I keep asking myself when will our political leaders face the reality that there is NO 'special relationship' and that the US is NOT our 'friend'. Woodrow Wilson made that plain in 1918/19 and even in WW2 the US was interested only in dismantling the European/British hegemony and replacing it with their own. Everything with the US is transactional, even war, viz; their insistence on Ukraine signing away its assets in return for support. Mr Lewis is right, Europe is where our future lies, not as some chattel, or dependency of the US. We have nothing Trump wants, nothing but assets to be bought cheap and stripped out by his corporate donors to offer -- and they can do that without having to go through the bother of even pretending to 'negotiate' with us. This trying to sit astride the fence between the EU and the US will result only in humiliation.
Too late. And the pivot to Europe is about continuing the proxy war against Russia when we should be trading with Russia. We need to do what the U.S. is trying to do after it’s destroyed the European economies - pivot to Asia. But our politicians are weak and just not very bright. None of the present parties know how to fix the real issues, I doubt they even know what they are.
Lot of common sense being talked by Clive, but the labour party he thinks he is part of has not existed for several years. Starmer is a Blackrock/Palantir neo liberal, so why is he still in that party?
He says that this party has done wonders for the country, which is demonstably not true - the last labour government did good for the country while continuing the neoliberall drift behind the scenes, but the current version has given up on the first part of what Blair/Brown stood for in order to protect the second.
I agree wholeheartedly… I just wish the Labour Party were better at PR and would reiterate the good things they’ve done for working people…Why doesn’t anyone in their team tell people that Farage = Brexit Party= economic disaster for UK so why on earth vote for him??!! Maybe put it on the back of a bus!
I keep asking myself when will our political leaders face the reality that there is NO 'special relationship' and that the US is NOT our 'friend'. Woodrow Wilson made that plain in 1918/19 and even in WW2 the US was interested only in dismantling the European/British hegemony and replacing it with their own. Everything with the US is transactional, even war, viz; their insistence on Ukraine signing away its assets in return for support. Mr Lewis is right, Europe is where our future lies, not as some chattel, or dependency of the US. We have nothing Trump wants, nothing but assets to be bought cheap and stripped out by his corporate donors to offer -- and they can do that without having to go through the bother of even pretending to 'negotiate' with us. This trying to sit astride the fence between the EU and the US will result only in humiliation.
Starmer is in thatchers mold as was the Blair/Mandelson gov.
Ww2 changed the world pivots were not optional and were all-or-nothing.
The required Starmers pivot would be all or nothing. He’s not a man to scare the horses. He is another chamberlain
Methinks mr Lewis could have the whip removed??
Too late. And the pivot to Europe is about continuing the proxy war against Russia when we should be trading with Russia. We need to do what the U.S. is trying to do after it’s destroyed the European economies - pivot to Asia. But our politicians are weak and just not very bright. None of the present parties know how to fix the real issues, I doubt they even know what they are.
EU “leaders” are even more stupid than our own. Gawd ‘elp us.
Lot of common sense being talked by Clive, but the labour party he thinks he is part of has not existed for several years. Starmer is a Blackrock/Palantir neo liberal, so why is he still in that party?
He says that this party has done wonders for the country, which is demonstably not true - the last labour government did good for the country while continuing the neoliberall drift behind the scenes, but the current version has given up on the first part of what Blair/Brown stood for in order to protect the second.
I agree wholeheartedly… I just wish the Labour Party were better at PR and would reiterate the good things they’ve done for working people…Why doesn’t anyone in their team tell people that Farage = Brexit Party= economic disaster for UK so why on earth vote for him??!! Maybe put it on the back of a bus!