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.

  • littlewonder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    I want more countries to start speaking up about the fascists and human rights violations in the US. It’s harder for Americans to ignore by immediately claiming partisan bias.

    Even better, start refusing to do business with the economic giants and billionaires in the US, especially as the US continues to lose global influence. It hurts the rich assholes and they’re the ones who can (and do) pressure the gov to change on a far faster timeline than activism can achieve.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      If you want to see how fast even the Dems will bend over the wealthy, look at the government shutdown. When it was all about taking away food and health care from the poor, then nobody can figure out a solution, but as soon as the airports started falling apart, and the corporations couldn’t move around the country, the whole thing is over in a couple of days.

  • PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    1 day ago

    We know. We have to wait to see if we can take the Nazi’s away from the nuclear codes. With an election or if they are going to try undermining the elections. Then shit gets spicey.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      22 hours ago

      if they are going to try undermining the elections if they are going to successfully undermine the elections

      The try is a given, it’s already started with the SCOTUS changing rules on map redrawing.

    • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      161·
      2 days ago

      They are not arresting people for social media. They aren’t monitoring citizens any more than most. Don’t get me wrong, the UK government is quite terrible. But comparing it to the US is a joke. We’re not involved in multiple daily ongoing constitutional crises

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      145·
      2 days ago

      If by keeping losers who run their mouths with hate speech in check, then sure.

      UK and Germany kind of felt the worst effects of fascism and so have less tolerance for intolerance. This doesn’t seem like a bad thing.

      Don’t promote talking-points originating from far-right propaganda outlets. This isn’t when remotely the same as the blatantly unconstitutional Gestapo-like actions of ICE thugs going on in America. Friendly reminder this administration is actively trying to remove political satirist from television by leveraging their oversight of corporate mergers and the FCC. They succeeded with Colbert.

      Don’t forget all the publicly-funded universities that caved to pressure on bogus claims of antisemitism with protesters exercising their first amendment rights. Hell, some when tried to stop protests of Israel itself.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        The popularity of Nigel Farage is a bad omen. For sure there is a lot of xenophobia and exceptionalism in UK. Not too far from what we saw made fascism grow out of control in USA. But you are right, it is not nearly the insanity we see in USA. At least not yet.
        But UK suffer the same democratic disease USA does, with a very flawed democracy.

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        2 days ago

        I think comparing a full fleshed surveillance police state like the UK with Germany isn‘t the most upright of arguments. The UK grands much fewer personal rights and is further down the fascist pipeline I‘d say.

        • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
          72·
          2 days ago

          And I’m simply answering that they’re really not, or at least not in the falsely-equivalent picture you painted with the US. USA is closer to Russia in terms of its fast-track to authoritarianism. UK? They’re engaging in what many here claim to support: no tolerance for intolerance.

          • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            “I Support Palestine Action” is not intolerance. Simply saying that publicly is an arrestable offense in the UK. They dropped from ‘Open’ to ‘Less Restrictive’ in the Global Expression Report, an outlier among the traditional Western countries. They’re not as bad as ‘roving bands of secret police’, but painting this as just a quest against intolerance is nonsense apologia.

          • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            I saw some news about it awhile back, and didn’t remember full details so was asking. Just going to delete the comment since its being taken the wrong way.

  • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    2 days ago

    I’m just gonna start suing every media company for printing shit I said 10 years ago without my permission

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
    62·
    1 day ago

    accusing them of failing to control immigration

    Maybe stop flooding us with victims of your little wars and coups first?

  • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    Great catch there bud! If it weren’t for people like you, us Americans wouldn’t know for shit what is happening around us!

    • shoresy@lemmings.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 day 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·
        1 day 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·
      24 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?