Posted on 02/28/2025 1:23:32 AM PST by RandFan
On 5 Live Breakfast, Health Secretary Wes Streeting's asked why he opposed President Trump's last state visit to the UK but backs the offer of a new one. He had signed a petition in 2019 calling for the invitation to be rescinded, but now says he thinks "the world has changed".
"I’m sure there will be people this time saying, 'I don’t agree with President Trump and his policies' and the great thing about living in a democracy is that people are free to do that," he says after Trump was invited to visit the UK for a second time as US president.
On the Trump-Starmer meeting yesterday, he says there is "a heavy weight of responsibility on the shoulders of this prime minister to make sure the special relationship is as strong as ever" - and what Keir Starmer has "done successfully is to build a strong friendship based on what we have in common".
In a separate interview, he tells BBC Breakfast Starmer's visit to Washington was "a spectacular success". The caveat, he says, is that the "hard yards are still ahead" on a trade deal and that President Trump is "not a pushover".
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He sees it, this is the garbage that is foreign politics.
Trump is being nice. I get it but still annoying
I think they mutually want a trade deal
So this is the reason for the Starmer ‘wins’. We could do without it though,.
“I don’t agree with President Trump and his policies’ and the great thing about living in a democracy is that people are free to do that”
Reagan joke:
An American tells a Russian that people in USA have the freedom of speech and that he even could go to the White House and shout: “Go to hell, Ronald Reagan!”
The Russian answers: “Oh, we also have freedom of speech. I, too, can go to Kremlin and shout:” Go to hell, Ronald Reagan!”
Free speech in US was always designed to protect unpopular speech, minority view speech, those out of power.
Protecting speech supported by the controlling power is unnecessary.
Britain is irrelevant.
Tell it to Trump who seems flattered
Trump loves the pomp and ceremony.
Hate to say it but it looked like a masterclass from Starmer doing what he did in terms of charming Trump
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