Starmer should just admit we’re being held to ransom by Trump – but instead he’s making the king go on a state visit
Donald Trump has suggested that the war with Iran will be over in two to three weeks. The rest of the world just shrugs. We’ll believe it when we see it. The US president has said so many contradictory things over the past few weeks, it’s hard to take anything that seriously.
A few days ago he was promising to obliterate Iran’s energy supplies. He’s also claimed to have already won the war several times, though for some reason he still feels the needs to go back and win some more. Almost as if he hadn’t actually won in the first place.
Or maybe by “winning” he’s referring to the financial bets on the oil and arms markets that seem to have done very well for close friends of Trump and Pete Hegseth. Every cloud and all that.
Here in the UK, you can sense the panic in government at what might happen if oil and gas prices continue to rise. It would make more sense for Keir Starmer to level with the country. To say he has little or no control over the price of energy, that the world is in effect being held to ransom by the US and that it’s just our bad luck we are all being made to pay a Trump Tax. The price we have to pay for the American people having voted an unstable, childlike sociopath into the White House.
