Plucky Little Helpers

Lighter moments are all too rare for Team Starmer at present, so the management must have rejoiced at the latest assault on Iran. Despite occurring a couple of days too late to bury the bad news of the by-election, the wog-bombing may provide some compensation for the Government's drubbing at the hands of sectarian Muslims forcing their families to vote for a white working woman representing a party led by a gay Jew. Indubitably it enables Team Starmer to compensate for its domestic flops with a bit of international posturing.

Moral courage is as prominently on display as one would expect, with denials of any participation in the attack followed by stern warnings against indiscriminate (any, in Oldspeak) retaliation by iran. The chair of the foreign affairs select committee said that the UK should resist being drawn into another Middle East war and admitted to some difficulty in seeing any legal justification for the military strike, before stating that the UK might well allow itself to be drawn into another Middle East war should the mad mullahs have the temerity to treat the UK as an accomplice of the Kingdom of the Trumpster and the Righteous State. Presumably in order to forestall any such delusion, the Royal Air Force is already being deployed to help defend the aggressors against the consequences of their aggression; while the CEO of Team Starmer roundly condemned the Iranians for refusing to seek the negotiated solution into which the Trumpster and his head-tribble are so ardently trying to bomb them.