Posted on 11/13/2016 8:07:23 PM PST by Olog-hai
Theresa May is facing a growing Cabinet backlash over her decision to dismiss Nigel Farage despite him being the only British politician to meet with Donald Trump since his victory.
The Daily Telegraph understands a number of members of the Cabinet and other Government ministers believe the Prime Minister’s allies have made a mistake by referring to Mr. Farage as an “irrelevance”.
One Cabinet source also accused Downing Street of having “made no plan” for a Trump victory, despite Government claims that officials have for months been holding talks with members of his inner circle.
Mrs. May has made clear that none of her ministers will be allowed to speak to Mr. Farage, the interim UKIP leader, despite his close links to Mr. Trump. …
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May is just making it up as she goes along. Totally unreliable.
Partly that, and partly going with the EU script, which the bureaucrats continue to make up as it suits them.
Farage is brilliant, backed Trump for Prez, and has expressed interest in working with the Trump administration as some sort of EU liason. It would be interesting to see this develop.
She’s out to stop Brexit from taking place.
Do it anyway. Call her bluff.
Ping!
Don’t know who May is, politically or personally, but she is one good reason NOT to vote for any woman politician on the LEFT. They are ignorant, vindictive, and down right stupid.
Great British exceptions, Margaret Thatcher and Queen Victoria.
Post-Brexit the EU has sought to isolate the UK stricly for punitive reasons — to ensure that other disaffected EU members don’t have similar ideas. But this is like cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face. There is no other return to the EU from cutting off obvious gains from trade from an ally like the UK.
I do not believe that being “fair trade” is inconsistent with “free trade.” Describing President-Elect Trump as protectionist and anti-global is flat out false. In saying that he wants agreements that advance US interests, I think he believes that this also advances the interests of our trading partners, as everyone benefits from well-defined property rights and the rule of law.
So, to get to my point, one of Trump’s first acts should be to stand shoulder to shoulder with Britain and commit to extend to the UK any terms that it negotiates separately with the EU. The US should treat the UK no worse than any of its other trading partners.
Doing this would serve many ends. First, it would advance the interests of the US and reinforce Trump’s foundational commitment. The US has nothing to gain and everything to lose by stunting trade with the UK. Second, this would bolster the UK, our greatest ally, and this would generate good will toward us in that country. Third, it would significantly undermine the EU’s elites and their efforts to punish the UK for leaving. As a practical matter, it will be difficult for the EU to bash the UK if the US is unwilling to go along. Fourth, it would offer up a stark contrast to the Obama administration, which played along with the EU elites who sought to bash the UK against our own US national interests.
There has been so much horrific policy built up over 8 years that for the first 100 days, at least, the Trump Administration efforts will be like shooting fish in a barrel — so many opportunities to flip a switch and instantly reverse big damages. There are many other problems that will take years to repair, but I predict that nearly every day during that first stretch we will wake to read of some significant new development that will bring joy to anyone in the center or to the right and that will make the stock market rise and our future seem secure.
It’s not because Trump is so great or that I have such high expectations of him. It’s because the Obama Administration has done so many atrocious things, many of which can simply be reversed.
Theresa May wants to gut Brexit in the end even though she now pretends to support it after opposing it earlier.
I’m not surprised she is shunning Nigel Farage.
As Peter Hitchens put it in a column the other week, the end game for the political establishment in the UK is to change the situation so Britain is ‘half way out of the EU instead of half way in’.
In other words, they intend to fake a Brexit when its all said and done.
Trump is going to be the President of the United States.
When does May intend to snap to reality on that point?
Didn’t Trump say he’d like her to be his Margaret Thatcher?
That’s a rather gracious thing to say.
What is her problem?
Has there not been a Tory clique that refused to accept Brexit and therefore refused to accept its #1 champion, Farage?
May being a good Tory would likely have to repudiate dozens if not hundreds of private statements to fellow ministers and MPs disparaging Brexit and Farage in order to eat crow and accept Farage as a one man Brexit force on his own.
May is heading straight down the road to a new government in UK. When the voters see how May treats Farage, the voters will respond by voting for pro-Brexit candidates and Farage will end up being PM of a pro-Brexit House of Commons.
No doubt Faarage will get ample support from Trump. Popcorn time!
Thanks for the ping KC,
I think we now know who she is batting for.....(the opposition)
The Brits have a uniparty, and May is a member in very good standing.
May is a NWO whore...pretending to support Brexit, while working behind the scenes to torpedo it. The Tories must ditch her at once to save Britain
One huge difference between Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan is that the 40th president had a strong European leader in Maggie Thatcher and a strong leader of Rome who was considered instrumental in the fall of Communism in Poland, along with Pope John Paul II.
Trump has May and Merkel and the socialist weirdo in the Vatican.
Hopefully Britain can learn from their recent error and elevate Farage.
“Hopefully Britain can learn from their recent error and elevate Farage”
I agree, but the British Left and their media have painted Mr. Farage and his UKIP party as heir’s to Enoch Powell and the British Right of the past, with all the false fascist and racial implications. Same with Marine Le Pen in France.
The beauty of it all is that Mr. Farage, like Mr. Trump, handles the brickbats as well as any modern candidate, and certainly any on our side of the aisle, as well as anyone since the Thatcher, Gingrich or the Reagan eras.
They were on the right, as was Jean Kirkpatrick.
To her, Maggie is the Devil with horns and a tail?
Great minds think alike.
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