British politician Wes Streeting once made threats against Geert Wilders

As questions go about as to whether Keir Starmer will resign from his role as Britain's premier, it's sad to note that one of his challengers is the openly gay Wes Streeting, whom Geert Wilders says once made death threats against him nearly 2 decades back:

One of Britain’s most ambitious politicians, who is lined up to launch a leadership challenge against the Prime Minister as soon as today, previously said he was considering founding a vigilante organisation “to push nasty people under trains,” including prominent Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

Dutch populist Geert Wilders, the so-called “kingmaker” in the last Dutch government and the leader of the Party for Freedom, one of the Netherlands’ largest political parties, responded to the emergence of British Labour politician Wes Streeting as a likely candidate to be the next Prime Minister by recalling Streeting’s publicly expressed fantasies of political murders.

Look what UK Secretary of State for Health & Social Care @wesstreeting wrote about me in 2009. He wanted to push me - a Dutch MP - under a train.

Maybe look at your own crowd first before stopping others entering the UK, @Keir_Starmer, as Labour did with me in 2009 (which… pic.twitter.com/YLF2xrUNDq

— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) May 14, 2026

Wilders wrote: “Look what [Streeting] wrote about me in 2009. He wanted to push me – a Dutch MP – under a train”. Wilders published a screenshot of a now-deleted Twitter post where Streeting fantasised about murders, writing of Wilders and a British journalist: “Considering starting my own vigilante org to push nasty people under trains. First up Jan Moir, followed by Geert Wilders…”.

While some may attempt to rationalise away such rhetoric as harmless, death threats towards politicians are not trivial in the Netherlands. Wilders’ predecessor as the figurehead of the Dutch anti-mass migration movement, Pim Fortuyn, was assassinated by a left-wing extremist citing the defence of Islam during the campaign for the 2002 general election. Mr Wilders himself has lived under 24-hour armed police protection since 2004 over frequent threats and actual plots against his life by extremists.

The 2009 threat from Streeting was in response to an article by Jan Moir that some alleged was homophobic, allegations that led to a police and Crown Prosecution Service investigation at the time. Looking back to the episode in a 2024 article, Moir stated that police investigation found the column was not in fact homophobic and that no crime had been committed and decried Streeting’s eventual apology for the repeated threats to throw her under a train as a “pompous, self-serving non-apology… a third-person apology by proxy… a chancer’s masterstroke”.

If Moir were a Muslim, what are the chances he probably wouldn't have taken issue at all? For now, what's clear is that a very irrational man could be on the brink of becoming Starmer's replacement, even though he doesn't deserve the role any more than Ireland's Leo Varadkar, considering all the harm he enabled in the country that also affected LGBT practitioners as well. What this makes clear is that even Britain's losing its common sense in the political realm, and who knows if Streeting will ever convincingly apologize to Wilders?