Trump isn't over the line yet, but Starmer seems confident enough that Trump has won.
It's impressive that Jonathan Ashworth managed to lose two elections on two separate continents in one year.
Maybe something that hurt Kamala was her use of top music stars... maybe average Americans feel those celebrities are out of touch with average people. I saw this on BBC News:
Can't wait for Lammy to shake hands with Trump on his next state visit.
Trump holds grudges so maybe he would insist on only meeting Starmer and not Lammy. Who knows.
lets see what position germany has in the brown-nosing the next president competition
Really awful. Starmer could congratulate Trump without indulging him.
Realistically perhaps Britain just needs partners, with the US of course being a major partner (Five Eyes for example).
If we weren't so closely tied to the US then maybe Starmer could be making a statement similar to that of Macron and Scholz today:
Do we, though? Macron’s reaction seems to go too far the other way. Surely a “Congratulations on your reelection, Mr President and we look forward to working with you in the interests of both our countries” would be sufficient.
Yeah something like that probably would be sufficient. But maybe Starmer's statement was more flattering because he really wants the US-UK relationship to work. Europe perhaps doesn't need to be so flattering, especially since Europe is a much bigger bloc, so it can throw its own weight around a bit more (e.g. if the EU introduced tariffs on US goods it would presumably hurt the US more, compared to if Britain did the same thing).
Maybe I'm wrong, I dunno.
