✍️ Britain’s leaders are failing the Trump test In the face of Trump’s return, UK leaders are choosing weakness over principle – history will judge them for it By Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social - ThreadSky

yorkshirebylines.co.uk • 18 days ago

✍️ Britain’s leaders are failing the Trump test

In the face of Trump’s return, UK leaders are choosing weakness over principle – history will judge them for it

By Andy Brown
@andybrown1951.bsky.social

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triassic.bsky.social•18 days ago

Do we really want to appease Trumps whites supremacy party? We need statesmenship, we need to do the right thing! This will be the test for Starmer.

alistairblantyre.bsky.social•18 days ago

🥴

poppy53.bsky.social•18 days ago

Goodbye UK and any decency.

yamrock71.bsky.social•18 days ago

#Britain doesn’t have any “leaders”… it has COWARDS.

Which of these spineless frauds would you choose to follow?

WEAK AF!!

mja66.bsky.social•18 days ago

Mandelson arrives in Washington for his first day as UK ambassador.

207michael.bsky.social•18 days ago

A very poor analysis sadly. The situation is not as black and white as it's being suggested. Trump is doing awful things and it looks like he will do more. But at the same time we need to be cautious and not too over the top either way

joeyheroin.bsky.social•18 days ago

i'd say we need to be over the top and past where anyone else is thinking. he's a danger to the entire planet. he has the nuclear codes and he's a psychopath.

207michael.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yes he is but going over the top especially now in his first 100 days is an error. He's already facing several domestic court cases etc.. that we need to see play out and for him to be shown he can't do certain things

joeyheroin.bsky.social•18 days ago

He doesn’t recognise certain legal institutions. It’s petrifying.

207michael.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yes that is true but he is starting to face some push back and the DOJ is being sued by FBI agents. Alot of what he's doing is flooding news channels with lots and lots of noise wanting people to be outraged by everything while he doesn't "always" do it so you miss what he does do

yorkshirebylines.co.uk•18 days ago

Absolutely, it's important to step back and consider everything calmly!

pedropete1.bsky.social•18 days ago

We would all like to believe that but do you really think the courts will hold him? Our experience tells us he will delay, delay, delay, get a favourable judge, go to Supreme Court while he does more and more disastrous actions. The free world watches in horror.

jamesmcneile.bsky.social•18 days ago

This was drafted before Trump’s ludicrous comments about Gaza. Had Trump been around in 1945 he’d see Auschwitz as an opportunity for real estate developers! Trying to appease him by ‘being friends’ as opposed to the EU who he hates and offering a state visit is despicable. Don’t appease bullies!

yorkshirebylines.co.uk•18 days ago

You're right, it was written and scheduled before last night's crazy comments. We're finding that any Trump-related pieces are out of date before they're even published!

marcusm29.bsky.social•18 days ago

"There is a time for realpolitik and for deciding that caution is the better part of valour. This is not it. Hoping that Trump will moderate his position and be nice to us if our leaders butter him up with offers of tea with the Royals is not the way to handle the the danger that he represents."

ayemckay.bsky.social•18 days ago

So we are now moving on from fundamental judgement of the UK government after six months to fundamental judgement of them after a fortnight. Can’t say this feels like progress…

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