L’Unione dei pompieri esorta il PM a annullare la visita di Trump

What do they honestly expect him to do.. I despise the guy, but I understand in politics you sometimes have to play nice especially with an extremely important ‘ally’.

How is that per capita GDP coming along, we booming? Can we afford to get into a trade war with the US over Trumps ego? People who are comfortable getting into a sanctions based war over this, let yourselves be known.

Just dont bitch about cutting services when you also want to put the economy at risk for your gesture politics.

What has the firefighters union got to do with Trump visiting?

They’re just using it as an excuse to drum up support for further funding, which i guess is their prerogative as the union, but it’s still a dumb request.

No-one likes it, but we’re tightly coupled with what has, for the longest time been a strategic partner for the UK and we are not in a position to be able to sever those ties without suffering massive security risk, both in terms of our material defence and economic prosperity. All at a time of increasing global unrest.

For now, our best bet is playing the part of the sycophantic partner at the feet of their new dictator in chief, hoping they one day return to sanity and all the while, quietly decoupling from what is now an unstable state. We should be under no illusion though, the task of separating UK/US defence infrastructure and partnership is Sisyphean in scope. We should still set about doing it, but it’s a very long and arduous road ahead of us.