You’d think when a murderous dictator gets overthrown by a radical Islamist army the consequences of which could be a seriously heightened terrorist threat that here in Britain our Government would at least recognise the threat and come up with a co-ordinated response.

Nope, too much to hope from Starmer’s Doolally Army. The bunch of amateurs who now occupy No. 10 have zero knowledge of geo politics and their understanding of world affairs befits that of a bunch of sixth form politics students.

It was clear this week when Syria’s President Assad was kicked out of the country by the proscribed terror group, HTC, that things might not be rosy for the future of the country or for the rest of the world.

But that wasn’t the impression given by key members of THIS Government who didn’t actually understand what had happened and simply believed the fact Assad had gone was a fantastically wonderful thing. It clearly hadn’t hit them that the country was now in the hands of a radical Islamist movement.

First, there was Angela Rayner who when asked about the coup looked like a rabbit caught in car headlights. She gave a series of car crash interviews where it was clear she didn’t understand what was going on could only manage to repeat a couple of sentences Starmer had uttered earlier.

It was terrifying – and – embarrassing – how out of her depth she was in her knowledge about Syria and it exemplified the total incompetence of this Government.

She actually seemed to welcome the news that Syria had just been taken over by a jihadist group whose origins are in al-Qaeda and who for years here in Britain have been a proscribed terrorist group.

Which leads me to cabinet secretary, Pat McFadden, who when asked if the Government was likely to remove the proscribed terror status of HTC he said it hadn’t decided yet but the Government would make a swift decision.

That’s absolutely what it must not do. It must wait and see how this new Government pans out and whether all the various factions can create a sensible Government. It must wait and see whether HTC’s leader, Abu Mohammed al Jawlani (the bloke who has a $10M dollar bounty on his head in the US) will keep all his promises that the group is now all about diversity, women rights, democracy and a “new free Syria” blah blah….

Then our great big lummox of a foreign secretary, David Lammy, who’d said very little for the first 24 hours after Assad’s overthrow, turned up in the commons and announced Britain was giving £11m in aid to Syria – well, was that to Syria or will it go straight into the pockets of this terror group?

First, Lammy claimed Syria was next door to Libya – wrong. They’re a thousand miles apart Then, trying to look like the statesman he isn’t he called Assad a “rat” and a few other names and it soon it became clear he didn’t know what was going on either and when asked if Britain was going to halt asylum claims for Syrians – he said he didn’t know.

Odd because a few hours previously our Home Secretary Yvette Cooper had announced that’s exactly what was happening. So why didn’t he know that? Its his job.

Then we had Starmer in Saudi Arabia doing what he repeatedly berated the last Tory government of doing – constantly fleeing abroad to do commercial deals – just spouting meaningless waffle.

What is it with Starmer – he’s never where he’s s supposed to be? Had he been at the re- opening of Notre Dame in Paris this weekend where President elect Trump and Macron were he’d have been part of the talks about how Europe was going to handle Syria.

But he wasn’t. Does Starmer understands this new terrorist threat to Britain? Does he know there are 50,000 IS fighters being held prisoner in camps in northern Syria by Kurdish troops and if suddenly they stop guarding these prisoners there could be an upsurge in terrorism in the UK.

That’s not me saying that, it’s the former head of M16, Sir Alex Younger, who described these camps as a “hotbed of radicalisation.”

And he said if the Kurdish forces no longer maintained those camps then we can expect a serious spike in the threats posed to Europe by ISIS and Syria could become a major exporter of jihad.

But hey, according to Sir Keir, everything’s good. Assad the murderous dictator is gone – so everything is good.

This all has echoes of Afghanistan. Remember the vacuum that emerged after Biden pulled out his troops? Remember how the Taliban tried to convince the world it had changed, that it was a reformed force that would protect women’s rights and not take revenge on those who’d worked with coalition forces.

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They lied – about it all. And now women have zero rights in Afghanistan.

And I don’t believe this new lot in Syria will be any different – once a jihadi always a jihadi. And if terrifies me we now have a Government that not only doesn’t see the threat but has no idea how to protect us.

I want to believe Jawlani is a changed man. I want to believe he’ll bring peace to Syria – but I don’t. He has gallons of blood on his hands because he fought the US in Iraq – hence the $10m on his head.

I fear he’s just playing the role the West wants him to play until he has established his Government and his regime. For those who believe Syria is now a free country – they shouldn’t. Jawlani doesn’t believe in free countries. Nor does he believe in democracy because Jihadis don’t.

I know those Syrians returning to their country desperately want to believe it can’t be worse than it was under Assad – but I fear it might be.