A BRIT couple stranded in the Middle East have slammed Starmer, saying flights making it back to the UK are “absolutely nothing to do with our useless government”.
Kim Amor from Essex, flew out to Ras Al Khaimah the Emirate north of Dubai, to celebrate her 63rd birthday with her husband Craig just two weeks before war broke out.
But since their flight home on March 3 was cancelled, the pair have been hauled up in their hotel watching bombs drop from the sky.
Kim told The Sun: “I saw Starmer stand up on the news and say how many British citizens are coming home each day.
“This is nothing to do with our useless British government – these are scheduled flights that airlines are trying to get through each day.
“It is not acceptable to have one repatriation flight this week. We have been left with no information and he gave the impression that the thousands coming home each day is somehow down to them.”
The botched British repatriation flight from Oman was branded a “horrendous shambles” after passengers had panic attacks and banged on the windows when it failed to take off on Wednesday.
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Sir Keir later announced the flight had departed on Thursday, 13 hours late.
More than 4,000 people have arrived back in the UK from the UAE, he added, with a further seven flights due to leave on Thursday.
The PM also said four extra RAF Typhoon fighter jets will deploy to Qatar to bolster Britain’s response as the conflict spreads across the region.
Sir Keir faced fierce criticism for blocking the Donald Trump from using British bases for bombing runs on Iran but has since reversed course to allow the US to launch “defensive” missions from Diego Garcia.
Washington has said this will allow US firepower over Tehran to surge.
Kim and her husband are scheduled to leave RAK on March 10, but the pair’s hope is dwindling amid the growing conflict.
After registering with the Foreign Office last Saturday, Kim has only received two emails.
One explained a chartered flight would be leaving Oman and another said rapid response teams were being deployed to Oman and Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, the terrified couple have watched on as waves of tourists from other nations are driven off by their governments.
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She said: “On Monday a couple of coaches turned up to our hotel to collect people and take them to planes waiting for them in Oman.
“Mainly Russians and Czechs – the rest went on Tuesday.
“Busses arrived on Wednesday and yesterday to take pretty much everyone else – but nothing for the Brits.”
Iran has bombarded the gulf states with a barrage of missiles and drone strikes in retaliatory attacks after a joint US-Israeli strike took out the regime’s evil Supreme Leader on Saturday.
Kim said: “We have seen an explosion right in front of our hotel and we’ve been woken twice by overhead explosions.
“Last night we had the alert sound again and we had to take cover.”
Debris from an intercepted Iranian drone crashed down onto the Al Hamra Village of RAK on March 2.
UAE air defence systems have since intercepted 186 ballistic missiles and over 800 drones across the country.
British Airways has announced it will operate an additional four flights from Muscat, Oman, to London Heathrow, between March 9 and 12.
But the airline remains unable to operate flights from Abu Dhabi, Amman, Bahrain, Doha, Dubai and Tel Aviv, a statement added.
Kim said: “I do not expect us to be taken out first because we are not as exposed as those in Dubai. But updates of some sort and seeing planes being chartered to get us out would be reassuring.”
As the war enters its seventh day, Iran continues to blitz Tel Aviv, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Shocking footage showed huge blasts and tall plumes of smoke billowing across the UAE and in several other Gulf states on Thursday.
RAK borders the Strait of Hormuz, which has become a focus point of the war after Iran closed the vital trade route to ships from the US, Europe and Israel.
Around a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas is transported through the Hormuz — a Persian Gulf chokepoint.
Kim said: “Ships are backing up so jet activity has increased here. There have been more explosions hitting land where I think they’re trying to get through to the Strait.”
The IRGC warned sanctioned ships trying to pass would be “set ablaze”, days before claiming it struck a US oil tanker – lighting it up in flames.
As the war rages on, Trump blasted Sir Keir saying the dithering PM should be behind his war effort “without question”.
When asked if he had called Sir Keir a loser in private conversations, he repeated an earlier attack saying “Well, he’s not Winston Churchill, let me put it that way.”
Deputy PM David Lammy said British Typhoons and F-35s already in the skies over the Middle East are shooting down Iranian missiles and drones.
But he warned they could legally go further and strike the launch sites themselves.
Defence secretary John Healey has also not ruled out British aircraft joining strikes if the situation escalates.
He said: “As circumstances in any conflict change, you’ve got to be willing to adapt the action you take”.
The Sun has contacted the Foreign Office for comment.
