MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Why would Sunak change his mind? he doesn't exactly have a record for it on other issues many of which effect people a lot more personally than this? I'm sure by now his advisors have realised that the people marching for Palestine are not exactly a key Tory demographic. But let's assume for the moment he does and that the UK sponsors a Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire. The US will veto it and nothing will happen. However it will sour Sunak's relationship with whoever is US President for the rest of his premiership. Whoever replaces Sunak will have to work hard to build bridges (Why do you think Starmer is taking the position he is?)I disagree, I think we are probably one incident away from sponsoring a ceasefire resolution and probably not many more incidents away from diplomatic ties being affected.
Sunak, Starmer and the rest may profess to back Israel but their problem is that, according to the very limited polling put out (which itself should be a big clue), the public does not and all these horrors inflicted on Gaza is making backing Israel in this war even less popular a position. That is before the impact of supporting Israel in this - like increased energy prices, more inflation etc - might become apparent, or the public as a whole learns of what Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and the rest are actually doing.
All it will take is one incident that captures the attention of the British public to wash away the mound of sand that Sunak et al are stood on, and they will have no choice but to switch.
As for not dealing with Elbit just no I'm afraid. The global arms industry is a massive hydra with interconnecting tentacles everywhere and we are a major player with 10's of Billions of £'s and 100,000's of jobs tied up in it. Almost all major defence initiatives are multi-company, multi-national affairs usually American led. There is no way we could squeeze Israel out without withdrawing ourselves from these programs and accepting massive consequences for the economy and defence concerns of this country. Not going to happen because a few people are chucking slates off roofs.
So why would Sunak go down this route? because he's a good person and is moved by footage on Al-Jazeira?