[Tubby Isaacs]

‪Josiah Mortimer‬ ‪@josiah.writes.news‬
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Keir Starmer’s Government Votes to Block UN Plan to Tackle Global Tax Avoidance

The UK has joined with the United States and a handful of other rich nations in rejecting the UN push

The articles are actually fine, pointing out that the OECD have been working on plans with similar aims for years (with the full agreement of Sunak and Starmer). But no doubt this'll get shared a lot. Starmer backing tax avoiders and all that.

The objection to the OECD is that unlike the UN, it's a rich nations club. But the last OECD plan in 2023 was agreed by 138 nations, by no means all rich, which covered 90% of global GDP. So it's pretty extensive and the UK has more sway in the OECD than the UN.

[Youngian]

We're missing a "Why must Kier resign this week" board.

• He sent Tommeh to the Gulags.
• He sold our most profitable colony to a shower of hottentots.
• He's not as exciting as funtime Boris.
• Felon Musk says so.
• Something about voice coaching.

He met a voice coach during lockdown, so Bozza was robbed

[Tubby Isaacs]

Oh no. Starmer's not going to a conference in France. Guardian thinks he's missing the chance to speak to JD Vance and Elon Musk. And he's going to upset Macron, who he's had plenty of meetings with.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... t-in-paris

Good Old Keir, staying at home, not gallivanting off Oh..

Alan Mak, the shadow science and innovation secretary, said: “The Conservatives hosted the first AI safety summit, establishing the UK as a world leader in the sector.

“Keir Starmer is threatening that legacy and further damaging Britain’s leadership on the world stage by spurning this important summit.”

[The Weeping Angel]

This Chagos Islands fuss is a load of bollocks and all. The UK benefits, like any non-world power, from accepting decisions of international courts. The idea of paying to lease a major military base isn't some sort of unthinkable piece of far leftism. Nor is the mooted cost (£90m a year, out of a £50bn defence budget) extortionate.

A new government got elected in Mauritius. They've got some leverage, but also considerable incentive to misrepresent the deal to a domestic audience. The Times does some good reporting, but also hates the Labour Government.

Not sure how trying to do this deal fits in with "Starmer sucks up to Trump".

It really is amazing how so many people on twitter oppose it. Even normal centre-left types are frothing at the mouth over it. Reasons against on twitter seem to be

1. It's a bad deal

2. We're paying Mauritius billions to take our territory off our hands

3. We're being take for a ride.

4. It's unpatriotic

5. This will fuel Reform

6. The judgement is non-binding and therefore we should ignore it.

7. We're only doing this because Starmer is a lawyer and he prioritises international law above all else.

8. Starmer is an idiot

9. He's doing it for his mate Phillip Sands

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Attorney General is also being lined up as the fall guy.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Oh look who popped up. Mr Sensible Internationalist Rule Of Law.

Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, accused ministers of having “botched” the negotiations and questioned why they were making “significant payments to Mauritius upfront at a time when winter fuel payments have been scrapped”.

There isn't a deal yet.

[Tubby Isaacs]

From the Guardian. One former advisor said this, did he?

One former Labour adviser said the row had the potential to become a totemic issue akin to Gordon Brown selling half the UK’s gold reserves.

Another said the Chagos deal “was a catastrophic error … The best way to solve it now and save face is to pull out and say: ‘We tried to be constructive, tried to support the rules-based order, but Mauritius has been completely unreasonable and now it will never be returned.’”

Yeah, let's say it'll never be returned. That'll make the issue go away.

[kreuzberger]

The Chagos look pretty alluring, to be honest, and it can't be long before Starmer is criticised for not developing Diego Garcia in to a desirable resort for true-blood Brits.

After all, they have wonderful beaches and plenty of airport capacity for Jet2 and TUI to ship in their human cargo., which knocks the spots off Gaza. They could call it "Costa del Keir" or summat (I am here for branding side-hustles, don't be shy.)

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What could possibly go wrong?

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[Malcolm Armsteen]

Keir's gonna need a bigger boat.

[davidjay]

Keir Starmer is responsible for every decision made and action taken by every institution and public body in his lifetime. Let's just accept it.

[Crabcakes]

Keir Starmer is responsible for every decision made and action taken by every institution and public body in his lifetime. Let's just accept it.

Unless it’s something popular and/or successful, in which case it was sheer chance, the effect of international market forces, or the previous Tory government(s). Even if they voted against whatever it was at every opportunity.

[slilley]

The Prime Minister took an AIDS test today, to help break the lingering stigma there is over such a procedure. A load of theorteical thinkers of a particular persuasion piled onto X to explain that he really did have AIDS and was conspiring with the establishment to hush it and that as a result he should be removed from office and tried for treason and breaking Magna Carta.

If you think the Magalunacy couldnt happen here, dont be so sure, given what these folks are pushing.

[mattomac]

It’s what I expected when I first saw it sadly.

Quite a positive thing to do….It’s something we could eradicate even with no cure or vaccine. The drugs out there are that effective.

Would be good to have a cure but perhaps it’s just something that we can get rid out without it.

[The Weeping Angel]

Jonathan Pie is a cunt.

[mattomac]

As a gay man who slept around in youth, maybe Jonathan would like to know that every single time I could have picked up something, I was mostly safe but you couldn’t account for being unlucky at times.

Luckily I’ve reached this stage of my life without and now have the Prep drug which is remarkable thing. I suppose if you don’t face that dread every time you go out you might end up being a bellend like that Jonathan.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Indeed, the lack of any empathy, understanding or simple humanity is quite breathtaking.

[Edited one time for a typo]

[Abernathy]

Tom Walker (“Jonathan Pie”) doesn’t normally lack empathy, understanding, or simple humanity. His takedowns of the Tories when they were the government were magisterially superb, hilarious, and right on point. The “Pie” alter ego is a fictional satirical creation, not a real person.

Tom may be trying too hard and/or struggling to hit the mark now that his de facto target, the government, is now Labour, particularly with this one.

But he’s not a cunt.

[edited pre-submission to correct two typos and one poorly chosen word ]

[mattomac]

I think he could have done better than this, I would expect better from him.

[Yug]

I see useless Kid Starver is still sucking up to Trump

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has backed Volodymyr Zelensky as a "democratically elected leader" after Donald Trump described the Ukrainian president as a "dictator"...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrnjrjrr5o.amp

Oh

[The Weeping Angel]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... re_btn_url

Starmer told the conference: “You want to know what Farage and Reform are doing on their rare visits to parliament? They’re voting against our employments right bill. They talk the language of workers’ rights online and on the doorstep … but they voted against banning fire-and-rehire, conference. They voted against scrapping exploitative zero-hours contracts. They voted against sick leave and maternity pay. And what about the NHS? They want to charge people to use our NHS.

“They claim to be the party of patriotism but they’re fawning over Putin. No – they are not the answer for working people in Britain … and they are not the answer for Scotland.”

Starmer also said his first-hand experience of seeing Ukraine has made him “more determined to stand up for [its people]”.

“Nobody wants the bloodshed to continue, least of all the Ukrainians,” Starmer said in Glasgow.

“But after everything that they have suffered, after everything they have fought for, there can be no discussion about Ukraine without Ukraine, and the people of Ukraine must have a long-term, secure future.”

Good to see Starmer bigging up employment right.