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Special relationship: the British right’s appeasement of Donald Trump – politicalbetting.com
Special relationship: the British right’s appeasement of Donald Trump – politicalbetting.com
Barring a much bloodier insurrection than the one mounted two weeks ago, Joe Biden will assume the presidency of the United States on Wednesday. Where does that leave the UK?
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Oh noes.. How will we survive?
Apart from Agricultural goods, which we seem keen to keep out, their exports are heavily tech, and they seem to be flogging that like hotcakes without any deal, so why bother?
BDS
We do not know how the future pans out, but I did not need to check who the author was of this piece
Yes Johnson was right to call Trump "stupefyingly ignorant", but then the US public somehow elected him President and our politicians had to deal with him. Biden understands that, he's not a pettyminded ignorant partisan hack out for revenge because his side were rejected once.
Mr Meeks approaches the entire thing from his "oh woe is Brexit" viewpoint and expects America to grind an axe for him. That's not Biden.
Yes Biden is a career machine politician and as a career machine politician Biden's priority is to put the Trump MAGA madness behind him.
Boris prompty recognised and congratulated Biden on winning and they've been talking together on their priorities since. Biden reciprocated by giving Boris the customary first telephone call after Canada. Biden and Boris want to reset politics back to normal post Trump. They want to deal with climate change. They want to deal with China. They want to work together and they will do, petty poisoning the well because of photos from years ago is the kind of ludicrous sad nonsense that Biden won't have time to deal with.
It would be a good name for a very bad sitcom based on PB
On a large number of areas, from Iran to climate change, Johnson has far more in common with Biden than he did with Trump, despite the traditional links between the Conservatives and the Republicans.
Though we'd have to marry him off to Charles PDQ to be sure.
The traditional Republicans, the ones the British are closer to like the Californian Republicans, are an increasing ostracised minority.
That is why it is a shrinking minority on the hard right that can relate to Trumpian Republicans.
LEAVERS, LEAVERS, LEAVERS!!!!
Part of this is trade. Out of 190 countries examined, 128 do more trade with China than with America. This matters. Trade means leverage. Sure, America is big enough to go it alone, and will never be vanquished, but it will lose its dwindling supremacy even faster if it does try isolationism.
Biden is a president of an America that, for the first time in 80 years, needs more friends and allies, if it wants to retain mere equality with China, rather than yield, wearily, to outright inferiority.
The Storming of the Capitol just adds to this sense of American slippage.
https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/1351180870389014532
From: https://www.coioshealth.info/amp/two-countries-divided-by-a-common-virus?__twitter_impression=true
While I can see that in the UK, immunising the over seventies will have a big effect on mortality, in America it looks less so.
https://twitter.com/johnredwood/status/1351230020392517632
https://twitter.com/niall_gooch/status/1351289407987453958?s=20
Our second peak looks more in line with the USA though 25-44 is much lower. Our eldest were hit incredibly hard in the first wave.
Also: their terrible health system must be a factor
https://slate.com/culture/2021/01/my-antifa-lover-review-ahhh.html
The book is called "My Antifa Lover". And yes, it's as bad as it sounds.
https://twitter.com/johnredwood/status/1347908587851546626?s=20
After encountering him at a non-violent burning down of a federal building she can’t tell what is hotter, the fire or her feelings developing for him.” This description raises some questions. Primarily, how exactly does one “non-violently” burn down a federal building
LOL!
Seriously. A colour chart? Self declaration? An apartheid style "pencil test"? How??
Sure, they care a lot more about abortion than I do, but most of them were never particularly keen on Trump. He was a tool who gave them the judges they craved.
Now, he's just a tool.
One of my junior doctors lost an aunt this week, aged 58, with no underlying conditions apart from being Sikh. He has a socially distanced funeral next week.
I've found new world wines easy to get hold of, more competitively priced and of better quality for some time.
American excess deaths looking at that chart should massive exceed British ones proportionately yet our death toll is supposedly worse? I don't believe it. If our excess deaths were to the scale of American ones then we would have had 2k-3k excess deaths each interval through the summer but instead it was negligible or in the hundreds.
I suspect that when all is said and done the official death tolls used in tables at the moment as a proportion of excess deaths will vary wildly between countries.
Biden is a pragmatist. He believes in the Atlantic alliance. He will probably pressure Germany to spend more on defence: but he'll do it in private, not public (which means he might actually achieve his goals).
I don't expect an imminent UK-US trade agreement, because US goals are driven by its agriculture lobby, and lots of Conservative MPs come from rural seats.
Using mosques as vaccination centres as well as cathedrals might be a useful step.
I read similar takes just after Biden was elected about how he'd call Britain last, and only then to give Boris a bollocking, which he'd have to beg for.
BBC News - Covid vaccine: Health minister denies jabs being held back
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-55704017
I mean if we're going to go along that route with risk profiles, men should probably be getting the jab before women....
But the headline seems to suggest BAME folk should be prioritised JUST for being BAME. Which to me seems morally wrong as well as undo-able, unless you act like the pre-apartheid South African police.
Perhaps the headline has it wrong. This is not unknown.
And perhaps plays a part in delaying the second dose - "you're not fully safe yet so don't take risks".
Having some people with two doses and others with none would, I think, lead to social cohesion problems and widespread ignoring of restrictions by the young.
But it might percolate down through the communities too.
Does he want to become PM one day?
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1351236031065038848?s=19
Too much oil money, too hot to walk, too many air con'd cab rides, equals = a blob
But, the Guardian are playing to their base who love it fashionably Woke, and they want the clickbait traffic/reshares from the rest who don't, so they do it. And it works.
Race is much more contentious. The Left has spent decades telling us race is a fallacy, a biological nonsense. Yet now it matters?
Either race exists, and we can say who is what, or it does not, in which case this policy is a load of illogical bollocks, and will only annoy people.
Wearing a facemask makes it easier for stunt doubles to pass themselves off as the PM.
Stand by for their wearing to be made compulsory for all time.
Why should a pensioner get a cheaper Sunday dinner or sports ticket than someone in their 20s ?
I realise its a relict of the time when there were proportionally far fewer oldies and they tended to be poorer but its ridiculous now.
So we can simply put this down to fashion.
Now I can't get that image out of my mind.
Thanks @Casino_Royale. I now don't know how I will sleep this evening.
And it’s all apparently because Alastair is deranged.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9161133/Shoppers-face-online-sales-tax-Rishi-Sunak-looks-pay-huge-Covid-19-debt.html
Age is a social construct, like gender. People should be free to identify as whatever age they like, and should be treated accordingly.
FBI checking profiles of National Guardsmen protecting Washington. There is a fear that some guarding Biden are loyal to Trump!
Jon Sopel BBC
Government spokesman said: "The Pfizer vaccine comes in large packs, which cannot be split and must be stored at ultra-low temperatures - at -70C. There are only two centres in Wales where we can keep them at this temperature."
And my earlier post..