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Why can't Starmer speak plain truths in the same way?
And how long will it be before he is forced to do so?
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Why can Trudeau speak plainly and not Starmer? Because Trudeau is stepping down in a few days, whereas Starmer will have to cope with a world containing Trump for four years.
As Ukraine is discovering, it isn’t good for a country if Trump feels personal animosity towards its leader.
But I agree, the world needs high profile figures who can speak their mind to do so.
We will have to disagree. Friends can.
Straight talking from the Canadians. There will be a gov of national unity – emphasis on “unity”.
“Why can’t Starmer speak plain truths in the same way?”
1. He is not a politician he is a bureaucrat.
2. His main minder/political brains, McSweeney, is a student politician that labels those that disagree “trots” or “mad lefties”.
3. Mango, Putler etc is a black swan event and student politics do not equip you for the flexible thinking which this sort of event demands.
4. Starmer still bases his reactions/thinking wrt to Washington on his happy Washington days in 2014 etc – those days have gone.
5. There is no can-do ethos – even for something as simple and mundane as Thames Water FFS.
There are undoubtledly some on this blog that think I am far far too optimistic. & maybe, in matters politic, I am. But for much of my life I have designed and built stuff that worked. I still do, cos it’s fun. Thus I tend to regard current developments as challenges that will be overcome -it just needs the right mind set . Starmer does not have that mindset – bureacrats rarely do. So the Uk will stutter along becoming even more of a poodle of the USM (M for Mango).
Or, it could say stuff that for a game of monkeys…….& propose political union with Ukraine – which has some of the best farmland on the planet, minerals and a very nice population. Since it is not a member of the EU, there is little reason why it could not do this.
I share your optimisim
I too am used to making things work
Apologies – posting twice – “speaking truth to power” another example of what happens in Putins Russia if you do that:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lfxlhdtxkyczcuroq4q2umqy/post/3ljj6532dpk2p?ref_src=embed&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.dailykos.com%252Fstories%252F2025%252F3%252F4%252F2307691%252F-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Russian-Olympic-gold-medalist-falls-out-of-a-window
Another experiment on “can people fly from tall buildings”….. nope. I wonder when Mango will start similar experiments?
It was nice to see this from someone for once.
We’ll see if Canada does a ‘Zelensky’ later shall we?
I have read that JD Vance has set up a company with the intention of buying up farms when the American farmers go under, which probably won’t be long. He apparently expects to sell them on at a profit once Trump et al bankrupt them.
They are such bastards.
I treat this story with some suspicion.
He apparently invested in Acre Trader which sells farmland to investors – some were foreigners – but, fair enough, I can’t confirm that he still has involvement in the company.
Do older Americans that vote Trump see the 50s/60s as a golden age? Does Trump? The US was an open economy then but often applied Tariffs and in reality could do everything themselves so the economy was more closed and ordinary people enjoyed prosperity. Fiction? I know black people were discriminated against throughout but for white Americans does Trump seem to offer a return to this autarky state when the US could do anything? If this dream has been purchased by many Americans chances are Trump will continue to enjoy their support. People don’t like to give up on their dreams.
Indeed. He has backbone. Starmer doesn’t.
But here’s another superb clip, courtesy of one of my OSINT people.
Here’s the current US Secretary of State – Marco Rubio – explaining how the US, UK and Russia gave security pledges to Ukraine, in perpetuity, if they gave up their nuclear weapons. And then how one of those signatories – Russia – broke that pledge, while the other two did nothing.
As Rubio says, why should any country trust the US ever again. How true, But I bet he never thought he’d be party to exactly that scenario all over again. And people say, ‘why trust politicians’. What an illustration this is.
Watch and laugh or cry – or both.
https://x.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1896645990901584285
Rubio is a disgraceful figure, but there are so many of his like. As for politics, what is now but theatre?
This is the link
https://x.com/AdamJSchwarz/status/1896957259147887012
It’s terrifying to enter a war by sanctioning your own consumers who once elected you.