Trump is a bully and Starmer must resist becoming his sidekick, I warn in the Indy That means stronger trade relationships with the EU And especially joining the EU Customs Union www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... - ThreadSky

greenpartymolly.bsky.social • 106 days ago

Trump is a bully and Starmer must resist becoming his sidekick, I warn in the Indy

That means stronger trade relationships with the EU

And especially joining the EU Customs Union

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-reset-uk-eu-trade-tariffs-trump-b2648247.html

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bigalandavid.bsky.social•102 days ago

"Independent"?
Against Independence!!!!

bogwoppitt59.bsky.social•105 days ago

Is Starmer still on CIAs payroll via trilateral commission, if so he’ll do as he’s told . It’s that simple .

davidplowman.bsky.social•105 days ago

Too many are cozying up to Trump. This is how bullies always work. Everybody wants to be in his gang even it makes them look fools. Eventually the bully is exposed like the Emperor with no clothes. Then their followers definitely look like fools.

arrowone-01.bsky.social•105 days ago

Biden us creating ww3!! what's that to do with Trump Doris ?

ahbeck.bsky.social•105 days ago

Just rejoin, no?

greenpartymolly.bsky.social•105 days ago

Well, yes, of course. But that will take some time

edfreshwater.bsky.social•105 days ago

But but but we had a referendum that was totally legitimate and is apparently a mandate for a free trade agreement with the US and no safeguards for food or health services. Apparently that was all on the ballot paper...

greenpartymolly.bsky.social•105 days ago

Is there any length of time after which we are allowed to change our minds? It's been more than eight years . . .

edfreshwater.bsky.social•105 days ago

Well they start to shout "sovereignty" and "will of the people" at me when I bring this up, which is presumably why Gladstone is still Prime Minister.

Lots of people have their identity wrapped up in this bad decision, so it's going to take a lot of work to unravel the Brexit infestation.

motosunburn.bsky.social•105 days ago

I really hope we can go into 2029 in a better position with the EU, but we shouldn't fool ourselves it's just a matter of us wishing it. The EU got a brexit deal that suited it, and it won't want to do us any favours after how we behaved. Their trust will have to be earned.

pasturesnew.bsky.social•105 days ago

We cannot believe that @uklabour.bsky.social take climate change seriously until we have a free trade agreement with our nearest neighbours in the EU. #RejoinEU

bust3d00.bsky.social•105 days ago

And we can trust trump and his advisors..

lila7.bsky.social•105 days ago

😡

razzamatazz72.bsky.social•105 days ago

And I thought leaving EU was going to make the UK economically stronger! What a mess Starmer has inherited..

rostecoglou.bsky.social•104 days ago

You don't think Starmer is already a bully? Do you remember how he treated DA?

lila7.bsky.social•105 days ago

I don’t think he’s going to be anyone’s sidekick.

rmassam.bsky.social•105 days ago

The special relationship is a one way ticket. They always viewed us as useful as their European base for their weapons to prevent anything touching the USA. With Trump there in the White House it’s dangerous to share intelligence given his close contacts with Putin and the crazies in his cabinet

dobiee1947.bsky.social•104 days ago

UK is the only unilateral force that could outsmart a splintered US, provided their houses work together.

swissmrs3.bsky.social•105 days ago

It seems Trump doesn’t really understand tariffs, does he?

catanonim.me•105 days ago

And the Single Market. Via a comprehensive bilateral Association Agreement.

I know the UK Green Party's views on the SM have been in flux, and are now much more welcoming to it. So perhaps it is time for you to go the whole hog here?

greenpartymolly.bsky.social•105 days ago

Hi there. The Green Party has kept to the position that we don't want to rejoin the single market (and be subject to its laws) until we are back inside the political institutions

catanonim.me•105 days ago

As I understand it, and as I was told quite authoritatively, that the policy has changed, to be in favour of the SM before joining.

Are you saying that this is not so?

https://bsky.app/profile/hesgen.bsky.social/post/3l7vbcdophk22

https://bsky.app/profile/hesgen.bsky.social/post/3l7vniroglr2t

greenpartymolly.bsky.social•105 days ago

I had assurances from the people who wrote that policy that this wasn't so. If that wasn't so I would have opposed it at conference, as I did previously. As a former MEP, I object to the democratic deficit, but I also think it creates a weapon for our opponents to use

catanonim.me•105 days ago

1/2

Well, it seems like there's room for you and @hesgen and others to have a bit of a chat on this. I was firmly told that, for UKGP, the SM in its current form is no longer a bar to GP seeking A49 membership.

The former policy,…

catanonim.me•105 days ago

2/2

… in its (may I say) naïveté over SM and A49, was why I moved on from GP.

If the GP still does not support A49 including SM, we really do need to know that.

Does the UKGP now support a Art49 application and membership of the SM as it currently works?

catanonim.me•105 days ago

Because the position adopted until the GE manifesto (which did not mention the SM!) superseded it was illogical and unworkable.

catanonim.me•105 days ago

After all, the EU is unlikely to react warmly to an Article 49 application from a third-party state which makes root-and-branch reform of the SM a de facto condition for its joining.

@hesgen.bsky.social

hesgen.com•105 days ago

That is putting it mildly.

peterryan.bsky.social•105 days ago

There is no U.K. Green Party. Scotland and Northern Ireland Green parties are both separate from the English and Welsh Green Party. Scottish Greens policy is for to Scotland rejoin the EU. It does not place restrictions on the order that Scotland would rejoin the separate European institutions.

catanonim.me•105 days ago

So, since it looks as if GPEW's new policy might not be exactly excited on SM-as-a-stage-to-Join, one might get a slightly different policy offering on this, depending on which side of the Eng-Sco border you live?

peterryan.bsky.social•105 days ago

That is true. The parties publish separate manifestos so while there may be policy alignment in some areas there will be differences is others.

voiceactorfergs.bsky.social•105 days ago

Starmer will kowtow to tRump just to try & prove to the hard of thinking brexit gammonati that he could get a US/uk trade "deal" done.

wendynowak.bsky.social•105 days ago

If, like me, you are not in a good place about any of this and can't live with this threat to our food/meds just sign and share this petition. Day 56 of asking for it. #RejoinEU56 Check your email when you've signed! #RejoinEU #Brexit https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700005

revdkathy.bsky.social•105 days ago

Note that abusers always seek to separate one from family and friends... exactly as Trump is doing to Britain.

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