{"id":9376,"date":"2026-04-08T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/9376\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:16:08","slug":"starmers-inaction-over-iran-will-result-in-much-suffering-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/9376\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer\u2019s inaction over Iran will result in much suffering in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wandile Mtana accuses Donald Trump of bullying the British government over its (non-) involvement in the war against Iran (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theherald.co.za\/opinion\/letters\/2026-03-23-letter-europe-turning-on-trump-after-massacre-of-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theherald.co.za\/opinion\/letters\/2026-03-23-letter-europe-turning-on-trump-after-massacre-of-children\/\">Trump\u2019s move from co-ordination to confrontation<\/a>\u201d, The Herald, April 3).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mtana should be more concerned about UK prime minister Keir Starmer\u2019s weak-kneed response to the attack on a British military base in Cyprus than about Trump\u2019s behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Starmer is weak and ineffective and relies on the backing of Labour (communism in sheep\u2019s clothing) and the unruly jihadist element in Britain\u2019s Muslim population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is why his weak-kneed response to the attack in Cyprus was to say: \u201cBritain is not involved,\u201d which is a gross distortion of the truth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Since Iran has missiles capable of reaching cities in Europe, Starmer should be much more concerned about the aggressiveness of Iran\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It has been severely hammered, but it still possesses large stocks of missiles, some of which could land in Paris or even London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Starmer is, in effect, inviting Iran to attack the British capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His inaction will result in much suffering in the British Isles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wandile Mtana accuses Donald Trump of bullying the British government over its (non-) involvement in the war against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,313,361,24,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-9376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cyprus","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-keir-starmer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116368571521181507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}