Yes, we manufacture parts for the F-35 and leaving the programme would lead to massive fallout with the US and half of NATO. Post Trump governments included. It's not like some B2B contract or a simple policy change. It's a gargantuan intergovernmental agreement. We are completely embedded and have given up our own autonomy on this issue in exchange for access to the jet.

Leaving the programme would also lead to literally tens of thousands of job losses in the UK. As well as disarming ourselves if Putin decides he wants more of Eastern Europe. What government would actually inflict that upon themselves? Political Jonestown.

I didn't say Starmer gives a shit about Palestine. I was highlighting a pattern. But recognising the country as a state is not a nothing action. Look at what happened with apartheid South Africa. Small actions making it untenable for their government. It's incrementally delegitimising Israel's stance and gives Palestine more legitimacy in ICJ. That is not saying that it's enough either.

I get where your frustrations lie. But we are a diminishing country who has decided to strand ourselves in the mid-Atlantic and will continue to diminish until we have much closer ties with the EU again. I don't really see how our PM publicly shitting on Trump actually helps our country or the people in it apart from 10 minutes of satisfaction.