All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in the UK.

And let's focus on Kier Stommer, who at one point in time was thought to be the next prime minister.

I imagine he still is the frontrunner for the job of prime minister.

But given everything that's happened in the, in the Middle

East and the war in Israel and Gaza and Kirst Dahmer's handling of the situation there, it looks

like his position is not as secure as once we once we once we once thought it was anyway let's talk about uh kirstamer and uh and what's going on

with him you're absolutely correct i mean you know about was it 10 days ago before the present

conflict in the middle east began at least, a bit longer than that, actually.

We did a programme, we said that, you know, despite the fact that there's no enthusiasm for him

in Britain, the current government is so awful that it looked all but certain that he would

win the election next year and become the new prime minister,

probably with a big majority.

And he looked like he was in a strong position.

And then it took him absolutely no time at all,

since we did that program,

to mess things up and to mess things up completely.

And he did that because being a neocon himself he decided that he would follow in Biden's wake of the Middle East crisis so whatever Biden said about the Middle East

Stama chose to follow so he also committed himself to supporting Netanyahu in Israel,

just as Biden did. He seemed to be giving the Israelis on behalf of the Labour Party a blank

jack, just as Biden did. And then he gave an utterly disastrous interview to a British journalist, radio journalist, called Nick Ferrari, who is pretty well known here and is a well-known journalist in London.

Anyway, Nick Ferrari, he went on this interview with Nick Ferrari, and he said, you know, he's absolutely, he gave the

impression of saying he's absolutely fine for Israel to cut off water and energy and fuel supply,

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