Keir Starmer let slip spine-chilling secret – invited Putin to attack | Personal Finance | Finance
It’s not because they don’t have talent. After all, he was a successful human rights lawyer. If I wanted to tamper with the asylum system or make a false claim of being abused by a British veteran, I would hire him immediately. On the other hand, if I were a British soldier in a trench with deadly enemy drones buzzing overhead, I wouldn’t be so keen. Because I didn’t believe Starmer had my back. And I am absolutely certain that Chancellor Rachel Reeves did not do that.
Yesterday, as he bid farewell as prime minister, Starmer unveiled spending plans to defend Britain against Vladimir Putin’s Russia, China and Iran. And it’s not close enough. Under the Defense Investment Plan, troops are not receiving the weapons they need to defend the UK and fight our enemies. The £15bn fund falls shamefully short of what is needed. Their families are also not supported.
Urgent repairs to £9bn worth of military housing are being delayed, our heroes’ wives and children live in unsanitary, moldy homes, while Britain gives shiny new buildings to refugees. Starmer also cut hundreds of millions of dollars from our already worn-out domestic missile defenses. Our Israeli-style iron dome system will have a headquarters, but no real interceptor missiles. Worst of all, he let slip an egregious oversight that would have Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin wringing his hands with glee.
Starmer has laid out plans to increase defense spending. The Prime Minister called it “the largest sustained increase since the Cold War”. Not. £4bn of the £5bn earmarked for drones has already been announced, so the headline figure may not represent as much new money as said. Starmer says we will spend 2.7 percent of GDP on defense by 2030. However, NATO’s goal is more difficult; Allies commit to spending at least 3.5 percent on basic defense by 2035, and more security spending on top of that.
You can’t turn your way to victory in a heated battle. Starmer is playing political games in defense of our nation, but it’s worse than that. Incredibly, he went on to boast that thanks to his defense plan, Britain would be ready to fight Russia by 2030 if necessary. Excuse me. Did he really say that?
He knows that a bloody war is going on in Europe today, right? It all started four years ago in 2022. in Ukraine. Today is 2026. This means we will not be able to defend ourselves for another four years. The war is being fought not according to a timetable set by the British prime minister, but according to the whims of an increasingly unhinged Russian dictator. And our Prime Minister told him we wouldn’t be ready for another four years. Assuming the spending plan is adequate, which it isn’t.
Starmer has let slip a chilling secret: our nation is vulnerable. He basically invited Putin to attack us. NOW. Before we’re ready. This is usually the best time.
This is an astonishing and appalling mistake by a man who has never looked like a leader. Human rights lawyers are not the type who can stand in court and stand on their own two feet. These are procedural; they build cases through paperwork and processes over years. And it is not visible?
Imagine going to war under Starmer’s watch. While missiles were pounding defenseless British cities, he was in his bunker, hunched over an obscure international legal document, deciding which British soldier would be tried when it was all over.
At the same time, he wondered whether he should publicly condemn the enemy for persistently refusing to wait until 2030, when he declared that we would finally be ready to fight. But not before. Not today. In 2026. Starmer just told Putin that Britain is a soft target. The sooner he goes, the better.
This article has been updated to note that Skynet-6 and the Wildcat helicopter are supported as part of the plan rather than canceled, while Storm Shadow missiles have been replaced by Stratus missiles.
