Election Year or Fear!

[SithHappens]

I thought Starmer handled PMQs well. Badenoch complained about him being scripted but she was as didn't seem to know how to respond to him. I thought he answered her questions, she just didn't seem capable of understanding that and her factually incorrectly claims about the ability of certain military equipment.

Ed Davey showed again he would be a far more capable opposition leader.

The US claimed yesterday Spain have backed down and will now support the war. Spains response was erm no our position hasn't changed.

[Ram Pant]

Now the US has torpedoed an Iranian Warship off the coast of Sri Lanka! TV personality turned Sec of War Hegseth thinks its a video game. This is getting dangerous.

Plus the view is beign expressed that Iran has more drones than there are interceptors and could continue the random launching of drones for a long time.

One would think that the myth of being able to win a war, primarily through bombing, would have been busted by history, but then I guess the US doesn't recognise any history where its been a failure! Rather like Trump and his business "acumen"!

First torpedo sinking of a ship since WW2 according to Hegseth. Does the Belgrano sinking not count?

Trump said yesterday that it would be a huge mistake to have a crazy person in charge of Nuclear weapons. Are there no mirrors in the White House?

As I wrote earlier, there is NO clear purpose or exit strategy. IMO, give it a few weeks and they'll stop and make some fatuous claim of it all having been a success.

Cyprus representative in London saying they're unhappywith the UK. FFS we have TWO bases there. It was one of those bases that was hit. We have defences that seem not to have worked on that occasion. We're sending a ship in a couple of days once it's 100% stacked and ready. Allies like the French have boats there, France has a carrier on the way accompanied by a Dutch destroyer. We can't teleport ships there.

[ramAnag]

First torpedo sinking of a ship since WW2 according to Hegseth. Does the Belgrano sinking not count?

Trump said yesterday that it would be a huge mistake to have a crazy person in charge of Nuclear weapons. Are there no mirrors in the White House?

As I wrote earlier, there is NO clear purpose or exit strategy. IMO, give it a few weeks and they'll stop and make some fatuous claim of it all having been a success.

Cyprus representative in London saying they're unhappywith the UK. FFS we have TWO bases there. It was one of those bases that was hit. We have defences that seem not to have worked on that occasion. We're sending a ship in a couple of days once it's 100% stacked and ready. Allies like the French have boats there, France has a carrier on the way accompanied by a Dutch destroyer. We can't teleport ships there.

I think they said ‘first torpedo sinking by the US since WW2’, so…no.

My exact thought when I heard Trump’s utterance about ‘crazy people in charge’.

[swaledale]

I think they said ‘first torpedo sinking by the US since WW2’, so…no.

My exact thought when I heard Trump’s utterance about ‘crazy people in charge’.

Hopefully this will, 1) Piss off the MAGA's who don't believe in the US getting involved in foreign wars 2) Bugger the US economy as well as elsewhere, further upsetting the dumbass people who voted for this idiot.

Result in Trump being removed.

[SithHappens]

Reports the ship was unarmed are returning from a training exercise.

Yet still Reform, Conservatives and most of the media want us involved and are Slating Starmer.

Starmer is more like Churchill than Trump thinks, standing up to a facist evil dictator.

[swaledale]

Reports the ship was unarmed are returning from a training exercise.

Yet still Reform, Conservatives and most of the media want us involved and are Slating Starmer.

Starmer is more like Churchill than Trump thinks, standing up to a facist evil dictator.

Badenoch's just a fool, contradicts herself all the time, thnak goodness she isn't PM.

[swaledale]

I'm sure they could still win it by bombing alone, depending on what they bomb with

Indeed, but then if the other side had nuclear weapons, the US wouldn't be doing this!

[ramAnag]

Badenoch's just a fool, contradicts herself all the time, thnak goodness she isn't PM.

She?s following in the great tradition of female Tory leaders, Swale. Thatcher, who at least had some degree of political competence but was ultimately cruel and compassion less. Truss, the definition of delusional incompetence and now Badenoch, who I have yet to be convinced is not some sort of badly wired AI bot.

All three terrible exemplars for female leadership, which is a great pity given what a mess the male equivalents are making of the Middle East and elsewhere at present.

[swaledale]

She?s following in the great tradition of female Tory leaders, Swale. Thatcher, who at least had some degree of political competence but was ultimately cruel and compassion less. Truss, the definition of delusional incompetence and now Badenoch, who I have yet to be convinced is not some sort of badly wired AI bot.

All three terrible exemplars for female leadership, which is a great pity given what a mess the male equivalents are making of the Middle East and elsewhere at present.

It does however, show Starmer to be a model leader, when compared to the likes of Trump, Netenyahu!

[ramAnag]

It does however, show Starmer to be a model leader, when compared to the likes of Trump, Netenyahu!

Indeed and God only knows where we’d be with Johnson or Truss in charge. I’ll discount Badenoch as I can’t ever see her getting close to being PM and doubt she’ll even be party leader at the next election.

[Ram Pant]

rA, I hadn't heard "US" in Hegseth's little ramble.

Reading over here that the sunken ship had been taking part in multinational exercises that were supposed to include some US Navy ships. The US apparently pulled out of the exercises and then sank the Iranian boat. Has similar been reported in the UK?

[ramAnag]

rA, I hadn't heard "US" in Hegseth's little ramble.

Reading over here that the sunken ship had been taking part in multinational exercises that were supposed to include some US Navy ships. The US apparently pulled out of the exercises and then sank the Iranian boat. Has similar been reported in the UK?

All I’ve heard is that the ship (Iris Dena) had been taking part in something called a ‘fleet review’ hosted by India and that the survivors were rescued by the Sri Lankan navy.

Hegseth sounds as bonkers as his boss to me. A full on war monger and horribly dangerous.

[Ram Pant]

2 weeks ago, the cheapest petrol near me was 1.82 euro a litre. Today it's 2.06. Similar hiked prices in England?

[Ram Pant]

Just when you thought it couldn't get any wierder...

Honey wake up.
Meet your new Secretary of Homeland Security.
His name is Markwayne Mullin.
As in, his parents looked at a baby and said: Markwayne.
That's the first thing you need to know.
It gets weirder.
He's the only senator in America without a college degree.
He challenged a union leader to a fistfight during a Senate hearing. On camera.
In the United States Senate. Bernie Sanders, BERNIE SANDERS, had to tell him to calm down and act like an adult.
In one year while serving in Congress his personal wealth jumped $45 million.
One year.
Forty-five million dollars.
While making your laws.
He believes abortion should be illegal even if you were raped.
Even if your life is at risk.
He has said on the record that even if his own wife were dying in a pregnancy, neither of them would want an abortion.
He gets to make that call for every woman in America now.
He found out he got the job on social media.
Same as you.
Trump's announcement called him "a MAGA Warrior and former undefeated MMA fighter."
That's the qualification.
Not experience.
Not expertise.
He hits people.
He now runs:
- ICE
- FEMA
- The Coast Guard
- The Secret Service
- Counterterrorism
I honestly cant even tell if this is better or worse than Kristi Noem

[Ram Pant]

Trump turns down "the UK offer of 2 aircraft carriers. We don't need people joining the war after it's already been won". We do HAVE 2 of them, but isn't one currently being serviced as it doesn't work properly? Would we really send both to the same location?