Central America is the new Middle East. Watch as an imperial nation (the US) tries to recapture the feral murderous asset stripping of the British Empire, while led by a complete moron.

They will fail. Today’s right wing politicians are always waiting to knife their leader in the back.

Mainly in tax breaks to keep the Tories elected, if memory serves

I’m sure Trump is considering installing a new Shah, probably a member of his family or some rightwing podcaster, like the f***wit he is proving to be

Yeah, like that’ll happen. The US has a proven track record of f***ing over Iran and - critically - the Iranian population.

If Trump does anything at all, it’ll strengthen the regime. If you’re wondering why, here’s a potted history

US-Iran relations: A brief history www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-m...

What a useful way to offer the population a message of hope for 2026 to be better than 2025.

Westminster is a dead zone. Absolutely no interest in running the country for us. Only an obsession with braying at each other after drinking in subsidised bars. Useless bastards, trained to be so.

I didn’t think the telegraph would become obsessed by war, but then again, there’s only so many places they can go in the descent into clickbait madness.

Tbh the last 50 years have got us where we are. Front benches of both “main” parties are now so devoid of intelligence and vision they just flounder when real world problems impinge on their constant droning in that crumbling museum of Westminster.

All you’re describing there is conservative vs progressive politics. Ultimately Brexit broke through a lot of that and revealed Westminster’s 40 year indifference to places outside london wrt economic prosperity. Thatcher’s shadow looms large in more ways than one.

This habit governments have had in the last 20 years of “trying policies out” via the media is so f***ing stupid. They don’t seem to realise what the fallout can be: modern politicians are so clueless, so devoid of direction or conviction. Endless focus group shite.

Look, just shut up until she actually says something. I’m sure a lot of us are sick to the back teeth of all the moaning, all the speculation, all the FUD around this. It’s tedious… 🥱

None of this persuades me that enough people are now so thoroughly pissed off with “slow business” that they won’t destroy as much of existing parties as they can.

And when I say vision I mean something people can tangibly hope happens, because that’s what has completely drained now - hope. Brexit was a tantrum by a lot of pissed off people, and nobody in Westminster has really engaged with that IMO.

I’d say my opinion of the comparison is very valid indeed. That comparison smacks of faint praise! I agree entirely about stability, but I think the public post 2016 has just had enough now. It’s a form of political nihilism I don’t think Keir has any answer to. We need a party w/ vision AND reason.

Call me back when the Tories stop selling Thatcher worship idols at their conferences. 😂

Labour have Burnham waiting in the wings to do another Corbyn: the crazy way the pendulum is swinging in these moribund legacy parties just smells of death.

When you’re offered the choice between two dead, decaying dogmas who pitch tax cuts or terrify you with “communism” (I’m exaggerating horribly), expect a (diminishing over time) percentage of the public to keep voting Tory. And FPTP means “strong government”.

The situation is unbelievable.

Yeah, but it seems “everybody else” (see polls) has become a nihilist.

My god, that says it all. The man’s a robot. He’s like May sans the whimsy. The previous Tories were a revolving door of post Brexit hubris and incontinent idiocy. To say he’s better than them is like saying a solid turd is better than explosive diarrhoea.

I’m not so sure that’s true. Post 1997 (remember the pagers?) politicians and the media became locked in a rhetorical war, while the public was largely ignored. The incomprehensible drivel we see reported now is the iteration of that combative, reductionist standoff. The public are bewildered.

Good take. In an age obsessed with the hyper-exaggerated TikTok and Instagram emotionally expressive landscape, politicians who looked “a bit weird” 20 years ago are now impossible to relate to at all. The age of authenticity has thrown them into even sharper relief.

Centrism dead? Nah. All of it.