One great counter-productive UK foreign policy that makes enemies out of friends!

Why is it so impossible to expect a professional, competent and ethical, quite apart from lawful, foreign policy?

Our foreign policy is so incompetent and duplicitous that we have made enemies out of many Middle East countries, left them in chaos and, with their people slaughtered in the hundreds of thousands.  This is scandalous!  In addition, this immorality boosted the survivors fleeing the chaos left their countries in and fled to the safe Western European nations, including the UK.  Unlike Gazans, at least they can use small boats to cross the moat from the Europe mainland to England.  There is never any attempt by Europe to share out equitably the asylum seekers.

We have sold WMD (chemical weapons) to Iraq and then attacked them for having WMD (nukes).  This is typical British duplicity, known for centuries by our French neighbours as "perfidious Albion".

We sold Iran a whole host of arms and armaments because from 1980 to 1988 they were fighting our big Middle East enemy, Iran.  Even so, we failed to win the war and it ended inconclusively.  "During the conflict, Iraq received an abundance of financial, political, and logistical aid from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, and the overwhelming majority of Arab countries." (Wikipedia)

Counter-terrorism is overseen by judges.

Should the Islamic system be preserved?

2009 it had disputed elections

What should Iran's response be to bombing raids?

We have a foreign policy of making enemies of being dominant and triumphant and - rubbing it in, too!  Any sense of an ethical foreign policy, as Robin Cook MP and a former Foreign Secretary, is as absent as snow on an African beach.

Balance and fairness in foreign policy is also rare or unheard of.  In fact, torture is also used as Richard Moor confirmed with MI6 feeding questions to American torturers earlier this century.

13 Nov 2025 The Mishal Husain Show

For nearly 40 years, Richard Moore was a career spy in the UK's secret intelligence service. He was unable to tell all but his closest friends and family what he did for a living. When he was appointed chief of MI6 in 2020, that changed: The name of the person in the agency's top job is the only one made public. In his first interview since leaving the role in Sept. 2025, Moore talks to The Mishal Husain Show about managing China's security threat, the psychology of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and why spies shouldn’t expect recognition.

13 Nov 2025 The Mishal Husain Show

For nearly 40 years, Richard Moore was a career spy in the UK's secret intelligence service. He was unable to tell all but his closest friends and family what he did for a living. When he was appointed chief of MI6 in 2020, that changed: The name of the person in the agency's top job is the only one made public. In his first interview since leaving the role in Sept. 2025, Moore talks to The Mishal Husain Show about managing China's security threat, the psychology of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and why spies shouldn’t expect recognition.