UK MPs condemn ‘deeply disrespectful’ JD Vance comments

>Asked about Vance’s initial comments, Starmer’s official spokesperson did not directly address them but reiterated the fact that UK forces had fought recently alongside their American counterparts.

Starmer should learn a little from Trudeau’s playbook. His party’s poll number has shot up after he stood firm for Canadian interest in the face of disrespect from America. It’d be wise for Starmer to say something meaningful about what Vance just said, or he’d be seen as a pushover in the public’s eye.

> A proposed minerals agreement would give the US more economic interests in Ukraine and thus provide “a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 30 or 40 years”, Vance said.

Misuse of the word random correlates positively with being an idiot.

Can we as a country realize the active contempt Americans have for us, please.

I for one will now be buying all my new trainers from sports direct instead.

It’s a rare and unusual day when I find myself agreeing with a Tory, much less a former minister, on anything, but hats off to Johnny Mercer the former Veterans Minister for this beauty:

“This clown needs to check his privilege. I read @JDVance book making the mistake of finding him quite interesting. By his own admission he spent his time in the Marines “writing articles and taking pictures”.

Perhaps if he had got his hands dirty serving his country like so many of his fellow American and British veterans, chasing his own country’s crazy foreign policy ideas, he might not be so quick to dismiss their sacrifice.”

Bravo sir 👍

Starmer keeps saying the US and the UK are “on the same page”, well that page is looking crazier by the day.

I think we should put our best suit on and thank Vance – thanks to him, Farage has to either (reluctantly) side with the pro-Ukraine camp or slide into complete political irrelevance.

Trump has a logic of his own but Vance is a random donkey

> On Tuesday, Vance said it was “absurdly dishonest” to argue that he had been referring to the UK or France, despite the countries being at the forefront of efforts to provide a non-US peacekeeping force.

> “I don’t even mention the UK or France in the clip, both of whom have fought bravely alongside the US over the last 20 years, and beyond,” he tweeted. “But let’s be direct: there are many countries who are volunteering (privately or publicly) support who have neither the battlefield experience nor the military equipment to do anything meaningful.”

America doesn’t have the battlefield experience for this new type of neo-WW1 drone and trench warfare. Almost no country has. Except maybe two. And one of which was an American ally and just had its support removed.

Out of everything he could have done to piss the British off this is probably the worst. This makes it effectively impossible for ANYONE to stand with America

I highly doubt that state visit is going to Happen now there is no way its political feasible ESPECIALLY because the kings own son was fighting in that war (his present popularity none withstanding)

We all know he is a muppet. Honestly who cares what he has to say, his job is literally just cup Trump’s bollocks

The man’s a prick just slap him on the back of the head for good luck if he passes you.

Vietnam, Korean War, Gulf War part 1, Gulf War part 2, the Syria fuckup, the Libya debacle gave them Diageo Garcia for a staging post with Afghanistan, part of five eyes that allowed them to spy on the EU and the EU let us just so we stayed in the EU, buying their shit military equipment when we should have bought European/UK. Fuck em. Seriously, fuck em. How many British and allied soldiers died for Vance’s fucking comments. And not one word from any senate or house Republican. Forever fuck em.

We had to beg Reagan for rockets during the Falklands war. What was the price we had to give them? Still a secret.

Shameless Nige now coming out against the comments. He’s been 4 foot up the Trump governments backside up until 5 minutes ago.

He loves everything they are and stand for and is surprised these back stabbers have insulted us now

JD vance is so insufferable I can barely put it into words. I’m just sick of this tedious game where:

• Vance says something incorrect/insulting
• People respond, pointing out why he’s wrong or out of order
• Vance treats us like idiots and either moves the goalposts, denies what we all heard, or claims *we’re* in the wrong for pointing out his lies.

He did it in the Vice Presidential debate (“You guys said you wouldn’t do fact-checking), in the aftermath of his comments about Haitians eating cats and dogs (“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,”) and with Zelensky on Friday (critising Zelensky for being disrespectful when Zelensky pointed out why his comments on diplomacy were short-sighted).

He can fuck **right** off.

He’s such a snide, self-serving, abhorrent person. I really worry for the world when he eventually takes over from Trump.

Edit: Typos

Don’t fall into his trap, he’s the personification of bait. He wants to cause a global conflict and all of this is his best attempt to do it, the sabotage of the Zelensky meeting was his first move.

The ‘gaslighting’ is ridiculous. Russia has invaded a Sovereign country against any reasonable International law or moral values. This criminal behaviour is now being supported by the US or at least capitulated. US cannot dictate outcomes in Europe. Either Trump is actively acting on Russias behalf or is purely focused on his own deranged power grab. He’s already broke promises made on Ukrains defended state when they agree to give up Nuclear weapons. He is a convicted criminal with no moral compass unfit to be in business let alone POTUS. Rest of the world needs to act independently and isolate the US at this point. Only consolidated action by Europe and NATO without US can and must stop this now.

Where’s the big brained centrists who keep sneering at everyone saying we should stand up to this kind of shit?

Sick of being told that taking endless abuse from deranged fascists is “a thing called diplomacy, actually?”

They need to be told to get fucked.

Yet his commander in chief hid and was too scared to fight for his country

I was 18 when 9/11 happened. I was in the army cadets of some years and a lance corporal. I was close to joining the army but chose not to. I would have understood using intelligence services to find and eliminate Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussain. It needn’t have been open warfare. Countless soldiers died. Countless civilians died. Seeing America today I’m glad I didn’t join the army if this is the thanks we get

The UK sacrificed lives for that piece of shit country after 9/11. I guess that counts for nothing.
What does this cocksuck want in the end? Didn’t he want Europe to defend itself?

“In contrast to Cartlidge [Conservative shadow defence secretary who condemned JDV’s comments], Kemi Badenoch declined to condemn Vance’s remarks. “I know JD Vance quite well,” the Conservative leader told GB News. “I’ve looked at the comments; I don’t think he actually said that. A lot of people are getting carried away.”

She doesn’t think JDV slagged off the UK and France? Wow, we can see where here loyalties lie – hint, it’s not with the UK.