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So, having listened to various experts who know far more than me about Iran, the consensus seems to be that Mojtaba Khamenei is like his dad without the fluffy, soft bits. He seems to have complete control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and indeed the country. The complete fantasy that the loon in the White House would have some sort of say about who this country of 90m was going to choose after he murdered their leader has been shown to be just that.

This is honestly making the second Gulf War and its aftermath look like a clever, focused, planned operation. The US and Israel can keep killing and destroying as an alternative to having a plan for a while yet. Netanyahu doesn't exactly get embarrassed about a few thousand dead civilians but sooner or later they will run out of even vaguely credible targets and the Regime is going to stand unmoved but vowing revenge.

And the price of all of this is oil over $100 a barrel, a spike in inflation, gas shortages, aluminium shortages, a drop in growth potentially large enough to bring us into recession (I think we will just scrape by that) and an ever more lawless world. I thought Trump 2 would be a disaster but I was out by an order of magnitude. The next 2.5 years are going to be seriously tough.

I cling to the hope that the mid terms in November will seriously clip his wings.

We all need some hope but unless he has permanently fallen out with his appointees on the SC Congress is likely to find itself largely ineffectual. A Constitution that was always highly overrated has been shown to have fatal flaws because it depended on Judges with a hint of integrity ensuring everything else remained in balance. Their decisions over the last year have made Trump a Sovereign in all but name and I am not sure what Congress can now do about it.

Why are people still pushing the ridiculous conspiracy theories about Epstein “being murdered”, or whatever. I’m sick and tired of it. This is just the latest vapid bilge from the Telegraph


“The last prison guard to see Jeffrey Epstein alive made suspicious cash deposits in the 12 months before his death, US Department of Justice (DoJ) files reveal.

“Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York on Aug 10, 2019. His death was ruled a suicide.

“Tova Noel, 37, one of two officers accused of falsifying prisoner record checks that night, made a final cash deposit of $5,000 (£3,729) into her bank account less than a fortnight earlier on July 30.

“A total of 12 ATM cash deposits, beginning in October 2018, were flagged by her bank to the FBI in a “suspicious activity report” in November 2019.

“Ms Noel and her colleague Michael Thomas were fired after being accused of falsifying records to claim they checked on Epstein during the night before his suicide on Aug 10 that year.

“CCTV footage revealed the pair did not check on Epstein for eight hours, despite his cell being just 15 feet from the guards’ desk.

Criminal charges against them were later dropped.”


Why can’t people just let it go? Jeffrey Epstein was a nasty criminal but in the end he was better and he realised he’d done bad things and stuff, and decided to off himself as a punishment to himself. Indeed he was so honourable at the end he killed himself when it wouldn’t be too upsetting because all the guards were asleep. Just accept it and stop talking about it.

Labour down in YouGov.

Link please

Don't be silly. It was a projection, and you know it!

Oi. Give BigG the link. He needs cheering up.

I do not need cheering up, not least because after a punishing and thorough medical from my geriatric (yes correct title) I have been given a good report though I need to take care with my limited mobility

When you experience a sudden life threatening illness and you are saved by the expertise of urgent medical intervention each day is one to be grateful for

Also as my wife says I can wind people up on occasions no doubt even on here

And by the way, I do not have to agree with you and quite often don't

On topic - I have Farage in the Vance type of MAGA thinking against such wars of choice. Why? Over the days of this war Farage slowly carefully explained as such to us, he has not been trying to put himself and his Party as being central and relevant by being opposite to Labours position, as the Conservatives have been trying to make UK domestic politics clear blue water out of it..

Farage has certainly not been shooting off “beyond the pale” things like Kemi has.

If the Tory’s are going backwards in the polls, this is why >

43% of Tory Voters in You Gov Poll oppose Kemi support for Trump

Thats extinction level

It would be if they were all basing their voted on this one temporary issue, lol

Partly, it depends on how temporary it is. A competent Labour spin operation (yes, I know, but stick with me) will blame everything unpleasant that happens now on Trump's War That Badenoch Supported. It might not save Labour, but that sort of thing sticks a bit.

More generally, it's another reminder that Kemi B has terrible judgement and is hopelessly X-brained.

The economic fall out will have far more effect than who gave what degree of support when. And that will impact the government as CoL gets worse and worse.

Looking at the latest YouGov on war, the clear conclusion for such change over just few days must be don’t knows - shrugged “don’t know what to think of it” last time just few days ago, already very much aware what a mess it’s going to do to their household income/businesses teetering on the brink, so now saying they hate it!

Electorates have been educated the last few years, when price of energy goes up, everything harvested, processed, delivered, cooked by energy, goes up.

The Conservatives put all that effort in and made all that headway on Labour budget decisions harming businesses and farming etc etc - and just nuked themselves with “Starmer wrong not to give full support immediately” and “British Troops are just hanging around” that, quite fairly as Kemi’s team pushed these differentials with Labour, Conservatives now own as their stance on this war, and everything from it.

The war Kemi’s Team gave such clear support for, as necessary and worthy in their opinion, will now cause infinitely more damage to businesses and households than Labours policy’s were. I’m so cross at such political stupidity 😡

If you think the economic fall out will damage the Tories i have a dozen Bunny Bridges to sell you

Twelve Bunny Bridges. How much you asking?

Can we agree, so many seasoned, experienced Conservative elder states people in Parliament, stood up against it and explained why, and weren’t even listened to? from Con samples in polling, Con voters about 50/50 split on this? The Conservative Party, and what’s left of support in the country, are not united behind Kemi on what’s she’s done over the last 9 days?

As example, look what happened to Labour after their daft “opposition party” clear water over Salisbury. The voters could clearly see Corbyn’s Labour wrong call, and hated it. And Labours wrong call then didn’t even come with a Nuclear Sized Credit Crisis Bomb for every voters household and business, based on the wrong call.

So, having listened to various experts who know far more than me about Iran, the consensus seems to be that Mojtaba Khamenei is like his dad without the fluffy, soft bits. He seems to have complete control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and indeed the country. The complete fantasy that the loon in the White House would have some sort of say about who this country of 90m was going to choose after he murdered their leader has been shown to be just that.

This is honestly making the second Gulf War and its aftermath look like a clever, focused, planned operation. The US and Israel can keep killing and destroying as an alternative to having a plan for a while yet. Netanyahu doesn't exactly get embarrassed about a few thousand dead civilians but sooner or later they will run out of even vaguely credible targets and the Regime is going to stand unmoved but vowing revenge.

And the price of all of this is oil over $100 a barrel, a spike in inflation, gas shortages, aluminium shortages, a drop in growth potentially large enough to bring us into recession (I think we will just scrape by that) and an ever more lawless world. I thought Trump 2 would be a disaster but I was out by an order of magnitude. The next 2.5 years are going to be seriously tough.

I cling to the hope that the mid terms in November will seriously clip his wings.