Something I've noticed about "Sir" Keir Starmer trying to interact with Donald Trump is that Trump makes Starmer seem like a particularly old-fashioned socialist guiding his country into a stagnant world of bureaucratic irrelevance.
A Ruritanian world where dullard courtiers and clowns are decorated with knighthoods and sinecures but nothing works as it should and nobody knows what to do apart from composing another grand proclamation.
The promoter of coercion and defunct ideology has nothing in common with the deal-maker.
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Don't wish to be churlish towards Sir Charisma but I'd not shake his hand.
A lip reader has reported that in that scene captured in your header picture TTFG is saying, " Have I ever told you that my father was a toolmaker?"
Tactfully The Donald replies, " You don't say. "
They're both deal-makers, in a way, except Trump seems to make useful deals. Starmer's deals are with the train drivers from who he got nothing other than normal work in exchange for masses of cash. And Muslims, to whom he gave enhanced citizenship rights, but still they vote for their own nascent Islamic party.
“…an old-fashioned socialist guiding his country into into a stagnant world of bureaucratic irrelevance…”
Pretty much a perfect description.
Sir Pinkie, a preposterous poltroon, now purports to be a patriot. Not a British patriot of course but a Ukrainian patriot, the sincere sort prepared to fight to the last Ukrainian.
For our soldiers it would be a two-tier proposition: you might die in the field or you might have your life ruined in the courts as Sir Pinkie's pals - human rights lawyers and bent solicitors - scavenge successfully, with the hope of jailing you while handing out large sums of public funds to our enemies.
If I did, I'd check to see how many fingers I had!
Penseivat
James - I wouldn't shake it either, it's a politeness too far.
Doonhamer - and at Trump's age he did well not to yawn as he said it.
Sam - and Labour and Starmer are bound to be aware that without enhanced citizenship rights they could lose a chunk of the Islamic vote.
Peter - thanks, although I've just spotted "into" in there twice. Oh well.
dearieme - yes it could become an extremely unattractive position for members of the armed forces, however the media choose to boost it. Whatever he does he makes things worse than they need be.
Penseivat - and wash them afterwards.
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