He also envisioned a fractured #EU, torn apart by #nationalism and internal disputes. Cue #Brexit, rising far-right movements, and debates over which pro-#Russian EU party is the biggest headache for #Brussels. And all this was already planned back in 1997.
4/17
@pennine #trump #tarriffs #Trumphalism It looks as if Trumphalism is going the way of #Brexit. Supported by about half the citizens. Supposed to make a country great again. Upsets neighbouring countries. Results in self harm. Promoted by the same sort of idealogues. Backed by the same sort of money. Dances to the tune of Putin’s plans. And after a while many who supported it realise they have not just been misled but lied to.
Trump: I am imposing tariffs to make people buy American and rebuild American industries.
Dictionary: This is protectionism.
Lammy: We're in a new era of American protectionism.
No 10 and Starmer: We're too afraid to call a spade a spade (because Brexit weakened our negotiating power)
Irish unity will take place within a generation – historian Max Hastings
(from 2021)
I suddenly want to be in the #EuropeanUnion again, I hate #Brexit.
"How Trump has reset the Brexit reset" - https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/how-trump-has-reset-brexit-reset.html#comment-form
Prof. Grey's conclusion: "realpolitik and statecraft ought to alert us to the fact that the immorality of what is unfolding in the United States, quite as much as the imposition of tariffs, represents a clear and present danger to our national interests and our way of life."
#brexit #ukpolitics #trump #eu
"Actually, Up is Down, Right is Left and we can have our cake and eat it, we can have it all, we have all the cards, we have a united strategy..."
Sound familiar?
Just Brexit all over again.
When you've lost the Atlanticist Lammy....
"Something we've not seen in a Century!"
Brexit was 10 years ago, remember? You were against it until you got into power......
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.")
Lest we forget ……. Twice as bad a Covid. Farage and Johnson did more damage to Britain than trump ever could #brexit #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity #Gammons #farage #ReformUK
Rudd should read the front page of today's #DailyTelegraph, and learn that Jeremy Hunt is not part of that "all" or "we". Do the CUP parliamentary party members know who one another are, do you think? It's not as if there are hundreds to keep track of.
#Brexit morons crowing over 10% while multiple studies lay bare the awful truth. Time for #Starmer to grow a backbone & apply to rejoin the #EU single market & customs union.
#BrexitFoundedOnLies #BrexitDisaster #NoSunlitUplands in #BrexitLand #RejoinEU
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-tariffs-brexit-uk-eu-b2727313.html
HGV Drivers should be happy with #brexit
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
My book Flipping Patriarchy, by @manwhohasitall just arrived! I got a letter from DHL about a package of mine in the customs, but I had no idea what it could be. When I saw that it was coming from Bristol, UK, I guessed that it was the book I supported two years ago.
It took me some time to understand that I had to send the receipt, after saying was just a book. But it worked out in the end. Thank you, Brexiters, for making it harder to buy a book made in the UK!
Aren't you glad that #Brexit made the UK so pitifully irrelevant that the Fascist US decided to only give us 10 cracks of the whip (this time)? Do you see now?
And whiny little lefties, aren't you glad that Starmer so pandered to Fascists that Trump grew fond of him? Do you see now?
Will you never learn? Snake oil works! 
It's #Brexit on a new scale. Same people behind it. Replace "golden age" with "sunlit uplands" MAGA with make Britain great again, being on your own makes you stronger than being a member of a group. And think of " we may not see its benefits before many years". Even if the Dow is crashing, we must believe that we'll reap the benefits one day. Yeah.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/brexit-britain-and-nostalgia-for-fantasy-past/
Britain did better than Europe in ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs because of Brexit, Labour told https://www.byteseu.com/891732/ #Brexit #dailymail #debate #DonaldTrump #Europe #Labour
@Jen.Henriksson you stand up to bullies, you don't just take their abuse and then hide in corner, worrying what you did to deserve it.
But that's what our slow Prime Minister is doing, and judging from Parliament today, most politicians haven't a fucking clue about what is happening or what to do.
Obviously it means going back to the EU, but for the pride of the worst of us, we won't.
