> Conspicuous by its absence was a deal or offer of such to the United Kingdom.
Cringe misunderstanding of the situation
Can’t help but feel that the idea that this is a vindictive snub is the only way that some people can pretend to themselves that we actually matter.
Thank god for that.
The last thing the UK needs right now is to become a US consumer.
Free trade is exactly what Brexit was about stopping. So not supporting us in Brexit is supporting free trade.
>Put simply, if Biden won’t cut a deal for the UK’s minuscule aluminum and steel industries, it’s likely his administration won’t do anything beneficial for the country’s world class defense, pharmaceutical, and banking sectors.
Yeah. I suspect the UK’s “national security” laws to prevent British businesses from being taken-over might not have gone down too well either. The fact that the UK government is probing the takeover of ARM by NVidia on national security grounds (rather than competition which where the concern should be) probably hasn’t gone down well in Washington.
This Tory government has been threatening to derail the Northern Ireland Protocol leading to the reintroduction of a border in Ireland. That’s a red line for President Biden.
The rest of this position is down to Brexit. Brexit isn’t anything to do with the US and steel and aluminum trade deals are as relevant to Britain/USA as they are to Madagascar/USA.
Well done Joe! Defend the irish protocol. Another brexit dividend. Lol
It’s no secret he’s racist. We’re better off without him.
Where am I going to get lucky charms, pop tarts and corn syrup fed beef.
Don’t we have that special relationship with the UK?
Joe Biden trying to make himself look better when his own administration is a complete joke lol.
It’s a poorly written and researched article full of bias.
Obama never threatened that the UK would be at the back of the queue, he just stated the clear fact that if we applied, we wouldn’t get any special treatment. Why should we?
And as such, it wasn’t an interference at all. Again, it was just a statement of fact. And suggesting that “the British people think XYZ” is lazy stereotyping. Just like the US, only half of our population are complete idiots.
A significant factor is that our appalling government repeatedly threatens to breach the Northern Ireland protocol, and endanger the Good Friday Agreement. That isn’t even mentioned.
Is the journalism in Forbes normally so poor?
FYI we don’t want a trade deal with the US which would benefit them far more than us and would mean e would have to substantially lower our food standards and in particular our animal welfare standards and and drop the barrier to disgusting reclaimed meat which under current UK rules is not fit for human consumption.
So we can’t get chlorinated chicken and other sub par animal products, and you mean we can’t import unsafe shit boxes from GM & Ford tariff free? perish the thought, shame the NHS can’t be sold off piece by piece in a convoluted trade deal, I’m sure the government will find away to sell our national assets off for the equivalent of magic beans, they are extra resourceful when it comes to shafting the tax payer.
That’s a weird way of saying UK won’t get a trade deal while it continues to treat the good Friday agreement as a political weapon against the EU.
This is where /r/uk decides they wanted chlorinated chicken after all.
The thing is, a US trade deal was never a big deal anyway. It was some bullshit copium the tories made uo because trump kind of liked them. “Well we lost the EU but we won the US!”
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> Conspicuous by its absence was a deal or offer of such to the United Kingdom.
Cringe misunderstanding of the situation
Can’t help but feel that the idea that this is a vindictive snub is the only way that some people can pretend to themselves that we actually matter.
Thank god for that.
The last thing the UK needs right now is to become a US consumer.
Free trade is exactly what Brexit was about stopping. So not supporting us in Brexit is supporting free trade.
>Put simply, if Biden won’t cut a deal for the UK’s minuscule aluminum and steel industries, it’s likely his administration won’t do anything beneficial for the country’s world class defense, pharmaceutical, and banking sectors.
Yeah. I suspect the UK’s “national security” laws to prevent British businesses from being taken-over might not have gone down too well either. The fact that the UK government is probing the takeover of ARM by NVidia on national security grounds (rather than competition which where the concern should be) probably hasn’t gone down well in Washington.
This Tory government has been threatening to derail the Northern Ireland Protocol leading to the reintroduction of a border in Ireland. That’s a red line for President Biden.
The rest of this position is down to Brexit. Brexit isn’t anything to do with the US and steel and aluminum trade deals are as relevant to Britain/USA as they are to Madagascar/USA.
Well done Joe! Defend the irish protocol. Another brexit dividend. Lol
It’s no secret he’s racist. We’re better off without him.
Where am I going to get lucky charms, pop tarts and corn syrup fed beef.
Don’t we have that special relationship with the UK?
Joe Biden trying to make himself look better when his own administration is a complete joke lol.
It’s a poorly written and researched article full of bias.
Obama never threatened that the UK would be at the back of the queue, he just stated the clear fact that if we applied, we wouldn’t get any special treatment. Why should we?
And as such, it wasn’t an interference at all. Again, it was just a statement of fact. And suggesting that “the British people think XYZ” is lazy stereotyping. Just like the US, only half of our population are complete idiots.
A significant factor is that our appalling government repeatedly threatens to breach the Northern Ireland protocol, and endanger the Good Friday Agreement. That isn’t even mentioned.
Is the journalism in Forbes normally so poor?
FYI we don’t want a trade deal with the US which would benefit them far more than us and would mean e would have to substantially lower our food standards and in particular our animal welfare standards and and drop the barrier to disgusting reclaimed meat which under current UK rules is not fit for human consumption.
So we can’t get chlorinated chicken and other sub par animal products, and you mean we can’t import unsafe shit boxes from GM & Ford tariff free? perish the thought, shame the NHS can’t be sold off piece by piece in a convoluted trade deal, I’m sure the government will find away to sell our national assets off for the equivalent of magic beans, they are extra resourceful when it comes to shafting the tax payer.
That’s a weird way of saying UK won’t get a trade deal while it continues to treat the good Friday agreement as a political weapon against the EU.
This is where /r/uk decides they wanted chlorinated chicken after all.
The thing is, a US trade deal was never a big deal anyway. It was some bullshit copium the tories made uo because trump kind of liked them. “Well we lost the EU but we won the US!”