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‘The thug in the White House doesn’t listen to grovelling’
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thug-white-house-doesnt-listen-grovelling
US President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, January 20, 2026…
A recent You Gov poll showed that 55 per cent of the British people are ready to kick US bases out of Britain if Greenland was attacked. The poll showed that large majorities of Labour and Green voters and even most Tories supported the position, with just 22 per cent opposed.
Stop the War Coalition vice-chairman Chris Nineham told the Morning Star: “This poll shows that ordinary people in Britain are appalled by what Trump is doing and it is the basis for a mass campaign to expel the US military from Britain, which Stop the War will be launching shortly.
“The fact is that people are opposed to the appeasement of Trump by Starmer and the European leaders but also to their mimicking of him by ramping up arms spending.”
Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn said: “US bases should have been removed the moment they invaded Venezuela — a flagrant violation of international law.
“We need an independent foreign policy based on diplomacy and peace, which looks to collaborate with partners everywhere, including the global South, on the biggest challenges facing us all, such as the climate crisis and sickening global inequality.”
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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thug-white-house-doesnt-listen-grovelling
UK should consider expelling US forces from British bases, says Zack Polanski
[Guardian] Exclusive: Green party leader advocates leaving Nato and says Britain should wean itself off its reliance on the US
The UK should consider expelling the US from British military bases, the leader of the Green party has said, as he advocated leaving Nato and spending less on American weapons as part of a wider dismantling of the two countries’ defence alliance.
Zack Polanski told the Guardian he believed Britain should wean itself off its reliance on American military cooperation, though would not say whether he supported spending more money to replace that capability.
His comments come as the prime minister, Keir Starmer, attempts to placate the US president and dissuade him from his threats to invade Greenland and to impose tariffs on European countries who oppose him.
Polanski told the Guardian’s Politics Weekly podcast: “I think it’s pretty worrying that we’ve allowed ourselves to become so reliant on American interests, and that a lot of this depends on if Donald Trump is in a good mood or not.”
He added: “We should be reviewing US bases on UK soil, and actually looking at a genuine strategic defence review.”
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Starmer urged to close all US military bases in Britain over Trump’s Greenland threats
US aggression, UK support: The ‘special relationship’
https://www.declassifieduk.org/us-aggression-uk-support-the-special-relationship/
From Iran to Libya, from Panama to Venezuela, there is a history of the UK supporting illegal US military interventions
Forty years ago, US warplanes bombed Libya, attempting to assassinate its leader Muammar Gaddafi. Failing in that task, they managed to kill dozens of civilians in Tripoli, Libya’s capital.
The attacks, which were in response to the bombing of a Berlin nightclub blamed on Gaddafi, were strongly supported by Margaret Thatcher’s government. Indeed, she allowed some of the US jets to take off from bases in Britain.
In the face of widespread public opposition to the US raid, a defiant Thatcher told parliament it was “a necessary and proportionate response to a clear pattern of Libyan terrorism” and to “uphold international law”.
However, the UN General Assembly, and most world opinion, condemned the attack as a violation of international law.
But for the British prime minister: “The United States has stood by us in times of need, as we have stood by her. To refuse their request for the use of bases here would have been to abandon our responsibilities as an ally and to weaken the fight against terrorism.”
Fast forward two decades, and we find ourselves in a not dissimilar situation over US attacks on Venezuela.
UK ministers give their backing to the kidnapping of a foreign head of state amidst a military intervention, condemned in the wider world but supported in Whitehall because of the so-called “special relationship”.
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Article continues at https://www.declassifieduk.org/us-aggression-uk-support-the-special-relationship/
Morning Star Editorial: Starmer’s nuclear bomber fleet brings us all closer to the brink
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmers-nuclear-bomber-fleet-brings-us-all-closer-brink
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks with US President Donald Trump before the start of a North Atlantic Council plenary meeting during the Nato Summit at the Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025KEIR STARMER’S decision to buy 12 nuclear-capable F35A warplanes from the United States leaves us all less safe.
The decision stinks on every level.
Those who argue British rearmament will revive our gutted manufacturing sector instead see the Prime Minister splurging enormous sums — each plane comes with a price tag of $80-100 million — on US-built weaponry.
Hardly surprising, since a key motivation for Starmer is to appease a belligerent White House, whose demand that we ramp up “defence” spending serves the war profiteers of its bloated military-industrial complex. F35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin is one of the death-merchants that has done very nicely out of a world at war, with sales up 5 per cent last year to $71 billion.
Much worse still is the shift in nuclear policy this indicates. It lowers the threshold for use of a nuclear weapon in conflict, which has been taboo ever since the only country ever to do so — the United States — killed a quarter of a million people by dropping the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago this August.
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