21 May 2025
How a cautious centrist UK PM governs without vision, puppet to Washington, the markets, and yesterday’s alliances
Regretfully, I see our Prime Minister as a little Sir Echo to Washington. No matter the spin, we know the central aim of US foreign policy remains the maintenance of American hegemony, primarily over its own allies, and then by any means necessary to contain everyone else.
A lot of strategic positions in US foreign policy circles are filled by Russian and Eastern European émigrés, fleeing pogroms and holocaust, many of them with strong Israeli ties, even passport holders, and that translates into prioritising Greater Israel over the West or MAGA interests. That’s the power-Politics side of it.
On the Economic front, Starmer fits neatly into the comfort zone of the bond vigilantes - those large institutional investors like hedge funds, pension funds, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, who will dump government bonds and shift capital across borders the moment they sense fiscal or monetary policy is becoming "irresponsible".
What does “irresponsible” mean in their terms? Anything that threatens the real returns on the bonds they've bought: inflation, currency debasement, or failure to present a credible fiscal anchor.
When they sell, bond yields rise. Interest payments go up. Governments then have to borrow - more likely at the short end, as our govts seem to have lost control over the longer end - just to pay the interest on the debt - monetising debt, in effect. Vigilantes demand repayment without inflation or currency collapse. If you don’t give them austerity, they’ll give you capital flight. And Starmer, to be fair, admits as much, he says he's in their hands.
Is this a "radical conspiracy" theory? Hardly. Just look at what they do. Take Starmer’s choices. He’s clearly not operating according to principle or national interest — it’s managerial centrism: gently floating wherever the “centre ground” drifts. And that centre ground is now set by the likes of Macron, Merz, Zelensky... with all of them marching to the beat of Washington’s neocon drum.
The mainstream media sells optics, not substance. Their job is to present Starmer as safe and sensible, as someone to reassure the markets and foreign allies. But behind that gloss, the thinking public sees no vision, no princiole, just opportunism and vagueness.... we feel deserted, betrayed, no one in positions of responsibility is watching out for us.
What’s more, Britain seems like a spent force, we’re not shaping the world around us, ok, not even looking after our own people and interests. We’re just navigating between superior powers, reacting instead of leading, bureaucratically managing the process. It's rather pathetic isn't it.
Why isn’t the UK, for example, as europe's leading military power after ukraine, spearheading a European defence framework? Why aren’t we pulling the EU into our orbit, or at least reshaping it post-Brexit? There’s real diplomatic space here and Starmer just folds, because it’s easier, he can enjoy untroubled relations with his homologues even if he is extremely unpopular with his electorate.
So yes, I think there’s a huge and growing gap between the state-aligned "narrative" and what any informed public can see for themselves. With each contradiction and each compromised position and those bureaucratic actions completely lacking in mandate.
If you want to judge him fairly, look at his moves on Russia, Palestine, China, and now Kashmir. There’s no principle here. No strategic British interest being served. Just alignment for the sake of convenience....and career ... At great sadness and cost to the poor peoples concerned.
And the irony is that while Starmer clings to the old Atlantic consensus, Trump may now be taking serious time to understand Putin’s side of the conflict, which means the next US turn could leave Starmer, and much of Europe, isolated and exposed. In the unlikely event that America pulls out of NATO, Europe would be left without military protection, without cheap resources and without a markets for its goods and services. How come the EU doesn't see this?
