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The Brexit mistake is becoming ever more apparent and the lie of 'the special relationship' is being laid wide open. The UK is historically and geographically European, we shouldn't be a poodle to 'the ugly American'. Seems Trump wants tariffs with just about everyone which shows how weak it's employment figures are and how precarious its economy is, history shows that tariffs don't work, you can't beat the market. Tariffs stop innovation in ones own industry and you fall behind your competitors who modernize to become more efficient, a point in question here is the inefficient American steel industry compared to Europe, China and Japan.

Money always rules and always has done. For the average voter a tax cut is enough to vote for a candidate, the concern for democracy isn't very prevalent in America, it's a racist, 'thank you for your service', loud, brash, superficial country. Certainly a Musk-Trump combination is dangerous but considering the clown cabinet Trump has chosen I don't think this circus will last very long. Musk thinks he has bought the government and his future demands will irk the alpha Trump, there is already consternation in the GOP concerning Trumps pick for important posts, he has become more of a laughing stock internationally than he was before. He may control the house and the senate but America is still a divided country, the world is a tinder box and is heading for a recession while Trump pursues isolationist policies, I suggest his term will be short and explosive and the GOP will have to look for an adult replacement.

and they don't have to be in groups, a phone will do.

Like America we get the scum bags we deserve.

Jesus wept! you mean you have to pay to live in the UK? Surely it should be the other way around. I heard one politician say it was a privilege to be allowed to stay in the UK, I couldn't stop laughing.

It would be a first if a government kept its promises to the public so no they wont, especially this inept government who were only voted into power because people were fed up with the Tories. It doesn't matter who governs the UK now, the rot is firmly entrenched, it began with WW1 and has accelerated from there on, an insignificant island in the North sea which like Lady Gaga refuses to believe its now just a 'has been'.

many economists agree with me, BJ and Farage lied to the public, Farage has his firm in EU Ireland.....no worries there.

He needed the money for drugs.

more poverty, but that's mainly a Brexit problem.

That is about to collapse on the interest paid on its 35 trillion debt, many countries are now fed up paying the US for a life style it can't afford.

but they never have done, nothing new here.

Now that's what I call a hit-and-run.

Not if they are from Boeing.

True, look at Trump, obviously anybody can become president

I wonder if he is listening.

Black trans 'women' with mental health issues and a physical deformity may no longer apply for the 'Dairy queen of the month'.

50 million.....a lot of potential bribe money.

Just home grown violence.....you know it makes sense

You did but it wasn't enlightening.

"the law'' is not an entity, somebody has determined what the law is, after all somebody once determined the laws on the rightfulness of slavery, on blasphemy, on the death penalty, "the law is an ass" comes to mind.

No. Are you sure the messages you are getting are really from wise? I have a code word that Wise uses with every message they send me so that I know it is from them.

While I agree with your sentiments I am alarmed that Musk has so much power, he is already the worlds richest man and consequently has huge seductive power upon government and industry and this power is now elevated with a government position and direct access to a president that doesn't seem to have any moral values. "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." Musk and Trump are basically untouchable and all powerful, what does that do to two already damage psyches? Government waste is a world wide problem but some seemingly redundant departments are 'pesky' counterweights against an all to powerful administration, it is now easy to remove them.

Who decides what is hate speech and what is an opinion? Apart from that for hate speech to have any affect it must have a general consensus within the public, a consensus that is ignored by the authorities.

My own opinion is that there is no media outlet, including newspapers, that don't have a political bias, even the once noble BBC is now tainted, factual news and neutral political commentary is probably impossible today, there is too much money involved and the public, especially the Americans, have been dumbed down, I once heard an American tourist in Cologne cathedral explaining to his wife that the magnificent stone arches were obviously plastic moldings.

We get the message but why do you call us friends?