• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Unfortunately the pragmatic move given the orange toddler could crash our economy with just a single deranged tweet.

    It is not worth it for Starmer to treat Trump like the piece of turd he is – crashing our economy and causing a rampant increase in poverty in the process – just so he can look based on twitter and Reddit for a few hours.

    Wooing Trump while simultaneously becoming less reliant on the US and growing closer to the EU again is genuinely probably the only thing Kier is doing exceptionally well in right now, so I won’t complain.

    Still, I hope we see the return of that giant baby Trump balloon lol

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      Unfortunately the new nukes that fit to the f35 we agreed to buy from the US.

      Require US permission to use. So we are far from reducing our reliance on them.

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        2 days ago

        Do you have confirmation that they require US permission, or is it speculation? Because people have been saying similar things about things like Trident and F35s for years and they’ve been proven incorrect.

        And that’s just one thing. Broadly speaking we absolutely are reducing our reliance on them. Pointing out one area where we aren’t isn’t proof of a trend.

        We’ve been ramping up UK production, BAE has been pushing to open more European factories, we’ve signed multiple defensive pacts, there’s the European weapons programme, we’re looking into adding more partners to our upcoming sixth-gen fighter jet programme, etc.

  • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Can we grow a pair and tell this nutcase to get fucked instead? It’s eternally frustrating to watch our politicians rush to rim this fascist.

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    3 days ago

    I’d still go with the earlier proposal: a lunch with Prince Andrew in Pizza Express in woking.

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      I expect Starmer & Co. to make protest against the visit illegal if they can and as difficult as possible if they can’t. They won’t want to hear any dissent - although Starmer is so far up the Mango Mussolini’s arsehole he won’t hear it anyway.

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      3 days ago

      No, please don’t mess it up. While he’s off doing pomp and ceremony stuff, he doesn’t have his fingers in policy. In fact, a full world tour of all British territory might be warranted.

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    2 days ago

    He’ll make sure to schedule a private party with Prince Andrew and a couple of 12 year olds.