Friends, as the old saying goes, it ain't easy bein' red... (Or green, for that matter.) Poor Keir Starmer, the Labourite Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is hanging by a thread. His party did abysmally in recent local elections, and his (very frightened) Labour colleagues are eager to ditch "Sir Keir" in favor of someone less despised. Well, you can see their point, but I'm not so sure that Starmer is the problem. The British seem fed up with establishment politics in general. Indeed, the Conservatives, a.k.a. the Tories, are doing no better. I wouldn't be surprised if Starmer was forcibly ejected from Downing Street, but unfortunately that doesn't mean that Labour's reign of error will be over, or that a new election will be forthcoming. Much more likely is a fresh face to lead the same old bunch of lefty hacks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1m2e4nl1z1t
In other news, Iran still doesn't seem interested in making any serious concessions, which is an indication that either they're nuts or they think they have the upper hand vis-a-vis Trump. It looks to me like we will have to let our blockade bite, and Iran's economy wither, for weeks if not months to prove our point, and/or we will need to find a viable way of getting large amounts of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, despite Iran's depredations. If Iran comes to understand that it can't export any oil, and it can't hold the world economy hostage, then that ought to be checkmate. Clearly, we aren't there yet, and I'm not sure when we will be.
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