As good a metric as any for "cut through" with the median British person is Mail Online comments. More than 2k means a story is a proper talker. Normal people are taking notice. The Vance story currently has 3.3k comments in just a couple of hours. Top-rated comment: - ThreadSky

gabrielmilland.bsky.social • 3 hours ago

As good a metric as any for "cut through" with the median British person is Mail Online comments. More than 2k means a story is a proper talker. Normal people are taking notice. The Vance story currently has 3.3k comments in just a couple of hours.

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balmachreuchie.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Comrade Goski.

gabrielmilland.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Said it before and I'll say it again. Anti-Americanism is a real force in most countries. There's a popular discourse that just takes something to wake it up. That has now happened in the UK.

jspetrak.name•2 hours ago

Well, USA is now destroying running joke that it exports democracy to anywhere crude oil is found. Now they just enforce mineral deal or team up with your enemy.

thomaswpenny.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Yes. I've spent years pushing back at my children's Anti-Americanism by pointing out the many wonderful things about it, but I've thrown in the towel now.

gabrielmilland.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Lack of respect for the British armed forces and British sacrifice is a key part of our own anti-American discourse. It was a major factor in domestic sentiment in WW2. And now it's running again.

boohetz.bsky.social•3 hours ago

“Overpaid, oversexed, and over here” type of energy? I’m re-reading Ambrose’s D Day and that is a common thread.

nickrochford.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Overpaid, over-sexed and not over here soon...

gabrielmilland.bsky.social•3 hours ago

There are tramlines in the popular national memory for stuff like this.

jgrassom.bsky.social•3 hours ago

There’s an old phrase that I remember from the 1970/80s of something being useless as Un-Servicable or US.

balmachreuchie.bsky.social•3 hours ago

A hidden transcript that’s in a drawer most of the time

benansell.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Fascinated as to whether Vance will ever respond to this

garethramsay.bsky.social•3 hours ago

He already has. "Grossly dishonest" to suggest he was referring to the UK or France.

benansell.bsky.social•3 hours ago

He was up early over there I see…

gsds3.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Good test of peoples gullibility, this. Expecting us to believe that his comments about Ukraines defence somehow omitted the two countries leading its formation

medusanw.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Which other countries supplied 20,000 troops then? What a dishonest piece of shit he is...

zaphodbeeblebr0x.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Bare faced lying won’t defuse this

robertwoolley.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Great. He can tell us which countries he *was* referring to.

radiohead319.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I wonder if American tourists in UK and EU are starting to feel this yet?

gsds3.bsky.social•3 hours ago

The tightrope for Starmer gets thinner and shakier by the day. Not that I think he has a practical alternative than to stay on it for as long as possible

crusaderproject.bsky.social•3 hours ago

@alanallport.bsky.social

ehhk.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Hopefully this will damage Farage

korgill.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Giving unconditional support to Bush after 9/11 pretty much destroyed Blair’s political capital. Being a principled pragmatist vis Trump has provided Starmer with the shot in the arm he needed.

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