Keir Starmer at it again..

[Walshes Wolves]

Agree with all that has been said above. It’s a sad state of affairs that we have to humour the complete and utter arsehole though.

Agree with this.

 

[Derby Wolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1892914719314366555

Mrs DW had confirmation of her PIP review this morning

Its been just 13 months since she got the award after battling these cunts for 18 months.

 

[sycophantia]

Not really true. He showed how to get his picture taken again, when things are difficult at home, but with Trump there is only one truth that matters and that is his truth.
It appears from Trump's latest statement about the EU, that Macron probably made things worse.
Starmer is not so arrogant as Macron and hopefully will get better results. The problem of course, is that Trump knows what Starmer really feels about him.

We'll have to disagree on that, I really don't think there is any other way to deal with the petulant man baby. You have to massage his ego while making him think any good ideas are his. I don't like it, I'd rather tell him and his puppet master to stick his views up his arse but that's where we are.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Mrs DW had confirmation of her PIP review this morning

Its been just 13 months since she got the award after battling these cunts for 18 months.

13bn on defence though.

 

[EdgeOfTheAlps]

Yep Macron showed the way to deal with him earlier this week.

And the EU is hit with 25% tariffs. Maybe bribes and whores will help.

 

[Tony Towner]

Except it's not. He announced an announcement, just more spitballing as he negotiates from a bullying position

 

[sycophantia]

Let's be honest, there are no good outcomes dealing with Trump, it's all about managing the nonsense by the leader of the most powerful nation in the world till he either, loses interest, someone puts a bullet in his head or finishes his term (that's assuming he doesn't change the rules so he can serve another term).

 

[Tony Towner]

Let's be honest, there are no good outcomes dealing with Trump, it's all about managing the nonsense by the leader of the most powerful nation in the world till he either, loses interest, someone puts a bullet in his head or finishes his term (that's assuming he doesn't change the rules so he can serve another term).

Would need ⅔ of both the Senate and House to approve that. He only says those sort of things to be a dick

 

[Del Woppio]

Tbf he doesn't need to be on top of the ticket to run country, just stick a maga stooge on the ballot and he won't even have to get out his office. He wouldn't give a fuck, he'd be as brazen as you want, still doing all the meetings, publicly setting the agenda, the works.

 

[Tony Towner]

Vance will think it should be his though. He wouldn't step aside nor be the puppet. He's not even particularly pro Trump, just as big an opportunist.

 

[leedswolf]

Mike Amesbury: MP jailed for punching constituent in street walks free after appealing prison sentence

Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury will walk free after winning an appeal against his 10-week jail sentence for punching a man in the street.

news.sky.com

 

[Tony Towner]

200 hours picking up litter/ painting fences is probably more impactful than another 3.5 weeks in prison.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Maybe bribes and whores will help.

Worked for Russia. Took a while for them to reap the benefits but a very good investment back in the 1980s.

 

[leedswolf]

International development minister Anneliese Dodds has quit her post over Sir Keir Starmer's decision to slash the overseas aid budget to pay for an increase in defence spending.

 

[Del Woppio]

Good on her

 

[Wilf Wolf]

All very well being critical but yesterday’s developments in the White House make it pretty clear we need to increase defence spending so does Dodds disagree, and if not what is she cutting instead?

 

[Templeton Peck]

All very well being critical but yesterday’s developments in the White House make it pretty clear we need to increase defence spending so does Dodds disagree, and if not what is she cutting instead?

You can do both. It plays well with the knuckle dragging reform vote to cut international aid.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

You can do both. It plays well with the knuckle dragging reform vote to cut international aid.

You can but it’s easy to say cut elsewhere but like the Tories there’s rarely an answer as to what. Dodds wanted Starmer to revisit the fiscal rules which presumably means borrow more.

 

[EdgeOfTheAlps]

You can but it’s easy to say cut elsewhere but like the Tories there’s rarely an answer as to what. Dodds wanted Starmer to revisit the fiscal rules which presumably means borrow more.

Thats is what they should be doing if necessary. Same here in Germany. Merz correctly reasons that the US cannot be relied upon but for years his party and the FDP have insisted on sticking with the debt brake that has seen much of Germanys infrastructure crumble.

The west as a whole has cut or elimated all or most forms of wealth tax (elimated late 90s in Germany) in the now debunked illusion that trickle down works. Through neoliberal eyes, re-introducing a wealth tax to pay for anything is abhorrent, so even more cuts for the poorest in society are the consequence.

It's a logical consequence that many feel foreign aid should be cut or like USAID, practically stopped. They feel like that should happen before cuts are made at home. It's also a logical consequence that people vote for parties that tell them the system is broken....because it IS broken, and the parties of the middle have no real will to fix it. The far-right are just there to make ot worse, but that's another discussion.

It's about time the ultra wealthy are asked to contribute their share to the defence of their countries.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Thats is what they should be doing if necessary. Same here in Germany. Merz correctly reasons that the US cannot be relied upon but for years his party and the FDP have insisted on sticking with the debt brake that has seen much of Germanys infrastructure crumble.

The west as a whole has cut or elimated all or most forms of wealth tax (elimated late 90s in Germany) in the now debunked illusion that trickle down works. Through neoliberal eyes, re-introducing a wealth tax to pay for anything is abhorrent, so even more cuts for the poorest in society are the consequence.

It's a logical consequence that many feel foreign aid should be cut or like USAID, practically stopped. They feel like that should happen before cuts are made at home. It's also a logical consequence that people vote for parties that tell them the system is broken....because it IS broken, and the parties of the middle have no real will to fix it. The far-right are just there to make ot worse, but that's another discussion.

It's about time the ultra wealthy are asked to contribute their share to the defence of their countries.

I posted earlier this week that the wealthy have most to lose so should pay more to defend what they have. That would be my choice rather than borrowing more.