@sophieheloiset@andyburnham As an employer of quite a few youngsters, and having our own training academy Sophie, my biggest hurdle is age. If they are under 18, getting them on site is a nightmare 🤪 They seem to want to trap them in the BS college system, as it keeps them from claiming dole for 2 yrs !
President Trump just unloaded on America’s European NATO allies with the world’s media watching.
Sitting beside Turkish President Erdoğan, Trump revealed he was “very disappointed” after several NATO allies refused to assist the U.S. during the Iran conflict.
Then he dropped the bombshell:
He says it was a test to see who would actually stand with America when it mattered.
TRUMP: “I was very disappointed with NATO and frankly if it weren’t held in Turkey, where my friend happens to be a very strong leader, a very strong person, it’s possible that I wouldn’t have attended.”
“I felt I had to attend because of the fact that he’s gone all out, it was a big thing to have NATO come to Turkey or any place else.”
“But we weren’t treated well, because we did something in Iran, we don’t need anybody’s help, I did not even want their help but before I asked, they said they wouldn’t be there.”
“We’ve invested trillions of dollars in NATO. Why?”
“To protect European countries and others, Canada, et cetera but to protect people, countries from generally speaking, used to be Soviet Union and now it’s Russia.”
“And I say that is fine, but you would think they would be willing to do something to help us and they really weren’t.”
“In the case of United Kingdom, the prime minister, I guess no longer there…maybe because of this…it was very unpopular thing he did.”
“He said, no, we’ll help after the war is over. I said, I don’t need that kind of help.”
“In a way I was testing people, I was testing to see whether or not they’d be there because I’ve long said that we help them, but I’m not sure that they’d be there for us.”
“Italy turned us down, and Germany turned us down, France turned us down and that’s okay. But why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars and they’re not there for us?”
Andy Burnham calls @Nigel_Farage by election a "gimmick" - apparently failing to see the irony that he himself just pulled an identical stunt.....embarrassing