The Collaborators

The real “threat from within” comes from those fake British patriots loudly cheering on attacks on our own country by a hostile foreign power

Vice President JD Vance publicly attacking the US’ own allies in Munich

“What I worry about is the threat from within”, said US Vice President JD Vance on Friday, as he launched his latest attack on his country’s former allies.

Downplaying the threat from Russia, whose forces are currently committing war crimes against European citizens, Vance argued that the real threat to Europe now comes from attacks on “free speech” by its own governments.

Arguing that free speech is now “in retreat” in Britain, Vance also accused the UK of “backsliding” on democratic freedoms.

The hypocrisy of these claims barely need dissecting, coming as it does from a US administration that is now restricting access to independent news organisations, while pulping books it doesn’t agree with.

Nor should we take seriously any allegations of threats to democracy from a man who still refuses to accept the result of a democratic election his own party lost five years ago.

However Vance’s speech, which came a day after Donald Trump effectively surrendered large parts of another European country to Vladimir Putin, should still stand as a defining moment.

After many decades of alliance between our two nations, what both Vance and Trump are now making abundantly clear is that the United States Government is no longer our friend or ally, but a hostile foreign power.

Not only does the Trump administration no longer share Britain’s national interests, but it is actively seeking to sabotage them in favour of a country that within recent memory launched a chemical attack on our own soil.

For anyone claiming to be a British patriot, this should be a rallying moment, to finally stand up against those threatening our democracy and security.

Yet far from defending our national interests, many of Britain’s most self-proclaimed ‘patriotic’ voices are instead loudly cheering on those seeking to imperil them.