The Bloody Truss

Paul Urey was the age that I shall be in September, and he had even more underlying health conditions than I have. How well did he expect to fare in the theatre of the war in Ukraine? 

In any case, he went to fight for the Azov Battalion, which is as reprehensible as going to fight for the Wagner Group would be. An "aid worker"? Pull the other one. Next you will be saying that he was wearing a white helmet.

Nevertheless, his blood, like that of any other Briton who might be killed in that war, is at least partly on the hands of our Prime Minister in waiting, Liz Truss. She it was who encouraged our citizens to engage in the criminal act of going to fight in that war. She is intellectually and morally unfit for any office, much less the highest.

Morally and intellectually unfit. She does not know the Black Sea from the Baltic. She purports not to recognise Russian sovereignty over Rostov and Voronezh provinces, since she does not know where is in Russia and where is in Ukraine, although she does hold the former to have been invaded by everyone "from the Mongols to the Tatars". Yet she presumes to tell the Russians where in Russia they may station the Russian Army, and she is aghast at their insolent failure to obey her.

Everyone who was suffering from the cost of living crisis should move to Ukraine, where the British Government would have no difficulty spending limitless amounts of money on us, with no questions asked, and with Opposition parties demanding only even more of the same.

Yet there is no British strategic interest in any of this. We should recognise reality, and get down to freeing up the food and fuel supplies again, while we devoted ourselves to the long-term pursuit of energy independence and of greater self-sufficiency in food, the former a great deal easier than the latter.

Whether we like it or not, and we have no particular reason to care either way, Crimea has gone back to Russia. The parts of the Ukraine that the largely Ukrainian Soviet elite had put into the Ukrainian SSR in order to make its independence impossible are going to become Russian satellite states, although they are economically and culturally too Soviet for today's Russian Federation.

No additional state, including Sweden or Finland, is ever going to be allowed into NATO. A much more stable and coherent Ukraine will become constitutionally neutral, and all of this will require the denazification that no one any longer disputes is necessary to some extent, nor did anyone dispute that at all until very recently, although denazification is not being made a condition of potential EU membership, because it never is; being in the EU subjected us to the legislative will of many of the most terrifying people.

All of this was on the table before the Russian invasion. This war has been going on for eight years. But in the stage that the world has admitted to having noticed, it is now on the brink of turning out to have been completely avoidable even in its own terms. An enthusiast for it is the worst possible candidate to be Prime Minister.