Donald Trump loved Britain. His mum was Scottish. He loved the Queen. He likes the King. And he’s mates with Nigel Farage.
But lately, Trump has turned on Britain. And while I obviously take umbrage with the emerging stances on the Falklands and the union, I also understand how he feels let down by a place he once regarded as his proud ancestral home.
Successive Tory and Labour governments have wrought economic, geopolitical, and demographic carnage on the United Kingdom. As I warned would happen at the time, slippery eel Boris Johnson was too busy with Ukraine and Net Zero to care about anything domestic besides locking people down during COVID. Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham have doubled down on his failed philosophy, adding a humiliating Chagos Islands deal and snubbing Trump’s requests for help against the Islamic Republic of Iran – a conflict I warned against, but that has clearly become the straw that broke the back of the “special relationship.”
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