Recent content by Phil Sayers

Thank you, fantastic post.

If 'before the summer' is literally taken to mean before 01 June, the first few F-16s should be over Ukraine within six weeks:

All a total farce but hopefully resolved as of Saturday - it is fairly likely that none of the proposed amendments will pass while the main draft bill will comfortably pass with Democrat support. What I am not sure of (Spoonz may know?) is whether the Senate then themselves need another round of...

Haha - a Democrat member of the House has filed his own amendment to the bill which would designate Marjorie Taylor Greene as 'Putin's Special Envoy to Congress'. House Dem files bill to make Marjorie Taylor Greene Putin's 'special envoy' to Congress (msn.com) Will be interesting to see...

She also wishes to amend the separate Israel aid bill to require funding for 'Space laser technology' at the Southern border. In other words she wishes to lethally zap people crossing the border from space. This is no joke, this is the genuine state of 'MAGA'.

The certifiably insane Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced some 'helpful' amendments to Moscow Mike's draft bill including a requirement that Ukraine 'stop persecuting Christians' and 'closes all bio-laboratories' before the funding is permitted and that any member of Congress who votes for...

Mangy rat Moscow Mike has been cornered! Forced by the threats of his sane GOP colleagues that they will just vote for the package passed by the Senate if he does not stop his obstructionism driven by Trump's desire to 'fluff' Putin, he has now committed to hold a vote on Saturday which pundits...

Russian airbase in Crimea was pasted last night - to add insult to injury the first target was Russia's most advanced SAM type which was located there to protect the base from air attack.....

No doubt socialism was a much bigger 'beacon' back then but my point is that the senior Conservative politicians of the day were willing to endorse and vote for socially progressive policies (comparative to the opinions of the electorate) even though they knew those positions were unpopular and...

All makes sense to me but again I come back to the 1970s comparison - at the time the economy was dire, the country in deep decline and the future looking very bleak. The politicians of the day could have gone with the 'blame immigrants' approach but they strived, and succeeded, to not succumb...

Willingness to share a platform with **** Orban and French far-right commentators for one. Granted the former is a foreign leader but in days gone by a member of government / prominent member of the governing party would have refused to attend an event that the latter were attending.

I don't really disagree but then I come back to the 1970s comparison. At the time, anti-immigration stances were the mainstream electoral opinion but, as with things like capital punishment, the politicians of the day were willing to be more socially liberal than the electorate despite knowing...

All of which is an entirely principled and understandable stance but I still think the electoral maths will be that his comments about Trident will prove to be a net win (let me elaborate - they have cost the party at least one member and may cost a few votes while probably not attracting many...

Not sure I agree with this - did you see the poll I posted the other day about how now Labour have a commanding poll lead over the Conservatives regarding trust over defence / national security? I suspect that has never previously been the case.

I think it is a mixture of two things - one is an electoral backlash against immigration / multi-culturalism etc and two is a snowball effect; once e.g Trump is seen to survive / thrive on making various comments that, not long ago, would have been the political obituary of anyone who uttered...