Beware those selling you ‘change’ and challenge if it is change you can trust
What's the administration thinking here?
“May you live in interesting times”
This infamous “Chinese curse” is a phrase that’s doubly apt because politically we most certainly do, and its origins are bogus.
There’s little evidence of it being a curse or Chinese, but more that it was promoted by British politicians in the late nineteenth, and early twentieth century. If there is any Chinese curse, it’s that Starmer’s personally longed for visit to Beijing was as underwhelming in its execution as it was costly in its purchase.
Apart from a visa deal bringing the UK in line with France and Germany with regards to China’s regime – that’s visa regime before you ask – the billions for the UK the Prime Minister is boasting about seem further off than his current political future will see out, and frankly if they don’t exceed the £35Billion his handing to Mauritius to give away our Chagos Islands then it seems small beer, or at least weak Mijiu.
One shadow cabinet member messaged last week:
“Are we sure when Starmer offered ‘Change’ he hadn’t just mis-read Chagos on the autocue?!”
Donald Trump also seems to have changed – his mind. Labour spinners couldn’t believe their luck eleven months ago when Starmer sat next to him in the Oval Office as the President opined “We’re going to have some discussions about that very soon, and I have a feeling it’s going to work out very well.”
If he meant at the time that he’d end up branding it an “act of great stupidity” almost a year later, he wasn’t letting on at the time. He too seems to have woken up to the problem of over-interested Chinese fishermen. Well it would have been rude since he held in his hand and invitation from the King, delivered by Prime Ministerial postman for a second state visit. If Kemi Badenoch is right when she repeats – and all the evidence is she is – when she repeats “when Starmer negotiates Britain loses”, she might add, Starmer tends to go abroad bearing gifts that don’t bear fruit.
His stop off in Japan to visit a leader facing a crucial election in a week was, for any Japanese that noticed, odd in a UK context. Here was our PM paying a supportive courtesy call on Sanae Takaichi a Japanese PM, whose economic plans are either akin to Liz Truss or Georgia Meloni, and the jury – indeed the Japanese electorate – are still out on that, and we know, oh how we know, our PM loves to talk about the mini-budget. Perhaps he advised her to invent a 22bn Yen black hole?
If we are living in ‘interesting times’ it’s because of the pace and nature of change we are witnessing. And ‘change’ is an ambiguous and capricious beast if you try to saddle and ride it, an almost invariably get thrown off by trying to define it.
As someone who has covered elections both here and abroad the number of times I’ve seen each described as a ‘change …
What's the administration thinking here?
“May you live in interesting times”
This infamous “Chinese curse” is a phrase that’s doubly apt because politically we most certainly do, and its origins are bogus.
There’s little evidence of it being a curse or Chinese, but more that it was promoted by British politicians in the late nineteenth, and early twentieth century. If there is any Chinese curse, it’s that Starmer’s personally longed for visit to Beijing was as underwhelming in its execution as it was costly in its purchase.
Apart from a visa deal bringing the UK in line with France and Germany with regards to China’s regime – that’s visa regime before you ask – the billions for the UK the Prime Minister is boasting about seem further off than his current political future will see out, and frankly if they don’t exceed the £35Billion his handing to Mauritius to give away our Chagos Islands then it seems small beer, or at least weak Mijiu.
One shadow cabinet member messaged last week:
“Are we sure when Starmer offered ‘Change’ he hadn’t just mis-read Chagos on the autocue?!”
Donald Trump also seems to have changed – his mind. Labour spinners couldn’t believe their luck eleven months ago when Starmer sat next to him in the Oval Office as the President opined “We’re going to have some discussions about that very soon, and I have a feeling it’s going to work out very well.”
If he meant at the time that he’d end up branding it an “act of great stupidity” almost a year later, he wasn’t letting on at the time. He too seems to have woken up to the problem of over-interested Chinese fishermen. Well it would have been rude since he held in his hand and invitation from the King, delivered by Prime Ministerial postman for a second state visit. If Kemi Badenoch is right when she repeats – and all the evidence is she is – when she repeats “when Starmer negotiates Britain loses”, she might add, Starmer tends to go abroad bearing gifts that don’t bear fruit.
His stop off in Japan to visit a leader facing a crucial election in a week was, for any Japanese that noticed, odd in a UK context. Here was our PM paying a supportive courtesy call on Sanae Takaichi a Japanese PM, whose economic plans are either akin to Liz Truss or Georgia Meloni, and the jury – indeed the Japanese electorate – are still out on that, and we know, oh how we know, our PM loves to talk about the mini-budget. Perhaps he advised her to invent a 22bn Yen black hole?
If we are living in ‘interesting times’ it’s because of the pace and nature of change we are witnessing. And ‘change’ is an ambiguous and capricious beast if you try to saddle and ride it, an almost invariably get thrown off by trying to define it.
As someone who has covered elections both here and abroad the number of times I’ve seen each described as a ‘change …
Beware those selling you ‘change’ and challenge if it is change you can trust
What's the administration thinking here?
“May you live in interesting times”
This infamous “Chinese curse” is a phrase that’s doubly apt because politically we most certainly do, and its origins are bogus.
There’s little evidence of it being a curse or Chinese, but more that it was promoted by British politicians in the late nineteenth, and early twentieth century. If there is any Chinese curse, it’s that Starmer’s personally longed for visit to Beijing was as underwhelming in its execution as it was costly in its purchase.
Apart from a visa deal bringing the UK in line with France and Germany with regards to China’s regime – that’s visa regime before you ask – the billions for the UK the Prime Minister is boasting about seem further off than his current political future will see out, and frankly if they don’t exceed the £35Billion his handing to Mauritius to give away our Chagos Islands then it seems small beer, or at least weak Mijiu.
One shadow cabinet member messaged last week:
“Are we sure when Starmer offered ‘Change’ he hadn’t just mis-read Chagos on the autocue?!”
Donald Trump also seems to have changed – his mind. Labour spinners couldn’t believe their luck eleven months ago when Starmer sat next to him in the Oval Office as the President opined “We’re going to have some discussions about that very soon, and I have a feeling it’s going to work out very well.”
If he meant at the time that he’d end up branding it an “act of great stupidity” almost a year later, he wasn’t letting on at the time. He too seems to have woken up to the problem of over-interested Chinese fishermen. Well it would have been rude since he held in his hand and invitation from the King, delivered by Prime Ministerial postman for a second state visit. If Kemi Badenoch is right when she repeats – and all the evidence is she is – when she repeats “when Starmer negotiates Britain loses”, she might add, Starmer tends to go abroad bearing gifts that don’t bear fruit.
His stop off in Japan to visit a leader facing a crucial election in a week was, for any Japanese that noticed, odd in a UK context. Here was our PM paying a supportive courtesy call on Sanae Takaichi a Japanese PM, whose economic plans are either akin to Liz Truss or Georgia Meloni, and the jury – indeed the Japanese electorate – are still out on that, and we know, oh how we know, our PM loves to talk about the mini-budget. Perhaps he advised her to invent a 22bn Yen black hole?
If we are living in ‘interesting times’ it’s because of the pace and nature of change we are witnessing. And ‘change’ is an ambiguous and capricious beast if you try to saddle and ride it, an almost invariably get thrown off by trying to define it.
As someone who has covered elections both here and abroad the number of times I’ve seen each described as a ‘change …
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