Starmer says his duty is to keep Britons safe – as he puts them in danger

Keir Starmer has said that his duty is to “keep British people safe“. Anyone who knows him by now knows to assume he means the opposite. And so it is in this case – Starmer is knowingly putting British people in direct danger while telling them he has to keep them safe.

During Commons questions, Starmer again claimed that the UK is not involved in attacking Iran. Every single person in that chamber – including Starmer – knew that was a lie. Enabling US attacks on Iran by allowing them to use British air bases in the UK and Cyprus does involve the UK in attacks on Iran. In case that wasn’t clear enough, he added that the aim of this enablement is the destruction of Iran’s missile capability – as direct an involvement as it gets.

Starmer is deluded

That this makes the UK a legitimate target for Iran under international law is clear. And Iran and its allies weren’t slow to let us all know they know this – attacking RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus within hours of Starmer announcing last night that US planes can use UK bases. Starmer knows this, but is quite prepared to ignore, for propaganda purposes, the reality of UK involvement in a war, bleating that:

On Saturday, Iran hit a military base in Bahrain with missiles and drones. There were 300 British personnel on the base, some within a few hundred yards of the strike.

Yes – a US military base, after the US attacked Iran. By having British personnel there, you put them in harm’s way, Brylcreem. Pull them out now and stop UK involvement and assistance.

Starmer also claimed, laughably, that his “principles” mean that he will only participate in war on Iran if it’s “lawful” and “thought through”. Well, it isn’t and he still is – but given the trail of broken promises littering his wake for years, that’s no surprise. Starmer also claimed that “our bases in Cyprus are not being used by US bombers”. The careful wording of this means that even if it’s not an outright lie – 30/70 chance – the UK’s bases are used by US fighters, transport and troop transport planes that are essential to keeping US bombers in the air and bombing.

Labour are rotten

Defence secretary John Healey is no better. He parroted his boss’s claim that his “first priority” is keeping British people safe, including military personnel. Right. Same applies – stop putting them in the firing line, then.

Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper is as dishonest as the day is long. She showed this by the lies she told and still tells to justify her ban on Palestine Action. So it was no surprise at all to see her out trying to amplify Starmer’s lies. To achieve this, she tried to claim that Starmer’s government wants to keep its focus on the “300,000 estimated British citizens in other Gulf countries that are being targeted by Iranian missiles and drones“.

But again, the easiest way to keep them safe – and all the rest of us – is to stop being Trump’s poodle and enabling his illegal war. Keeping them safe is clearly only of interest as far as it can be used to excuse continuing to assist Trump’s illegal war on Iran.

Starmer’s lies are so transparent, and his delivery so awful, that it’s almost as if he’s relying on the public tuning out after three seconds and not really registering what he drones on about. Then the collaborator ‘mainstream’ press and broadcasters can sanitise and spin it for him.

Since Skwawkbox and the Canary are very happy not to be members of that club, here’s the unvarnished truth: Starmer has brought the UK into another illegal war and he knows it. This puts British service people and civilians in danger, and he knows that too.

He is unfit to clean Downing Street, let alone govern from it.

Featured image via the Canary