Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Fresh Respect?

"I consider my remarks about President Trump as ill-judged and wrong. I think that times and attitudes toward the President have changed," grovels Peter Mandelson. "I think that he has won fresh respect. He certainly has from me, and that is going to be the basis of all the work I do as His Majesty's Ambassador in the United States." 

The Conservative Party and Reform UK identify with Donald Trump, but he himself regards Keir Starmer as, "doing a very good job." Trump supporters, why do you support a man who admires Starmer? Starmer supporters, why do you support a man who is admired by Trump? With the first, second and third parties in the polls all either pro-Trump or Trump-endorsed, he enjoys in Britain a hegemony of which he cannot dream in any other country, including his own. It is not absolutely impossible to vote against him, but the realistic options are almost as limited as if you wanted to vote for the United Kingdom, or Great Britain, or England, to rejoin the European Union.

Unless, and I have been unable to ascertain, the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland's one MP had been elected on a commitment to the UK's reaccession to the EU, then none of those three is the policy of any of the record 13 parties in the present House of Commons, nor does any of the six MPs elected as Independents, also a record in modern times, appear to have advocated any of them. Rejoiners are like those people who demand that GB News be stripped of its licence even while Sky News was disappearing behind an online paywall. Rejoiners are those people who demand that GB News be stripped of its licence even while Sky News was disappearing behind an online paywall.

That said, Rachel Reeves may have thrown a lifeline to certain relatively EU-sympathetic Trumpsceptics. The Greens on principle, and the Liberal Democrats on rather less noble grounds, will fight hard against a third runway at Heathrow, and against the creation of a Silicon Valley from Oxford to Cambridge, a scheme that always turns up in a Government's last days. And the SNP was going to have a good night at the next General Election even before Reeves offered Scotland nothing. But she has done the same to us here in the North East of England. At this rate, Labour has simply conceded us to Reform.

2 comments:

  1. Not only Trump backing Starmer but Mandelson backing Trump, the alliance is complete.

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    1. On Question Time, even Zia Yusuf was more critical of Trump than that Labour boy was. It is Trump's Labour Party now.

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