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@Keir_Starmer You did nothing to protect girls being groomed and raped all over the UK, your party tries to cancel real women for gender identity politics and you knelt for a criminal who held a gun to a pregnant woman, so forgive me if I don't believe a single word you spout.
Paedo who raped me is being freed early by Labour to reduce prison over crowding it is outrageous says fuming victim
Simon Tyler was jailed for nine years in November 2024 for raping a girl aged 14 and was found with a to do list of women he wanted to attack with her name at the top.
The Ministry of Justice has told the victim that under the new Sentencing Act his earliest release date has been cut from 67 per cent to 50 per cent of his term making him likely to be freed in 2028 instead of eligible for parole in 2030.
The victim said the letter was an absolute kick in the teeth I am terrified about him getting out it is an insult.
Her mother called it absolutely horrific news saying it took her daughter 15 years to get to the point of him being jailed and he is a dangerous predator who targeted her when she was 14.
The mother added the Justice Secretary needs to speak to victims about this and they should create more capacity rather than letting out absolute monsters.
Just wow...
Many victims/survivors or child sexual abuse and rape got this letter this week saying their abusers are being assessed to be released after serving just 33% of their sentence. Ive had message after message from people deverstated after recieving it. By the end of this year, 100's or rapists and pedophiles could be released onto our streets.
This is how kier starmer plans to tackle VAWG........ by letting more sexualy violent men back onto the streets after serving just a slap on the wrist for some of the worst crimes imaginable
These filthy fucking animals in Halifax ran a sick, organised rape gang that targeted three innocent teenage girls children as young as fucking THIRTEEN between 2006 and 2009. Vaqaas Abbas, Nadeem Adalat, Vaseem Adalat, Metab Islam, Younis Mohammed and the rest of that disgusting pack of Pakistani-heritage predators, along with the utterly shameless bent copper Amjad Ditta (aka Amjad Hussain), took turns raping them, trafficking them, pumping them full of drugs and treating them like worthless pieces of meat. And this vile piece of shit Ditta? He was a serving police officer while he put his dirty hands on one of those girls. The cunt got charged with sexual touching and then surprise fucking surprise in come Labour the rape protectors, the CPS quietly dropped the case in 2024 saying there was “no realistic prospect of conviction”. Of course there wasn’t. Because the whole rotten system protects these monsters.
The British mainstream media? A collection of gutless, spineless, politically correct wankers who have spent twenty fucking years covering up these rape gangs. The BBC, The Guardian, Channel 4 every single one of them terrified of being called racist, so they buried the truth, downplayed the ethnicity, refused to print the blindingly obvious pattern, and let thousands more little girls get destroyed instead. They’ll scream about one white nonce for three weeks straight but when it’s gang after gang of mostly Pakistani Muslim men raping our children on an industrial scale? Radio fucking silence or weasel-worded paragraphs buried on page 17.
This isn’t just “one case”. This is one tiny, stinking pimple on the face of a fucking nationwide epidemic of rape gangs. Rotherham. Rochdale. Telford. Oldham. Newcastle. Oxford. Huddersfield. Halifax. Bradford. Hundreds of known gangs. Tens of thousands of victims. Some serious experts say the real number of girls destroyed is well over a million. And still – STILL – the police, councils, MPs, social workers and especially the disgusting cowardice of the mainstream media keep helping these evil bastards get away with it. They have sacrificed our daughters on the altar of multiculturalism and diversity and “community relations” and they continue to do it every single fucking day.
These are not men. They are vile, soulless, child-raping parasites. And everyone who covered for them, who stayed silent, who obstructed justice, who put “community cohesion” above the safety of little girls every single one of them has blood on their hands. Pure. Fucking. Evil.
The most disgraceful ABUSE of an MP’s expense account yet!
At total of £231,306.65 for one year for a back bench MP ????
! WTAF !
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No wonder she’s taking time off because she’s “burnt out” ... all that piss taking must have been so exhausting.
😡😡😡
The Arrest. The Kitchen. The Questions Angela Rayner Must Now Answer.
Five people were arrested on Thursday morning on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud. The allegation is that fake independent candidates were entered on the ballot for St Peter's ward in Tameside to split votes for opposition parties and deliver the seat to Labour. Greater Manchester Police confirmed the arrests and said they were working closely with the Electoral Commission.
The arithmetic is not complicated. The Labour candidate won by 177 votes. The two alleged fake candidates received 291 votes between them. St Peter's was the only ward in Tameside to return a Labour councillor on May 7. Reform won the remaining 18. Without those alleged fake candidates on the ballot, the ward in all probability falls and Tameside returns no Labour councillors at all.
St Peter's ward sits in the heart of Angela Rayner's Ashton-under-Lyne constituency. Rayner denies any involvement or awareness of the alleged plot. That denial is on the record and must be the starting point. She has not been arrested. She has not been charged. No evidence has been presented publicly that connects her personally to any decision.
What has been reported, by the Manchester Mill and subsequently by the Telegraph, is that Philip Wilson-Marks, the former vice-chairman of the Ashton-under-Lyne Community Labour Party, has alleged he was approached twice about the fake candidate tactic. One of those approaches, he claims, took place in Rayner's kitchen.
Rayner says the allegations have nothing to do with her and any suggestion of involvement or awareness is baseless. That statement must stand until evidence establishes otherwise. But the location claim is documented, attributed and on the public record. It cannot simply be set aside because it is inconvenient.
There is also the matter of a leaked 2024 recording in which Rayner pleaded with Muslim voters in her constituency, acknowledging she could not have held her seat in 2019 without their support and promising Labour would do everything in its power on Gaza. St Peter's ward, where the alleged fraud occurred, has a significant Muslim population. The Labour candidate who allegedly benefited is Atta ul-Rasool, the former vice-chairman of the Ashton-under-Lyne Labour branch. The connection between Rayner's documented bloc vote cultivation and the ward where five people have now been arrested for alleged electoral fraud is not an allegation. It is a question the evidence requires to be asked.
Rayner has been cleared by HMRC of wrongdoing over her stamp duty affairs in circumstances that independent tax experts describe as difficult to understand. A company incorporated fourteen months ago with £1 of capital, controlled by a former member of her staff according to Companies House records, donated £150,000 to her political office. Those questions have not been answered.
Rayner is not responsible for the actions of every person associated with her local party. But the culture that allegedly produced those decisions is the culture of the political operation in her backyard. A party that has spent months accusing Reform of threatening democratic norms has five people under arrest for alleged conspiracy to defraud a local election in its own heartland.
The questions are specific. When did she become aware of allegations about fake candidates. Whether anyone discussed the tactic with her or in her presence. What she intends to do about the culture that produced these arrests. Rayner resigned from government in the name of integrity. Integrity means answering those questions. The kitchen allegation is on the public record. The questions will not go away by themselves.
"The Labour candidate who allegedly benefited is Atta ul-Rasool, the former vice-chairman of the Ashton-under-Lyne Labour branch."
They Still Don't Get It. And They Never Will.
The local election results are barely counted and the Labour messaging machine has already told you what to think. Chris Bryant says Labour must deliver the change the country desperately wants. Heidi Alexander says people voted for change in 2024 and want it delivered faster. David Lammy says the last thing Britain needs is Labour turning inward. They have misread the results so completely that the misreading itself is the story.
Sunderland fell to Reform after fifty years. Gateshead fell. Blackburn fell. Tameside fell after forty seven years. Wales, governed by Labour since devolution began in 1999, now has a Plaid Cymru administration for the first time. These communities and this nation did not vote the way they did because Labour was delivering its agenda too slowly. They rejected that agenda entirely. The small boats still coming. The dispersal of unvetted men into communities that were never consulted. The energy bills driven up by net zero dogma. The two-tier policing that jailed people for expressing views on immigration while sectarian marches went unchallenged. The grooming gang inquiry that victims say has been managed to minimise accountability rather than deliver it. The taxation of working people and family farms while billions flow in foreign aid to Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan, regimes that stone women, ban girls from education and sentence apostates to death. The country that funds gender apartheid abroad while failing to protect its own women and girls at home has now delivered its verdict at the ballot box.
These are not policies the country wants faster. These are policies the country has rejected. The distinction is fundamental and Labour's entire leadership class has missed it. Starmer's response to the worst local election result in Labour's history is to bring back Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman.
Gordon Brown was Chancellor when he sold 395 tonnes of Britain's gold reserves between 1999 and 2002 at near a twenty year low, a decision that cost the Treasury an estimated £7 billion at subsequent prices. He became Prime Minister and presided over the worst financial crisis since the 1930s before losing the 2010 general election. He is now being brought back as Special Envoy on Global Finance to advise a government that has just suffered its worst ever local election defeat. Nigel Farage's assessment was characteristically blunt. An unpopular Prime Minister who lost a general election is now seen by Starmer as the saviour. He meant Labour are doomed.
Harriet Harman has been appointed adviser on violence against women and girls. Between 1978 and 1982 Harman served as legal officer of the National Council for Civil Liberties at a time when the Paedophile Information Exchange held affiliated status within the organisation. In 2014 Harman expressed regret after this connection was reported. She denied supporting PIE or campaigning to lower the age of consent below sixteen. Those denials are on the record. What is also on the record is that a Prime Minister whose government lost the local elections in part because of failures to protect vulnerable girls from organised sexual exploitation has chosen as his safeguarding adviser someone whose name has been permanently associated with that controversy. The optics alone represent a judgment so poor it defies explanation.
This is the reset. Two figures from Labour's past, one associated with one of the most costly financial decisions in modern British history, one with one of the most toxic controversies in the party's recent record, brought back the morning after the worst local election result in the party's history.
The ministers and the Prime Minister are operating in the same closed loop. Same assumptions. Same conclusions. More of the same, delivered faster, by older faces with worse records. The country was clear on Thursday. This government cannot hear it.
Labour MPs will now spend days & days agonising over the results.
“What just happened?”, they’ll ask.
“What should we do now?”
Let’s cut to the chase.
-Stop flooding Britain with illegal immigrants.
-Stop putting HMOs in the heart of our communities.
-Stop using the British people’s own money to outbid them in their own housing market.
-Stop destroying small businesses with taxes, rates & regulation then wondering why they’re going bust.
-Stop putting welfare scroungers and foreigners ahead of workers.
-Stop spending more on welfare payouts and we generate in tax.
-Stop making shoplifting & petty crime de facto legal.
-Stop treating British farmers, British pensioners, & British workers with utter contempt.
-Stop calling everybody who disagrees with you “far-right”.
-Stop spending £25 billion on foreign aid & welfare for foreigners while saying there’s no money for the NHS & police here in Britain.
-Stop trying to control what we say and think.
-Stop trying to impose things that were never even in your manifesto, from jury trials to digital id.
-Stop trying to dodge and dilute the rape gang inquiry.
-Stop enabling anti-Semitism while ignoring the rise of Islamism.
-And stop your obsession with Net Zero that’s destroying our energy market and economy.
You don’t need to spend the next week agonising over things that don’t really matter.
Do some of this and you might have a chance of reconnecting with the British people.
Ignore it, denounce it all as “far right” or “racist”, and you’ll go the same way as the Tories.
Your call.
CV.
Completely ruined a major 126 year old political party in less than 2 years.
Became the most hated UK Prime Minister in history.
Unilaterally gave away billions of £'s of taxpayers money with no accountability required from the recipients.
Wrecked the economy.
Failed to control mass immigration, both legal and illegal.
Failed to address the problem of muslim rape gangs.
Increased welfare payments to a point where benefits now cost more than the entire income tax take.
Allowed weekly pro-Palestinian hate marches on our streets.
Consistently referred to people with concerns about the proliferation of migrant violence as "Far Right".
Promoted one of his friends to high office despite knowing he was a buddy of one of the most prolific paedophiles on the planet.
Consistently worked to reverse the result of the biggest democratic vote in British history by stealth.
Placed tax dodgers, fraudsters and CV fantasists in Ministerial posts.
Invited a known islamist terrorist to No.10 while simultaneously banning foreign commentators from the UK for merely reporting on the border fiasco.
Took two weeks to find a Royal Navy ship that actually worked.
Introduced legislation that will destroy the private rental market and create hundreds of thousands of homeless families.
Promised to build 1.5 million homes in five years despite everyone telling him it would be impossible.
Failed to help motorists and hauliers after the rise in the price of fuel caused by the war in Iran.
Continues to allow Ed Milliband to wreck the UK's energy industry with his insane Net Zero policies.
Raised the minimum wage and employers National Insurance contributions leading to thousands of job losses and businesses folding.
Introduced VAT to private school fees leading to many excellent seats of learning closing their doors.
Consistently refused to answer questions during the session in the parliamentary week set aside for this specific purpose.
Consistently failed to accept responsibility for any wrong doing, preferring to sack others instead.
Alienated "working people" while claiming to be on their side.
And the lies. The constant lies.
Failure. Failure. And more Failure.
Time to go.
Before Anyone Crowns Burnham, Ask Him About Operation Augusta.
The Westminster commentary has settled on its preferred narrative. Andy Burnham is the answer. The King of the North. The popular, relatable, effective politician who can reconnect Labour with the voters it has lost. Union leaders are backing him. MPs are championing him. The NEC has cleared his path. Nobody is asking the question his own record demands.
Operation Augusta was a Greater Manchester Police investigation into a grooming gang of up to 100 members who abused at least 57 children, some as young as 12, all in the care of Manchester social services. The operation was shut down. The official reason was lack of resources, despite Greater Manchester Police having gained over 1,000 additional officers in the preceding years. Of 97 individuals identified as suspects, three were imprisoned. That was recorded as a success.
When the subsequent review was published and MPs wrote to Burnham challenging him on the failures, his response was described in Hansard as supine. He accepted the lack of resources argument without challenge. MPs noted there was no sense of injustice in his reply. The minutes from the meeting where the decision to end Operation Augusta was taken had disappeared. The minutes from Manchester City Council had disappeared at the same time.
The Rochdale review, which Burnham also commissioned, identified 96 men still deemed a potential risk to children who remained at large. That review covered failures between 2004 and 2013, documenting multiple failed investigations and apparent institutional indifference to the plight of hundreds of girls, mainly white, from poor backgrounds. Burnham described it as a lamentable strategic failure. He expressed anger. He called for a duty of candour on public servants. What he did not do was explain what his mayoralty had done to locate and prosecute the 96 men still identified as dangers to children.
To be precise, Burnham commissioned these reviews. But commissioning a review of institutional failure is not the same as confronting it. The reviews documented failures that occurred both before and during his mayoralty. His response to parliamentary challenge on those failures was judged inadequate by MPs who examined it.
Now the same political class that failed to press him on those questions is preparing to hand him the keys to Downing Street. Union leaders who represent workers in the communities where these failures occurred are backing him without condition. MPs who sat through the Hansard debate on Operation Augusta are championing him as the clean candidate. The media is treating his popularity as a sufficient qualification.
The parallel with the Mandelson affair is not superficial. The central argument of this affair has been that institutional accountability has been systematically avoided by a political class more concerned with managing consequences than confronting them. The grooming gang failures in Greater Manchester represent exactly that pattern applied to the most vulnerable children in the country. Girls in care were failed. Suspects were identified and not prosecuted. Evidence disappeared. The response was described as supine.
A political culture that cannot ask these questions of its preferred successor has not learned anything from the crisis that is forcing the current Prime Minister out. Changing the leader without changing the culture of institutional evasion simply reproduces the problem with a more popular face attached.
Before anyone in Westminster, in the unions or in the media decides that Andy Burnham is the answer, they should read the Hansard record of Operation Augusta. They should ask what happened to those 96 men. And they should require a better answer than the one he gave the last time he was asked.
"Operation Augusta was a Greater Manchester Police investigation into a grooming gang of up to 100 members who abused at least 57 children, some as young as 12"
NHS MADE A WOMAN PARALYSED FROM THE NECK DOWN WHO COULDN'T SPEAK PAY NEARLY £1 MILLION IN FEES AND LIQUIDATE THE ENTIRETY OF HER ASSETS THEN THEY FORGED THE PAPERWORK TO COVER IT UP.
Paul Culliford @RealPLC contacted me directly this week. He sent me a 95-page fraud report, a @PrivateEyeNews article, and documents I have now read in full. I am writing this because what he shared is genuine, evidenced, and needs to be seen by more people.
Valerie Culliford had a stroke in 1987 at age 47. She was left paralysed from the neck down with locked-in syndrome. She could communicate only by blinking. Her condition never changed. Not once. Not in 23 years.
Under @NHS legislation she was entitled to full Continuing Healthcare funding from the moment she entered a nursing home in 1989. The NHS knew this. They assessed her in 2009, found her eligible, and confirmed in writing that her condition had been unchanged since admission.
The family spent £835,000 of their own money on her care. When the estate ran dry and Paul told the local authority he could no longer pay, the NHS suddenly found the money. For the last 14 months of her life.
Then Paul started asking questions.
What he found was not a bureaucratic failure. It was a coordinated operation. A fully completed 2014 assessment by two qualified nurse assessors found Valerie eligible for the entire period under review. That document was hidden. A deliberately stripped version with the recommendation removed was sent to her solicitors instead. When Paul tracked down the original, the CCG denied its existence. They kept denying it. Even under oath in the Central London County Court in 2018.
The assessment documents sent to NHS England for independent review had signatures forged onto them. A consultant who chaired multiple panels and signed key documents had not held a valid health professional registration since 2005. The panel she chaired was therefore invalid. Nobody flagged it.
@NHSEngland was told. The @NHSCFA was told. MPs were told. Accountable Officers were told High profile Non Executives were told. The case was reported in Private Eye. An independent review panel finally confirmed in 2022 that Valerie had always been eligible.
The @PHSOmbudsman is now sitting on the case. The NHSCFA has confirmed the full file has not provided to them by the ICB or NHS England
The fraud report was compiled by former Serious Organised Crime Agency manager Michael Randall of Fedora Investigations. I have read it. It is 95 pages of documented evidence, exhibits, metadata analysis, court transcripts, and emails from NHS officials discussing how to handle a man they knew was telling the truth.
This is not one rogue manager. This is institutional fraud sustained across multiple organisations over nearly two decades, with each layer of oversight choosing to look away.
Paul is not asking for sympathy. He is asking for full restitution and accountability for the individuals who held public roles and made the decisions that drove this. That fight is ongoing.
If you or someone you know has been through a CHC denial, especially one where assessments were reversed by non-clinical administrators, reach out to Paul directly.
The NHS rejects 75% of CHC applicants. Not all of those rejections are fraud. But some of them are exactly this.
Sources: Private Eye, November 2025 @PrivateEyeNews Fedora Investigations Report, shared directly by Paul Culliford
Instead of having special police forces for:
Jews
Victims of grooming gangs
Christmas markets
Hindus
Christians
Sikhs
Concerts
Public landmarks
Churches
Schools
Transport hubs
Airports
Shopping centres
Nightclubs
Gay venues
Political events
Police officers
Soldiers
Journalists/cartoonists
Western tourists
Secular/liberal Muslims
Ex-Muslims/apostates
Muslim minorities such as Ahmadiyya
...why don't we just deal with the problem?
🚨BREAKING: Leaked Email reveals Lord Hermer - A close personal friend of Keir Starmer and Attorney General - LED a SMEAR CAMPAIGN against BRITISH ARMED FORCES
In the email it is said that they wanted to put FAKE ATROCITY STORIES OUT even if they weren't true
Wanting 'wriggle room' to not be legally held accountable
This is honestly DISGUSTING
Hermer and Starmer previously tried to get compensation for Iraqi's whose claims were FALSE
Starmer is a traitor
So is Hermer
Hermer Pursued British Troops With False Claims. Starmer Made Him Attorney General.
In January 2008, Richard Hermer read witness statements from Iraqi men alleging that British soldiers had tortured and executed their countrymen after the Battle of Danny Boy in southern Iraq in 2004. His response was to write that the cases were a good reminder of why he had wanted to become a lawyer.
Within a week, his own team had flagged that the accounts were implausible. One claimant said he had taken a taxi to buy yogurt and ended up in a battle zone. Another could not decide whether he had been cutting grass, irrigating land or studying when the shooting started. A third said he was harvesting crops with a sickle. The inquiry later found he had been armed with an AK47. Hermer pressed on regardless.
Documents obtained by the Daily Telegraph show Hermer, working alongside Phil Shiner, who was subsequently struck off and convicted of fraud, advising that the press release for a public announcement needed to generate sufficient interest. He suggested they might need to be more explicit about executions to bring in the punters. He acknowledged they needed wriggle room if the killings did not in fact happen. His colleagues, taking the cue, upped the ante. A line about torture and execution was added. Shiner accused the military of a My Lai-style atrocity at the press conference.
By 2013, Hermer's own colleagues privately believed the case would be found to be nonsense. One described the claimants as lying. The claims were odds-on to collapse at inquiry. Discussion turned to securing settlement before the evidence could be tested in public. Hermer advised that offers of between forty-five and fifty-five thousand pounds per claimant would be low risk. He pressed for higher settlements even as the case disintegrated around him.
The Al-Sweady inquiry ultimately ruled the allegations were deliberate lies driven by ingrained hostility toward the British Army. The claimants were not innocent farmers and labourers. They were members of the Mahdi Army, an Islamist insurgent group backed by Iran. The soldiers were fully exonerated. Hermer received nothing. He had chosen this case on a no-win no-fee basis. The cab rank rule did not apply. He selected it and stood to profit if it succeeded.
Lance Corporal Brian Wood was decorated with the Military Cross for his conduct at Danny Boy. He spent years falsely accused of war crimes by Hermer's clients. He has called on Hermer to resign and described his appointment as Attorney General as disgusting. He said Hermer was representing the people trying to kill them.
Keir Starmer appointed Hermer to the House of Lords in 2024 specifically to make him Attorney General, choosing him over Emily Thornberry who had held the shadow role. Starmer knew Hermer's background. He and Hermer had worked together in the mid-2000s to extend human rights laws to overseas war zones, the same legal mechanism Hermer then used to pursue British troops in Iraq.
Hermer is now the government's most senior legal adviser. He oversees the legal basis for military operations. He is central to the Troubles Bill that is subjecting Northern Ireland veterans to the same lawfare he practised against soldiers in Iraq. The process he helped construct is the same process that drove a special forces veteran named Fred to attempt suicide after his medical records were handed to the families of the terrorists he had fought.
The former head of the Army, General Sir Peter Wall, said Hermer's role in the Al-Sweady claims was tantamount to treason. A barrister is calling for a Bar Standards Board misconduct inquiry.
Starmer calls Hermer his closest Cabinet ally. The country deserves to know what that friendship has cost the people who wore the uniform.
"Lance Corporal Brian Wood was decorated with the Military Cross for his conduct at Danny Boy. He spent years falsely accused of war crimes by Hermer's clients."
BREAKING: Starmer denies knowing he was Prime Minister.
Sir Keir Starmer has revealed he was unaware he’d actually won the 2024 election and taken office, claiming officials “never made it clear.”
Speaking to Beth Rigby, he said:
“I was completely kept in the dark. No one told me I was Prime Minister until last Tuesday. I’m very disappointed in the process.”
Pressed on how he’d managed months of Cabinet meetings, PMQs and policy announcements, Starmer clarified:
“I assumed I was still in opposition… just unusually well briefed.”
Downing Street insiders insist there were “clues,” including the keys to Number 10, the red box, and being addressed as “Prime Minister” several times a day — but sources say these may have been “missed in the detail.”
A spokesperson later confirmed the situation is “under review,” adding:
“The Prime Minister now fully understands he is, in fact, the Prime Minister, and has been for some time.”
He just doesn't remember having a friend called Peter...
#Resign #ForensicStarmer
Hermer's Law: How a Non-Binding Opinion Became a £30 Billion Surrender
The Chagos bill is dead. Not delayed, not paused, not pending resolution of a diplomatic disagreement with Washington. Dead. The government has run out of parliamentary time, lost American support, lost a domestic court ruling, and is now appealing against a judgment that grants the very people it claimed to be helping the right to return to their homeland. The deal Keir Starmer signed, the bill his ministers championed, and the legal reasoning Lord Hermer placed at the heart of Labour's foreign policy have together produced a comprehensive and entirely avoidable disaster.
Begin with the legal foundation, because that is where the rot starts. The government's case for surrendering Chagos rested on a 2019 advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice. Not a binding ruling. An opinion. One that carries, in the Spectator's precise formulation, roughly the legal force of a politely worded email. Any government confident in its own sovereignty would have noted the opinion, acknowledged its non-binding status, and proceeded as before. Instead, Lord Hermer, as Attorney General, treated it as an obligation Britain had no realistic choice but to honour. International law was placed at the heart of Labour's foreign policy, and a non-binding advisory opinion became the justification for surrendering a strategic asset Britain has held for two centuries.
The consequences were predictable and have duly arrived. The legal framework constructed to make surrender seem inevitable has since been turned against the deal itself. A domestic court ruled earlier this year that Chagossians expelled from their homeland have a right of abode. The government is now appealing against that judgment, deploying British courts to resist the rights of the people whose welfare the deal was ostensibly designed to protect. The legal reasoning that was supposed to close the argument has reopened every argument simultaneously.
Then there is Trump. His final withdrawal of support came after Starmer refused to allow American aircraft to use British bases to strike Iran. The refusal was consistent with this government's broader posture: cautious, legally constrained, reluctant to act without multilateral cover. But the consequence was the loss of American backing for a deal that required American cooperation to implement. Britain had already committed £30 billion of public money. It had signed. It had staked its diplomatic credibility. And then, when the alliance was tested at the precise moment it mattered, the terms of British foreign policy prevented Britain from meeting the condition on which everything else depended.
The geometry of this failure is worth stating plainly. Starmer signed a deal he could not implement without US consent. He then adopted a foreign policy posture that made US consent impossible to retain. He built his legal case on a non-binding opinion that has since generated binding domestic consequences he is now fighting in court. And he committed billions of public money to an agreement that cannot be ratified, to lease back a base Britain already owned, from a government it was paying to take it.
Lord Hermer bears particular responsibility. The decision to treat the ICJ opinion as effectively binding, to frame sovereignty as a liability and legal compliance as a virtue, set the terms for everything that followed. A government that begins by conceding the argument rarely wins the negotiation. Britain conceded Chagos in principle before a single formal demand had been made, and has spent the years since discovering the price of that concession while failing to collect any of its promised benefits.
The bill is dead. The deal is stranded. The base remains, for now, in British hands. That is not a vindication of the strategy. It is a verdict on it.
Good to see the rescue of the downed airman in Iran
Fantastic to see a nation pull out all the stops to save their personnel 🇺🇲
While in the UK our Government prosecute and persecute ours 🇬🇧
A labour peer laughs at Rape Gang victims
And the mainstream media says nothing
Captured Labour cult.
@AvonandsomerRob The spy who bummed me.
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