REGARDING Labour’s Keir Starmer upping the ante on Sunak’s “dangerous world” pitch with his own statement on the “new age of insecurity”.
The current “age of insecurity” with global terror, mass unmanaged panic migration around the world and Middle East destabilisation began when Labour’s Blair and US Republican Bush illegally invaded Iraq. It’s not new!
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The rest is climate devastation, a subject making very little sound in either his own or Sunak’s “who has the biggest willy” UK General Election posturing.
It was Gore Vidal who coined the phrase “United States of Amnesia”. Here in Britain, where all is spout today and re-set tomorrow, do we now live in the United Spindom?
Amanda Baker
Edinburgh
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