Trump: I am imposing tariffs to make people buy American and rebuild American industries.
Dictionary: This is protectionism.
Lammy: We're in a new era of American protectionism.
No 10 and Starmer: We're too afraid to call a spade a spade (because Brexit weakened our negotiating power)
Indeed. And this lurch rightwards was predicted a long time ago by climate activists. I can't believe folk are watching what's going on in the states right now and thinking "Yes that looks good. Let's vote to have that here too"
"Damning report by public accounts committee finds some of Tory government’s initiatives have worsened the crisis"
As if the Tories could even care too...
I suddenly want to be in the #EuropeanUnion again, I hate #Brexit.
"How Trump has reset the Brexit reset" - https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/how-trump-has-reset-brexit-reset.html#comment-form
Prof. Grey's conclusion: "realpolitik and statecraft ought to alert us to the fact that the immorality of what is unfolding in the United States, quite as much as the imposition of tariffs, represents a clear and present danger to our national interests and our way of life."
#brexit #ukpolitics #trump #eu
@popcornreel Imagine being in No 10, reading that Editorial as Very Serious People do, and then thinking "ah, but OUR trade deal will avoid all that"
Every sucker Trump ripped off thought they were the one exception.
Rachel Reeves and Labour negotiating the Nation away with a man who posts in ALL CAPS all the fucking time.
British Foreign Policy is a disgraced Prince writing birthday letters to a foreign tyrant.
When 'Mr Atlantic', David Lammy, is telling you that Trump is bad and we need to rethink our nation's strategy, perhaps No 10 should listen?
Right now, they are not.
Starmer and Lammy split?
Lammy is the more agile thinker, so....
1,749 English council seats are up for election on the first of May: 1,656 scheduled elections and 92 by-elections.
8,619 candidates are fighting for them.
Candidates per party:
Reform UK - 1,705
Conservative - 1,687
Labour - 1,633
Lib Dem - 1,474
Green - 1,259
Other parties - 354
Independents - 507
Get the data: https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2025/04/04/2025-local-election-candidate-data-summary/
"Actually, Up is Down, Right is Left and we can have our cake and eat it, we can have it all, we have all the cards, we have a united strategy..."
Sound familiar?
Just Brexit all over again.
"By destroying our country like Trump is destroying his, we can get a good deal" said the naïve Quisling
A 'New era' that you weren't prepared for and for which you have no plan other than 'keep our heads down and hope the Mad King isn't mean to us"
Oh yeah, they're really going to fuck this up, aren't they?~
Don't listen to children, don't listen to parents, just ban something and bend to Big Money, just as always.
No wonder the Youth is nihilistic.....
Watching this government deal with crisis like Trump is like watching the then Tory government deal with COVID19.
Remember how we were screaming at them to do SOMETHING but they just dithered and withered, and then lied and grifted....
Our super bestest fwend, America and it's super bestest Rapist, Donald Trump.
So what did bending the knee to him before the US Election get us Starmer?
Quakers from around the country descended on Scotland Yard to pour shame on them
