Just Stop Oil have whipped out the orange paint in protest at Trump’s decisive election win. A student and a 72-year-old sprayed the side wall at which point most of the paint slid into the pond below. Is that it?
They say “this morning the world wakes to find it has slipped further into fascism as well as climate breakdown. Trump’s win puts the lives of ordinary people at risk, everywhere.“ Climate crazies did well to divert votes to Trump…
Emily Thornberry has found something new to moan about other than being snubbed from grabbing a Cabinet position – the next US President. When asked about her previous remarks calling Trump a “racist, sexual predator,” Thornberry doubled down, responding with a straightforward “Yes, well, he is. But he’s also President of the US.” Lady Nugee said on the Today Programme:
A reminder: she’s the Labour chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. Somehow she’s still mystified as to why she’s not sitting in the Cabinet…
Starmer congratulated Trump this morning: “As the closest of allies, we stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of our shared values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.” David Lammy wrote a congratulatory tweet of his own and said “We look forward to working with you and JD Vance in the years ahead.” Trump may take a dim view of that considering what the frontbench has said about him before…
- 2016: Ed Miliband called Trump a “racist” and “misogynist”.
- 2017: Yvette Cooper joined a women’s march to “take a stand against Donald Trump”.
- 2017: Starmer’s wife Victoria was pictured at the same anti-Trump march, pictured with a “down with Trump” sign.
- 2017: David Lammy branded Trump “incompetent” and a “troll”.
- 2017: Wes Streeting wrote a Guardian article titled “Labour must not allow Trump’s ugly populism to blight the UK”.
- 2018: Lammy called Trump a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”.
- 2018: Miliband castigated Trump’s “racist attacks”, “his lies” and “his admiration for dictators”.
- 2019: Lammy said “Trump will be memorialised as a fragile, bigoted and cowardly disgrace”.
- 2019: Starmer says “An endorsement from Donald Trump tells you everything you need to know about what is wrong with Boris Johnson’s politics and why he isn’t fit to be Prime Minister.“
- 2019: Sadiq Khan said Trump’s language is like that of “the fascists of the 20th century.”
- 2020: Starmer attacked Dominic Cummings for using the “tactics of Donald Trump.“
- 2020: Starmer said Trump is not the man “to lead the world” during Coronavirus.
- 2021: Lammy said “Good riddance Donald. The world is relieved to see the back of you”.
- 2021: Starmer accused Boris of being “Britain’s Trump.”
- 2021: Rayner said “the violence that Trump has unleashed is terrifying”.
- 2023: Starmer raged at Tories for behaving “more and more like Donald Trump.”
- 2024: Khan said Trump is “a racist. He’s a sexist. He’s a homophobe.”
- 2024: Immigration minister Angela Eagle accused Donald Trump of fuelling “overt racism” in the UK.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan clearly didn’t get the memo from Keir Starmer about supporting and working with the next U.S. President. Instead, Khan rushed to issue a moaning statement on Trump’s win, bleating about how “fearful” Londoners supposedly feel about what the result means for democracy and women’s rights. Khan wailed:
“I know that many Londoners will be anxious about the outcome of the US Presidential election. Many will be fearful about what it will mean for democracy and for women’s rights, or how the result impacts the situation in the Middle East or the fate of Ukraine. Others will be worried about the future of NATO or tackling the climate crisis…The lesson of today is that progress is not inevitable. But asserting our progressive values is more important than ever – re-committing to building a world where racism and hatred is rejected, the fundamental rights of women and girls are upheld, and where we continue to tackle the crisis of climate change head on.”
Leader of City Hall Conservatives Neil Garratt was quick to slam Khan’s insulting statement:
“It’s important to recognise the legitimate winner of a free and fair election, and the peaceful handover of power. These are not things everyone in the world can take for granted, we should not attempt to undermine them.The fact remains that the Mayor’s job is to focus on delivering for London…Londoners will see through him trying to use the American election as a ruse to distract from his own failures in office, including his failure to negotiate a good deal for London with his own Labour government.”
Latest on Labour’s contribution to the “special relationship” as we get it…
The Democrats may have been taking too much stock during the election from terminally-online British pundits who all called the election for Harris. None more fervently than Rory Stewart…
Kamala Harris will win comfortably, because:
• Biden’s admin has been solid
• Trump’s lost ground since 2016
• The young Black male votes which Trump needs didn’t turn out in 16, 18, 20, or 22
• Young women like Kamala + vote
✴️Ignore polls—they’re herding, after past misses— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) November 4, 2024
Podcaster Rory then said “if I’ve totally miscalled this it’s would be a massive lesson in humility. And would suggest my whole framework is cracked. Let’s see.” All part of his new series on “how to be more ignorant” no doubt…
Ian Dunt was still holding onto his confidence in Harris down to the wire, at the same time as Marina Purkiss reassured her followers: “Sparsely populated Republican precincts are quicker to count than more densely populated Democrat ones.” These are the real experts…
Look, just for the record, vibes and data are all swished up together in these moments. We have been here before. This time in 2020, it was all over and Trump had won it.
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) November 6, 2024
Just as all US pollsters were in the process of being proved disastrously wrong Lewis Goodall took a break from presenting on Sky News to tweet: “Feels to me the polls were spot on.” Not to mention fellow News Agents host Jon Sopel profoundly observing the “momentum shift” to Kamala in the last two days. You can hear Nigel laughing from Mar-a-Lago…
UPDATE: Carol Vorderman had a go too…
President Trump has declared victory in his speech to a cheering crowd of supporters, celebrating the “history” made last night, vowing to “heal” America. No mention of Kamala. No need to anymore…
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
“Let’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.”
