It's fitting that Starmer had his Chamberlain moment on his way to appease the oil & gas lobby at the deeply flawed COP summit in Azerbaijan (of all places). Asked to choose between Trump and the EU in the imminent trade war, he preferred not to upset the vengeful, malignant narcissist who's sparked it, by waving the flimsy, blank sheet of paper that every British PM claims to contain the text describing 'the special relationship'.
It would be kinda sweet if Starmer were to genuinely think that Trump will be looking after Brexit Britain while allowing Putin to expand Russian territory, arch conspiracy theorist RFK Jr to cancel the US vaccine program and demanding that Elon 'Space Cadet' Musk pull a $2 trillion rug from under a population that relies on the world's largest outright public spending program, including government-funded free school meals, subsidised mortgages and business loans and much, much more.
But I suspect Starmer is simply pretending to be that dumb, because that's what most people seem to want these days.
Meanwhile, yet another governor of the Bank of England has urged Britain's politicians to unite with its biggest market, when there's no sign of any political courage to do so in the face of our own local Trumpian mob.
How many more Prime Ministers the UK economy must burn through before Reality creates an opportunity for one of them to claim hero status by leading what's left of the country back into the Single Market and Customs Union remains to be seen, but...
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