Trump: Starmer on the Road to Communist China, By Richard Miller (Londonistan)

In a recent podcast, President Donald Trump drew a provocative parallel between Britain under Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Communist China, a comparison reported by the Daily Sceptic:

https://dailysceptic.org/2025/03/05/trump-compares-starmers-britain-to-communist-china-in-podcast/

Trump's remarks centred on the UK government's order to Apple to provide backdoor access to users' encrypted data, a move he deemed authoritarian and reminiscent of China's surveillance state. "We told them, you can't do this," Trump reportedly said, expressing disbelief at the erosion of privacy in a nation he views as a democratic ally. The Daily Sceptic article, penned by Frederick Attenborough, frames this as more than hyperbole, arguing that such policies expose citizens to unchecked state overreach. This comes amid broader criticisms of Starmer's Labour government, elected in July 2024, which has faced scrutiny for its handling of free speech, immigration, and economic policy. Trump's comment, while blunt, taps into a growing narrative—amplified on platforms like X—that Starmer's Britain is sliding toward illiberalism, a charge that echoes concerns about censorship and state control in Communist regimes.

The encrypted data issue stems from Labour's push to strengthen national security, ostensibly to combat crime and terrorism. Apple's refusal to comply, citing privacy violations, mirrors its 2016 standoff with the FBI, but the UK's Investigatory Powers Act—expanded under Starmer—grants authorities sweeping surveillance powers. Attenborough warns this "isn't far-fetched," as it risks turning Britain into a panopticon where dissent is stifled, much like China's use of tech to monitor and suppress its populace. Trump's comparison,highlights a perceived betrayal of Western values—privacy, liberty, and individual rights—that Starmer's government seems willing to sacrifice. Posts on X reflect similar alarm, with users like @DebandezScott asserting, "he's not wrong," signalling a public sentiment that Starmer's policies align uncomfortably with authoritarian playbooks.

Yet, Trump's critique, while biting, understates the depth of Starmer's failures. Starmer is not merely aping Communist China—he's arguably worse, presiding over a chaotic blend of incompetence, hypocrisy, and moral cowardice that outstrips even Beijing's calculated repression. China's system, for all its flaws, is ruthlessly efficient: its surveillance is a cog in a machine designed to maintain one-party rule, executed with cold precision. Starmer's Britain, by contrast, is a mess of half-baked authoritarianism layered atop a crumbling state. Take the data backdoor policy: where China deploys tech like facial recognition to enforce social credit scores, Starmer's government flounders with vague mandates, alienating tech giants like Apple while failing to secure the borders—a task China mastered decades ago. Illegal Channel crossings have surged under Starmer, with the Home Office reporting over 30,000 arrivals in 2024, yet he's relaxed laws on migrant citizenship, per a January 31, 2025, Telegraph report. This isn't control—it's capitulation dressed up as governance.

Worse still is Starmer's assault on free expression, which surpasses China's overt censorship in its insidiousness. China's Great Firewall is a clear enemy—citizens know the rules and either comply or resist. Starmer's Britain, however, cloaks its crackdowns in progressive jargon, making them harder to fight. His government's plans to ban "harmful but legal" social media content, noted in a January 3, 2025, Telegraph piece, threaten to criminalise speech under subjective terms, a move even China's censors might envy for its ambiguity.

The grooming gangs scandal offers a damning contrast: while China suppresses dissent to protect power, Starmer's tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions (2008-2013) saw systemic failures to prosecute abusers, a lapse he's dodged accountability for as PM. Elon Musk's December 2024 accusation of a cover-up, backed by whistleblower Maggie Oliver's January 3, 2025, Telegraph testimony, paints Starmer as complicit in a betrayal of vulnerable girls—a moral rot China's technocrats, focused on order over justice, don't mirror.

Economically, Starmer's Britain is a shambles that makes China's state capitalism look enviable. China builds infrastructure at breakneck speed—think 50,000 miles of high-speed rail—while Starmer's Net Zero obsession, driven by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, has gutted North Sea oil, prompting an exodus of firms like Apache by 2029, per a January 3, 2025, Daily Sceptic report. Trump called this "a very big mistake," and he's right—Britain's energy costs are soaring, with households facing a 10 percent price hike in October 2024, per the BBC, while China powers its industries with pragmatic efficiency. Starmer's £9 billion Chagos Islands "reparations" deal, criticised in a February 26, 2025, Telegraph piece, further bleeds a nation already buckling under a welfare bill that outpaces defense spending—a fiscal irresponsibility China avoids with its laser focus on growth.

Starmer's leadership is worse than Communist China because it lacks the coherence to be merely authoritarian. China's rulers know their game: suppress, control, prosper. Starmer stumbles through a fog of indecision, preaching human rights while trampling them, promising security while fostering chaos, and chasing green dreams while bankrupting the nation. His approval ratings, dipping below 20 percent by February 2025 per YouGov, reflect a public that sees through the facade. Trump's comparison flatters Starmer by suggesting a deliberate tyranny; in truth, he's a hapless architect of decline, more dangerous for his ineptitude than any dictator's design. Britain isn't Communist China—it's a failing state sleepwalking into irrelevance under a man too weak to steer the ship.

This is not to in any way support China, a tyrannical totalitarian state, but to illustrate just how bad the UK has become under globo commo Labour.