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Having an unstable country or even a failed state the size of Iran would be disastrous for the region.

I think what the US Allies want to know is that there is a plan beyond just blowing up stuff. US have a history of blowing things up say mission accomplished and leave the countries to their own devices and think that magically a liberal democracy appears. History has shown that doesn’t happen.

Trump is responsible for his own acts but to ignore the feeling of enmity many Iranians still have towards the U.K. ignores the simple facts of the matter

I’m not entirely sure how my location is relevant to me commenting on what’s happening in the Middle East?

So there shouldn’t be a reconstruction plan? Just leave it to themselves? We saw how well that worked in Libya

Many Iranians have grown up being told of the great betrayal of the U.K. against their own government particularly in moderate circles. Holdomor was nearly 100 years ago. Ukrainians today still blame the Russians for it.

Yes although Lindsay Graham was asked today if Trump had a plan for democratic transition in Iran and he said that wasn’t the President’s job.

U.K. has to admit some responsibility here for the mess in Iran and at least make some serious overtures of reconciliation for the overthrow of the elected government in the 1950s. Whoever is in power though the U.K. will simply not be trusted by Iranians.

You say U.K. is not responsible for what is happening today. There would be a lot of Iranians today who would disagree with that. Many blame the UK for not only imposing the Shah on them but allowing the fertile ground for the Islamic Revolution to happen.

Iran Confrontation With U.K. Reflects History of Bad Blood The reopening of the British embassy in Tehran was meant to usher in a new era in relations. As the Union Jack flag was raised above the lush, landscaped gardens of the complex in August 2015, then-Fo...

You can be dismissive all you like but there still remains a lot of bad blood between U.K. and Iran. This is a fact that won’t change. U.K. relationship with Iran is complex and nuanced. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s a fact that in Iran U.K. is particularly disliked by the Iranians. especially the moderates because of what they did to their democratic government which led to the Ayatollah’s taking over their country.

The part of history where the U.K. overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran because the nation loses their oil industry and US and U.K. overthrew them in a coup and installed a dictatorship friendly to the west.

I left a few years ago but it won’t stop me from continuing to criticise Labour on becoming Baby Reform

Historically U.K. has played a big role in interfering with Iranian politics. U.K. is a close second on the most disliked country because what we did to them in the 50s.

Starmer needs to get on the phone to Trump and ask him to set out a plan to protect civilians and support a democratic transition in Iran.

We've seen before that bombs don't bring about democracy and regime change without a plan just leads to more chaos and suffering.

Also he says ‘Historically, parties returned with landslide majorities have proved resilient in the initial by-elections of a new parliament’ That’s not true. Thatcher and Major held 7 by election seats and lost 12.

I can just imagine Trump sitting in Florida saying well we’ve killed their leader in Iran why hasn’t democracy spontaneously occurred? @mrjamesob.bsky.social he’s as dumb as the NeoCons who thought the same thing would spontaneously happen in Iraq and Afghanistan

Views such as you have to born in England to be English is still a minority view but the people who now think that has increased because the media has been pushing the narrative of people like Farage without pushback.

For now

I still remember the Yes Prime Minister episode Job for the Boys where Hacker felt completely impotent about dealing with City Scandals.

Sell mortgage someone can’t afford

Defaults

Property sold at a profit

Both sides potentially win

That’s how I remember the way it was sold

This is the same guy who tried to assassinate Zelensky 4 years ago!?

Much of UKs wealth is based on continuous rises in house prices which is why the younger generation will never likely own their own homes because the amount they need to fall would be politically disastrous for whoever is in power

As I understood the scam they sliced up the bad debt and sold it as good debt and this would have continued without any problems if the American house market hadn’t collapsed.

The sad irony is that many on the far right would like to expel people like Braverman and Patel and deport them

And we know that Muslims and young people can't be working class, only old white people.

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them."

Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Back my asylum overhaul or risk Trump inspired ICE-style raids, warns Mahmood The home secretary invokes the spectre of a US inspired "far-right" immigration crackdown as she tries to win Labour support for tougher asylum laws.

To stop something morally wrong from happening by doing something else which is also morally wrong is not a winning argument @iandunt.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/back-m...