{"id":1501150,"date":"2024-11-08T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1501150"},"modified":"2024-11-08T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T13:30:00","slug":"the-biggest-transatlantic-loser-from-trumps-election-britains-labour-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-biggest-transatlantic-loser-from-trumps-election-britains-labour-government\/1501150\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Transatlantic Loser from Trump’s Election: Britain’s Labour Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Biggest Transatlantic Loser from Trump’s Election: Britain’s Labour Government<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Rupert Darwall via RealClearWorld<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations President-elect Donald Trump on your historic election,\u201d British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer posted<\/a> on X at 3:21am ET on Wednesday.<\/strong> The best that can be said about this tepid concession is that Starmer got his concession in before Kamala Harris. Make no mistake. This is not the result Labour wanted.<\/strong> Starmer\u2019s Labour party was heavily invested in a Harris win and did everything it could to bring it about.<\/p>\n

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On July 4, Starmer won a landslide majority in the House of Commons with the lowest share<\/a> of the popular vote (33.7 percent) for a winning party since 1919.<\/strong> Yet within a month, Sofia Patel, the Labour Party\u2019s head of operations, was emailing<\/a> Labour staffers to \u201chelp our friends across the pond elect their first female president\u201d\u2014Patel adding somewhat condescendingly, \u201cLet\u2019s show those Yanks how to win elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

More importantly than Labour foot soldiers pointlessly stomping around North Carolina for Harris, Starmer dispatched several of his top aides\u2014including Morgan McSweeney, Labour\u2019s campaign strategist and now Starmer\u2019s chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, Downing Street director of communications\u2014to brief the Harris team at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Little good did it do.<\/p>\n

In September, they were followed by Deborah Mattinson, who had run focus groups for Tony Blair and served as Starmer\u2019s director of strategy until Election Day. She would tell the Harris campaign \u201cto put the \u2018hope and change stuff\u2019 to one side,\u201d one of her colleagues told<\/a> Politico. Both Starmer and Harris are former prosecutors. Like Starmer, Harris would be \u201crelentlessly pushing this message that she\u2019s a prosecutor who has put criminals behind bars,\u201d <\/strong>explained Jonathan Ashworth, director of the Labour Together think tank. That didn\u2019t do much good, either.<\/p>\n

Labour\u2019s hatred of the new president-elect is personal and visceral. In June 2019, during the Conservative leadership election, Starmer posted<\/a>: \u201cAn endorsement from Donald Trump tells you everything you need to know about what is wrong with Boris Johnson\u2019s politics and why he isn\u2019t fit to be Prime Minister.\u201d In 2017, Wes Streeting, now Starmer\u2019s health secretary, tweeted<\/a>: \u201cTrump is such an odious, sad, little man. Imagine being proud to have that as your President,\u201d an insult aimed not only at Trump but also at Americans.<\/p>\n

The most sustained anti-Trump vitriol came from the Harvard Law School-educated foreign secretary, David Lammy. In 2017, Theresa May, the then prime minister, planned a state visit for President Trump. \u201cYes, if Trump comes to the UK I will be protesting on the streets,\u201d<\/strong> Lammy tweeted<\/a>. \u201cHe is a racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser.\u201d In an unhinged rant<\/a> denouncing the visit, Lammy condemned Trump for his \u201cshameful behavior on the international stage. We stand with the American people, but we absolutely say, \u2018our democratic values are opposed to the misogyny, opposed to the racism, opposed to Steve Bannon and the horrible white supremacy he seems to stand for.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In an August interview<\/a> with The Spectator (its new editor, Michael Gove, endorsed<\/a> Harris as \u201cthe lesser of two evils\u201d), Woody Johnson, Trump\u2019s ambassador to the Court of St James in his first term, described Lammy\u2019s description of Trump as a \u201cneo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath\u201d as \u201cnot a wise comment,\u201d but then allowed, \u201cthose things happen in politics . . . there\u2019s always a way to recover if you want.\u201d<\/p>\n

To his credit, Lammy has been doing his best to mend fences.<\/strong> In July, he told<\/a> the BBC, \u201cDonald Trump has the thickest of skins,\u201d and observed that JD Vance, whom he\u2019d met several times, had used some pretty choice language about Trump in the past. Of the new Vice President-elect, Lammy said they shared similar working-class backgrounds and addiction issues in their families. \u201cWe\u2019ve written books on that, we\u2019ve talked about that, and we\u2019re both Christians. So I think I can find common ground with JD Vance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harder to paper over than the history of personal insults is the yawning policy gap between the Labour government and the incoming Trump administration. To Labour, there is no issue more important than climate change. Ed Miliband, Labour\u2019s climate change secretary, whom Charles Moore rightly describes<\/a> as Labour\u2019s spiritual leader, is a net-zero zealot. On the day Americans were voting for Trump and the return of American energy dominance, Miliband was giving the Cabinet a bleak picture of climate change. \u201cClimate change is a threat to national security and growth, given [it] could force more than 200m people globally to migrate, the global economy could be 19% smaller in 2049 than it would be otherwise & it could put an additional 600,000 people in UK at risk of flooding,\u201d Pippa Crerar, The Guardian\u2019s <\/em>political editor, reported<\/a> him saying.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This puts Labour on a collision course with Trump and his pledge to pull out of the Paris climate agreement. With the Senate in Republican hands, Trump might well go a step further than what he did in his first term, and send<\/a> the agreement\u2014a treaty in all but name<\/a>\u2014to the Senate for its advice and consent, as required by the Constitution. Doing so would make it impossible for a future president to rejoin. It would lead to howls of outrage from the climate industrial complex and render their unachievable and unaffordable net zero programs pointless.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not only climate change. A week before the election, Labour unveiled a massive tax, spend, and borrow budget. In its first budget in 14 years, Labour raised taxes by \u00a340bn ($51.6bn), borrowing by \u00a328bn ($36.1bn), and public spending by \u00a370bn ($90.3bn). The budget constitutes a doomed-to-fail bet that transferring around 2.5 percent of GDP from the wealth-generating private sector to the zero-productivity-growth public sector will, by some undefined form of alchemy, improve Britain\u2019s poor economic performance.<\/p>\n

It is here that President Trump\u2019s second term could well have the biggest positive impact on Britain\u2014by holding up Labour\u2019s disastrous economic policies for comparison with Trump\u2019s supply-side economics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rupert Darwall is a senior fellow of the RealClearFoundation and author of <\/em>The Folly of Climate Leadership: Net Zero and Britain\u2019s Disastrous Energy Policies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 11\/08\/2024 – 03:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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