Shaun Murrant (☕🧉🍻🏳️‍🌈)

Once again, a media corps that wasn't devoted to pandering to the extreme right wouldn't slavishly report REFUK's shameless weekly bid to grab the news agenda with a "press conference" that's basically a formless rant.

I’m going to have to turn my phone off for a while here before I give myself PTSD. I’m not sure I can remember anything worse or more dangerous than this, and all of it because the US president, personally, is a demented imbecile.

@elliechowns.bsky.social : "In 2020 Starmer said he did not think the UK should enter into military action without a legal justification, without a clear goal & without parliamentary approval. None of those conditions are in place now. Indeed, it is an illegal war led by a war criminal"

Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

Here's Mahmood's written statement to Parliament on changes to the treatment of refugees - as morally bankrupt and evidence-free as you might expect.

A few initial thoughts > 1/

That's the trouble with democracy, you have to let the untermensch have a vote.

There's like 50% of the country who are absolutely despised by the increasingly deranged class of fascists who run everything, have you noticed that?

Pete Hegseth: "If you kill Americans.. anywhere on earth we will hunt you down without apology & without hesitation and we will kill you"

Unless the American is killed by Israelis in the occupied West Bank, in which case we'll do nothing while we continue arming your killers.

These people literally do not have "truth" in their rotation of abstract moral concepts

Pete Hegseth: "If you kill Americans.. anywhere on earth we will hunt you down without apology & without hesitation and we will kill you"

When are you going to start hunting down and killing ICE then?

Ok so we actually literally did forget Iraq and Afghanistan

The really funny* thing is that while this is objectively a completely ridiculous war nobody in the country wants, it will definitely help Starmer because all the important Westminster people are also ice chewing war shaggers.

*You know the score here

Y'all get ready for another round of pearl-clutching "Bluesky is the bad place" hot take columns from the punditocracy 🙄

In which we weep to recall that Dick Cheney and his gang wanted to do over Saddam because they weren't allowed to do him over the first time, and that almost literally nothing else mattered in planning their attack...

The Labour Government burned net-zero policy to try and appease Reform, got trounced in the polls and a by-election anyway, and are now facing yet another surge in oil prices that'll display to everyone how bad an idea that was

But also, it shows how if you break something once, it's easier to break it again. The pretence that we won't just do whatever the Americans want gets thinner every time around.

How many more people need to get killed for no sane reason, just because the US President’s brain doesn’t work so good.

This is insane and disastrous. All of it needs to stop, now.

UK PM Starmer says US can use British bases for ‘defensive strikes’ The British Prime Minister said he has accepted a request from the US to use British military bases for defensive strikes against Iran. “We have taken the decision to accept this request to prevent Iran firing missiles across the region killing innocent civilians, putting British lives at risks and hitting countries that have not been involved,” he said in a video on X. Starmer had previously stopped the US from using British bases to launch strikes on Iran.

Fucking wax-faced lapdog.
The Israelis and Americans don't pretend to be defending themselves, the just dive in and attack; the Brits, French and Germans wait til the US has kicked off a whirl-wind of shite before stepping in to say "we're defending our friends"
Spineless boot-licking proxies

Today, US & Israeli forces bombed the Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Iran’s capital of Tehran.

Nurses supposedly risked their lives carrying newborns to safety from the rubble.

I’m having trouble finding more reporting about this, but here is at least a blurb from Reuters:

Congratulations to Keir Starmer for burning down the literal only thing that he had over Tony Blair.

The way he smiles when he says "that's the way it is."

He is enjoying presiding over American dead as well. To him it's all just a game he's playing with pawns on the table and a TV show for the big bangs.

Fear will keep the local systems in line

these are far right policies.

Just an aside but why is she dressed like she's about to blow up Alderaan?

Reading this you'd be forgiven for thinking Labour hadn't just lost a by-election by a huge margin for being horrible authoritarian bastards.

• A suspected strike has hit the British RAF Akrotiri base in Limassol, Cyprus, with a loud explosion heard in the area, alarms sounding at the base, and aircraft scrambled, Israeli Channel 14 journalist Hallel Bitton Rosen reported. #Iran

This is nuts. It’s in Iran’s interest to fuck things up so badly that it will deter further repeats, it’s not at all clear that they’ll stop shooting if the US decides to declare victory. It’s getting badly out of hand, and the man in charge is an idiot.

What's the fucking point of the labour party?

“We’ve learnt the lessons of Iraq,” says Keir Starmer, as he backs another illegal US-led war in the Middle East.

If he really believes this is right, he should put it to a Commons vote tomorrow.

Starmer can't lie about Iran for 3 minutes without contradicting himself Starmer said the UK hasn't been involved in the invasion of Iran - but minutes later he announced the US will use our air bases for "defence"

Starmer said the UK hasn't been involved in the invasion of Iran - but minutes later he announced the US will use our air bases for "defence"

By @skwawkbox.org

It took just one phone call from Donald Trump for Starmer to jump into yet another Middle East illegal war, failing to learn the lessons of the tragedies of Iraq, Libya and Syria.