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Brits want closer trading relationship with EU. Even Reform voters do.

We still do more trade with EU than US, so this is absolutely where #Starmer’s priorities should be.

A trade deal with #Trump the fascist would make our online lives even more at the whim of the #Broliarchy and our #NHS a sitting duck for private healthcare and insurance.

But do #Labour care?

theguardian.com/politics/2025/

The Guardian · Voters want Keir Starmer to focus on rebuilding trade ties with EU, poll revealsBy Toby Helm

So #Gove , too cowardly to stand at the general election on his record, (co-chair Vote Leave, VIP PPE contracts for cronies etc) is to be reinserted into our Legislature like a used supposiTory as the parting gift of failed #EnglishNationalist loser #Sunak ?
And the #Labour Government simply nods along?!? This appointment simply yells #Starmer's failure to address broken democracy & governance in the UK, where cronyism is normal, & failure rewarded by a life tenure in the legislature.
#RejoinEU

A lot is being said about the April 11th release of the US Consumer Sentiment Index, which is down 11% since March and 30% since December, to the second lowest it's been since recording started in 1952 (down to 50.8 points from a 20-year average of 80 points).

What bothers me though, is how the media all turns directly to tariffs as the only cause, as if Trump could just end his trade war with the world and the US would go right back to functioning normally again.

That is an extremely Capitalist view of the market which completely ignores the great importance of working-class labour, and putting spending power in the hands of working-class consumers.

People are losing jobs due to DOGE cuts to government spending in order to produce trillions of dollars in tax breaks for multi-billionaires like Elon Musk. People are losing jobs because labour protections against job discrimination are being revoked. People are losing all the public services and supports they need to survive, whether they can hold onto a job or not. Everything is more expensive because of tariffs, but also because the US labour force is being rounded up into ICE detention camps.

Consumers aren't just losing confidence because they have all this money to invest and don't know where to spend it. Consumers have no confidence because they have no spending power.

Confidence in the stock market comes from investors, and Trump can manipulate the market to pull that sentiment up and down with his tariffs and breaks on tariffs.

Consumer sentiment comes from the masses, who are largely working-class and not investors who make all their money off the capital they own. You take away their spending power, and surprise, they have no confidence to spend.

Media needs to stop turning everything into a tariff debate, and look at the real hurt and chaos in American lives.

It should be noted that the other "Great Recession" shown on the graph, of 2007-2009, was avoidable and caused by unregulated credit and borrowing. In response to the Great Recession, unprecedented fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policy was unleashed by federal authorities. Trump's administration is taking financial regulation away, in order to remove caps on capitalist exploitation.

cnn.com/2025/04/11/economy/us-

Man who instigated riots terrifying families with young kids, trapping some in burning buildings. A man in jail for ruining a young man’s with lies he refuses to stop spreading same lies, a man who has bullied,lied and made people live in fear all his life …… wants to leave prison because …… it’s making him ill !!!!! Fucking rot in there you racist little twat 

#brexit #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #conservatives #toryscum #austerity #Gammons #ToryCorruption #farage #nigelfarage #ReformUK

“2024 UK CHARTER DEPORTATIONS: A BALANCE SHEET”

by Corporate Watch

@UKLabour

“Last year was a big one for the UK’s deportation charter flight programme. From the failed Rwanda plan, to Labour’s attempts to boost ‘removal’ statistics, deportation charters have been constantly in the news. But who is the government deporting on these chartered jets? Which airlines are lining their pockets by inflicting misery?”

corporatewatch.org/2024-uk-cha

Corporate Watch · 2024 UK Charter Deportations: A Balance Sheet - Corporate WatchLast year was a big one for the UK’s deportation charter flight programme. From the failed Rwanda plan, to Labour’s attempts to boost ‘removal’ statistics, deportation charters have been constantly in the news. But who is the government deporting on these chartered jets? Which airlines are lining their pockets by inflicting misery? Having obtained data […]
#Press#UK#Labour