The PM yesterday argued from history that the UK only has security when it is bound to Europe. Which book said that?
Did he read the chapter about the Italian/Roman invasion and the slavery that followed?
The chapter about the Viking raiders and colonisers who seized lands and riches?
The chapter about the Norman/French invasion, the theft of English lands and the putting into serfdom?
The chapter about the huge seaborn invasion by the Spanish Armada which we fought off?
The chapter about the planned German invasion of 1940 and the battle of Britain?
The chapter about Spain backing Argentina in taking by violence the Falkland islands and now seeking to take over Gibraltar?
The threats, invasions and conquests have always come from Europe. The UK has often had to fight alone to defend herself.
Instead of making empty promises abroad, the PM needs to rebuild our defence at home. The seas are our moat, but they need reinforcing with an Iron dome, a rebuilt weapons supply industry and stronger armed forces.
February 15, 2026
History is not my strong area but I am sure you are right here. But as we know Starmer get almost everything wrong rather like the BBC:- he likes doom loop economics, anti-democratic bodies like the EU, a large and ever increasing state sector, rigged markets. suppression of free speach, net zero rip off intermittent energy, open door to low skilled net cost immigration levels, no deterrent policing, political prisoners given 31 months for nothing…
February 15, 2026
Not ‘almost’ everything wrong. He’s 100% wrong all the time.
He has just gushed over Ramadan and the peace attached to it, from the London Mosque.
You would think the Rape Gang Inquiry had not taken place.
February 15, 2026
@Lifelogic – manipulation to create a truth.
February 15, 2026
@Ian B. Precisely.
What’s absurd is that so many people fall for it, and never question what they are told. Our media can be relied upon to push the establishment line. Post covid though, a lot more people have woken up thankfully.
February 15, 2026
Allegedly Starmer is not a big reader.
In any case, he is pro EU and prefers Davos to Westminster.
He will do what he is told until he is removed. If what he is told coincides with politically risky options he has previously avoided, then so much the better.
February 15, 2026
Meanwhile, since we are talking about security, another weekend with an extra American air craft carrier now in range of Iran. More planes arriving via Lakenheath too.
Plus the arrival of a top of the range Chinese navy vessel equipped to defend against air attacks.
China gets much of its oil from Iran. So it has a dog in this fight. As does Russia.Will there be a so-called ‘off ramp’ or will they come to blows?
February 15, 2026
Russia has said it will not intervene.
February 15, 2026
I’d like to have seen the audience’ reaction to 2TK’s speech; I imagine most were trying to hide their sniggers – who is this guy trying to kid? I imagine the EU politburo increased their financial demands in compensation for having to listen.
We apparently now have an independent Navy ‘carrier fleet’ available to go to the N Atlantic to defend against……. who again?
February 15, 2026
the most likely attack around Greenland appears to coming from the USA.
February 15, 2026
LL,
‘Doom loop’ again. You could have also mentioned ‘…. down drains’ for old times sake.
February 15, 2026
Treason was a capital offence in 1982 when ‘the Falkland islands’ war was fought.
February 15, 2026
Recent history, Trafalga, Waterloo, WW1, WW2; suggests that Europe only enjoys freedom and the opportunity of democracy when a strong Britain, and in the latter two events a strong Britain , Commonwealth, and USA are prepared to spill blood and lives to give them the opportunity.
Starmer repeatedly confirms he is a loose canon, totally untrustworthy and as alien to Britain etc ed . A Britain governed by the Briish could flourish minus the poisonous EU umbelical of unbalanced trade and iffy defence, for which they demand a subscription.
February 15, 2026
Those on the Continent of Europe have been our enemies always. They seek to dominate us, rob us and destroy us.
They almost managed it until the British people managed to corner their deluded political class and through 7 straight votes, secure Brexit.
Treaty Law is a very junior genre. Any Treaty entered into in defiance of the direct instructions of the British people must be void.
This particular unpopular PM hates the native British. He hates our natural standard, because he can’t live up to them.
Time we elected an honest, naturally British Gentleman to govern with our consent.
We now know his name.
February 15, 2026
Another miniscule Party you are always whingeing about? It will be another leadership contest as soon as he manages to recruit another faux reformer.
February 15, 2026
What are you attempting to communicate?
You remain largely unintelligible.
Bigger than Lib Dem’s on the first day.
Musk support.
A competent MAN who is not a professional politician.
The Rape Gangs Inquiry is more than the rest of the benches have achieved between them.
Read some of the testimony – then scoff at the idea of the survival of the British if you like.
February 15, 2026
This post shows a complete ignorance of the UK’s history. It is as if only the English exist on these islands
February 15, 2026
You don’t know that the Norman invasion was in the south (England). That’s the only mention of England specifically.
Must be because of smoke in your eyes,
February 15, 2026
I and millions of others wish.
February 15, 2026
No. Apparently he has no interest in factual history and doesn’t read any literature. He is woefully under-educated, which is quite surprising considering he attended Reigate Grammar School (private), so I conclude that it wasn’t through lack of opportunity or the efforts of his teachers.
His claim that we rely on Europe (the EU) for our security is so obviously contrary to our history he appears to be working on the basis that if you’re going to lie, you might as well make it a whopper.
February 15, 2026
Always make it such a wopper that nobody believes it.
See the Rape Gangs and Epstein.
February 15, 2026
And thats a joke. Even the The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) is in disarray as different jet target capabilities emerge from Dassault and Airbus. One country wants carrier based (how many does EU have?) and another wants sky dominance from airfields. It keeps Putin grinning.
February 15, 2026
EU nations have four carriers I think…Italy 2, Spain 1, France 1 (and another in build). We of course have two but not enough aircraft or I suspect crew. To put this in perspective, the US have 11 with 3 in construction, Russia curently none and China 3.
February 15, 2026
@Donna – but if you have to withdraw £28bn from the defence budget because of a ‘blackhole’ and then add in payment to Mauritius from the defence budget, you have no money for defence. So the EU to defend the UK all the time they need to protect their earnings becomes a ‘thing’. The UK electorate will accept surrender because he says its the only way to secure the country.
He has no awareness outside of his own bubble but knows manipulation by inference wins.
February 15, 2026
We will NOT accept surrender.
Do you think the British stupid after all we witnessed that proves the opposite?
Why are you a democrat if you think the people stupid.
February 15, 2026
To the extent that it’s worth talking about this man (soon to be history himself), his training as a lawyer meant he’s used to making a case for a client, regardless of the truth of the matter. What he says should be seen as no more than casuistic pleading: the public is the judge of what is really happening in (and to) this country.
February 15, 2026
Perhaps, at last, those who voted Labour in July 2024 are realising than their party has moves so far towards the Marxist within its activist core, that its only concern is increasing benefits and elevated public expenditure for the feckless army of claimants. This is being done at the expense of genuine workers in the private sector and our military, both of which are shrinking before our eyes.
Then of course they have capitulated to the UN and China over Chagos and the new Chinese embassy.
I do hope Nigel is right and they are forced into an election in 2027. The cost of waiting until 2029 ( if they cannot come up with a postponement) will be that much of what Labour have done will then be irreversible.
The EU has already decided to write draconian penalties into the Great Reset Agreement to try and prevent Nigel and Co reversing it. Starmer will, of course, willingly accept their terms as part of his “legacy”.
February 15, 2026
Yes a lawyer must be able to speak to any Brief.
But Starmer chose pro bono work and that reveals him.
February 15, 2026
Well the next time you little englanders take up the cudgel you can fight it on your own because the Scots and the Irish won’t be there to help – viking raiders indeed
February 15, 2026
If Scots are daft enough to vote for independence, they are welcome to it! We will, of course, turn Faslane and Lossiemouth into Sovereign Bases first, or move their roles and jobs to England.
England doesn’t need Scotland : the £20-£25bn a year, and growing, subsidy we are forced to pay to keep Scotland afloat would be far better spent on defending England, Wales and NI. You can ask your friends in the EU to add your little province to the long list of regions that require subsidies from the few net contributors to the EU budget ! I wonder what the answer from the Germans will be ?
February 15, 2026
One of the great things about our Union is the knowledge that should England come under attack, the Scots and Irish would be there to help, just as the English would if Scotland or Ireland were ever attacked.
February 15, 2026
The Scots VOTED TO REMAIN IN OUR UNION.
The Irish are this day saying that the U.K. has found it Man, and lamenting they have not yet found theirs. But they are British and when we win they win too.
February 15, 2026
Europe has never been for us. Even recently in the EU. Now they want us to pay for the privilege of defending them.
February 15, 2026
Well said Lord John. History can teach us a great deal – especially more recent history.
The EU is no friend to this country (nor the rest of Europe come to that). We have natural defences and should look to reinforce them. Europe can (and will) look after its own interests first – we must take care of ours.
Selfish? Yes, of course. I put my family and country first – every time.
We have a paper Tiger PM – who needs to stop posturing (and pretending all is well) and start putting some money where his big mouth is – whilst there is still time to do so.
February 15, 2026
We will find out in a month or so that this speech was written by an aide and Sir Two Tier didn’t mean what he said.
This Prime Minister can not be taken seriously as he has no principles,just what the audience wants to hear
February 15, 2026
It was a different Marx who said “If you don’t like my principles, well, I have others.”
February 15, 2026
Groucho Marx – ‘I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member’
February 15, 2026
2TK Mr giveaway, he loves spreading non-returnable favours around the Globe. UK fish, just give it away, secrete NetZero Equipment deals with China(I am guessing there, but why is Red Ed’s deal being kept secrete?), Chagos. Putting the EU in charge of UK domestic Laws on food, agriculture and energy production.
Above all he loves travelling abroad to non-events so as to not be put on the spot at home, he has a ‘Plan’ a plan to wreak the UK and its working like clockwork. Recent sagas with ambassadors, strengthen him, his detractors were put back in their box. Not a single thing has come up to block him and as he controls the campaign budget for the majority in Parliament they will support him without question.
February 15, 2026
Had the PM read any history he would know that we do best when we turn away from the squabbles of Europe to the open ocean and the wider world.
The last time we did that we gave law to a quarter of humanity, secure behind a navy twice the size of the next, while handling 70% of global trade. National morale was never higher, the national genius never more fertile, entire continents fell into our hands and the Pax Britannica lasted a century.
But we all know by now that Sir Keir talks at random and, although in his 60s, has yet to make even a nodding acquaintance with reality.
February 15, 2026
He does not want us to do well.
February 15, 2026
All of this rhetoric from the PM about preparing for war is very disturbing – For a start he is no Churchill.
He continues to provide support to Zelensky when clearly peace would come quicker if Starmer didn’t keep whispering words of comfort. I’m sorry I just do not trust the motivation of a PM that has already proven himself so deceitful over the EU and many other things.
It’s not just hard words from Trump that is urging our PM to re-arm the UK, Starmer is now using that to fulfil his own aims.
For a PM that so easily cancels local elections, cancelling general elections after creating a government of national unity following UK boots entering the Ukraine war is all too easy to believe.
February 15, 2026
Yes, Rodney is over at the EU Munich rallye promising to align and protect the Commissioners and help our friends in the land of golden toilets and disappeared arms money to defeat the Russian speaking parts. While he’s sending the Prince of Wales [the boat] to the Arctic with EU boats to stop any hypersonic missiles which will stop Russian boats selling oil and gas to the Indians and Chinese. Let’s hope the Russians don’t stop any US or Quatari LPG boats landing the stuff in the UK.
Never mind, the plebs will rally round our courageous leader, providing he can borrow more money and there’s enough left over for food.
February 15, 2026
A strong defence should start with repelling the invasion at the south coast. How can you expect young people to sign up for the armed forces when it seems the object is to keep those in Westminster safe? They might appeal to the patriotic instinct of the British people, but in the context of foreign cultures changing the make up of our major cities, what is the Britain they are supposed to be defending? Who would want to join up, go and die for their country, only for a new arrival to move into their place when they don’t come back? There again, we are consistently told we need to be ashamed of our past and the erasure of British society is just desserts.
Before any talk about strengthening our defences, there needs to be action in unifying the country once again.
February 15, 2026
Starmer is a dangerous Europhile. He sees Britain/UK as part of a unified political construct of Greater Europe under the EU’s rules of membership.
His constant destruction of British strengths whether military by delaying the upcoming next fighter project or Agricultural by destroying farmers and farmlands, or economic by destroying the City and its role in international finance, or manufacturing destruction via energy starvation and increased costs.
Starmer and his team of wreckers know what they are aiming to achieve and they are progressing it.
Even their cosy relationship with Islam is a means to an end as they see it.
Just as Starmer is blind to the lessons of history he is also blind to the lessons from the world of Islam.
I say again he is a dangerous man. He is the character from Cicero’s warning he is skulking in the shadows, he is accepted because he looks as we do he fits in, but his actions and deeds are more dangerous than the enemy at the gate, an enemy that is already within widening the gate to others.
February 15, 2026
Did you listen to the Rubio speech in Munich yesterday he basically said the US wants to be a partner of Europe in the new world order but only on Trumps terms Wow!
Una Duce Uno Voce – Wow!
February 15, 2026
On his many trips to Europe the PM should take time to wander around some of the many cemeteries run by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to see for himself how many poor young souls have lost their lives fighting for Britain against Europeans. Credit to all concerned how immaculate the cemeteries are kept.
For more that 100 years, apart from when we waged war against weaker opponents, our main enemies have been in Europe and this seems to have been brought politely into the modern world when he was cheered at the Munich gathering when he waffled something about the Brexit years being over.
February 15, 2026
+1 but he does not care!
February 15, 2026
A succint piece of writing Lord-R, which I agree with and only hope the message is sent to our PM
February 15, 2026
Is Russia in Europe ….discuss
February 15, 2026
Geographers count the Urals as the boundary. The USSR was of course a multi lingual, multi ethnic empire, often headed by non Russians, but including those we think of as Asian, Islamic and even Western Jews and Germans and descendants of Vikings and Poles. We live with the consequences of that history, just as we now live with the large scale immigration from lands with very different religions and cultures now.
February 15, 2026
Some of it is, some of it isn’t, is the simple answer to your question, Glen.
More interesting question to discuss: Will Russia ever want to do business with Europe again? Perhaps, would be my view, after the present dismal crop of failed EU country leaders – and Starmer – is out of the way.
February 15, 2026
There is no discussion. Russia is a European country.
February 15, 2026
This Prime Minister is blind to everything outside of his own self righteous and sanctimonious.
A very dangerous man to this country and all of us
February 15, 2026
Agree – He’s dangerous because he claims a people’s mandate and is speeding up policies that weren’t in his manifesto…..while only 33% of the voting public voted labour at the last election, and I’d argue that that support is now less than 25%
February 15, 2026
This prime minister will pay lip service to support Britain when it suits him, but he is the most unpatriotic prime minister of my lifetime, which has lasted well over 80 years! Giving our fish away for no reason, giving massive sums to Mauritious unnecessarily , failing to realise the EU is only interested in getting Britain to contribute to its failing economies, failing to make any attempt (in fact doing the opposite) to honour the BREXIT vote of the British people He may be a human rights lawyer but with none of the logic I learnt when I studied law!
I dont go far enough! Not just the most unpatriotic Prime Minister of my lifetime, but arguably the worst. No redeeming features that I can see!
February 15, 2026
Many wish he were history. Unwinding the mess he and his henchmen and women leave behind will be extraordinarily difficult. Domestic reform will be hard enough, but the tendency to sign us up for disadvantageous treaties is more difficult. When the Germans were forced to sign at Versailles after WW I it resulted in extreme poverty, hyperinflation and a building resentment that culminated in Hitler and WW II. Signing us up for accelerated Net Zero and closing our industries while piling up unsustainable debt could push us in a similar direction.
February 15, 2026
I used to love visiting and working in Brussels. nowadays it is as bad as London. it is not safe. the streets are full of people who hate westeners. Europe like the UK needs a complete reset.
February 15, 2026
Everybody can see that ….apart from politcians, what are they so scared off
February 15, 2026
Never mind Starmer’s detachment from history. Without mandate he is stitching us to the EU’s energy policy which guarantees our continued de-industrialisation.He andthe EU are conniving to make it in EU words, “Farage Proof”.
Starmer is not just a liability, his presence is toxic to the well being of the UK. Everything just legal must be considered pending his removal.
February 15, 2026
I believe Margaret Thatcher once stated “Nothing good has ever come from Europe”, she was of course right the debt that occurred from the second world war tax payers only finished paying a few years ago. Joining the E.U. in the 1970″s was a catastrophic mistake for this country I would hate to think monetary wise what is has cost the U.K. for policies that were never any benefit to this country, its original idea of trade would have been a good thing unfortunately it turned out to be nothing but a power grab which has been disastrous for this country. Deals signed which meant the U.K. gave away far more than was ever beneficial for our prosperity. I can never understand how Politicians ever thought foreign Governments would ever govern in the best interests of the U.K. Starmer must be prevented from ever overturning a Democratic vote to re-join this disastrous experiment.
February 15, 2026
I very much doubt that Starmer has any interest in UK history. He is an ignorant man and not a good advert for Reigate Grammer school.
Farage and Badenoch must make it clear to the EU that they will not honour any agreement Starmer’s makes with them, that is not endorsed by the people of the UK in a referendum.