The King has to go to the United States because the threat to the monarchy, the only serious such threat since at least the popular anti-German sentiment of the First World War, comes from factions that, though disparate, would all have voted for Donald Trump all three times. Next month's Unite the Kingdom rally was already going to call on Trump to invade this country and effect regime change.
Trump maintains that there has been regime change in Iran and that he now just needed the new regime to accept his terms for peace by reopening the Strait of Hormuz that he had closed in the first place. The American Embassy has reopened in the Venezuela to which María Corina Machado has not returned. With that kind of record, whom might Trump install? Matt Goodwin? Charlie Downes? Young Bob?
Yesterday, Keir Starmer literally gave the red carpet treatment to President Ahmed al-Sharaa of Syria, who is otherwise Abu Mohammad al-Julani in the manner of "Tommy Robinson", and who is massacring Christians as befits a sometime second-in-command both of Al-Qaeda and of the so-called Islamic State to which Shamima Begum was trafficked such that she was not permitted to return to Britain.
Al-Sharaa was particularly warmly welcomed by the Foreign Office Minister, MI6 asset, and nepo baby, Hamish Falconer. American regime change may not make Falconer Prime Minister, but it would favour someone like that, a hardcore Blairite as it had already delivered a hardcore Chavista and as it welcomed a hardcore Khomenist instead of mild backsliders in either case. Karl Turner could oppose the attack on trial by jury all he liked, but it was when he pointed out the obvious falsehood of Morgan McSweeney's account of his messages to Peter Mandelson that the whip was withdrawn, via media announcement alone, by McSweeney's wife. Think on.
