{"id":28944,"date":"2024-12-22T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T09:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/faced-with-trump-and-farage-britains-natural-ally-is-europe-william-keegan\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T09:03:56","slug":"faced-with-trump-and-farage-britains-natural-ally-is-europe-william-keegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/faced-with-trump-and-farage-britains-natural-ally-is-europe-william-keegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Faced with Trump and Farage, Britain\u2019s natural ally is Europe | William Keegan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour party\u2019s determination to stick to Brexit simply condemns the UK to fight a lone hand against the far-right forces ranged against it<\/p>\n<p>The sight of other world leaders toadying up to the US president-elect \u2013 the criminal Donald Trump \u2013 and his henchman Elon Musk is distasteful enough, but in the world of realpolitik they probably feel they have no option.<\/p>\n<p>The great American journalist HL Mencken did not live to see the fulfilment of his 1920 prophecy that \u201cone day the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron\u201d but he is no doubt turning in his grave.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/dec\/22\/faced-with-trump-and-farage-britains-natural-ally-is-europe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour party\u2019s determination to stick to Brexit simply condemns the UK to fight a lone hand against the far-right forces ranged against it The sight of other world leaders toadying up to the US president-elect \u2013 the criminal Donald Trump \u2013 and his henchman Elon Musk is distasteful enough, but in the world of &#8230; <a title=\"Faced with Trump and Farage, Britain\u2019s natural ally is Europe | William Keegan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/faced-with-trump-and-farage-britains-natural-ally-is-europe-william-keegan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Faced with Trump and Farage, Britain\u2019s natural ally is Europe | William Keegan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}