Jesus springs to mind. Or the Apostle Paul.

This is pretty damning.

Delaying is not neutral. The world moves on. The risk is that the economic harm, when the die is eventually cast, is even worse. And in political terms, there is the risk that Starmer winds up looking like he's been forced into a decision rather than chosen it.

Imo Starmer is simply trying to hold the line, to avoid committing too closely to either the EU or the US, because pivoting in either direction will cause economic harm.

But it cannot last, and it cannot hold. Eventually, he must choose. And there's a risk to delaying:

I sort of understand why Starmer is waiting. We've already seriously damaged our economy with Brexit, and opposing Trump would incur further economic damage - which we can't afford. We placed ourselves in the weakest possible position through Brexit.

(I think I'd seen that bio back in the day, and not realized it'd been corrected!)

Thanks so much for the correction, I will adjust :) I absolutely LOVE Aphra!

Wait, what? I missed this hahahah

Worth noting the studio isn't releasing these numbers; we know them because the show was filmed in the U.K. to get tax breaks. Under our tax rules, more information must be public domain in order to get those tax breaks.

Let's face it, they know they've been sent there purely for the cameras. They're not expecting to find anything more.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Let's see how this plays out. /end

In truth, I don't think there's any way any government could be popular right now. We're in too much of a mess, and fixing it is going to take time. So I agree with that general assessment. /30

Starmer expects this to be a government of two halves: first half unpopular due to trying to rebuild things, a costly and time-consuming project... followed by a second half that's more about - well, forgive the jargon - "delivery." His hope is that the latter period will win people over. /29