Posted on 01/09/2025 2:28:36 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Emmanuel Macron is famous for his bear-hugs with world leaders but he clutches Sir Keir Starmer as a brother in arms.
Gone are the days when Boris Johnson suggested the French should “prenez un grip” and Liz Truss would not say whether she thought the French president was a friend or a foe.
The two men need one another and have every reason to hold the other tight. Macron stormed to power in 2017 with grand ambitions to transform both France and the European Union.
But now – who would have thought it – with his project in crisis and the far Right on the march across the continent, Brexit Britain is a surviving bastion of centre-Left government and Starmer can help Macron rescue his legacy.
Less than four years ago, France was threatening to cut energy supplies to the UK and Jersey amid a bitter row over access to Britain’s fishing waters. Now, Macron and Starmer are together preparing for the return of Donald Trump to the White House and the endgame in Ukraine.
This is the seventh meeting between the two men since Starmer took power. Macron has cultivated a special relationship with the Labour leader.
Back in 2023, he broke with protocol and hosted the then-Opposition leader at the Elysée Palace. Macron probably yearned for the end of Conservative rule in Britain.
Boris Johnson could not resist riling the French. In 2021 he responded to Parisian fury at the Australian-UK-US Aukus military pact – which led to Australia pulling out of a contract for French submarines – by saying “donnez-moi un break”.
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Rats are most dangerous when backed into a corner.
The world was a better place when Britain and France were enemies.
The Hundred Years War ended too soon.
Trumpean Darwinism.
That’s how they survive; they create coalitions. Eventually they’re going to get booted.
> The world was a better place when Britain and France were enemies. <
If that were the case, then Germany would have won WW1.
And the world definitely would have been a better place.
No Lenin, no Stalin, no Hitler. And probably also no Mao.
And most likely the French wouldn’t have had their stupid alliance with Russia, that caused WWI to blow up.
Woodrow Wilson is tied with Bid3n as the worst President ever.
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