Anyone who still thinks that Britain is a rich and powerful country cannot have been watching the news during the last week and a half.
Our Prime Minister walked backwards into 10 Downing Street in front of her owner as a serf, the head-chopping and Yemen-bombing Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. She then announced the expulsion of 23 Russian spies whom she had allowed in to begin with, and the absence of Prince William from the World Cup, as her double retort to Vladimir Putin.
But then, as Home Secretary, she had frankly sold British citizenship to assorted Russian oligarchs, and hangers on of the Gulf monarchies, in return for the donations that that made possible. Without those donations, then our governing party would have gone bust, and it still would. Britain is that poor, and Britain is that weak.
"It is traditional for the two front benches to stick together on foreign policy," pouted Laura Kuenssberg, as if that were somehow a good thing. Still no sign of her Labour frontbench resignations, though. Making it up, Laura? Surely not?
So far, fully 19 MPs have signed John Woodcock's anti-Corbyn Early Day Motion, and every one of them has less contact than I have with anyone who still matters in the Labour Party. Anna Turley has had to sign her name twice, having spelt it incorrectly the first time. Her own name.
Our Prime Minister walked backwards into 10 Downing Street in front of her owner as a serf, the head-chopping and Yemen-bombing Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. She then announced the expulsion of 23 Russian spies whom she had allowed in to begin with, and the absence of Prince William from the World Cup, as her double retort to Vladimir Putin.
But then, as Home Secretary, she had frankly sold British citizenship to assorted Russian oligarchs, and hangers on of the Gulf monarchies, in return for the donations that that made possible. Without those donations, then our governing party would have gone bust, and it still would. Britain is that poor, and Britain is that weak.
"It is traditional for the two front benches to stick together on foreign policy," pouted Laura Kuenssberg, as if that were somehow a good thing. Still no sign of her Labour frontbench resignations, though. Making it up, Laura? Surely not?
So far, fully 19 MPs have signed John Woodcock's anti-Corbyn Early Day Motion, and every one of them has less contact than I have with anyone who still matters in the Labour Party. Anna Turley has had to sign her name twice, having spelt it incorrectly the first time. Her own name.
Theresa May's perennial Shadow, Yvette Cooper, is again being treated as the Labour Leader that she will never be, even though her own Work Capability Assessment has caused many thousands of deaths in this country, whereas Russian or any other nerve agents have yet to kill anyone here. Anyone at all. 12 days in. Twelve days.
As May struts and squawks on the world stage, and as Gavin Williamson takes her so seriously that he uses the opportunity to launch his own Leadership campaign, read this. The Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Force lost 319 personnel in 2011, following defence cuts ordered by David Cameron. May was in the Cabinet at that time, and Williamson was Cameron's PPS.
Russia should "go away, it should shut up" says the Secretary of State for Defence. Not many people could make Nia Giffiths look like a stateswoman, but Williamson has managed it effortlessly. Apart from a mass vaccination against anthrax of troops whom he is thus admitting have not already been vaccinated against anthrax, he is in fact only announcing a measure of openness, through some of the accounts, about Britain's universally known but officially undeclared chemical and biological weapons programmes at Porton Down.
The world contains far more of those things than most people realise, or than almost anyone would ever acknowledge. A huge stash of chemical weapons has been found in Eastern Ghouta, in the possession of the Islamist heart-eaters on whose behalf the people now banging the drum against Russia wanted us to intervene in Syria. There, it has of course been Russia that has been vital to the rapidly approaching defeat of that monstrous evil.
But the denial of their pro-IS war in Syria still rankles very badly indeed with those who wanted it. It was prevented by a mass lobby of MPs that was organised by the Stop the War Coalition. That was its biggest victory. Until the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party.
More than half of the House of Commons was right about Syria, but Corbyn was one of only a minority to have been right about Iraq, one of only quite a small minority to have been right about Afghanistan, and one of only tiny handfuls to have been right about Kosovo and about Libya.
On every occasion, though, he was right, and they were wrong. How they hate him for it. How they hate him for the fact that, with such a record, it is as good as certain that he is also right about this.
As May struts and squawks on the world stage, and as Gavin Williamson takes her so seriously that he uses the opportunity to launch his own Leadership campaign, read this. The Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Force lost 319 personnel in 2011, following defence cuts ordered by David Cameron. May was in the Cabinet at that time, and Williamson was Cameron's PPS.
Russia should "go away, it should shut up" says the Secretary of State for Defence. Not many people could make Nia Giffiths look like a stateswoman, but Williamson has managed it effortlessly. Apart from a mass vaccination against anthrax of troops whom he is thus admitting have not already been vaccinated against anthrax, he is in fact only announcing a measure of openness, through some of the accounts, about Britain's universally known but officially undeclared chemical and biological weapons programmes at Porton Down.
The world contains far more of those things than most people realise, or than almost anyone would ever acknowledge. A huge stash of chemical weapons has been found in Eastern Ghouta, in the possession of the Islamist heart-eaters on whose behalf the people now banging the drum against Russia wanted us to intervene in Syria. There, it has of course been Russia that has been vital to the rapidly approaching defeat of that monstrous evil.
But the denial of their pro-IS war in Syria still rankles very badly indeed with those who wanted it. It was prevented by a mass lobby of MPs that was organised by the Stop the War Coalition. That was its biggest victory. Until the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party.
More than half of the House of Commons was right about Syria, but Corbyn was one of only a minority to have been right about Iraq, one of only quite a small minority to have been right about Afghanistan, and one of only tiny handfuls to have been right about Kosovo and about Libya.
On every occasion, though, he was right, and they were wrong. How they hate him for it. How they hate him for the fact that, with such a record, it is as good as certain that he is also right about this.
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