Looks like I've got something in common with Trump

After ten days of insisting that British services personnel should have been ordered to join in Trump and Netanyahu's attacks on Iran, Nigel Farage has performed a screeching U-turn to say "let's not get involved in another foreign war". There are a couple of potential explanations for this extraordinary volte face, neither of them based on principle.

One is that despite a full-on propaganda push from Farage, Kemi Badenoch, and virtually the entire right-wing media hack pack, for Britain to join the attacks on Iran, British public opinion has hardened against UK involvement. Opposition to British involvement has risen from 49% to 59% in the space of a week, while support for Trump and Netanyahu's war-mongering has waned even further to just 25%. Meanwhile a whopping 74% of Brits say they're expecting the attacks on Iran to have adverse effects on their finances.

Another possible explanation could lie in the fact that Farage flew to the US to seek an audience with Trump, presumably to seek a pat on the head for undermining the UK government's position of limited involvement (allowing the US to use British RAF bases, but no direct involvement). However Farage's pilgrimage to seek approval from Trump was in vain, because Trump refused to even see him. I was surprised to find that I had something in common with Trump. After he snubbed Farage, someone said he had no time for Farage. I also have no time for Farage.

Whatever the reasoning behind Farage's switch to a polar opposite position on a major foreign policy issue, one thing is clear. Nigel Farage is a deeply unserious politician. Had he had his way when Trump and Netanyahu launched their attacks, the UK would already be fully involved, yet he now admits that this would have been an error. Whether he's smarting from Trump's rejection, or afraid of British public opinion, Farage has made a fool of himself, and proven that in the heat of the moment, he's liable to make grave errors in judgement.

Do Reform voters really want the country to be run by someone who scuttles around like Trump's subservient little minion, volunteers to sacrifice British service lives at Trump's behest, then turns around and says the country would've made a mistake if we'd actually done what he was insisting on? I know the rest of us don't.