“Joe Biden’s the worst president America’s ever had—a stumbling ruin who’s wrecked our credibility,” Donald Trump proclaimed in 2023, a claim that’s hardened over time. Across the Atlantic, Nigel Farage barked in 2025: “Keir Starmer’s the feeblest PM Britain’s ever known—directionless and frail.” Exaggeration? Not really.
Yet Biden’s presidency unraveled into chaos, and Starmer’s Labour stint—nine months old on April 5, 2025—teeters on a similar brink. Both leaders swept in with promises of steadiness and warmth, only to sink in progressive mire. Britain stands warned: Biden’s collapse signals danger ahead-but perhaps also opportunity.
The globalist system Starmer defends is a failing hollow shell. For years, Western leaders, including Donald Trump’s catastrophic predecessor pushed open borders and offshore manufacturing as the future, eroding local industries while wealth flowed to distant corporations. Biden’s tenure magnified this unraveling: his messy exit from Afghanistan left allies stranded and enemies emboldened, projecting vulnerability worldwide. Starmer hasn’t hit those depths, but his decision to cede a militarily strategic Indian Ocean outpost to a nation cozying up to China carries the same whiff of retreat.
Keir Starmer is Britain's Joe Biden - destroying credibility and unraveling into chaos - Lee Cohen
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His response to curb illegal Channel crossings—launched with a high-profile summit in early 2025—aim to disrupt smuggling networks, yet arrivals persist at a troubling clip. Justice under his watch is alarmingly lopsided, penalising patriotic English voices while protecting favoured minorities. Like in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ America before voters decisively rejected their two-tiered, weaponised policy ideas, Britain under Starmer risks entrenching a similar disparity—only here, the woke left control every institution. For the foreseeable future, at least, there’s no chance of the right—of any kind—getting near the actual positions of power. Thank Heaven, America turfed out the dangerous lunatic Left in exchange for common sense: fortified borders, swift removals, and a focus on national strength.
The economic picture is equally murky. Energy costs in Britain are skyrocketing, with household bills, squeezing families already worn dangerously thin. Starmer’s vision leans on vague “green growth” pledges while ignoring domestic gas reserves—a shocking replay of Biden’s playbook, where scrapping pipelines and chasing renewables drove fuel prices skyward. Both leaders prioritised climate goals over shivering citizens, shielding eco-agendas while taxing the rest. Trump’s approach stands apart: energy self-reliance and worker-focused policies that lifted incomes. He’s hinted at trade perks for a post-Brexit Britain, a chance to outmanoeuvre rival markets. Starmer could seize this—boost exports, tap local resources, cut costs—but he’s mired in a haze of eco-justice and globalist nostalgia.
Additionally, crime ties their struggles together. Biden’s foreign policy fumble fuelled lawlessness at home, with drug deaths soaring as borders weakened. Starmer, touts plans to tackle trafficking, but his summit leaned on talk over action, and ceding Chagos risks inviting rival influence near vital trade lanes—a misstep akin to Biden’s hesitancy. His justice system spares the architects of crime while cracking down on public dissent, a pattern Trump has loudly criticised. Meanwhile, like MAGA in the USA, a resurgent political resistance in Britain is gaining traction, vowing to slash wasteful spending on migrant housing and scoring upset wins in local races. Trump’s method was unyielding: dismantle immigrant gang networks, enforce fairness, protect free expression. Starmer should see the writing on the wall and avoid Biden’s plunge.
Keir Starmer is beginning to mirror Biden's plummet.
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Both leaders grossly misjudged their nation’s citizens. Biden’s victory was a call for healing divisions, not radical shifts; his miscalculations—foreign retreats, border failures, price spikes—paved the way for Trump’s comeback. Starmer’s mandate was to mend a nation disgusted by years of ineffective Tory leadership, not to hand over territory or stifle speech. Yet he’s losing ground as a populist wave builds, demanding security and prosperity over elite ideals. Biden ignored this hunger; Starmer’s on the same track. Trump’s ascent is dismantling the globalist order, shifting power back to nations over unelected councils—a shift that unnerves Starmer’s polished circle.
Biden’s three-year plummet—marked by foreign humiliation, domestic disarray, and economic strain—set the stage for Trump’s revival. Starmer’s early failures—territorial concessions, speech controls, energy woes—are widening fast. Crime festers as he wavers. Trump’s bold blueprint is hard to ignore: strong borders, elimination of waste, and trade that lifts the working class. He offers Britain a chance to sharpen its post-Brexit edge—lower tariffs, harnessed resources, unshackled voices. Biden’s drift bred disorder; Starmer’s ineptitude feeds a growing opposition. The globalist era—Starmer’s anchor, Biden’s tomb—is fading. Trump’s clarity could inspire Britain’s reset. Provided four more years of Starmer don't sink it with the old order’s wreckage?
