Alan Heaton

@marcthiessen Obama had style

FFS. When British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the White House in March 2012, Obama joked about the British burning the White House: “You really lit up the place. But we moved on.” Get a life washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/…

@marcthiessen Cringeworthiness of the worst kind. Belittling, bullying, excruciating, miserable, rude, insulting And deeply, deeply unfunny, witless, crass and charmless. Courtesy of a country with a certain reputation for humour, please understand- this is pure vomit.

The divide in America is between those who think this is hilarious and those who find it horrifying. (H/T It’s hilarious)

@HannahIamthest1 "Engine Room......lub lub lub "

When I worked in the bakery supply trade, I used to answer my work mobile in unusual (daft) ways. Such as, "Battersea dogs home, duty Alsation speaking!" Normally got a laugh but when I answered the work mobile with, "Paul's brothel, where the customer comes first!" my new managing director was NOT amused! Luckily his secretary said "oh that's just Paul. Customers love him" and I kept my job. 😂😂

@BohuslavskaKate Report from Maxim Tucker in The Times today claims the US & Gulf states launched almost as many Patriots in 4 days than were made available to Ukraine in 4 YEARS.!! Hopefully, Ukraine staff are helping sort out the middle east right now.

Hegseth: "We're still dealing with the environment Joe Biden created—depleting our stockpiles and sending them to Ukraine instead of our own military. Every time we face a challenge, it traces back to 'Well, sent it to Ukraine.'" It looks like they’re just going to blame Ukraine whenever anything goes wrong now, doesn’t it? It’s depressing to watch because while this administration will eventually leave office, a segment of Americans will keep hating Ukraine without even remembering why.

@marcthiessen They used to be top allies. That's the extent to which Trump cannot be trusted. No one know where they are with him. Oh and you might well add Japan to that list after today's insult. Peak fuckwittery.

The idea that these four countries are America’s “top allies” is laughable. Also these people who prefer to depend on China are idiots

@johnkonrad If folk don't care about the war & murder of girls in school etc they are morally bankrupt- not a lot Europe can do however we act? The problem is the World never trusts Trump. We are relying on sane Americans to dump him.

Dear Europe, I know you feel outrage. I have talked to many of you on the phone. I know politicians and media on both sides of the Atlantic are furious. I attended a conference with mostly Europeans. The worry and frustration was palpable. I get it too. You are dependent on Middle East oil and aluminum and fertilizer and shipping and LNG. Dubai is a vital travel hub for you. Vital. But don’t worry. Trump will lose the midterms and Congress will flip and side with you. Or maybe not… I live in the bluest town in the bluest state, where protests are practically a seasonal sport. I drove over eight hours across New England this week past the usual corners where outrage normally lives. This time? Nothing. Left, right, center. I’m hearing almost no one talk about this war. MAGA doesn’t even care. Ask someone and you’ll get the expected talking points. But in coffee shops, kitchens, real life? Silence. Hard truth: most Americans just don’t care. And since the weather warmed, not a single keffiyeh in sight. So when Trump says you need to go protect the ships and airports that are vital to YOU, I think he means it. Because the vast majority of Americans don’t care. And it’s not that we want to see you spin into an energy and food shortage. It’s that even the most TDS-inflicted liberal American is getting tired of your BS. Hating Trump is one thing. Almost half of America is OK with that. But your anti-American vitriol and arrogance and weakness is exhausting. Nobody likes a needy person who is angry and thinks they are better than you. It’s literally the worst combination in a person. And you might not want to admit it, but you are needy. You need us to reopen Hormuz. You need our banks and our markets. You need a lot. “We will not participate in this war” is fine. Nobody is asking you to bomb civilians. What’s weak is you won’t surge defensive missiles and planes to protect European-owned ships and property. When exactly did defense make you a participant? Defense of innocent life and property isn’t a “war crime.” And you DO own the majority of ships getting attacked. Ships that you are unwilling to defend maybe because you outsource the labor to Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ukraine. You are the wealthy lords who abandoned the mansion but told the help to stick around and defend it. So you might want to send a few warships and missile defense units to protect YOUR property. Or at least leave them at anchor and send the innocent crews home. You want us to defend the Strait because we started this mess? That’s reasonable. Problem is the reaction from most of America to your demands is: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@MsAvaArmstrong Hello Ava. The small % of Muslims living in the UK are Sunni. They have no time for Iranian (non-Arab) Shia. Think more about US failed wars in Iraq, Afghanistan etc that resulted in increased immigration to EU. Perhaps the US should apologise for this?

Why doesn’t anyone seem to understand that Muslims have taken over England? Also Muslims have taken over France. Muslims have taken over Germany. We have NO allies in Europe anymore.

@BillHerringIII @DrEliDavid Hi Bill. Just to nail this UK Moslem thing. Iran = Shia. Arabs = Sunni Shia and Sunni are oil and water Moslems in UK = Sunni (Iraq & Afghanistan refugees- I wonder why..) This Vance stuff about Moslem influence in EU is bollocks. Own the stupid war.

France and Spain are almost Muslim countries already. Great Britain will be next. I hope that the next time they are threatened by an enemy, like in WWI and WWII, that whoever is President reminds them that they would not help the U.S. from trying to eliminate a nuclear threat to all of Europe.

🚨 Breaking: France and Spain are preventing the US from using their airspace for operation Epic Fury. France and Spain are worse than useless, they are actively sabotaging US war efforts.

@Churchill4wit @robertcobrien The oil supply chain was working fine until Trump had his 'gut feeling for war. Also, the clue is 'NATO' - the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Not the 'tally ho follow me into Iran or else, offensive. Also, the Budapest Memorandum makes Ukraine your war!

Actually — it is — YOUR oil supply chain. Unlike Ukraine which certainly is not our war. The tectonic plates of history shift. No alliances last forever. NATO has run its course. It’s useless to the US. Allies are measured by their capabilities and willingness. Europe has neither. I take those glorious bastard Israelis any day over the European amoebas.

This is a critical moment for the Atlantic Alliance & the Special Relationship. The Euros & Brits reticence to support the USA & Israel, the bulwarks of the "Free World" or "West", against an evil Iran, reinforces every negative sentiment & stereotype about the value of these allies.

@oldguy_steve You say 'WW2 wasn't our war'. Yes it was. Germany declared war on the US.

You know, World War 2 wasn't our war either. Had it not been for the USA, all of Europe would be speaking German.

@GregBaldwinIroh @cdnxman You Must!! Properly grilled/fried black pudding is soft, succulent heaven. Breakfast of champions!

@cdnxman I would LOVE to try a full English breakfast! Even the black pudding!

British blokes…. I’ve purchased several “tins” of Heinz (British) beans because the idea of beans on toast intrigues me. I eagerly anticipate a tasting. Other than toasting bread and heating beans… Are there any other steps/ingredients?

@EricLDaugh Winnie, bless him, was all for pressing the US to march on Russia once Germany was defeated. Truman turned him down Please tell your POTUS that nobody's perfect- least of all him..

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just ENDED UK PM Keir Starmer's whole career in the Oval Office *Turns around*: "I'm DISAPPOINTED. You see that man right there? Know who that is? The late, great WINSTON CHURCHILL." "Unfortunately, Keir Starmer is NOT Winston Churchill." 🔥🔥

@LindseyGrahamSC @POTUS Senator. A grown up leadership would have convened meetings with NATO leaders, presented the evidence and guaranteed the necessary support & response. The absence of any of this suggests that no one trusts what you are doing. Stop making enemies of friends

Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake. The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure. The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America. I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.

@DrChrisParry Err Chris, did Britain start an iffy war in 1939? Churchill spent 2 years begging US commitment. In the end Germany declared war on the US. I'm sure you know we finished paying off the US in 2006. The simple reason: EU leaders don't trust Trump.

So, if the US had said 1939 - 41, 'it's not our war' and not helped Britain survive in the North Atlantic, including escorting our merchant ships, getting its own sailors killed and its ships sunk, how would it have gone for us? Also, when the Iranians were attacking shipping in the Red Sea recently through their proxies, the Houthis, with missiles and drones from Iran, an international warship effort was put together to protect the transit of shipping, even though the Europeans largely, but not exclusively, took cover under the US protective umbrella.

@notenyourlife @Amockx2022 @KingKong9888 'Authoritarian' doesn't square with Starmer not being sure about joining the war, Dwight. I think the opposite- he's a lawyer, in thrall to international law, wary of his MPs and is ponderous and indecisive. Many U turns. In a democracy this happens.

@Amockx2022 @KingKong9888 Starmer is an authoritarian dictator and a communist. But I'm sure he's very pleasant to his fellow autocrats. This is not a defense of Trump btw I loathe all the ruling "elites" we're stuck with at the moment.

BREAKING : Donald Trump got humiliated publicly on camera Trump was criticising Kier Starmer 🇬🇧 for not supporting US in the war against Iran Ireland 🇮🇪 Prime Minister didn't hold back and said "Starmer is an earnest person who gets to work with very nicely if you have capacity" 🔥 This man wanted to isolate Iran but now getting exposed by everyone 🫡

@amar_4inc @Amockx2022 Trump can't get any support & collaboration for this, not least because he is not a participative leader. He bullies, berates and threatens. Other Nato leaders won't trust him. A psychological disaster.

@Amockx2022 Global leaders are exposing the bluff in real time. Even allies aren’t buying the war narrative anymore , that says everything. Trump tried to isolate Iran, ended up isolating himself. 🤡

@MAGA_Cowboy @tommysantos14 I'm pretty sure the vast majority of planet Earth are convinced that Donald Trump is a gibbering idiot.

@tommysantos14 No, Tommy, President Trump will leave office as one of the most consequential Presidents in U.S. history and he will have changed our country, and the world, for the better. He will forever be a historical figure who will never be forgotten

When Trump leaves office: The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department. The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center. The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico. The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom. Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired. The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president. Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference. The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies. The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists. Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it. The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters. U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators. And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

@CindyCoops @joshrogin This, Cindy is a bullying attitude- the playground bully threatening the kids who aren't joining Trump in his 'gut feeling' fight. Read the runes from the lead tweet- countries are fed up being insulted and messed around by POTUS. He needs to go.

@joshrogin Nobody is asking Europe to bail anything out. There isn't a mess to get bailed out of. The US will remember that these countries who will benefit from this operation declined to join us.

“I don’t think the European countries are going to come and bail out of this mess. You have to think about the context here. Trump just spent a year hurting their economies on purpose, threatening to attack NATO, threatening to pull out of NATO. And then the Trump administration started this war without even bothering to consult them, didn’t take their interests into account until he needed them. And their populations are at historic levels of anti-Americanism because of how we’ve treated them over the last year.” “And they are democracies, so I don’t think their leaders are going to be able to overcome that. And why would they? It’s much easier, and you’ll see a bunch of countries doing this, to negotiate with the Iranians. The Iranians are setting up a system whereby they let the ships pass that they want to let pass. Just in the last 24 hours, they let several ships pass for countries that they’re not at war with. So if you were any country in the world, depending on this Strait, it’s much easier to make a deal with the Iranians than to send your ships down the Strait, to make them sitting ducks for Iranian drones and missiles, which seems crazy reckless.”

@EricLDaugh Maybe World leaders don't trust him? Maybe he should have thought this through and secured the necessary assistance before starting his war?

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just EVISCERATED American "allies" refusing to help the US secure the Strait of Hormuz, openly MOCKS them "Do you have any minesweepers? 'Well, we'd rather NOT get involved, sir!' I said, you mean for 40 YEARS we're protecting YOU and you don't want to get involved in something that is very minor?!" "Very few shots going to be taken because they don't have many shots left." "But they said, 'we'd rather not get involved!'" "We'll protect them! If ever needed, they WON'T BE THERE FOR US. I knew that for a long period of time!"

@chocoylatine France played with great flair, I've seen Jalabert play a few times and think he's such a good player. And it was an excellent, entertaining game. Victory for les bleus- honour for England

@AlanHeaton16 Absolutely, there's always been healthy competition between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and it's an excellent driver for the progress of our European teams. This doesn't preclude good relations and having players from both hemispheres on our teams.

La fin du match France-Angleterre dans un pub Gallois... 😁