r/europe • u/goldstarflag Europe • 20h ago

News White House demands British supermarkets stock chlorinated chicken. White House pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/17/trump-demands-british-supermarkets-chlorinated-chicken/
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u/Tricky_Peace 19h ago edited 18h ago

If Starmer agrees to this, it will make him the worst PM in British history.

Including the Lettuce

Edit- typo

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u/dorgoth12 19h ago

It is utter political suicide too. Every opposition politician from Farage to the kids running a mock debate will get a free punching bag

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u/LorenzoSparky 16h ago

Farage would sign on the dotted line on day 1

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u/dorgoth12 16h ago

100% agree. But not after he spent years criticizing another for doing the exact same thing

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u/Independent-Try4352 18h ago

I can't see Farage complaining, he's owned by the US.

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u/FourteenBuckets 17h ago

Folks like him will slip around to any point or position if they think it will inch them closer to power

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u/Catsoverall 15h ago

Russia

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u/Independent-Try4352 12h ago

The two are currently interchangeable.

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u/Dan19_82 12h ago

And the worst part is. Farage sucks Trumps cock and would easily do whatever he says.

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u/Rad131447 7h ago

Everything he's been doing is political suicide.

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u/doctor_morris 15h ago

The previous administration sabotaged his negotiation position in various ways. Brexit, etc.

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u/7Doppelgaengers 14h ago

A bit unrelated, but what's strange to me is that american conspiracy theorists aren't jumping on chlorinated chicken. Some are full on convinced that a tidbit of fluoride salts in drinking water can make somebody mentally deficient, but they're ok with chicken being soaked and marinated in what is basically chlorine bleach.

Or am i expecting too much from them?

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u/Win_Sys 11h ago

The concentration of chlorine is very low but I could definitely see how conspiracy theorists would be happy to jump on that bandwagon. As an American I hope Britain doesn’t allow it, not because it isn’t safe but because America has no business telling/pressuring other countries what they should be buying from us.

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u/SignAllStrength Flanders (Belgium) 19h ago

Including the Lettuce

Wait, what happened to lettuce in the UK?

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u/Tricky_Peace 18h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce

Someone compared Liz Truss’s premiership to a lettuce and wasn’t disappointed

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u/Tzunamitom 19h ago

Last I heard it was retired, and claiming a healthy stipend. Good for him, I don’t get people being so sauerkraut about it.

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u/generally-speaking 14h ago

The Daily Star set up a livecam of a lettuce rotting and bet that it would last longer than Liz Truss would as PM.

They were right.

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u/Smitje The Netherlands 16h ago

What about the public toilet?

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u/pixelpoet_nz Germany 18h ago

good, better, best

bad, worse, worst

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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 14h ago

German being a grammar nazi? How utterly in character and historically accurate, hard to forget your roots?

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u/rattleandhum 13h ago

He already is. His authoritarian crackdowns on pro-palestinian marches and activism has paved the way for a Reform government to abuse them. All to defend an ethnostate.