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.
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.
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.
April 19, 2026
Indeed. Starmer is irrelevant on the world stage and appalling on the home stage.
So Olly Robbins (PPE Oxon) was legally not allowed (they now claim) to tell the PM he had failed security vetting. But why then has Olly Robbins been fired (with a huge pay off needless to say) for not doing what he was legally not allowed to do?
Have I got this right?
April 19, 2026
Starmer is conflating different time periods. Mandelson was already announced and on his way to Washington while Olly Robbins was still employed elsewhere, so with ‘tongue in cheek’ what did it have to do with Robbins? It was only after Mandelson got the job that Robbins was appointed
Starmer is in his lawyer way is making the situation of information flow after Mandelson was sacked to apply to what happened before he was appointed. It appears 2TK believes he hadn’t been prepared enough back the back office when he was asked awkward questions after the sacking as the Epstein situation had by the dragged into the scenario. A time frame that saw the appointment, then the sacking before the awkward question
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.
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.
April 19, 2026
@Lynn & Ian – so very true.
Create illusions and deflection so you can get on with real ego projects and destruction while everyone is looking the other way.
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
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.
April 19, 2026
“All the false narrative about Russia attacking Europe can be claimed to be true”
Whatever the reasons or provocations Wanderer – Russia did attack Ukraine and Putin has publicy stated that he wants other parts of the former Sovier Union back. Whatever the truth about how well (or how badly) anyone is faring right now, I have no doubts that Putin is a very dangerous man, both to us and to his people.
Of course that’s just my opinion but one thing that informs me, was sitting (as a 20 year old) in an armoured vehicle in Northern Germany many years ago, expecting to be vaporised in a blinding flash of light (or die a few weeks later from radiation poisoning). It does tend to give you a different perspective on things, something lacking in younger generations who fortunately never experienced such times…and who hopefully never will.
April 19, 2026
Doesn’t the fact that it didn’t happen show you the power of deterrent Ian?
April 19, 2026
Yes, we had no doubt that the threat was very real – and on several occassions I think we came quite close. BAOR used to have ‘no warning’ deployment exercises across the Northern German plains called ‘Quick Train’ . We could be out of barracks, lock stock and barrel in under 20 minutes. All vehicles were fueled and pre-loaded ready to drive straight out. A Quicktrain was announced by a siren sounding and everyone ran to their assigned vehicles. We then went to a pre-defined location (we had about three) and cammed up.
I remember one Friday afternoon (not in QT ‘season’) watching our (Canadian) OC loading his golf clubs into his car when the QT siren went off. His jaw dropped and he ran into the office. We deployed to a location we’d never been to before and kept radio silence for 72 hours before just returning home. All very different to normal practice. I never found out why and enquiring later there had been nothing in the papers about anything unusual happening. We all thought it was about to kick off though.
April 19, 2026
‘Putin has public[l]y stated that he wants other parts of the former Sovier Union back.’ When, and what did he say?
April 19, 2026
“In a bellicose address delivered to Russian Defense Ministry officials in Moscow on December 17, Putin declared that the maximalist goals of his Ukraine invasion will be met “unconditionally” and framed the war as a crusade to reverse Russia’s post-Soviet retreat. “If the opposing side and their foreign patrons refuse to engage in substantive discussions, Russia will achieve the liberation of its historical lands by military means,” Source Atlantic Council Dec 2025
The USSR comprised the present-day territories of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Moldova, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Turkmenistan and Estonia.
April 19, 2026
@Wanderer – ‘The “coalition of the willing” is part of the plan to enslave us.’ We all know the phrase as those that live in their TwoTier deluded Society use it enough. The contradiction and as you point out is the enslavement that is the aim.
Rudderless, not fit enteritises that are fighting their own people are assuming the way they portray the “coalition of the willing” is that it is the minions that are engaged in this coalition when they are the ones being corralled into submission
April 19, 2026
Starmer has repeatedly shown he is untrustworthy and unfit to be an MP never mind Prime Minister. How much longer can he be permitted to stay in office?
April 19, 2026
@Brian Tomkinson – another 3 years, he has done so much in the last 2 years and has 3 to go. The UK Parliament doesn’t like or do elections as they need a ‘quiet’ life, sit on their hands and take the money, so he doesn’t need to seek validation, approval or a mandate he can just ‘do’. He of course is supported by a vast majority of those in this treacherous parliament.
It is not Starmer that needs to go it is the Parliament that owns his output and direction – so they are all complicit. The USA a Democracy will have had 3 General Elections by their Laws before the UK see just 1. So from that you get the idea that the USA’s people own the direction of their Government and can limit the damage were the UK Parliament denies its people.
April 19, 2026
Well that depends on Labour MPs but I think we have three more years of scorched earth under the Labour Party even if he goes next week. They will not give out their huge majority unless they are forced too. They will leave as large a mess as they can I suspect.
April 19, 2026
The RN used to have ‘Stone’ ships – naval docks they could use to refuel and resupply from. I visited HMS Tamar in Hong Kong for various reasons when I was stationed on the Island. The RN had a Squadron of minesweepers based there, about five or six boats, crew of about 25 each to keep the harbour open and other coastal duties. In Bahrein the RN had HMS Juffair which had a similar sized Squadron. The RN could have cleared the Straights of Hormuz on it’s own then, which was the whole point of having the sweepers there. Times (and budgets) have changed of course….
April 19, 2026
Why would the voter be concerned that he isn’t here making decisions. Like he knows how to make a sensible one? Like the decision to appoint Mandelson as US ambassador? Or the decision to forge stronger links with the EU?
This voter thinks the only useful decision he can make is to call a general election.
April 19, 2026
The Prime Liar appears to think that jetting around the world and the appearance of action is a good substitute for real action.
It isn’t, and we’re not fooled.
April 19, 2026
Plus when he does ever take any action it is always takent in totally the wrong direction. Immigration levels, net zero, tax levels, increases in red tape, EU alignment, the mad energy policies, doom loop economics, ever more benefits and ever fewer tax payers…
April 19, 2026
Starmer and Macron will be planning to ramp up the war in Ukraine so that they can cancel elections and save their political skins. These discussions have to be done in person as they can’t risk eavesdroppers listening in. In Germany, a new military service law requires all men under 45 to seek approval from the Bundeswehr to leave the country for longer than three months. In the UK, the Labour government’s Armed Forces Bill, introduced to Parliament in January 2026, raises the maximum recall age for the strategic reserve (primarily ex-regular veterans) from 55 to 65. Conscription will soon be upon us. Who will be left to defend our women and children?
April 19, 2026
Starmer both loves and hates. He loves himself and his dream of a global socialist utopia. He hates Britain for all the reasons I have stated many times and he will ally with any cause that also hates Britain: especially Islamism.
The point of his offering to help in Hormuz once the fighting is over is he can a) grandstand to elevate himself and b) get himself closer to the Islamic world once it is safe. The way the King behaves, perhaps they have a Royal visit to Islamabad in mind where they formally submit to Islam.
April 19, 2026
What is the point of someone who evidently doesn’t do detail (much like Prime Minister Johnson) being involved in these talks
Far from being forensic and inquisitive Sir Two Tier appears to be deliberately arm’s length in everything he does
The problem with being Captain Hindsight in power is “events dear boy, events”
April 19, 2026
Deflection, deflection, deflection. If you are not around to manage, to answer question ‘you cannot possibly be held responsibly’
2TK has change the job description of the PM to mean just ‘Global Statesman’
It also allows the ‘Plan’ to go forward, the integration with the EU, the urgency while he is in power to get the UK back under the EU Yoke. While at the same time antagonising the UK’s largest trading partner Country the USA.
April 19, 2026
What’s happening in the Philippines? A massive military exercise is underway to deter China, involving the USA, Japan, Australia, Canada, France, the Philippines, and New Zealand. Are we going to see a new conflict in that region? Our politicians are out of control.
April 19, 2026
It is increasingly clear that Sir Keir Starmer is unfit for the office of PM. His constant need to travel the world to attend anything that could involve a photo opportunity is telling. He is so insecure he is constantly looking for endorsement while leaving the problems his policies are creating behind hi for others to wrestle with.
I used to wonder why Ed Miliband was even in the cabinet until it dawned on me, he is there to provide an even lower example of complete incompetence than Starmer or Reeves.
You can imagine the corridor conversations in the Labour lobby, with Starmer saying “if you think I am bad, wait till you see what Miliband can do” That simple line of conversation is enough to stop any would be challenge to his position as leader.
What a mess.
April 19, 2026
But flying about at the tax payer’s expense and conducting talk shows with similar minded heads of Governments, is so much easier than facing up to, and dealing with, the problems at home. This would mean dealing very forcefully with several members of his own Cabinet, as well as the majority of Labour MPs, so would require courage and determination, as well as a clear vision of what he wants for the future, all qualities which are totally lacking in our Prime Minister. The other thing he cannot understand is that without military power, his country and its European so called allies, are an irrelevance in the war between the USA and Iran, and will be treated as such by both sides.
April 19, 2026
Starmer is pathetically inadequate. We now also see with the mandelson episode, if we didn’t know it already, that he is a humbug. Is it better for the right that he stays or goes? He’s clearly bad news for the Country but Milliband, Rayner could be even worse. Which route is most likely to produce a centre-right majority at the next election?
April 19, 2026
“Why did the PM need to fly to Paris to co host an on line meeting?”
A distraction strategy. Not for himself but for the voters. It’s all going to the plan implemented from 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell and we had defeated Communism the first time round by economic means. They have retaliated by introducing the entirely false CAGW scam under the guise of “saving the planet” and its “solution”, the ‘Net Zero Strategy – Build Back Greener’, which means first destroying our existing affordable and reliable energy and hence economy and national security. The second front was to destroy our social cohesion and national security through the implementation of incongruent mass immigration posing as “enriching multiculturalism”, having seen the result of such diversity in Northern Ireland.
April 19, 2026
Not a paper for normal people but the seem to have this correct
‘Almost like a Bond villain’: why Labour MPs expect Starmer to cling on as PM
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/17/labour-mps-keir-starmer-prime-minister
April 19, 2026
President Trump seems to have hit on the one thing that will bring down the Iranian regime :
The blockade of Iranian ports will stop almost all imports and exports and shortages are likely to bring the people out onto the streets quicker than anything else, even though it will come at considerable risk.
The West and China will have to take some short term pain, but it looks like that will be nothing like as bad as the Iranians will suffer relatively quickly. The Mullahs, ( or is it now just the IRGC that are in charge ), will be struggling to work out how they will be able to retain control in the face of mass disillusion amongst the population. Will the IRGC really attempt to slaughter hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in a vain effort to maintain control, when they know that the US and Israel are ready to respond with devastating firepower if they try to ?
All the US has to do is stand firm and maintain the blockade for a few weeks at most.
April 19, 2026
Starmer’s actions look like play-acting because they are play-acting. He takes no responsibility at home (“no-one tells him anything”) and he has no power abroad – no-one thinks he’s able to do anything. The man is politically an irrelevance, and he will be remembered only for an inability to tell the truth unusual even among politicians.