Starmer's anti-Trump bias spells big trouble for Labour and Britain
Trump, whose mother was Scottish, is disposed to cement the Special Relationship. But, with Starmer as PM, the door of the Oval Office will likely remain closed.
They never learn. They never learn because they are incapable of doing so. Leftists lack the capacity to survey their circumstances objectively, on the basis of empirical evidence, reach the obvious conclusions and change course accordingly, to salvage their prospects of political survival.
At the moment, we are confronted by the spectacle of two leftist parties unable to come to terms with political reality and reinvent themselves for the purpose of regaining electability.
Across the Atlantic, the American Democratic party has just suffered comprehensive, catastrophic defeat, with Donald Trump having carried the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives and the popular vote. It is a long time since any US president has been given so sweeping a mandate. This time there are no recounts, hanging chads or legal challenges: the American voters delivered a tsunami that swept away the liberal establishment and humiliated the Democrats.