The impossible has happened - Trump has made me a Keir Starmer supporter!

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'This is not the age of churchill'

Thank God. Fucking orange twat.

So apparently the big one is coming and they are landing at our bases on route.

One wonders if this big one was delayed due to starmers flip flops ?

IS there any surprise left ...what are they.bombing now ?

• starmers TV response recently was awful. He looked absolutely terrified.

The £1bn Serco contract for in-port services at Portsmouth, was renewed in May 2025 and ended 24/7 staffing in favor of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekday hours in order to cut costs.

At the time Prospect union criticised the new contract and workers went on strike last year in protest of the new contract, warning that it would not stand up to operational pressure.

Guess what it didn't...
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-cut-staff-hours-key-naval-base-responding-cyprus-drone-strike/#:~:text=9%2D5%20with%20overtime,stand%20up%20to%20operational%20pressure.

You mean you don’t. I don’t agree with the strategy. Very many do not.

And Israel is lining up Turkey. Or at least Naftali Bennett has hinted at it.

'This person apparently fancies themselves to be a 'senior politician'. A senior fantacist perhaps or is that you Kemi?'

I said 'As a senior politician I think it is not unreasonable to expect them to speak powerfully, not nasally, to look relaxed not nervy and to actually make you feel they are in charge' I was obviously referring to KS, not me hun. Though I would make a better job.

Did you mean fantasist perchance? Not it's not me kemi. Hope that helps.

Apologies, I clearly misunderstood your post, reading it too quickly, and not having read the preceding ones. In fairness, your sentence construction isn't great so it was easy to misunderstand. Thanks for correcting my spelling mistake.

I wonder if people realise that , despite not being involved, we will pay for this war. There is a big inflation wave coming, apparently.

Exactly we're in it anyway being alleged allies of the US and Israel so we will suffer any retaliation, terrorist attacks, fuel rises etc and may as well have actually shown 100% support from the beginning. Instead we are jihadi targets plus have pissed the US off. Great stuff Starmer 🙄.

Indeed - we might be sitting ducks for German bombers and tanks but we've exceeded our operational hours and require a tea break.

As a previous poster said "Safety first".

This just confirms to me that the UK is no longer capable of defending itself whether it be against Russia or Iran or Liechtenstein.

You would have front line troops complaining of being forced to wear the same clothes (uniform) as everyone else, a lack of a soy milk option in the rations and whether the bombs they are using are ecologically sourced.

And gas prices

Still doesn't mean we should join the war

Are you really comparing my comment about modern safety measures for a pilot's flying hours with Dunkirk?

The comparisons to Dunkirk are so ludicrous I wonder if posters actually know much about it.

Oh get real ffs. Britain is not at war with anyone. The Iranians are not massing their invasion fleet in the ports of France and Belgium. Akrotiri is just a forward base for the Israeli/ US forever war at this stage. The Gulf States are not a British Protectorate. It isn't 1956 anymore. Time to abandon these ridiculous and grandiose delusions. Stop meddling and fix things at home for a change.

I really hope you aren’t a senior politician. Yes, we are going to suffer economic consequences from this as are many nations but do you really think that we should have followed Trump into an illegal war and should dance to his tune?

Where's the proof that the war was 'illegal' ?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/are-us-israeli-attacks-against-iran-legal-under-international-law

Do read the posts, I'm not a senior politician no. It was apparently my dreadful sentence construction that lead a pp to think so. It was clarified earlier.

An illegal war. Says who? They are state sponsors of terrorism. Yes we should have supported the US ans Israel from the word go.

Al jazeeera quoting the UN!

Mock all you like. The UN still said it.

Is it a war? I think the US were a bit confused about whether they could call it that.

Does anyone pay any attention the UN 'rapporteurs' after all the bollocks they spouted re gaza and 'hamas said'. Maybe Tom Fletcher could post some selfies we haven't seen any for a while.

The words that jump out are 'Analysts say' and 'appear'.

Analysts say the joint US-Israeli strikes against Iran appear to breach the UN Charter’s prohibition on aggression.

So this is the opinion of 'analysts', whoever they are.

What has the UN to say about this - and does it matter?

People call the United Nations a “toothless tiger” for a simple reason. It looks powerful on paper, but it often fails to stop wars, protect civilians, or prevent mass suffering.

What has it ever done to help the Iranian people ?

Because it doesn't constitute lawful self defence against an armed attack. Preventative disarmament and regime change constitute an internationally recognised crime of aggression no matter how much we despise the regime in question. If I walk down the street and punch someone just in case they punch me, this would not be legally justified.