Starmer must get a new EU-light deal ‘to win back international investment in UK after Brexit’ – London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

US financier Anthony Scaramucci says international investors need Sir Keir Starmer to secure a new trading agreement with Europe before they plough money into the UK.

Donald Trump’s former communications director, founder of global investment company Skybridge capital, said, I will just give you my observation as an economist. The UK made the decision to leave the EU in Brexit. If you look at the data, it didn’t help the country – I don’t see any data which suggests it has helped the country.

It certainly didn’t help London in terms of being the financial services capital of the world. Financial services companies have been moving to the continent as a result and it’s an issue which needs to be redressed.

I’m not saying that they should look to re-enter the EU, that ship has maybe sailed. But you need to come up with a trade deal that is EU-lite in terms of its favorability, the Tories weren’t going to bring you that.

I think Sir Keir Starmer has a better chance of bringing around that kind of deal, which would improve the economic outlook for the United Kingdom.

Does he have the goods to bring in investors? I would say that the jury is probably out on that and people should wait for the next 6-12 months before they make a decision on that.

If he cut a deal with the EU, one which was EU-light, without being actually in the EU, I think it would actually help the country and create a lot more international capital formation inside the country.

What I got wrong, is that I bought into the narrative that Joe Biden was okay. I had people sitting in my office with me, who were part of his fundraising team, part of the administration, assuring me he was on the peloton bike in great shape and in good spirits.

Yes, he was malaproping here and there, he’s an 81-year-old who is malaproping once in a while, but not in full-on neuro-degenerative illness. Now, we have to accept that he is.

He does have a problem connecting sentences now and he does have a problem coming up with coherent thoughts.

We know from Carl Bernstein now that there’s been 18 episodes in the past year where staffers feel that he’s not together, not formulating thoughts or making decisions with a level of coherence.

What I, and the donor community, is upset about, is the fact that they were misled. The cover-up  is always worse than the crime. If you commit the crime, that’s fine, but you’re now covering up and lying to people.

I think this has really rubbed people the wrong way, because you’re accusing Donald Trump of congenital lying, but you yourself are creating symmetry by also lying.

You’re suggesting to people that there aren’t health and wellness related issues related to President Biden, but there are.

You’ll see me in the files. I personally gave $30,000 to Joe Biden’s re-election campaign and I went to the fundraiser in the Hamptons, which was the Saturday after the Thursday debate debacle. He spoke from the teleprompter at that event, which I think was a very curious thing to do.

In America, when a politician is doing a fundraiser, and he’s with his big ticket donors, who are writing $30k + checks, you would expect a far more casual interaction, where he speaks off the cuff, he’s extemporaneous.

He was behind the velvet rope, with the Presidential seal, and he was reading from the prompters. That is not a good sign and it has a lot of donors upset, because it’s about suitability and eligibility, can he actually still do the job?

Joe Biden should quit the race – if he is this bad now, what is he going to be like in the coming years?

Should he stay in the race? The answer to that objectively is ‘no, he should not stay in’. He doesn’t have the coherence any more. The Joe Biden of 2024, could he make it? Perhaps, but what’s he going to be like in 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028?

Objectively, he should not stay in the race, but we’re now through the looking glass in America and down a very deep rabbit hole, where every absurd thing you think cannot happen, actually happens.

You could be running somebody on the ballot, who is well known to have neurodegenerative issues, and it’s well known to people. Maybe 85% of people will say that he’s too old to run for President.

America is too racist for Kamala Harris to win – the Democrats have to go bold and young

I know there’s pressure on them to pick Kamala Harris, but I don’t believe that if they are going off grid, taking Biden off the ballot, that they end up going with Kamala Harris – I do not believe that.

People hate me for saying this, but I’m going to say it: I live in a racist, sexist country and I can prove it to you every which way to Sunday. Donald Trump, the white supremacist, has 30-35% of the American people with him, for instance.

I live in a racist, sexist country, which is improving, it’s not 1860 before the civil war, but it is what it is. People say ‘ we elected Barack Obama’, we did, but now we have this ‘whitelash’ as a result of that election in the manifestation of Donald Trump.

I don’t believe that Kamala Harris can beat Donald Trump in a general election. People say polling is close, but there’s something in the United States called the ‘Bradley Effect’.

If a pollster calls asking if you are going to vote for Kamala Harris, you may say ‘yes’, but you’re not actually going to do it.  So, if the Democrats are making that bold a move, they are not going to go with Kamala Harris, that’s my prediction.

The Democrats do way better with boldness. JFK, Obama and Clinton were all in their forties, the Democrats do better when they post younger, aspirational candidates and Republicans are the opposite with older candidates, like Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan.

If the Democrats want to shake things up, they should go with a younger candidate, and in that case I think they would carve up Trump.

This is the reason why Trump has been silent, he’s not been saying anything because he’s desperate to have Joe Biden stay in the race.

He knows he can probably beat him and then that resolves all of his legal issues, his criminality, then he can really put the hurt onto Americans with this fascist agenda he’s planning.

Maybe the Democrats  could look at a Joe Manchin, or even a Gretchen Whitmer, even though she says she’s out of the race. She’s an interesting one as a centrist in a swing state where she is very popular.

Gavin Newsom, who is a little bit more controversial, we watched him four months ago carving up Ron De Sanctis. He carved him up in a debate and he would destroy Trump in similar fashion.

So, if we’re picking one of those people, I think we (the Democrats) have a really good chance.

In the UK, they managed to call and hold an election in the space of just six weeks, so I don’t buy into the narrative that it’s too late to change the Democrat candidate.

We live in a social media age, with mass information dissemination, so whoever they pick has the chance to get a really fast uptick in polling.

There is no chance Michelle Obama will stand

I’m very close to one of the board members of the Barack Obama Foundation, which is building the library for him, and helping his charitable endeavors.

There is a 0.0% chance that she is running for President, she has no interest and I also believe that it would be the wrong strategy. You can’t go from a standing start, you have to have a running start as a sitting governor or senator.

Michelle Obama has been out of the political stream for eight years, so she’s not debate prepped and she hasn’t handled the rigors of a campaign in a while, so she’s not fluid with the nuances of all the issues.

The demography of the country has changed, she’s a popular figure, but could she beat Donald Trump? Certainly she could beat him, but there’s a lot of wild cards in there as a result of the fact she’s not been on the ground, untested for the past eight years.

You’d be better served with a mainstream, swing-state governor who is popular. Again, obviously somebody who is below the age of 70 would be a nice juxtaposition against Donald Trump.

Let’s say they switch out candidates, the Republicans will challenge that – they’ll go to the courts saying ‘hey, Gretchen Whitmer wasn’t in the primaries’ from a procedural view they will look to ensure she stays off the ballot.

I’m not saying they would win such cases, but they could win a few and that could hurt the electoral college sweepstakes which are crucial to the election of an American President.