Trump tells Starmer: Slash taxes and migration to beat Farage
Donald Trump told Sir Keir Starmer how he should slash taxes and stamp out illegal immigration if he is to beat Nigel Farage during an extraordinary hour-long press conference on Monday.
The two leaders held talks at the US president’s Turnberry golf course on the Scottish coast before flying together to Aberdeen.
But when journalists were invited in for a quick chance to take pictures and ask a few questions, Mr Trump seized the opportunity to offer Sir Keir some advice.
“You know, politics is pretty simple,” he said. “I assume there’s a thing going on between you and Nigel, and it’s OK. It’s two parties.
“But generally speaking, the one who cuts taxes the most, the one who gives you the lowest energy prices, the best kind of energy, the one that keeps you out of wars… a few basics.”
“Keep people safe and with money in their pockets and you win elections,” he said.
“And in your case a big immigration component, because I know that your attitude has become strong on immigration, strong on the toughness of immigration,” he said.
By gum, Trump knows how to show up Starmer and his EU cronies. Glaringly obvious advice on a par with don't eat the yellow snow. Wasted on Starmer though.
Trump is having fun of course, he knows Starmer is more likely to carry on digging his hole and if anything dig deeper. Starmer's ideology is a hole-digging ideology where everyone else is supposed to dig too - or just fall in.
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No mention of bread and circuses? No, we've got a Liebour "government" which is all the clowns we can take . . .
There is no-one more likely to keep digging their hole ('this time it will be different') than a politician. I have come to believe that a few politicians are successful by accident, and most are unsuccessful by default.
The horrifying part is that the Beloved Sausage is a dyed-in-the-wool true believer in his marxist mission, some future part five pie in the sky nirvana.
Jannie - Starmer seems intent on building a situation for most of us with no circuses or bread.
DJ - they seem to do politics to the exclusion of everything else, however irrational. Presumably that's where the default comes in, it's impossible to play nothing but politics because over time the default outcome for that is failure.
James - he is a dyed-in-the-wool true believer, as if he never moved on from his teenage politics.
It's Trump that's enjoying a dig! He had his tongue firmly in his cheek for the whole interview alongside Starmer. I suppose all the usual lefty liberals will be shocked into taking him literally.
Tammly - yes, tongue in cheek, yet it's sound advice. It's what the country needs but Starmer doesn't do that.
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