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Starmer offered big US tech firms tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs
(www.theguardian.com)
Will Starmer bend the knee and kiss the ring? The world waits...
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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Fuck you, Keir. Respond with tarrifs like Canada and EU did. Grow a pair.
This is a bit pathetic.
And we well know that appeasement of Drumpf achieves nothing; They'll be back on the moment anything vaguely uk-related annoys him.
Grab your ankles, Kier.
This speaks to the incredibly short sighted and, let's be honest, incompetence of the civil service and elected governments over a number of years.
Had they been more forceful in expanding the scope of GDS when it started instead of watering it down, the UK government (a huge buyer of US IT) by now would have had a better bargaining chip against this extortion from the Trump administration plus our own infrastructure to rely on. Or had the government created the conditions and championed alternative digital networks (yes they exist look at what we're using right now) they would also be in a better position.
Instead we're in a race to how far we can goatse ourselves for Musk and Trump.
This isn't incompetence. Like every 21st century major "Labor" party, the UK's is a neoliberal corporate whore, and Starmer is at the top.
Remember Brexit? The UK is much closer to fascism, and is more of a plutocracy, than the majority of the EU.
The secret to a good shit post is to spell the actual party you're trying to malign correctly 😊. Not simply fill your reply with all the buzzwords you can think of.
Neoliberalismo, corporations, fascismo, racista..... That's numberwang!
Nice ad hominem. Care to attack my argument, or would you prefer to continue defending a PM who acts on behalf of the wealthy and corporations; foreign corporations — who have bent the knee to fascism — no less?
Corporations, bend the knee, fascism.
That's numberwang!
Pathetic
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labour in name silence in shame
Wonder where the money for that came from?
Fuck you disabled lot, Zuckerberg et al need another yacht.
Rather let disabled people starve than let the richest people in the world face the literal consequences of their own actions — they got Trump elected — if they lose money from tarriffs, thats on them.
I hope this is an April fools joke ....
It was posted on April the 2nd so...
It was also known to be on the table: UK considers big tech tax changes to appease Donald Trump
And it isn't the online thing: UK willing to renegotiate online harm laws to avoid Trump tariffs