Monday, January 06, 2025

Too late now.

"Under growing pressure from his own party, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he will step down and end his nine-year stretch as a leader." "Trudeau's personal unpopularity with Canadians had become an increasing drag on his party's fortunes in advance of federal elections later this year." BBC. In July, "Rishi Sunak said..he would resign as Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader after losing heavily to Keir Starmer's Labour Party, leaving with an apology, a tribute to Britain, and a call to protect 'kindness, decency and tolerance'." Reuters. In India, no one resigns because politics provides the semi-educated incompetent with luxury and perks (ET) that billionaires would envy and a safe refuge for hundreds accused of serious crimes "including rape, murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping and crimes against women" (BS). Losing an election would result in the loss of undeserved opulence paid for by taxpayers. After resigning as Prime Minister of Britain in 2022, "Boris Johnson has registered an advance payment of nearly 2.5 million pounds (1 pound buys Rs 107.30,xe.com) for speaking events, in his latest declaration of outside earnings. It brings the former prime minister's declared income since leaving office last September to almost 4.8 million pounds." BBC. After paying income tax and national insurance like all citizens, the UK prime minister earns 75,440 pounds (NDTV) so earnings multiply after leaving. India's hatred of Justin Trudeau dates back to his father Pierre who was Prime Minister of Canada from 1968-1979 and again from 1980-1984 (wikipedia). In 1974, Ottawa's experts were outraged when India conducted nuclear tests, suspecting that the Canadian designed and collaboratively constructed CIRUS reactor was used." India was furious after Air India Flight 182 was blown up by a bomb on 23 June 1985 by Khalistanis masterminded by Talwinder Singh Parmar. Pierre Trudeau denied Parmar's extradition request. TOI. However, Indians celebrating Justin Trudeau's departure should remember that there have been two Conservative prime ministers in Canada before him - Brian Mulroney 1984-1993 and Stephen Harper 2006-2015 - but foreign policy did not change. Rishi Sunak's government offered 500 million pounds incentive for India's Tata Motors to set up a 4 billion pound ($5.2) factory to manufacture car batteries. ET. Sunak is a Conservative of Indian origin and a practicing Hindu. wikipedia. Ouch! Et tu, Brute? wikipedia. Trudeau is gone, but Trump is coming. In September, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was on a three-day visit to the United States, returned to India...without meeting former President Donald Trump days after Republican nominee announced a meet at a rally in Michigan. This comes after Republican candidate Trump referred to India as an 'abuser' in terms of import tariffs." TN. Trump is now the President-elect and will remember the snub. And, the US is no Canada. "Nations have no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, only permanent interests, - old British adage." reddit.com. We should have learnt from the Brits. Now it's too late.

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