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Will Jennings📉🗳️
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It matters that the president is nuts and his delusions are what is driving U.S. policy (and that his team and the GOP on the Hill are constantly enabling him.)
Trump announces the US is planning to invade Iran.
This also nods towards the other problem Labour have copied from the Tories, worrying about the seats near your high water mark you are losing, not the ones that indicate you have holes in the bow.
BBC asked me for comment on this - I'm being charitable - incoherent nonsense from Jonathan Hall, the government's "terrorism advisor".
My response -which somehow didn't make it into the story -is appended below.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Some scattered thoughts about what can terrifyingly be described as racist pogroms in the UK
Crucially, if we are to tackle the roots of this fascist resurgence, we must account for the complicity of mainstream actors
aurelmondon.com/2026/06/11/o...
Good thing Reverend Ian Paisley isn't alive to see this...
My dad tells a story about being stood behind Ian Paisley in the queue for passport control at Heathrow and making a joke over his shoulder about his having a British passport... which is *brave* if true!
It is telling that the likes of Lowe, Farage and Goodwin are never on the streets protesting themselves...
