Starmer seeks to build British ‘bridge’ between Trump and Europe https://www.ft.com/content/3b31f05a-13e8-41dc-845d-d78c0c12d4cd - ThreadSky

financialtimes.com • 23 days ago

Starmer seeks to build British ‘bridge’ between Trump and Europe

https://www.ft.com/content/3b31f05a-13e8-41dc-845d-d78c0c12d4cd

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ruthshaw.bsky.social•23 days ago

Hopefully this is Starmer trying to show everyone he's a willing listener then if all goes pear shaped, he can go to Europe with a free pass.

fryrtuck.bsky.social•23 days ago

Trump doesn't give a shit, he's not listening to nobody. Narcissists always know everything. don't waste your time. all hes gonna do is sit back and enjoy you grovelling for what he's already not going to give you. if he doesn't think Canada is an ally, nobody is. remove US from all the equations.

codewizard.se•23 days ago

I hope there can be a balance where we (europe) do not bend the knee to wannabe dictators.

elonisanidiot.bsky.social•23 days ago

The only way to do that is to make no deals as we honest them russia and the USA don’t.

It’s time to bully back, and only focusing on bully back

r0b.ch•23 days ago

The UK, my home, turned their back on the EU with Brexit. The UK decidedly and intentionally cut ties with regulated international relations, they don't want them, they don't understand them. They can fuck off and keep out of it, stay isolated on their island until reason returns. Pathetic.

paulwgoldberg.bsky.social•23 days ago

Cue an editorial cartoon of a horizontal Starmer with toes on a cliff-edge labelled Europe and fingertips on an opposite one labelled USA, maybe with USA just out of reach of fingertips

akatkat.bsky.social•23 days ago

How about being in support of Canadians, eh? We still have a King's representative here across the pond.

jmmills.bsky.social•23 days ago

All he needs to do is put theUK back into the EU and forget about Trump. There is no bridge to the USA currently worth building.

walleye68.bsky.social•23 days ago

Funny how they say Trump and Europe not the "United States of America and Europe. If its Trump built a moat not a bridge.

whateversclever.bsky.social•23 days ago

Starmer has a tough job to get the vindictive, decrepit oompa loompa under control.

noisical.bsky.social•23 days ago

I wish he wouldn't...

captseadog.bsky.social•23 days ago

Not possible. That halfwit Vance made that clear at Munich.

ajstef.bsky.social•23 days ago

Arh Yes …. Trump will tell Starmer what to do and what will happen if he does not do it. Hardly a bridge.

jackringland.bsky.social•23 days ago

szytzkowski.bsky.social•23 days ago

Monster derives from the Latin monstrum, itself derived ultimately from the verb moneo ("to remind, warn, instruct, or foretell"), and denotes anything "strange or singular, contrary to the usual course of nature, by which the gods give notice of evil,"
Bridge that!

maryjka.bsky.social•23 days ago

Trump seems to be doing fine by himself, no favour!

bimblinghill.bsky.social•23 days ago

By all means talk, but stand up to them for God's sake

mtaulty.bsky.social•23 days ago

Will it involve feeding him Canada and Greenland as stepping stones for this bridge? 🤷‍♂️

akatkat.bsky.social•23 days ago

Over my dead maple-syrup filled body!

jfxryan.bsky.social•23 days ago

The "bridge" will have to be the "Trump Bridge"

lumbares.bsky.social•22 days ago

Ya todo encaja.

bzleslie.bsky.social•23 days ago

That would be a big mistake. You must oppose Trump (along with your European allies) in his sell out of Ukraine and tariff threats. Don't be a quisling!

ninainhorto.bsky.social•23 days ago

Starmer is delusional.

jtcally.bsky.social•23 days ago

That bridge will have a Trump Trojan horse cross it. Trump is not to be trusted, ever.

josehawkins.bsky.social•23 days ago

Britain is the only American ally kissing Trump’s ass.🤔

judy-inthecloud.bsky.social•23 days ago

IMO Britain tried to do that post Brexit, in fact I think a lot of Brits thought the US was going to replace the EU, but Boris was so much of a rival clowntrmp attention seeker, not to mention vocally anti-Ireland, that the stage couldn't be shared.

Starmer is smart, low-key, & professional so..?

catchafire777.bsky.social•23 days ago

What a cretin. We ought to be standing alongside our European neighbours. To put it in simple terms Trump burnt his bridges with Europe & sided with Putin.

stnhng101.bsky.social•23 days ago

As Starmer not seen what Trumpis willing to do to Canada. He will treat the UK far worse and will try to impose his crazy insane policies on to citizens of the UK. The US is now unhinged and trustworthy

joemendez.bsky.social•23 days ago

U.S. GO HOME!

rfb71.bsky.social•23 days ago

Starmer is not representing the views of the people of the UK

neilpbowen.bsky.social•23 days ago

Musk and Trump have bold plans for the UK and they don’t include Starmer. They will do everything possible to force a fascist government at Westminster possibly a Tory/Reform merger to be led by someone worse than Farage

sutherla.bsky.social•23 days ago

Chamberlain with a mobile phone

catmemesplease.bsky.social•22 days ago

What could *possibly* go wrong?

somerandosalt.bsky.social•23 days ago

If this is his plan, he’s a fool. MAGA is showing anyone with eyes that it is a consumptive movement, not a collaborative one. Labor has to be smarter and more clear-eyed in their understanding of this!

sirmasksalot.bsky.social•23 days ago

He doesn't want a bridge. He wants a beachhead to normalise his brand of Christian Nationalism in Europe.

goestoeleven.bsky.social•23 days ago

So appeasement.

mattyfc.bsky.social•23 days ago

A fools errand, unless Europe is willing to relinquish its sovereignty and embrace fascism.

philipjtaylor.bsky.social•23 days ago

A blind alley. No antidote to a lot more defence spending.

jeffisontheroad.bsky.social•23 days ago

Why even bother? All that's going to happen is that everyone loses.

godlessatheist.bsky.social•23 days ago

Only Americans of low intelligence and self-respect want Trump in the USA. So if you are stupid enough to build that bridge, send Trump to Hungary and keep him there.

grumpygerman2.bsky.social•23 days ago

Subservience to the US doesn't look like a bride to me, rather like a bridgehead. Maybe de Gaulle was right after all...

redsoledgooner.bsky.social•23 days ago

Rather build a bridge to the EU. Neither Starmer nor Trump can be trusted.

undeniablyalex.bsky.social•23 days ago

Oh god he is awful, just exhaustingly awful.

toontom68.bsky.social•22 days ago

More chance of herding cats.

bladebunny.bsky.social•23 days ago

Maybe read the fable about the scorpion and the frog first. It doesn’t end well.

mackanory.bsky.social•23 days ago

Caissons constructed under the compressed hot air of Starmer and McSweeney’s self-delusion.

(That’s a bridge engineering reference by the way).

hoxtonmike.bsky.social•23 days ago

Good luck with that.

brendanl2011.bsky.social•23 days ago

Bridges get walked all over

stephen1958.bsky.social•23 days ago

New!
Live from Starmer’s negotiation with psycho criminal…

ffr.bsky.social•22 days ago

Great analogy! 👏

maherniall.bsky.social•23 days ago

Why? they'll only blow the bridge up when it suits them.

wenzopeg.bsky.social•23 days ago

Peace in our time.

bryan68.bsky.social•23 days ago

Bootlicker

trade321.bsky.social•23 days ago

There is no need for a bridge, trump understands only bullying power. Remove weak diplomats and put the EU dogs out.

skybluebrunty.bsky.social•23 days ago

elonisanidiot.bsky.social•23 days ago

What a waste! USA have just declared Europe, not Ukraine, is to be part of the “peace negotiations”…!

Europe should just say: cool, and flood Ukraine with so much weapons that russia can’t win even with American help!

Fuck USA and fuck russia

davidjwbailey.bsky.social•23 days ago

You cannot contract with the Mob
You cannot contract with a psychopath

There is no benefit in even trying.
Rejoin EU.
Wait Trump out.

daves1412.bsky.social•23 days ago

That will be interesting, even if it is the role we have traditionally tried to play. Before *That*, anyway

sonofcathan.bsky.social•23 days ago

This is about as realistic as the "Boris Bridge" between Northern Ireland and Scotland.

arjafi.bsky.social•23 days ago

There's stupid. And then there's Starmer.

heptaglemious.bsky.social•23 days ago

That is an absurd and dangerous idea.

planetmatt.bsky.social•23 days ago

The UK is Europe. Are we still doing British exceptionalism? It's exhausting.

boomer40.bsky.social•23 days ago

If he doesn’t stand up to 47 then he will be thrown out on his ear

y-wing.bsky.social•23 days ago

Stop wasting time

spyglassart.bsky.social•23 days ago

mr-blogberry.bsky.social•23 days ago

I wouldn't bother if I were him. Trump is only interested in what's in it for him. We have nothing to offer without harming ourselves.
I hope someone is looking into the economic impact of the USAF base closing.
Just so we don't get surprised by a(nother) Hesgeth drunk speech

mgreenaw.bsky.social•23 days ago

Moronic

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