31st January 2025, The Telegraph
The special relationship has expired
Keir Starmer is miles apart from Trump on almost every major issue
As the United States of America begins of new chapter of secure borders, economic growth and peace through strength, the United Kingdom has been left to watch from afar. For us, our liberty, aspiration and prosperity lie buried under the weight of socialism, the shackles of political correctness and the feebleness of our political class.
The contrast couldn’t be starker and it is why (and I regret to say so) as Donald Trump assumes office for this generation-defining presidency and Keir Starmer stumbles from one crisis to another, it is abundantly clear that the historic special relationship between the UK and US – one which has endured since World War II, was strengthened during the Cold War and formed the defining alliance against Islamist terrorism after 9/11 – is now broken.
And it was our Labour Government that broke it.
Just as President Trump is finally taking a hard-headed stance against the oppressive regimes around the world, Keir Starmer is nowhere to be seen.
On China, Trump has made clear that tariffs will be applied, has imposed visa restrictions on students and blamed Beijing for the pandemic and collusion with Russia on Ukraine. Starmer has instead sent his Chancellor begging to Beijing, looks set to approve the mega Chinese spy HQ London, fails to implement vital national security measures like the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, and turns a blind eye to the genocide of the Uyghurs and the unprecedented hostility towards Taiwan and the Philippines.
Whilst the US will gradually wean itself off Chinese dependency, the UK is desperate to surrender sovereign UK territory in the form of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, playing into China’s hands by giving them an important strategic advantage in the Indian Ocean.
On the Middle East, as the new Trump administration took immediate steps to curtail Hamas’s brutality – with their leaders being ejected by Qatar and hostages released – this Labour government reinstated, and increased, British taxpayer funding to UNWRA, the discredited UN agency some of whose workers were complicit in the October 7 attacks.
Under Labour, the UK government supports the vexatious arrest warrants issued by the politicised International Criminal Court against Israeli politicians, has pledged to recognise a Palestinian state and imposed an arms embargo on Israel. In taking these perverse steps Starmer and Lammy have shown themselves to be Hamas’s useful idiots, to stand on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of Trump.
Or take Iran. We know that Trump has no patience with the Ayatollahs in Tehran who, under Biden, sprawled out of control by funding Islamist extremism around the world and their nuclear bomb programme. But under Labour, we have a Government that has failed to proscribe the IRGC – the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – the head of the snake when it comes to Iranian aggression.
On defence spending, Trump has electrified Nato members by demanding 5 per cent of GDP to go towards military budgets. After decades of underinvestment by the UK, leaving us with an ailing army, depleted navy and under-equipped air force, we must follow suit immediately.
But all Starmer can muster up is a half-hearted promise of 2.5 per cent with no timetable to getting there. It’s complacent, naive and dangerous.
Whilst Trump is putting the sovereign national interest first, challenging the multilateral, globalist dominance of the WEF, the UN and the Davos cliques, by pulling out of the conflicted and incompetent World Health Organisation, the UK is increasing its funding to this outmoded body.
Whilst Trump reinforces the Southern Border by suspending asylum claims, arguably in breach of the Refugee Convention and international law, Starmer scraps the Rwanda plan, worships at the altar of the Strasbourg Human Rights Court and international law. He is the personification of the Lefty Lawyer.
Or on net zero, Trump’s agenda is clear: more oil, gas and fossil fuels to increase self- sufficiency and lower energy prices to kick start manufacturing. But on our side of the pond, Militant Miliband is an eco-extremist intent on plastering our countryside with solar panels, imposing heat pumps in every house, refusing licences for north sea oil and gas and allowing the closure of our gas blast furnaces. He doesn’t seem to care if the lights go out- which they nearly did a few weeks ago- or if it bankrupts the British people.
And whilst a US-UK Free Trade Deal could be dusted down and negotiated, our Labour Ministers are more interested in undoing Brexit and re-joining the Customs Union with the declining EU.
And finally, I’ve not mentioned the diplomatic prowess of our Labour ministers when it comes to Trump. Not so long ago, our Foreign Secretary called him a “racist KKK” and a “new-Nazi sympathising sociopath”, our London Mayor, just last week trotted that well-worn smear of fascist and Lord Mandelson has now apologised for describing Trump a “danger to the world”.
Most of the Cabinet voted to ban Trump from making a state visit to the UK. No wonder Secretary Rubio didn’t even bother to call our Foreign Secretary upon his appointment. No wonder no Labour Member of the government was invited to the Inauguration.
These Labour idiots don’t see the potential of America under Trump and the British people will lose out, as a result.
The UK-US special relationship is broken. And it was Labour that broke it.
