On tonight’s Live with Littlewood – US Special, we’ll be asking:
Host and IEA Director General Mark Littlewood will be joined by:
After Diane’s brain fade on PoliticsLive, Joe Biden joined her last night in mixing Ukraine up with another country. During his State of the Union address overnight the President vowed that Putin will never “gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people”. Watch Kamala mouth the correction behind him…
And our parliamentarians can’t even wear t-shirts with slogans on them…
Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush is giving some of Guido’s favourite loony left characters a run for their money, by simultaneously calling for the US police to be defunded, and defending her $70,000 private security bill. A boost for anarcho-libertarianism…
“I’m going to make sure I have security because I know I have had attempts on my life and I have too much work to do, there are too many people that need help right now for me to allow that. So if I end up spending $200,000, if I spend 10 more dollars on it, you know what? I get to be here to do the work. So suck it up and defunding the police has to happen.”
Guido’s sure Bush’s constituents unable to fork out tens of thousands for private security will be completely sympathetic to her mad ravings…
At yesterday’s White House press briefing the president told reporters he is considering compulsory vaccinations for all federal employees, which – according to the Office of Personnel Management – would total a whopping 2.1 million US workers. Biden finished off his remark with a barb to those yet unvaccinated, saying “you’re not nearly as smart as I thought you were”. Guido can only imagine the outrage among some Tory MPs if Boris ever thought about going down this route – the care workers’ row was bad enough…
The UK’s future trade deals with the US and the EU are both on the brink as it’s now expected neither will meet their deadlines and be concluded by the end of the year. To be generous there have been a few distractions…
The FT reports the Government has “abandoned hopes” of reaching a deal with the US ahead of the Autumn’s presidential election, with officials blaming the Coronavirus pandemic distraction for slow progress. The deal remains at loggerheads particularly over the question of allowing US agricultural products into the UK. The DfT had hoped to conclude a “fast-track agreement” by late summer…
A coincidence of timing sees The Telegraph also reporting this morning that Britain is “close to abandoning hope of [a] Brexit trade deal” with Europe, having learnt the Government’s working assumption is now that the UK leave on WTO terms. The scope of remaining disagreement seems more wide-ranging than the US-UK deal; with fishing rights, level playing field guarantees, governance and the role of the ECJ all still providing roadblocks. Boris set a deadline of July – just eight days left to turn things around…
