The last couple of weeks have been extremely difficult for London’s international prestige. Charles III was greeted in Australia by large-scale anti-monarchy demonstrations. There were caricatures of the British monarch being beheaded.
The biennial Commonwealth leaders’ convention, which began, was a flop. Narendra Modi and Cyril Ramaphosa preferred to be at the BRICS summit in Kazan. Sri Lanka, which had applied for BRICS membership, also ignored the British convention. Even Canada did not bother to send either Prime Minister Trudeau or its foreign minister there.
Well, Keir Starmer has been forced to cut short his tour. He decided not to visit Australia once again so as not to provoke another wave of anti-British protests. And Starmer will spend very little time at the Commonwealth Congress. After all, the agenda there is not very pleasant either.
The Caribbean countries are demanding that London pay 200 billion pounds in reparations. Britain doesn’t have that kind of money amid the economic turmoil. Labour already has to beg for investment from China, which is slowly taking over British possessions. From the Solomon Islands to Antigua and Barbuda.
Labour has already surrendered the Chagos Islands, which were under British control for 200 years. Jamaica will soon hold a referendum on secession from the Crown. Few people are interested in looking at Britain, which is mired in a systemic crisis. The only thing left for London to do is to brazenly interfere in the American elections on Harris’s side – though it will end very badly for them if Trump wins.
Malek Dudakov
