To think it would be nice if the media blowhards said that Starmer spending months/years focusing on improving UK international relations was a good idea well executed?

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Months of grinding through it, the preparation, the travel, the meetings, the debriefs. I know it’s the PM’s job, but he does it. Now people know who the PM is, what GB priorities are, that he can be trusted not to shout nonsense for his base trashing them when they just agreed something, that they can talk to him. And it’s paying off; the world has got significantly more dangerous but less so for us. Isn’t that right? And does anyone honestly think that other current party leaders would be better at it?

Is that you Keir?

I've found this Labour government frustrating at times. But I can also see that for large sections of the media they can never do anything right and will never be given credit for anything.

They are appalling. The epitome of the Peter principle. We deserve so much better.

I'm sorry but what are you on so early in the morning, this cannot be healthy?

No, @PersephoneParlormaid, it’s not.

Prime Ministers (and governments) generally start bragging about foreign policy and diplomatic victories when their domestic policy is in the shit, IME.

No, I am not impressed. What do we employ a Foreign Secretary for?

They would say it, if it was true. But Starmer is inept. And not only inept, he has no values. You can tell by the way he back tracks. If he had policies I disagreed with but at least stuck by them I could at least respect that. But he’s utterly spineless. He’s so afraid of Reform, and now the Greens, that he tries to create watered down versions of their policies instead of leading the country.

You think things are going well?
Oh wow. Your bar is set way too low.

A lot of my British friends think that he prioritises all other nations over his own. If his popularity in other countries is more important than in his own country, then yes, he's probably achieving that.

They are destroying the country on purpose on multiple fronts, complete traitor.

I wish we had someone like Mark Carney as PM. He's a calm, considered leader on the world stage. I always listen to his interviews but I switch off when Starmer starts waffling.

@SidekickSylvia

If his popularity in other countries is more important than in his own country, then yes, he's probably achieving that

I'm honestly not sure he is...there's a strange view doing the rounds, I think fuelled by some of the UK MSM, that outside of the UK Starmer is striding the world stage as some sort of high profile statesman.

Seen through the eyes of a lot of foreign MSM that's not the case, Starmer is often pretty much invisible, they're much more interested in what Macron, Merz and Meloni have to say.