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To think Keir Starmer has set us up to be the target of war strikes?

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Carlie97 · 02/03/2026 07:25

He's a dick.

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BerryTwister · 02/03/2026 08:00

Untailored · 02/03/2026 07:57

Like it or not, the US are our long-term allies and we always cooperate with them for military purposes. We have a long history of sharing intelligence and letting them use our bases. Nothing risky or controversial about it.

It’s nothing new, but there’s no doubt it makes us a target for terrorist attacks. There’s no question that our risk will have increased, and I imagine all UK police forces are putting in place whatever their “higher than average alert” processes are.

MyTrivia · 02/03/2026 08:00

Terfedout · 02/03/2026 07:58

Yawn. Educate yourself instead of posting stupid crap online.

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Yes this ^^

CharlotteRumpling · 02/03/2026 07:59

MidnightPatrol · 02/03/2026 07:57

Yes, why wouldn’t you pity them?

Its not a competition as to whose situation is most miserable.

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I did until this week.
I now pity British-Iranians who went there to see dying mums, and actual Iranians.

Terfedout · 02/03/2026 07:58

Carlie97 · 02/03/2026 07:25

He's a dick.

Yawn. Educate yourself instead of posting stupid crap online.

MyTrivia · 02/03/2026 07:58

Untailored · 02/03/2026 07:57

Like it or not, the US are our long-term allies and we always cooperate with them for military purposes. We have a long history of sharing intelligence and letting them use our bases. Nothing risky or controversial about it.

Exactly.

MidnightPatrol · 02/03/2026 07:57

CharlotteRumpling · 02/03/2026 07:51

Iranians dead or dying or at risk- including children- and you pity the Foremans who went there of their own accord, when warned not to?

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Yes, why wouldn’t you pity them?

Its not a competition as to whose situation is most miserable.

Untailored · 02/03/2026 07:57

Like it or not, the US are our long-term allies and we always cooperate with them for military purposes. We have a long history of sharing intelligence and letting them use our bases. Nothing risky or controversial about it.

BerryTwister · 02/03/2026 07:55

AgnesX · 02/03/2026 07:36

It would have happened regardless of who was in government. The US is part of NATO and using British airfields would be a given.

This statement is politics IMO.

Funny how Trump wants to use his NATO benefits now, having been prepared to scrap the whole thing when he wanted to invade Greenland!

sundayvibeswig22 · 02/03/2026 07:53

He’s a lame duck. Rolling over to USA and Israel again.

BeanQuisine · 02/03/2026 07:53

Yes, YABU.

BerryTwister · 02/03/2026 07:52

Ginmonkeyagain · 02/03/2026 07:27

War strikes? How much range do you think Iran's drones have?

Terrorist attacks.

CharlotteRumpling · 02/03/2026 07:51

MidnightPatrol · 02/03/2026 07:48

I pity the British people being held in prison there.

Iranians dead or dying or at risk- including children- and you pity the Foremans who went there of their own accord, when warned not to?

Heyhelga · 02/03/2026 07:50

We would have been targets anyway. They see the UK and US as one double team. I saw somewhere a protest/mourning in Tehran over the weekend a banner and it the UK flag alongside the US and Israel flag.

MidnightPatrol · 02/03/2026 07:48

I pity the British people being held in prison there.

noblegiraffe · 02/03/2026 07:48

MushMonster · 02/03/2026 07:42

Terror attacks are a heavy possibility, but we may actually be safer at present. Iran would not want to add fuel to the fire and actually get Europe or UK on the offensive.
I would be worry about terror attacks if a war of attricion follows.
Iran + Russia would be keeping our intelligence and police rather busy.

But I 100% agree with previous poster. This is Trump's making. Starmer did not start any war.

Are you sure it's not Iran's making?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98wjzj4jlpo

A mural of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen on the side of a building in Azadi avenue with reams of Iranian national flags hanging in the foreground, in Tehran on 11 February 2022.

UK faces rising and unpredictable threat from Iran, report warns

A wide-ranging report by an intelligence committee has set out the risks Iran poses to the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98wjzj4jlpo

Dragonflytamer · 02/03/2026 07:46

I don't see why we are going anything. Every anti drone missile we fire costs us over £300,000.

We should not be associating ourselves with US/Israeli war mongering. Imagine the US outrage if the Iranian's had assassinated Trump.

MushMonster · 02/03/2026 07:42

Terror attacks are a heavy possibility, but we may actually be safer at present. Iran would not want to add fuel to the fire and actually get Europe or UK on the offensive.
I would be worry about terror attacks if a war of attricion follows.
Iran + Russia would be keeping our intelligence and police rather busy.

But I 100% agree with previous poster. This is Trump's making. Starmer did not start any war.

Araminta1003 · 02/03/2026 07:41

Hmm there is dissent in a democracy which is tolerated. However, if there were ever all out war then there is the concept of treason and all sorts so all the people getting too excited especially if dual national, I would always be careful what I say online now, including in Britain. That’s my two pennies worth.

Dontgetfooledagain · 02/03/2026 07:41

Ginmonkeyagain · 02/03/2026 07:30

Yeah that is much more likely, but TBH I think that is already baked in whatever we do in terms of allowing the US to use our airbases

This. Britain is no friend of the Iranian regime and never has been.

MyTrivia · 02/03/2026 07:40

YABU

Itstartedinbarcelona · 02/03/2026 07:38

Yep part of the let’s blame Keir Starmer for everything campaign.

noblegiraffe · 02/03/2026 07:37

Iran has been attacking us for years.

MrsFinkelstein · 02/03/2026 07:36

Carlie97 · 02/03/2026 07:25

He's a dick.

No, don't be ridiculous.

Blair was called a war criminal for getting us involved in Iraq, now Starmer is a dick and a coward for not getting us involved in Iran.

For RW it appears a Labour PM can't ever be correct.

I agree with PPs - We've been here before, and Starmer is doing the right thing. He's responded to an attack on UK forces, but he's not gone on the offensive.

Every EU nation is just as vulnerable as us to terror attacks.

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AgnesX · 02/03/2026 07:36

It would have happened regardless of who was in government. The US is part of NATO and using British airfields would be a given.

This statement is politics IMO.

Lambington · 02/03/2026 07:35

YABU. Only one person has made the UK less safe in the past 48 hours. Donald Trump.