Tuesday 4th March 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

Got to love the Aussies

[Frog222]

Morning refit -- I saw somewhere that he's already 'apologised' ,
wotever that means

Final memory before sleep -- on R4 News at Ten was SKS in the HoC swearing undying love and fealty to the US for ever and ever , and ever .

(to SOME applause ...but less than when he spoke of Ukraine ?)

Simon Tisdall -- " To be effective, European leaders need to put concerted pressure on the US government to provide credible, long-term security guarantees for Ukraine and a backstop for any force that the UK and Europe deploy to monitor the ceasefire. "

"Long term support" from a country whose leader could TODAY, at 1200EST, cancel the tariffs that came into operation this morning ?

[Frog222]

Globalisation in all its glory, scary --

Chippymintonssocks 22 minutes ago

Starmer is having to walk a fine line. He will have been briefed by the heads of the armed forces just how much US technology is embedded in UK Defence, from radio & avionics components to complete systems. All the US has to do is stop the supply of spares or play the ITAR card to stop alternative supply sources & the UK will be hamstrung. Similarly the US will play the ITAR card on all those 2nd hand European F16s that the Ukraine has received and pretty soon they’ll be grounded waiting for spares.

Starmer can’t call out the mango twat for what he really is, as we’ve seen the extreme level of pettiness he will stoop to. Fucking over any country that crosses him won’t be a problem.

[Frog222]

The other sort of American, also in a suit -

[Frog222]

April is a Canadian medic.
Nice sense of humour there 'Alcatraz' indeed !
Unlike the Russians released Ukrainian prisoners are carefully vetted .

hthttps://x.com/DefactoHumanity/status/1896875947145764916

[RogerOThornhill]

Oh dear...

[Frog222]

Re Farage --

[AnatolyKasparov]

Even by her standards, Badenoch's response to Vance's incendiary comments was genuinely pathetic. Outdone by Jenrick and *even* Farage FFS!

[Frog222]

When the going gets tough the tough get laughing !

[AnatolyKasparov]

Its funny, but also genuinely good news in its own right. If this administration at least rows back on anti-vax crankery, that is something.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

In a somewhat surreal break from the news.

Remember my daft old racist landlord? Well he was round today and popped in to see me. After some small talk he got me to order one of these to be delivered to his house (he's rubbish with the internet).

https://durex.co.uk/products/durex-inte ... or-sex-toy

Apparently he wanted it to 'play a joke' on a friend of his, but he seemed suspiciously insistent on getting that exact dildo and nothing else would do. He also made it clear I shouldn't mention it to his wife. I've had some weird landlord's over the years but this was a new one.

[Frog222]

That raised a smile, to finish the day .
Will listen to Radio4 at Ten, always curious to see how long it is before switching off in disgust ...

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Because he's useless at using the internet I've ordered all sorts of things for him, usually car or home repair related although once he did get me to order him a pack of Y-fronts. Sex toys however are new and potentially offer the opportunity for blackmail what with the carry on he made about not telling his wife.

Not that I'd ever do such a thing you understand.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Anyway it's been an interesting day when most of the noises coming out of Westminster criticising Trump and Vance have come from the Tory party and Lib-Dems. I'm not going to put the boot into Starmer or Labour about it, however delusional he is it's clear he's trying to do the right thing as he sees it and I wish him well in his endeavours. The funny thing is dealing with Trump is much easier for him than domestic politics because the vast majority of us detest the tangerine twat so Starmer can enjoy himself treading the boards on the international stage safe in the knowledge that most of us have his back whether we like him or not. What's laughable though are the Labour insiders letting it be known that this is his 'Falklands moment'. I despise Thatcher. I pissed in a bottle and splashed it over her statue in Grantham last year. I'd shit on her grave if I could. But I don't remember her fawning and grovelling in front of Reagan, despite the fact that without the US supplied Sidewinder missiles our beloved Harrier jump jets would have been blown to bits and the entire exercise would have been a humiliating disaster.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/sep ... ands.world

I appreciate that Trump has to be treated like a spoiled, mentally deficient child, and as even Zelensky is showing sometimes you have to suck it up and deal with him on his own malignant terms, but to call this 'Keir's Falklands moment' is laughable given that all his bowing and scraping has so far resulted in is...nothing. Worse than that even, Starmer ended up denying the U.S was suspending arms shipments to Ukraine during his statement yesterday despite it being true. Not because he was lying, but because they have so little respect they didn't bother to tell him.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Its often forgotten that *a lot* of people in the US wanted to support Argentina immediately after the invasion - including some key Reagan advisers.

Thatcher may not have had to grovel to him in public, but she had to twist his arm quite hard before he would agree to support us.