Starmer’s moral weakness has been exposed

Good morning. This week has exposed the moral weakness of Sir Keir Starmer. Our virtue-signalling Prime Minister has raised the white flag to the enemies of Britain both within and outside our borders. Surely even he can’t be proud of the nation he is building? Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor 18/10/25 Did Sir Keir go into politics to suck up to China?

Is this really why Sir Keir Starmer went into politics? To suck up to the Chinese Communist Party, and to preside over a country defiled by rampant anti-Semitism and sectarianism? A virtue-signaller extraordinaire, a holier-than-thou human rights lawyer, the PM has always seen himself as a social justice warrior. Yet after just 14 months in office, how does Starmer reconcile his erstwhile sanctimony and supposed commitment to anti-racist and humanist principles with the grubby reality of what Labour Britain is turning into? Our country has crossed the Rubicon with the ban on supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending their team’s Europa League match at Aston Villa. Birmingham must be judenfrei for the Jews’ own safety, or so this abhorrent decision implies: the police are fine policing endless “pro-Gaza” marches but cannot protect a small number of Israeli fans. Several independent MPs have disgraced themselves by welcoming the ban. One welcomed those who had resisted “Zionist and political pressure to let Israeli hooligans and terrorists run riot in our country”. The rise of sectarian politics is a catastrophe for our country, and it will get a lot worse in the years ahead. A Government that truly cared about our nation’s unity and commitment to Enlightenment values would be developing a strategy to combat this madness as a top priority. The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters will presumably be overturned but it is too late: we now know that there are indeed no-go areas for some groups, especially Jews, in Britain, that two-tier policing is deeply entrenched and that extreme Israelophobic and downright Islamist sympathies are being expressed a lot more openly in some quarters, as demonstrated by the number of arrests on “pro-Gaza” marches. It is not just that Britain, a country that was once led by Churchill, has surrendered to the enemy within: we have also raised the white flag to the enemy without. We shall find out in due course whether Parliament was misled about the collapse in the Chinese spy case. The Government’s position certainly doesn’t feel convincing. Tel Aviv fans cheered on November 8 as they arrived at Ben Gurion airport on a flight from Amsterdam The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters will presumably be overturned, but it is too late What is certain is that the Labour Government is desperate to attract Chinese capital, including for some of its far-fetched green policies, and is putting that above any residual morality. Where is the conviction? Where is the consistency? Where is the ethical foreign policy? The hypocrisy of Starmer’s position is staggering, the cognitive dissonance too much to bear. This is a Government that keeps criticising Israel, a democracy that had been attacked by terrorists, going as far as to repeatedly claim (entirely without foundation) that it had caused “starvation” in Gaza, and yet it trembles before China, a true human rights violator and dictatorship. Labour’s supposed commitment to justice, fairness and anti-racism has proved no match for the forces of hate and authoritarianism. This is what happens when you are a non-player character Prime Minister, overwhelmed by indecision, buffeted by events and taken for a ride by the Blob you thought were your friends. Being PM is harder than it looks, and simply believing yourself to be a better person than your Tory or Reform opponents is the opposite of a management philosophy or governing playbook. It merely guarantees an even faster collapse. There is nothing moral about Starmer’s approach to governing. Even his steadfast support for Ukraine – the only one of his principal policies I agree with – has yet to be accompanied by the rearming and expansion of the military that he promised. The great paradox of our times is that Donald Trump, dismissed as amoral at best by his critics, has just delivered the greatest breakthrough in the Middle East since the Abraham Accords, his previous triumph. He is doing more for world peace and actual human rights than every self-satisfied European country put together. Starmer wouldn’t be human if he didn’t suffer some self-doubt. Yes, he is putting up tax and hitting the “rich”, the Left’s eternal mission, but is he proud of the country he is building (or rather, ruining)? Is he proud to be running a Government that appears terrified to stand up to the bullying of the Chinese authorities, over the embassy and much else? Does he think the odd comment criticising “from the river to the sea” or a small pledge of extra funds for Jewish security are commensurate with the historic enormity of the surge in anti-Semitism? Is a dash of socialism and class war really worth selling your soul for? Could he perhaps be in the wrong job – the wrong man at the wrong time? What cannot be denied is that this has been another week of shame for Britain, and especially for this dreadful Government.