You can’t ride two horses with one butt…
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Keir Starmer’s Labour government is sleepwalking the UK into a dystopian nightmare. Caught between Brexit’s broken promises and Donald Trump’s wrecking-ball agenda, Starmer is trying to ride two horses with one butt—appeasing Leave voters while begging for EU scraps. It’s a fool’s errand, and the British public is paying the price. As fishing rights and youth mobility talks with the EU stall, the UK is sliding toward isolation, deregulation, and corporate takeover, with US giants like BlackRock circling our public services and green spaces. This isn’t sovereignty, it’s surrender.
Brexit’s Lies Laid Bare
Let’s rewind to 2016. The Leave campaign, fueled by lies about “£350m a week for the NHS” and “taking back control,” duped a narrow majority (51.9%) into voting Brexit. The most Googled question post-referendum? “What is the EU?” That’s right—millions voted to ditch a bloc they barely understood, swayed by Farage’s dog-whistles and Boris’s bluster. Fast forward to 2025, and the damage is undeniable: a 4-6% GDP hit, border chaos, and a fishing industry—0.1% of the economy—holding trade talks hostage. Yet Starmer, shackled to Brexit’s corpse, refuses to challenge its sacred cows.
The latest EU-UK spat, reported by The Guardian, exposes this folly. Starmer wants a veterinary deal to ease trade barriers and a security pact to bolster defense. But the EU, fed up with Britain’s cherry-picking, demands reciprocity: long-term access to UK fishing waters and a youth mobility scheme for 18- to 30-year-olds. France and the Netherlands are playing hardball, linking fish to trade, while Brussels insists on a package deal—nothing agreed until everything is. Starmer’s response? Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s measly 70,000-person cap on mobility, a slap in the EU’s face. It’s not pragmatism; it’s cowardice, rooted in fear of Brexiteer backlash.
A Drop in the Ocean
Starmer’s post-Brexit trade deals are a sick joke. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) adds a pitiful 0.08% to GDP, while deals with Australia and Japan are hampered by distance and red tape. Compare that to the EU’s single market: 450 million consumers, frictionless trade, and freedom of movement. The EU still takes ~40% of UK exports, yet Starmer’s government prioritises symbolic wins like “protecting” fish stocks over economic reality. Brexit’s border frictions cost businesses billions, and the EU’s prosperity is a window the UK now peers through, stranded and isolated.
Trump’s Shadow Looms Enter Donald Trump, the narcissistic wrecking ball hell-bent on gutting the EU and turning the UK into a US vassal. His second term, starting in 2025, pushes “America First” with a vengeance: tariffs on EU goods, NATO threats, and bilateral trade deals that favour US corporations. Starmer, eyeing a UK-US deal, risks signing away our NHS, food standards, and data privacy to appease Trump’s cronies. Social media posts warn of “vassalage,” with the UK reduced to a deregulated outpost of US capital. Trump’s contempt for the EU’s social contract; labour rights, public services, and environmental protections makes him the antithesis of what the UK needs. Yet Starmer’s Brexit loyalty leaves us vulnerable, caught between a united EU and an erratic White House.
The Sovereign Corporation Rises
The real danger lies closer to home: the UK’s deregulatory spiral. Post-Brexit free zones, like the 12 free ports and 74 SEZs rolled out since 2021, are corporate playgrounds. Relaxed taxes, planning rules, and workers’ rights attract vultures like BlackRock, the $10tn US investment giant eyeing the UK’s green spaces and public services. Cash-strapped councils, like Birmingham’s near-bankrupt authority, are selling assets to survive, handing control to private firms. This isn’t growth for ‘working people’ as much as I loathe Labour’s framing of growth as ‘something only working people do’; it’s a social implosion, with inequality soaring and infrastructure crumbling. The mainstream media’s silence on Britain’s Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is a failure of statecraft.
Most Brits don’t grasp their complexity or incoming dangers, leaving local communities defenceless against the encroaching “sovereign corporation”—a UK run like a business, prioritising profit over people. Labour’s social democratic roots should reject this, but Starmer’s Brexit dogma aligns us with the US’s corporate hegemony, not the EU’s socially constructed Single Market. The EU, for all its flaws, fights for a level playing field; the UK, under Starmer, is paving the way for BlackRock’s takeover.
Time to Fight Back: Starmer’s stubborn stupidity is matched by his spinelessness. Clinging to Brexit’s lies while flirting with Trump’s America, he’s betting on short-term votes over long-term survival. The EU won’t budge unless the UK compromises on pressing issues like fishing or youth mobility. But Starmer’s fear of Red Wall backlash blinds him to the bigger picture: a UK squeezed between a protectionist US and a prospering EU, with CPTPP as a measly consolation prize. We can’t let this happen.
Here’s how to fight back
Demand EU Engagement: Push Starmer to accept limited EU concessions—phased fishing access, a capped mobility scheme—to unlock trade and security deals. It’s not rejoining; it’s survival.
Expose Brexit’s Costs: Amplify the truth—4-6% GDP loss, border chaos, lost opportunities—through protests, social media, and local campaigns. Young voters, 60%+ of whom want to rejoin, are our muscle.
Reject Trump’s Deal: Say no to a US trade deal that sells out our NHS, our green spaces, and high standards. Labour MPs must hold Starmer accountable, not bow to Tory-US cheerleaders.
Regulate Free Zones: Demand transparency and oversight of SEZs. Protect workers, green spaces, and public assets from corporate predators like BlackRock.
Educate and Organize: Use platforms like X, Bluesky, Youtube, and Substack to spread awareness of deregulation’s dangers. Community groups, unions, and youth networks can mobilize against the “sovereign corporation” threat. The UK stands at a crossroads.
Starmer can keep pandering to Brexit’s ghosts, leaving us a supplicant to Trump’s America, or he can pivot toward the EU’s stability and social contract. We’re not powerless—our voices, our actions, can stop this corporate coup. Let’s make sure the UK isn’t left peering through the EU’s window, watching what we once had slip away. Join the fight, because surrender isn’t an option.
This article (Starmer’s Brexit Betrayal: Selling the UK to Trump’s Corporate Vultures.) was created and published by EuropeanPowell and is republished here under “Fair Use”
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