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Keir Starmer to make major speech declaring 'British brilliance' after Trump trade war
Mirror ^ | 06 Apr 2025 | Sophie Huskisson

Posted on 04/06/2025 3:29:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Keir Starmer will declare his backing for “British brilliance” with a support package for the car industry in the wake of Donald Trump ’s tariffs.

The Prime Minister has given the go-ahead to watering down rules on selling electric cars to stop the industry being decimated. In a major speech on Monday, Mr Starmer will vow to help "ensure home-grown firms can export British cars" amid “global economic headwinds”. He said that "global trade is being transformed" and businesses need "a government that steps up".

On Monday, the PM will officially restore a 2030 deadline to ban sales of petrol and diesel vehicles after the Tory government pushed it back to 2035. But he will announce hybrid cars, which use either a petrol or diesel engine with an electric battery, such as the Toyota Prius and Nissan e-Power, will be allowed to be sold until 2035 to give the industry more time to prepare.

The support package will also exempt small and micro-volume manufacturers – supercar brands including McLaren and Aston Martin – from the zero-emissions targets. The Government is also going to make it easier for manufacturers who do not comply with Government-mandated sales targets to avoid fines.

Green campaigners responded with confusion at the news and said there was “no real logic” to watering down the target on hybrid vehicles. But the Department for Transport insisted it will give “certainty, stability, and support” to Britain’s car industry, which is facing more than 25,000 job losses due to Mr Trump’s trade war.

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1 posted on 04/06/2025 3:29:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

“BRITISH BRILLIANCE” DIED THE FIRST MINUTE A PAKI WAS ALLOWED INTO THE UK.


2 posted on 04/06/2025 3:30:51 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

the uk is being choked out by islam Starmer

nothing you say matters


3 posted on 04/06/2025 3:31:35 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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Trump Job Approval Rises a whopping 4 Points to 53%
Breitbart ^ | 04/06/2025 | JOHN NOLTE
Posted on 4/6/2025, 2:57:57 PM by SmokingJoe

During the week of the overwhelmingly approval poll:
<><>Trump was crucified nightly by the Legacy Media for even considering reciprocal tariffs.
<><>doomsday-speak was everywhere but had only one effect
<><>to surge Trump’s approval numbers.
<><>Trump’s job approval rose four points during Tariff Week, 49 to 53%.
<><>over 1000 voters polled between March 31 and April 3.
<><>Since March 7, young voters 18 and 29 approval jumped 13 points.
<><>Among Independents and Democrats, Trump enjoyed a six-point increase.
<><>Most telling, black voters approval jumped 17 points in a single week.
<><>most support Trump’s tariffs——39% support, 37% oppose, 24% were unsure.
<><>and “significantly approve reducing” illegals coming in, 69% yes, only 26% no.

All of it is after the Regime Media coordinated a regime-wide tantrum over DOGE, the ridiculous SignalGate nothingburger, and the hoax about a gang member deported to El Salvador in error. Normal People see right through it.


4 posted on 04/06/2025 3:33:07 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......")
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What do the British produce other than tea?


5 posted on 04/06/2025 3:36:09 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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Revolutions...


6 posted on 04/06/2025 3:37:52 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: MinorityRepublican

Idiot


7 posted on 04/06/2025 3:42:06 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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To: Old Yeller

“”What do the British produce other than tea?””

Muslim rape gangs?


8 posted on 04/06/2025 3:42:37 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Old Yeller
What do the British produce other than tea?

Fish and chips?

9 posted on 04/06/2025 3:43:11 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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To: MinorityRepublican

Indians and Muslims will pick over the bones of the British Empire.


10 posted on 04/06/2025 3:46:06 PM PDT by ComputerGuy ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Keir “Fredo” Starmer. “I’m smart!!!”


11 posted on 04/06/2025 3:47:59 PM PDT by PTBAA
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"What do the British produce other than tea?"

Well they do produce those marvels of British Manufacturing:

Lucas automotive electrics and electronics.

And nuts and bolts with Whitworth threads.

So at least they got that goin' for em.

12 posted on 04/06/2025 3:49:20 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: ComputerGuy

Considering how Pakistanis and Indians get along on their home turf that is going to be bloody violent.


13 posted on 04/06/2025 3:52:00 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Old Yeller

the UK does produce some awesome cheeses ...


14 posted on 04/06/2025 4:05:30 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: MinorityRepublican
He said that (...) businesses need "a government that steps up".

No, businesses need a government that steps aside and stays out of the way. It is always so.

15 posted on 04/06/2025 4:05:48 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: catnipman
the UK does produce some awesome cheeses ...

🤔

16 posted on 04/06/2025 4:06:13 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: LegendHasIt

Don’t get me started on Lucas electrical, my first sports car was an Austin Healey 3000, two seater.
Bulbs failed frequently, when you finally got all the bulbs working, the generator couldn’t keep up. Fun times.


17 posted on 04/06/2025 4:10:45 PM PDT by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: MinorityRepublican
“British brilliance”?

Remember when Britannia ruled the waves?

She could again.

18 posted on 04/06/2025 4:12:44 PM PDT by Savage Beast (There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A big shiny turd


19 posted on 04/06/2025 4:15:07 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Fireone

Oh, yeah. I learned to drive in an Austin-Healey 3000. 100 mph on the freeway and when I got back my Dad educated me as to what “re-treads” were. Dropped a u-joint in town and coasted to a parking place. The bulbs didn’t glow, they were differently dark... I loved that car.


20 posted on 04/06/2025 4:20:05 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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