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Liam H's avatar

What I think is almost never emphasised enough in the media is what unites Trump, Musk et al in the US and the likes of Farage and Tice in the UK (and their media cheerleaders). Their promotion of far right parties is often portrayed as solely about immigration, but for the billionaire class that support and run these parties it is about something else. It is about the weakening of the EU, the only western entity beyond the US itself, that has the power to fully regulate big business. Without it, states are far less able to legislate to protect workers, consumers, small businesses, competition or the environment. It is a corporate takeover disguised as a cultural project.

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Adrian Webster's avatar

Adam, I am hugely impressed that you were able to keep calm and pen this eloquent & sober (and sobering) piece.

I myself find that a red mist descends on me just reading about Trump and his fascist bully boys with their vile and incoherent rhetoric and hypocritical inversion of the truth with almost every utterance.

It is clear that Europe including the UK has no choice but to get its act together to mobilise a cohesive trading bloc with concomitant self-sufficient military power to match the USA, China & Russia.

The new US administration is behaving way outside & beyond any vaguely acceptable norms, but it is entirely our own stupid & lazy fault to have put ourselves in this position.

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