“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”.
Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US...
But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?
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The three legal opinions obtained by His Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar confirm that there are no concessions of sovereignty or jurisdiction in the UK/EU Treaty in relation to Gibraltar. Lord David Pannick KC, Sir Peter Caruana KCMG, KC, and Jamie Trinidad KC are all eminent lawyers with deeply relevant experience and expertise in the field of international law and practice.
Dear @DanielJHannan you know me well enough to know I would not agree to anything that would dilute British Sovereignty over Gibraltar. This is a deal designed with Boris Johnson as Prime Minister and negotiated by successive Conservative and Labour Foreign Secretaries. Its a great deal for Gibraltar to avoid the huge dangers Brexit created for us. Headline ideology aside, I know we agree on much, and I trust we will be able to agree on this.
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1. “I have to take Greenland because Putin is a threat to Arctic Security”
But 2. Putin wants peace in Ukraine and that pest Zelensky gets in the way.
And now 3. “I would like to have Vlad on the Board of Peace.”
“Weird” doesn’t get close
CONSEQUENCES FOR DUMBASSES: You are an F'ing idiot. If we invade Greenland we go to war with 31 nations. NATO stays together but without us. Its HQ is in Brussels, not the Pentagon. Our global reach across the Atlantic will end with our closest refueling base in Israel or Egypt. 100,000 American soldiers will be forced to board civil airliners and sent home or be taken as POWs/Detainee sWITHOUT WEAPONS OR EQUIPMENT. Canada will close its airspace and sea space. US Ballistic Missile Defense at Pettufik and Fylingdales ENDS, which means we see nothing except what space sensors can see. US Intelligence is reduced to Fort Meade, Ft Gordon and Colorado Springs and Hawaii. CIA spies will be rolled up by their former friends in HOURS. NO ONE WILL SHARE ANYTHING WITH US. ALL GLOBAL SHIPPING WILL BE CLOSED TO US. Denmark operates the largest shipping company in the world. SIX OUT OF TEN global shipping companies are in Europe ... Worlds Biggest container ships? DENMARK!
Australia, NZ, Canada are Commonwealth so they will cut ties with us or be neutral too.
PS Denmark & locals tun all life support and generators at Pittufik and Canada resupplies it ... all 150 US Spece force personnel would become POWs to guys on sleds. FYI They have troops there now and 35,000 Caribou hunting rifles.
FYI France and UK have nukes. Hundreds of them so you cannot intimidate them with that.
Oh and they collapse the US economy by sanctioning us and selling off 2.3 Trillion in US treasuries simultaneously. Also no Botox, Ozempic or insulin. Its made in Denmark.
Ya fucking dope.
@reb_calderon Exactly this, and affordable does not necessarily need to mean 50/50 flats. Its seems like unless its luxury flats, private contractors are not intrested in building afforadble housing for locals.
@KaelanJoyce The same applies to others calling for further investigations or challenges. Nothing official has been launched. If the CM were to persue it, it should be at his own expense. Expecting public funding would not go down well and would only further harm an already damaged reputation
@KaelanJoyce Lets not forget that the first person who mentioned legally challenging the report was the CM, who was of the opinion that some of criticisms against him were "legally unfair" and "contradictory" - and that he will consider a legal challenge against them.
@far_leftie@Artemisfornow They are. Gibraltar voted 95.9% in the EU referendum, and we are fully on board with this agreement. Speaking as a Gibraltarian.
This woman has absolutely no idea what she’s talking about. The people of Gibraltar voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU and overwhelmingly support this deal. Yes, we have our concerns, but for the most part, we know it’s the right step forward for Gibraltar’s future.
Lucy Harris(ex Brexit party MEP) on the Gibraltar border deal:
"It's anti-British.... it's another anti-british move by David Lammy... it has to be overturned..."
Alex Ballinger(Labour MP): "I find those comments outrageous..."
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Petrol: 97p per litre
Cable TV: £23 a month
Vodka: £7 per litre
Are we living in ‘rip-off Britain’? Caller Paul thinks so, and says his monthly costs in Gibraltar prove it.
So it’s really important you understand the Trump Coin grift. It hasn’t gotten enough attention, but it’s maybe the biggest White House corruption in a century. Right out in the open for all to see.
I’m going to explain how the grift works. Only takes 3 minutes.
If the US-Ukraine mineral deal doesn’t include security guarantees, what's to say that there isn't a future scenario where the U.S. agrees to let Russia take Ukraine in exchange for full access to its resources...?
I don't have much to add to the discourse surrounding Starmer's Visit to Washington yesterday.
We're so unused to serious, credible politicians in the UK that his performance looks as though he was wearing a cape and his pants on top of his suit.
In reality … he did his job. He did it well, and took the heat out of any potential gotcha moments; when JD Vance tried to corner him on free speech, he countered and, ultimately, made him look a bit silly.
I haven't seen any retraction tweets from Trump this morning, so that's the litmus test. Starmer has passed his vetting.
The letter from the King was a shrewd move. Whilst, to some it seemed sycophantic and, well cringe, in actual fact, it was pure theatre. Designed to pander to the president's need for powerful attention: home run.
When you are a serious political player, you surround yourself with seriously smart people, and you listen to them. Badenoch needs to take a leaf from that pamphlet before her next podcast appearance.
The planning was obvious. Every question or statement answered with a quiet sense of understated authority. Starmer took his time and never appeared rattled.
You can love him or loathe him, but you must start to respect him now as a proper Prime Minister - of the type we've lacked for some time.
Today, there will be the usual suspects talking down his body language or using shortened clips to make him seem weak - you know who they are. The GB News cabal, Talk TV syndicate, the Mike Grahams of this parish. But even they know, really, that their words are hollow this morning.
It feels slightly discombobulating to realise that, at last, the grown-ups seem to be back in charge.