Joe Biden: this Democrat president-elect will have a majority in the House of Representatives and a de facto majority in the Senate. Will he use it to enact the gun controls that the United States desperately need?
It seems to me that the fever over the Capitol riot in the United States is ignoring a very important fact.
I’ve made a short video and I would appreciate it if you would watch it:
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It seems Joe Biden wants to tackle the climate crisis. Perhaps he sees it as a way to make his mark on history.
If so, he is to be applauded. If the United States commits to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, it will take a lot of pressure from smaller countries – and pile it onto larger economies like China, Russia and India.
And while the UK has paid lip-service to climate commitments, the influence of America could force Boris Johnson (and his successors) to pay closer attention to making sure they are honoured.
This is another good news story. Perhaps the tide is turning at last.
The US will hold a climate summit of the world’s major economies early next year, within 100 days of Joe Biden taking office, and seek to rejoin the Paris agreement on the first day of his presidency, in a boost to international climate action.
Leaders from 75 countries met without the US in a virtual Climate Ambition Summit co-hosted by the UN, the UK and France at the weekend, marking the fifth anniversary of the Paris accord. The absence of the US underlined the need for more countries, including other major economies such as Brazil, Russia and Indonesia, to make fresh commitments on tackling the climate crisis.
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It seems Boris Johnson is living up to his new nickname as a #ShapeShiftingCreep once again.
He has just suffered a major defeat in his plan to break international law – contradicting his own EU Withdrawal Agreement, signed in January – after the House of Lords carved huge chunks out of his Internal Markets Bill before sending it back to him:
Lords Inflict Huge Defeat On Boris Johnson’s Plan To Break International Law On Brexit…
Good news indeed sending a strong message to No10. But in reality it is likely only a short term setback.https://t.co/M7QUINddk4
Peers voted by 433 to 165 to strip out clauses in the Internal Market Bill which would allow the UK to renege on its obligations in the withdrawal agreement signed with the EU.
The defeat, one of the largest of any government in the Lords since hereditary peers were slimmed down in the 1990s, means that Johnson will have to weigh up whether to reinsert the clause in the House of Commons next month.
In another overwhelming show of strength, the Lords also voted by 407 to 148 to remove any breach of the northern Ireland protocol in the EU withdrawal treaty.
Senior Tories went on to tell Johnson his best course of action is to “quietly drop” those parts of the Bill that the Lords have excised.
Boris Johnson told to ‘quietly drop’ parts of controversial Brexit bill after Lords defeat https://t.co/KSphZ75JTY
The Evening Standard said Tories including Theresa May’s ex-chief of staff Gavin Barwell, former chancellor Ken Clarke and former Conservative Party leaders William Hague and Michael Howard all voted against Johnson’s government:
Lord Barwell told the Standard: “I don’t see any positives that come from those clauses.
He said the clauses were affecting the UK’s ability to get a trade deal with the EU and “rule out” any possible trade deal with the US while “damaging relations” with the new Joe Biden administration [in the United States].
After the vote, Johnson’s government insisted it would not back down and would re-table the clauses when the bill returns to the Commons in December.
Ah… but then there was the issue of Joe Biden. The new US president, who claims Irish ancestry, has said he will take an extremely dim view of any UK legislation that harms the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland.
And it seems certain that he would have made that clear when Johnson telephoned to congratulate him on his win in the presidential election:
Boris Johnson’s spoken to Biden.
I expect a u-turn on the Internal Market Bill within the week.
Johnson now faces a hard choice: reinstate the controversial – illegal – clauses and face the wrath of Biden, or quietly let them drop and face ridicule here in the UK.
He is a weak prime minister – who allows public perception to sway his decisions. I think we all know how this will end.
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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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