@BenGrahamUK Small businessmen/women do not consider they are entitled to a holiday. Many work 52 weeks a year to just survive. Burnham is a charlatan.
Trump's latest TACO is the final confirmation I needed that this war is over.
Here's why:
1. Trump can't TACO anymore. It won't work. Iran won't fall for it again, and neither will the rest of the world. He's used up all his bluffs.
2. Iran recently established escalation dominance. With its preemptive strikes on Jordan and Kuwait (the first of their kind), the attack on American ships off Egypt (likely by Iran), the cyberattack on Minnesota, and the Houthis' involvement, Tehran has shown it's willing to keep raising the stakes.
Trump can't simply return to the tit-for-tat cycle of the past few weeks. Iran has made it clear it will respond disproportionately.
3. A prolonged blockade isn't a viable option either. Iran has indicated it would treat one as an act of war and would likely respond militarily.
4. Yesterday's TACO also confirms Trump doesn't have a good military option and doesn't want another full-scale war. Depleted interceptor stockpiles, low Strategic Petroleum Reserve levels, high energy prices, pressure from Gulf allies, and the approaching midterms make another war an irrational, politically disastrous choice.
So what's left?
Negotiate a deal, and walk away accepting responsibility for what could become one of America's biggest foreign policy blunders.
Every other option is likely to make things worse for both Trump and the United States.
Burnham has gone on holiday.
Just to be clear, Downing Street say it is 'long planned', so it is a reward for leaving Manchester £1.3 billion in debt rather than the 35 TikToks he has posted since becoming PM.
Well done, Bapman 🍞 🦇
@andyburnham@OzKaterji Where’s your announcement on Operation Hexagon Prime Minister? Or will we have to force the National Inquiry into the Pakistani Rape Gangs drag you in to testify over what took place under your authority?
https://t.co/Nm9d2EqJyn
@andyburnham You are not doing anything new. All you are doing is promising the earth like your predecessor. In one year's time repeat the same list only tell us which of them you have completed. I won't hold my breath.
@BBCPolitics Really? Better paid than a brain surgeon? Better paid than the people who generate the taxes to pay their wages? Better paid than him or MPs? He is full of sh1t.
@BBCPolitics He has his priorities all wrong. Spending money before we have earned it. Typical Labour. Get some growth going, reduce the interest you spend on borrowing and we can then have the best caring system in Europe. At He is all hot air. In two years time sfa will have happened.
@TLDwrites@AvonandsomerRob I had a BMW Isetta when I hit 17. The girls loved it and so did I. Wonderful little car. I could park it anywhere. Drive into a tiny gap, somehow get out of the front opening door and then pick it up at the back and lift into position for parking. Those were the days.
@andyburnham This what the new PM thinks should concern him? All the problems on his desk and he posts about football. Let me say this very directly, what a wanker!
@HJB_News__ He already makes me puke. He thinks running the country is no different from running a town council. Why can't we have a Labour PM with an intelligence greater than an amoeba!
@TLDwrites@AvonandsomerRob Any German car is crap particularly Audi and BMW. When they go wrong as they always do it never costs less than 2K to fix them.
@andyburnham Here's an idea, bring back the Technical Schools of the 50s and 60s. As an example, Sheerness Technical School was brilliant at teaching Maths and Science with a bit of English, History and Geography thrown in. William Penney went to school there.