If the UK gets hit by the same tariffs next week as everyone else:
1) Reeves will find her latest Budget holed below the waterline.
2) Starmer will have sullied his reputation sucking up to the Orange Tyrant for nothing.
Why are Labour such eager hostages to fortune? Strategically incompetent.
1) Reeves will find her latest Budget holed below the waterline.
2) Starmer will have sullied his reputation sucking up to the Orange Tyrant for nothing.
Why are Labour such eager hostages to fortune? Strategically incompetent.
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I hope that Trump imposes huge tariffs against the UK forcing it to ask the EU for help.
I love it when the UK fails.. It's a very crap country that i hate.
And on YouTube https://youtu.be/Q0jvylPZ1ms?si=s60PQVq0HBePL5HS
Stammer is treading a dubious path.
For the passers by. Leave labor and join the Greens.
They sought power for its own sake.
STarmer went to some high-powered elite group ,eeting in the US years before he was Labour leader. That seems likely to have been his audition for useful tool. Maybe he told them his dad was a tool maker and they all had a good laugh.
But that's a gigantic if.
So nowhere near as independent as the French, who developed their own warheads and delivery systems...
Starmer...
Reverse it.
They are reading from the playbooks that have long since gone out of print.
Analog thinkers in an AI world
Particularly when this pandering entails offering State Visits to a country threatening the very existence of an important ally, Canada.
It’s like dealing with a petulant child, everyone knows Trump develops policy on who he likes.
He hedged his bets with the Europeans, so that may pay dividends
Trump is a disaster for the whole world’s economy
Like, say, rejoining the EU.
The day after Trump's tariffs is a good day for doing so.
Starmer “We are joining the single market and hope one day to become full members of the EU”
How’s that?
In or out. Simple choice I think.
As the only adult in the room he can try to raise the bar & influence a reasonable outcome.
I don’t need a PM who values flicking a V, before negotiating a better outcome for our country.
The Poodle reference seems up for a comeback....the whole, "we will never surrender" propaganda is finally and officially dead...
https://bsky.app/profile/maggiepcanada.bsky.social/post/3llf4d376xk2w
It'll cosy up to Trump, but block us from rejoining the EU whilst driving people into poverty.
It doesn't add up, it's not the party I once supported, and it needs to change course.
We CAN build our defenses and EU relationships. We have the talent.
If it actually ever had to fire, we'd already be dead.
(Posthumous revenge is vastly overrated.)
We may have to bolster our allies more, just like we've done for Ukraine. But that's a different kettle of fish.
Trident is a child of the Cold War.
We could bolster our cyber and conventional forces by an enormous amount for what we're flushing away on Trident's replacement.
If so, then look at Russia's conventional troop numbers, and especially their remaining military equipment stockpiles. And then look at how much Ukraine's plucky resistance already depleted them.
If you can't join those dots, there's no helping you.
What cost if the UK makes preparations & plans based on the word of a serial liar , only then to have a deal cancelled at whim ?
Walk away , we are looking pathetic !
Letting Trump trash our steel jobs and car jobs, without retaliation is pure cowardice, which dosent work with bullies!
If ever a UK political party sucked trumps arse it was the tories.
Can you imagine how much creeping and cock sucking would be going on if Badenoch had won?
There is no effective liberal party in the UK anymore.
Scum.
There's no point in voting for anyone that doesn't promise a replacement for Trident,
It was a tactical vote to oust a Tory,
I'll vote Green next time, or spoil y ballot on protest.
My father was a staunch socialist, I've always voted Labour, apart from after the WMD debacle,
I'll not be voting for them ever again now.
Not holding my breath either.
The early election threw them and they came into power before they had formulated any real policies. They know they are there by default, not on the merits of their policies.
Therefore, they are unsure of themselves in many areas and unwilling to do things
Starmer played Trump with his royal invite. Perhaps you don't want to see that. I doubt very much your idea of Arms-Length would make a blind bit of difference compared to Starmer's approach.
Starmer has been instrumental in coordinating for Ukraine
If they're in flight, we're dead - end of.
(There's a wealth of difference between pragmatism and defeatism. We need to be pragmatic.)
But, if we can see it, your point is still valid.
Makes no sense
They want their return on investment, and so the UK will keep the poor poorer, while advancing legislation to protect their investors.
A never ending cycle of corruption
However, he's shown himself to be a spineless coward
They claim they are but?
No reason to explicitly antagonise him OR to explicitly suck up to him.
As liberalism failed with its Laissez-faire Capitalism
Neoliberalism is repeating the same mistakes with 'Free Market Capitalism'
As it was Prescott Bush & Hitler in 1925.
Bush coup in 1933.
Everyone turned blind eyes to Hitler = 2025—Donald Trump & Netanyahu
Make America Go Away🇬🇱
Red and White-
Together we fight🇩🇰🇬🇱🇨🇦
Слава Україні!,
Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦
It seems that they reject obvious and potentially popular options in favour of the most damaging, to them as well as us.
Very odd.
Labour signed-off on the Tory post-Brexit Freeport's idea.
Freeports and SEZs have EU non-compliant tax breaks contracted for ten years. We would be breaking contracts; with huge penalties possibly outweighing any rejoining benefits.
We didn't have a referendum about that, however.
This may be the only argument that is obvious, but it appears not quite to be the case.
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/04/04/freeports-special-economic-zones-explained/
Afaiac, those who keep on punting this out get blocked.
I'd be happy if this is the case as I want to rejoin the EU ASAP.
There has to be a good reason, even for Starmer’s neoliberal Labour Party.
When you have eliminated the impossible…
Rejoining would be a vote-winner.
Ergo, there is another reason.
Checked out your stats, they hold up. Not that this will be news to you, just posting a source for the spectators.
That rather does blow a hole in my previous assumption, doesn't it.
Humanity has been perfecting stupidity since we left the caves.
The party system is broken because it can be bought out and waylaid cheaply and quickly.
Starmer's reputation was sullied long beofre Trump.
Seems like it.
https://medium.com/@edwinhayward/how-labour-can-avoid-a-one-term-disaster-a-brexit-and-pr-roadmap-28e7836a5004
I have been exceptionally and explicitly consistent over the years at taking no pleasure for having been proven right about the disaster that is Brexit.
Ultimately everything else is just a sideshow.
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And all this framed around ‘strategic competence’.
On many issues it's nowhere near good enough but somehow they just can't see it.
A pragmatic approach would be to treat Trump with cool but polite reserve, and coordinate retaliatory tariff action with the EU, Canada and others to show strength in numbers.
That's the only language Trump understands.
They will seek to divide to conquer although probably more by luck than judgement.
Macron is getting way with so much, because the bugger can't understand him in English.
We could really do with someone with a Scottish or Irish accent right now.
Or anything Americans find pretty but hard to understand.
Perhaps they aren't confident their voter base would support anything more meaningful?
The same could be said of the Green leadership. And it's not a left-right thing.
What isn't coming through in the LibDems' public messaging is any narrative-commanding fight. Again, it's the same with the Greens.
opportunity which may have had a ‘feel good factor’ for some voters after years of Tory corruption & evil, but we badly needed a strong pro European voice (and choice!) to counter the vile, lying Tories and weak/cowardly Labour approach on the EU and other key topics🤷♀️
While maintaining a facade of moral superiority, as they don't actively want to make things worse.
It is inherently spineless.