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Donald Trump is the best prime minister Britain never had
The Spectator ^ | 6 Aug 2019 | Dominic Green

Posted on 08/06/2019 4:47:31 PM PDT by Rummyfan

All over the world, Trump is doing for Britain almost overnight what Britain’s leaders have failed to do for decades. He’s finally clearing up the shameful mess that Britain left when it welched on its imperial responsibilities, and he’s doing it for free. Instead of snobbishly deriding him, the British should thank the orange man for freeing them from their destructive relationships with the Orangemen in Northern Ireland, and the police-state Islamists of Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority.

The obvious way to thank Trump won’t cost Britain much either. The City of London is already full of crass monuments to greed. One more won’t hurt. Let him build a nice golden Trump Tower in central London, and a Trump Hotel too. If Brexit works out, the government should consider putting a statue of Trump onto the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, so that the heroes of empire will be joined by the man who cleared up after them. It’s the least Britain can do to thank the best prime minister the British have never had.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.us ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; trump; uk
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1 posted on 08/06/2019 4:47:31 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Damn, that’s a good article !


2 posted on 08/06/2019 4:56:53 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: A strike

Yes, it’s a GREAT article!


3 posted on 08/06/2019 5:07:43 PM PDT by nopardons (n onsense!@)
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To: Rummyfan

Great read!


4 posted on 08/06/2019 5:32:36 PM PDT by McGavin999 (injustice Roberts repeatedly making a mockery of the rule of law)
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To: Rummyfan

I second, third and fourth kudos to a well-written and cogent piece.


5 posted on 08/06/2019 6:07:19 PM PDT by poconopundit (Will Kamel Harass pay reparations? Her ancestors were black Slave Owners in Jamaica.)
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To: Rummyfan

Trump was clearly a threat to stopping Brexit, as the globalists wanted to do. As soon as the overt coup began with Flynn, I suspected UK involvement.


6 posted on 08/06/2019 9:33:18 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Rummyfan

My hero...Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill...is smiling in his grave .


7 posted on 08/06/2019 9:50:50 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%; 1217Chic; 1Old Pro; 1_Rain_Drop; 20yearsofinternet; 2rightsleftcoast; 38special; ..
Excellent article about Trump's foreign policy as regards UK, Israel, Palestine, Northern Ireland, India and Pakistan.

MAGA BIGLY ping!

8 posted on 08/07/2019 6:14:26 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Rummyfan

I like the Spectator. Some good stuff.
Thanks for posting


9 posted on 08/07/2019 6:17:27 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Thanks for the ping!!!


10 posted on 08/07/2019 6:20:02 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Albion Wilde

“Excellent article about Trump’s foreign policy as regards UK, Israel, Palestine, Northern Ireland, India and Pakistan.”

I read it. The writer is a historian. There’s some real history in there. Well worth reading.


11 posted on 08/07/2019 6:23:28 AM PDT by cymbeline
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There is some real history, and a lot of simplification.

It is not at all clear the British would have done a lot better with other options.

It is always easy to Monday morning quarterback.

That said, I like the article. It gives some needed contrast to the usual leftist bilge.

12 posted on 08/07/2019 6:35:17 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Rummyfan

Wow! Thanks for posting.

An article destined to turn Peter Hitchens face purple!


13 posted on 08/07/2019 6:47:39 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Albion Wilde

Good article. Thank you for the ping.


14 posted on 08/07/2019 7:28:19 AM PDT by gubamyster
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“It is not at all clear the British would have done a lot better with other options.”

A graduate student told me once that his dissertation subject was an aspect of the Civil War.

I asked him why was he doing that, as hundreds of histories of the Civil war have been written.

He said emphatically that existing histories frequently have errors for numerous reasons, an incompetent historian being only one.


15 posted on 08/07/2019 8:43:33 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: miss marmelstein
An article destined to turn Peter Hitchens face purple!

Yeah, that'll spin him up all right. I giggled every time "Orange Man" came up.

16 posted on 08/07/2019 9:37:50 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Rummyfan

Great column.

<>Instead of snobbishly deriding him, the British should thank the orange man for freeing them from their destructive relationships with the Orangemen in Northern Ireland, and the police-state Islamists of Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority.


17 posted on 08/07/2019 10:48:14 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Albion Wilde; All

“Palestine” should be in scare quotes, JFTR.


18 posted on 08/07/2019 12:24:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
“Palestine” should be in scare quotes

LOL, my bad.

19 posted on 08/07/2019 4:31:57 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Albion Wilde

Thanks so much for the ping! GREAT ARTICLE!

LOL! Orange Man deals with Ireland’s OrangeMen!


20 posted on 08/07/2019 5:30:15 PM PDT by TEXOKIE
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