RE: Expecting an update20 Jan 2023 10:17
And what a nice update we have and positive effect on the SP,
oh Joe more views on your leader from our side of the pond!
The sooner the world can rid of these people holding back the ascent of man and trying to control them the better the world will be!
The Bruges Group
Nic Arb · ·
Joe Biden loves to lecture Britain. His imperial-style presidency has rambled incessantly about the Northern Ireland Protocol, warning that it may sink a potential US trade deal if British politicians don’t comply with his wishes. Last October, he personally intervened to condemn then-Prime Minister Liz Truss's proposed tax cuts, calling her economic policies a "mistake".
Now Biden's Labor Secretary, Marty Walsh, has launched an outrageous preemptive attack on the Government's proposed strike law. This sensibly proposes minimum service levels for certain public services to ensure that you can still get an ambulance if emergency workers are out on strike. But Walsh declared that he "would not support anything that would take away from the workers", even though he admits that he hasn’t even seen the British legislation yet.
It's bad enough the White House feels it has the right to intervene in British domestic affairs in this way, but it's also being terribly hypocritical. In December, Biden signed a measure to ban a national railway strike, declaring it would “devastate our economy.” And Walsh himself made it clear that Congress “will have to take action to avert a strike in our country” if the unions did not back down.
The nerve is astonishing. Biden, who has a historic disdain for Britain, hates Brexit and viewed both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss with contempt. And now he seemingly believes he can bully Rishi Sunak, who he very likely sees as a significantly softer target.
The fundamental issue is that the White House believes it can walk all over Downing Street in the post-Boris era. With the Conservative Party deeply divided and heavily trailing Labour in the polls, Joe Biden thinks he can do whatever he wants in telling the British people what to do.
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