Declaring "Mission Accomplished" - that always works out well for US Presidents

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

Get ready to be annoyed when petrol prizes go up and a) a bunch of politicos declare the government's poll ratings have gone down because Starmer didn't go in with the US on Iran and b) a bunch of politicos who support the war blame the government for increased energy costs.

Petulant.

Rather than concentrate on the wildfire war he's just started, Trump is spending his time on the phone with British journalists slagging off Keir Starmer. Their dictation skills turn out to be excellent www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

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"Just give us another $100bn and we pinky promise ChatGPT will do everything we've hyped when you gave us $168bn previously...honest guv...scouts honour!"

Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...

Keir Starmer is right to stand up to Donald Trump over Iran. While the brutal Iranian regime should rightly be condemned and international pressure applied, this war is not the right course of action.

🧵 This has to be the funniest Brexit moment yet. The Brexit-loving brigade spluttering into their cornflakes as they discover The Telegraph has been sold to a German media company. The irony is spectacular.

While Russians paraded under their flag to the sporting world’s cheers, their missiles murdered a 13 year old girl in Kharkiv. Shame on the IOC!

He’s right, you know. Wait…

And apathetic and detached Trump on how Iran affects the rising gas cost and your life: “If they rise, they rise. This is by far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit.” “I guess Americans should worry about Iran retaliating on US soil like I said some people will die.”

lol

Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

He seems pretty sensitive whenever someone confronts him with evidence that Putin might not be our friend. Even when Fox brings it up.

In the last three days, the Brexiters have been losing their shit because "MPs were dancing while the war in Iran was going on." Here's Farage yesterday. And nothing... youtube.com/shorts/BLG7X...

So let me get this straight ... 1. US bombs Iran 2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate 3. Russia gives Iran targeting info 4. Oil price shoots WAY up 5. US unsanctions Russian oil

this isn't just a MAGA thing, it's a cross-American one and *especially* a lot of people who came of age in politics or punditry in the 1990s. the idea that the news could happen to them - that the world might not be all going their way - is genuinely brain-breaking to a lot of them

Trump gets angry at Fox News' Peter Doocy for asking about Russia helping Iran to kill Americans during his roundtable on college sports. Trump: "What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else." Priorities for the US Commander in Chief.

If you don't find this funny, you have no soul. news.sky.com/story/german...

Crude oil, three months ago: $61 a barrel Crude oil today: $92 a barrel www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

I get the anger on the left over glib takes about similarities between Farage and Polanski, but I'd also remind them that continuing to insist a Labour Party delivering workers' rights, votes at 16, taxes on the rich and increased public spending is the same as the Tories is equally ludicrous.

Not quite sure what it will take for MAGA to see Putin as an enemy.

In just a few days, Iran launched 800+ missiles of various types & 1,400+ attack drones, #Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says. About 800 Patriot missiles were used in just 3 days of fighting in the region — more than Ukraine has had during the entire war #IranWar #Iran

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Congratulations Cllr Julie Griffiths!

This is superb, as ever from @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social who should be in charge of political content in the BBC. Head and shoulders above all domestic political commentators. Unemotional fact based unpeeling of bullshit

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

A move pretty certainly linked to the French-led efforts of an increased European nuclear deterrence www.politico.eu/article/finl...

I've never been religious. Many religious people have asked me over the years why I don't/won't believe. This. This is why. A million times this! 👇

If Starmer ignored the law, right wing crowd would be baying he’s a warmonger. If he meekly followed Trump into a war which turned out badly, they’d be decrying him as another Blairite poodle of the US. They’ll never give him a fair shake, and in this case, he’s absolutely right to be cautious.

The Mad King is spiralling.

Trump has offered air support if others will do the dying for him.

I'm usually ok with a lot of what this government is doing, but not this immigration policy. Not being a knee jerk person, I've tried to get my head around it but can't. Needs to change.

Spain denies White House claim it agreed to cooperate with US military https://aje.news/r9sg0p

UK Ministry of Defence can confirm that a Shahed-like drone which targeted RAF Akrotiri at midnight on 2nd March was not launched from Iran.

White House: We have eliminated Iran's nuclear program.....for a second time.....honest guv.

The number of commentators/journalists salivating at blaming Starmer for ruining the “special relationship” is genuinely pathetic If anyone ruined it- if it even really exists- here’s a reminder of who did it.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

Starmer in the Commons when challenged by Tory MP Gareth Bacon about UK actions over Iran: "Hanging on to President Trump's latest words is not the special relationship."

Keir Starmer tells MPs not to judge the UK/US relationship by whatever Donald Trump has just said. "Hanging on to President Trump's latest words is not the special relationship" in action, PM says.

I've never observed a wider gap between self-confidence and lack of any actual understanding than in Badenoch. On other topics it can be comical, but when it extends to undermining gov't on matters of national security, in breach of established conventions, it is profoundly dangerous. #PMQs

Useful #PMQs thread from @peterwalker99.bsky.social . Many thanks.

BREAKING: “We need to act with clarity, with purpose and with a cool head.. what I was not prepared to do on Saturday was for the UK to join a war unless I was satisfied there was a lawful basis and a viable thought through plan. That remains my position Keir Starmer #PMQs

Three weeks of mass exposure to Matthew Goodwin’s worldview have not done the Reform brand much good

I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.

President Macron is sending the Charles de Gaulle Carrier Strike Group to the Mediterranean to protect French shipping in the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. France has also defense agreements with some of the Gulf States they need to honor. Europe is drawn into this War.