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Unfortunately Starmer isn’t the man for this sort of courage. He’s a placeman for vested interests. Full stop.
Starmer likes to stand between flags, imperial emblems that have no meaning now the globe is dominated by an overwealthy relentlessly exploitative international elite.
Yes, if only the UK had had PMs able to see what was actually happening. For a reality check on the UK – USA relationship:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0apH8xkS6PE
Novara interview with Angus Hanton who wrote Vassal State. It is a very depressing read. The UK is exactly that, a vassal state. Which leaves the open question – how do we become not a vassal state? Certainly not with the current crop of political imbeciles, has-beens and never-weres. I’d also suggest not with politicos who are only that – having never had “a real job”. Not with politicos who have been in place for decades. The UK needs ……….??
Vision from bottom up thinkers
See https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/glossary/B/#bottom-up-thinking
I listened live to Trump last night with increasing horror which peaked with the phrase “bomb them back to the stone age” – a term coined, I believe, by Curtis LeMay and used in relation to Vietnam.
I have been very disappointed with Starmer’s position on this (and Gaza etc..) but IF a case for calibrated response (between Badenoch/Farage “All in with Trump” approach and the Spanish “no” approach) could perhaps have been made at the outset of the current war this is absolutely no longer the case. Use of UK bases to help the US commit war crimes MUST be a red line.
Starmer needs to make this principled case – he might be surprised at how it is received.
Which is why, I am personally convinced, the Greens under the leadership of Zack Polanski are growing and will continue to do so
The people of the United Kingdom need to decide if their Government should exist to serve them, or if they exist to serve their Government.
We exist to serve the market. The government ensures we have no choice in this.
We can ignore the bullshit element
I’ve actually cited this scene several times in the last few months in social media, correspondence to my MP and to Starmer himself at one paint.
For years I’ve called US the special abusive relationship.
RM elsewhere you have extolled the public good of Local government IMHO the solution for England lies in increased devolution through its local government structure, for the other island nations the solution is independence, and for all of us it is re unification with EU, a more healthy partner than US.
I have significant doubts whether Westminster as a 1,000 year+ power base will ever deliver or be reformed. It’s deliberately glacial and elitist, built by rich men for rich men.
We need 21st century democracy and economics, in the timescale of a habitable planet, so not long.
LG / Independence seem to offer a chance of ending the stranglehold of the Westminster Palace power-base. But people especially English folk seem strangely blind to what Westminster is, The best predictor of behaviour is past behaviour, and this long record and associations are pretty lack lustre.
Starmer is playing the best game of cards he can with an attrociously dealt hand, plain and simple
I admire your faith
I can find no justification for it