Vance Vs. Starmer - My Two Cents
(I’m using American allegorical currency because I’m so impressed by Vance).
https://x.com/realpetesanford/status/1895219978921746599
I’m not sure Weird Stalin shit his pants, but he definitely squirmed, and wriggled and turned, just like the snake that he is. I think it’s important to drill down and analyse exactly what he said.
Firstly, the American journalist quizzed Trump on his response to Vance’s speech at the Munich Security conference. Trump delegated the response to Vance who was sitting right next to him: fair enough.
Vance reiterated his concerns about the erosion of free speech in the UK and Europe and how policy interventions by governments re. online free speech would also affect American citizens.
Starmer, in his finest nasal, nauseating clipped English [sounds like he’s got a bad cold], then responded:
“We’ve had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom, er, and it will last for a very, very long time.”
[Inaudible background chatter]
“Well, no, I mean, certainly, we wouldn’t want to reach across US systems, and we don’t, and that’s absolutely right, but in relation to free speech in the UK, I’m very proud of that history there.”
Stalin’s response is about 70% complete bollocks and 30% major cock-up in my opinion. Yes, England and latterly, the United Kingdom, do have a very long history of free speech and it is something to be proud of, either genuinely or, in the case of anti-British Starmer, pretentiously, just for the cameras. How can Weird Stalin possibly know that our proud history of free speech will last for a “very, very long time” into the future? He can’t, obviously, unless he’s been secretly concealing a head scarf and crystal ball somewhere, and given the fact that free speech is presently under serious assault in the UK at this moment - driven by his own government - that statement is indistinguishable from a direct lie.
Then he gives the game away: he admits that the policy interventions are real and fakes an air of sincerity by saying that he doesn’t want to reach across US systems. So he’s defending the very assaults upon online free speech which he says don’t exist! Twat.
Blatant lying is the default option for the likes of Two-Tier Keir – his own Labour MP gets let off for a vicious physical assault while members of the public who tweet supposedly hurty words get banged up for two years.
How can he possibly deny the nefarious free speech-denying ulterior motives behind the Online Safety Act and the fact that he and the EU are actively trying to get X shut down? That latter point was very much what Vance was objecting to.
At least he got put in his place on Ukraine, with Trump saying that joining NATO was never going to happen and that the push for this, which he has now cancelled, was the main cause of the war. It looks as if a so-called peace-keeping force is never going to happen either.
I thought the ultimate gaslight was Starmer praising Trump for bringing back the bust of Churchill, when he’s done the exact opposite in No. 10. I hope Trump picks him up on it on his return trip.