‘Get on that bandwagon!’ Ben Habib warns Britain risks ‘wipeout’ if it doesn’t follow Donald Trump fundamentals
Political commentator Ben Habib has warned that Britain risks being “wiped out” if it fails to follow America’s conservative reform agenda, as demonstrated by Donald Trump’s sweeping executive actions in his first days back in office.
Speaking on GBN America, Habib endorsed Trump’s extensive Day one policy changes, which included over 100 executive measures targeting immigration, climate policy and diversity programmes.
The former Brexit Party MEP cautioned that the UK faces an exodus of millionaires and expertise to America unless it adopts similar reforms.
“The world is a very fluid place for expertise and capital and it will go to where it finds its best home,” Habib said.
Trump’s first day back in office saw him sign 45 executive orders, 11 memoranda, five proclamations and four sub-cabinet appointments, whilst revoking 78 Biden-era orders.
The flurry of activity began moments after his swearing-in at the US Capitol, before moving to a packed Capital One Arena where he signed orders dismantling key Biden policies.
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Major changes included declaring a national emergency at the southern border, ending federal diversity programmes, and withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Trump also ordered the termination of electric vehicle mandates and established a new Department of Government Efficiency.
“With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense,” Trump declared in his inaugural address.
The new president’s border initiatives included reinstating the “Remain in Mexico” policy and designating cartels as foreign terrorist organisations.
His order on federal workers stripped job protections from career officials in policy roles, making it easier to dismiss them.
Trump also signed measures requiring government employees to return to in-person work and establishing new rules for security clearances.
In a symbolic move, he ordered the renaming of Alaska’s Denali back to Mount McKinley and proposed changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
The president celebrated his actions by tossing signing pens to supporters at the Capital One Arena.
Habib urged Labour leader Keir Starmer to look across the Atlantic, warning that without similar reforms, Britain would see “an even faster growing US, an even more attractive US with a further exodus of millionaires from the UK”.
“We have driven it out of the UK already through a really bad set of policies, even before Labour won the election,” he told GBN America.
He argued that Trump “is showing that what we have been doing for the last 27 years, the liberal, global approach to governance is not the way to run a country”.
“He is showing us the way to do it and we better get on that bandwagon or we will be wiped out,” Habib concluded.