British party election for prime minister is in just three days.
And Jeremy Hunt is Boris's opponent, and he is also the British Foreign Secretary. Nothing like going into an election when you are Foreign Minister but two of your ships are in Iranian hands and you are looking flaccid.
Not sure what the Iranian game is here. Surely they dont think that Boris is going to be easier to deal with. Or are they trying to toss Hunt a bone. He is running around saying that he is summoning Iranian diplomats- ooooh scary shiite there- and that he is going to solve this diplomtically, so if they want to toss him a bone before the election they can release the ships.
I mean what choice do they have. The Brits don't really have a military force any more other than leeching off nato. It was an eye-opener for me back in the Libya war when the Brits wanted to stop the rebels from seizing British Petroleum assets so BP got the Brits and the French to do the deed, but then they dragged Obama in because Obama worked for the Europeans. Anyway, as part of that lead-in and build-up, the Brits made a case to Obama, THAT THE BRITS DID NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT AIR POWER TO TAKE OUT LIBYA BY THEMSELVES, even with the French thrown in. WHAT THE FLAMING FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Useless as tits on a nun.
The brits have, I think, just one ship in the Strait of Hormuz, the HMS Montrose, and some minor side shit such as a few minesweepers etc. Now they are thinking of scrounging up another one and sending it, probably its in a mothball fleet somewhere, will hopefully arrive before Christmas.
