Since President Trump got into office again many on the left in the UK have claimed he has undue influence over the UK, and spend their time condemning what he does. They need to understand that past US Administrations have all sought to influence UK policy, and the Biden Administration was particularly influential. President Trump has not interfered in many areas where he could. He has not condemned the idiotic surrender of the Chagos base to a friend of China. He has not sought to block the siting and expansion of the Chinese Embassy in London, though UK US intelligence security is a joint concern. He has not sought to use tariffs or other sanctions to get the UK to onshore more of our industry and produce more of our own energy, though both are crucial to being able to make an important contribution to NATO.
All the time we had President Biden in the White House I declined to criticise and was keen for our country to do the best deal with him we could.
Biden’s team were anti Brexit, pro the Republic of Ireland and pro the EU. They interfered extensively in the negotiations over the treatment of Northern Ireland and over what was to become the Windsor Framework. They sought to divide the pro Brexit Conservative MPs from the DUP, and to marginalise both in the discussions over the future realti0onship. The US stance wrongly argued that the Good Friday Agreement would be damaged if the UK did not adopt the EU scheme for controlling Northern Ireland trade and business laws. This was self evidently wrong but became the prevailing orthodoxy in much of the official UK government. US influence helped secure a great deal for the EU at our expense.
President Biden put in two new Vice Chairs at the Fed and engineered major changes of approach and policy at that institution. Ironically the remodelled Fed duly printed too much money and allowed an inflation which did big damage to the Democrat cause. This had knock on effects to the UK with the Bank of England deciding to make a similar mistake.
President Biden pulled bis troops out of Afghanistan overnight without warning his allies or seeking our agreement. This left UK troops exposed and gave the UK government a major problem to rescue our forces. It also led to the needless loss of the country to the Taliban.
President Biden mis spoke about Ukraine, saying a limited Russian acquisition of territory might be alright, giving Putin a clear indication the US would not respond strongly to any invasion.
President Trump has made clear he wants an end to net zero policies which weaken the west, but has not used the same pressures and methods that the Biden team used to secure the Windsor Framework. He has just given advice to the UK to look to its energy self sufficiency.
Where President Biden refused a Trade Agreement with the UK President Trump gave the UK the first and softest deal on tariffs. President Trump was right to push NATO and the UK to spend more on our own defence, and he is right to want peace in both Gaza and Ukraine.
October 20, 2025
The Windsor Agreement
Otherwise known as the sell out of the UK. Let’s hope Reform government visits this again and brings Northern Ireland back into the fold.
Trump gives sage advice on using our own energy but the uniparty is wedded to the WEF position.
As China is now threatening us over building the new spy headquarters in London no doubt our spineless PM will capitulate.
October 20, 2025
So Trump is not as bad as Biden. That is hardly a difficult achievement.
Biden’s mental faculties were declining and the auto pen was much in evidence.
Trump often talks a lot of nonsense and changes his mind on subjects. His much vaunted photo opportunity at Sharm el Sheik was because of a ceasefire that only lasted a few hours.
Nixon and Carter have very bad reputations, but they seem like titans compared to Biden and Trump.
October 20, 2025
Read ‘Trump Administration’; ‘Biden Administration’ where someone had the wit to use auto pen.
October 20, 2025
It is strange that with a population of some 340 million, those eligible to vote in the US election previously gave Joe Biden a majority.
When questioned during a later Biden:Trump TV election debate, Biden gave the interviewer what was supposed to be an answer. On being invited to respond, Trump replied: I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence, and I’m not sure he knows what he said either!
Many viewers will have regarded that as a pivotal moment adding to Trump’s resulting success.
October 20, 2025
The UK government is in kow tow mode because it is weak. Ballooning deficits mean it must do the bidding of others who help fund it’s profligacy. It will stay that way until there is a government in place ready to administer the pain involved in restoring fiscal discipline and the reforms necessary to re-energise a failing economy. In the meantime there is always the possibility it cannot raise cash from the bond market and the whole unsustainable government edifice is brought crashing down.
October 20, 2025
Apparently, the Chinese have bought their embassy building in London, where other countries, including the USA , rent their embassy’s.
If this is correct, why did China get to buy their building?
October 20, 2025
I see the mood is beginning to change on energy. The senior people from the Big 6 energy retailers who appeared before the Select Committee last week dared to point out that Miliband’s plans are leading to higher bills and attacked the NESO/OFGEM plans for More Grid, and noted that high prices are leading to more deindustrialisation and lower demand, increasing the burden of subsidies on the demand that remains.
Such a public description of the Emperor’s clothes from a group like that would have been unthinkable previously, even if Bill Esteeson as Committee chair opened proceedings by asking them all to pledge allegiance to the net zero faith.
October 20, 2025
Socialists always side with the wrong uns.
October 20, 2025
That is in fact pretty accurate. Biden was no friend of UK, quite the converse actually.
October 20, 2025
Rather a disaster for the USA and Ukraine too, but at least even he did not give the US energy bills that are the most expensive in the world about 25% of ours!
October 20, 2025
He tried. His first action was to cut off the massive pipeline from Alberta to the USA.
October 20, 2025
Some of that was probably accidental. His ban on new LNG export capacity created a domestic supply surplus that had been slated for export, and depressed prices.
October 20, 2025
Rather a shame Trump has not used far more pressure to kill off the Chagos lunacy, the net zero con trick insanity, the Chinese Embassy proposal, Kier’s blatant two tier policing and his blatant attempts to suppress free speech and Kier’s open door to low skilled and illegal migrants.
So Miliband will create 400,000 green jobs this by tax and subsidy for largely duff and uncompetitive technology. The taxes to fund this and the banning of fracking, mining, drilling will probable kill off about 800,000 real and competitive jobs directly. Then the expensive and intermittent energy costs that inevitably result will kill off about the same again by making the UK totally uncompetitive.
October 20, 2025
Labour seems to think that appeasing certain groups and running two tier justice and police to avoid “exacerbating community tensions” is a good plan alas it has exactly the reverse effects. How is Kier rape gang inquiry preparations getting on!
October 20, 2025
So well that Rupert Lowe has tabled an Early Day Motion expressing concern at the lack of progress. So far only 18 of our “esteemed” MPs (not) have had the decency to sign it.
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/64434/national-inquiry-into-groupbased-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse
October 20, 2025
When you listen to anyone from the Labour front bench, they all say they are working on the objectives we want (mostly), no illegals, lower energy costs etc, but then they DO the opposite. Milibrain KNOWS he has to get the cost of household energy bills lower, but his actions and policies, as he well knows, keeps raising them.
We, as a Nation, cannot afford these incompetents for another 3-4 years, they have to be removed or there won’t be much left to rebuild.
October 20, 2025
Peter. I don’t think Milibrain is incompetent, I think he’s well aware of what he’s doing. He went to China and signed some sort of trade agreement but it’s secret.
I bet he’s promised not to put tariffs on Chinese cars like the rest of the world so he can close down another successful manufacturing arm.
We are being led down a blind alley from which there will be no exit after another four yearrs
October 20, 2025
BTW, I read the rest of the world are now noticing we run twin deficits, that are worsening, and that we need to borrow ever more each year. This year’s budget may well mean make or break for our currency and therefore debt costs. Is 2TK’s destruction plan coming to fruition?
October 20, 2025
I’ve been watching Neil McCoy-Ward’s series on YouTube showing the decline of our major cities like Birmingham, Coventry and Luton, and it’s enough to make me cry at what politicians have done to our country. They are full of ( word left out ed)gangs, closed shops and filth. One would be forgiven for thinking they were third-world slums. There were a lot of expensive cars, so obviously, the criminals are booming.
October 20, 2025
It is clear to all who watch current affairs and take an interest in politics, the Biden period of influence was as close to the abandonment of Western industrial strength in favour of acceptance of Chinese manufacturing hegemony, along with capitulating to the principle that international laws must be advanced even when they conflict with national interests and safety.
The Western world’s willingness to adopt internationally constructed policies treaties and laws became almost absolute during the Biden administration. The outcome of that abandonment of national interests are well listed in Sir John’s piece. The advance of Net Zero and all associated woke rules and laws adopted by the military have served us all badly. The world is a much darker place and closer to civil strive today than at any time since the cold war.
What ever your political leanings, we are fortunate to have Trump heading up the West’s defence status/ position. If it was anyone from the Biden administration the conflicts they allowed to happen would be far worse and ever more threatening.
Let us hope the return to sanity we are witnessing in the USA is contagious and we see a similar return to sanity here in the UK.
October 20, 2025
Ed Miliband in BBC1 on Sunday “green energy is so much cheaper” and keeps talking about clean, green energy but their is nothing “dirty” about CO2 and it is vital to green the planet. So is he totally deluded or just lying to damage the Uk for some other reason?
Andrew Neil tweet.
This is deranged. Despite tens of billions invested in solar and wind there are only about 40,000 jobs in both sectors combined. Given the subsidies involved, each one at a cost of over £200,000, which is unsustainable.
The result is the most expensive industrial electricity costs in the world, which has destroyed far more jobs than expensive renewables have created. The claim that there’s a cornucopia of big salaried green jobs is a myth of the net zero zealots.
October 20, 2025
The cornucopia of green jobs you mention with big salaries is exemplified by the members of the CCC.( Climate Change Committee.)
That body was set up to advise government following the passing of the Climate Change Act 2008 one of Ed Miliband’s proudest achievements. Lord Deben or Selwyn Gummer to use his original name, thought it was great as head of the CCC he could swan around on tax payer’s funding spreading ever more bizarre nonsense about CO2. It was certinly a winning option for him and his committee.
October 20, 2025
Gummer/Debden read history Cantab. the current CEO classics Oxon. Stark Ed Advisor Law Might not a decent and honest energy engineer or physicist be a better bet? But then if they were competent and honest that would not be good for Ed. as they would point out the total suicidal insanity of his agenda.
October 20, 2025
Mr Gummer wasn’t even able to run an Opera House well and has been far too friendly with the Chinese. He shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a key policy area such as “Climate Change”
October 20, 2025
He’s not stupid. He’s delivering the Agenda and implementing the policies he has been tasked with delivering by the WEF.
October 20, 2025
@Lifelogic – “green energy is so much cheaper” when it is subsidised by the taxpayer. When he talks of jobs, how many Chinese jobs did he place ahead of UK Workers jobs and wages. How much of the UK’s taxpayers money is he causing to be sent to China, never to return( Or maybe that how they can afford to buy Thames Water, with out own money)
October 20, 2025
Miliband relies on the text of some ancient parchment produced for his department. He wilfully ignores that today you can buy gas for 2030 for under 70p/therm, that more renewables will mean more price volatility as a current article from Timera shows, and that all the other costs of his system are adding up to continually rising bills. He refuses to acknowledge that CFDs cost us £150/MWh whatever the rest of the market is doing, and that ROCs are adding an average of over £100/MWh to the price of their output.
October 21, 2025
70p per therm is circa 2.3p per KWH so electricity from this would cost about 5p per KWH. Not circa 26p plus large standing charges that Miliband’s insanity is delivering!
October 21, 2025
Coal far cheaper still. Plus the energy is easily stored as coal and on demand not intermittent.
October 20, 2025
A shame too Trump has not done more so far to expose the appalling net damage done by the covid “vaccines” and the malign influence of Big Pharma. The UK is still not releasing the illness and death figures broken down by vaccine status as some countries have done. We can only assume this is because they show the same appalling fact as they do in other places.
The Aseem Malholtra, (now an adviser to US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr) speech at the Reform Conference (it is available on Dr John Campbell youtube) was spot on. The absurd funding of the appalling MHRA by Big Pharma just one appalling example.
October 20, 2025
Trump invests considerably in this country and celebrates his British ancestry. Biden, who also had British ancestry, only celebrated his Irish antecedents and did his level best to undermine the UK.
The pro-EU, Remainer / Rejoiner Establishment which hates Trump and will never credit him with anything positive. Unfortunately, for them, if “a lone wolf assassin” ever managed to get a shot on target, they’re going to get President JD Vance. And I suspect they’ll quickly learn to like that even less.
October 20, 2025
Irish is British.
October 20, 2025
So “Biden’s team were anti Brexit, pro the Republic of Ireland and pro the EU” and Starmer’s are not?
October 20, 2025
Biden was a really bad POTUS, who already showed many signs of early stage dementia when he became president in 2021. He rapidly abandoned Afghan women to the Taliban and failed to see the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a direct challenge to NATO, which it was.
The demented Biden believed he was Irish. He took to visiting Eire unannounced without showing PM Sunak any curtesy. In a very unfriendly act he agreed to sell Argentine advanced fighter jets – and fund the purchase – against British wishes, whilst denying them to Ukraine (“escalatory”)
On the other hand his successor Trump believes that the climate crisis is a “Chinese hoax”. Trump is systematically dismantling the American environmental protections that Biden put in place. Trump has cancelled nearly finished offshore windfarms and has actively prevented the installation of solar farms on Federal land – whilst allowing drilling for oil. He has weakened vehicle emission standards and has cancelled regulations requiring the oil majors to cap depleted oil wells to prevent methane leakage
There are reports this morning that, following Putin’s sudden call with him last week, at another acrimonious meeting with Zelenskyy Trump demanded – again – that Ukraine capitulate with huge territorial concessions to Russia
What exactly is the hold that the war criminal Putin has over Trump? The millions and millions of “No Kings” Americans that took to the streets last weekend to protest Trump are as suspicious of him as many in the intelligence community.
October 20, 2025
Trump hasn’t cancelled offshore wind farms, he’s simply withdrawn federal funding for them. If they are producing such cheap electricity as you claim there should be no problem at all in the private sector funding them entirely without government subsidies and then making a nice profit by undercutting gas-generated electricity with their super-cheap electricity.
October 20, 2025
Well said!
October 20, 2025
How often are private companies expecting public subsidies before taking any decision to invest? Apart from Mum’s and Dad’s ‘ventures’ have you ever checked how many even start-up companies rely on some kind of public money, whether from the UKRI, NIHR, ARIA, AcoRD, Leverhulme Trust, RAE, Catapult, … or VCT, EIS or SEIS funding ?
October 20, 2025
Windfarms still get government subsidies to help their industry develop and prosper more than 20 years after they first became a start up industry.
Many of the ones you listed hefner are for initial funding support.
When will windfarms and solar projects ever stand on their own two feet?
October 20, 2025
You seem unable to get it right, SG. In fact, ‘Trump denounced the effort to slow climate change as a “hoax” and a “con job” and told nations they would lose the global energy race by pursuing wind and solar over fossil fuels’,
according to the left-leaning Politico website, hostile to the US president. Not a ‘Chinese hoax’, then.
Anyone who remembers Climategate knows it’s a hoax. And in large part a North American hoax (Roy Strong -> Michael Mann etc etc), though Trump wouldn’t want to admit that.
October 20, 2025
Well if Trump said climate alarmism is a Chinese Hoax he was wrong. But half right, it is certainly a hoax and con trick but largely home grown. He is not really against wind and solar just against unfair subsidies and rigged market as I am. Take these away and not many projects make any sense so they and not funded and rightly get cancelled.
October 21, 2025
You never seem to get the point.Changing to alternative sources of fuel gives the UK more independence.Despite what you might think re climate warming ,you and Canute cannot impose your ideas on the natural world.Petty learning and the opinion that you are always right give cause for concern.We all know so little .
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October 21, 2025
“Gives us more independence….”
That must be why we’re becoming completely dependent on our continental “friends” to provide extremely expensive energy when the windmills and solar panels fail to deliver.
October 20, 2025
This is what Field Marshall Lord Richards has said in an interview:
he said: “My view is that they (Ukraine) would not win.”
“Could not win, even with the right resources?” he was asked.
“No,” he replied.
Pressed further by The Independent, he was asked: “ Even with the right resources?”
“No, they haven’t got the manpower,” the former commando said.
In 2022 Ukraine fielded the biggest standing army in Europe (700,000) – bigger than Russia’s.
October 20, 2025
Do you think that the hold ‘the criminal Putin’ has over Trump (and NATO) is that he has won?
Richards also said that the issue of Ukraine (being controlled by NATO) is existential.
Read the interview. Many on this blog have cited the points he made 2 days ago, 2 years ago.
October 20, 2025
These ‘No Kings’ promoters are hypocrites of the highest order, especially Pelosi. Trump has been in office less than five years, shes been the ruling class in America for nearly 40 years and she’s running again in 2026 age 83.
What has Trump to make himself a monarch, and why would he want to be like King Charles that role doesnt have the power of the President of the USA.
October 20, 2025
SG, may I politely suggest having a read at Daniel Jupp’s piece on the “No Kings” canard (Jupplandia from Jupplandia).
I doubt that you’ll ever read a better account of plucking, preparing, and dissecting a dead duck, a beautiful masterclass.
October 20, 2025
Methane is only 2ppm in the atmosphere. But more importantly it absorbs very little of the planet’s IR emissions and hence has zero greenhouse gas warming effect even if the IPCC’s false radiative warming theory is to be believed.
October 20, 2025
“many on the left in the UK have claimed he has undue influence over the UK, and spend their time condemning what he does.”
Not just the left.
The UK establishment hasn’t been the big kid on the block for 80+ years and so they sought to retain influence via the EU where they traded our freedom, security and prosperity to maintain some semblance of influence in world affairs.
The 2016 referendum put the kybosh on that and so they are floundering even more lashing out at the UK citizenry for the affront to their dignity and cooking up crazy schemes to re-establish the rightful place of power.
Meanwhile, as always, us oiks have to navigate the real multi-polar world and survive the fallout from the big kids squabbles.
To my mind the US has generally been a fairly steadfast partner in key areas whereas the EU has been wholely the opposite. The US is a source of support for democracy, customs and practices the left hate and so feel they must destroy that bond along with all Anglo-Saxon culture.
But there must be mutual benefit, we cannot travel on someone else’s coat tails but must always make our own mark, offer our own value.
October 20, 2025
Dixie, +++++
October 20, 2025
Inquiring minds might ask perhaps if China just has a long arm and if the USA is a threat, mischievous though that would be.
October 20, 2025
Any mind would quickly understand that China is a Communist state, which means it has totalitarian hopes for the world. Islam has similar hopes.
We were unbelievably stupid to drive the power that is Russia from our side (we refused Putin NATO membership 3 times) and into the arms of China. It might prove to be the critical mistake.
October 20, 2025
One common feature of the initial Brexit negotiations and the current China negotiations is Olly Robbins who despite ample evidence that he doesn’t have the first clue about how to negotiate, let alone to UK’s benefit (even if he wanted to) seems to have failed upwards and is still in a job. In the private sector he would have been fired long ago. With the Civil Service negotiation means immediate concession and compromise and avoidance of conflict, meanwhile in USA with Trump we see how real negotiation works – you leverage your strengths and you’re not bothered about upsetting the other side.
October 20, 2025
I think Trump appeases his mad-lefty-Republicans by floating their ideas.
So Lindsay Graham says ‘threaten Putin with Tomakawks which he knows can carry nukes – he will fold’.
Instead of arguing Trump publicly does as Graham advises and gets a call from Putin promising the annihilation of the west. Then Trump reverts to what he knows what the right tack –
‘I don’t want to escalate.’
‘I can’t risk the USA.’
Even so some, like Mr Gold of this comments section, do not display the mental agility to even contemplate the disaster of NATO being beaten.
October 20, 2025
You could say the same about Jonathan Powell who gave it all away in the Belfast Agreement when the IRA had been roundly beaten and comprehensively infiltrated so they couldn’t function. He gave away the Chagos Islands and was said to be involved in recently giving it all away for Israel.
October 21, 2025
China are bidding for part control of Thames water.
October 20, 2025
At last! Well spoken Sir John. Joe Biden was no friend of the UK, no more than Obama. The much lauded (by the Left) Bill Clinton certainly didn’t do us any favours either – as well as being caught out as a sleezebag and liar. Yet both he and his wife are still treated as royalty by the left here..
Whatever Trumps faults ( a small touch of vanity perhaps?) he’s a better friend to the UK than those who went before him. It will always be ‘America First’ (whoever is President) but wouldn’t it be great if we had a government with a ‘UK First’ attitude too..
October 20, 2025
Let’s hope Trump disbands the UN, the WEF and the WHO. These self-serving organisations are destroying the Western world. They are parasites living off the efforts of nation-states.
The United Nations employs approximately 37,000 staff members worldwide, most don’t pay tax on their high salaries. The World Economic Forum has approximately 5.2K employees. The WHO has more than 8,400 people. As expected, the EU is the highest employer with over 79,211 staff members.
This is on top of their annual running costs.
The gravy train is alive and well, trundling along at our expense.
October 21, 2025
We had a neighbour who worked at the European Weather Centre (ECMWF) in Reading. Very charming French chap and his family and we still keep in touch, although he is retired living back in France now. He had an excellent salary, with generous health and pension packages. He paid absolutely no income tax here (or as far as I know) in France either. I never understood why this was neccessary (or allowed) quite frankly but he was a good neighbour and our children got on well together, so we forgave him! 🙂
October 20, 2025
“Nations have interests, not allies”. That wise advice by Palmerston is also wise advice for Trump and he is following it. As indeed did Biden.
Biden did have a notion of a unified Europe – US alliance. For Trump the relationship is purely transactional because he is in trouble at home. Every bit on onshoring Europe (and UK) does is onshoring the US does not get – and he needs it. Brexit suits Trump admirably, it leaves the UK isolated to sell Cumberland pencils and Aberdeen Angus cows to the South Seas and not much else.
By leaving Ukraine out in the cold Trump has dumped the problem on Europe (and UK) and we can’t (or won’t) afford it. This usefully bottles up Europe (and UK) while Trump gets to play on the big and important stage. He really does not care what Europe and UK do – we don’t matter much and he owns the gas tap that controls our weapons. Meanwhile he continues to use his Chagos Islands base and we get to obey international law and pay up.
Reply Wrong that Brexit stops us trading. Our trade is well up since 2016 with services exports soaring.
October 20, 2025
Don’t know why there us concern over the us getting involved in the UK
When the UK is always getting involved
In other countries government’s
When we should not be
we end up then giving millions of tax payers money to them
Which should be spent in the uk
And at the moment this government are more interested in looking after none tax payers
October 20, 2025
Biden was a bad President, but so are the media who supported him and gave him an easy ride, as well as members of his team and government who claimed he was mentally sharp!
Trump gets no credit from the media, even though he is doing what he was voted in to do. He has his faults but he gets things done.
Meanwhile we have Ed Miliband, spouting rubbish about energy in the UK. Why does no interviewer ask him if Wind and Solar are so much cheaper than fossil fuels, why do they need to be subsidised? Have you ever seen any Minister as incompetent as him in any previous UK government?
October 20, 2025
Only goes to show that UK puts too much faith in American administrations forgetting that they change every four years or eight years and that one period of office does not guarantee how the second will be. Yes agreed Biden is an old fool who will not be remembered for much except how he pulled US forces out of Afghanustan but Britain should have seen it coming and have been better prepared – truth is the Americans cannot be trusted – they could never be trusted because they act only in their own interests. UK had the Brexit vote nearly ten years ago under the slogan taking back control and so should really be much further along the road now to the sunny uplands instead of forever sniping at Biden ROI and the EU. I was over there in Dublin a few weeks ago and can tell you that the Irish don’t give two figs about Biden Trump or any of the rest of them – the place is abuzz and they are just getting on with it – also NI is mostly not complaining either with a foot in both camps the UK and the EU – makes me wonder
October 20, 2025
The ‘Left’ if that is what they really, are infested by hate and division. They are everything we pocket-hole as WOKE, their first role is to cancel, there second to cancel and so on. They at every level promote division to create division itself, leading to hate. Without and unless they can achieve division, they can’t dictate.
Perversely, we have a group called the ‘Labour’, the party of the Workers, supported by the Unions, funded by the Unions. Labour supporters have been duped, the people they have funded and supported to lead the Country have never worked, they don’t know what work is, they don’t know what a worker is. This government is destroying the livelihoods of workers their supporters, they have removed their future, the future of those that support the ‘workers party’.
Its is these revolutionary political ideologues, that are stoking up the hate of the US, of Trump, to create the division they ‘think!’ they need to maintain the them and us – in reality it is to deflect their own failings. It is always someone else and if that someone else puts ‘freedoms’ first they are the enemy. The party in Government has employed those that spin to deceive and unfortunately, just as with all lies some just don’t get it.
It seems weird that the Unions fund those that are destroying their members. As a follow on to yesterday how many Union member jobs and money has just the Energy Secretary sent to China in preference to those that fund his job
October 20, 2025
As a dual citizen I can say these remarks are spot on.
October 20, 2025
I am sure there are many who would disagree wholeheartedly with your (and my) view of the events under the Biden administration.
It is a shame that the perspective of those now seems to be dictating the mainstream today.
October 20, 2025
YES, Trump has been right on so many things……
can be used, as past USA administrations have done, to control compulsively and sometimes with injustices thrown in – Trump has been honest and positive in using this long arm to make things better for all concerned.
The left are unable to recognize the difference between better survival actions and those that hurt everyone.
October 20, 2025
Trump has also given the UK government (and Europe in general) a dire warning about the corrosive effects of mass immigration – particularly illegal immigration. Not that any politicians will listen, of course. They all want the artificial drug hit immigration gives to GDP, while growth and wealth per head of population falls inversely.
October 20, 2025
Biden’s Presidency was a calamity for America and the world. As Obama’s point man in Ukraine he was deeply involved in the 2014 coup. America even installed two senior State Department officials as Ministers in the new Ukrainian administration complete with Ukrainian citizenship. He was anti Brexit, anti British, pro Net Zero and pro open borders. His economic policies increased US National Debt. His abrupt withdrawal from Kabul has left a deep stain as he deliberately avoided informing NATO allies and abandoned Afghan women and children to a Taliban government the very group the West was fighting? He abandoned Bagram airbase, an important strategic facility, gifting billions of dollars of technical equipment, aircraft and weapons to the Taliban. His long experience as a US Senator meant he was firmly entrenched in US Establishment. He refused to meet Putin in 2021 after Russia submitted a plan for peace for Ukraine. Biden medical decline was obvious in his last two years as President and the debacle over him standing for a second term created a huge embarrassment to his Democrat Party. President Trump is the antithesis of diplomacy; he’s boastful, often inaccurate, bombastic but seems to have a clear idea of what he wants to achieve. To his credit he wants to stop wars. He has certainly stopped the flow of illegal migrants via the southern border, but it’s too early to comment on progress in Gaza/West Bank and Ukraine. Trump’s Presidency will certainly reshape world politics as it’s clear the era of US hegemony is over. If this means no more overseas proxy wars then it’s a good thing, however Europe will need to increase NATO defence funding substantially.
October 20, 2025
Only guessed some of this, not all of it Sir John. Thank you for informing us.
President Trump is the only Leader who did, and/or has continued to, carry out his promises to the electorate.
Admirable. (Not least because i actually agree with his policies.)
I wish he had been able to influence this (UK) government, but would never happen with the (neoMarxist?) incumbents currently in power.
I don’t know what can change the current trajectory, but there’s an urgent need for someone to step up and do so. Everything seems in dire straits. Am at a loss to know who it could be.
October 20, 2025
Trump does another ‘U’ turn with Zelensky – how could anyone trust this flip flop ( man ed)
October 20, 2025
Many negate president Trump for his sometimes inability to put into words what he feels or perceives.I only hear snippets of what is happening in USA /world politics so am not in a position to judge .I obviously listen to the news and media,but remember the aggressive response the public bufoons made when he suggested a disinfectant to help kill the COVID virus.Disinfectants both gargled ,used as a nasal spray,and a different type for surface cleansing are the only positive way of reducing transmission,but the crowds simply locked on to a completely idiotic idea that he meant KOOL aid using it medically.Antisepsis via disinfection is widely used in medicine.
From this I got a picture of the man and the crowds ready to ridicule.He seems to be gaining ground in world peace (another statement ridiculed by the know it alls used contextually to bring such a stigma in the hope for peace..in beauty contests)
October 20, 2025
Tonight 400 odd MPs voted on the third reading to give away the chagos islands & £20billion
Shame on parliament
October 20, 2025
I agree Glen.
In a recent poll almost 100% of Chargossians were against the deal and angry their views and human rights had been ignored.
A dreadful foreign policy decision by the Government and a huge unnecessary waste of our money.
October 21, 2025
They see things in reverse.
October 21, 2025
Absolutely disgraceful.
October 21, 2025
Incomprehensible! They seem to hate the UK and appear intent on destroying it!