House of Commons calls on Keir Starmer to condemn Donald Trump’s ‘interference’ in European politics

House of Commons calls on Keir Starmer to condemn Donald Trump’s ‘interference’ in European politics

The US is engaging in “extreme rightwing tropes” with echoes of the 1930s and threatening “chilling” interference in European democracies, British MPs warned ministers on Thursday.

The House of Commons rounded on Donald Trump’s national security strategy, which stated that Europe was facing “civilisational erasure” and vowed to help the continent “correct its current trajectory and promote patriotic European parties”.

Matt Western, a Labour MP and chair of parliament’s joint committee on the UK government’s national security strategy, said: “The United States consensus that has led the western world since the second world war appears shattered.

    • shoresy@lemmings.worldEnglish
      4·
      22 hours ago

      If you’re from the US and you think it’s better, then let me remind you that it’s not:

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/07/juvenille-judges-cash-detention-centre

      And if you think that’s too long ago, then maybe you’re not aware that AI surveillance tech is currently being used to monitor students in thousands of schools across the US. According to the AP, over 65% of alerts from the software are false alarms yet they still result in students being arrested and spending time in jail all because AI can’t understand the context of jokes.

      https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/honorable-mention/2025/students-have-been-called-to-the-office-and-even-arrested-for-ai-surveillance-false-alarms/

      So a few years ago, if you made fun of your vice principal online, a corrupt judge would throw you in juvenile detention and in 2025, if you crack some jokes with your friends online, AI sends the goon squad to arrest you.

      So much freedom…

      I guess if you’re a student in the US these days you need to have a dark sense of humor since you never know if your school will be the site of the next mass shooting.

      • Nomorereddit@lemmy.todayEnglish
        31·
        21 hours ago

        Uhuh, let’s talk Brexit shall we?

        Brexit illustrates the United Kingdom’s rightward political shift by emphasizing national sovereignty, border control, and resistance to supranational governance, even in defiance of elite institutional consensus. It also reflects a view of free speech as contestable and negotiable, with speech increasingly treated as something fought over within legal, political, and cultural power structures rather than as an unquestioned liberal absolute.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      20 hours ago

      I guess some people need to hear this: it’s actually possible for two things to be bad at the same time. Crazy right?