No 10 says Falklands sovereignty rests with UK after report of US 'review'

A few months previously the Coalition had been comfortably ahead in polling. Then Trump put tariffs on Australia.

I’m not sure if this was a record defeat for the Conservative Party here in Canada. However, the Conservative leader, went from presumptive PM, to losing the seat he’d held for 20 years.

> by that point Trumpism was so radioactive here that our conservative party suffered their worst electoral defeat since the 1940s. Well, at least some of our suffering is having good effects elsewhere. I hope it does the same for us here in the upcoming elections.

Poilievre was under the impression that he was **beating** Trudeau in the polls by 20 points... turns out that it was Trudeau **losing** by 20 points. As soon as there was a non-Trudeau alternative, Poilievre's lead completely collapses. Frankly, Trudeau had to know that Freeland would be forced to resign after being demoted in Cabinet, setting off a revolt of his own party. I think he knew that the Liberals could not rebound with him as leader, gave his own party a reason to ask for his resignation so that Pierre Poilievre couldn't take credit, then resigned. Demoting the Finance Minister is a mistake only a neophyte leader makes, not a ten year Prime Minister. I think he purposely fell on his own sword in a way that gave his party the ability to distance itself from his legacy.

Pollieve is like a cardboard cutout with a Temu Trump voice box glued to it.

Im a relatively new Canadian. Left the UK in 2012 and became a Canadian Citizen in 2018. Regardless of which party you vote for, the speeches that Trudeau made when leaving office and then subsequently those of Mark Carney made me feel so proud to be Canadian.

Poilievre barely tries to hide how much he admires Trump, so he refused and refuses to take a firm stance against the American aggression. This was probably his biggest weakness in the last election. One year later, we have the most experienced and competent PM probably in Canadian history, so Poilievre is even more neutered because he has absolutely no policies to suggest and no basis to argue against the government on. He honestly [makes it so easy for Carney to refute him](https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/what-s-he-ever-negotiated-carney-hits-back-at-poilievre-over-canada-us-trade/ar-AA21zEVZ) it’s comical. Of course, despite this, a good chunk of the country will simply always vote Conservative no matter what.

Yeah it wasn’t exactly Trump being elected that sunk the Conservatives, it was Trudeau saying “this annexation threat is bigger than party politics, we all need to stand together”, and everyone, even Doug Ford, agreeing — except for Poilievre, who said “absolutely not, nothing is bigger than party politics, screw the Libs”

I don't think the US made much of a difference in Hungary here.

The whole party won't admit it, either. They just reconfirmed him at their annual convention. Instead of a healthy minority government, they handed the government a majority because they have no loyalty left.

A leader that is unable to pivot when a campaign demands it, would become a Prime Minister unable to lead in a crisis situation. Poilievre proved himself incapable of doing the most important part of the job, and he continues to prove it.

Reform’s numbers have been stagnant for a while, and have dropped from their peak. I think they’ve hit their ceiling. I find that most people I meet who support reform do so simply because “they’re something different” and don’t pay enough attention to politics to realise they’re not actually “something different” at all.

In Australia it's a bit weaker phenomenon, but I would say it did effect the election last year, allowing the centre left to coast to victory. The centre right in Australia appears to have collapsed (to the benefit of the quite Trumpist far right).

It was also why no other NATO country was involved in re-taking The Falklands despite 'another NATO country being attacked' and article 5. In fact help was so lacking that the UK had to threaten another NATO ally to stop them selling ship killing missiles to the Argentinians.

>This can be seen in the Suez crisis, where the US did not show up They didn't "not show up" they dictated UK foreign policy and crashed the Pound until we complied.

The hard power isn't looking so good either.

I'm sure that the palace have been briefing the entire royal family on how to handle a Trump meltie since the moment the Zelensky incident happened. They probably have an entire book of pre-planned scathing but dignified comebacks memorised.

Against Starmer maybe but Charles no way. Trump loves the idea of royalty cos of the narcissist that he is.

He wouldn't dare go up against Charles lol

And start properly taxing all American companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter etc. No tax breaks no grants more regulations

I am danish, and we are currently buying more palatir solutions, while trump is threatening Greenland, it is absolutely infuriating.

I second that! Even if relations go back to normal, kick Palantir the f*** out of the UK, no matter where they’ve got their tentacles. 

Agreed— I think his distance is calculated to try and preserve any future political career he would have, including a 2028 run. He *was* the closest thing resembling “normal” left in the GOP pigpen for presidential candidates. I’m sure the number crunchers within the GOP have done the math and realized that Vance’s likability is on par with that of a wet sock, so they need to (yet again) try and reclaim their party from MAGA in order to maintain their power, or else they’re cooked beyond the midterms. I can’t really think of any new-ish Republicans that have made a name for themselves over the past decade outside of the MAGA henchmen that have been installed with a very short term goal in mind. The GOP politicians that get the most airtime all give off the energy like they’re on their vengeance tour from being picked on in middle school. Unfortunately, the DNC is bought and nothing more than controlled opposition, but at least there seem to be a few progressive candidate who don’t seem to be part of the establishment who I hope can chip away at the old guard of the democrat party. If I’m looking for the silver lining of this administration, I’m hoping that their disasterous diplomacy, corruption and crimes allow for the political pendulum to swing further to the left, and opposition candidates from the progressive wing can gain enough power to actually get to policy reform that benefits the 99% of citizens, not the 1% hoarding half the wealth.

"No luck catching them nonces then?" "It's just the one nonce, actually."

Agree except that it should be the two fingered salute. Tradition and all that.

it was an sms and if I remember correctly, it said "u slow lol"

Winning over the population is harder than you make it sound. The islanders speak English, are culturally and ethnically British, most will have family in the uk, and there’s a decent population of people who were born on the mainland and later moved to the Falklands. There is really no reason for them to have wanted to be Argentinian, unless there was a bigger population of Argentina’s on the island before the war? Google says only about 10-20 people who live in the Falklands are Argentinian today

At this point, the government has changed over numerous times, and it's just become a core part of the nation's story -- not just owned by one particular political party.

They are incredibly useful to be able to distract the Argentinian electorate.

Iirc, one did it as a joke, one did it to piss off his wife, one did because he didnt want it to seem rigged with 100%

Did any penguins vote? Should probably ask the majority inhabitants.

Its because the Storm Shadows missiles from the UK are f****** up all of their oil refiners and they can't stop them.

Thatcher's government apparently considered giving each islander a million pounds to accept Argentinian sovereignty, calculating to do so would be cheaper than the long term defence of the islands. But then the Argentinians invaded and defence of the islands (which few people in Britain were priorly aware of) became a matter of essential patriotism, which it remains. Argentina royally fucked this one up, and they really need to get over their bogus imperialist claims.

Self determination at its finest.