David Lammy made a huge mistake (Image: PA)
No one is thinking about another Falklands war but it may come sooner than later. When foreign powers assess the UK they must get a terrible impression. A Prime Minister that cannot define the working class or a woman and takes the knee to far left activist organisations. Now also someone who has his nose firmly in Lord Alli’s trough. His cabinet colleagues equally challenged both morally and intellectually.
Our foreign secretary, their interlocutor, a pygmy in all respects. He is an embarrassment to his office. Our military might diminished by the day. Starmer had promised to increase military spend from two percent to 2.5 percent of GDP but that has been put on hold while his Chancellor seeks to fill a £22 billion hole she created.
When a country becomes so weak it invites attack. As our politicians disappear down various rabbit holes, Argentina’s are getting bolder and stronger. President Milei does not suffer the woke bug. He is a nationist, firmly behind his country’s advancement. His Vice-President, Victoria Villarruel, is even stronger and in no mood to play second fiddle to the UK.
’s recent agreement to grant rights for bereaved families of Argentinian soldiers to visit their graves and discuss the possibility of fishing rights in Falklands waters has not been well received by her. She sees it as an insulting sop with emotion being used as a bargaining chip by the British.
Instead of pouring oil on troubled waters, Lammy has stirred her up. So arises again the issue of the . Yes, the islands belong to us but has not given up its claim and Villarruel is going to use this as an excuse to stir the pot.
For forty years the prospects of another military conflict 300 miles off the coast of Argentina has not seemed at all possible. That is changing.
Like all other foreign powers Argentina will, no doubt, have been sizing us up. Apart from judging us to be weak and led by near morons, they will also have seen how our politicians handed over to the . The partition down the Irish Sea signifies a complete collapse in British political will.
We are so weak that we were prepared to hand over part of our country to a foreign power without a single shot being fired. How does that augur for the Falklands? Not well is the answer.
All readers of this article will instinctively know we are unlikely to have the stomach for another Falklands war. And if we sought to defend the island, there is every chance we would fail. That we see this means so do the Argentinians.
An attack on the Falklands may not be imminent but its likelihood increases in direct proportion to the weakness we display.
There are many unintended consequences of turning our backs on our Northern Irish kin and signalling to the world we have no backbone. One of them is that we may soon face war, and probably not just off the coast of Argentina.