@longtonian
Semi-retired foreign language teacher, ex-marketer. Interests: UK and (now scary) US politics, history, art, books, Stoke City, border terriers, gin, crisps, Camus, music, running. 🌹Labour Party member. #RejoinEU #FBPE
A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war.
Here's what has happened since then to public opinion
Tony Blair’s presumably unintentional illustration of his own epic vanity & the weapons grade hypocrisy of the Mail etc…
open.spotify.com/episode/7dwS...
WE HOPE YOU'RE FUCKING
CORRECT, JOE.........
UK government releases list of 76 EU laws that it says UK will align with under food standards treaty with EU www.gov.uk/government/n...
Nuremberg trials required.
The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social
Brexit
a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce)
b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%)
www.cer.eu/insights/imp...
This is an absolutely huge jump in oil prices.
It's also why Europe needs to get off fossil fuels asap (beyond climate change impact). We can't be beholden to this.
UK flag merging into EU stars
Even the right-wing press is admitting it – Brexit hasn’t gone to plan. The Office for Budget Responsibility warned of a 4% GDP hit. The reality may be worse.
A decade after the referendum, Britain is rethinking its future in Europe.
Sarah Patey reports
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
Never go full Ministry of Truth
Reporter: Did the US bomb an elementary school and kill 175 people?
Trump: Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran.
Reporter: Is that true Mr. Hegseth?
Hegseth: We’re investigating.
Trump: They are very inaccurate with their munitions. It was done by Iran.
Somebody, please ask all these Trump-fluffing British politicians exactly what their policy will be regarding the Iranian refugee crisis they are so desperate to create.
Almost nobody in the media reported on the former Tory Government's sweeping power grab of the electoral commission. This week Labour have announced that they will reverse what Boris Johnson did and return the commission to independence.
Ofcourse Labour will get absolutely no credit for doing this
The King is supposed to be visiting the USA *next month*. This is the definition of a diplomatic nightmare. In all seriousness, I would urge him to pull a sickie.
😂
was nine years old when a Labour government followed the US into an illegal war in Iraq, sold to the public on lies. Twenty-three years later, we're back on the streets opposing another Labour government and another illegal war - this time against Iran.
We have suffered our worst national humiliation since the Suez debacle, if not the fall of Singapore. This time, though, we lack the excuse of having been pressured by alies or attacked by foes. The decision to cower and plead neutrality even as Iranian proxies were lobbing ordnance at us was entirely our own. Sir Keir Starmer's pusillanimity has left us looking weak, needy and duplicitous. And all for what? Anxiety about anti-lsrael voters in constituencies like Gorton and Denton? Fear of crossing our human-rights obsessed Attorney General, Lord Hermer? Paywall down.
In a desperate attempt to make Trump and Netanyahu's war all about the UK government, you simultaneously have the Your Party tendency sowing a narrative that we're already fighting on America's side... and the Ladybird Libertarians calling it the greatest humiliation since the Fall of Singapore.
If you want to see what a society that really does ban its residents from exercising the most basic freedom of speech, as online racist liars like to describe the UK, have a look at what various British ‘economic migrants’ are posting about the attacks on Dubai.
If I were Starmer I'd be fairly relaxed about Blair having a pop at me on this issue...
Security Council leader of Russia Nikolai Patrusev said 11 November 2024 "To reach success in elections Donald Trump was supported by certain powers to which he has obligations. As a responsible person, he is obliged to meet these obligations".
The Trump regime doesn't want allies, it wants servants.
Trump attacks Starmer while turning a blind eye to Russia sharing intelligence on US forces with Iran.
The UK needs to build a new, stronger defence relationship with our European allies, the EU, Ukraine, and Norway.
Just finished the documentary about Blair on Channel 4.
He came across as soulless, empty and totally lacking in self-awareness.
His latest intervention is unsurprising
This is insane.
Blair is the last person who should be piping up.
Absolutely pitiful. Zero serious thinking at the top levels of the political class. Just a desire to be as slavish as possible.
Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?
So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.
This isn’t a hallucination, Michael Gove. You’ve never explained the millions you disbursed to buddies with your crony Covid Contracts.
Cashing in on the worst public health crisis in a century should disbar people from public life permanently.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...
Boot the them out and the UK can take their place
… j’ai comme un doute sur la méthode ! 🤔
#IranWar #Trump #Bibi
