Coward Starmer Caught Hiding as Trump Threatened Iran; Then Posed for the Ceasefire

Trump threatened a whole civilisation, Starmer hid behind the drapes, then flew out to pose beside the ceasefire once the danger had already passed. Right, so Donald Trump threatened Iran with civilisational destruction and Keir Starmer hid. That is the story of the UK response to Trump’s ultimate threat against Iran which fortunately did not come to pass isn’t it? Trump put out that if Iran did not make a deal then “a whole civilization will die tonight,” which is not hard-man bluster, though obviously he thinks otherwise, it is his way; it is not diplomatic pressure, it not some mangled phrase needing a clean-up crew from the Foreign Office, but a public threat against an entire country, an existential threat to a civilisation thousands of years old and Britain’s prime minister couldn’t find his spine. He did not step out and shut it down. He did not tell the public that this was depraved. He did not tell Washington that this was beyond the line. He disappeared while the threat was to all intents very real, while British bases were very much part of the wider machinery around this war, while US bombers took off to make good on Trump’s threats form UK airfields and while everybody else had to sit there listening to the president of the United States talk like a man issuing extermination terms that the daleks would be proud of. But then the ceasefire turned up, Trump instead agreeing with Iran’s 10 point plan that Pakistan had helped broker, Iran had put forward their terms, the temperature dropped a notch, and suddenly here came Starmer with his little statesman voice switched back on, tweeting that: ‘I welcome the ceasefire agreement reached overnight, which will bring a moment of relief to the region and the world. Together with our partners we must do all we can to support and sustain this ceasefire, turn it into a lasting agreement and re-open the Strait of Hormuz.’ Welcoming relief, supporting the ceasefire, and then he took off to the Gulf, ready to pose beside the safer part of the story, any excuse for yet another public purse funded foreign trip.