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Trump's Reichstag fire.
We Europeans have seen this before.
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They would have to take on the Mail, Express, Telegraph and Sun newspapers, not to mention GB News. There's a reason why right wingers are prepared to lose millions funding right wing media
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Wasn't there another Tory leader who told MPs 'if you don't back my insane plan you will lose the whip'? How did that work out?
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Why has Trump turned the oval office into a replica of a nineteenth century Turkish brothel?
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I live in France and it has become obvious that the centre right has all but disappeared while trying to out LePen LePen. Give people a choice between a fascist and an ersatz fascist they choose the real thing every time.
A lesson that centrists seem incapable of learning.
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Little by little they are trying to import US culture wars, notice how Farage has started talking about abortion and due process is gradually being squeezed out of immigration policy. What starts in the US eventually finds its way here.
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Desperately trying to resurrect Brexit. Remember when we had to leave the EU in order to control immigration, now it's the ECHR . What next? The North Atlantic? The solar system?
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IMHO The problem is that many Americans (and others) have convinced themselves that morality and intelligence is measured in dollars, when it's often the inverse of those qualities that is measured in dollars.
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I suspect the next country stupid enough to invade Afghanistan might find it a bit tricky to recruit interpreters.
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Ditto, except I also didn't get a vote in 2016 because of the 15 year rule.
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Wonder why?
www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...
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mRNA, discovered by a woman! I doubt this will be available in the US for many years.
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So MAGA UK can lie as easily as MAGA US.
www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...
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Criticise the BBC all you want, but who do you believe in this story?
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It doesn't matter what people think, they voted him into office so he has no further use for "the people".
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I hope anyone who has the misfortune of working for a Reform council is being advised to join a trade union.
They seem to be determined to copy their orange hero but the UK is not America, see their many, failed, attempts to import the abortion lunacy
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Are they going to enforce a no-fly zone over Louisiana?
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I've heard the Scottish avacado harvest has been particularly disappointing this year.
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The familiar cry of right wingers "it's all someone else's fault", be it the failure of Brexit, the catastrophic Trussonomics, the failure to stop the 5% of immigrants who arrive on small boats and many more.
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Small boats account for about 5% of total immigration but about 80% of Daily Mail coverage of immigration so, obviously that's the way to go. One day, hopefully, we will get political leaders prepared to lead not just blindly follow.
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Another example of how the only way to "make Brexit work" is to not implement it.
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It was bad enough when we had to worry about Russia interfering in elections (and referendums), now it's just another example of the Trump regime and the Putin regime joining forces.
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Will they be putting big, beautiful tariffs on non reform local authorities, or just painting themselves orange.
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She can't, all the money's on the right wing, nut job, American "think tank" world, see also Boris Johnson, Jenrick , "bitcoin" Farage etc.
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Tiny bit sympathy for leave voters, they didn't vote for this they voted for an impossible, land of milk and honey.
Trump voters who say "I didn't vote to deport mothers did so in the false belief that he was lying, whereas Brexit voters voted in the false belief that they were telling the truth.
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Let's hope the Trump effect works the same way it did in Canada.
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The Mission.
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It's time for Europe, and its partners, to stand up to Trump.
What's the line about paying the danegeld and never being rid of the Dane.
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Yep, explains that the whole thing is, basically, a hoax. Can't recommend it enough.
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It's called Free Speech, as in you're free to say anything as long as the far right agrees with it.
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I'm confused, not for the first time with MAGA, is he saying that Americans resident abroad should not be subject to the laws of the countries they live in? If so could I move to the US and rob a bank with no consequences?
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They'll probably be named as honorary South Africans by Trump/Vance/Musk and be granted refugee status in the US.
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It's the tech bros. All electronic devices will carry the image of the Dear Leader.
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MAGAs are very keen on foreign interference in democratic elections, after all, Putin worked wonders for Trump.
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Certainly in the US where the evangelicals have a lot of power, hence the abortion fixation, but many on the European right keep trying to import it into Europe with limited success.
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Has anyone told J.D. Vance, can't wait to hear his reaction.
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On a more serious note, there is this:-
ukandeu.ac.uk/how-religion...
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A surprising number of right wing, Brexit fruit loops are also religious fruit loops.
See also Rees Mogg, Duncan-Smith, Widdecombe and many more.
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Perhaps it would be better if he, and Trump and especially Vance, stopped hurling threats and insults at Europe and stopped interfering in European politics.
I fear it will take several *normal* presidencies before trust will be restored.
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This is the same administration that is sending a delegation to the UK to monitor "free speech".
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we Europeans see what is happening in the US. we've seen it before. it doesn't end well.
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Habib constantly repeats his idiocy that the reason Brexit has failed is because the UK "has not left the EU". Bonkers doesn't even begin to describe it.
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Bye America, and Argentina, if you ever find your marbles again give us a call.
Signed,
Rest of the world.
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"Once you have paid him the Danegeld, You never get rid of the Dane."
Poem by Kipling about Viking extortionists. Replace Dane with Trump.
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Was watching a documentary today on the rise of the NAZIs, the parallels are striking.
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Wherever you look you see the far right promising tax cuts and increased spending with no believable explanation how. Be it Farage, LePen, Trump they're all high on Trussonomics as dictated by the Heretige Foundation.
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Also without any of the responsibility or scrutiny.
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Except there's profit in tanking markets for those in the know. Which seems to be a recurring theme of his presidency, or should that be "presidency".
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I can remember when the Telegraph was a reputable newspaper of record. How the mighty have fallen.
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And in return we will do bugger all. Back to the Brexit negotiations.