Starmer's vision quest

[theclaud]

There is an allusion in that piece to the Iraq war, and how trying to remain glued to America's hip led us into the biggest foreign policy mistake of half a century. Very true, and it was avoidable. France opposed it, in much the same way that France has been outspoken in its criticisms of Israeli violence. But then France had a very good reason to oppose the Iraq war...they'd just signed a huge oil deal with Saddam Hussein, along with Russia, and a war rendered the deal void.

We all like being able to heat our houses and put fuel in our cars. We all like having jobs. Sometimes in industries which require huge amounts of energy at a price that makes our products competitive, and therefore safeguards our jobs. France's opposition to the Iraq war had nothing to do with morality and everything to do with securing energy supply and therefore the security of the French.

It's an ugly world. You and I have the luxury of being able to voice our opinions freely, but those in charge of voicing for the nation have the entire geo-political picture to consider, and our place within it.

The truth about French, Canadian and Irish pronouncements on Israel will be that they are able to make them at no cost to their own national interests. Otherwise they would not have been made.

I'm sort of enjoying the recurring theme of Starmer being somehow constrained in his self-expression while we luxuriate in our freedom of speech. Meanwhile, in the real world, he's literally presided over a massive crackdown on the limits of acceptable opinion, at the behest of a handful of notoriously touchy and wildly disingenuous professional Zionists. Also, he could just opt to grow a spine and take the office of LOTO seriously, as someone who is apparently in line to become leader of a G7 state and a permanent member of the UN security council, and stop pretending to be powerless when it suits him.

 

[theclaud]

View: https://twitter.com/I_amMukhtar/status/1725950237725077582?t=-rK8d8A36sknsfXwzFIJGQ&s=19

 

[theclaud]

Outside Starmer's constituency office today...

 

[Deleted member 49]

Great unity...Christ the blokes a w@nker ! Is that why he had to whip his own MPs to support Israel breaking international law ?

View: https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1726213410952523921?t=ViXkDMzGKSbng0v2UcKwQA&s=19

 

[Deleted member 49]

Outside Starmer's constituency office today...

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The fecking hypocrisy of these goons.

View: https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1726171480767992296?t=G-lNcCKcuASFfhAWw4GhxQ&s=19

 

[Deleted member 49]

Rachel Reeves tells PLP the party will fight the next election on the economy...
“We are now the party of fiscal responsibility. We are the party of British business. And we are the party that will make working people better off.”

View: https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1727579936297304407?t=bSa2XqDbrWUCpp22lNeu1g&s=19

 

[winjim]

No toolmaker's son would be seen doing this.


View: https://twitter.com/g_gosden/status/1728066428811563130?t=QVOX8f26jUby8ZZYdaTkbQ&s=19

 

[newfhouse]

No toolmaker's son would be seen doing this.


View: https://twitter.com/g_gosden/status/1728066428811563130?t=QVOX8f26jUby8ZZYdaTkbQ&s=19

Doubtless it will get the same treatment in tomorrow’s newspapers as Milliband’s sandwich horror.

 

[C R]

Doubtless it will get the same treatment in tomorrow’s newspapers as Milliband’s sandwich horror.

I admire your optimism.

 

[Ian H]

Doubtless it will get the same treatment in tomorrow’s newspapers as Milliband’s sandwich horror.

It's gawn.

 

[albion]

There is certainly a heck of a lot of Ed Milliband traits in Rishi Sunak.
However, he is possibly the least bonkers PM since David Cameron.

 

[monkers]

There is certainly a heck of a lot of Ed Milliband traits in Rishi Sunak.
However, he is possibly the least bonkers PM since David Cameron.

You know that ain't saying much. Right?

 

[monkers]

It's gawn.

Was it this?

 

[winjim]

It's gawn.

He was told to use it that way, but you know, it's jokes. If I wanted to actually criticise him that's not what I would choose to use. Anyway, my joke was about Starmer, not Sunak.

 

[Deleted member 49]

Fiscal rules again...they really are shocking.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67528894