In the early days of this century, the Brits used to refer to Prime Minister Tony Blair as “Bush’s Poodle”, because he heeled perfectly in step with the American president’s war(s) in the Middle East.
These days, the occupant of the Oval Office can accurately
be termed “Bibi’s Bitch”, since the Israeli PM so easily induced him to pour a
coat of legitimacy on his attacks on Iran. In fact, one of the many, many “reasons”
the White House has given for the war, uh, “special military operation”,
is that Israel was going to attack, so we had to get in their with them.
Sigh.
So, I’ve been hearing that old Everly Brothers standard, “Cathy’s Clown” all week. Seems appropriate.
©2026 Bas Bleu
I had a moment's hope that Starmer had finally grown a pair of balls to stand up to Trump when he refused use of bases in the UK for the initial raid on Iran, but sadly normal service has now been resumed and we've been dragged into another fight that is nothing to do with us ðŸ˜.
ReplyDeleteFor the vast majority of British people the "Special Relationship" is well and truly dead. I just hope that sanity returns over your side of the pond with Trump indighted then swiftly prosecuted and imprisoned. Failing that assassination would appear to be the only other way back.