If we had a more robust media - one which believed in doing its job - then this possibility would be openly discussed.
The comically absurd Chagos and EU deals couldn't be more against this country's interests if we'd simply had the terms dictated to us. Only a country defeated and occupied could ever ‘agree' to them. It’s no exaggeration to say people are stunned, here and abroad, that Britain would ever countenance such humiliation.
Boris Johnson’s Pulp Fiction jibe about Starmer highlights this. Johnson implies that Starmer is the 'gimp', a chained slave without any say in things. People laughed it off, as 'Boris is good with words'. But he spoke in anger and was highly specific, choosing his analogy very carefully.
One also detects obvious unease - alarm - within the Labour Party, at wtf is going on. The gains from the EU deal are complete fiction. The Chagos one is positively surreal, in its utter ridiculousness. Even the toadying BBC and Europhile garbage broadsheets are unable to find any justification, bemused by how Starmer has NOTHING to show.
The Chagos deal is signed, with virtually no parliamentary scrutiny of its astoundingly unnecessary £30bn (plus) cost. The EU one is currently Heads of Terms, i.e. ‘agreed’ principles. Those are so dreadful for the UK that the blatant surrender of our national interests goes completely undisguised; there’s simply no way of hiding it. The EU has a tendency to overplay its hand like this (see Cameron's negotiation, before the 2016 Referendum). I think the lopsided principles won’t withstand any discussion - let alone scrutiny - even in our Potemkin parliament.
That's my only hope: this is hardly stealthy reintegration into the EU. It stinks very badly and is impossible to justify, other than as re-joining without any democratic authority or mandate.
As if our international humiliation by Starmer needed bolstering, the USA is now sending free-speech monitors to the UK. Extraordinarily, the State Department has publicly voiced its understandable concerns over political imprisonments under Starmer. Britain - which gave America its foundational belief in Free Speech - has now abandoned that basic right. Or rather, our government, judicial, educational, media and cultural establishment all have. They believe in licensed speech, as licensed by them.
Like many, I seriously worry if this country can survive four more years of Starmer’s authoritarian rule.
What will be left?
Whether this is entirely his desire, or he’s acting under some sort of duress, is surely worthy of conjecture. Perhaps it’s a combination of the two. Personal pressure is being applied, and his commitment to an internationalist mindset anyway means he regards our national borders and interests as things to be destroyed.
But at the risk of being smug, a year ago I predicted that Starmer would go all-out on free speech destruction, attracting international condemnation:
PREDICTIONS FOR STARMER'S PREMIERSHIP
Last week he blatantly lied in an interview, claiming he knew nothing about Lucy Connolly’s incarceration! He wasn't pressed on his ridiculous pretence. That’s the servile state of journalism, in Britain today.
Thanks Paul.
Symptoms of a failing government:-
*Corruption and lack of transparency-Lord Ali and the forty thieves
*Ineffective institutions-Courts, police, public institutions become unreliable and inaccessible-white hard working people jailed, non-white criminals freed
*Economic mismanagement-chronic budget deficit -£152 Billion for the current year, reliance on unsustainable debt with spiralling inflation up to 3.6%
*Erosion of rule of law-laws selectively applied and dissent suppressed by censorship and police state tactics
*Political instability-contested elections as in May 1st with 10 Councils captured by Reform
*Declining public services Infrastructure crumbling, NHS failing and education
standards being destroyed by Phillips. Power supply in danger of meltdown due to Net zero bollocks
*Loss of public trust-less than a third of people trust the government according to latest poll
*Human Rights abuses-crack down on free speech
*Brain drain and social decay-Billionaires and skilled people going, unskilled culturally backward people replacing leading to social cohesion fraying and crime and ethnic tensions rising.
Basically they're fucked and so are we.
Starmer's belief system was forged in the crucible of North London dinner parties. He's a zealot for that upper-middle-class, white-guilt-ridden, defeat-welcoming, left-liberal worldview. We, the people, don't count. Not at all. I'd say he despises us: our values, culture and history. His every decision proves it.