I agree the 'special' bit ended in the 50s. Suez played a big part, but like it or not the relationship continued because we were paying off our WW2 debt until only 10 yrs ago. Now it's a case of coercive control, and I can't see any PM from any party being able to navigate it easily.
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Nothing's changed since the pro-Soviet left's scales fell from their eyes in the 1956 Hungarian revolution. The modern day left have just picked them up and put them back on again. Russian imperialism? Wot Russian Imperialism? It's all NATO's fault. 🤦
Spain is not tied hand and foot to the US in a 'special relationship'. In 1967 Wilson resisted intense pressure from LBJ over Vietnam, but still provided covert, logistical, training, and intelligence support. Starmer's walking a similar tightrope - plus, unlike LBJ, Trump's completely unhinged.
Polanski is a lightweight, still dabbling in 6th form politics, but this betrays wilful ignorance. I can't imagine Caroline Lucas coming out with such obvious nonsense in a million years.
If you’re a Reform MP nearly £100,000 in unpaid tax and £600,000 you avoided because you didn’t want to pay your tax like the rest of us is mear trivia
But if you’re in Labour with £40,000 underpaid stamp duty and BBC/MSM will hound you to the ends of earth to resign or be fired
#ProRightMSM
Given the whole world order is being upended by the madman in the WH, and we're dangling over the edge of a precipice at the mercy of his every whim, I think the best anyone can expect of our govt is 'muddling through'.
I suspect most people hate the idea of another ldrship contest when the world's in crisis, esp when there's no obvious heir apparent.
Trump told you he’d run America like a business.
He is.
It’s called asset stripping. You sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, and walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag.
Congratulations. You didn’t elect a president. You hired a liquidator.
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"... as everyone knows I am an extraordinarily brilliant person..."
Yes, love, of course you are. Now back to bed with you and Nurse will bring you a nice hot drink to help you sleep.
Sounds a really sensible plan to mess with Naval shipyard workers when you need the Navy for Trump's illegal war.
Trump's driven a coach and horses through your Constitution - but he's only the driver, the coach was built and paid for by others, ready and waiting for him. As for the horses, they're champing at the bit. You can probably guess their names...
Her dad an MP was stabbed to death in a targeted attack driven by hate but do Reform give a sh*t.. nah
Rather than fire candidate Ricky Hodges for FB posts saying ex PM Theresa May "needs to be hung" and a post calling for the Mayor of London Sadiq Kahn to be "put into a coma" they ‘investigate’❗️😡
Good to see a measured, thoughtful debate about the subject here, usually it quickly turns into a stream of ad hominem attacks.. oh, wait...
Codswallop.
Not going to Disneyland Florida because it's too expensive is the least important reason for not visiting it right now.
Hang on in here, Hannah. Don't let self-censorship defeat you. Your opinion counts too. Discourse matters.
Sexual predators seem remarkably prevalent among Christo-fascists. Can't for the life of me think why.
From over here it looks like Trump's already wrecked your country, and is now embarking on wrecking everyone else's.
Christo-fascists say the life of the unborn child is sacred, yet turn a blind eye when gun violence kills living children, when once eradicated childhood diseases are on the rise again, when junk food poisons them, and when air pollution kills them. Monstrous.
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Indeed, with the right tools they can do it everywhere. The Austen reference is particularly ironic because of 'Reading Lolita in Tehran', Azar Nafisi's account of the clampdown on Western Literature after the brutal Islamic revolution.
I hate to say this, but evil though the Iranian regime is, the Lego videos, and their ambassador at the 'peace' talks elegantly parodying Jane Austen, does make a 6000yr civilisation look just a tad more impressive than Trump's stone age America.
So much of a pussy he's refused to let the UK be dragged into Trump's illegal war when Farage and Badenoch would have cheerfully jumped in waving their Union Jacks?
If anyone in the world deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, especially now when our beautiful 🌍 is under threat from warmongers and oligarchs, it's Attenborough. He was nominated in 2022 but didn't get it. Time's running out.
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He's terrified.
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