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Keir Starmer is more Captain Mainwaring (right) than Churchill (Image: PA/BBC One)
Is anyone else as sickened as I am watching Starmer’s unashamed politicking over Ukraine? Is anyone buying for a second this faux elder statesman act where he’s talking like he, single-handedly, is putting together a peace plan for Ukraine? Who the Hell’s he trying to kid? Starmer has got absolutely nothing to do with this peace plan which will be negotiated by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. And no, no-one’s happy about that – but it will bring this bloody three-year war to an end.
But it's Starmer’s gesture politics and his naked attempts to look like a key player in ending this vicious war, that’s nauseating. Because what he’s actually doing is trying to rescue his battered reptation as THE worst PM this country’s ever had. He’s using Ukraine to try to convince us that he’s really up to the job when everything he’s done these last eight months makes clear he’s not.
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And while he’s playing the “New Leader of the Free World” he doesn’t have to deal with our flatlining economy, the rocketing immigration crisis, the fact that businesses are going to the wall because of his brutal tax rises and the recession which is almost upon us.
No, he can just swan around shaking the hands of other flailing European leaders like Macron who is as unpopular in his own country as Starmer is here.
We heard this week its likely he and Macron will go to the White House with Zelensky soon. Why? To hold the hand of the brave warrior who been leading his country’s war effort for the past three years and who frankly doesn’t need his hand-holding.
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Starmer might be kidding himself that he and Macron are playing a major role here but the truth is their only job is to convince poor Zelensky to accept the carve up of his country and to hand over his country’s mineral rights to Trump.
All this talk of him putting British “boots on the ground” in Ukraine is just hot air because he knows full-well that Putin will never agree to a peacekeeping force. This is a man who can’t protect the borders of his own country yet he’s shouting about how he’s going to protect Ukraine’s borders.
Britain has just 56,000 deployable troops so just how many “boots on the ground” does he imagine we could provide – and at what cost?
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And why isn’t anyone in Parliament attacking him for these rash promises and his totally unrealistic plans which are especially unrealistic as Trump has already said he will not, under any circumstances, put troops in Ukraine? As has Poland.
So why is Starmer promising to send young British men out there to possibly die when America won't? And why is he telling anyone who’ll listen that Ukraine is on the road to NATO membership when it's a million miles away from it? This is precisely what he did to British voters – he made promises he never had a hope in Hell of keeping.
And just say Putin DID accept a peacekeeping force – which he won’t – what would it look like? Zelensky has already said nothing would work without US involvement and that he’d need 200,000 troops to patrol the Ukrainian border.
Europe, as a whole, has said that it can only provide three brigades of troops and only 15,000 at any one time. So what the Hell use is that? Does Starmer imagine that piddling little army would deter Putin if he wanted to invade again? It wouldn’t. Not for a second.
And would these peacekeeping troops be equipped or able to fight – of course they wouldn’t. Which is why everything Starmer’s doing now – the grandstanding, the big promises, walking around in miliary flak jackets looking like he’s already on a war footing – is all about making HIM look good and like he’s doing something relevant when he isn’t.
Starmer elbowed his way into these peace talks to try and convince people he has a key role in them. He clearly thinks he’s channelling Churchill when the rest of us see him as channelling Captain Mannering in Dad’s Army.
The man’s an idiot who’s fooling no-one as to his reasons for involving himself in this peace deal. And its shameful he’s trying to make personal capital out of Ukraine’s desperation.
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The humiliation of Zelensky last week was a Godsend for Starmer. It allowed him to charge in and look like the strong, but kind hearted leader as opposed to bully boy tactics of Trump and Vance.
Nothing Starmer does in the coming weeks will make a damn bit of difference to the outcome in Ukraine. The cold, hard fact is that neither Britain or the rest of Europe can afford to fund Ukraine’s war effort. Nor are they – or we – prepared to send young men to die for Ukraine.
And watching Starmer milk this Hellish situation for all it's worth to try and repair his battered reputation is repugnant.