NEVILLE AGAIN:
Affirming the importance of surrendering after talks fail.
A statement no Brit would have ever thought of making half a century ago. But that Britain no longer exists.
It’s just…this now. Sad scene. https://t.co/UR98uAkm3Y
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 12, 2026
To be fair, Neville Chamberlain did. More than half a century ago https://t.co/GgkvL8IrjA
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 12, 2026
On Friday, London Telegraph columnist Jake Wallis Simons wrote: Starmer has just shown the world what a truly pathetic leader he is.
At least Neville Chamberlain had rhetoric. The phrase may have represented the nadir of British appeasement, but “peace for our time” had a lovely ring to it. Keir Starmer, however, probably finds its resonances with the Book of Common Prayer distasteful, given that modern Britain is for “people of all faiths and none”. So he plumped for “fed up” instead.
“I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy, businesses’ bills go up and down on energy,” he told Robert Peston in the Gulf. Forgive me if I do a little sick. The Prime Minister didn’t seem to mind when, thanks to Ed Miliband, Britain had the highest industrial electricity prices in the OECD even before the war in Iran. But when prices rise because of a struggle against the most evil regime on Earth? That gets right up his nose.
If I were an Iranian parent, say, who had lost a child when the regime massacred more than 30,000 people in 48 hours in January, or a relative of a victim of Tehran’s recent surge in executions, my sympathies for Starmer’s irritation at rising domestic bills might be limited.
The inevitable made-for-Netflix movie depicting Starmer as the eight-dimensional chess playing mastermind of Operation Epic Fury should make for mind-blowing viewing.