A former British Army Chief of Staff was interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme last week, about the woeful state of the British Armed Forces. He said that when he commanded a battle group – of which there were several at that time – he had more men and more firepower at his command than the British Army now possesses in its entirety. He also referred to how few of the few ships we have left could be put to sea by the Royal Navy, and how reduced in size the Royal Air Force was.

These things are worth pondering as our illustrious leader, Brigadier General Sir Keir Starmer, prepares to take on the Russians with his insane proposal to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine. Next, he’ll be planning to invade Russia and topple Putin, so deluded is he about what effect the remaining handful of British troops could have. It seems that no British Prime Minister in recent history is happy until our young men and women are dying on a foreign field in pursuit of some useless cause, the outcome of which has absolutely no bearing on the security of our county. If only we would stay out of it.

What, exactly, a British Army in its current state could achieve in Ukraine is far from clear. The British Army motto is now ‘ours is not to do and die; ours is to implement DEI’. The British Armed forces have generally become infected with the woke mind virus to such an extent that behind the scenes (and I have this on very good authority) they are completely tied up with cases of gender dysphoria, sexual harassment, and some incredible cases of excessive tomfoolery amongst the ranks, that they have time for little else.

It is hard to imagine British troops as they currently manifest, being able to work for long with the Ukrainians. For starters, when I have seen senior Ukrainian military interviewed, I am quite sure that I have not heard one of them express their preferred pronouns. Our vanguard troops would have to include at least a detachment of equality and diversity officers alongside some highly trained counsellors to ensure that the shock of exposure to the unregenerate Ukrainian troops was not too traumatic. God help them if they encounter the Russians.

One wonders if Sir Keir has really thought this through. On his many visits to Ukraine, when he just loves to pose in his combat jacket alongside his new best pal, has he taken the time to enquire whether the field latrines are gender neutral or, if there are separate toilets, whether the male ones contain a liberal supply of tampons? I’m sure he hasn’t given these things a thought in his haste to get us involved in the Ukraine war.

Meantime, according to the Migration Watch website we continue to witness record levels of immigration and asylum seeking. Boats loaded to the gunwales with young men of military age land daily on our shores and are welcomed with open arms, handouts and free accommodation. Such is the proportion of these who commit sexual offences, it is almost as if we had outsourced our noncing to young Muslim men. Nothing is sacred.

Thank God Starmer is being tough on illegal immigration and cracking down on the human traffickers. I’d hate to see the state of the country if he was doing nothing about it. Regarding illegal immigrants and bogus asylum seekers, I have an innovative suggestion for the Prime Minister. Let them all in, rush through the process whereby they may obtain British citizenship, enlist them in the British Army and send them to Ukraine. That might test their enthusiasm for arriving on our shores.

In other news, out two senior royals seem to have become the King and Queen of iftar. Last seen picking and packing dates for iftar – the nightly binge that Muslims engage in during the month of ‘fasting’ – and generally fawning over all things Ramadanny. Our leaders – political and regal – seem to be so obsessed with the ‘religion of peace’, that we could almost be mistaken for a Muslim country. If it wasn’t for all the rampant Islamophobia on display everywhere, we probably would be a Muslim country.

Troops on the ground in Ukraine, cracking down on human traffickers, royals packing dates of iftar. Somebody is having a laugh. But it’s certainly not me.

Roger Watson is a retired academic, editor and writer. He is a columnist with Unity News Network and writes regularly for a range of conservative journals including The Salisbury Review and The European Conservative. He has travelled and worked extensively in the Far East and the Middle East. He lives in Kingston upon Hull, UK.

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