Speaker to Animals wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:06 amBritish press is hilarious.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9555130/i ... ws-latest/
"The crew is huddled on the floor in terror, people! Can we please have our dindus back??"
At least they know they are "too small" to properly satisfy the situation.Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood today warned the Royal Navy is too small to protect British ships from Iran.
The same navy that once ruled the world...
Since removing the whip from one of its MPs yesterday for being charged with sex offences, the Tories only have a majority of 2. Thats with DUP support. If they lose the upcoming by-election it will be one.BjornP wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:21 amBoris got voted in by the Conservative members to be their next party leader, so predictably he'll also take May's place as British PM. I'm betting he'll be talking about how evil and dangerous to world peace Iran is. Will probably sabotage what little remains of his own earlier attempts, from when he was foreign minister, to save the Iran nuclear deal.
You have a first-past-the-post (or is it pole?) election system, like the States, right? So, whoever wins one most votes in a county, wins the whole county? So, it's really just a fight between the two largest parties, Conservative and Labour. What sort of national support does Labour have these days?Montegriffo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:41 amSince removing the whip from one of its MPs yesterday for being charged with sex offences, the Tories only have a majority of 2. Thats with DUP support. If they lose the upcoming by-election it will be one.BjornP wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:21 amBoris got voted in by the Conservative members to be their next party leader, so predictably he'll also take May's place as British PM. I'm betting he'll be talking about how evil and dangerous to world peace Iran is. Will probably sabotage what little remains of his own earlier attempts, from when he was foreign minister, to save the Iran nuclear deal.
Boris could be facing a general election within weeks.
Yeah, first past the post. Current government is a coalition as the Tories didn't have a majority of MPs.BjornP wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:47 amYou have a first-past-the-post (or is it pole?) election system, like the States, right? So, whoever wins one most votes in a county, wins the whole county? So, it's really just a fight between the two largest parties, Conservative and Labour. What sort of national support does Labour have these days?Montegriffo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:41 amSince removing the whip from one of its MPs yesterday for being charged with sex offences, the Tories only have a majority of 2. Thats with DUP support. If they lose the upcoming by-election it will be one.BjornP wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:21 amBoris got voted in by the Conservative members to be their next party leader, so predictably he'll also take May's place as British PM. I'm betting he'll be talking about how evil and dangerous to world peace Iran is. Will probably sabotage what little remains of his own earlier attempts, from when he was foreign minister, to save the Iran nuclear deal.
Boris could be facing a general election within weeks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/worl ... -gulf.htmlBEIRUT, Lebanon — Iran seized a foreign oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, state television reported on Sunday, the third time Tehran has reported detaining a tanker in the last month as the United States applies its campaign of “maximum pressure,” sanctions and diplomatic isolation against the country.
The tanker was detained by the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on Wednesday, along with the seven members of the ship’s foreign crew, according to official Iranian news agencies, which cited a naval commander. Iran said the tanker was “smuggling” fuel to some Arab states, without offering evidence.
The oil tanker was an Iraqi ship, the official IRNA news agency reported, quoting Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps.
The Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 at the centre of a dispute between Tehran and Western powers, which went dark off Syria earlier in the week, has been photographed by satellite off the Syrian port of Tartus, Maxar TechnologiesInc., a U.S. space technology company said on Saturday.
Maxar's supplied image shows the tanker Adrian Darya 1 very close to Tartus on September 6.
The ship appeared to have turned off its transponder in the Mediterranean west of Syria, Refinitiv ship-tracking data showed on Tuesday.
The tanker, which is loaded with Iranian crude oil, sent its last signal giving its position between Cyprus and Syria sailing north at 15:53 GMT on Monday, the data showed.
The vessel, formerly named Grace 1, was detained by British Royal Marine commandos off Gibraltar on July 4 as it was suspected to be en route to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions.
Two weeks later, Iran in retaliation seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz leading into the Gulf.
Gibraltar released the Iranian vessel on Aug. 15 after receiving formal written assurances from Tehran that the ship would not discharge its 2.1 million barrels of oil in Syria.
However, shipping sources say the tanker is likely to try to conduct a ship-to-ship transfer with another vessel for part of its cargo after Iran said a sale had been concluded.
Washington has warned any state against assisting the ship, saying it would consider that support for a terrorist organisation, namely, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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