cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/63912534
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has criticised Britain’s invitation to Mr Donald Trump for a second state visit, saying it undermined his government’s effort to project a united front against the US President’s talk of annexing Canada.
Mr Starmer, who is trying to improve trading ties with the US after Britain left the European Union, has sought to play to its strengths when dealing with Mr Trump, talking up its security expertise, pledging higher defence spending, and offering the pomp and pageantry that comes with a state visit.
The problem is the inability of politicians to understand that you can take a huge decision with a referendum, but you can reverse that decision the same way.
Or that the referendum wasn’t binding so they could have just said that the result wasn’t decisive enough given that the turnout was less than 75%.
Had they done that they’d have been out of government for a decade at least.
Yep! And the question should have been “Do you want us to negotiate the terms so we can have a second, well informed, referendum?”