This YouGov poll, issued in the last hour, shows how out of touch Reform and its supporters are with the majority of people in the UK on issues such as the war on Iran:
The Tories are also well out of line with the national mood.
It's not that those on the left lack principles. The whole point is, they have them. This is the gulf war playing out -here.
Thanks for reading this post.
You can share this post on social media of your choice by clicking these icons:
There are links to this blog's glossary in the above post that explain technical terms used in it. Follow them for more explanations.
You can subscribe to this blog's daily email here.
And if you would like to support this blog you can, here:
Buy me a coffee!
So Starmer is 45 points under water with his own party on this issue. Dead impressive, that . . .
🙂
It also reflects the totally different media ecosystem that Reform supporters exist in.
Starmer seems to have been allowed two votes in the poll! But he will be judged by his actions, not his guff in the Commons today.
Starmer opposed the bombing of Iraq, even at the risk of upsetting Trump. That was correct according to international law(he is a lawyer).
When Iran retaliated against UK bases in gulf and Cyprus, he changed his stance to allowing US planes to fly from UK bases and ordered RAF to defend skies over those bases and ,if necessary, attack the source of any bombs or drones. That also seems the correct approach according to international law.
I think the UK public generally agree with that. It wasn’t a hard set of choices for a PM. I would have done the same, in his shoes.
Domestically, Starmer has been very poor and arguably dishonest with his Premiership so far. On the other hand, he has done well on the international stage, chiefly by sticking as far as practable with the law, which he knows.
I will have Tom completely disagree with you.
I see on legality in this, at all. One misfiring drone is justification for nothing but sitting back and waiting to acquire more evidence.