June 22 brought exciting news from Britain, the nation that was once the cradle of America, then our enemy during the Revolution, and for generations our closest ally. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer finally resigned. Many expected it soon; few knew the precise date.
Why does this resignation matter so much, not just to the United Kingdom, but to observers here in the United States? The answer is simple and sobering. When leaders consistently pursue policies aimed at weakening their own country, making life harder for the indigenous core population, and handing advantages to outsiders, this is exactly where it ends. And it happens faster than most people imagine.
Pundits are correct: Americans should watch the UK closely. It has become a textbook DEI state. What we see there is the clearest preview of what happens when a country is run for years by Democrats and leftist ideologues who prioritize ideology over their own people.
The United Kingdom is clearly on the wrong track and has been for many years. Remarkably, the British people themselves kept electing leaders who delivered no real progress for ordinary citizens. How many prime ministers have resigned in the last 10 years? Five. This is not a healthy sign of vibrant democracy, whatever some Democrats and leftist voices might claim. By the way, the UK remains a constitutional monarchy with a Parliament, not some pure direct democracy experiment.
Why did former Prime Minister Starmer fail so completely?
Starmer took power on July 5, 2024, after voters had grown thoroughly fed up with the Conservative Party (Tories). By that point, Britain had already seen three Conservative prime ministers end their terms through urgent resignations amid crises: Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss, followed by Rishi Sunak, who lost the July 2024 general election. The British people wanted straightforward things: stronger economy, safer streets, and a justice system that actually works.
Starmer delivered none of it. Instead, his leadership brought a worsened cost-of-living crisis, an out-of-control migration disaster, and a foreign policy he tried to sell as a series of brilliant successes.
Under Starmer, Britain was rocked by multiple brutal homicides in which migrants, both legal and illegal, were the perpetrators and ordinary white Christian Britons were the victims. These cases sparked massive public attention and protests because justice was nowhere to be found. The UK’s law enforcement system is in the middle of a terrible crisis of priorities and morale. Police too often chase minor alleged misdemeanors by white Christians, even when nothing happened, while giving non-white migrants, frequently Muslim, a pass in the name of “community relations.”
The recent horrific stabbing of white British student Henry Nowak proves the point. Police arrived and initially tried to arrest the severely injured, bleeding victim instead of the non-white attacker. Why? Because the system Starmer oversaw had trained institutions to treat white Christian Britons as presumptively guilty by virtue of their existence while extending extraordinary deference to migrants.
Then there is the digital control agenda. The UK has positioned itself as a global leader in restricting free speech online. The government recently announced plans to ban social media access for those under 16.
While sold as protecting children, the pattern suggests a broader effort to exert state control over the internet. Continue down this road and Britain will likely try to ban VPNs – services that provide connection to the network through else-where located servers. the same failed approach used in Iran.
With nothing impressive to show at home, Starmer leaned heavily on foreign policy. He dramatically increased support for Ukraine, writing blank checks to Zelensky in the exact style of Sleepy Joe Biden. This directly contradicted President Trump’s push for peace. Starmer’s approach prolonged the bloodshed, gave Kyiv the capacity for deeper strikes, including the recent attack on Moscow, and pushed any realistic settlement further into the future, costing more lives on both sides.
Other foreign policy decisions also harmed the U.S.-UK relationship, including Britain’s reluctance to support American military operations against Iran.
Britain is still a great country and our long-standing ally. Its people simply chose the wrong leaders for too long, leaders who made their nation weaker and more divided. Another prime ministerial resignation is a clear symptom of that political weakness. But here is the good news: bad policies and bad leadership eventually reach their end. The British people now have a real chance to choose leaders who will make the United Kingdom prosper again, leaders who put their own citizens first instead of handing out benefits to every migrant from the third world.
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Mike Robertson is a U.S. domestic and foreign policy analyst and commentator, and America First advocate, with more than 30 years of law enforcement experience in some of the toughest neighborhoods. He writes on politics, culture, and the fight to restore constitutional government.
