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Joe Biden has beaten Donald Trump in the US presidential election – meaning trouble for UK prime minister Boris Johnson.
Biden topped the 270 electoral college votes needed to take the presidency when Pennsylvania declared for him on Saturday afternoon (UK time – November 7).
This means – hopefully – we will all be treated to the sight of Donald Trump being dragged from the White House by secret service men, kicking and screaming. That’s what he promised!
Trump may well follow through on his threat to bog the process down with litigation. We’ll see.
Assuming such shenanigans are dismissed, Biden’s accession to the Presidency creates serious problems for Boris Johnson.
Once described by Biden as a “kind of a physical and emotional clone” of Trump, he has long been considered hostile to Johnson’s right-wing, populist politics.
Part of this can be traced back to Johnson’s dismissal of Barack Obama. His claim that Obama’s “part-Kenyan” heritage gave him an “ancestral dislike of the British Empire” may be considered racist.
Biden’s team has, we’re told, kept a close eye on the Johnson government, taking offence at the way it has cosied up to Trump.
Dominic Cummings has been likened by some on Biden’s team to Stephen Miller, the Trump policy adviser who contributed to a controversial 2017 travel ban and policy of separating migrant children from their parents.
More tangibly, Biden warned Johnson away from his threat to break international law on Brexit and – potentially – undermine the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland.
Biden’s own heritage is Irish. It seems, when it comes to ancestry, Boris Johnson’s judgement is poor indeed.
So when it comes to trade deals, Johnson may find himself losing any ground he gained by cultivating close links with Trump.
That doesn’t mean we’ll all be saved from eating chlorinated chicken after all.
In fact, it’s more likely to mean Johnson will toss more of our national property in, to sweeten the deal.
Whatever happens, it seems Boris Johnson is heading for even more trouble – and, as usual, it’s all of his own making.
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StarmerLabour mouth Lisa Nandy was doing the media rounds this morning, telling us that her party’s leadership wants Joe Biden to be the new US president.
There’s nothing wrong with that if she had stopped there but she didn’t.
She went on to say that this was because Biden had supported former Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s Falklands war.
That is not a good position for Labour to take and I’ll explain the reason,
Once the Falklands had been invaded by General Galtieri’s Argentinian forces (he wanted control of huge oil reserves beneath the South Atlantic), the UK had to go out and liberate the people who lived there and identify as UK citizens – there’s no doubt about that.
But it is widely argued that the reason they needed rescuing in the first place is that Thatcher withdrew naval support from the area, deliberately making the Falklands an attractive target for the Argentinian dictator.
The intention was tacitly to invite him into starting a war that Thatcher could win, in order to create a surge of public support for herself and the Conservative Party here in the UK that would carry them to a stronger victory at the next general election. And it succeeded.
That’s the belief. In the light of it, Nandy’s comment is tone deaf:
Biden has a long history of standing with the British people because 'he stood with the Thatcher government over the Falklands'.
This is Labour now is it Lisa Nandy!?! Pro the spurious war Thatcher started to win an election.pic.twitter.com/PYskSDmEF6
It shows that StarmerLabour rejects its own party as it was in the early 1980s, preferring to trumpet its support for the Tory leader who championed the neoliberal ideology that brought disaster down on working-class families across the UK.
It should come as no surprise that Nandy said this was a good thing. Her talent for media stupidity is fast becoming legendary. Here…
Lisa Nandy went on Radio 4 to announce that antisemitism is a form of racism that “punches up.” Bafflingly antisemitic behaviour here. Genuinely galling. pic.twitter.com/ClkCv1RGwB
… is a clip of her from the BBC’s PM on October 29, presenting the anti-Semitic view that all Jews are rich and that hatred of them is “punching up”. She gets away with making racist comments – and inciting racism with them – because she is on Starmer’s side and for no other reason.
Sadly, she would probably have got away with such a comment, even under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, either because complaints would have been dismissed by right-wingers in the Governance and Legal Unit who would want her to continue as an embarrassment to Corbyn, or because Corbyn, assailed by false accusations, did not want to rock the boat. That was his weakness and ultimately the reason he lost two elections and his Labour Party membership has now been suspended.
Fortunately the tweeting public has no such restraint:
I remember when the @LeFTCampaign organised an excellent post-election meeting in Wigan in January this year, and some asked why we hadn’t invited the sitting MP, Lisa Nandy, to which we simply replied “because it’s a meeting for socialists”
Is Lisa Nandy quite well? Does she actually know what the Falklands was about? She's so embarrassingly useless. Nothing she says is based on any firm knowledge or expertise. Why are people like her so vaunted in Labour? https://t.co/B9iVjz4nFt
— PeakIpsedixitism #IStandWithKeiraBell🕸️🗣🟥🇪🇺 (@Jessica12uk) November 4, 2020
It's telling that the most positive thing Lisa Nandy could say about Joe Biden is that he's pro-war. Says it all. https://t.co/VKRR7vQ1bi
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush (@WarmongerHodges) November 4, 2020
Lisa Nandy says "this is a very dangerous moment for democracy"…
Ironic since she sits in a shadow cabinet who threw their own election twice because they prefererred a far-right populist regime to a caring democratic socialist Government#PoliticsLive
— Politically Homeless #ShockDoctrine #NHSPay15 (@respeak_uk) November 4, 2020
Other comments by the daft Nandy have also attracted justified criticism:
No, the problem is that Labour MPs like Lisa Nandy would rather lose to the Tories than allow Jeremy Corbyn to become PM. They would rather smear their own party as institutionally antisemitic than oppose Tory bills that legalise state murder. https://t.co/6wIWI4Eq7n
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush (@WarmongerHodges) November 4, 2020
Finally, this comment stands as a harsh reminder to us all of the backstabbing ways adopted by Nandy and her kind of Labour MP:
No Lisa Nandy.
That was in the UK in June 2017 & December 2019 but you still managed to screw us over… https://t.co/0sNDoz62Do
If they get into power, they would backstab all of the voters who put them there.
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Yummy yummy diseases for your tummy: a chlorinated, antibiotic-fed chicken. It may well be full of salmonella, e.coli and excrement but your Tory government will be demanding that you eat it if it signs a trade deal with the United States.
Channel 4’s Dispatches has highlighted the danger into which Boris Johnson’s Tory government will force us, if it is allowed to make a trade deal that will kill UK farming and force us to eat chlorinated chicken and other diseased foods from the United States.
This Site told you on Tuesday (October 13) that the government has rejected calls to enshrine high food standards in law, saying it is enough that Tory ministers have said they will demand such standards in any trade negotiations with foreign nations.
These are the same Tory ministers who supported Johnson’s EU Withdrawal Agreement to the hilt in January, and now say that it is no good and they support breaking international law – turning the UK into a criminal state – instead, so their word is worth less than nothing; it is a promise of betrayal.
Dispatches has shown us what it will mean if we allow food into the UK from the United States:
It’s incredible isn’t it? Our Government wants to sell out our food & farming to the USA. But the US might not sign a deal because we’re breaking the GFA. So we’re relying on the US government being more moral then ours? #r4today#AgricultureBillhttps://t.co/Skon5P2OGb
Yes, you heard it correctly: the Americans would sell us meat that has animal excrement in it.
And yes: the diseases carried in this US meat would cause serious problems to people with long-term ill-health, meaning the Tories would be creating another opportunity to quietly kill off many thousands more people with long-term illnesses and disabilities and wipe them from the benefits bill.
Apparently somebody spoke up on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, demanding that the Tory government legislate for higher food standards.
But I fear this Twitter user has drawn the right conclusion:
“Say it. Mean it. Put it down in legislation.” Sharp message from @Minette_Batters urging govt to protect our food safety and welfare standards.
Problem is they said it, but they never meant it. So they’ll vote against it. Their loyalty lies with the US rather than us.#r4today
That is my feeling, too: Boris Johnson’s loyalty lies with the US rather than with us.
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Chicken: if this one was of the US chlorine-washed variety, do you think Boris Johnson would be soiling his hands with it?
We knew that Tory promises were no good, didn’t we? So we did 14 million people vote for them last December?
I’ve never found an answer for that one.
The usual old chestnut that “the other side were worse” is plainly wrong. Labour’s offer – and leader – was a vast improvement on Johnson and his rabble, as anybody can see.
They can certainly see it now, anyway.
Today’s scandal is that Brexit will now cause a flood of cheap food imports into the UK that will destroy our farming industry and poison our people.
Tories: you voted for this. Brexiters: you voted for this. Indeed, many farmers voted for this.
Here’s what they promised:
This country has completely lost its fucking mind. We are allowing these lying toe rags to systematically destroy any standards we had pre-Brexit. I cannot get my head around it. #BrexitReality#AgricultureBillpic.twitter.com/pUMLzYBiMV
But (as Si Anderson puts it in earthy terms above), yesterday evening’s (October 12) vote in Parliament ensures that the Tories will be able to compromise those protections, just to get a deal with the United States:
Farmers and food campaigners were defeated on Monday night in their attempts to enshrine high food safety and animal welfare practices in British law.
Several prominent backbench Tory MPs rebelled against the government to vote for amendments to the agriculture bill that would have given legal status to the standards, but the rebels were too few to overcome the government’s 80-seat majority and the key amendment fell by 332 votes to 279 after an often impassioned debate.
The government argued that giving current standards legal status was unnecessary as ministers had already committed to ensuring that UK food standards would be kept in any post-Brexit trade agreements.
However, critics fear that the lack of a legally binding commitment in the agriculture bill will allow future imports of sub-standard food that will undercut British produce and expose consumers to risk.
Be honest; given Johnson’s record of u-turning on his promises, this means chlorinated chicken for dinner. It will be cheap at the shop, but it will cost us our entire agriculture industry.
And that is what Boris Johnson intended from the start – before the 2016 referendum, even – it seems.
And just like that. British farming is ended. By Dominic Cummings and his wrecking ball.
Chickens so diseased they have to be drenched in chlorine, pigs rammed with ractopamine, dairy cows on hormones, EU banned pesticides on crops.
#BrexitReality Watching the Dirty Secrets of the American Food Industry on telly last night. Then the tories reject protecting our food standards, breaking their promises in the process, so they can get a trade deal with the US which will benefit our economy by only 0.16%.
Boris Johnson and his cronies won’t be getting chlorine-washed chicken, of course – they’ll be able to afford the higher-quality meats. But you will be in danger.
Opponents of Brexit have taken the opportunity to remind us all of Boris Johnson’s words in 2016 – so we can remind him at the appropriate time…
"We can see the sunlit meadows beyond. I believe we would be mad not to take this once in a lifetime chance to walk through that door."
– Boris Johnson urges people to vote for #Brexit, May 2016
… not that it will make a difference. He does what he likes. You voted for that, Tories. You voted for it, Brexiters.
The easiest deal in history, with the EU falling over themselves to desperately make a deal. Now how did that pan out🤔#BrexitReality
— Sgt Arthur Wilson #wearamask (@SgtArthurWilson) October 13, 2020
Here’s how it’s panning out:
If you voted for Brexit so far you have: – Worsened Food Standards – Ended freedom of movement (for us, too, not just "them") – Dropped the pound to its lowest levels in years – Undermined confidence in UK Gov ethics worldwide – Border in Irish Sea & Kent.
Just to rub salt into the wound, it seems support for remaining in the EU is rocketing, with 57 per cent of the nation now in favour of it.
What a shame. After three years of fighting over it (up to the election in 2019), that debate is over. The Brexiters got what they wanted and you have been shafted. Nobody currently in power will do anything to reverse the decision.
Still, there remain a few optimists who think there will be recourse to law if harm can be shown as a result of this decision:
#FoodStandards#BrexitReality All we need to do is to enforce personal accountability of MPs through the courts….when someone dies as a result of criminally negligent policy. Prison is the only remedy to secure probity. pic.twitter.com/wa7Q0C3944
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Chicken: if this one was of the US chlorine-washed variety, do you think Boris Johnson would be soiling his hands with it?
Boris Johnson’s hopes of a trade deal with the United States are looking increasingly like a house of straw… built on sand.
Already leading figures in Congress have said they will block a trade deal if Johnson pushes his Internal Markets Bill into UK law, as it would break international law and – particularly – threaten the peace in Northern Ireland.
(Did Johnson really dream up this Bill because his Russian donors demanded it?)
Now the House of Lords has amended his Agriculture Bill, so that food products imported under any future trade deals must meet or exceed current standards in the UK – to prevent farmers in this country from being undermined.
For the opposition, Lord Grantchester warned: “Low-quality food cannot be allowed to jeopardise rural communities by undercutting UK farmers with products using methods that would be illegal here.”
Consumers did not want chlorinated chicken or hormone-treated beef to be imported from the US, he said.
It was only by supporting the Labour-led move that peers could be sure the Government was “bound to its commitment not to import food of lower standards than our own domestic products”, Lord Krebs said.
Baroness Boycott, a crossbench peer, said chlorinated chicken was the “tip of the iceberg” of “bad food” which could come into the country.
The amendment is a rejection of the Tory government’s claims, as summarised by Baroness Noakes:
“The government’s policy is clear. They are committed to higher food and welfare standards.
“We do not need to write into law what the Government is committed to.”
Clearly the majority of the Lords disagree – and who can blame them?
The whole point of not writing such a commitment into legislation is to ensure that a government can U-turn on it, once it has been enacted, and we all know it. That’s why the amendment has been brought in.
Unfortunately, it is well within Boris Johnson’s power to throw out the Lords’ amendment, so that the eventual law will undermine UK farmers, and will allow diseased meat onto our plates.
It is possible that MPs will stop and think for a moment before blithely voting it away, though; debate in the House of Lords is of a higher standard than that in the Commons and their reasons for changing a Bill deserve careful consideration.
Many Tories represent rural constituencies full of farmers.
How will those people take it if one of the earliest actions of these MPs in the new Parliament is to stab their voters in the back?
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It seems the UK’s Johnson government isn’t the only political organisation copying whole chapters from the Nazi playbook.
US President Donald Trump has announced a plan to set up what critics have already dubbed his own version of the Hitler Youth – the scheme that was used to indoctrinate millions of German youngsters into Nazism in the 1930s and 40s.
The plan was announced in a Constitution Day speech at the White House Conference on American History at the National Archives Museum. Here’s CNN:
“We must clear away the web of twisted lies in our schools and classrooms and teach our children the magnificent truth about our country. We want our sons and daughters to know that they are the citizens of the most exceptional nation in the history of the world,” Trump said.
The President also called The New York Times’ 1619 Project, a Pulitzer Prize-winning project aimed at teaching American students about slavery, “toxic propaganda.”
In an apparent countering of the project’s narrative, Trump announced that he would be establishing a “national commission to promote patriotic education” called the 1776 Commission.
Apparently he said he wanted to counter “the liberal indoctrination” – mark that word – “of America’s youth”. But isn’t “indoctrination” exactly what he’s planning to do to them?
That’s another classic ploy of the Johnson government – doing something questionable but accusing somebody else of the crime.
It didn’t work – as these tweets demonstrate:
I cannot see "trump Youth" without seeing Hitler Youth.
Trump promises to sign an executive order on patriotic education in schools — which is another way of saying that in the future, all of America's youth will be educated, trained, and indoctrinated in Trump ideology.
It seems Trump wants to create a new generation of stormtroopers for his far-right ideology.
Hitler’s version of that was nicknamed the Brown Shirts.
Perhaps we could call anyone who signs up to this the “Brown Shorts”?
In all seriousness, though, this is a terrifying development.
It shows that the most powerful nation on the planet is on the brink of totalitarianism. Will its citizens choose sanity in the election this November?
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Partners? Dominic Raab is in the United States, where he has been meeting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. But the threat to the Good Friday Agreement posed by the Tory government’s Internal Market Bill means they may not see eye-to-eye.
This is awkward for Boris Johnson.
The US Congress – or at least members of it – is threatening to withdraw from any free trade deal with the UK if Boris Johnson’s Internal Market Bill undermines the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland.
This is a body blow to Johnson, who has claimed that the Bill is vitally important even though it very clearly breaks international law by shattering treaty agreements with the EU and in NI.
According to the BBC:
US Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week said there would be no UK-US trade deal if the Good Friday Agreement was undermined.
Ms Pelosi said if the UK broke international law and Brexit undermined the Good Friday Agreement – the Northern Ireland peace deal – there would be “absolutely no chance of a US-UK trade agreement passing the Congress”.
On Tuesday, four senior congressmen also issued a similar warning, saying a UK-US trade deal would be blocked if the UK failed to preserve the gains of the Good Friday Agreement.
In a letter to Mr Johnson, the four congressmen said the plans to give ministers powers to override part of the UK’s exit agreement – designed to avoid a hard Irish border – could have “disastrous consequences for the Good Friday Agreement and broader process to maintain peace on the island of Ireland”.
“We therefore urge you to abandon any and all legally questionable and unfair efforts to flout the Northern Ireland protocol of the withdrawal agreement and look to ensure that Brexit negotiations do not undermine the decades of progress to bring peace to Northern Ireland,” the letter added.
The letter was signed by Democratic congressmen Eliot Engel, Richard Neal, and Bill Keating, who all chair committees in the US House of Representatives, as well as Republican Congressman Peter King.
Downing Street has said the GFA will be upheld “in all circumstances” but the problem is that Johnson has a record of saying one thing and doing the opposite.
The row over the Internal Market Bill is because it contradicts the EU Withdrawal Agreement that Johnson himself signed in January after expelling 21 Tory MPs for failing to support him.
He simply cannot be trusted; he will say anything he likes to get whatever he wants at a particular time.
The warning from Congress underlines fears that no other nation will want to do a deal with a country that breaks international law.
The Americans would be better-advised to pull out of any deal now.
They might as well be negotiating with a spoilt child.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: this wrongly-jailed woman has become a pawn in an international power struggle.
Just when it seemed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Iranian prison ordeal was coming to an end, she’s being dragged back into court.
And that country’s officials have taken great pleasure in letting us know that her plight is due to blundering Boris Johnson, the UK’s prime muppet.
Johnson was the idiot who blurted out in Parliament – in 2017, when he was Foreign Secretary – that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been “training journalists”.
She had been doing nothing of the kind.
A project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, she had been doing nothing more sinister than visiting her family for the Persian New Year celebration when she was arrested in 2016.
But the Iranian authorities seized on Johnson’s idiotic remark and threatened to use it to add five more years to her five-year prison sentence.
Now – three years after Johnson misspoke, it seems they have decided to follow through on the threat:
Richard Ratcliffe said his wife will appear in court on Sunday accused of “spreading propaganda against the regime” in Iran.
Apparently that’s how they describe the teaching of journalism – which she wasn’t doing in any event.
Of course we all know that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s imprisonment has more to do with the £400 million that the UK government owes to Iran.
It could not be paid before because of international sanctions – but when Boris Johnson’s career was in danger, it seems such concerns evaporated.
How contrary, then, for us to find that the money has not been paid, apparently because Johnson doesn’t want to upset Donald Trump.
Johnson, it seems, wanted to wait until after the US presidential election on November 3 because he wanted to know whether Trump would still be US president before taking action.
So the Iranian decision to go back to court now has put him in a particularly sticky situation.
Will he pay up and get Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe back?
Or will he delay, to stay on the right side of Donald Trump?
I think we all know the answer to that. Johnson is the runt of international politics.
When powerful people squabble, it is always the innocents who suffer.
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Point blank: (white) Wisconsin police officers were filmed shooting Jacob Blake in the back is he sat in his car. His children, also in the car, saw everything.
So much for all the protesting and solidarity earlier this summer. American police are still shooting to kill black people for no apparent reason.
It seems clear that they will continue to do so until force is used to stop them.
And how can that happen when they have the guns, and the name of the law – if not the letter of it – behind them?
The victim in this instance is Jacob Blake, of, Kenosha, Wisconsin, who was apparently walking back to his car after breaking up a fight between two women when police shot him in the back seven times, at point-blank range.
He may never walk again.
His children were also in the car and saw the police officers shooting their father in the back.
The shooting provoked a mass demonstration in which hundreds of people marched through the streets to gather outside the Kenosha County Public Safety Building, chanting: “No justice, no peace!”
Wisconsin’s Democrat governor, Tony Evers, also condemned the shooting. He said: “Tonight, Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times, in broad daylight, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kathy and I join his family, friends, and neighbors in hoping earnestly that he will not succumb to his injuries.”
“While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country.
“We stand with all those who have and continue to demand justice, equity, and accountability for Black lives in our country—lives like those of George Floyd, of Breonna Taylor, Tony Robinson, Dontre Hamilton, Ernest Lacy, and Sylville Smith.”
Family members have appealed for “healing”.
It seems clear that systemic racism is alive and well in the US police forces.
They listened and watched while the Black Lives Matter protests against the killing of George Floyd took place around the world – including in the UK – and then they shrugged and carried on shooting black people.
That’s not law enforcement. It’s racism. And if we really want to eradicated it, we need more than honeyed words from old men in expensive suits
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