OPINION: Daniel R. Suhr<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United States and Great Britain have long enjoyed a special relationship in world affairs, strengthened from our shared sacrifices twice in defense of freedom during two world wars. Winston Churchill\u2019s vision for the Atlantic Alliance, tying together America and Europe for the long haul, was matched by his desire for an alliance of the English-speaking peoples\u2014the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. To this day, the most important avenue for sharing intelligence (spy stuff) is the Five Eyes\u00a0network\u00a0of those nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because Britain and America have this special bond, the United States has a distinct interest in Britain staying great. A strong, free, proud Britain, ready to lead for Western values in the world, is important to the United States\u2019 own success on the global stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer has gambled much of that good will away in recent months, and last week\u2019s local election results were a hearty rebuke to his failed leadership. Starmer\u2019s\u00a0response\u00a0to the U.S.-Israel action in Iran has been less than great, to the point of being\u00a0mocked\u00a0by Britain\u2019s version of\u00a0Saturday Night Live<\/em>. As President Trump has said of late, Starmer is no Winston Churchill. He\u2019s not much like Margaret Thatcher, Boris Johnson, or Tony Blair either. No wonder British voters recently\u00a0punished\u00a0Labour at the polls, as the party lost an astounding 1,496 seats in local government (out of 5,066 such seats nationwide), including majority control of 38 local councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Starmer\u2019s uncertainty on the world stage speaks to a deeper lack of confidence. The Bank of England last month announced a plan to take Winston Churchill\u2019s image off the nation\u2019s currency, along with other figures from British history, to be replaced by nature scenes of plants and small fuzzy animals like badgers and hedgehogs. Meanwhile, Parliament has expelled the hereditary members of the House of Lords, itself perhaps not a bad thing but indicative of a larger social shift away from traditional institutions. And President Trump has lit Starmer up on TruthSocial multiple times over his\u00a0decision\u00a0to abandon British sovereignty over Diego Garcia, an island outpost crucial to U.S.\/U.K. military strength in the Pacific. In February, seeing these and other trends, Rupert Lowe, a member of Parliament, launched a new political party: Restore Britain. Taped on a farm that could have been straight out of an episode of\u00a0All Creatures Great and Small\u00a0<\/em>or the outer fields of\u00a0Downton Abbey<\/em>, the party\u2019s\u00a0launch\u00a0video sounded themes that sound familiar to American ears, echoing many of the sentiments that Donald Trump ran on. He promised to bring in outsiders from the normal political system as the party\u2019s candidates, saying such independence from the status quo would be necessary for the shock therapy the country needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps echoing Churchill\u2019s promise of nothing but blood, toil, tears, and sweat, Lowe predicted the need for deep, hard, even harsh changes to \u201crestore Britain.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n There are other big developments among Britain\u2019s conservatives, and the ruling Labour Party is moving even farther to the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many Brits have bought into the woke leftism of modern European democratic socialism. And it\u2019s an even more pronounced problem given the large numbers of immigrants who are changing the face of Britain, especially in its urban centers. Many of these immigrants are dependent on the nation\u2019s generous welfare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A decade ago, Britain chose \u201cleave\u201d on the Brexit vote, 52 to 48 percent, intentionally dis-integrating itself from the European Union. And Boris Johnson was prime minister on a platform of implementing Brexit as recently as 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And even more broadly, Britain has made some other positive choices in the past few years to make an effort at staying great, including retaining its nuclear deterrent and launching a pair of aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales. British participation in the AUKUS alliance\u2014Australia, United Kingdom, United States\u2014was also a strong statement of willingness to lead on a global scale. (The South Pacific is a long way from the Atlantic\u2019s North Sea.) And the state visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla to commemorate America\u2019s own 250th birthday showed the Brits still have deep good will among the American people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We should hope that we may yet see Britain made great again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n About the Author: Daniel R. Suhr<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Daniel is an attorney who fights for freedom in courts across America. He has worked as a senior adviser for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, as a law clerk for Judge Diane Sykes of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and at the national headquarters of the Federalist Society. He is a member of Christ Church Mequon. He is an Eagle Scout and loves spending time with his wife, Anna, and their two sons, Will and Graham, at their home near Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OPINION: Daniel R. 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Perhaps echoing Churchill\u2019s promise of nothing but blood, toil, tears, and sweat, Lowe predicted the need for deep, hard, even harsh changes to \u201crestore Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n