It is difficult to believe the government is stupid enough to do all the things listed here. It appears they want to anger the USA
1. Appoint David Lammy as Foreign Secretary knowing he had launched a very nasty attack on the man likely to win the Presidency.
2. Remove a popular UK Ambassador in Washington, replacing her with a contentious political appointment known for his anti Trump views and pro China and EU stance
3. Open negotiations with an EU that is not going to improve our deal which already includes a free trade agreement, signalling the wish to be closer to the EU when the US calls EU policy atrocious
4. Fail to offer a win/win lower tariff trade deal to President Trump  on election, despite being told he was up for a deal
5. Signing a letter condemning the US approach to the ICC, knowing such posturing will annoy but not change  US  conduct
6. Pressing ahead with a dreadful deal over Chagos and the crucial US naval base at Diego Garcia against the US strategic defence interest
7. Trying to assert extra territorial powers over Apple and US data in a way designed to inflame Democrats as well as Republicans
8. Leading opposition to the idea of ending the Ukraine war by negotiation
9.Supporting high taxes on US corporations with special taxes on digital
10. Sending Labour personnel to try to stop President Trumpâs election when it was clear he was likely to win.
11. Interfering in US policy to merge USAID with the State department.
These moves are a good way to encourage President Trump to demand a better deal from the UK.
February 9, 2025
Anyone would think this is either an incompetent government or being influenced by the Russians; or probably both.
February 9, 2025
President Trump is threatening Canada, a member of the Commonwealth with King Charles as its head of state. He is also threatening Denmark, a NATO ally. President Trump is no friend of the UK, and should be treated as such
February 9, 2025
A lot about Trump is hot hair.
He can’t exactly. march on Greenland or Canada – it completely violates the spirit of the American Constitution and in a very obvious way.
He knows that.
And it’s Canada and Denmark’s problem to deal with for now.
Our job is to focus on the British economy. Our economy needs sorting out. And our debt that is eye-watering big. And getting on with the USA is important in helping out economy.
February 9, 2025
and yet he gets things done, doesn’t wait for approval from the committee, OBR or the media
February 10, 2025
I don’t deny. My argument is that much of Trump is smoke and mirrors (like Tony Blair) and don’t put him on a pedestal.
Like Tony Blair, vital to Trump’s approach is: ‘Let me entertain you’ – but there’s no real depth behind it all.
February 9, 2025
@Lemming – you haven’t been listening or hearing, you have picked up the left-wing (we hate Trump) media spin on things.
With the UK he is a dismayed as the rest of us we have imposed another Marxist government on the World, a wrecking government geared for personal and ideological gain at the expense of its people. Another mess the free democratic World has to sort out
February 9, 2025
Not the Russians, the WEF.
February 9, 2025
Exactly, of which unfortunately our King and PM are enthusiastic supporters.
Saving Canada, offering the SA farmers asylum – they have been suffering a horrific genocide for some time about which the Commonwealth showed no interest, securing peace and security for the only Jewish on earth and putting an end to the slaughter of Russian Ukrainians by the Bandeirites is a considerable achievement by any marker.
February 9, 2025
Indeed, I had very low expectations of Starmerâs Labour, but they have been even more appalling than I expected. Let us hope Trump will knock some sense into them. He should start by refusing Lammy, Madelson and Chagos. A good list by JR but far more error too.
February 9, 2025
Why would you want to be independent of the EU bit kow tow to the new American administration?
Independence is independence. Your attitude is as bad as the pro EU types like Hilary Benn
February 9, 2025
Because the EU is parasite? Too expensive.
February 9, 2025
Hear, hear. In the 1975 EEC referendum, several anti-‘Common Market’ MPs were in favour of an independent UK placing itself roughly equidistant between the USA and the USSR.
The USA has some very undesirable features, including its appalling food and agricultural systems (e.g. >10,000 permitted food additives) and its apparent insistence on very one-sided agreements. One example is the staggeringly unfair US-UK extradition treaty; why was the UK ever naive enough to sign it?
February 9, 2025
I did not say I wanted to “Kow Tow” just for Trump (or anyone else) to knock some sense into this moronic government and the appalling Starmer, Lammy, Reeves, Cooper-Balls…
February 9, 2025
Trump being a free marketeer and business man is the polar opposite of our Marxist government. He understands the power of a strong hand in negotiations whereas our …t show are supplicants in all they do.
This once proud nation is reduced to a laughing stock on the world stage by sixth form politicians completely out of their depth.
Who would give away their house and then pay to lease it back. It beggars belief as my late father would say.
February 9, 2025
”….are supplicants in all they do” This is the position we got into with the EU as soon as European Communities Act came into force. This attitude was most egregiously clear in the negotiation under the Maidenhead Assistant-librarian’s rule when negotiating the end of our EU membership. First rule of negotiating: don’t even start unless the other side perceives, correctly or not, that you are in a position of strength. We didn’t even try…
February 9, 2025
No. Trump is NOT as free market as you make out. His tariffs undermine your claim greatly.
February 9, 2025
The tariffs are an opening gambit to secure a good deal. This tactic has worked with Mexico, Columbine and Canada. The EU is a protectionist entity and he rightfully yas his sights on them
February 9, 2025
@Ed M – most of his tariffs proposed and otherwise are part of the negotiations. With Canada and Mexico its about them doing something about the flood of Chinese new vogue addictive drugs and illegal/criminals crossing the border. With China it is about them flooding the world with highly state sponsored/subsidised goods, while blocking goods going into China – That battle is also with the WTO who class the Worlds 2nd largest economy a a third world country and dictate it should be free to do what it likes to undermine the World.
When it gets to the EU and it will it is about them being a trade protected zone, blocking World trade with spurious terms while at the same time putting a 400% uplift on US goods entering the EU that the US dos going the other way. It has also to do with the US taxpayer is the only ones paying for the defence of Europe.
You could reason all the above are looking to ‘free-load’ on the US Taxpayer, so they can their heads above water at someone elseâs expense.
I would guess Trump is looking for a bit of reciprocity – that is what is meant by a ‘free market’
February 9, 2025
Good morning.
I just think they don’t care. They just want to do the things they want to do, very much like the last governments did over the past 14 years.
I am more interested in the things they are doing here. The Council Tax rises and the fact that we are to have our democratic right to vote in this years council elections worry me most.
February 9, 2025
Sorry
. . . we are NOT to have . . .
February 9, 2025
Is your last sentence a precursor to removing our right to vote in a General Election. I suspect their trial run at the Locals.
February 9, 2025
@agricola +1
Out of fear of their seats Parliament will continue to corrupt even the notion of democracy – the swamp needs clearing
February 9, 2025
Agree
February 9, 2025
My guess that they will go the El Salvador route. ie Let things get so bad that we will literally be begging for a ‘Strong Leader’ (Dictator) to take control. Catch is, when that happens we lose all our rights and freedoms.
February 9, 2025
Indeed will they find (or cause) an excuse to delay the next general election? JRâs excellent list of insanities is very good but far from complete. The 14 years of fake Tories was appalling but Kier, Lammy, Ed Miliband, Reeves, Copper⊠are all appalling.
Now we have a health minister who says he wants a pensioner (who sensible did not vote for him) to die and made vile antisemitic remarks too. The third to be fired so far in six months and those remaining are mainly appalling too.
February 9, 2025
They are amateurs. Professionals, like the Tories, have 3 Prime Ministers in less time than that.
February 10, 2025
+1
Quite so đ
February 9, 2025
Be in no doubt, Labour remain the children of Corbyn. They are intent on the destruction of the UK economically, to be reborn on foundations so tenuous as to ensure that destruction. A country that denies its own energy sources and substitutes them with the most expensive and unreliable, while penalising its industry for not conforming, is on a road to self destruction.
Pursuing the EU and treating the USA with disdain and a stream of insults only confirms their total unsuitability for government. The only speculation is what they dream up for the next six months, having covered the first six with abject failure. I pray that the great grandchildren of my generation see it as I do and consign Labour to oblivion.
I hear that the next step in their flight to the lowest common denominator is to attack the thrifty by attacking the cash ISA, to divert more share support at the behest of some in the City. They are the rabid dog of UK politics, who will shortly be unable to pay their membership fees in the real world. Never mind the polls, have you noticed that their own chatteratti, invited to GB News for balance, are having increased difficulty in legitamising the decisions of Labour in power.
February 9, 2025
@agricola – in retrospect you get the feeling that at least Corbyn was ‘honest’
February 9, 2025
âCity firms lobbied chancellor Rachel Reeves to scale back incentives for Cash ISA, arguing that the money would be put to better use if it were invested in the stock marketâ.
FT.com 31/01/2025 âCity firms urge Rachel Reeves to curb cash ISAsâ.
FT.com 09/02/2025 âResist City pressure to hit cash ISAs, building societies tell Reevesâ.
From a 15-year experience an ISA invested in ETFs (thanks Sir John), investment trusts, unit trusts are likely over a 5-year period to be much more positive than a cash ISA. An ETF on the S&P500, the NASDAQ or a bunch of US tech companies brought between 5% and more than 30% during each of the last five years.
The problem is that in comparison over the period Febâ20 to Febâ25 the FTSE100 just did 10% âŠ
February 9, 2025
These are all very harmful especially when listed together. In addition, I have seen video footage of Kier Starmer saying âof course I would not have Trump round for dinnerâ (2016); âdont underestimate the danger to the world if Trump is re-elected this time roundâ (2020); âIm anti Trumpâ (2021). These comments are not only pathetic they are wrong too. DJT is bringing desperately needed order and peace to a world on the verge of war. He is also bringing safety and prosperity for the US too. By comparison Kier Starmer is an unmitigated failure.
February 9, 2025
Davos or Westminster? We all heard Starmer’s answer; Trump probably irritates him more than the British public.
February 9, 2025
@Wanderer – Starmer doesn’t have to deal or listen to the British public, his personal ideological esteem put at a different level. For the moment everything for him is going to plan
February 9, 2025
I think Trump is above such childish but pernicious posturing and virtue signalling to Trump’s opposition. I have been watching to see whether he will act in a mean spiteful way against his enemies in the US now he has the power to do so and it seems he will not stoop to their level. If any of Starmer’s Gang had substance Trump might have an issue, but they are below the requisite stature so he will probably bypass them and work through Nigel Farage who will certainly be speaking with him privately and in public for Britain. In effect UK will have two channels to Trump, the other being through that snake Mandelson who was one of several Remainers claiming that leaving the EU was far too complex a decision to be determined by the oafish public.
February 9, 2025
I don’t think Trump really cares that much about the UK. It’s sentimental nonsense to think he does.
February 9, 2025
*But at same time, I agree with people who say we shouldn’t antagonise him either.’
Also, why do people have to LOVE or HATE him like Marmite. Why not just approach him like he’s not as bad as his enemies make him out to be but nor he is some great leader like Cyrus the Great – arguably one of the greatest political leaders in history.
February 9, 2025
In practice you may be right Ed but at least Trump doesn’t seem to bear us (as a Nation) any animosity – unlike his predecessor…
February 9, 2025
We need to put out the red carpet to Trump, Biden, the EU – anything (within reason) to help build up our economy and reduce debt (but without giving away anything to the EU – we’ve got to make Brexit work. And Brexiters need to start putting out the red carpet to Remainers. Trying to persuade them what a Brand Britain – sovereign of the EU would look like. Great. But lot of hard work ahead. Including building up our High Tech industry, developing North of England so southern tax payers don’t have to pay for the North in high taxes etc). Our country has potentially a great future.
So less politics – more business!
February 9, 2025
+1
February 9, 2025
Indeed I think Trump will see them as the amateur naive players they are. He’ll see the polls, so it’s important for Nigel/Reform to be in the ascendancy. Trump’s people will rightly be asking, @ 40% + Reform polling, why on earth he should even be taking these idiots seriously.
Meantime, of course, Labour will cosy up to China in the hope of averting a gilts crisis. The next big mistake.
Ideal world scenario these people fall on their swords in the next 12 months.
February 9, 2025
Yes, they are deliberately trying to provoke Trump and his Government.
Two-Tier is a Globalist and it’s all part of the plan to drag us back under the control of the EU.
February 9, 2025
@Donna +1
It would appear Trump is above the pettiness of Starmer. Trump has achieved more to change the direction, infuse more positive dynamism in his first 7 days in office than Two-Tier has managed in 6 months. Starmer has confirmed he is more of a wrecker than an achiever
February 9, 2025
It might seem odd to those of us with rational brains, but as has been said many times
You can’t cure stupid.
February 9, 2025
@Rod Evans
February 9, 2025
Remember President Trump will be In situ for effectively three more years only – two years if you allow for the mid terms and the primaries so between now and then anything can happen and the way things are going anything will happen.
The day to day workings of a British government cannot function while always waiting on the daily reports of what is being tweeted from the White House at 5AM each morning. Starmer et al is right to just get on with it and let the chips fall – there is absolutely no way anyone can second guess the chaos that is coming from North America now.
February 9, 2025
@James4 – chaos? more a positive direction in support of those that empower and pay him. As you say he will as the US is a proper democracy be receiving conformation of the direction he is taking the Country in two years.
The UK is nigh on alone, as far as democracies go in permitting (thanks to a corrupt Parliament) people to have absolute wrecking power for 5 years. Even now they have contrived the removal of local election at the appropriate time with spurious excuses – next for the chop will be the GE’s
February 9, 2025
Indeed, but the real point is whether he can dismantle, or damage, the Deep State sufficiently in that time to allow his reforms to endure.
Naturally if the next POTUS is of similar mind Trump will have achieved something of value…
February 9, 2025
Labour = Pound-shop Communists.
February 9, 2025
@Old Albion
That’ll be five Pound-shop Communists with all the inflation the are causing.
February 9, 2025
It’s really simple. Starmer is only recently in power. He should be focusing 95% on greatly improving our economy (and bringing down debt) and the other 5% on just making friends not enemies. That’s how you help the ‘working man’ (and you can’t help the working man by crippling the rich either).
Once he’s achieves 5 years of success in the economy and wins a second term, then he can be more controversial. But he’s doing nothing like this. The guy is clueless when it comes to politics.
February 9, 2025
I just hope that Trump recognizes that this labour regime is not our government – they do not represent anything the average right thinking UK person believes in.
Perhaps I’ve mentioned this before, but this list makes it more obvious, that HMG have their own very specific agenda. This includes fighting and disparaging Trump and anyone else that dares to question them – but that’s only part of it.
HMG believe so heavily in keeping the Ukraine war going because it benefits their democrat friends, maintains their influence, and probably has some side benefits. The longer it goes on they hope that will mean Putin becomes more damaged. Putin was never part of the globalisation effort. The war is another great way to waste taxpayers money.
Knowing that they are absolutely right in forcing the UK down the netzero path, they won’t stand for someone who knows what he is doing showing them how things should be done. They are totally convinced they can mould the UK into a post-industrial 3rd world country, and get away with it.
To ‘stupid’ we can add ‘pig-headed’ and ‘ignorant’. They are in power and intend to follow through with their dogma no matter how destructive it is.
February 9, 2025
This is our government and it is what we get as a result of an absurd electoral system in which the government of the day can be elected based on the preference of 20% of the electorate. This is why we had fourteen years of catastrophic Tory incompetence followed by even more from Labour with both agreeing that we need to be flooded with the third world and that by closing down our despatchable power production we can save the planet from the anthropogenic global warming hoax. The sooner the liblabcon becomes a footnote in our history books the better. We need sane government and patriotic government; a start would be a clear out of the Foreign Office which feeds dubious policies to gormless politicians is manifestly not fit for purpose.
February 9, 2025
If you don’t believe that the current EU deal can be improved, I suggest reading a post on the M&S corporate website titled “Itâs time to end the Brexit Bureaucracy” written by Alex Freudmann, the Managing Director of M&S Food.
(I would post the link but that normally results in posts not making it through moderation.)
Reply That article rightly exposes the idiocy of the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor framework attempt to ease it. The EU is not going to re open this as they see it as an excellent way to divide off a part of the UK or to use it to force GB also into compliance with their expensive bureaucracy. I and my friends in the last Parliament offered a unilateral solution to this folly which would have protected the EUâs border as they wished which the UK government refused.
February 9, 2025
The UK comes in two parts as its name comprises the UK of GB and NI and there’s no doubt that NI part will eventually rejoin with the rest of Ireland as soon as voting patterns adjust, but much more than 50 per cent plus one will be needed to bring clarity to the situation and in any case there is no urgency North or South about this matter.
February 9, 2025
Putin doesn’t want negotiation. He wants regime change. He’s said he won’t sign any deal with Zelensky. He wants to install a Lukashenka clone in Ukraine.
February 9, 2025
But Zelensky is an American installed clone – who can blame Putin if he feels he can’t do business with him.
February 9, 2025
He wants to install a Lukashenka clone in Ukraine. Sounds like a sensible idea.
February 10, 2025
Zelensky cannot sign a deal-his presidency has ended.Putin has said he needs to get himself re-elected before he has any legitimacy.
There was a wonderfully amusing exchange between Lukashenko and the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg at the former’s press conference after the recent elections;Lukashenko ran rings around him!
February 9, 2025
Having read your list above, l think Mr Trump is showing uncharacteristic restraint in not having imposed tariffs on the UK without further thought.
February 9, 2025
Taxing American companies and asserting data laws over tech giants is good policy. There should be no favourites.
The other tings you mention are symptomatic of the childish nature of Labour policy.
Off topic but isn’t it time for the Grenfell campaigners to shut up?
Reply Not right to assert extra territorial powers over tec
February 9, 2025
“Asserting data laws” is quote vague, it can equal erosion of free speech, censorship and totalitarianism in my book.
February 9, 2025
I read some time ago, that the Grenfell group had been in touch with those of the Hillsborough Group, who no doubt had been advising them. If they follow the advice of the Hillsborough people, I doubt that the tower will ever come down.
February 9, 2025
Agree with reply but can assert national restrictions
February 9, 2025
Reply to reply: Does the UK Competition and Market Authority not have already such extra territorial powers? As far as I understand the CMA was introduced in April 2013 by the Con-LibDem Government. Are you against it?
And would the CMA not have the right to intervene in the case of the four teenagers who killed themselves because of what they read on TikTok, information presently blocked by the company?
Are you so âfree tradeâ-friendly that you would condemn the action pursued by the parents of these teenagers via the US-based Social Media Victims Law Center?
February 9, 2025
Sir John
All part of the Plan
Destroy and isolate the UK so as to impose a personal view and a Socialist/Marxist regime on the UK. there is no question of having a healthy and thriving UK. There is no intention of working with or for the People of the UK – just destruction.
It world appear to be the good-ole Communist, first you must destroy to be able to build on your personal image is being played out. Where is parliament in all this? They enable the foisting of this personal terrorist destruction of society with the 5 year terms in office.
The way I see it all of Parliament should go – they are the problem as much as the leadership is….
February 9, 2025
Agreed
February 9, 2025
As Alexander Johnson said; We will ‘build back better’ !
February 9, 2025
Their logic is puerile, attack the USA hoping you’ll make new friends in the EU/UN
February 9, 2025
Surely, the Labour backbenchers must question the sanity of their leadership? Especially those who’ll definitely lose their jobs come 2029.
The “Red Wall” electorate must be very disenchanted over what has happened to them. They voted for the Tories, expecting great things from the pretentious “Levelling up” idea but got nothing but bluster from Johnson, so went back to their old Party, Labour, to find them even worse.
The main Parties are now under assault by the new Party, Reform now branded, “Populist”, by those main three. And ‘populist’ they are, for it means ‘a supporter of the rights and power of the people’. That is the definition from the American Heritage Dictionary and will explain why Reform, leader Nigel Farage, is so friendly with the New President of the USA.
Surely, in any true democracy, ALL political Parties should be “Populist”? Not anti-populist. A geat pity that populism has not been the case here, for many decades.
February 9, 2025
Yes there is not one member of the cabinet that I find credible
You can see they donât even believe in themselves
February 9, 2025
From the MsM, Intriguing a ‘Labour Minster’ has been sacked for articulating the Labour parties thinking and plans for the UK People
February 9, 2025
Warren Buffet, the Oracle of Omaha, is again reducing his Berkshire Hathaway vehicle’s equity exposure, including it’s largest holdings. In July 2024, he sold $2.3 billion of BofA stock over six days. As late as 2024 Q3 BH was selling Apple and has aggressively reduced it’s exposure by about half. BH has also stopped buying back it’s own shares. BoA and Apple are Berkshire Hathaway’s largest holdings
Berkshire now holds $320 billion in cash and only ÂŁ272 billion in equities. Much of the cash has been invested in short-term (<3 months) US treasuries, which Buffet considers safe and which pay interest.
Is Buffet calling a market top? It is no secret that Buffet thinks that the US market in particular is very over-valued. In January 2025 inflows into global equity funds and ETF's were negative for the first month in a long time; the smart money is bailing out.
As always, investors can glean knowledge from Buffett's wisdom and investing approach. Those with pensions in drawdown, still invested in equities, may care to read up on Buffet's remarks at the last BH AGM
February 9, 2025
âIt appears they want to anger the USA.â
Yes, itâs quite obvious that our Manchurian Candidate PM wishes to goad the POTUS.
Fortunately he is smart enough to know this as evidenced by the clever way he has handled Prince Harryâs US visa.
The give-away of the Chagos Islands, where the US has an important military base, is clearly a task set by China.
February 9, 2025
Student politics on steroids thinking their majority in a small country allows them to indulge themselves to the world, virtue signalling but their hatred and envy of anything not inline with their socialist agenda, betrays the showboating hypocrisy instead.
I think they are drunk on their champagne socialist false success illusion that they call the shots devoid of their lack of empathy and awareness to everyone from pensioners, taxpayers, businesses, etc at home and think they can throw their weight around playing a combination of David and Goliath plus Robin Hood.I
February 9, 2025
I am baffled as to why Labour would do all those things. Who are they trying to impress? Who benefits?
February 9, 2025
Trump will know how to deal with Starmer and his second raters don’t you worry about that. I am just waiting to see how he does deal with them. Should make for a good comedy show.
February 9, 2025
3. EU policy âan atrocityâ: in 2023 the US goods trade deficit with the EU was âŹ155.8 bn but in services the USA had a surplus of âŹ104 bn, so a net deficit in favour of the EU of âŹ51.8 bn.
And on 03/02 the PotUS bandied around a figure of $300 bn US deficit of trade with the EU where it seems the actual numbers to the end of 2024 (census.gov 05/02/2025 âAnnual 2024 Press Highlightsâ) show a US trade deficit of $86.7 bn with RoI, $84.8 bn with Germany, but a $55.5 bn surplus with the Netherlands.
So Sir John what are the real numbers? Do you know them? Who is telling something reasonable and who makes up the figures as he is talking to journalists? Because surely an error of about a factor 6 must be noticeable.
As Radoslaw Sikorski (Polandâs Foreign Minister) said on 06/02 âI hope all participants base their opinions and decisions on factsâ.
Reply The US and Uk figures are computed differently.
February 9, 2025
As a 70 year old, what a shame I must witness UK missing the greatest opportunity of my life time with the most pro UK president ever.
Blair squandered Mrs Thatchers inheritance.
Mrs May and the Tories squandered the Brexit opportunity
And now Starmer is sealing in both for a catastrophic future outcome which I doubt I’ll ever see put right in my lifetime, between them they are ruining our great country which is headed to be third world
February 9, 2025
There’s no point in trying to pander to the US in an attempt to get trade deal because even if we did get a deal it would be so loaded against us we’d be better off without. Best thing to do now is to keep the head down until all this smoke blows over and hope for better days
February 9, 2025
We can await the American responses with glee in the hope this wretched bunch of Labour party apparachiks get slapped down hard whilst true British interests are not savaged.
Ineptly led as you have identified, Sir John, and as we now see from ex-Minister Andrew Gwynne with a contempt and disdain for the British people.
February 9, 2025
Iâm not sure their behaviour is ignorance or arrogance, perhaps itâs a mixture. Daily this administration proves itâs not fit for purpose. As a result weâre a greatly diminished nation.
February 9, 2025
Starmer knows all this. He wants to provoke action by Trump against the UK so he can justify aligning with the EU.
February 9, 2025
Great post John
You couldnât make it up!
February 9, 2025
A point the blog omitted is that concerning Gaza Trump is far smarter than the consensus that is opposing him over this. Trump is right that a two state notion needs to be abandoned because two states are not viable when one state is frequently starting hostilities by launching rocket attacks on the second state and this has been ongoing for many years. Furthermore rebuilding Gaza is a waste of money when the inhabitants (and don’t tell me the military raid in Israel in October 2023 with thousands of fighters involved in it could have been done and kept secret from Israel if it didn’t have the support of almost all the population of Gaza) are willing to start hostilities again which would mean reprisal bombings that would destroy much of what would be rebuilt. It is also ridiculous for people to live as refugees for many years, let alone a whole lifetime before moving elsewhere. In principle Trump is right over this and the rest of the world is wrong. Trump’s problem is getting his sensible insights put into practice.
February 9, 2025
Here is an interesting article, hot from the press … note the paltry economic gains which might be achieved if we offered to become a vassal state of the EU empire and they kindly agreed to reward us for our submission. To think of all the letters I have had in the local paper explaining that the economic impact of EU membership was always marginal and now Rejoiners are jubilant here about a possible one-off gain of 1% or 2% of GDP. Clearly they do not understand how much the enduring damage of the 2008 global financial crisis has cost us.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-reset-economic-growth-eu-goodwill-b2694983.html
“Report shows how Starmerâs Brexit reset can save economic plan but only with EU goodwill”
Reply Why give such nonsense any airtime. This is as mythical as the 4% hit they forecast.
February 10, 2025
Of course we should give it as much publicity as possible and expose it for the nonsense that it is. Any piece of nonsense is good enough for Rejoiners to circulate and thereby extract the maximum propaganda value for their cause and if we never expose it for nonsense then they will win more and more people over to their side. I would have thought that had become obvious when government ministers allowed all kinds of Remainer rubbish to go unchallenged and helped them to get enough traction to wreck our withdrawal, and now we have a majority of voters agreeing that it was all a big mistake and should be reversed. It should not be like that, by now there should be a large majority accepting that leaving the EU did not have anything like the adverse effects that they were warned about at the time of the referendum and we really are better off out.
February 11, 2025
We do not know what the sample was for this alleged ‘nationwide’ poll. The source for the ‘poll’ is Statista which is an arm of Ströer Media Gmbh, a German company which acts as advertisers for EU institutions and constantly declares its commitment to the EU, to ‘European democracy’, diversity and ‘togetherness’. They are sponsoring a competition to ‘teach young schoolchildren about the democratic virtues of the European Elections’ (and btw I note that like their French media equivalents they have been ordered to use the word European and avoid the term EU). Reading through their website I would say they are a perfect example or German corporate confirmation bias. Their leftish-centrist propaganda is inescapable, and typical of German state corporatism.
Even if their UK Brexit poll has been taken and analysed 1) honestly and 2) using a moderately large sample, polls are not an accurate prediction of voting outcomes in the UK – as we saw in June 2016 and in many General Elections before and since.
I noticed that their headline ‘analysis’ of the 2024 UK GE result failed to mention the turnout or the 20% electoral support for Labour, but called it a ‘landslide’.
It is vital to research the corporate structure, political bias and funding of pollsters.