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Here’s the story behind this outrageous demand. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-jd-vance-trade-deal-free-speech-b2733806.html
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@georgetakei I feel I must have missed the memo... When did the UK stop chipping away at LGBTQIA2S+ rights?
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@georgetakei scuzz or slime seems to be to good a word to describe trump. I personally like Orange Pusbag. You're welcome to use the phase for as long as you want too.
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No deal then. We’re in the UK look at the US and see you as 40 years behind, even though you lead so many things.
No deal then. We’re in the UK look at the US and see you as 40 years behind, even though you lead so many things.
Your beef is full of steroids, your drinking water is often polluted, your cities down let pedestrians walk, your bread is full of corn sugar, everything is full of corn sugar. Your tech exploits the young… And Trump wants us to deny our brothers, sisters and others their love in exchange for a trade deal?
No thanks. We don’t want a trade deal. I like French 🇫🇷 wine, Italian 🇮🇹 coffee, German 🇩🇪 sausage, Belgian 🇧🇪 beer Spanish 🇪🇸 rice, Dutch 🇳🇱 pancakes, Irish 🇮🇪 lamb, British 🇬🇧 beer, Danish 🇩🇰 bacon, Greek 🇬🇷 yogurt, Cypriot 🇨🇾 halloumi, Canadian maple syrup and I could go.
I love the US 🇺🇸. I do genuinely. But Trump can fuck off.
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@georgetakei Not saying this isn't true but The Independent is not a reliable news source and has not been so for a long time. Since it stopped being "independent", in fact.
Mind you, Trump is still a nasty, bigoted, piece of shit...
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@georgetakei He can rot in the cess pit of Hell.
I have forwarded this link with an email to my MP, who I am sure will be sympathetic, but can only say her piece, as she is not in power.
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Looking forward to an eloquent British answer. They should ask Stephen Fry to conjure up something.
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@georgetakei I require US to get rid of Trump before cease my personal trade war with US.
I have all the cards.
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If Starmer had any balls he'd tell them to piss off. Hopefully he doesn't believe he'd be able to get any such bollocks through Parliament.
It would be ironic if a new trade agreement failed because of the USs red lines.
If Starmer had any balls he'd tell them to piss off. Hopefully he doesn't believe he'd be able to get any such bollocks through Parliament.
It would be ironic if a new trade agreement failed because of the USs red lines.
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@georgetakei Well I guess the trade talks will fail if that is a sticking point. I don't expect the UK to give way on this point (thankfully). If they did then there would be another demand, than another etc.
The UK should be politely firm whilst standing with the EU on most issues - we do far more trade with them anyway.
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@georgetakei Ok, so, here's the thing, I know it'll be difficult in the short term, but everything will be better in the long term: Don't trade with someone who demands you do unethical things as a prerequisite for trade. Just don't. The US has had a bully mentality for a while, now they're actively threatening countries. Just stop, there are other countries to trade with.
Bye Felicia.
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@georgetakei One would hope they’d tell him off, but judging by their tolerance for billionaire involvement & removing protections for trans persons, they may welcome this heinous bully behavior.
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@georgetakei But the betting is that Starmer gives in, as always, to curry favour with this fucking American Fascist monster. God help the UK if Starmer does.
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@georgetakei If the UK got rid of laws protecting LGBTQ people they would be a country on my boycott list, and that should be a position for the EU too. Don’t buy from bigots.
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@georgetakei In the UK, I think we're smart enough to understand that there is no such thing as a "deal" with Trump. Any agreement is only valid as long as it serves his purpose, than as soon as it becomes inconvenient he simply breaks it.
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@georgetakei Trade deal on those terms… no thank you. I would rather avoid everything US. WTF is happening in this crazy world?
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I think tRump is secretly gay or trans.
That's the only reason, I can think of, for him to hate the LGBTQ community as much as he does.
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@georgetakei Okay, that's not quite what the headline says.
He wants a foreign country to change their law, which is stupid.
But it's to get rid of hate speech laws, which have always been unconstitutional here (and for good reason). We've managed to make discrimination illegal without criminalizing hate speech. This is hardly an "anti-LGBTQ" request.
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@georgetakei a great many in the UK would really prefer it if starmer turned his back and walked away. That's even without the chance of his rolling over to such demands as this. A great many indeed.
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@georgetakei "a Washington source"...absolutely no other press outlet has mentioned this. I think it's scarmongering.
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@georgetakei Man, I don’t know. The UK was already moving in that direction. I guess they’ll move faster now? They certainly won’t say no.
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@georgetakei as a Queer British man I dont think the State will protect me at all.
Starmer has been hostile to the needs of he Queer minority, he consorts with hate preachers instead of us.
Starmer has been hostile to the needs of he Queer minority, he consorts with hate preachers instead of us.
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The fascist mind has very few variations. Just look at what they have liked and disliked throughout history. It’s all pretty identical and that’s what they can be e pecked to go for.
The fascist mind has very few variations. Just look at what they have liked and disliked throughout history. It’s all pretty identical and that’s what they can be e pecked to go for.
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@georgetakei Here's the crazy thing about Trump: after the UK tells him to f*** off properly (hopefully), in his idiocy he'll take that to mean they respect him just because he demanded it.
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@georgetakei apparently the Uk does not need pressure from trump to do that #transrights.
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The UK has a plethora of responses one might use, to respond to Trump's demand that it rescind civil rights for a particular class of people.
Many are wielded at losing race horses, ex-spouses, the losing side in an FA Cup match, and bus drivers who fail to pick you up when it's raining,
Keir Starmer hasn't the charm or balls to use any of them. Or the brains to know that one demand will be followed by another and another, and yield no trade deal ever.
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One consequence of this has been a demand by two senior #Laɓour members of parliament - chairs of the foreign affairs and trade select committees - for there to be a debate and vote on any such deal.
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@georgetakei I wondered why this very un-British change was being sought. I didn't think the UK wanted to be like the USofA, but apparently on that subject, money talks.
Very disappointing watching everyone roll back the centuries.
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@georgetakei Trump and his puppet masters can go fuck themselves sideways with a cactus.
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@georgetakei He probably would have gotten that conscession had he asked during his first term because covid proved Boris had no qualms about endangering others for personal gain, and to benefit his donors. Starmer is a neoliberal but he knows he would never be forgiven for such a betrayal and he would be opening the door to fascism if he so much as contemplated that or letting American healthcare companies dismantle the NHS.
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@TheNovemberMan 👏👏👏
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Republicans don't care about free speech. They just want to oppress queer people.
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@georgetakei On behalf of the UK, he can fuck off. Time to get Brexit undone, coincidentally also the result of Russian election interference.
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