Govt may be relieved that UK faces lower Trump tariffs than others but it’s a trap.
A deal with the unreliable lunatic means lowering standards, betraying our farmers and undermining trust and compatibility for any EU reset which is far more valuable to us. Let’s not fuck this up too.
(Letter,Times)

Please keep your fingers crossed for my lovely Kiwi, he's not well at the moment, will be sixteen in April, we adopted him and his sister 16 months ago and fell in love with both of themxx

Starmer is to attend an EU summit and Brexiters are having a proper tantrum about it.
As if they negotiated something good.
As if our industries hadn’t been desperately lobbying govt ever since.
As if the EU wasn’t an ally.
Brexiters are monstrous toddlers - a total drag on diplomacy and progress.

Oh ok. The Mail now shouting at us that Trump is considering various vengeful snubs to our govt, as well as helping Farage in his bid to be prime minister.
Throughout Brexit, it howled about ‘sovereignty’. Now it cheers on a fascistic American slug meddling in our democracy.
What a toxic little rag.

The Farage-athon in our media has to stop.All he represents is the weaponisation of prejudice to keep people angry and uninformed. But headlines about him go on and on, building up a myth instead of exposing him for the nasty little con artist he is.
Years of this shit. Please can 2025 be different.

Over in the other place, the billionaire owner is threatening to fund ‘moderate’ (rightwing) candidates in heavily Democratic districts too.

This is what oligarchy looks like. It’s the biggest threat to democracy today. Not ‘cancel culture.’ Not trans kids. Not college protesters.

Oligarchy.

Having bought the US election, Musk now wants to buy ours. This ketamine-infused menace thinks global domination is his to buy.
And Farage is grasping for his money.These repulsive men weaponise prejudice for power. They feed off ignorance, resentment and inadequacy.
If they succeed, we have failed.