Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff relief

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1. Another step away from the EU single market, another step towards the US. Makes sense if the US sees the EU as the enemy and the UK as a potential vassal.

2. How comes they got loads of spare chickens but no eggs?

3. No, and I hope that anyone in a company that starts doing this whistleblows so we can then boycott that company.

4. > Britain must allow US chlorine-washed chicken into UK markets if it wants relief from sweeping tariffs, Donald Trump has indicated.

   Relax our rules today, we’ll be licking his balls tomorrow.

5. Trumps protection of domestic market  attacks ours

6. Let’s hope Starmer doesn’t bend over for heir trump, but remember hope is what you have when there is nothing else

7. Translated for Brexiteers.

   Trump tells you gay to give up parliamentary sovereignty.

8. ewww no thanks, enjoy paying 35% more for your decent cars yanks im good with my chicken not having pool chemicals in it

9. I have never seen US chicken in a UK supermarket in the fives years I have been here. Is that a thing?

10. Just needs his visit full on revoking. Our government needs to start listening to its people on issues like this, its clear that playing the nice guy has worked, now its time to get serious. You’ve bought us time, that time should be used to tell them to fuck off with things like this and to move towards an EU co-operation.

    I’d rather die in the trenches surrounded by French, German, Italian, Spanish, Norweigians, Lithuanians, all of our European allies, fighting against America.

    I’d just fucking stop eating chicken. Whatever it takes to get rid of the American poison that’s infesting us.

    Boycott the US.

11. I am so sick of America trying to ruin every other country too.

12. How much do we need to buy? Can we buy one and throw it away just to get the discount?

13. The biggest thing is we need to wean ourselves off of US technology. We need serious investment into software they can’t control. This is the big stranglehold they have on us. 

    Once we’ve done that, we can tell them to go away or pay their corporation tax fairly. The US whining they get a raw deal when their businesses pay fuck all is farcical. If this is what a ‘roughly even trade’ looks like, and even then they try to force their nasty shitty chlorine chicken on us, then we need to move away from the US and not look back.

14. This is always the sticking point with US trade deals and we’ve held firm before so hopeful we’ll do so again.

    This would be billed as protecting British farmers from cheaper lower quality imports and the govt desperately need to start repairing their relationship with farmers.

    It’s not like there’s a public demand for US bleached chicken and their ‘roided beef. The govt could sell whatever damage the US try to inflict on us as lesser than what we would suffer of we accepted their rock bottom food standards.

15. Why are they so obsessed with the chicken? Like why is it only THAT

16. No thanks, all your food is basically unfit for human consumption

17. In the UK about 3-4% of people get food poisoning each year. In the US it is 16-17%!

    We aren’t being picky, the US has terrible food standards.

18. I seriously hope that the UK gov tell him where to go. We want to keep our food standards. Everything else is going to the dogs, at least give us the reassurance that we are not further disadvantaging our farmers, weakening our animal welfare standards, poisoning our children and crapping up the planet by importing muck from the US.

19. First it’ll be the bleached chickens. Then it’ll be the hormone and antibiotic beef. Then the gm wheat. The list won’t end.

20. I think us meat products should be allowed ( as they probably are already) to be imported to the UK, subject to our food standards ( no chlorinated chicken it seems).
    On a completely different subject, when are we setting the correct rate for digital services tax? Currently it stands on 2% on profits that are larger than £25m. How about 25% from start? ( Or at least a friendly reciprocal 10% on all profits?)

21. How about America starts having food standards instead of dumping chemicals on everything.

22. What, like 1 bleach chicken? I guess we can do that. How would he like it cooked? Also in bleach?

    Are we struggling for chickens here or something? Or is bleach chicken a delicacy there?

23. So it begins… “Oh we avoided the worst of the tariffs, the UK is in the best position of everyone, the future is bright for us” Open wide while the Americans force chlorinated chicken down your throats.

24. It’s bad enough that free market capitalism wants us to be happy that literal shit is being dumped into our waterways by water companies – now they want us to import chemical pumped chicken.

25. Buy chicken from a country currently undergoing a birdflu outbreak, that’s appointed people to positions in government overseeing this who don’t believe in vaccines or basic facts of health and science?

    Seems like a great idea.

26. I don’t understand this chicken obsession. Whenever I’m in the US, it’s way more expensive to buy chicken than here. I can’t imagine that shipping it across the Atlantic would make it any cheaper – it’s just not competitive.

27. Two words and the second one is ‘off’.

    Horrible treatment of the poor birds before they’re killed and then bleached. You are effectively eating bleach.

28. Don’t want their manky fucking food.
    Especially not chlorinated chicken.

29. “Eat our parasite filled bleached chicken or we’ll slap you with a tariff” – isn’t this just blackmail?
    “Do this or else…”

    Get fucked Orange Man.

30. Oh my god, how many times. We don’t fucking want your shitty chicken.

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