[ April 19, 2024 ]
What bloody disaster this cow has been for a once great nation.But no worries she banned me for the country so all is well.
When Virtue-signalling Goes Wrong: May Turned Down Trump Offer to Protect UK Ships to Please EU
By Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, July 22, 2019:
The United States reportedly offered to organise a joint naval security operation to protect British shipping in the Persian Gulf, but Theresa May turned it down because she “didn’t want to upset the Iranians” or the EU.
Despite clear indications that the Iranian regime intended to target British shipping in the region in retaliation for Gibraltar’s detention of an Iranian tanker accused of transporting crude oil to Syria in defiance of international sanctions, Mrs May is said to have declined “repeated overtures” to establish a British-American security operation, because “it would look like the UK backed Washington’s wider hardline stance on Iran”.
Story continues below advertisementWhile the Trump administration has pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal and imposed sanctions on the theocratic regime, the United Kingdom has followed along with the EU in trying to keep it on life support — despite the Iranians’ more or less naked belligerence towards them.
“May and [Foreign Secretary Jeremy] Hunt declined an offer the America last week [sic] to join them in a maritime coalition for security in the [Strait of Hormuz]… they wanted to build an international effort,” said a Whitehall source quoted by Sun political editor Harry Cole.
“It’s a major fuck up when it was blindingly obvious we were vulnerable. Weak politics. In light of the threat it was an act of folly, just pathetic,” they added.
“I think there are genuine questions to be raised right now about the British Government’s behaviour, [and] I say this as a supporter of the Government,” commented Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader and Work and Pensions Secretary who now chairs Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign, after Mrs May’s decision to rely on the much-diminished Royal Navy until an alternative “internationalised” operation could be put in place resulted in the Iranians capturing a tanker in Omani waters.
Contradicting official claims a concrete offer of U.S. help had not been made, the senior Tory insisted that “Britain was offered whatever assistance is necessary to protect British ships and commanders out there were willing to help.”
“The Government failed to take them up on the offer and the reason was that we didn’t want to upset the Iranians,” he claimed.
“They made a major miscalculation. It was a big misjudgement and it goes all the way to the top.”
Despite the British government’s apparently misguided coldness towards the U.S. before losing the tanker, President Trump maintained his willingness to help in the incident’s immediate aftermath, stressing the importance of the British-American alliance and warning that Iran was in “big trouble”.
The British government has maintained a weak posture, however, failing to impose sanctions and ruling out a military solution to the crisis — partly because of the massive naval cuts Mrs May and predecessor David Cameron have presided over, which have left the Royal Navy “too small to manage our interests across the globe”, according to Defence minister Tobias Ellwood.
Indeed, Boris Johnson’s rival to succeed Mrs May as Tory leader, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, is said to have asked the U.S. government not to make aggressive statements about the tanker incident.
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70 Comments
4 years ago
Hey, Pamela! Maybe Boris will be able to undo you being banned from the UK, and get you a visa.
4 years ago
Reply to
Bill
I would not count on it. Boris is very two faced. He has no intention of stopping immigration into the country. He is certainly an improvement on evil lying sharia May, but he is very flaky and not strong when it comes to actions. I hope that I am wrong.
4 years ago
These efforts at trying to appease the Islamic Republic of Iran will not work. Iran will only become more aggressive and engage in more piracy.
4 years ago
You’re speaking about May right?
4 years ago
Reply to
Carl M Longo
No, but you could add Angela Merkel and this new trashbag freulein who will ‘lead’ the E.U. I can hear Nigel Farage again asking in the E.U. parliament, as he did with Herman von Rompuy, “I don’t wish to be rude, but who the hell are you? By what process did you get here? You have the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk and the charisma of a damp rag.”
4 years ago
nice pic of the PM for less than 24 hours
4 years ago
The Iranian strong horse had it’s way with the English filly.
4 years ago
So does the British government consist of degenerate cowards or corrupt cowards?
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
My dear fellow, you have uttered a distinction without a difference. Come now, you know very well that the British Government is anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-British and anti-western civilization and anti-white girls. They have done their level best to colonize the land with jihadists and invade their own nation. You may call them kapo cowards. I do ask that you give credit for the term. Now run along and pass the term around. I’m sure it’ll be a fashion soon.
4 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
I only meant corrupt as in being “paid-off” by islamic petropounds, but I suppose you’re right they could be both degenerate and corrupt!
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
It is the culture of political correctness that has corrupted more than mere money can ever do.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Mix the two and the answer is there.
With a few good exceptions such as Mark Francoise and Jacob Rees Mogg etc. The majority of the Conservative government went against the wishes of the majority of the British people and did all they could to deny us what we voted for and as such are traitors to their country, to democracy and to Parliament.
Hang the bastards!
4 years ago
My Aussie Mum was so proud to be British. The Empire forever! Kitchener and Khartoum! Shakespeare, Dickens, Lord Tennyson and Rudy Kipling, Mowgli and Gunga Din. I was raised on “IF,” and “Onward, Onward, into the Valley of Death Noble 600.” “Oh, the charge they made!” In her time kids were required to memorize and recite in class the great poems. When the time came, you didn’t have to ask the young men. They hurried down to enlist, sailed off to Galipoli, and the Somme and Flanders Fields. When time was come again, they hurried to enlist yet again. My eldest uncle piloted a Lancaster over Berlin. The Jerries shot him down, 88s and night fighters did the deed. He survived, was rescued and flew another brand new Lanc, again back to Berlin, and again until it was over over there, and then was ordered to fly to the Far East and Bomb the Jap. A younger uncle sailed away on HMAS Perth, named for his hometown. The last message received in Canberra was from her Commodore. “I have found the Jap fleet and am attacking. I will see my Prime Minister in Tokyo at War’s End.” “No captain can do very wrong today who lays his ship alongside that of the enemy!” Generations later in the Sunda Strait on a dark night Perth obeyed Horatio Nelson’s order until the end. For two hours the battle raged at point blank range, range never over 1,000 yards, broadside to broadside, no quarter, samurai against British seamen. When the battle ended a Jap destroyer captain stode out on the bow of his destroyer, sword in one hand, Nambu in the other. “There are samurai in the water. Save as many as you can! Any man who harms a soul of them will answer to me!” My uncle survived. His two best friends, long childhood friends, are buried at the Aussie Naval Cemetery at River Khwai Bridge, Thailand. They helped build the bridge to hell. The Commodore commanding HMAS Perth and USS Houston met his Prime Minister in Tokyo at War’s End, a promise kept a duty fulfilled. They were young men once, and British.
4 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
Our families in Canada have such stories as well, just not so going so far back. But of course our fearless leader Mohammad Castro the Globalist is doing his damnedest to piss on their graves and memories.
4 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
Great post mate and god bless your brave valiant uncles.
Our shared ancestry is still worth fighting for and lives on in our children.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Unfortunately, too many younger people have no connection to the World wars and have grown up in a world where history is often sneered at and rarely taught unless it denigrates their country in some way, plus they see immigrants all around them and think this normal. They have no recollection of a Britain that was independent and proud. They cannot imagine their country without the EU and blame the older generation for daring to support Brexit. Most are bone idle and struggle to get their heads around the word patriotic. They will fight amongst themselves, but never for the injustices and destruction of their country, caused by successive greedy spineless leaders and politicians.
4 years ago
Reply to
rickyoo
A new era is dawning ricky and the sun is shining on the righteous ????
4 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
“Yesterday, seems so very far away”, the spirit of the nation then, so battered and torn today, a shadow only remains, yet she deserves every bit of what has happened to her, of what she has become. No nation that was so richly blessed of God, that then turns against Him who blessed, can have any expectation of hope, only righteous judgement, and it has already begun. But she is not alone, most of the West has joined her ; all the evidence one needs is in the darkness that now sweeps nation after nation. Just as darkness cannot assert itself over the light, only can it manifest in the absence of the light, and clearly, the Light of those nations shines no more upon them. The people en masse are being given over to reprobate and deceived minds, believing lies and following the lusts of their hearts – ignorance abounds and wisdom flounders all while the presence of danger grows and the end approaches.
4 years ago
Reply to
James Jones
Well said, James. Pretty much, and more in fact, of what I pointed out elsewhere about Western nations abandoning their Judeo-Christian beliefs and now reaping the consequences. No longer any of what Margaret Thatcher referred to a “moral impulse”. No real outrage over thousands of British girls raped by vile Muslim vermin. No disgust and outrage over Christians and Yazidis savagely slaughtered by Muslims of ISIS, al Qaeda and other Muslim groups in Iraq and Syria, others in Nigeria, Mali, Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt. A rubbish media that doesn’t report this news or care. So little anger over May’s lies and deception over Brexit. No moral impulse = no moral outrage.
4 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
Excellent points Rob. The shear number of “things” happening culturally, civilizationally, and spiritually, is in itself enough to make a watcher take notice. It’s not a case of only a few things here and there, or only isolated to one country. Collectively it’s like a tsunami hitting shore after shore with devastation in its’ wake, leaving people’s lives brutalized and spirits crushed. How do some of these events not bring riots to the streets or the mutiny of civil agencies in the face of doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Where has wisdom gone. Where has conviction gone. Where has honour gone. All surrendered to and stolen by the thief who has been granted the right to do so upon a faithless nation steeped in its’ own selfishness and lusts.
4 years ago
Reply to
James Jones
Well said again. The rot really is now like a tsunami hitting the shore.
4 years ago
Reply to
James Jones
I will add this after the many things I’ve said that reflect a spiritual side. On the surface I do not appear a ‘religious’ person. Nowadays I don’t very frequently attend church. The reason is simple, as imperfect as I know that I am, I do believe in God almighty and very independently stand for something and thus against injustice and with it lying politicians and news media, so i’ve grown heartily sick of churches that stand for nothing, do not accept the tenets of Christianity, are too cowardly to live by what the Bible – Old and New Testament – teaches (i.e. the ‘rules’), bow to secular matters because they are too gutless to do what it right but wrong in the sight of secular world pagans. Further, these churches never say a thing about the terrible persecution of Christians by Muslims all over the world. That, they think, would ‘upset’ someone. Well, I don’t care about upsetting anyone provided I am standing for decency and against evil, but not to these spineless church leaders. We really do live in peculiar times.
4 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
Another story of Japanese naval honour to the fallen was in the Battle for the San Bernadino strait. Here a fleet of Japanese ships(cruisers and battleships from memory) surprised the US invasion fleet for the Philippines made up of transports , jeep carriers and one or two destroyers and half a dozen destroyer escorts. All the small ships turned to attack the vastly superior enemy and I cannot remember how many were sunk but one was the USS Johnston who for a 2 gun DE did surprisingly well. So much so that when the Japanese retreated a ship passing the Johnston survivors in the water had its captain and men salute the survivors in the water. My family lost two members to the Japanese (one executed, one shot down) and I am no lover of them but I give them credit for this.
4 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
Most of what the IJN pulled off was done entirely without the benefit of radar, which makes it even more amazing.
4 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
And then today you have this gutless mob and all over the West it is little different! Theresa May, her judgement terrible, was a disaster, a cowardly woman who cared not one ounce for the young girls of Britain, cared more about silencing scrutiny of Muslims than about their conviction for disgusting behaviour, made bad decision after bad decision, lied and deceived over Brexit – yet it was members of her party who put her in office! She didn’t want to upset Iran and the E.U. – out of which she was supposed to getting her country! Why, if she was seriously trying to get Britain out of the E.U. would she worry about what the E.U. thinks? What a disgusting fraud!
4 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
“Holmes, how do you come to such conclusions”, “Simple deduction my dear Watson, simple deduction”.
4 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
The USS Houston ended up at the bottom of Ironbottom Sound off the coast of Guadalcanal — as did the admiral commanding the task force — all courtesy of the IJN.
4 years ago
Boris, like Trump, will have his hands full trying to repair the damage done to the nation by his predecessor.
4 years ago
Reply to
Bill Gregg
I have always maintained that Trump is like a college football coach taking over a failing program; there is so much he has to undo before he can set about instilling winning ways and changing the culture.
4 years ago
she is no iron lady
4 years ago
That how it all starts, huh? You don’t want to offend people. People who wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about anybody else.
4 years ago
Traitor May when she was Home Secretary cut the budget to the bone for policing, Border Control and Defence, meaning the armed services were cut to the lowest standing army for centuries and the same for the Navy that famously once ruled the waves. As pm she persisted in downgrading our military strength and many suspect that it was so we would rely on a combined EU military force that we all knew was being planned but was flatly denied.
The worst ever British pm has left our nave sadly lacking.
Any country is only as strong as the person that leads it.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
She also allowed hundreds of thousands of Muslim filth to enter the country and pandered to their every wish, while ignoring the true British people and ignoring the despicable crimes that this human garbage committed and still are..
4 years ago
Reply to
rickyoo
Her reward should be the noose but in reality she will just get even richer by going on talking tours throughout the west plus a massive book deal but no matter what she does or doesn’t do, the truth is out there that she is the very worst prime minister that Britain has ever seen.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
After her disgusting performance as prime minister, only idiots will go to hear her, but there are enough around. Hundreds of Canadian pay handsomely to listen to liar Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. I cannot think of a worse British prime minister than Theresa May.
Let’s hope that Boris Johnson get the new attorney general to review Tommy Robinson’s kangaroo court conviction and sentencing.
4 years ago
The end of Facebook is nigh!
4 years ago
This is not the last nor is it the first false decision May took!
4 years ago
There is an old phrase I used in my days as a football coach, “Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way”.
4 years ago
History is repeating itself. England is appeasing the current Hitler. They didn’t want to get Herr Hitler angry by arming. In fact just as now they were disarming before World War II. See http://thoughts-everything.com/shelp/appeasementhitler.htm for more.
4 years ago
This is why the British are persecuting Tommy Robinson. They don’t want to get the Iranians and the rest of the Muslim world angry the same way they didn’t want to get Hitler angry. What a bunch of evil cowards. They deserve to become part of the European caliphate. I just feel sorry for the girls Tommy tried to defend against the Muslim rape gangs.
4 years ago
Reply to
Gamal
I don’t think that it is fear of war, I think that it is fear of damage to the money flow.
4 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
There is a climate of fear in Europe. One of the things they are afraid of is if the flow of oil stops. It may be that there is a flow of Islamic money to some of the politicians and that they are afraid will stop as well.
4 years ago
Reply to
Gamal
Oil is money and you are right as the “bonuses” will cease if the oil does. I can just imagine the Left: “we told you so”!! They would love an oil embargo until the winter came then they would whinge.
4 years ago
Reply to
Gamal
I think it is more a fear of offending the Muslims. There is tons of North Sea oil.
4 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
The major shift in European policy started with the Arab oil embargo of 1973
4 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
I think that WRT the globalist masters there is no islam, only money and lots and lots of it. That is how you become a member. Extremely rich muslims are less pious than I am and that says much. Islam is a control mechanism for the masses NOT the rich.
4 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
Muslims are lying, taqiya-spewing hypocrites. Islam disguised as a religion, but is far more than that. It is a control mechanism for all. Go to London, Paris, Monte Carlo, etc. and watch the rich drool over, bow down to and kiss the asses of the Arabs at all the city’s most exclusive stores, hotels, establishments and most prestigious events. Prince Charles can’t praise Islam enough!
4 years ago
This wretched harridan will not be missed. My fantasy is to see her rotting head nailed to London Bridge.
4 years ago
When I was born Churchill was still PM. We’d survived the nazi threat but we were battered and money was tight. Rationing was still part of life. We hoped that life would get better, eventually. Life may have been difficult but we still hoped we could regain our proud place in the world of diplomacy. The Suez crisis put paid to that.
Since Thatcher, every PM has starved the armed forces of money. Now, we couldn’t organize an armed raid against anyone. Despite our wish to leave the EU, May wishes to appease them. She also tries not to upset the Iranians! Who else doesn’t she wish to upset? Iceland? She is an embarrassment. When I saw her walk into the Parliament in Brussels I was ashamed. I was ashamed to see a British PM begging to be free of Brussels. Our nation has, over 2 centuries, saved Europe from The Kaiser, Adolph Hitler and Napoleon and we are now going, cap in hand, to beg Junker, a known alcoholic and woman-groper, to be able to leave a failed club (please, Sir). As a PM, she has done nothing to improve the lives of British people. On the contrary, she has brought thousands of dangerous immigrants and increased the danger from knife-wealding terrorists. Before being PM, she promised to reduce the immigrants to about 10,000 a year. Under her as PM, the number increased to over 300,000. She should have called Junker on the phone and told him all ties were ended from the First of May.
Then she refuses help from Trump? What’s wrong with the woman? IS she a complete moron? Obviously she is. Now the Iranians have got a British tanker. There was a time, I seem to remember, when no nation on the planet would have dared to attack a British ship – not one.
She didn’t want to upset the Iranians? Who cares? Lets be realistic: the Iranians are just like all the other people who live in that part of the world; due to cultural reasons, they couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag. The Iranians are beginning to threaten us in a dangerous way. What should we do? Say sorry, we won’t do it again. (Whatever it was?) No, we hit them very hard where it hurts. As a first step throw out all Iranian diplomats from Europe; stop all help with nuclear matters; if an Iranian boat appears in the Straits of Hormuz shoot it out of the water; freeze all Iranian bank accounts.
Ad as for Jeremy “I ruined the NHS” Hunt thank goodness he won’t be PM. That WOULD be the final straw.
4 years ago
Reply to
Watto
IMO I so hope that retribution is achieved upon the scum who helped to crucify the UK and by that I mean any and all muslim, leftist appeasers but especially so in government, in bureaucracy and in the MSM.
4 years ago
What an absolute gutless wonder! Anyone would thank that she had no cojones. Funny thing that! However you must realize that it has never been just her. It is her globalist masters(you know? The ones who pulled Obama’s strings) who control her as it is only they who have anything to lose in all out war. Not that it would make much difference WRT May as even before she became PM she was a pathetic Home secretary. However the stain will be upon her forever as she has turned the UK into a laughing stock and London into a sewer. The old aphorism: “si vis pacem, para bellum” is now more relevant than ever as she and her globalist swine have almost destroyed the UK armed services at a time in the west when wars are more likely than ever. Perhaps they and she realize that the armed forces would not be on their side in that war.
4 years ago
I don’t know how May’s final PMQs went, I couldn’t bring myself to watch it.
I wanted the entire 30 minutes to be devoted to the government’s deliberate failure to protect a British ship against pirates.
But I’d bet my house it wasn’t even mentioned. I bet it was a sick making, fawning chorus of ‘so long, it’s been good to know you’ with Tories queuing up to add their spoonful of sugar to a wholly false rhetoric of praise for things she never did.
I hope she rots in hell for the way she has brought down this great country.
4 years ago
The once great British has fallen to the Muslim occupancy of their nation. Nothing can do now!
4 years ago
Watch for a “fireworks display” all over Iran on Friday, 2 August, when the moon is either a sliver or out of sight. The head billy-goats ruling that country will feel the wrath of the Allies in the Free World. A strange coalition of Israel and Saudi Arabia, plus the USA and the UK will set the record straight with Tomahawks and laser-guided munitions.
4 years ago
And she was a vicar’s daughter. Evidently he didn’t teach her much or little sank in.
4 years ago
“Some people” in Iran “did something.” Oh well.
4 years ago
I am disappointed that Trump would offer. It might not be true. I wouldn’t believe too much of what that disgraceful traitor says in the first place. She has nearly ruined the UK. Of course, it’s been going downhill for a long time, same as the US. I think we are so far gone now Trump can only slow our destruction down.
4 years ago
But could Theresa May polish up the handle of the big front door?
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