I'm sorry you didn't enjoy school breaktime much, but I'm not sure it offers teriffic guidance. The idea we can "stand up" to Trump is ludicrous. We barely have a functioning army. We have almost no industrial base we could repurpose. We don't even have an independent nuclear threat. We're running unsustainable deficits, we have the highest business energy prices in the world, and I'm assured that 20% of our working age population is disabled.
So what does "stand up" look like in practical terms?
For a start we need to work more closely with other countries whose interests are similarly threatened by the Trump - as per Mark Carney's speech at Davos yesterday. And domestically we must do everything possible to ensure Trump's lapdog Farage is not our next Prime Minister. It might also help if our leaders paid proper heed to the lessons of history. Or we could just throw our hands up in the air and do nothing.
I'm sorry you didn't enjoy school breaktime much, but I'm not sure it offers teriffic guidance. The idea we can "stand up" to Trump is ludicrous. We barely have a functioning army. We have almost no industrial base we could repurpose. We don't even have an independent nuclear threat. We're running unsustainable deficits, we have the highest business energy prices in the world, and I'm assured that 20% of our working age population is disabled.
So what does "stand up" look like in practical terms?
For a start we need to work more closely with other countries whose interests are similarly threatened by the Trump - as per Mark Carney's speech at Davos yesterday. And domestically we must do everything possible to ensure Trump's lapdog Farage is not our next Prime Minister. It might also help if our leaders paid proper heed to the lessons of history. Or we could just throw our hands up in the air and do nothing.
"work more closely...do everything possible". I've no idea what that means in practice. They days of "standing up for European values" is over.
Trump can react to your strongly worded memo by withdrawing from Ukraine. Is that what you want?