Get ready for 4 years of sneering

Friday – weekend blog

There are few certainties about what will happen in 2025. But one certainty is that under Starmer and Reeves the UK 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 more tax rises which lead to a further fall in GDP and higher unemployment which lead to increased government spending and leads to less tax being collected which lead to more tax rises which lead to a further fall in GDP leading to less tax being collected leading to more tax increases and so on …….. Meanwhile, aross the Atlantic in the USA, under Trump there will be massive economic growth as he slashes the cost of energy to make US businesses more competitive by encouraging more oil and gas production.

So, given the clearly diverging paths the UK and US economy will take, how will the British media react? I’ll tell you how – by sneering and criticising everything Trump does and says 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 the 3 days leading up to the November 2024 US presidential vote. In spite of the fact that the opinion polls showed a dead heat between Trump and the vacuous Kackling Kamala creature, here are the titles of the Times Radio’s 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 fury at Trump and anyone ‘stupid enough’ to vote for him. In its main article about the US 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 supposed ‘felonies’ were only achieved by Democrat judges stretching their interpreyation of US law well past breaking point.

How about Times Radio’s reporting on Trump for the last couple of days? Well, here are some of the latest Times Radio’s 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 US president is Mr Biden, not Donald Trump?
• ‘Tension brews between Putin and Trump over Ukraine war deal’ – if the US wants to end the Ukraine war, of course there will be friction between the US and the warring parties
• ‘Trump’s tariffs are ‘recipe for economic decline’ – actually, Times Radio, the US economy is about to flourish under Trump while the UK 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 nonsense

Hopefully you get the picture by now. The Times is supposed to be a reliable news organisation. But the Times and Times Radio seem to have become enthusiastic propagandists for the Democrats and mouth-frothing Trump haters.

So, get ready for 4 years of foam-flecked, anti-Trump fury from most of the British media. And the more successful Trump is at growing the US economy while the UK economy goes from bad to worse, the more unhinged and deranged the criticism of and anger at Trump will be.

That’s my first prediction for 2025