China, Japan and S Korea also planning joint response to Trump’s tariff orgy
The European Commission, which controls the EU’s twenty-seven markets, has said that it is going to impose reciprocal tariffs on US goods after US president Trump announced a further raft of tariffs on goods entering the US market.
At the same time, China, Japan and South Korea have announced that they will make a joint response to Trump’s tariffs, despite their historic enmities and rivalries:
The coordinated moves show what can be done to put pressure on a nation causing trouble that governments are interested in ending – and make clearer than ever that the lack of action to embargo and isolate Israel for its genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and its planned complete annexation of the West Bank shows that those governments simply do not care about the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians slaughtered and maimed by the racist Israeli regime and are too wedded to Israel’s interests to even contemplate action.
And Keir Starmer’s UK government is one of the very worst offenders, not only continuing to supply Israel with arms, but refusing to release RAF spyplane footage of Israel’s murder of a UK aid worker, but waging war on those who speak out against Israel’s crimes, including journalists, by using the Terrorism Act to raid, harass and even prosecute them.
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THE EU which oh so more smart, better read, more educated, more au-fait č class conciseness… oh! and “critical thinking” than others, THOSE politically experienced people fetishised and CONTINUE to fetishise the EU. So much so that an enduring EU sceptic Corbyn (check his voting record), allowed Sir Keith Starmer to sabotage the GE campaign to PURPOSELY hand GE victory to concentrated full strength EU devotee Johnson masquerading as a Brexiter. You couldn’t make it up.
NB current EU disgraceful treatment of migrants PLUS joining bad news Starmer’s nasty migrant bashing shindig this week! But oh so “better educated”etc will NEVER learn; not because they can’t, rather, they believe they have NOTHING to learn, and are the essence of virtue … integrity. So much integrity, that they hand over the Labour Party to the integrity free slime engorged abomination that is Sir Keith Starmer.
TRAGEDY is an understatement🔴🔴🔴
COURTESY SURVATION:
“Labour Members React to Spring Statement with Pessimism on Policies and Electoral Prospects
Our latest poll of Labour Party members, conducted in partnership with LabourList immediately after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement, reveals deepening discontent in the party’s grassroots.
Key Findings at a Glance
Rachel Reeves’ net favourability falls 30 points to -41%
Starmer’s favourability turns negative: -13% (down 26 points)
68% of members say Labour is heading in the wrong direction
81% believe the Spring Statement will lose the party support
Just 11% support increased defence spending
89% support a wealth tax, 84% back capital gains reform
76% want the Chancellor to loosen fiscal rules”📊📊📊
NB: Survation conducted a poll of 1,053 Labour party members via LabourList’s database between 26th March and 1st April 2025.
I agree in part with your post but, ultimately I believe, the right of the Labour Party (including Starmer) sabotaged the Corbyn’s project wasn’t their love for the EU. But, rather to protect Israel.
The UK still has a permanent seat on the UN Security Council they couldn’t possible allow the UK to have as a PM who is an open opponent to Zionist Israel.
As soon as he became PM, Starmer abandoned the idea of re-joining the EU. Possibly, because he knows that France and possibly Spain will vote against and veto the UK re-entry.
Some countries within the EU would be willing to stop trading with Israel. The main obstacle is Germany that is adamantly pro-Israel.
However, the actions of Israel in Lebanon and the imposition of US tariffs on the EU could have persuaded France to float the idea of closing the EU to Israeli products. After all France is a signatory of the cease fire between Israel and Lebanon, as a way of forcing the US to reconsider the tariffs is imposing on the EU. However, France known that Germany will bloque such move.
Hi Maria, – “As soon as he became PM, Starmer abandoned the idea of re-joining the EU.”-
That is my point. I posted on Skwawkbox.org that during the very early morning of GE results, when presenters asked the several various Tories in ill-fitting Labour disguises about Brexit, they EACH responded as if COACHED… given the line to take:
“THE BREXIT ARGUMENT is FINISHED.”
No matter how much the presenters pressed. Each and every one maintained the discipline.
The “Right Wing” as you describe them, were prepared… organised to achieve their aim, SABOTAGE the Labour Party winning under Corbyn, then SEIZE the party assets of data, funding, etc etc etc.
That’s why Sir Keith sabotaged Corbyn at Conference with gross insubordination by contradicting Corbyn’s planned CONVOLUTED position of “Constructive Ambiguity”.
I always suspected that concoction was a BARRY GARDNER micturated muck in Corbyn’s own mug.
The parasites’ line to take i.e. “Brexit argument is finished”, was repeated by all their VERY PRESENT team members EVERY HOUR, EVERY DAY… even by Mandelson, if i remember correctly.
It was TWO WEEKS after the GE Sabotage that Sir Keith Starmer turned up to interview and gave their like to take. COYLE was one of those parroting it… until his abuse etc scandal.
PUSH REMAIN to OBVIOUSLY disregard and LOSE the GE led by Corbyn. CLAIM the electorate rejected Corbyn and all he stood for and all who supported him. PURGE him and his followers. SEIZE the valuable asset of a VALUABLE difficult to establish party. Then commit the wickedest acts that not even the TORIES in their OWN pit REFUSED to commit.
THATS all clear as daylight, predictable as OBVIOUS, said OPENLY by the parasites, BUT our lot, forever engaged in “political education”, forever addicted with ceaseless academic spouting … read this, read that yet absorb NOTHING to use in an effective meaningful way.
Wang on and on about the definitions and history of the Z word.
Wang on calling the organised right wing stupid, F ist, uneducated, dont know what they’re doing, etc etc etc,
yet FAIL FAIL and FAIL again… into perpetuity i suspect, to respect the basics.
Despite sixty or seventy years of being active in “politics” Corbyn & Co failed to see the basic obvious, take seriously the oft repeated OPEN oozing of Mandelson, , Ashworth, Straw, Blunket, etc etc UNDERMINING the GE win.
They failed to grasp that and suspect even up to this very day, LONG to be summoned to do something in the party.
GUES WHAT, if summoned, Corbyn will walk all over anyone who supported him, JUST to be amongst Sir Keith & Co.
His longtime associate McCluskey said, when asked about Corbyn’s extended exclusion,
“I went to them and begged them to write anything, ANYTHING, and I will take it to him and he WILL sign it.”
SIMPLE. BASIC. INTEGRITY or LACK of it ❔❓🥀❔❓🥀❔❓🥀
I have long thought that EVERY item sold should carry TWO flags. One to state where the product was made, and the second to state where the producer pays the major part of their tax. Then we could all have the option of deciding whether we wish to buy from USA, Israel, the EU, the UK, Ireland, etc etc. and support companies that do or do not pay their taxes in the UK.