Slumpmonkey Returns

I welcome this news. However, it is the 20th anniversary of the Iraq Invasion and I'm still waiting for an arrest warrant for Bush and Blair. Double standards by the ICC

Iraq is a US protectorate so I wouldn't have thought Washington will be too pleased about this announcement. But I also expect to see more of this as Beijing flexes its muscles I the international markets. The question is what will Washington do? In 2003 they flattened Iraq for attempting to sell it's oil in Euros.

Er, they're currently in coalition with the SNP north of the border. The only reason they have not had more electoral success in the rest of the UK is down to FPTP.

Have we got elections coming up? I thought PPBs only occur in the run up to elections?

Minister for lazy, fat sociopathic narcissists😆

This is a wind up post, right?

Starmer is a Tory but I don't think he's a lying sociopathic piece of sh1t like Johnson.

Agreed and if they bring back that lying, narcissistic sociopath then we will plunge even lower in the rest of the world's estimation.

What's the betting Mr Pill has a substantial property portfolio to protect?😆

They will do anything to avoid a housing crash including throwing the kitchen sink at it if needs be. Housing is the British economy and has been for the past two decades.

I think the Tories are always in power because the press in this country is predominantly right wing. Until this changes then I can't see them winning. Remember Blair had to literally become a Tory in order to get Murdoch's backing.

So the peacekeepers are now in the Donbass. What will Putin's next move be?

On Al Jazeera and now on Sky news as we speak

I agree. The cost to Putin of invading the whole of Ukraine would be too high in terms of potential lives list and western sanctions. If he can argue that his citizens are under attack then he will have more sympathy from China certainly. Remember 30 per cent of Ukranians speak Russian as a first language and Putin argues that the language has been suppressed by Kiev. I think it is Putin's goal to unite the Russian speakers of the former Soviet Union.

There is speculation that Putin will in the next few hours formally recognise the two breakaway republics (Donetsk and Luhansk). This will really up the ante in my opinion. There are 800,000 Russian passport holders in these two republics. If the Ukranian forces increase hostilities then I can see Putin ordering the tanks in to protect Russian citizens. I similar thing happened in South Ossetia in 2008.