Off Topic Political Debate

It should be fun watching the backsliding the SNP will need to do to try to repair the political damage done by insults from Salmond and the poison dwarf towards Donald Trump.

 

Nigel Farage flies to America today in bid to be Donald Trump's ambassador to the EU, should be very interesting if it happens.

 

As the republicans control both houses it is reasonable to expect more right wing policies to be enacted. I'm sure many of his wacky ideas will be quietly dropped.

 

In spite of saying that....

I don't know what impression others have gained from the media about Trump supporters, but I've been under the impression that his appeal was mainly to the poor. Scrolling down to the category 'Income' on this exit poll, I was somewhat surprised to find otherwise.

http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls

 

I'd been wondering why cologne hadn't commented yet - he apparently doesn't know...

 

Oh dear, more wishful thinking than reality.

Perhaps Cologne is already driving back to the UK to take advantage of the UK's brighter future.

 

I think you are making a few basic mistakes about Donald Trump. He has many strange ideas but he is more likely to **** up America than he is to **** up the rest of the World. For all of his strange ideas he is an isolationist, who does not consider it his duty to interfere in other nations, and also a protectionist, who has described international trade agreements as being supported only by bloodsuckers - is he then meant to be a future partner of Britain ? On the other hand his election could be a nightmare for immigrants in the USA, for Moslems there, for a whole range of social problems there (not least gun controls), and, above all, for the environment (we now have a President who does not believe in global warming). Is this the bed you want to jump into as an alternative to Europe ? However, the President of the USA needs the support of congress for everything which he wants to do within the USA (and he is not interested in anything outside of it) - which he is no more likely to get than Hillary Clinton would have been.

I am not surprised by the result - I always expected that a nation of gun toting, racist morons who know nothing about the rest of the World would do this.

By the way I am not on my way anywhere - I have dual nationality and can choose the best of both.

 

There is no reason to suspect Trump will not keep his promise to favour the UK over the EU regarding future trade deals, especially given the influence by his buddy Nigel Farage.

I suspect this will be the final nail in the EU coffin as we now understand it. It certainly gives the UK a massive boost for post Brexit.

 

He appeals to the American 'dream' and so has tapped into the frontier spirit.....

In the modern world however no one can go it alone

 

Which would be about as one sided as the relationship between Bush and Blair - the American idea of a special relationship with Britain is that you become an off shore fracking island and aircraft carrier for the USAF. Oh, they also need a dumping ground for all their gene manipulated rubbish. You really are living in cloud cuckoo land SH.

 

I support fracking in the UK and we already host USA military hardware and personnel as part of Nato.

I'm afraid it is you that is in cuckoo land, not able to come to terms with the realisation that the EU superstate dream is over. The splits in the EU are increasing daily. Le Pen for french president next, anything is now possible.

 

How the Israelis view Trump's victory.

 

Says it all about the Zionists eh.....


Meanwhile which would you rather have a 'special relationship' with the EC or with the US..?.. seems some Brexiters seek to swap one for another...

Let us be totally clear ... our special relationship with the US was based on a massive debt we were paying off to them post WW2.... We will always be the junior partner in such a relationship.....

 

Our current 'special relationship' with the EU will be revealed when the Brexit negotiations start. The EU negotiators have been specifically chosen to ensure the UK has the worst possible deal to try to discourage any further leavers. The level of spitefulness from the EU will only confirm to the UK why it made the correct choice back in June.

 

I always thought this photo was just a figment of someone's hideous imagination
But now?????????????

 

You do have to wonder about that 'special relationship'. Especially if you are a Chagos Islander and Britain handed over your home to America in return for discounted rental of a nuclear weapon.

 

Plans have just been released on Trump's first major infrastructure project creating work for millions of migrant workers
He plans to move the Panama Canal north to the Rio Grande river making shipping journeys from the Pacific to the Atlantic much shorter and getting rid of all the tunnels currently joining America to Mexico
A wall would never work

 

The Canadians are considering something similar. They plan to move the Northwest Passage south to the US border...

 

That could ,make Trumps vision of an isolationist America a reality

 

Our little troll is back and now openly supporting Le Pen Trolling or is he actually a racist moron? Think I know where my money is...

At least Leo will be happy...