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I just hope labour are not that stupid to replace Starmer with Rayner when we are in the middle of an existential crisis

And as for Starmer agreeing to be demoted to Foreign Secretary we are really on fantasy island

I have no faith or trust in Starmer but this is not what the country wants or needs right now

Have you seen the price of petrol? This is on Starmer's watch.

He took a phonecall from the Putin shill at Mar a Lago yesterday. We will have ships in the Gulf by teatime tomorrow. Get rid.

I understand you would prefer the Churchillian Boris Johnson to the fishwife Rayner, but Johnson is a) not inside Parliament or b) the Party of Government. We need a Peter Wright style coup before we get Big Dog back in the driving seat.

What on earth have you had for breakfast ?

I have had years of battles on here with @HYUFD over his devotion to Johnson who I even voted against in the members ballot

Spraying unfounded allegations around and even using 'fishwife' Rayner indicates you are losing it

Either way Starmer needs to go. Do you trust him not to fold for Trump?

In fairness to the "fishwife" she would have no qualms about telling Trump to do one.

Sickening to see 4 Jewish ambulances in London attacked overnight.

The amount of antisemitism in 21st Britain is deeply disturbing.

Almost as disturbing as the amount of people I imagine whose first response would be to blame a Jewish country for what has happened, in a way that would never happen if any other minority were attacked.

I wouldn't condone attacking anything or anyone. I particularly dislike the idea that British Jews going about their business are mindlessly attacked for the craven wickedness of Benjamin Netanyahu. However your outrage at damaged vehicles seems at odds with your consideration that 175 dead schoolgirls is acceptable collateral damage.

The whataboutery here seems a bit empty, even more than usual. Comparing an intended outcome with an unintended outcome is not to compare like with like.

There isn't of course any such thing as acceptable killing of little girls any more than there are acceptable wars. But there are wars and there is killing of little girls. Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

FTSE stocks being hammered this morning.

Brace.

The economic consequences of this insanity by Trump are becoming ever more alarming. We face genuine shortages (as well as exorbitant prices) of fuel. Keep your cars topped up. Unless we find a way to stop this madness we are facing a deep recession.

Surely even the Muppet chorus that Trump has appointed to his cabinet can see this? The 22nd amendment is one of the very few options left.

Anyone with a brain knew Trump 2 would be really bad, a classic in sequels (Godfather 2 being the honourable exception) but this is off the scale. For Gods sake America, get a grip.

This fad about naming things about Queen Elizabeth II will be seen as a disaster soon, might as well start naming stuff after Peter Mandelson.

Andrew ‘caused deeper royal crisis than Edward VIII’s abdication’

Mountbatten-Windsor’s biographer claims that the late Queen’s second son ran rings around his ‘gaga’ mother in the last years of her life

The crisis facing the royal family over the Epstein files revelations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is more serious than the abdication of Edward VIII, the author of the former prince’s biography has claimed.

Andrew Lownie, author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, said that Mountbatten-Windsor’s actions had caused greater public anger than the abdication crisis, when the king stepped down from his role to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

Speaking at Oxford Literary Festival, Lownie said the abdication had been a “three-day wonder”, the full details of which the general public did not engage with at the time. He also said that Edward’s support of the Nazi party had yet to become common knowledge.

While Edward resigned voluntarily from his role to marry the woman he loved, Andrew had to be stripped of his HRH title and military honours after allegations about his continued relationship with the billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein re-emerged.

Lownie said the late Queen had “crossed the line” legally “a lot” when she made allowances for Andrew, who it is thought was her favourite child.

“By the end of her life, what people don’t realise, is that she was completely gaga. He [Andrew] would go up there and he would bully her into doing things. So for the last few years of her life Charles actually was running the show, rather than the Queen,” he said.

“There were MI6 officers who went to [royal] private secretaries and said, ‘Look he’s been caught with $5 million in a suitcase in Kazakhstan’, and they were sent away with a flea in their ear. The heads of the foreign office went and complained.

“He was made a vice-admiral in the navy, and that was after these allegations. She [the Queen] entertained a lot of these people. President Aliyev of Azerbaijan gave her a horse and she was thrilled.

“She, I’m afraid, abetted this. The whole family abetted this — they knew about it,” he said.

He added that people in royal circles had been talking about the allegations since 2011.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/andrew-caused-deeper-royal-crisis-than-edward-viiis-abdication-wftvhzrfs

Sickening to see 4 Jewish ambulances in London attacked overnight.

The amount of antisemitism in 21st Britain is deeply disturbing.

Almost as disturbing as the amount of people I imagine whose first response would be to blame a Jewish country for what has happened, in a way that would never happen if any other minority were attacked.

You are such a dribbling little creep. Anti semiitism can be difficult under the current circumstances when Israel are determined to suck the life out of an honouable religion for their own gain and nasty little creeps like yourself who have likely never met a Jew in their life yet insisit on inveigling yourself into the religion because you think there is some kudos to be gained from doing so.

Your daily war gaming in Gaza repulsed me as I'm sure it did most others on here and certainly most Jews.

This post sums up the despair so many must be feeling

The attack on the Jewish's ambulances should be condemned by all fair minded persons as should the killing of innocent chldren in Iran