Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, and their "boots on the ground" in Ukraine. Boots with whose feet in them? Britain has 180,000 Regular and Reserve personnel, with the Regulars about 137,000 strong. They are all well and truly committed already, and by no means all of them would be suitable for this kind of mission. This means conscription.
Of the nine Labour MPs who were born after 1995, while one of those is Nadia Whittome, are the others in the Reserves? Is Joshua Reynolds, who will turn all of 27 next week, and whose Liberal Democrats have only once in their 38-year history seen a war that they did not like?
Reform UK voting against boots on the ground in Ukraine https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/ukraine-starmer-ceasefire-farage-russia-sccdjbj8x?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqebBrqkqrzj2MN3ueD7A8dHIPYbI6G0W-QgkToLYQnHPpMZ5tQZTXoaGs0x8Vs%3D&gaa_ts=695ef661&gaa_sig=yTzxfgEgInq64y-Q64gDD4Fjx_wPygNrovBNr7Vl7tJ1DjqwGscIdMukNy_ZwO-iflJnWmX_9qlDqHtT5W2rag%3D%3D
ReplyDeleteAnd the Republicans would never agree to such a thing, and are the most pro-peace faction in the conflict.
Leaving just the progressive leftwing governments of Europe from Finland and Spain to France and Britain squabbling to buy a used war from the US, which doesn’t want it any more.
Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Burgon will no doubt welcome their support.
DeleteIf they go through with that it'll be to please Trump, so much for sovereignty.
DeleteAnd who knows what Trump will think on the day?
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