Halfon Puts Hague on the Iranian Spot
Tory MP Robert Halfon has just ratcheted things up in the House in regard to Iran. Having been granted an Urgent Question, he pushed Hague on ”what will happen, if these latest economic sanctions don’t work?” He didn’t stop there either:
“What more is being done to bring Russia and China to the UN table? Most would accept that Britain has shouldered its fair burden in tackling dictators. But it seems clear that the free world must send a message to Iran, that if they continue with their nuclear plans it will lead to military action. No one wants war. But tragically, it is looking increasingly likely…”
Hague waffled about “many contingency plans for many contingencies”. A sound-bite almost up there with “known unknowns”.
Bomb the fuck out of the Iranians!
Dictatorship not people.
What with?
What for?
We are a tiny country with unpayably vast debts that cannot feed, house, cloth and care for our own people properly, yet we have the fourth largest military budget in the world!!!!
HOW ABOUT WE LET THOSE NEIGHBOURS WHO HAVE ALL THE PETRODOLLARS AND ARE MOST THREATENED BY IRAN DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM
IT IS NOT OUR FIGHT – NEITHER IS SYRIA
BET THESE FUCKERS WON’T TURN UP FOR THE FALKLANDS
The Falklands have oil too.
nooky nooky nukey hahahahaha
Boooooom
Except, just like Iraq, Iran wasn’t a threat to the West, only to Isr ael.
WTF sould we pay for their defence, yet again???
Err, actually most Persians are pretty cool, they hate the Mullahs more than we do. Killing people who would be your allies, is pretty dumb even for warmongering keyboard warriors, let alone the political errand boys in Westminster.
A friend of mine and his wife went to Iran for a holiday. They said that the ordinary people were incredibly friendly.
I worked in Syria about twenty years ago. A nicer bunch of people it’s hard to meet. They had synogogues and allsorts in Damascus. No tension at all between the religions as far as I could see. Worked with a Christian chap who spoke Aramaic. Great country, great people. I can well believe the Iranians are largely the same.
Just like during our 1997-2010 Imbecility – it’s the leaders who are the fucking problem.
good point Archer – sorry to be such a huhne
It is pretty much the same all over the parts of the world that I have been to. The ordinary people are decent, kind, welcoming and good fun. Sadly, humanity is cursed with a relentless, malignant, cancerous, filthy, self perpetuating, parasitic infestation. It is called politicians and the only cure is to kill them all. Also sadly, ordinary people are far too tolerant of this cruel disease. I would eradicate it overnight with a few well chosen comrades in arms and sufficient supplies of firearms and ammunition.
The barbed wire wrapped 2″ by 2″ pine wood rammer would be kept solely for Blair.
AK, I agree, maybe that it is war what the leaders of Iran actually want to unite the people of Iran, which to western eyes is not what we want (unite the Iranian peoples) which certainly what will happen, Iran has a far larger population than Iraq and a war would be very messy, look at the time spent in Iraq and double it, also very expensive.
that’s right Western suckers the Israelites like Halfon are preparing the usual fight until the last drop of somebody else childs blood.
Don’t worry – Allah will defend Iran from the infidels.
Maybe.
The rest or the arab world a sh*T scared of I..ran
We must have a few devices coming to the end of their ‘use by’ date
I doubt that. Arab despots, on the whole, lack the ability to organise a non-alcoholic piss up in a prohibited brewery.
Iran. Not arabic. Idiot.
Who will defend you from the Israelite Chicken General political class spoiling for more innocent western and Muslim blood not to mention bankrupting an already bankrupt economy
London Muslim….Sunni or Shia?
Let them battle it out…they are itching for it.
My preference….Schia is infinitly more congenial than Sunni…but that is a relative preference.
Not our fight after the nuclear is switched off permanently for the entire region..except for Israel who really, really do need it in reserve.
If it is a choice between Israel or the Arab world, I choose Israel
Persians, in the main, are not Arabs, in fact it is a high insult to call a Persian an Arab, who they detest.
LM, I remember you from earlier as a reasonably sane person with whom it was possible to have a proper argument. In these last two comments you sound like any old idiotic rabble-rousing mullah. What happened to you? Arab Spring didn’t go to your taste?
Not Shite ??
Defo a Sunni
B.Bob is obviously a tabloid reading thicko. Who else would prefer a small bunch of Supremacist racists and their despot religious colony to billions of people with oil.
Showing the kind of pig ignorance that would make a halfwit blush Bob B says
“If it is a choice between Israel or the Arab world, I choose Israel”
Er, it’s not. Guess why?
Iranians are not fucking arabs you moron.
what about the parents of Gay people executed in iran just for being Gay?
But is that a reason for us to go to war?
Basic freedoms?
I reckon so.
As they say after Friday prayers “Bugger me I don’t know”
Well I don’t! But if you feel strongly about it perhaps you could get up a force of vigilantes and go out there and fight for your beliefs.
I agree with you ‘Well’ and I have been interviewed on the Gaydar radio station about this very matter. However war is not the answer. What we need to do is negotiate. I have expert negotiation skills and am quite prepared to visit Iran and talk to the Mullahs with my new female Intern. If the Government has any doubts about my negotiation skills, then this clip of me in action will dissuade them.
So the rumours are true Handy? You have got a new girlfriend in London. B*stard.
Hancock, what a wanker.
Well done
It wasnt a breach of the peace unless he attacked you
*claps*
These scoundrels were daring to ask me why I was paying my wife, Jacqui, £20,000 a year, as an occcasional case worker from my MP’s expenses, when she is as uneducated as me and can’t even spell. They had the temerity to interview local shopkeepers around my constituency office if they recognised her from a photograph; none of them did. It has got nothing to do with my constituents what I do with my expenses. Jahbulon.
KKKKKkkKKKKeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrBBBBOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!
Iran problem solved.
Haflon obviously has shares in a couple of arms companies? Who are we going to borrow the money off to fight this one. China or Russia? Every one else we know is skint after the last decade of dipping our toes into everyone elses business. Why dont we bomb China as thats a dictatorship? Should have listened to Churchill, “Better to Jaw Jaw than to War War.
Now no0w nasty little liberal, stop using Sir Winston out of context.
You have been watching the BBc again, haven’t you?
Typical Woman, Wants to fight a War from her Kitchen. If we put them in the front Line. I would imagine a very strong smell of Pi-s
The problem is they’ve been jaw-jawing for years and it’s got nowhere.
WTF, jaw jawing for years?
When there was a popular uprising against the regime, what did the west do? Absolutely nothing. Obummer said it was an internal issue for the Iranians to resolve, other western politicians tut tutted a bit and then looked the other way, while the Mullahs and Iranian army merrily murdered away.
Well, quite. Our esteemed leaders have been talking and talking and talking.. to no avail. Even when they had a chance – perhaps their only chance – of helping the Iranians get rid of their government.. nothing but talk.
Te Hee! Was it not the USA which messed about with getting the Shah of Persia kicked out and replaced by that Ayatollah fellow? And don’t mention the Viet Minh.
lol – look at you go!
The MP is correct. The Logical conclusion if Iran does not back down and West does not back down is war. It goes without saying that Hague and the cabinet are aware of this and civil servants will have already put together plans B to Z.
What scares me is the EUSSR starting a war in my name. Who gave it the powers to do so?
Robert Halfon….let me guess….he is joowish?
Nuke the Hunts – why not?
Not before we’ve sent all our hard done-by benefit-recipients on a well-earned holiday to the shores of The Caspian Sea.
The world’s running out of comedy-value dictators with bad barbers and blind tailors. Leave Iran’s I’m-A-Dinner-Jacket alone – at least until North Korea’s Kim Wrong-un gets into his stride.
Оh nо, dо wе hаνе tо hаνе а DUА mоνеmеnt? (Dоn’t Unsеаt Аhmајеwаnаhmbаd)
….. And Pakistan.
What did you say Birmingham? That was what the IRA did, and look at all the trouble that caused. I think someone is looking to turn this country into mexico. Shame No one has worked out how to Pay for it.
Mind you on second thoughts its one way of reducing the population. I just wonder how many White Good English Boys will have to die. We could always train up a few more immigrants, however that hasn’t went very well in Afghanistan as more and more of our Trained and Armed Afghan army and Police are turning the guns on Our lads. Well done the politicians and military planners, you really got that right. Is everything the State tries to do turns too Rats Sh-t
Jack Straw saying “any use of force must go through the UN” hahaha selective amnesia there Jack!
Well said Jack. The UN needs a bloody good clear out one way or t’other.
It all comes down to who blinks first-so dont send balls and please keep at home that silly little sailor who cried when they took away the i-pod
FFS anyone would think we were running a welfare state
Why this vendetta against Hague Guido ?
Or is Mossad using you again ?!
Put one here next.
Mossad are not paying me a bean and I am happy to confirm independently, Hague is a useless, lying windbag.
Don’t be vague. DEFINITELY don’t ask for Hague.
Because Hague is a mouthy little foetus.
Pssst !! Anyone wanna dodgy dossier ?
Jesus told me that we must bomb Iran.
I think you will find that it will be the Israelis
UN peace envoy speaks with utter fairness to all sides, based on deep multi-faith understanding.
having worked for the UN I can assure you they are racist and pro moosleems
What threat is Iran to us?
NONE!
Let’s hope you’re right.
He is right. When Camoron set about destroying our armed forces in 2010, because he needed the money to spend on foreign aid, he assured us that “we face no prospect of war in the next ten years.”
Apart from the war he started a few months later with Libya, in which we really could have done with the aircraft carrier he scrapped, he’s been spot on.
Well to be fair Tess gordy and aintbustinagut did the destroying leaving behind that £multi million black hole from sheer economic mismanagement of the MOD and complete disregard for the welfare of the men and women in the armed forces.
But we should never be fighting other peoples wars anyway. The only time our forces should put their lives at risk is if the UK is directly threatened.
The only time we stick our oars into other peoples wars is if there’s oil – or something else in it for us.
We should butt out and let them sort it out for themselves.
Sure, Gordy was a tit, but that doesn’t excuse Camoron for compounding the problem.
If there was a multi-billion (38, I think) pound black hole in the defence budget, find out where the money’s being wasted and plug it. But scrapping our vital defences to save £38billion, and then immediately pissing £32billion on the HS2 railway (that no-one wants) and £12billion annually on foreign aid (to countries with space-programmes), is not the way to go about it. As we shall see if Dave’s defence cuts encourage Argentina to re-take the Falklands.
Obviously Iran has to be made into as much of a threat as possible before we can attack it for Isr ael. As we all know, the only way to get ahead as a Politician is to sell your a rse to them via the numerous Support Is rael clubs.
The loyalty of every politician is:
1) Themselves
2) Big Money and the Meedja (=usualy Isr ael fans)
3) The Party
4) The Family
5) Acquaintances that might become useful
6) Potential voters
7) Actual Voters
6) and 7) no linger apply, Grim. Do keep up mate.
what’s point having a Nuke when you are not going to use it. Nuke Iran and M/E will be peaceful for a few days
If you nuke Iran, the last thing you’re going to get is any peace and quiet. Nuclear explosions are very, very noisy. And all the bits that go up in the air presumably come back down, and I bet that’s quite noisy. Plus there’d be the ringing in your ears.
And there’s all the screaming from the survivors. That would go on for weeks. You wouldn’t get any sleep at all.
If we leave them alone – None
If we discuss pre-emptive strikes? Dirty warfare and I’m under no illusions that our casualties will be high if it comes to that – including dirty bombs in London…
Did I just hear that odious Denis Macshane ask Willy Hague to lease an Aircraft Carrier from Argentina? Labour Idiots
Probably cheaper than having to bomb it one day.
When’s that fucker going to be charged with fiddling his expenses?
No it’s a brilliant idea. Lease all of their warships then sink them.
why do we try and punch above our wait as a country……..
weight……lol
Iran must tow the line to avoid our wrath.
whats happened to chilcott – how difficult can it be to write a report?
Cameron has already abandoned Israel.
Israel are the only country on earth with the balls & the technology to take down Iran – & they will.
Then both sides of the house can roundly condemn them, whilst sighing a joint sigh of cowardly relief.
Camerons Government is dominated by anti semites – Nick Clegg being the leader of the anti Israeli clan. Mind you, with 2 million British Muslim votes at stake he would side with the devil if it kept his quizzling party afloat.
so if you critisize Israel it makes you a anti semnite?
How strange.
Yep, and we’ll all be weasels, surrender monkeys, etc. next time round. Unless Dave goes along with it all to save us from being called naughty bad names.
I suppose alternatively we could all pretend we’re irish, that works too.
No, not supporting the only functioning democracy & free market economy in the Middle East whilst supporting & giving aid to Islamist nutter regimes & terrorists makes you an anti semite.
You may go.
So its the “not supporting isreal” bit that makes you anti semitic.
I thought it was something to do with disliking or hating jewish people.
So its the “not supporting isreal” bit that makes you anti semitic.
I thought it was something to do with disliking or hating people based on a specific ancestry (wow. that gets mr.modbot really strict)
Don’t forget the Muslim postal votes, too, which is an extra 40 per household.
It’s amazing how many people you can squeeze into a one bedroom semi in Solihull.
..or two or three houses tacked together.
There aren’t any one bedroom semi’s in Solihull
Sophie…………………… I agree wholeheartedly with you………….wonders will never cease!:)
It’s Quisling, not ‘quizzling’. Strange how men whose names should live in infamy for all time are forgotten within a hundred years, misremembered after merely seventy.
Israel are the only country on earth with the balls & the technology to take down Iran – & they will.
Splendid. Then we can remove our ships from the Gulf and let the Israelis get on with it.
Camerons Government is dominated by anti semites
Don’t put Israel’s interests ahead of this country? You’re an anti-Semite.
Seriously – do you really believe that screaming “anti-Semite” at everyone who doesn’t fellate Ariel Sharon is an effective way of gaining friends for Israel? Do you think screaming abuse at us is going to convince us to send our sons to die for your theocratic colony? I’m truly perplexed at how your mind works and what you think you’re achieving.
Our lads have fought more than their fair share of other peoples wars in the last 15 years.
Unless we are directly at risk they must not fight any more!
The Iranian authorities are using nuke energy as a political, economic and diplomatic tool. Iran wants more involvement and control in shaping future Western foreign policies in the Middle East. Power in shaping Middle Eastern Politics is Iran’s long term strategy here and the Yanks don’t like it!
If it makes any difference their food is terrible.
I thought their tool was Hizbollah.
Why does the country with one of the largest reserves of oil and gas on the planet need “nuke energy”? You make them sound like some genial old strategists when their corrupt regime is detested by their own people. So they want to export it?
Well done to the yanks again. We’d live in a terrible, terrible world if America had not stood up time and time again against totalitarian aggression.
Can’t Israel use its own nukes to sort this out ?
Yeah, but they’re very expensive. You can see their dilemma. Oy vey.
Tessa, you are on top form today
We need to sell the yank missiles we get given to the Chinese because we are poor.
Only on weekends
Known unknowns is perfectly intelligible. We have four cases:
Unknown unknowns – things we don’t know that we don’t know.
Unknown knowns – things that we don’t realise that we know.
Known knowns – things that we know that we know, e.g. that McMental is potty.
Known unknowns, things that we know that we don’t know, e.g. whether we shall ever have interstellar travel.
I never understood what the fuss was about Rumsfeld. I thought it was perfectly put.
No scientist would find it confusing.
A scientist would have the sense not to bother listening
Kingsize bed collapses in Solihull, 37 with minor injuries.
This is an extremely sad case of overcrowding and homelessness. It is essential these poor people claim all the benefits they deserve.
Perhaps all those underused churches and bishops palaces could be converted to multiple occupancy flats – I am sure Barrats could come up with a long-lasting solution (circa 5 years). The church could sell off all its gold to fund the conversions. Thats where all the chavs in Central London etc could be put when the benefit cap comes in.
If only we had a full time middle east peace envoy……….
i still need a poo
i have heard the Mexican wave movement may help
Gordon, you may be correct but, at the end of the day, all we-you have got, is SHIT
Bomb
Bomb
Bomb
Bomb
Bomb, Iran.
I don’t think war is unforeseeable…
- What is it, then?
- I dunno. Foreseeable? No.
No! Not foreseeable.
That’s f**king declaring war.
Do you want to f**king declare war?
I’m a Cabinet minister.
I didn’t get here by screwing up every media appearance I ever had.
Write this down. It’s neither
foreseeable nor unforeseeable.
Considering Iran hasn’t actually invaded any other country for 650 years and it is constantly being threatened by the US and Israel I really wouldn’t blame them for wanting the bomb, after all any country that has one is not invaded by America.
Morons like Hatton will end up cheering on the Yanks when they incinerate the world.
There is the minor, picky, problem of Iran’s president’s calls for Israel to be “wiped off the map of the world.” The same president who thinks that killing Jews will make his magic sky god happy. The same president who thinks he’ll get to live forever if he pleases his magic sky god.
Not the sort of guy who should have nuclear weapons in his toybox.
Bush had a few and he was real crazy guy !
I think his generals probably hid the button.
Did you mean hid the bourbon…
His genitals, dear? What were they hiding? My bifocals seem to have been over-prescribed again. I suppose I’ll grow into them.
No, Elsie dear: his genitals are hiding his bottom. I think it’s probably meant to be an American compliment.
Except of course he never said that! A lie that Zio nists love to keep spouting.
Loads of people are constantly proclaiming Iran should be nuked and attacked though!
IMO Iran has every right to defend itself, with nukes if necessary.
Good stuff.
What colour is the sky on your planet?
No he shouldn’t. Nor should freaks like Dubya and Bliar who believe in the christian fairy stories, who are just as dangerous. Religions are an absolute curse.
Im a straight kinda guy, I can sort it out…
If only we had a full time middle east peace envoy…………
Off-topic:
What do you get if you subtract tax from earnings of £35,000?
That wouldn’t be £26,000, would it, Ed Miliband?
Western governments warning of a Middle Eastern country supposedly developing WMDs to use against us, eh? Now where have I heard that before…?
More recently, the Gov and Beeb had daily multiple orgasms about the so-called Arab Spring and the downfall of Mubarak. “Freedom – isn’t it maaah-vellous”, they cried, all over Islington. What do the Egyptians do? Vote in a load of extremeist M’uzzies in Mubarak’s place!!
And we haven’t heard the last of Libya by a long chalk.
Nice one, Dave. Nice one, Nico. Nice one, Barack. Leave the fucking Middle East alone and knuckle down to solving our problems first, not theirs.
He is in the Strangers Bar.
He;s in Town because he and his sponging wife are flying out to Davos tomorrow.
In order to not screw over Greece and various European economies we have given them until the summer to stop getting their oil from Iran. So… what if Iran stops selling oil to us sooner than that? We just gave them a clear signal that we cannot afford to stop buying oil from them.
Way to go.
This is foolish talk, Robert Halfwit should know better. Did he learn nothing from Blair’s disastrous warmongering in the country next door?
Government debt increased year on year while labour were in power for thirteen years. When they left office the debt was around £800 million. Labour’s overspending meant that the debt would continue to increase. Added to that was the cost of bailing out the banks. It is no wonder that the debt is now in excess of one trillion pounds.
Well done labour you did the country proud.
Even my Grannie agrees, mind you she’s only 97 and more sense than Milli sect
Oh what a lovely bit of war propoganda. WMD’s, nuclear weapons, Iraq/Iran, it’s all the same. At least the powers that be could try something original other than “the bad man wants to hurt us”.
I’m happy to update and revise any dossier if required.
Just ask John Scarlett to pass on the message if I’m pi55ed.
I don’t trust Hague. He still puts the interests of those sleazy Atlantic Bridge crackpots before the interests of the UK. Just because Israel and the US are in a perpetual state of mindless hysteria about Iran doesn’t mean we have to follow suit.
Tell that to all the members of the Conservative/Labour/Libdem Friends of Isr ael Clubs.
Now why would they have such a huge pro-I$rael bia$ ???
Doesn’t really a matter a bit what the UK thinks about Iran.
Unless the US talks to its REAL “special friend” in the world and tells THEM to put THEIR WMDs on the table this will go on. And until america has more mosques than synagogues that isn’t going to change
OMFG
@SamCoatesTimes
Sam Coates Times
After Populus, ICM and YouGov, now Ipsos-Mori grim for Ed Mili too, falling behind Nick Clegg in net satisfaction pic.twitter.com/QqZvSh3e
SAVE ED ……!!!!!!
If Israel is so concerned about Iran’s nuclear programme, let Israel deal with it.
Why is Israel’s security any of our concern? I certainly haven’t seen Israel ever lift a finger to help us – although they did supply weapons to Argentina during the Falklands War.
Have no doubt that Israel will deal with it if the US and the rest of the world does not. Iran cannot argue that they have been given every chance.
YEEHA. Let’s invade Isra el, Pak istan, North Korea, and that French place, they’ve got nukes as well. Got to be fair Guys. WAR WAR LUVERLY WAR — Solve all this recession unemployment problems no problem
Is Haflon in the Forces Reserves? Then he can be in the front line and get killed with the poor bloody squaddies, just like Bliar did(n’t)
This lot of I..ranians are soooo funny
So, just to be clear, you think the Taliban (Sunni Afghan extremists with a history of genocide against Shi’ites) are interchangeable with Iran (Shi’ite Persian-speakers with a history of being targeted by the Taliban)?
You clearly demonstrate that knowledge of a subject is inversely proportionate to willingness to talk about that subject.
You’re an embarrassment and a moron.
Waiting for the new I..ranian song
I’d love to know what Mossad have on Hague.
Isn’t Lord Seb managing the Olympics well?
Is it that difficult to figure out !?
Just seen you on the news and all I can say is don’t worry,I’m sure you’ll get yourself a girlfriend one day,as long as you come up with enough cash,you sad,fat fanny!LMAO!
They could send one of their exciting new aircraft-free aircraft carriers. That’ll put the wind up.