“In a continent losing the security we relied on all our lives, trade disputes become trivial, Brexit an irrelevance. Merz is calling for Europe to come together in foreign, trade & security policy. Starmer ought to seize the chance and abandon fears of Brexiters”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/24/keir-starmer-uphold-british-european-values-trump-white-house?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Brexit has reduced the uk in every way.
Now more than ever, is it clear that our nearest neighbours are our best allies, trading partners and friends!!
Trump has proven that we can never rely on the US again!
He’s stood up to Trump, contradicted him over Ukraine as well as developing a more supportive plan with France and pledged ongoing support. He’s also contradicted Trump over Gaza.
At what point will you start giving him any credit??
https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/keir-starmer-broken-promises-tuition-fees-nationalisation-u-turn/
It takes no account of time or changing circumstance. It classes ‘talking to a person we don’t approve of’ as breaking a pledge!
It’s a bad joke.
Would you care to discuss any specific instances you believe he lied?
Frustrating.
Doesn't look that "Labour" to some of us.
It’s very much not tearing him down before he’s even arrived as some people are doing.
We must be European and work together to deal with the US monster.
A toddler’s behaviour won’t improve if you agree with it that it can keep eating Haribos and doesn’t need to go to bed.
Not really a pro-EU position to flood the place with our distressed toddlers again.
We should address what drives them - essentially the lack of control.
And this is assuming there are no unforgivable outcomes from Trump shacking up with Putin.
Coming together with the war-mongering genocidal van den Leyen, the fascist Orban and the "almost there fascist" Merz who invites Netanyahu, and the in general complier and abetter of #GazaGenocide EU.
No thank you.
Polly writes this while accepting Labour unicorns of CCPPT membership and using security to ask for equivalence.
you can still see it online. and still wrong. It echoes a lot of what Benn says in that clip.
https://www.rmt.org.uk/about/policies/political-circulars-and-submissions/referendum-on-membership-of-the-european-union130516/
His son is SoS for NI now, I think. It changes so regularly, it's hard to keep up.
Am guessing he's a bennite too?
"Some 53% of all voters, and 60% of those under-35, aspire to Irish unity within the next 20 years."
55% think it was wrong to leave. It will likely increase.
In light of the most important change since 1945, US support may be for Russia, our adversary, KS should reconsider Brexit with Brits. We need to circle the wagons, not half measures.
If KS won't, then Labour should consider replacing him. He's not much of PM in times of change, it seems, and that is why they should elect a better one to lead Labour & UK, in these troubled times.
Just because you're itching for scrap ... for a change.
Even foam has memory.
Do you think Europeans don't?
Abandoning it completely is in Britain’s core interest. No screwing around.
Ditch Brexit.
Since our government is siding w/ fcking North Korea and Russia, I want to let Ukraine 🇺🇦 know that most Americans support them in their fight. Trump’s government does not represent me!
Because they don't know how to, or won't reset, it remains the biggest policy disaster UK has ever undertaken since Suez.
FREE ULSTER
FREE SCOTLAND
The threat of Reform should be countered by exposing them as a genuine risk to UK security, not televised nail bar raids.
This is about survival now.
There was a debate on border control a few days ago and no Reform MPs were there for that either.
If only Parliamentary debates were held on tractors in farmer costumes?
Allowances and pension still rolling in
QUNT
He gets very stroppy if people ask him about that EU pension. £70k a year, I've heard.
Not to worry, the IRA supporter was elevated to the House of Lords so she could keep helping herself to your money
A much more sensible strategy is to address the basic cause of Euroscepticism; the lack of control in those regions and the extreme centralisation in Westminster.
The sexual predator has been dividing the nation with his lies, and BOOM, he has united the planet, except Putin, against him.
The women, the men, the DEI, all colours, the GOP, US trading partners and their Allies are all now united against the orange faced rapist.
Just sayin'
Europe should be talking to Russia not 🇺🇲
Don't fall for Trump's international shake down
Everyone knows the invasion started bc of 🇺🇲's NATO expansion broken promise & is proxy-war so 🇺🇲 can take over Ukraine Russia + half of Europe
https://youtu.be/VjcMoDFU1xg?si=rCXa8gI-bXVQSFF4
The nutshell take that everyone should keep in mind.
Thanks.
Europe spend over £390 billion on collective defence. We need to come together and have our own independent nuclear deterent.
Yes-cause even if they are in denial or just plain stupid - Brexiters & supporters of Reform are fascists - & fascists should never be allowed to raise again & that can only be achieved with our true allies the EU
In reality, Britain is still too Eurosceptic to rejoin and that needs addressing to be able to do so - which is obviously the right, pro-EU course of action.
Not a fan!
Look at us. It couldn't happen to us, right?
Isn't the EU a safer place to be a part of? Or am I missing something.
The lifespan of the expensive second class defence systems bought to uphold an alliance that now is dead.
Scrap the F-35 and the Wedgetail now, or remain a vassal, jumping at every decree and whim from the 🍊.
US is to all intentions a rogue state, Felon 47 & Billi-bunch-0-numbers Musk need to be considered are compromised! Secrets & intelligence shared carefully.
Frankly, the UK is not a country we can trust.
Until the UK joins the EU all this talk of an alliance is just talk.
If the U.K. uncouples itself from USA, (wanted by Germany 🇩🇪) or Trump throws us under a bus, our much-vaunted nuclear weapons won’t work!
Unlike France’s which really are independent. 🇫🇷
Then there is the “five eyes” intelligence agreement (presumably now six eyes with the CIA sharing everything with the FSB).
They are Trump and Putin supporters and don't care about the security of the country.
My sad take is that Starmer will miss the link
Britain have more in common with Canada than with Germany, Poland, Romania, ...
You really should have terminated the post after the first four words, it was all pretty catastrophic from there on...
Continents are landmasses, Britain is close to Eurasia but not part of it, because there is a sea between the two
Eurasia is.
Delicate politics.