Has the UK Lost Its Spine? Iran, Southport, and Starmer's Weakness
The Jon Gaunt Show
Jon Gaunt
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Has the UK Lost Its Spine? Iran, Southport, and Starmer's Weakness
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Has the UK finally lost its spine? In this video, Jon Gaunt dives into the shocking lack of leadership from the Starmer government. While Donald Trump takes a firm stand on the global stage regarding Iran, Keir Starmer has notably refused to get involved, leaving the UK looking weak and isolated.
Is our government more interested in playing safe than standing with our strongest allies? But the lack of "spine" doesn't stop at our borders. We look back at the Southport killings—a tragedy that has left a permanent scar on the nation. Could this have been avoided? Many believe that if we had been tougher earlier, intervened when the red flags first appeared, and prioritized national security over political correctness, those innocent lives might have been saved.
Is Britain finished, or is it time for a total "Factory Reset"? Jon breaks down why the "two-tier" approach to justice and the refusal to project strength abroad are two sides of the same coin.
Join the conversation: Do you think the UK has lost its way? Was Southport a failure of the system? Should we be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Trump on Iran? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, good evening. Welcome to the John Gaunt second broadcast of the day. With you for about half an hour now. I'm asking you a big question. Has the UK lost its spine or our government? When you consider Iran and that ridiculous debate they've just had in Parliament, and then you also |
| 0:23.0 | consider what happened in Southport, the major findings being that custody should always be |
| 0:30.5 | the last resort, and also the fact that no one wanted to take responsibility for the killer, the mass murderer of those poor little girls. |
| 0:41.8 | They just passed it on. |
| 0:43.7 | And when you take into consideration the 67 recommendations, |
| 0:49.3 | and when you consider this monster was three times referred to prevent the anti-terrorist organization and he |
| 0:58.7 | wasn't taken off the street. Wait, it gets worse. And when you consider he was confronted |
| 1:05.4 | on a bus by the police, he was carrying a knife. They did jack shit. |
| 1:12.0 | That's why three girls got slaughtered in Southport |
| 1:17.2 | because people like Starma are worried too much about the human rights |
| 1:23.6 | of the villains, the felons, the foreigners, the feckless, the freeloaders. |
| 1:31.3 | And now, with Iran, they're more concerned with the human rights of a terrorist organization. |
| 1:38.3 | Stama still hasn't proscribed the R-I-R-R-G whatever they're called. |
| 1:45.0 | They're still here. Their headquarters are still in London. |
| 1:50.0 | No one takes responsibility. And that comes from the top, guys. |
| 1:56.0 | Starma, this is not our war. |
| 1:59.0 | Whose bloody war is it then? |
| 2:03.2 | You told us you had 20 Iranian linked attacks, terror attacks, in the last 12 months. |
| 2:10.8 | Not our war won't help out Trump. |
| 2:15.0 | It's because you're a simpleton. |
| 2:22.6 | It's because you are a Uber and, sorry, and get my grammar right, an Uber liberal, a human rights lawyer, not a leader, and you're taking us to |
| 2:31.2 | hell in a hand card. So, good evening, Britain. |
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