Nato needs a strong leader… that’s not Joe Biden’s EU poodle Ursula von der Leyen
THE stumbling, inept and senile leader of the free world has just demonstrated his hatred of the United Kingdom once again.
Yes, it’s Joe Biden — the most anti-British politician to occupy the White House since the American Revolution.
This man, who cannot remember where he is on a daily basis, and has difficulty putting a name to members of his own family, shows his contempt for our country on a very regular basis.
Now he has thrown a spanner in the works at Nato.
He has blocked the UK’s Ben Wallace in his bid to become boss of the military alliance.
Solely, it seems, because of his dislike for this country.
Wallace has been a supremely competent Defence Secretary and some have tipped him as a future Prime Minister.
He had the support of a lot of our Nato allies to replace the organisation’s outgoing head, Jens Stoltenberg, in a year’s time.
But having been blocked by idiot Biden, Wallace has now pulled out.
Biden would much prefer ghastly German Ursula von der Leyen.
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You might remember that name.
She’s president of the European Commission and no friend of the UK.
She’s also useless.
Or, at least, she was when she was German Defence Minister and had the German army on training maneuvers using broomsticks instead of machine guns because they were low on equipment.
I’m sure she’ll be a brilliant match for Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping.
Biden and Von der Leyen get on like a house on fire.
Only to be expected — as neither of them can stand the UK.
Peacenik bureaucrat
Biden’s entire political career has been built on snubbing the British, right back to when he was growing up in heavily Irish-Catholic Scranton, Pennsylvania.
He has opposed extradition treaties which would have enabled us to bring IRA terrorists back to the UK for trial.
He even opposed the very existence of Northern Ireland.
His hatred for all things British was very visible a couple of months back when he visited Ireland.
He was there, he said, “to make sure the Brits didn’t screw around”.
His official limo carried the Irish tricolour when he was in Ireland, but would not display the Northern Irish flag when he made a rudely fleeting visit to the province.
Usually we can just shrug this stuff off.
He has been a catastrophically hopeless President and will be gone soon.
His supposed Oirishness is rooted in the inaccurate myths with which he grew up and has never had the nous to challenge.
But his spite towards the British will damage Nato.
Alongside the tiny Baltic states, we are about the only European state to pay its fair whack towards Nato.
We always have done so, while the Germans, French, Italians and Spanish fumble in their pockets and chuck in half a euro or so.
We were also the Western country who took the lead on Ukraine, eventually persuading our nervous European allies to equip the Ukrainians for their battle against the Russian invaders.
Nato needs strong leadership from somebody who understands the issues.
Not a peacenik bureaucrat from a country which did its best to block arms shipments to Ukraine.
Maybe if we’re not going to be listened to, we should pay a little less to Nato.
And when that plastic leprechaun Biden complains, tell him his friends in Ireland can make up the shortfall.
A wee tip to help save marriage
I SEE former Emmerdale actress Amy Nuttall has now issued her cheating husband Andrew Buchan a seven-point plan designed to rescue their marriage.
Interesting.
Nowhere does it say “Don’t shag anyone else”.
That’s an omission.
But I wish them all the best, obvs.
I’ve been comparing it to the seven-point plan my wife issued to me a short while ago . . .
- If you must eat fish and chips in bed, don’t use your belly button as a place to hold the salt.
- When you get up for a wee in the night, urinate somewhere in the direction of the lavatory, rather than by the sink or in my wardrobe.
- Try to stack the dishwasher in the manner of a sentient human – rather than like a demented raccoon on acid.
- When my friends and family are round, please don’t clip your toenails in the living room while they try to watch Pointless.
- Don’t overtip attractive young waitresses just because they actually spoke to you.
- Don’t pretend it’s the dog who farted. It’s not fair on the dog.
- Oh yes, and please don’t shag around.
Lion's heart John
SHOCKING news about John Berylson, the owner of my football club, Millwall, who has been killed in a car accident aged 70.
Football club owners are not always my favourite people.
But US businessman Berylson was a quite astonishing exception.
Under his ownership, the Lions became one of the best-run clubs in the land.
Unlike some in the Championship, Berylson never cheated by breaking the Financial Fair Play rules.
Instead, there was a gradual, sensible investment which led to long-term improvement of both the squad and the club’s facilities.
I never knew the chap, but I will be grateful to my dying day for the way in which he steered a small club away from big financial problems into being real contenders at the top end of the Championship.
Thank you, John Berylson, and rest in peace.
More fuel us
JUST as we all knew, the major supermarkets have been cheating us at the petrol pumps.
They kept prices around six pence per litre higher than they should have as whole-sale prices went down.
That’s according to an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority.
I suspect they’re also cheating us on their food products.
They deny it but then they would, wouldn’t they?
They’ve even had the cheek to say they kept petrol prices high in order to subsidise food prices.
The truth of the matter is, whatever way we turn we get stiffed.
Sadiq's such a Mr Sad
UNDER bumptious London Mayor Sadiq Khan the city is more and more resembling Pyongyang.
That’s the capital of North Korea, for geographically challenged readers.
A while ago, Greenwich Council restricted ice-cream vans because they were a “nuisance”.
Now Transport for London has banned an ad for the play Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding because the poster features . . . a wedding cake.
TFL has decided showing an iced Victoria sponge goes against their dietary policies.
Joyless, humourless, dictatorial, pencil-necked little Hitlers.
Fun in fibbing
HARVARD professor Francesca Gino is in trouble.
She’s been accused of falsifying data on four separate research papers.
Telling lies, in other words.
An investigation is under way.
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Francesca’s area of study is “honesty and unethical behaviour”.
Maybe she’s been studying it for so long that she’s come to the conclusion honesty is OK but lying is much more fun, actually.