They are seriously underestimating ability of voters who turn up to vote for racist copium. To them it doesn’t matter if government is realistic, to them it only matters that brown people go elsewhere. Clearly its the only way to fix absolutely everything wrong with UK…
Weirdly what we need is for Trump to not pop his clogs before ‘28. He is the best example to floating voters of the realities of a Reform government. I worry that President Vance would be shrewd enough to roll back the tariffs and encourage the billionaires to throw enough handouts at the economy to make people forget about Ice.
Don’t give me hope. That’s just cruel.
Wasn’t Simon Jenkins the thinker who asserted that Ukraine should surrender and NATO should leave Russia’s “traditional sphere of influence”?
Could you please provide a quote or reference for that?
Moreover, Britain has no obligation to defend Ukraine. Nor does it have an obligation to deter or confront what appears to be an imminent Russian attack. The country has no alliance with Ukraine. Ukraine is not a member of Nato. And Britain has no significant means of influencing the outcome of a battle on the ground. For these reasons, it should stay well out of the situation.
We may choose to exert soft power over Moscow, through cultural, educational and economic forces but we cannot police Putin’s borders or stop him mistreating his neighbours. That is not our business.
Russia’s border disputes with its neighbours have nothing whatsoever to do with Britain.
From here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/20/britain-russia-ukraine-border-dispute
Those two are both from January 2022. More recently, he has said:
Boris Johnson could not stay out of Kyiv’s central square. We can shower Ukraine with charity, but this is not Britain’s long-term dispute and no amount of public hysteria will make it so.
Here, September 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/24/autonomy-eastern-ukraine-crisis-nato-russia-minsk
Trump’s clear intention is to bring two bitter wars to an end through personal charisma. He relies on his impact on other equally egotistic leaders standing in his way. Ukraine is at stalemate. Trump simply pleads for a stop to the fighting, a stop to the killing and a return of soldiers to their homes and families. We can call it vanity and egotism, but so what? It is a plea for peace from the world’s most powerful leader. We should wish Trump well in his effort, and congratulate him if he succeeds.
Here, October 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/20/gaza-ukraine-donald-trump-stop-war-peace
Nah, we’re going to get an entire Liz Truss government that bounds confidently from self-caused crisis to crisis it is not remotely qualified to deal with.
