Dear Keir Starmer, be more like Donald Trump and put our great country first
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THE USA swears in its 47th President tomorrow and whatever turbulence a second helping of Donald Trump brings, it will teach an invaluable lesson to the Prime Minister of the UK. Put your own people first. The one total certainty around Trump’s second term is that he will be unapologetic and unequivocal about acting in his nation’s interests.
![[Donald Trump at a campaign rally.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/republican-presidential-nominee-former-president-946594344.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Why can’t Keir Starmer do the same?. Trump is promising to “drill, baby, drill” — to ramp up oil and gas production in the sole interest of driving economic growth for America. In stark contrast, the UK, a green country that produces just one per cent of global emissions, is fanatically pursuing the national self-harm of Net Zero — no matter what it does to energy bills, or our ability to keep the lights turned on.
![[Keir Starmer, UK Prime Minister, at a press conference in Berlin.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/dpa-alamy-live-news-alamy-928117989.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Trump chants “drill, baby, drill” because he wants to make Americans more prosperous. Labour pursues its Net Zero crusade because they want to heal the world. In the US, Trump will reverse the ban on offshore drilling. In the UK, the Government decimates traditional industries — oil and gas, car manufacturing — so Ed Miliband can personally save the human race.
![[Photo of Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman, and Gabby Logan, new Match of the Day presenters.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/use-21-days-issue-use-963923150_97ae7f.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Net Zero has nothing to do with our national interest. It is the same with the chatter about reparations for slavery. Before he entered Government, David Lammy was vocal about the UK coughing up for slavery. Lammy tweeted in 2018 that slave owners were paid £17billion in compensation after Britain banned slavery, but slaves — “my ancestors,” Lammy said — “received no reparations”.
![[Alan Shearer at a soccer match.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-25-league-phase-md5-961253505.jpg?strip=all&w=789)
