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Better start saving for next winters fuel bills

TheCatWoman

Today petrol has jumped by 2p a litre on the forecourt, gas has almost doubled in price so we can expect a deepening of the cost of living crisis. Thank you very much to Donal Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu....not.

Ok nobody I know liked the regime in Iran, but just blowing them up was never going to work, did it not occur to them that the Iranians would fight back? The clerical regime in Iran is just as entrenched as the Catholic Church, you wouldn't expect to blow up the pope and St Peters in Rome and have no one to take over. I'm sure the Iranian regime has just as much structure and fall backs as the Catholic Church does. Now we all seem to be getting dragged in, I'm really pleased Starmer said NO to Trump using our bases, there's no legal basis for this war and I suspect that as ever America just wants us along to help with the death toll, it's about time a British PM didn't follow the US blindly into its foreign wars.

Whats even worse, is that from everything they keep saying, they don't even know why they went to war in the first place and as ever theres no plan for what ahppens when the war ends.

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  • The Islamic theocracy of Iran which is characterised by the fusion of state and religion, restriction of political dissent and enforcement of religious conformity cannot be compared to the hierarchical structure of the Catholic Church which emphasises moral and spiritual guidance without political control. There is a defined separation of church and state in most places (Vatican City excluded) and the church engages in reform and dialogue, advocating for human rights and religious freedom. If harm were to come to St Peter’s and the Pope, they would be replaced. The system of structure of the Catholic Church may influence politics through offering moral guidance, but it does not allow despotism.

    Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, expressed concern that “a multipolarism marked by the primacy of power and self-referentiality is dangerously taking hold.”

    https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-03/cardinal-parolin-interview-middle-east-iran-us-israel-war.html

    The chaos of missiles hitting numerous countries was created by the US and Israel choosing to attack. 

    TheCatWoman said:
    they don't even know why they went to war in the first place and as ever theres no plan for what ahppens when the war ends

    They haven’t said. Trump et.al. are offering varying reasons. This may because they don’t have a valid reason that would be acceptable to the world or they haven’t thought about what they want to achieve. 

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  • The Islamic theocracy of Iran which is characterised by the fusion of state and religion, restriction of political dissent and enforcement of religious conformity cannot be compared to the hierarchical structure of the Catholic Church which emphasises moral and spiritual guidance without political control. There is a defined separation of church and state in most places (Vatican City excluded) and the church engages in reform and dialogue, advocating for human rights and religious freedom. If harm were to come to St Peter’s and the Pope, they would be replaced. The system of structure of the Catholic Church may influence politics through offering moral guidance, but it does not allow despotism.

    Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, expressed concern that “a multipolarism marked by the primacy of power and self-referentiality is dangerously taking hold.”

    https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-03/cardinal-parolin-interview-middle-east-iran-us-israel-war.html

    The chaos of missiles hitting numerous countries was created by the US and Israel choosing to attack. 

    TheCatWoman said:
    they don't even know why they went to war in the first place and as ever theres no plan for what ahppens when the war ends

    They haven’t said. Trump et.al. are offering varying reasons. This may because they don’t have a valid reason that would be acceptable to the world or they haven’t thought about what they want to achieve. 

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