Come on, Starmer, tell us what you really think. Since America snatched the Maduros in Venezuela, Surkeir has been wriggling like a marlin on the end of Ernest Hemingway’s fishing line.
We (Britain) had no involvement, he told Laura Wossname on the BBC. Why would we?
Most people here think Venezuela is one of those annoying yard-of-ale trumpets they used to blow at the World Cup in South Africa. I doubt half the Cabinet could point to it on a map. As for Caracas, they probably think that’s what Mick Jagger played on Not Fade Away.
The Prime Minister’s knee-jerk reaction to this stunning military operation was to insist that he is a ‘lifelong advocate of international law’. Tell us something we don’t know. But what about when international law is an ass?
Answers on a postcard (email/TikTok?) to Surkeir’s far-Left best mate ‘Lord’ Hermer, Gerry Adams’ tame brief on speed-dial, who would have represented Adolf Hitler on yuman rites grounds had he made it to London after the fall of Berlin in 1945.
So, was Trump right to send in the dogs of war to capture the heads of a narco-terrorist state flooding the US with drugs and illegal immigrants?
Donald Trump saw Maduro as a threat and acted in a way anathema to the Left
Starmer did his best to deflect questions on the issue on Sunday morning TV
In other circumstances, Starmer would have demanded the Maduros were given asylum in the UK and bunked up in the Park Lane Hilton at taxpayers’ expense.
But faced with the wrath of Trump, he bottled it. Who was it who christened him a Complete And Utter Lawyer? Modesty etc…
‘I want to get all the material facts together, and we simply haven’t got the full picture at the moment,’ Sir Keir told the BBC.
‘It’s fast moving, and we need to piece that together. I then need to speak to President Trump, I need to speak to our allies, but I don’t shy away from this.
‘I want to ensure that I’ve got all the facts at my disposal, and we haven’t got that at the moment. And we need to get that before we come to a decision about the consequences in relation to the actions that have been taken.’
Does he really believe that The Donald gives a damn what he he thinks?
Er, no.
Quite right, too. Forget Starmer’s insincere burbling about how he regarded Maduro as an ‘illegitimate president and we shed no tears about the end of his regime’.
For as long as I can remember Labour, with Starmer one of its most prominent figures, has lionised the South American socialist gangster state basket case which is Venezuela – oil rich but third world poor.
Here’s my old LBC sparring partner ‘Red Ken’ Livingstone, who gave an exclusive contract to Venezuela to supply fuel to London Transport (or whatever it calls itself this week).
Ken loved Hugo Chavez, Maduro’s dictator predecessor. When mayor, he invited him to City Hall in 2006 as a honoured guest. As far as Livingstone was concerned, Chavez’s main failing was that he didn’t kill enough rich people.
‘One of the things that Chávez did when he came to power, he didn’t kill all the oligarchs. There was about 200 families who controlled about 80 per cent of the wealth.
‘He allowed them to live, to carry on. I suspect a lot of them are using their power and control over imports and exports to make it difficult and to undermine Maduro.’
Maduro and his wife are being held at the MDC federal prison in Brooklyn
Pretty mild, in the scheme of things, compared to the hero worship Oh, Jeremy Corbyn ladled on Chavez and Maduro.
In 2013 Chavez was ‘an inspiration to all of us fighting back against austerity and neoliberal economics in Europe’, according to OJ. Corbyn even hesitated in condemning Chavez’s violence towards his own people after a rigged election.
Let’s never forget that Surkeir was a steadfast supporter of Corbyn and campaigned to make him PM.
So no wonder he’s now squirming, especially as the majority of his backbenchers are Trump-haters and Maduro-lovers. They’d turn the UK into Venezuala in a heartbeat.
In fact, they’re three-quarters of the way there already to Rachel From Complaints – but courtesy of that deranged eco-loony Miliband, unlike Venezuela, we’re deliberately not exploiting our oil reserves.
Were our government/Funny People advised by the US that they were going to grab the Maduros? Probably, but it’s irrelevant. Frankly what happens in South America is none of our damn business, apart from protecting the Falklands.
This is America’s backyard. Trump has every right to confront the banana republics to his south exporting their drugs and lowlife north.
Bien-pensant opinion may find him crass and egotistical, but so what? He’s virtually closed the southern border, slashing illegal immigration by 95 per cent. Now he’s targeting the drug traffickers who are killing tens of thousands of Americans every year.
Yes, renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America was a stunt. But, be honest, when you saw those videos of the US military blowing up boats smuggling cocaine and fentanyl to the Panhandle, didn’t you stifle a silent cheer?
Plus, don’t you wish our own government would tackle the criminal cross-Channel boatloads of illegal immigrants arriving on our shores with equal ruthlessness (if not deadly force), instead of laying on a Border Force Uber service?
Don’t you wish Surkeir would stand up to our duplicitous French ‘allies’ who are shovelling the scum of the earth in our direction – and paying them for the privilege?
Of course you do, but you’re too polite – or scared – to say so.
Trump, like Rhett Butler, doesn’t give a damn, my dear. Outside of the Beltway – Washington’s equivalent of the Westminster Bubble – and the Left-wing legacy media, America First is the order of the day.
Maduro and his missus are drug-smuggling, people-smuggling, Tony and Carmela Sopranos in charge of not just a New Jersey mob crew but an entire country. The Bonnie and Clyde of Venezuela.
They were a clear and present danger to ther Free World. Stuff ‘international law’, specially when as I said international law is an ass.
They’re now banged up in the New York jail once home to sex criminals Puff Daddy and Epstein’s madame Gislaine Maxwell. Good.
This is what ‘smashing the gangs’ looks like. Keir Starmer, stop grovelling, get off your knees and take note.
