekly echoing US demands to block Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Trump’s subsequent social media jab—“Make Iran Great Again”—suggesting regime change, humiliated Starmer, who’d naively insisted at last week’s G7 that US strikes were unlikely.
Starmer’s government’s stated stance of preventing Iran’s nuclear breakout lacks any real conviction without a clear stance on US action. Lammy’s and Starmer’s dithering betrays a lack of backbone, eroding the Special Relationship. As Trump’s powerful rhetoric overshadows Starmer’s feeble diplomacy, Britain is being sidelined, reduced to the role of impotent bystander in a crisis that it laughably claims to influence.
It doesn’t.
There is a leadership vacuum here that leaves UK foreign policy hopelessly adrift, with Lammy and Starmer floundering in the face of escalating tensions.
Like Laurel and Hardy, they are worth laughing at but not taking seriously.
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