I didn't get to hear all 10.5 hours of the debate in the commons yesterday but I did hear the last hour. I thought that Hilary Benn made by far the best speech. based on that, I think the Tories would be facing a far better opposition if he were the leader.

for some reason yesterday our phones were ringing like crazy after 2 VERY quiet days so radio was off all day was it interesting or just the usual political double talk

the result of course is

RAF Tornado jets based in Cyprus carry out their first air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria, the MoD confirms, hours after MPs voted in favour by 397 to 223.

headlines bbc news website

They couldn't wait to get strated wasting tax payers money

I didn't get to hear all 10.5 hours of the debate in the commons yesterday but I did hear the last hour. I thought that Hilary Benn made by far the best speech. based on that, I think the Tories would be facing a far better opposition if he were the leader.

Marvelous...pump up the rhetoric and the war mongers thrive on it!

The bottom line being as I have already mentioned some time ago. If any of us fell out as neighbours and started beating the hell out of one another, and then one of us because we wanted to end it, went next door and decided to kill the other person, and a few innocent people basically because they happened to be there ........then you/I would be off to jail/goal.

Millions of years on from the beginning of civilisation and they still act like cavemen, instead of acting like the intelligent people that they are supposed to be.

So if your neighbour and their whole extended family classed you as bad and decreed that you should either change your religion to suit theirs or because you don't wish to then your agin them and hence you should be killed...are you just going to go round with a box of Cadbury's roses in the hope that you'll can change their mind and that you'll live happily ever after together in perfect harmony.

I have seen the Hilary Benn speech; it is nothing more than a back door attempt at Labour leadership.

You do not have to kill innocent people to attain your objective.

How many innocent people do you think there are left in the areas controlled by IS? There can't be that many judging by the number of refugees that have left.

What is the population of Syria?

Three million Syrians have become refugees abroad and 6.5 million more have fled their homes for other locations within the country (a group known as "internally displaced people," or IDPs)—all told, roughly 43 percent of Syria's pre-war population of 22 million.

I didn't get to hear all 10.5 hours of the debate in the commons yesterday but I did hear the last hour. I thought that Hilary Benn made by far the best speech. based on that, I think the Tories would be facing a far better opposition if he were the leader.

Okay I take that as tongue in cheek....but!





Basically lots and lots still there.

Don't agree with air strikes, but Hilary Benn's speech was the best I've heard in years