The Uk Pm Said He Is Looking Forward To Working With The New President.

[10ClarionSt]

Is that a slight mis-quote? Didn't Starmer mean working "for" the President, not with him?

[youngmafbog]

Starmer wont get near The Donald without going through Nigel.

In wonder if Lammy will have a job by the end of the day?

[naomi24]

Bet he isn't.

[ToraToraTora]

Well last week he was sending minions to help out Harris. Not a good starting point with the new president.

[maggiebee]

Two numpties together oh joy!

[Khandro]

I won't be a walk in the park for the UK, with a Foreign Secretary who previously branded Trump a “neo-Nazi sympathizing sociopath a dangerous clown and a racist KKK and Nazi sympathizer” — and once vowed to oppose a visit to the U.K. by the then-president.

He should be removed from office, pronto. 

[New Judge]

"I won't be a walk in the park for the UK, with a Foreign Secretary who previously branded Trump a “neo-Nazi sympathizing sociopath a dangerous clown and a racist KKK and Nazi sympathizer” "

Indeed not. It's one thing some of our fellow ABers calling Mr Trump and his supporters racists and nazis. It is quite another for His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs to do so. It's a pity Dennis Skinner is no longer an MP. The Labour government may have been better off with the "Beast of Bolsover" as the Foreign Secretary.

Mr Lammy's remarks, and the Labour Party's idiocy in sending 100 people to the US to "help out" with the Kamala campaign, illustrates how politically and diplomatically naive, or more accurately, ignorant they are.

No UK government should try to influence the outcome of elections abroad and nor should they throw insults at a presidential candidate, especially in a place with so much influence as the USA. But Mr Lammy and his fellow Labour members do not have the ability to see beyond their ideology.

If Mr Lammy is to survive he needs to learn to keep his mouth shut unless called upon to open it. He should have taken notice of this adage (which is, dubiously, attributed to one of Mr Trump's predecessors):

" 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

[max137]

Well put NJ.

[naomi24]

//If Mr Lammy is to survive he needs to learn to keep his mouth shut//

 

Too late for that.  Foolish man.  It seems the whole lot of them have been promoted way out of their league.  

[Old_Geezer]

No experience see.

They'd be well advised to try to find representatives who are on record for praising or supporting the Republican Party's stance, and Trump in particular. Surely some must exist ?