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The video shows two blokes trotting around on horses, and another bloke claiming that they were chasing people. They may well have done, but the video doesn't show anything.

Sauna's.

Bruises

Do you not use red? Prices gone nuts round here. 168 at one of the Romsey garages yesterday.

Boring

Take the keyboards away, and I reckon you two would get on like a house on fire. He'd be a hybrid of uncle Albert from only fools and Ness from Gavin & Stacey regailing you with unbelievable tales of chance meetings and life experience. You'll be so blown away you'll want to adopt him as your own Uncle SoG, and want to build an annex so he can come and stay a few times a year. It'll be lovely. As for me and Hypo, feck knows how that'll go.

It was never a bad thing that he wanted to know what the actual plan was. It was also right to question the legality given that a) the independent assessors had said that Iran were nowhere near nuke capability and b) there was no imminent threat to the US (and frankly no threat at all. Once Iran started going mental and pinging drones and missiles everywhere, Including towards British interests, supporting the defence of that made sense. He was bang on about not using our runways for the initial strikes though. They were illegal and unjustified, and would have been akin to lending someone your car to go and do a drive by shooting.

Hungry

Seaman

I'm not sure what winning looks like to Israel. Gaza isn't over, and Lebanon never was. They love a war of attrition. The US public, and global economy, won't.

A small price to pay for the already safe Israelis to be safer. Or something.

I think this war on Iran will trump lt big time.

This is Trump! He's pretty much said the only rules are the direction of his moral compass. Don't expect consistency.

I meant in terms of being a war time president possibly meaning no mid terms.

The impact on the US economy, and beyond will be grave. The petrodallar and US debt are joined at the hip. I haven't really considered how a long term war could help Donny perhaps being able to swerve the mid-terms, but I wonder if there's a selfish political angle that outweighs the US economy.

Without a ground invasion, Iran will put whoever it wants in charge. The longer it goes on the more that will be necessary if the US want to win, but the longer it goes on the more the global economy, in particular the US economy, is decimated. Quite what Trump really wants I'm unsure though, but it definitely isn't the best for the people of Iran.

Breaker

It was one person's opinion in a newspaper. The gulf nations can and will afford to defend themselves. The annoyance, I suspect, will be with having to buy overpriced US kit to defend themselves against drones being pinged at them as a result of the US supporting Israel in this nonsense. Probably not a line the NY Times would run with though.

The consensus on this thread, I think, is that the war was/is justified. If it was/is, why would we not join the party? I'm firmly of the view that it wasn't justified, despite how bad the Iranian regime was, and that we shouldn't go anywhere near it.

Was he the panto star?

They do. Peg and Parrot over the road, two en suite Indian restaurants, free parking, sweary/non woke comedians. What's not to like.

This is peak time to watch comedy - all sorts of new and inappropriate material. On that, the Attic in Totton has morphed into a brilliant comedy club, and the curry house on the corner is superb. Highly recommended for an alternative night out.

Yep, agreed, plus life doesn't stop here because there's a war happening in the middle east.

He's got a bit about him. And he's kept the decent Rioja and Manchego away from the undeserving Americans.

Sounds like Trump and Starmer aren't talking at all. But yes, he's a wet one. I'll never known such a dithery PM. Useless.