A passive Prime Minister who prefers process over politics.

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https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-news-agents/id1640878689?i=1000755128315

Quite the listen. A worrying review of Keir Starmer’s approach to being to the top man in the job.

I can't be bothered to find the tweet, but there's a US right wing commentator who's said that Mandelson being mates with the Epstein set was what qualfied him for the job.

The US relationship is, at this point, both unbelivably important and next-to-unmanageable. Against that background, appointing a suitably-connected unprincipled shit like Mandelson was a political gamble. You can say at this point that it has backfired, and that it was the wrong thing, but there's no doubt Starmer did it with his eyes open.

For such an unread man, he called it right on Iran

Farage isn't PM?

Well I hope and think so. But it's early days and no one will be able to judge whether it was the right or wrong call (re future relations with the US for example) for a few years yet.

Yes, though if there's a difficult judgement call to make about whether or not to bomb a country, I'd prefer a prime minister who errs on the side of not doing so...

Really? Even if a NATO country was attacked?

That probably wouldn't be a 'difficult judgement call', would it?

give me strength.

I'm not sure he's even been consistent or in what way people think he "called it" on Iran TBH..

It was obvious what was coming, and you'd have to be a political clod not to realise that due to Blair/Bush the UK population had no stomach for getting involved in another US led Middle East intervention...

There was then all the talk about the USAF not being allowed to use places like Fairford for offensive ops but that changed.

Rightly or wrongly they now able to bomb up there and they very obviously use Uk airspace...compare and contrast with the likes of Spain and some other EU/NATO nations.

Another issue is the UK PM certainly doesn't appear to be prepared to be as critical of POTUS as the likes of the German chancellor has been recently.

It's almost a case of the PM keeping his head down, anything for a quiet life.

Really? You would immediately bomb any country that attacked a NATO member no matter what the attack consisted of?

Good we dont have such a trigger happy person in charge!

Don't be a child. It's a serious subject.

I think he’s trying to use it politically in the same way he sold in the ‘coalition of the willing’ with press ops, but agree.

That can apply to Russia as well, the UK is still doing the right thing on Ukraine

I couldnt resist teasing you after the pomposity of your previous comment. You take your comments seriously and I wasn't. Apologies.

And of course none (or few) of us on this thread have a clue about defence strategy so I don't take your (or my views) as in any way being a heavy weight opinion.