The coalition of the unwilling

Why did the PM need to fly to Paris to co host an on line meeting?  Another big bill for UK taxpayers. A  needless use of scarce jet fuel when he should be at home planning how to deal with shortages.

What is this coalition able and willing to do? We are told it is not involved in the Middle East war, despite the threats to our shipping and bases, and the attack on Cyprus. I thought the PM sent extra Airforce jets to Cyprus to help defend UK and allies interests in the region.

The PM says they are working to re open the Straits of Hormuz to shipping. Yet we are also told they are not in  talks with the countries and terrorist groups fighting the war and threatening shipping, so how does that work? We are also told the coalition will not be sending naval forces to the Gulf to seek to impose a peace and freedom of the seas.

We are given a contradiction. The UK and others will consider sending a naval force once there is a peace agreement negotiated by others under the chairmanship of Pakistan. Why would there be a need for a naval protection force once there is a settled ceasefire or peace?

This all looks like play acting whilst others fight and negotiate over the disputed waters. Far from making the PM a more respected international statesman and adding to his popularity at home, voters will ask why is he away from the UK when he needs to make decisions here? Instead of pretending he can magic the international problem away without engaging the combatants, he needs to do something useful like get more of our own oil and gas out of the ground.He needs to deal with the jet fuel shortage, not make it worse by using more himself.

6 Comments

  1. Lifelogic
    April 19, 2026

    Two Tier Kier sick joke Indeed, even relative to nearly all the other dire PMs I have suffered under from Wilson and Heath onwards.

    Starmer has surely already used up more than his lifetime allowance of aviation fuel in just the last 20 months.

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    1. Peter Wood
      April 19, 2026

      2TK is trying the distraction ploy; international activity to distract from domestic chaos. But this won’t work, the international issues are only part of the cause of our financial and energy problems. We the people have identified this government’s mismanagement as the cause of our ire. International issues are on the TV and far away.

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  2. Lynn Atkinson
    April 19, 2026

    When JR uses a phrase like ‘play acting’ publicly you know the delusion we are witnessing is so comprehensive that it needs medical supervision.

    We look again at the PM (and other actors like Macron) behaving as if he lived in a parallel universe, and it really does bring into question whether they have EVER been the rational players at all.

    No wonder Europe is in existential danger. Let’s hope Trump got the wheel in time to save the USA, which is also on the brink.

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    1. Ian Wragg
      April 19, 2026

      Correct Lynn. The West seems in terminal decline which is all part of Agenda 30. Trump understands this and is kicking against it.
      It looks like Fond of Lying has been snookered by the new Hungarian President. He’s more authoritarian than Orban. No resettlement of EU invaders, they must be fuming in Brussels.
      Yesterday our Trident sub returned after 205 days patrol, this is absolutely inhumane and they wonder why recruitment is so dire. 16 years of uniparty negligence on maintaining our armed forces and this is the result.

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  3. Mick
    April 19, 2026

    Why did the PM need to fly to Paris
    To try and make himself look statesman like and that he is important, he thinks that buggering off to Paris to meet a man even less thought of in is own country that maybe all of the Mandelson stuff will disappear and as far as the turkeys (liebour) voting for a vote of no confidence by Kemi Badenoch that’s for the birds , you’ll have to crowbar the door hole from Starmers Uriah Heep “clammy” or sweaty hands before he leaves for,Just saying

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  4. Wanderer
    April 19, 2026

    This is all about trying to keep Europe looking relevant, and its people from focussing on the threat that their leaderships represent to their freedoms and economic wellbeing.

    Without a Ukraine war the “Russia is an existential threat” bogey would disappear. If they can get Ukraine in the EU before it collapses and the war ends. all the false narrative about Russia attacking Europe can be claimed to be true. An Orwellian outcome of permanent war can follow, with all the power which that state of affairs gives to our authoritarian government/Brussels.

    The “coalition of the willing” is part of the plan to enslave us.

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