David Lammy has lost his mind – even more deluded than Keir Starmer | Personal Finance | Finance

Thanks to them, Greenland is now safe from military invasion by US President Donald Trump. And it all depends on Labour’s secret superpower. At least that’s what Lammy says. Those who still have some grasp of the truth may dispute his distorted version of events.

So what is this miraculous power, known only to the Labor Party and masterfully used by Lammy and Starmer? This is called “international law”. In their world, even the most aggressive dictator must submit. They are so convinced that they see his charitable hand everywhere. Including Greenland.

According to Lammy, Trump was ready to seize Greenland from NATO member Denmark by force until Britain intervened. Lammy even suggested that Trump abandoned plans to impose 10 percent tariffs on eight countries, including the UK, because these countries opposed him using the power of law.

He told the BBC’s Nick Robinson on Friday that Trump’s apparent retreat in Greenland was “the result” of Britain making its position on international law and NATO solidarity “absolutely clear”. According to Lammy, Trump listened, thought and took a step back.

It’s a very nice picture. Trump was sat down by Starmer and Lammy and lectured on the finer points of international law before he saw the error of his ways. It’s also a fantasy.

Starmer and Lammy are projecting their dreams onto Trump. Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, who claims that Trump is stepping back because he is afraid of the EU, is in the same situation. Another fantasist.

The truth is we don’t know why Trump changed his tone. We know Republican voters hate this idea. So is the stock market. US generals warned this was unconstitutional and threatened to resign. Maybe Trump never meant it and was just enjoying the attention. He does this.

What we do know is that it won’t feature too much in David Lammy’s calculations. So is international law. It would be funny if it ended there, but it doesn’t. Because Labor seems to believe that the same magical thinking could stop Vladimir Putin.

Putin doesn’t care about international law. If they were, their soldiers wouldn’t be raping and killing and bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine. He would not sacrifice nearly a million of his own people in the process.

There is only one thing restricting Putin, and that is not the “rules of law”. This is power. But Labor still acts as if deals and polite representations are a substitute for ground-based drones, bullets, missiles and boats. And this illusion is very scary.

Yesterday, Dominic Lawson reported in the Sunday Times that the government is pressuring countries bordering Russia not to withdraw from international agreements banning anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions.

Interestingly, Russia did not sign either agreement. Neither does the USA or China. Lithuania signed, then remembered it had a 170-mile land border with Russia and decided mines might work after all.

Rather than recognizing this fact, Labour’s foreign secretary, Baroness Chapman, expressed “regret” for Lithuania’s decision and said the UK had raised “concerns”. Chapman, of course, was once Starmer’s political secretary.

This is where Labour’s hallucinations lead. The same mentality has seen Starmer open the door to prosecuting British soldiers in Northern Ireland while terrorists roam free. Who would risk their life for a country that could later drag them into the courts?

Starmer and Lammy truly believe that rules will save us in a world that no longer follows them. This isn’t just naivety. This is suicidal madness.