Slow Coach might finally be getting the hint about Brexit, the EU and how the US is not well right now.
The Guardian · Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump’s tariff mayhem
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Macron leaning over to a distraught Starmer and consoling him over the difficult news that the US is not our friend.
You would hope the son of a toolmaker would be more open to knocking all that brexit nonsense on the head, wouldn't you?
“JLM [Jewish Labour Movement] pro-Israel organiser Velleman ‘forced to resign’ as councillor ‘under cloud of darkness’”
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“Right-winger and mate of ex-Israeli embassy fellow councillor out as Barnet councillor with no explanation from Starmer’s Labour”
SKWAWKBOX · JLM pro-Israel organiser Velleman ‘forced to resign’ as councillor ‘under cloud of darkness’Right-winger and mate of ex-Israeli embassy fellow councillor out as Barnet councillor with no explanation from Starmer’s Labour Liron Velleman, front. Inset: Ella Rose-Jacobs during her infa…
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@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.
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....
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"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"
The Guardian · Downing Street says Trump’s tariffs signal ‘new era’ in global economics
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?
"Looking out into the playground at break, the girls are chatting away, the boys are looking at animal torture on their phones, but there is one boy in a corner, crying.
'What's the problem Kier?'
'Donald said he was my friend but he isn't, he just stole my lunch money' "
What you want to say, but are too afraid too, is "we need to undo Brexit, as it was a massive fucking mistake"
Starmer there, thinking like a child caught in a divorce and not a National Leader in a time of global crisis "doesn't want to choose between the US and the EU"
Don't you get it you slow mutherfucker, you don't make that choice, it's already been made for you, WAKE UP!
![So if the US wants to do this [impose global tariffs], then it’s perfectly within the
bounds of feasibility for other large economies to structure themselves, stop this
addiction to the US consumer, and start to consume more themselves, as well as
between each other.
O'Neill said, by turning his back on free trade, Trump was turning his back on
“the major thing which has made the United States so prosperous over the
last 40 to 50 or more years”. Other countries “shouldn't get sucked into the
same game”, he said, because overall, “whether it’s life expectancy or
wealth”, the whole world has benefited from this model.
The Liberal Democrats and the Greens have both said Keir Starmer should
respond to the Trump tariffs by strengthening economic links with countries
like Canada and the EU. But Starmer has rejected this idea, saying it would be
wrong to choose between being close to the US and being close to Europe.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/280/211/559/361/104/original/813856de59d2c02c.png "So if the US wants to do this [impose global tariffs], then it’s perfectly within the
bounds of feasibility for other large economies to structure themselves, stop this
addiction to the US consumer, and start to consume more themselves, as well as
between each other.
O'Neill said, by turning his back on free trade, Trump was turning his back on
“the major thing which has made the United States so prosperous over the
last 40 to 50 or more years”. Other countries “shouldn't get sucked into the
same game”, he said, because overall, “whether it’s life expectancy or
wealth”, the whole world has benefited from this model.
The Liberal Democrats and the Greens have both said Keir Starmer should
respond to the Trump tariffs by strengthening economic links with countries
like Canada and the EU. But Starmer has rejected this idea, saying it would be
wrong to choose between being close to the US and being close to Europe.")
Watching this slow man figure out what to do when the rest of us figured it out weeks ago.
He's supposed to be LEADING, not REACTING to things that happen to him out of surprise.
I really hope he's not leading this initiative, we need somebody with a spark about them, somebody who is thinking three moves ahead, not looking around for help and encouragement because they're out of their depth
"Brexit means Brexit" remember 
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@Janet_52square @beecycling The only people still falling for Trump's bullshit are #starmer and #SpaceKaren 
"Keir #Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks" -- George Monbiot
#ExtinctionRebellion
#InsulateBritain
#PolyCrisis
#Protest
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/protest-britain-activists-quaker-meeting-house
The Guardian · Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that’s the price of protest in Britain today
“The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.”
inkl · Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that’s the price of protest in Britain todayIt seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissent, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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I really wish our slow Prime Minister could understand how Brexit is used as an example around the World of what NOT to do. But I fear it would be like trying to run Doom on a pocket calculator
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@HarriettMB he's a slow witted man who has been played and doesn't know where to go next.
We need a new PM
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@blabberlicious all Starmer has is bullshit and weak metaphors.
In a global trade war we are nobody