>Last week Badenoch repeatedly pressed Starmer on his decision not to launch offensive strikes to destroy missile bases, asking: “Why is he asking our allies to do what we should be doing ourselves?”
>On Wednesday, Starmer said: “If I’d asked her last week, her position would be, we support the initial strikes and we want to join the war. This week, she says, we don’t want to join the war. That is the mother of all U-turns on the single most important decision a prime minister ever has to take, whether to commit the United Kingdom to war or not.”
>To cheers from his own backbenchers, he added: “She has utterly disqualified herself from ever becoming prime minister, thankfully she never will.”
LSL3587 on
I don’t know why we have PMQs now. PM never answers the questions (unless easy questions served up by his own MPs). PM just attacks the other parties. Been rubbish for years.
Ruin_In_The_Dark on
These two dickheads wanted us to be at war, yet can’t even stand by their own words. One look at the polls and they both crumbled.
Blazured on
Say what you want about Starmer, but he’s clearly far more intelligent than Kemi and Farage. All they needed to do was not call for us to join Trump’s war and they couldn’t even manage that.
Dependent-Net-8208 on
Starmer is a hypocrite. He said that British airfields could only be used for Defensive operations. It is obvious that they are being used for Offensive operations and Starmer says nothing
Mkwdr on
They have kind of embarrassed themselves trying desperately to invent a position between actually joining in a war that already seems to be causing us economic problems and without any endgame plan… and defending ourselves and possibly allies – which we are already doing. But you wouldnt know that from the right wing press that is desperately trying the same contortion simply to attack Starmer.
SadWorld1397 on
Being the opposition, doesn’t implicitly mean you should always take the opposite viewpoint to the government, just to score brownie points or appeal to your base.
You want to run the country, you put the best interests of the country first….not your backers, idiots abroad or the ratings.
Farage and Bad Enoch are just self serving sold out shills.
WalkingCloud on
He’s absolutely right too.
U-turns aren’t inherently bad.
U-turns where if you were in power you would’ve joined a war for a week before realising you were totally wrong is a damning indictment of your fitness to lead the country.
theaveragemillenial on
I think the longer Starmer is PM the more people will realise that having a stable pragmatic PM is much better than a popularism PM.
Make politics boring again.
_Permanent_Marker_ on
They are literally alley-ooping Starmer at this point
Icy-Tear4613 on
Both are shitty opportunist that have no clue about running a country. Fucking embarrassing from both.
Alarming_Oil5419 on
It would have been a totally different story McSweeney & Mandelson were still on the scene…
Revolutionary-Key533 on
She is very poor as Leader of the Opposition. She is too focused on the “gotcha” moment rather than show statesmanship and play the long game like Starmer use to in her role. I don’t think the Tories have a wealth of talent to replace her
No_Weakness8999 on
As someone who leans mostly towards Reform, and formerly Conservatives, I think Starmer is mostly useless, but he’s certainly been correct about the Iran war.
Both Badenoch and Farage now look like fools, backtracking on such a serious issue. Once again, it highlights how bereft our politics is of competency.
And before anyone starts, Starmer is only on the right side of this because that’s where international law sits; he sits on the wrong side of the argument when it comes to the Chagos Islands. I do not care for an international law that is ignored by the serious players and is there only to restrict the middle powers and weaker nations. I care only for Britain’s interest, and that is not being involved in pushing a war that benefits no one but Israel. America may be a vassal state of Israel, but Britain shall not be.
Electrical_Agent719 on
Keep well away from this war. Especially after the bombing off the school.
jacmat on
Some of these comments are crazy and feel like pure propaganda, the evidence has come out today Starmer appointed Mandelson even though it would be a “general reputations risk” and then paid the pedophile associate and secret government insider information leaker £75,000 after sacking him, like? And Starmer tried to keep all this quiet by stopping the release of the Mandelson files
Neither Kemi, Farage or Starmer are fit to lead when they are lapdogs of the Epstein class and Israeli interests
Nicecoldbud on
The more of see of keir the last few months; the more I start to appreciate him as PM.
Digital-Sushi on
Kemi really hasn’t understood that just because you are leader of the opposition it does not by default mean you have to oppose. This just shows she does not understand how to be a leader with the countries interests at heart
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>Last week Badenoch repeatedly pressed Starmer on his decision not to launch offensive strikes to destroy missile bases, asking: “Why is he asking our allies to do what we should be doing ourselves?”
>On Wednesday, Starmer said: “If I’d asked her last week, her position would be, we support the initial strikes and we want to join the war. This week, she says, we don’t want to join the war. That is the mother of all U-turns on the single most important decision a prime minister ever has to take, whether to commit the United Kingdom to war or not.”
>To cheers from his own backbenchers, he added: “She has utterly disqualified herself from ever becoming prime minister, thankfully she never will.”
I don’t know why we have PMQs now. PM never answers the questions (unless easy questions served up by his own MPs). PM just attacks the other parties. Been rubbish for years.
These two dickheads wanted us to be at war, yet can’t even stand by their own words. One look at the polls and they both crumbled.
Say what you want about Starmer, but he’s clearly far more intelligent than Kemi and Farage. All they needed to do was not call for us to join Trump’s war and they couldn’t even manage that.
Starmer is a hypocrite. He said that British airfields could only be used for Defensive operations. It is obvious that they are being used for Offensive operations and Starmer says nothing
They have kind of embarrassed themselves trying desperately to invent a position between actually joining in a war that already seems to be causing us economic problems and without any endgame plan… and defending ourselves and possibly allies – which we are already doing. But you wouldnt know that from the right wing press that is desperately trying the same contortion simply to attack Starmer.
Being the opposition, doesn’t implicitly mean you should always take the opposite viewpoint to the government, just to score brownie points or appeal to your base.
You want to run the country, you put the best interests of the country first….not your backers, idiots abroad or the ratings.
Farage and Bad Enoch are just self serving sold out shills.
He’s absolutely right too.
U-turns aren’t inherently bad.
U-turns where if you were in power you would’ve joined a war for a week before realising you were totally wrong is a damning indictment of your fitness to lead the country.
I think the longer Starmer is PM the more people will realise that having a stable pragmatic PM is much better than a popularism PM.
Make politics boring again.
They are literally alley-ooping Starmer at this point
Both are shitty opportunist that have no clue about running a country. Fucking embarrassing from both.
It would have been a totally different story McSweeney & Mandelson were still on the scene…
She is very poor as Leader of the Opposition. She is too focused on the “gotcha” moment rather than show statesmanship and play the long game like Starmer use to in her role. I don’t think the Tories have a wealth of talent to replace her
As someone who leans mostly towards Reform, and formerly Conservatives, I think Starmer is mostly useless, but he’s certainly been correct about the Iran war.
Both Badenoch and Farage now look like fools, backtracking on such a serious issue. Once again, it highlights how bereft our politics is of competency.
And before anyone starts, Starmer is only on the right side of this because that’s where international law sits; he sits on the wrong side of the argument when it comes to the Chagos Islands. I do not care for an international law that is ignored by the serious players and is there only to restrict the middle powers and weaker nations. I care only for Britain’s interest, and that is not being involved in pushing a war that benefits no one but Israel. America may be a vassal state of Israel, but Britain shall not be.
Keep well away from this war. Especially after the bombing off the school.
Some of these comments are crazy and feel like pure propaganda, the evidence has come out today Starmer appointed Mandelson even though it would be a “general reputations risk” and then paid the pedophile associate and secret government insider information leaker £75,000 after sacking him, like? And Starmer tried to keep all this quiet by stopping the release of the Mandelson files
Neither Kemi, Farage or Starmer are fit to lead when they are lapdogs of the Epstein class and Israeli interests
The more of see of keir the last few months; the more I start to appreciate him as PM.
Kemi really hasn’t understood that just because you are leader of the opposition it does not by default mean you have to oppose. This just shows she does not understand how to be a leader with the countries interests at heart
Farage, well.. grifters gonna grift eh