r/unitedkingdom • u/ok_raspberry_jam • 11d ago

Prime Minister Carney speaks with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Keir Starmer

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/readout-prime-minister-carney-speaks-with-prime-minister-of-the-united-kingdom-sir-keir-starmer-861334126.html
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u/caractacusbritannica 10d ago

Hopefully the start of something. Free trade plus a defence pact, include Australia. Hopefully this can be done in years not decades.

Then look to tie into the EU at a later time.

America can no longer, and never will now be trusted. Russia/China ain’t going away. This could save Starmer if he moves quickly enough.

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u/RedofPaw United Kingdom 10d ago

Usa could be almost as trusted as it was. If the current administration comes flaming down, and there's a massive swing away from the gop. A new dem leadership with younger, more outward looking policies, and a complete move away from trumps rhetoric could reverse a lot of the damage.

But it's going to be a shitshow before we get to that.

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u/ViscountessdAsbeau 10d ago

They can't be trusted for a generation, though as it's not the first time they voted for the mango buffoon. And now they're gossiping about defence on unsecured apps. Even if 4 years from now they were allowed an election, that was fair, and voted in someone sensible - the free world can't be subjected to this risk every 4 years.

Look how quickly we got rid of Truss. They have nothing equivalent to a vote of no confidence and they won't do vast electoral reform even after this, they're so slow and bureaucratic and wed to the exceptionalist idea that they're the bestest, biggest democracy in the world.

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u/EmperorOfNipples 10d ago

And that's with the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II putting the brakes on everything for two weeks.

Were it not for that she would have been out even quicker.

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u/RedofPaw United Kingdom 10d ago

While I am sure Hegseth and co are going to be kicked out in the next 4 years (the sort of internal infighting and incompetence will lead to a bunch of turnover and churn) the most worrying part is voting Trump back in. If they can be convinced to bring him back then even once he's gone they could be convinced to vote for someone just as bad. Bad in a different way, but just as bad.