His first speech was an immediate huge backtrack. Not sure how much harm he will realistically do, most of what he says is lies and bluster anyway.
I remember that evening. The very lovely Mrs Godders and I went out at about eight o'clock with our daughters to a local restaurant to celebrate what was seemingly going to be a labour victory as shown by exit polls only to come home at about eleven to discover the whole thing had been reversed and Kinnock turned out to be the best PM we never had.
Am not surprised, it was the change vote that Trump picked up...any change regardless of who was going to drive that change, or indeed what those changes might be. Many people saw HC as being a continuation of the status quo which hadnt worked for their prosperity, so took the only other option. Also, Trump supporters seem to have turned out in numbers, whereas HC's went missing in key states. Very similar reasons for and reactions to this vote as there were to Brexit which also happened because of a desire for change. fascinating times ahead.
In the light of this terrible result, Teresa May would be well advised to put Brexit out to grass and cement better relationships with her allies and dare I say it, Russia.
I hope never to see a British PM invite Trump to the UK for a State visit or go strolling about on the White House lawns while he is POTUS. Let us hope it is for 4 years only.
Large swathes of Africa/Americans, Latinos and others must not have bothered to turn up leaving the field clear for the sexist ignoramous that is Trump. I hope he never visits the UK on an official visit.
The Trump impact will be tempered by the fact that he isn't really a republican, so he won't get the kind of support he needs to achieve all his goals because the rest of government will block him, same as happened to Obama when he tried to fight a heavily Republican Government. I predict that we'll all still be here for the next circus across the pond in 4 years time, and that nothing will have really changed due to the Trump effect. People will still be unhappy, the world will still be unfair and chances are, Trump will be a one term president and will be replaced by another change candidate in the Whitehouse.
This is the perfect time to have a falling out with the USA, a la Harold Wilson and LBJ. A fine example would be to oppose US foreign policy in the Middle East!!
I think we'll go the opposite way and will end up with closer ties. just my gut feeling, but the world is changing and we have to find the smoothest route through regardless of which personality is in which office. Bottom line is that HC wasn't trusted as much as Trump was, which says a great deal about Clinton. I don't know which was the right candidate with respect to Britain however I'm not panicking or going to start stockpiling. Lots of worthy wailing and gnashing of teeth going to be happening now, which never changes a damn thing so the quicker people accept that the result is what it is and try and make the best of it, the better
Yep. It's the "Strictly" lesson! If you didn't vote, don't moan. Just proves this democracy thing is over-rated. What was wrong with Stalinism?
Don't worry mate. They won't even let him have control of his own twitter account; no one's going to give him the nuclear codes.
I'm putting money on there already being a fake, mocked up briefcase with a big red button in it already prepared for DT. You know, like the IT Crowd episode when Jen was convinced the black box with a flashing red light was the internet.
