Thursday, January 9, 2025

UK-US "Special Relationship" in jeopardy

So says the BBC:

Musk has been vocal on X over the past week concerning the grooming gang scandal, which was covered up by the Labour government from the 90’s onwards for a period of over a decade.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer accused Musk and British politicians who support his call for justice for victims of grooming gangs of jumping on a “far-right bandwagon.”

According to BBC Newsnight, there is “absolute horror at the highest levels of government at the incendiary language we have seen from Elon Musk.”

Huh. So Elon's statement of facts - that hundreds of thousands of british girls were systematically gang raped by Pakistani immigrants over the span of decades - imperils our special relationship?  Weird.

What actually seems to be imperiling the special relationship is the UK Labour government selling out our base at Diego Garcia:

Last ditch negotiations are underway in London as Starmer attempts to ram through his Chagos sellout before Trump’s inauguration. Earlier today Guido revealed how the deal would see UK nuclear options sold out as part of the giveaway…

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Trump advisers now say the President is beginning to see Chagos as one of the same issues. “If Starmer sells out UK sovereignty disabling the US base and nukes, it’s going to make Trump as furious as over Panama” says one well-placed Trump team member.

Huh.  My guess is that Trump refusing to shut Elon up about the UK.Gov mass rape scandal is the least of His Magesty's Government's problems.

6 comments:

Aesop said...

Our "special relationship" was with an Anglo-Saxon nation.

Not an Islamic one.

Sic transit mundi.

Richard said...

I am sure everyone saw the video of Trump and Obama in deep discussion and by the body language apparently agreeing. The NY Post hired a lip reader to try to determine what they were talking about. Apparently, it was a discussion about pulling out of some agreement but the analyst could not determine the details. So what could Trump and Obama have in common given their differences about almost everything. One possibility is something about the UK which both of them disdain. My it be Five Eyes.

Old NFO said...

Yep, the Brits don't WANT anybody calling that out. I may (hopefully) bring down the Labor Party forever...

Richard said...

The Tories are the real problem. Just like the RINOs and the CDU. We need to clean our own house before taking on the socialists.

Igor said...

Been to Diego Garcia. If you think the US is going to abandon DG, well, Trump is now in charge. Don't be surprised if we curb stomp the Brit forces there and say, "MINE!!"

Gerry said...

If it can be sold, then it can be bought. I imagine Trump will make a better offer for the island to Chagos and things will remain as is.