Sycophant Starmer sees “nothing of concern here”

JVL Introduction

This scathing piece is mainly about Trump’s “intervention” (aka coup?) in Venezuela but Starmer seems to refuse to see wrongdoing by allies and certainly says nothing and even worse does nothing; unsurprisingly when it comes to the USA the Tory leader also sees nothing of concern.

So for Starmer, “How to criticise the US without appearing to criticise the US? If the US can do this to Venezuela, what’s to stop The Donald from doing the same to us?…So for the past few days, Starmer has been on full sycophant alert. Refusing to say whether he thought the US had broken international law…(e)ven though the UN charter is completely clear that international law has been broken, Keir…doesn’t know all the facts even though The Donald has been happy to share them with every visiting journalist.”

Then we can also consider the double standards regarding Russia and Ukraine and the different take on Israel and Palestine. It is clear that Starmer has no backbone, no principles and no guts.

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This article was originally published by The Guardian on Mon 5 Jan 2026. Read the original here.