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How humiliating, and even worse, how European. 

Just as Ursula von der Leyen called an emergency meeting two days after Operation Epic Fury began because she didn’t want to disturb the weekend plans of the European Council, the Telegraph reports that the HMS Dragon’s deployment to Cyprus to defend Britain’s airbase is delayed because Keir Starmer wants to ensure that the 9-5 workday at the drydock preparing the ship isn’t disturbed. 





You can’t make this up, 

The deployment of HMS Dragon to Cyprus has been delayed because the naval base where it is being repaired only operates from nine to five, a union has claimed.

The warship is being sent to protect a British base on the island following its attack by Iranian drones last weekend, but its departure has been held up to allow staff to finish welding and other maintenance.

The Prospect union said the delays were exacerbated by shorter working hours introduced by the Ministry of Defence and private operator Serco for “cost-cutting” purposes.

It claimed that the Portsmouth base no longer works round the clock and usually operates from 9am to 5pm on weekdays.

If the EU’s reputation, along with other NATO countries, has taken a hit during the US/Israeli operations to destroy Iran’s military power, Great Britain’s has positively collapsed. 

Starmer is now playing Michael Scott on the world stage. 

Nobody—and I do mean nobody—takes the country seriously anymore. The Gulf states are furious, and Cyprus is considering kicking the British out of their airbase because it can’t even protect itself. 





The Kingdom upon whose empire the sun never set is now in its sunset years, unable to even defend its own military bases, and unwilling to do much to reverse its decline. 

Britain’s reputation is in ruins, and in a world where deterrence depends on prestige, that means Great Britain has become a paper tiger, now smouldering. 

It was at 10.52am on Monday that the war in Iran stopped being an operational headache for Sir Keir Starmer and erupted into a full-blown political crisis.

As the Prime Minister and his aides hunkered in No 10, busily preparing for a Commons statement, The Telegraph published an exclusive interview with Donald Trump that would upend 18 months of painstaking diplomacy.

The US president did not hold back as he tore into the Labour leader over his refusal to support the joint American and Israeli strikes on Tehran.

In a brutal dressing-down, Mr Trump said he was “very disappointed” in Sir Keir, warning that he had cast doubt over the future of the special relationship.

His remarks were dismissed by some as a typical Trumpian outburst. In reality, they were the first public expression of growing anger among many of Britain’s traditional allies over its response to the unfolding crisis in the Middle East.

I have been predicting a possible regime change in Great Britain, sparked by the same war that is taking out Iran’s regime. Both Starmer and Iran are losing the ability to control events due to the same military strikes in the Middle East, and both are losing it due to self-inflicted wounds as much as by the exercise of American and Israeli military might. 





It was an acute embarrassment for Britain. UK defence officials had been discussing sending a warship but faced a problem – five of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 air-defence destroyers were out of service for repairs, while the only one on active duty, HMS Duncan, was also scheduled for routine maintenance.

Bombarded by Cypriot fury in private and calls to act from the opposition in public, Sir Keir eventually announced in his own video message at 4.09pm that Britain would rush HMS Dragon out of repairs and send it to the region.

Meanwhile, over at the White House, Mr Trump was not finished taunting the Prime Minister.

First, in a newspaper interview, he said Sir Keir’s actions meant “the relationship is obviously not what it was”. Later, at an Oval Office meeting with Mr Merz, he told reporters, unprompted, that “this is not Winston Churchill we’re dealing with”.

Starmer has been taking a political beating at home for not just appearing weak, but for exposing the actual weakness of Britain’s military. It didn’t just CHOOSE not to send any warships to defend Cyprus; it literally couldn’t, and couldn’t even muster the ability to repair its ships at a pace dictated by events instead of the negotiated workweek established to save money. 

It was also on Wednesday evening that international anger with Britain erupted in public. Kyriacos Kouros, Cyprus’s high commissioner, appeared on television to say his country was “disappointed” in the UK’s lack of support and “expected more”.

Meanwhile bruising reports emerged of simmering anger amongst Middle East allies. Jordan was said to be “f——” furious with Britain’s lack of response, with one ex-minister telling The Spectator the UAE, Kuwait and Canada were all asking “whose side are you on”.

Downing Street responded to Mr Kouros’s criticism by scrambling John Healey, the Defence Secretary, to Cyprus on Thursday. At the same time Sir Keir called a press conference in London at which he urged Mr Trump to negotiate with the Iranians.

In the face of the international criticism the Prime Minister defended his approach and spoke of “having the strength to stand firm by our values and our principles, no matter the pressure to do otherwise”.

Yet his apparent lack of influence was exposed hours later, when Mr Trump revealed how far negotiations were from his mind. Speaking at a White House event for Inter Miami, the Major League Soccer champions, which included Lionel Messi, he told Iranian soldiers to surrender or face “guaranteed death”.

Meanwhile, The Telegraph revealed that HMS Dragon was still undergoing welding work, meaning it was unlikely to reach Cyprus for a fortnight.





Starmer’s time as Prime Minister may be coming to a close, but if the British press is reading the tea leaves correctly, it may get an even worse PM who will accelerate the UK’s decline into irrelevance, and then into a Muslim caliphate. 

Mileband has made a power play, and while there is significant opposition to his leadership role, he has been strong enough to push Starmer around. If Mileband can rally enough support to kick Starmer out, and he is likely the only alternative to Starmer with the juice to do so any time soon, all bets are off. 

Starmer’s most forceful actions during the crisis in the Middle East is to kowtow to Muslims in his own country, practically begging them not to be angry at him. 

His strategy to deal with Muslim extremism is to beat Britons into submission, not to fight back against threats to them. 





The new tsar – described as a special representative on anti-Muslim hostility – will “champion efforts across the UK to tackle hostility and hatred directed at Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim”.

The appointee will be expected to engage with communities and stakeholders and support action to strengthen understanding, reporting and response.

The draft document demands that new arrivals in Britain should integrate and speak good English. It describes this as a “fundamental basis for participating in society and an expectation of those who wish to call the UK home”.

It states: “Those who come here must make a genuine effort to integrate into and engage with our shared way of life.”

The 2021 census found that more than one million people could not speak English well or at all.

The document says Islamists are responsible for three quarters of the police’s counter-terror workload and 94 per cent of all terrorist deaths in the last 25 years.

Further powers will be established to close extremist charities and suspend trustees with “unspent hate crime convictions”.

It also includes plans to “strengthen monitoring” of non-violent extremism in universities and to exclude hate preachers from the UK.

Seriously. The strategy to deal with the just-now recognition that Muslims in Britain are dangerously extreme is to create a Special Representative on Anti-Muslim Hostility. 

Who thinks like that? Weak men. 





I don’t want to say that Britain is done for, at least not forever. The country was on the ropes in the 1970s, and Margaret Thatcher took the reins and reestablished British prestige. 

So it is possible. 

But then again, decades of mass migration and the creation of an establishment that values Davos over Britain have changed the game. 

Sunset for Britain? It sure looks like it. 

Not that I love having Tony Blair on our side, but he understands how important the alliance with the US is. 


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