The British government says it is suspending free trade negotiations with Israel and leveling new sanctions targeting West Bank settlers as it criticizes Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
The U.K. suspended free trade talks with Israel on Tuesday and hit West Bank settlers with sanctions, less than a day after vowing “concrete actions” if Israel didn’t stop its new military offensive in Gaza.
So far it’s only talkie-talkie and it’s just “suspending” something and using a similar gambit as the Biden administration did to do nothing - “we will sanction settlers” - that in the US turned out to be something like forbidding 5 people from entering the US or having bank accounts on the US.
Even in the “talk about it stage” they’re sticking to pretty much mild finger wagging in a form that can easily be walked back once public opinion has been calmed by this “actions”. This is the most common strategy that New Labour types employ to manipulate public opinion without actually doing anything.
Keir Starmer is such a slimy, deceitful, untrustworthy sociopath that if he says “The sky is blue” one should do a proper “what’s in it for him to convince me of this” mental analysis and come out and check that it is indeed still so.
In this specific subject, it’s pretty obvious that this “mere talk of doing a mix of easily reversible and meaningless things” is a reaction to the 600k people coming out to demonstrate on something which isn’t a subject that directly affects them.
You can start trusting that he’s genuine when he actually stops weapons shipments to Israel and sanction the actual country. Until then it’s just the usual “announce some meaningless bollocks to calm the restless plebes”.
Finally some good news!
So far it’s only talkie-talkie and it’s just “suspending” something and using a similar gambit as the Biden administration did to do nothing - “we will sanction settlers” - that in the US turned out to be something like forbidding 5 people from entering the US or having bank accounts on the US.
Even in the “talk about it stage” they’re sticking to pretty much mild finger wagging in a form that can easily be walked back once public opinion has been calmed by this “actions”. This is the most common strategy that New Labour types employ to manipulate public opinion without actually doing anything.
Keir Starmer is such a slimy, deceitful, untrustworthy sociopath that if he says “The sky is blue” one should do a proper “what’s in it for him to convince me of this” mental analysis and come out and check that it is indeed still so.
In this specific subject, it’s pretty obvious that this “mere talk of doing a mix of easily reversible and meaningless things” is a reaction to the 600k people coming out to demonstrate on something which isn’t a subject that directly affects them.
You can start trusting that he’s genuine when he actually stops weapons shipments to Israel and sanction the actual country. Until then it’s just the usual “announce some meaningless bollocks to calm the restless plebes”.