Katherine

Dear Brian, I was born in the 50s and lived through the 60s and 70s in Glasgow when you were in charge and there was nothing but destitution, chaos, strikes, rat infested streets, 4 day weeks and the demolition of Glasgow's architecture. Don't tell me you work for Scotland.

@archer_rs They've been told the troops were there to 'protect Europe' rather than to enable US power projection and to maintain dollar hegemony .. it's more of a strategic retreat/surrender that shows a weakened and weakening US empire.

@KevinAMoore7 @TaraBull Muslims are the same percentage of the population as in the US. Most are peaceful neighbors. As in your country.

@TaraBull All nuclear weapons should be removed from the UK and France before it's taken over.

What's happening in the Netherlands?

Living in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This pictures are two hours apart. It’s true, in Scotland, if you don’t like the weather in any particular day, just wait a few minutes. 🤣🤣🤣

The fuckin' strait was fuckin' open before he fuckin' started to bomb Iran.

@piersmorgan @Microinteracti1 @realDonaldTrump Way too late. The man is bonkers.

This is embarrassing, Delete it, President ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ - unless you want everyone to think you’ve lost your marbles.

Let me explain something to the MAGA crowd, because clearly someone needs to. They seem to think NATO is cosmic room service. You pick up the phone, say “hello, we’re having a bit of a war here,” and thirty-one countries march to your rescue. A continental Uber for military adventures. That is not how it works. Article 5 is a mutual defense clause. The clue is in the word mutual. And it has been triggered exactly once in NATO’s entire history. After September 11. When America was attacked. Not Europe. America. Every NATO member showed up. They went to Afghanistan. They fought. They bled. They died. In America’s war. On America’s behalf. Now imagine they hadn’t. Over 1,100 allied soldiers died in Afghanistan. British, Canadian, German, Danish, Polish. And yes, even Ukrainian soldiers, who had no NATO obligation whatsoever. Gone. Without them, those are American names on those graves. Sons from Ohio. Fathers from Georgia. Kids from Nebraska who never came home. Then there is the money. NATO allies spent over 100 billion dollars on a war that started on American soil. Without that, Washington pays every cent. On top of the 2 to 3 trillion the war already cost. And without allied bases across Europe and Central Asia, American supply lines collapse entirely. Without British forces in Helmand and Canadians in Kandahar, the Taliban reconstitutes in three years instead of ten. The gaps get filled one way. More American deployments. More American coffins arriving at Dover. Afghanistan was bloody. But NATO took the hit. Without them, every single one of those casualties would have had an American name. Trump called allies like these losers. Suckers. If you are a certain kind of broken person, that probably makes sense to you. But for the rest of us, what those soldiers did has a different name. Honor. The bond between men who have been in the same dirt, under the same fire. Between Brits and Americans, Frenchmen and Norwegians, Canadians and Danes. Not a diplomatic relationship. A blood bond. Brotherhood forged in places most people will never see and cannot imagine. In that culture, you do not mock a fallen ally. You do not sneer at the dead. It is the lowest thing a human being can do. Trump did it to a standing ovation. If you are a MAGA supporter travelling to NATO countries, understand this. There are no friendly pats on the back waiting for you. No one will buy you a beer. The governments who share your worldview sit in Minsk, Moscow and Pyongyang. Brutal dictatorships where journalists disappear, elections are theatre and dissent is a medical condition treated in basements. Not London. Not Paris. Not Rome, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin or Ottawa. You have abandoned the open societies, the free press, the rule of law, the places where people actually want to live. You traded the best of civilization for a very small, very dark room. Frankly, it serves you right.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Are you really going to vote for this shit?

This is just sickeningly insensitive. Not an ounce of decency, compassion or respect for the 72 lives lost and wider community. But this isn’t a slip-up or a stumble. This is Reform showing us exactly who they are.

@ToryFibs The fact that Far right Italy can say no to Trump and Starmer can’t really says a lot

So as head of the UK armed forces the King is going to reward @realDonaldTrump with a state visit after #Trump slated the sacrifices of our troops during Afghanistan and Iraq? In my view totally the wrong call.

I’m disgusted that the King & Camilla are going on the state visit to kiss Trump’s ring at the White House. There’s diplomacy and there’s prostituting yourself. It’s time to get rid of the Monarchy once and for all. Terrible decision by the govt. TERRIBLE.

The whole thing is ridiculous Two people who through ‘birthright’ are titled ‘King’ & ‘Queen’ Will visit & legitimise a monster who is waging an illegal war and has the blood of thousands of children on his hands Just abolish the bloody monarchy. bbc.in/4v3i7rt

@RoyalFamily @FCDOGovUK Wrong decision. Prepare for humiliation.

🇬🇧🇺🇸 On advice of His Majesty’s Government, and at the invitation of The President of the United States, The King and Queen will undertake a State Visit to the United States of America. Their Majesties’ programme will celebrate the historic connections and the modern bilateral relationship between the UK and the US, marking the 250th anniversary of American Independence. 🇧🇲 The King will continue to Bermuda to undertake His Majesty’s first Royal Visit as Monarch to a British Overseas Territory.

@YesterdaysBrit1 @AllisonPearson I left school in June 1976 Got a job working for the local tax office. Felt as if I had been sold into wage slavery. The summer just made employment more miserable.

It's 1976 and I'm 8 years old. It's that beautiful summer and the school holidays. I've made a makeshift tent in the garden from an old bed sheet and a few wooden poles. Dad has just finished his shift at the factory. He's worn out, but he comes into the garden to see my brother and me playing. We're eating cheese, tomato and salad cream sandwiches, made with Mothers Pride sliced bread, and drinking orange squash. The ice cream van will arrive at 4pm on the estate. Our garden is our world. All of the windows and doors are open in the house. The heat is stifling. Ladybirds roam free. Dad has fallen asleep on the sun bed. That tent would remain in place for weeks to come. These are childhood memories. We must hold on to them.

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.  Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion. They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us. This was not a drill. This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans. Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst. Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends. The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  bbc.com/news/articles/…

So, it turns out that when you publicly shit all over your closest allies -- calling them freeloaders, losers, weak, while casually threatening to destroy their economies with arbitrary tariffs that change weekly -- they don't come running when you beg for their help. Who knew?

@Farha0__ Its Maw. West of Scotland

Yours sincerely most of Britain.... 😉

Apparently, the first navy to refuse to help Trump secure the Strait of Hormuz was the United States Navy.

Not sure people are grasping this. Israel and the US were too chicken to send warships through the Strait of Hormuz so they begged Europe, expecting our warships to be bombed instead of theirs. They wanted our sailors to die on their behalf in the war they fucking started.