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Channel 4 have found an Iranian spokesperson who is a University professor. A wise old man who sits in a chair and opines. He reminds me of my late Grandfather! He's even got his accent! A very impressive man. Quite a contrast to the juveniles who are speaking for the US at the moment. I think he could become a bit of a cult figure. He's like the old man in the old man and the sea.

I think it was the beard. If Pete Hegseth had a beard he'd look older and wiser too - until he opened his mouth. But, yes, Hegseth with a beard and not saying anything, that would be a huge improvement on the US war comms front.

Hegseth comes across as very excited by the carnage. Like a kindergarten kid receiving his first GI Joe doll.

Were Hegseth and Max Headroom separated at birth?

Farage has seen the polling.

Nigel Farage accused of U-turning on Middle East crisis after he said Britain should not get involved in Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

He previously said the “gloves need to come off” when dealing with Iran and that “we should do all we can to support the operation.”

Story from @BenQuinn75

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/10/nigel-farage-u-turn-uk-iran-war

He's not stupid.

What do the Tory Turncoats think?

Over half of current Reform voters back the US strikes on Iran according to Yougov, so while Farage and Jenrick go wobbly on Iran, Kemi should arguably step up her bomb Tehran and the regime to bits line and hope to squeeze back to the Tories some rightwingers lost to Reform

No.

Kemi can show she is raw steak to Farage and Jenrick's soggy wet lettuces

Have you had dinner yet? You’re drinking on an empty stomach.

Farage has seen the polling.

Nigel Farage accused of U-turning on Middle East crisis after he said Britain should not get involved in Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

He previously said the “gloves need to come off” when dealing with Iran and that “we should do all we can to support the operation.”

Story from @BenQuinn75

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/10/nigel-farage-u-turn-uk-iran-war

He's not stupid.

What do the Tory Turncoats think?

Over half of current Reform voters back the US strikes on Iran according to Yougov, so while Farage and Jenrick go wobbly on Iran, Kemi should arguably step up her bomb Tehran and the regime to bits line and hope to squeeze back to the Tories some rightwingers lost to Reform

No.

Kemi can show she is raw steak to Farage and Jenrick's soggy wet lettuces

She's tried backtracking this afternoon

BBC

Failed spectacularly

She said the RAF should take out Iranian missile launchers which is perfectly reasonable
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/10/badenoch-denies-calling-for-uk-to-join-us-israeli-war-on-iran

She denied calling for boots on grounds LIE

She wittered on about catching arrows

She then said UK should attack Iran

So she ended where she claimed she hadn't started

Confused or what

You do not understand the catching arrows so make up a story about boots on the ground

Both Kemi and Debs Haynes, the Sky news defence correspondent uses it as an expression that the launchers need to be eliminated from the air

Your posts on this are malign and fake

Motes and beams.

Remember when you disgracefully misrepresented Sky News and what they said about Starmer and Ukraine.

So today the Royal Navy managed, after 6 days of truly extraordinary work, to put a vessel to sea. The reality is that almost all of the proposed increase in public spending on defence being planned by the government will achieve very little more than giving us the defence forces that we allegedly had, at least on paper, plus, if we are lucky, enough ammunition to fight a war of more than 2 weeks duration.

The extent to which our defence forces have been allowed to fall into desuetude whilst almost unlimited sums are spent on the likes of Ajax is a national disgrace, not just for this government (although they are not excused) but for all of our governments of the last 20 odd years since Gulf War 2 was finished. So much money wasted on a system with more admirals than ships, more generals than tanks and more Air Commanders than deployable aircraft.

Sadly not the case. The planned increase in spend on the nuclear deterrent (necessary to renew it) means that spending on the conventional forces will fall. The state of Britain's conventional forces can be expected to deteriorate further, despite the best efforts of the poor sods at the sharp end.

Britain has reached the stage where ragged holes have now suddenly appeared in what was a threadbare garment and Labour aren't even proposing to start the repair job.

One of the main consequences of Trump's decision to attack Iran might be to kick-start Ukraine's defence industry and allow them to monetise the expertise they've gained over the last four years.

https://x.com/KyivIndependent/status/2031329316416430284

A Saudi Arabian arms company has signed a deal to buy Ukrainian-made interceptor missiles, the Kyiv Independent has learned, with one source within Ukraine's defense industry saying that Riyadh and Kyiv are negotiating a separate "huge deal" for arms that could be finalized this week.

More 12D chess from Trump?

I wonder what Karl Popper would make of Trumpism given it is basically unfalsifiable.
"Yet instead of accepting the refutations", Popper wrote, "the followers of Marx re-interpreted both the theory and the evidence in order to make them agree. ... They thus gave a 'conventionalist twist' to the theory; and by this stratagem, they destroyed its much advertised claim to scientific status."

One of the main consequences of Trump's decision to attack Iran might be to kick-start Ukraine's defence industry and allow them to monetise the expertise they've gained over the last four years.

https://x.com/KyivIndependent/status/2031329316416430284

A Saudi Arabian arms company has signed a deal to buy Ukrainian-made interceptor missiles, the Kyiv Independent has learned, with one source within Ukraine's defense industry saying that Riyadh and Kyiv are negotiating a separate "huge deal" for arms that could be finalized this week.

More 12D chess from Trump?

He's remarkable, isn't he. Moving pieces around that ordinary mortals didn't even realise were on the board.

Farage has seen the polling.

Nigel Farage accused of U-turning on Middle East crisis after he said Britain should not get involved in Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

He previously said the “gloves need to come off” when dealing with Iran and that “we should do all we can to support the operation.”

Story from @BenQuinn75

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/10/nigel-farage-u-turn-uk-iran-war

He's not stupid.

What do the Tory Turncoats think?

Over half of current Reform voters back the US strikes on Iran according to Yougov, so while Farage and Jenrick go wobbly on Iran, Kemi should arguably step up her bomb Tehran and the regime to bits line and hope to squeeze back to the Tories some rightwingers lost to Reform

No.

She's tried to backtrack on BBC this afternoon

Soectacular failure

I agree with BigG, where is evidence Kemi ever said "I want our Armed Forces to have boots on the ground, we must support the US and Israel in attacking Iran"

Absolutely none and it is a malicious slur

According to Badenoch today when she said she stood with the US and Israel and their first strikes against Iran, it didn't mean we should join in.

To think people here complained about Starmer dancing on a head of a pin!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/10/badenoch-denies-calling-for-uk-to-join-us-israeli-war-on-iran

Farage has seen the polling.

Nigel Farage accused of U-turning on Middle East crisis after he said Britain should not get involved in Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

He previously said the “gloves need to come off” when dealing with Iran and that “we should do all we can to support the operation.”

Story from @BenQuinn75

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/10/nigel-farage-u-turn-uk-iran-war

He's not stupid.

What do the Tory Turncoats think?

Over half of current Reform voters back the US strikes on Iran according to Yougov, so while Farage and Jenrick go wobbly on Iran, Kemi should arguably step up her bomb Tehran and the regime to bits line and hope to squeeze back to the Tories some rightwingers lost to Reform

No.

Kemi can show she is raw steak to Farage and Jenrick's soggy wet lettuces

Have you had dinner yet? You’re drinking on an empty stomach.

Farage has seen the polling.

Nigel Farage accused of U-turning on Middle East crisis after he said Britain should not get involved in Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

He previously said the “gloves need to come off” when dealing with Iran and that “we should do all we can to support the operation.”

Story from @BenQuinn75

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/10/nigel-farage-u-turn-uk-iran-war

I’m hoping this helps reinforce the very real risks of supporting untested parties (in the same way Zack is now telling us he’s going to be nice to Mr Putin and that will solve everything).

Sadly, Kemi has badly miscalculated this one. It would have been a proper sensible dividing line and she’s missed that opportunity, badly.

Well I don't see why Kemi can't say she was against the war all along if Farage can get away with it.

Why would she? She isn't.

She might need to change her stance if the British electorate can't be turned around, although Whisky Pete claiming a massive victory, so she might yet take the win over the hapless Starmer and Nigey.

Imo she should just stick to what she thinks. If thats unpopular, so be it.
Fuck policy by focus group.

I doubt she thinks bombing the bejesus out of Tehran is a good idea. I suspect she threw her hat into that ring because she thought it would be popular amongst her base. All her tame media outlets have been baying for Iranian blood. People aren't buying it this time-yet.

She jjust followed the Daily Mail. They've been the graveyard of more than one Tory leader. They're irresistable for leaders like her

Farage has seen the polling.

Nigel Farage accused of U-turning on Middle East crisis after he said Britain should not get involved in Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

He previously said the “gloves need to come off” when dealing with Iran and that “we should do all we can to support the operation.”

Story from @BenQuinn75

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/10/nigel-farage-u-turn-uk-iran-war

He's not stupid.

What do the Tory Turncoats think?

Over half of current Reform voters back the US strikes on Iran according to Yougov, so while Farage and Jenrick go wobbly on Iran, Kemi should arguably step up her bomb Tehran and the regime to bits line and hope to squeeze back to the Tories some rightwingers lost to Reform

No.

Kemi can show she is raw steak to Farage and Jenrick's soggy wet lettuces

Why on earth would she even think of those two idiots

Is HY doing satire?

Sadly he is not

Why he thinks Kemi should be chasing little englander right wing votes I do not know.

Plague on reform - end off