There are few certainties about what will happen in 2025. One is that, under Starmer, Reeves and Miliband, the U.K. economy will go into a vicious spiral of recession whereby more taxes lead to a fall in GDP and higher unemployment, which lead to increased Government spending, which leads to further tax rises, and so on. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic in the USA, under Trump there will be massive economic growth as he slashes the cost of energy to make U.S. businesses more competitive by encouraging more oil and gas production.
So, given the clearly diverging paths the U.K. and U.S. economies will take, how will the British media react? I’ll tell you how – by sneering and criticising everything Trump says and does and by hugely exaggerating any problems Trump faces.
I did a quick search on YouTube to find all the torrent of videos released by Times Radio in just the three days leading up to the November 2024 U.S. presidential vote. In spite of the fact that the opinion polls claimed to show a dead heat between Trump and Kamala Harris, here are the titles of the Times Radio‘s three days of videos:
- Trump will lose the election by 5%
- Trump loses voters
- Trump in worst state ever
- How Trump alienated swing voters
- Trump will lose these key states, exclusive poll shows
- Democrats optimistic that polls put them ahead of Trump
- Why Trump will lose
- Trump veers off script with clumsy comments in Pennsylvania
- Trump has alienated swing state voters with Madison Square Garden rally hate speech
- Trump limps to finish line in disastrous final week
- Trump in trouble. Trump loses election momentum
- Millions of “angry and motivated” Americans will be final nail in Trump’s coffin
- Trump’s huge mistake
- Republicans turn on Trump paving way for a crushing defeat
- Trump spiralling: “unprecedented” numbers of Republicans are turning on Trump
- Trump’s overconfidence will cost him the election
- Trump is “a nasty individual” and a threat to the world
- Trump HQ terrified
And every one of these Times Radio videos featured one or more Trump haters being interviewed, venting their bulging-eyed loathing of Trump and anyone ‘stupid enough’ to vote for him. In its main article about the U.S. election on election day, the Times newspaper was still attacking Trump by calling him “a twice impeached convicted felon” while making no mention of the fact that the impeachments were based on total nonsense and the supposed “felonies” were only achieved by Democrat judges stretching their interpretation of U.S. law well past breaking point.
How about Times Radio’s reporting on Trump for the last few days? Well, here are some of the latest Times Radio anti-Trump attacks:
- ‘Trump’s New Problem – Trump dealt stark reminder that Isis can “hit America on American soil“‘ – perhaps Times Radio has forgotten that the current U.S. President is supposedly Joe Biden, not Donald Trump?
- ‘Tension brews between Putin and Trump over Ukraine war deal’ – if the U.S. wants to end the Ukraine war, of course there will be friction between the U.S. and the warring parties
- ‘Trump’s tariffs are “recipe for economic decline”‘ – actually, Times Radio, I hate to disagree with you and inform you that the U.S. economy is about to flourish under Trump while the U.K. economy falls into an ever deepening recession
- ‘”Let Trump destroy himself”: Democrats handle defeat after Biden sabotaged Harris‘ – here Times Radio is already attacking Trump and predicting he will be a failure while making excuses for the Democrats’ defeat
- ‘Trump “chaos” will be a repeat of his 2020 downfall’ – and here’s another sneering prediction of Trump failing while no mention is made of the constant attempts by the lying Democrats to impeach and destroy Trump’s first term as President with the Russia collusion hoax
Trump supporter, Elon Musk, also figures in Times Radio‘s increasingly unhinged anti-Trump attacks:
- ‘Musk and Trump: “Malignant narcissists” after mutual gain’
- ‘Elon Musk drives Trump towards “war” with Europe‘
- ‘Elon Musk is an “embarrassment” to Trump‘
- Though perhaps one of the most ludicrous put-downs launched at Trump is when Times Radio somehow manages to bring in Meghan Markle with a video titled ‘Meghan enters her “Trump era” with new trad wife Netflix show’
Hopefully you get the picture by now. The Times is (was) supposed to be a reliable news organisation. But the supposed ‘journalists’ at the Times and Times Radio seem to have become mouth-frothing Trump- and Musk-haters and enthusiastic propagandists for the failed Democrats.
So, get ready for four years of foam-flecked, anti-Trump sneering and fury from most of the British media. And the more successful Trump is at growing the U.S. economy, while the U.K. economy goes from bad to worse to utter disaster, the more unhinged and deranged the sneering and fury towards Trump will be.
That’s my first prediction for 2025.
David Craig is the author of There is No Climate Crisis, available as an e-book or paperback from Amazon.
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As per The Lady of long ago… You sneer all you like, The Gentleman’s not for querying.
Rest in Peace, Maggie.
PS Are you aware of your spirit being alive with us down here somewhere? We need some of it.
If you subscribe to the view that history goes round in cycles, and if you think our present government is going to put us back where we were economically in the 1970s, then perhaps there’s some hope we may see a turnaround akin to the one Margaret oversaw…
I don’t see patterns like that but I fear the date you should have mentioned was 1945-51. Rationing continues and licenses were needed to buy building materials, for example.
And what of your fellow male posters who think women shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near politics, even to vote?
Don’t worry, I’m not expecting a response. After 3.5+ years on here, I know how this goes by now…
I be judgin’ the man by the man’s ideas and actions, Mogwai mi hearty
In other news, I see Trudeau has exited stage left… about time
REJOICE!
Wolves do not concern themselves with the opinions of sheep.
The Brits are in no position to sneer at anyone on any level. Genuinely an object of laughter and pity throughout the world now, including in the United States. SIxty years ago perhaps you could’ve talked about the crassness and coarseness of the Yanks. Today people like Trump look visionary in comparison to what our political class has to offer. He and the idiot kings that surround him are obviously woefully deficient when it comes to any true leadership but the Brits have sunk so low that they just simmer and boil and rot and sneer inside a goldfish bowl toilet, rolling in the muck of the greatness of their conceit.
Excellent last sentence. Almost poetic
Trump Derangement Syndrome is not just a disease of the Left. Those who you might think should be supporters and labelled far right by the BBC-Guardianistas also show TDS.
Honestly, I just want to see if he actually has any success in shrinking the state.
I’ve always assumed it was a lost cause and only inevitable collapse could bring about a reset.
I’m really curious to see whether this insane central planning system we have can be taken down by design. I remain skeptical, but also open minded.
If Trump has opportunities to sneer I hope he uses them to the max.
I love all the sneering, it just shows what bad loosers they all are. Each twisted little comment is as pointless as all the other twisted comments. They lost, end of.
I am waiting for someone to write a book about the irrational Trump Derangement Syndrome. The propaganda has gone deep.
Only 17 comments. I think I’m wasting my time writing this stuff. Time to take a long holiday.