Frankly, I feel sorry for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who looks on impotently as his country slides downhill. I suspect that he knows that the policies he advocates can only speed that decline. The recent Iranian conflict exposed the uselessness of–appallingly!–the British Navy, which struggled to get a single ship to the eastern Mediterranean after Iran lobbed missiles at its base on Cyprus. That single ship is on its way back to the U.K., having done nothing.
But irrelevance is a bitter pill for a former power to swallow. Starmer is now in the Middle East:
Wow. Just wow.
“We just reached a ceasefire”
WE?!???! pic.twitter.com/ZG7npluPFR
— Kosher (@koshercockney) April 8, 2026
President Trump has suggested that the Europeans might take responsibility for keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. Britain could make a more substantial contribution toward that effort if it still had a navy.
UPDATE: Starmer is coming in for some well-deserved ridicule:
Later this week, Keir Starmer plans to travel to Berlin to help tear down the wall. pic.twitter.com/Gy2H0TYVBS
— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) April 8, 2026
