The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
The stop the war coalition is growing – politicalbetting.com
Opposition to the United States' military action against Iran has risen by 10pts among Britons over the last weekSupport: 25% (-3 from 2 March)Oppose: 59% (+10)yougov.com/en-gb/daily-…
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And the phrasing of the question probably has an impact here. If it were phrased: "Do you support or oppose the UK taking military action against Iran?" it might get a different response.
Cheltenham, Day 1
Who is on the Mullins treble?
Not wildly different in the US.
U.S. Military Action Against Iran: Over Half Of Voters Oppose It,
74% Oppose Sending Ground Troops Into Iran
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3952
The next phase of the Epstein Wars will be Cuba - or that island of penguins that is refusing to pay the tariffs.
It was a fucking disaster.
With the Iraq war, it was well planned and long prepared.
It was a fucking disaster.
With this one, it's been done on the spur of the moment because Netanyahu's popularity was tanking and Trump urgently needed a distraction from the Epstein files and the references to forcing a 13-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him. It has not been planned, and it has not been prepared.
It has been a much bigger fucking disaster, and we're only a week in.
The amazing thing is that anyone supports it. It just shows how little attention most people pay to the news.
It was plainly obvious that Farage and Badenoch were on the wrong side of public opinion at the very start.
We shouldn't read too much into the result of this special election in Georgia, for all sorts of reasons, but it will be interesting to see the aggregated vote shares of the 12 Republicans against the three Democrats.
Law Society chief: Lammy risks triggering collapse of high street firms
Justice Secretary warned that ‘once the solicitors have left town, they won’t go back’
David Lammy’s planned £100m tax raid on the legal industry risks forcing swathes of high street solicitors out of business, the head of the Law Society has warned.
Mark Evans, the new president of the Law Society, which represents more than 200,000 solicitors, said that the Justice Secretary’s proposals to start taxing interest payments earned on money in client accounts threatened to prove the final nail in the coffin for local law firms.
He said they risked having a permanent effect on Britain’s high streets at a time when many town and city centres are already grappling with rising vacancy rates.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/10/lammy-risks-triggering-collapse-of-high-street/
Reporter: You promised the Iranian people you would help them.
Trump: Will I help them? I'd like to, if they can behave, but they've been very menacing,
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2031134866360963295
The biggest driver would be whether HMG were advocating for it and making the case, or not; if it were, I'd expect we'd see a 40:40 split in opinion, which would be a majority if the RAF, say, went into action.
People don't like to admit their opinion can be led, but it is.
F1: a 4 minute ramble about whether Ferrari can challenge for the title (short version: yes):
https://medium.com/p/093907f9bb2d
My view is the existing Iranian regime must go. And the nuclear stockpiles must be secured.
Trump had managed to unite anti-Trump liberals and MAGA isolationists.
Edited: also, even if one makes the argument the solicitors shouldn't be making the money, the idea it belongs to the Government rather than the people whose actual money it is is absolute horseshit.
I have seen nothing to suggest that bombing the living Shi'ite out of the Iranians will achieve them.
Just as whatever stupidity Trump did or criminal conviction he got before the 2024 election didn't damage his support, because those who cared didn't support him in the first place.
https://x.com/tatenews_/status/2031008427674157419?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
Opinion will ebb and flow as will the crisis
I do think labour have problems on the left
Despite the anti Kemi sentiment on here I have yet to see any evidence it has affected her ratings, the conservatives are a different question
The average price in the US has gone up 60c a gallon , equivalent to around 20% .
‘ Saudi Aramco says it expect to reach full capacity at its East-West pipeline to the Red Seat in next couple of days as oil tankers arrive to load.
That’s ~7m b/d (or ~6m b/d above pre-war levels already exported via Red Sea). Let’s see, but if confirmed, absolutely critical’
https://x.com/javierblas/status/2031274061716738149?s=61
Her problem remains her Party, as it was for her predecessor, and a few more before him.
Has Trump's OCG moved into the oil business?
I know most people don't want to use lawyers and will ask Google LLB or ChatGPT but what you can get for so little money is untrue.
My understanding is that interest is supposed to be returned to the clients
I just rang Northampton hospital because I have discovered an ex work colleague is in the hospital and pretty unwell
I could not get past the switchboard because I didn't know his date of birth
I just wanted to send a message of support but permission was refused.
Its bonkers.
There are 3 campos here
Support - REFORM and half Tories and a few others
Oppose - Green and vast majority of LD and Lab
Middle ground Starmer...its reassuring for him that almost as many LD (12 % ) and Labour (14%) support action but he won't the "do fuck all to support Trump and tell him to f off) votes that Greens / LD will get.
However, most commentators on Centre Left and who aren;t told what to write by rabid right press are broadly supportive of his stance.
Any vote slippage and more so the longer it drages on with be One Nation Tories slipping to LD most likely in South, tactically more likely to Labour to keep Reform out in Midlands and north and a big possible drain for Tories as Kemi seems hell bent on out nigeling Nigel on this issue and many others.
May be another week or so before Gorton loses momentum in all Polls and Iran takes precedence...Starmer will be looking at any Polls from 7th onwards for boost!
Pop to the post office and send a card next day signed for. Mark it Name (inpatient). Some chance it gets through. Bonus points if you have a ward number.
Also a few e/w touches on OLE OLE in the 2.40, BLOW YOUR WAD in the 3.20, DOWN MEMORY LANE + BOOSTER BOB in the 4.40, and ICEBERG THEORY + HOLOKEA in the 5.20
Each Way punting to 4-5 places on big field handicaps is my bag.
The other thing about such areas is that the reputation of individuals as opposed to firms as a whole is important.
Crap advice on Legal Aid, mostly in local Cop Stations, form filling and being an integral part of the log jam
The only advice "No Comment"....
Money for Nothing Chips for Free
Like it is in the US, where the government is actively propagandising for it ?
Don't be daft.
Iraq set a much higher bar for governments saying "we must do this because WMD, etc".
And Iran's nuclear program has already been set back years.
Net result so far is that a lot of people have been killed, at considerable cost.
There's already significant global economic disruption, which if this continues will become very serious.
And we've swapped one tyrant for a more hardline one (in what was possibly a coup by the hard line clerics).
Good morning, everybody.
MASSIVE concern for F1 - we don't want another Ronnie Petersen incident ever!
I heard this morning Smotrich's son might have been killed in Lebanon. As no 3 in the war criminals league maybe this is karma..
I'd be surprised if we don't have a few crashes at the start due to someone failing to get going.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/02/politics/cnn-poll-59-of-americans-disapprove-of-iran-strikes-and-most-think-a-long-term-conflict-is-likely
The insanity of politicians telling us that diversity is our strength, and warning of people using the problems in the Middle East to stir up trouble by dividing Muslims and Jews is gaslighting of the highest order. The fact we have imported so many people who feel deeply about what is happening in the Middle East and subcontinent is the cause of the divide. Most English people don’t care
I posted this last night, and @foxy replied saying the polling on our involvement in war proves me wrong. I disagree, he misses my point. It’s not military intervention that people don’t care about, it’s the Middle East. If we drew a big line around that part of the world, and the subcontinent, and never mentioned them again, most people wouldn’t care less. It’s due to mass immigration that there are so many with passionate views on the problem that lead to division, so it’s an imported problem that we didn’t need. Most normal English people are happy to let the mad mullahs do what they like as long as they don’t do it here and we are not involved
Diversity is not our strength, it is our Achilles heel
Yes, the alternative is to increase billing rates.
Or pay cuts.
Your average local solicitor isn't that well paid
I know they've lost most of their best people but watching Clive Myrie wondering what he's supposed to be doing iisn't great when the BBC is actually being watched around the world. Al Jazeera is many times more informative.
If the former it’s going to need major reform of legal aid.
If the latter I’m surprised you know so little about the work of solicitors.
Despite it's colonialism, this is part of the DNA in my opinion.
So irrespective of race, religion , politics (to a lesser degree) when we see an oppressed minority being the subject of mass murder by a stronger force, it is our natural tendency to support the underdog.
The French are not sissimilar born of a number of revolutions, it is in the Scandinavian DNA
The American mentality is totally opposite brutal brash uncaring omnipotent aggressive bullying!
I sense India (politically driven) is going the same way
If I never heard anything of the middle east again I’d be happy
There is a range of nuanced positions where you think the decision to attack Iran was stupid or wrong, but once it was started, the UK needs to get involved in some way. Arguably Keir Starmer is in that group.
Farage is unlikely to see his party damaged in the polls though as a majority of Reform voters, 57%, still back the US strikes on Iran Trump launched. Kemi though has to be more careful and tone down some of her demands for active RAF participation in the strikes as Tory voters are split. 43% of Conservative voters in favour of the US strikes but also 43% of Conservative voters against the strikes
Although 'MAGA Republicans are 30 points more likely than non-MAGA Republicans to say they strongly approve of the decision to take military action'. So a similar divide as here with more 'MAGA' rightwing Reform voters more in favour of the strikes than traditional conservative Tories
Not all lawyers can spend £2,000 on a pair of loafers or trainers or get the a new iPhone every year.
https://x.com/cutmytaxuk/status/2030967737116459060?s=46&t=d8CnRhyZJ-m4vy0k55W8XQ
"The party’s manifesto pledges would increase taxes by over £170bn per year, including a £90bn carbon tax per year, to fund a £160bn boost to day-to-day public spending on things like the NHS." There would be wealth taxes on assets over £10m, doubling of CGT & NI levied on investment income. People wouldn't stick around in the UK.
There would also be a huge increase in welfare spending from an unlimited expansion in immigration. The FT quotes even the leftist IPPR think-tank as saying that Green policies would “radically increase migration to Britain”, & that “there would basically be no restrictions at all”. Another leftist outfit, the IFS, says borrowing would have to increase by £80bn.."
Not massively appealing.
But this who believe they have no stake in society might think 'why not ?'.
May won most seats at a general election and Boris won a landslide majority from UK voters so it was not just the party that voted for them but the largest percentage of UK voters too
The failure was to plan for “what’s next” and that’s what triggered the problem