Starmer says UK will host meeting later this week with other nations on the reopening of the strait of Hormuz – UK politics live
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If Trump pulls out just make a deal with Iran and move on. It’ll annoy Trump but he already hates us any way so it won’t make any difference. The US is for all intents and purposes no longer part of NATO and won’t come to our aid if an attack occurs so it’s not worth worrying about stuff like that.
It’s just whether you could get it past the hordes of Trump sychophants who seem to exist in this country these days, a disturbing amount of people seem to want us to send people to go die in Iran for some reason.
Starmer says he will push for a closer relationship with the EU at a summit coming up later this year.
“As the chancellor has rightly pointed out, Brexit did deep damage to our economy and the opportunities to strengthen our security and cut the cost of living are simply too big to ignore.
So in the coming weeks, we will announce a new summit with our EU partners.
And I can tell you that at that summit the UK will not just ratify existing commitments made at last year’s summit.
We want to be more ambitious, closer economic cooperation, closer security cooperation, a partnership that recognises our shared values, our shared interest and our shared future.”
Correct decision, make an agreement with Iran to allow our ships to pass and toss USA and Israel out of any deal. If they want the straight open, they can sort out their own mess….
Good luck negotiating with radical theocratic dogmatics
and if that doesn’t work a strongly worded letter will follow
and some words may even be underlined
Work in commodities and we ran the numbers and it’s not so bad if we deal directly with Iran tbh
A $2 million toll per transit adds roughly $1 per barrel to oil shipped through Hormuz. On a tanker carrying 2 million barrels at $100+ per barrel, that’s essentially a 1% surcharge. For UKs energy bill, marginal but not catastrophic.
The only thing to think abt then is Trumps reaction to that/ what fury it would provoke haha, and we’d need to look at insurance and sanctions compliance risk so having formal contracts etc
Iran’s logic is transactional about who gets access. Iran’s foreign minister has explicitly said “only for the ships of those who are at war with us, this strait is closed” and that “some countries had negotiated with Iran on the matter.” The door is open to anyone willing to declare neutrality. France and Italy are already in discussions with them.
Sorry this may seem like a silly question. Do we get our oil directly from the strait? I’ve been checking maritime traffic for a bit and never seen a UK tagged tanker. I presume we get our oil elsewhere but obviously the hormuz being closed affects oil prices universally and therefore us
So my question is. If we have no tankers there. How will striking a deal with Iran help us?
I’m going to genuinely ask a question and it’ll sound inflammatory but I mean it as sincerely as I possibly can do at this moment in time.
Do you think that the UK should’ve made a deal with the Nazis?
To me – as an Iranian – the islamic regime which is a terrorist organisation that illegitimately claims leadership of Iran through rape, torture, and mass murder is not an organisation that needs to be negotiated with. It should be treated in the exact same way nazism is treated.
Now that isn’t to say that British boots should be on Iranian soil, but it also shouldn’t be the case where this government tries to make a deal with them and legitimises their absolute disdain for human rights and wild crimes against humanity.
Starmer himself refused to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organisation stating the law doesn’t allow him to do so when it involves individual states.
Firstly, nowhere in the terrorist act of 2000 does it say that meaning that this is a government policy interpretation as opposed to a statutory limit of the law.
Secondly, why then did David Lammy promise to proscribe the organisation when he was shadow foreign secretary when in opposition?
All of this points to the fact that Starmer’s government wants to negotiate with known terrorists which in my opinion is not conducive to the longevity and safety of Britain.
Edit: lol downvoted. Literally none of what I have written is factually incorrect. The IRGC accounts are in full swing.
It’s gonna get to the point where Trump starts bombing ships allowed through the strait out of spite.
Especially if the master negotiator himself can’t keep his finger off the trigger long enough to agree a deal for the US.
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Atlanticism is dead. Any politician that goes into an election with an Atlanticist platform should be punished by everyone.
Guys it’s literally so easy. Just say no to Trump’s war. It’s what Spain did and they’re letting them through no problem😭
Time to start doing what we all know needs to be done, and start severing our ties to the US both economically and militarily. When Trump packs up and leaves, let’s expel American forces from our bases and cut a deal with Iran.
We need to start accepting that the USA is no longer our ally, and so we need to start taking a completely pragmatic approach to our relationships with other countries.
Don’t care what anyone says. Starmer is doing a good job. Right wingers can do one, as can those who worship Corbyn.
Tbh 2 million per ship is nothing for these companies. The issue comes of course is that’s where it starts. Then it’s 3 million etc etc etc.
Not only then other countries where there is pinch points will start charging so no it can’t be allowed. But sure as shit they have no choice. As Trump even said yesterday all it takes is one guy on a boat with a machine gun or rocket launcher and the whole thing will come to a standstill again.
This is why the orange twat has done.
1 tanker every 2/3 days goes through the strait headed for britain.
Just use hms dragon to closely convoy that 1 tanker out of there
I hope we do not get involved at all.
Trump is crying about the petrodollar, the Americans have far more to lose than we do.
If they want to hasten their own destruction, so be it. Let them crack on.
Sorry Starmer, but if you hadn’t let the US use our air bases maybe Iran would be letting ships heading our way through