Starmer’s latest TikTok somehow attempts to turn his legalistic inaction on Iran into hard military edit. It doesn’t work…
The PM uses the video to claim: “long before the US and Israeli action last weekend, we had already deployed additional military capability to the region.” The inaction is clearly a sore point…
Even more bizarrely the shots of Wildcat helicopters and other armed forces with Starmer’s voice overlaid are accompanied by the intro to Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. At the Lobby briefing of political journalists Starmer’s spokesman was unable to say if the PM approved the choice of track, saying “the PM’s position on defence spending has been set out very clearly” and he wouldn’t “get into internal processes.” That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it…
Douglas Alexander – a friend of Starmer’s – was asked on Sky News if the PM will be in post at the next election. He wasn’t so sure himself:
“I think he will. There are no certainties but of course I think he will lead and I think he should because, frankly, on the biggest call in this parliament he’s exercised the right judgment, which is to keep us out of someone else’s war.”