The mighty lions

UK Foreign Secretary and Wannabe PM Liz Truss has encouraged Brits who want to fight in Ukraine to go. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, showing off his military prowess has suggested that such people should be ‘trained.’ It’s not clear if he meant ex-forces personnel or perhaps something else. Whatever the case if such people were taken prisoner by the Russians whilst fighting in Ukraine, it would provide Putin with every excuse to ramp up his war. Wasn’t it after all the West that pointed out that the Donbas region ‘freedom fighters’ were really Russians in disguise? It is alarming that we have UK Cabinet Ministers so short of shelves in their threadbare bookcase that they spout off so unthinkingly, possibly at the cost of putting more lives at risk. And naturally, they haven’t encouraged Brits to go and fight with the Palestinians against their illegal occupiers. Principles don’t come into it. Appealing to redneck Tories always does. It makes you want to puke, never mind nuke.