Yup.

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Brexit screwed our economy so monumentally that Starmer has to appease this facist arsehole or lose even more. We will be paying the price for Farage’s fantasy for decades unless we wake up and reject right wing and popularist politics completely. Selling out to the global corporations is suicide

It's Starmer's fantasy now

Suspect we’d be acting fairly similarly even if we hadn’t been so silly in 2016.

Sadly I think you’re probably right. Our fascination with America is our undoing. They’re no friend or ally and the ‘special relationship’ is a myth. The world would be better off without them and their influence is toxic.

This ☝️

Yes and the hard of thinking are falling hook, line and sinker for Farage's latest grift if the polls are to be believed.

Can't argue with any of that.

And as we know, appeasement works.

It never works - it emboldens them and gives them strength through validation. The only approach to facists is to condemn them and fight against their every wish and deed.

Exactement. 👍

This is not the first time the UK has hosted a criminal President

Trump makes George W look like a hybrid of Ghandi and Einstein and I’ve had plants smarter than George W

Excuse me?

I’m not disputing the horrors committed under the instruction of George W for a second. Trump is worse and given time will have been responsible for the deaths of significantly more people. His cancellation of USAID is already condemning hundreds of thousands to death, disease and starvation.

I’m sorry but you need to grow some perspective that instigating an illegal war of aggression is absolutely far worse than anything Trump has done so far.

I respectfully disagree. Removing access to medication, food and clean water for millions, supporting a genocidal regime to commit war crimes indiscriminately and enabling Putin to continue his expansionist agenda is a pretty ‘impressive’ start for any wannabe authoritarian dictator.

And just to be pedantically clear, Trump is scum and should be in prison for his actions in his first term.

Agreed. And Bush should have faced consequences for his actions. The US is a force for evil in the world and a succession of presidents have done way more harm than good.

School bullies always need to be faced eventually.

My guess is the stats aren’t good on that one.

They beat you up and nick your lunch money anyway so …

Because Starmer is desperate for a trade deal that doesn't include the EU. So desperate that he may be willing to sell the NHS to America...

We won’t get a “deal” we will get well and truly fucked over.

We thought this when Obama was president, because that’s America. We’d get more fucked over Trump.

Absolutely this! Starmer is no deal maker, he will bend over and let the Tango Paedo ride roughshod all over us.

Just like farage, just like the royals…. Where’s the fucking pride?

and that is exactly how a bully always gets his lunch money every damn time.

He’s our fault. Your PM is just making the best of the shit sandwich the USA has served the world. I cannot tell you how sorry and ashamed I am.

💯 sorry that you’re having to live this so directly. Keep safe.

I’m a white woman in my 60s. The worst will not fall to me, (though the decimation of our healthcare could certainly shorten my life.) But it is always the most vulnerable who suffer the brunt of this stuff. And the planet… well. Honestly, I’m glad I'm not young.

Have a very good friend over there in a v similar situation. She also has the option to make use of an Irish passport if it came to that.