lol 😂, would be a greater benefit to get a trade deal with the u.s, we won’t tho.
Will you risk it for a biscuit? Greetings from Denmark
Based UK
#💪
I would have voted to stay in the EU. Not that my vote would have changed anything!
Ah yes resorting to aggressive stances and burning bridges is being a Chad but trying to work things out is a beta move, because we want ww3 to have 3 sides instead of the boring 2 sides
Greetings from England. Every single person who voted Leave is a low-info racist. Unfortunately David Cameron betted that the vote would go the other way.
The traditional economic view of tariffs is that the best to worst case scenario with tariffs is generally in order:
1. Neither trading nation/bloc imposing tariffs
2. One of the two nations/blocs imposing tariffs but not the other
3. Both nations/blocs imposing tariffs
Retaliatory tariffs don’t really accomplish anything other than posturing and ‘looking tough’. They’re the definition of cutting your nose off to spite your face.
the thing is while Brexit did have affects they were mostly negative because parliament and the government point blank, patently refused to do everything that was advised to them to make Brexit not only work but be beneficial to the British market.
like just control of the market regulation outside of the EU only happened in spirit, most of the legislation that we used post Brexit was literally a copy paste of EU legislation.
and most prominently the social pressures that free movement was contributing to was maintained under the next governments and the notion to properly handle it wasn’t even entertained.
my biggest lament to it is it actually looks like Europe is going through similar social changes that led the UK to leave and if that happens my dream of an inter-euro national protection alliance may just be reached, my dream of it being under the crown probably not so.
Honestly, people saying we can get a trade deal from the US are laughable. We don’t want anything from them that we can get easier, better and cheaper from the EU.
But it still makes sense that right now the UK doesn’t take a hard stance on tariffs. We haven’t been specifically targeted (yet) and Trump seems to like us so we have a chance to flatter him and influence him – this matters for protecting Ukraine first and foremost but we can be of service to the EU and Canada by playing ‘good cop’ with Trump.
He’s a downright fucking moron, a racist and a wrecker, and the fact he got elected twice will always be a black mark on the US, even if it does somehow survive as a democracy, but we have to be hard-nosed about this and posturing doesn’t help.
Cut off access to all their bases in Europe, throw them out of Menwith Hill, he thinks he can leave Europe vulnerable. Lets see how vulnerable the US is without all their intelligence gathering and FOBs littered throughout Europe.
Trump is doing it for the attention mostly, do the tarrifs on Steel even matter, we plan to re-arm we can use it or sell it elsewhere, in any case its specialized steel that they will most likely have to pay more for now.
I think Starmer is actually doing a great job at a level headed response to the maga nonsense coming out of the US.
Being outside the EU makes the UK extremely vulnerable, but it does also offer it a level of flexibility that the rest of the EU doesn’t have in terms of a diplomatic/economic response.
Starmer picking up the phone to both trump and Zelenskyy instead of tweeting after that disgusting show in the White House is a big reason why this current ceasefire deal even is on the table.
It’s a hard hand of cards, but he’s playing it pretty deftly.
To be fair, the UK has no export industry. Oh no, Americans will be buying fewer vauxhall cars and smegg fridges.
The more countries get involved in applying tariffs against the US, the sooner this stupidity will come to an end.
The second that tariffs were imposed on Canada, everyone else should have applied them in solidarity to force America’s hand.
I totally get this view point and it’s probably more accurate.
But I saw it as our government saying “trumps just throwing another pissy fit, he’ll stop the tariffs before the weekend on his own after enough people tell him how dumb it was” but admittedly that’s giving our guys a lot of credit
I’m not over it either. Us leaving was a dumb decision and majority of people know it.
The UK exports like 1% of the world’s steel, and only 5% of that goes to the US.
Why the fuck would the UK be stupid enough to start a trade war with the US over steel tariffs? lol.
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lol 😂, would be a greater benefit to get a trade deal with the u.s, we won’t tho.
Will you risk it for a biscuit? Greetings from Denmark
Based UK
#💪
I would have voted to stay in the EU. Not that my vote would have changed anything!
Ah yes resorting to aggressive stances and burning bridges is being a Chad but trying to work things out is a beta move, because we want ww3 to have 3 sides instead of the boring 2 sides
Greetings from England. Every single person who voted Leave is a low-info racist. Unfortunately David Cameron betted that the vote would go the other way.
The traditional economic view of tariffs is that the best to worst case scenario with tariffs is generally in order:
1. Neither trading nation/bloc imposing tariffs
2. One of the two nations/blocs imposing tariffs but not the other
3. Both nations/blocs imposing tariffs
Retaliatory tariffs don’t really accomplish anything other than posturing and ‘looking tough’. They’re the definition of cutting your nose off to spite your face.
the thing is while Brexit did have affects they were mostly negative because parliament and the government point blank, patently refused to do everything that was advised to them to make Brexit not only work but be beneficial to the British market.
like just control of the market regulation outside of the EU only happened in spirit, most of the legislation that we used post Brexit was literally a copy paste of EU legislation.
and most prominently the social pressures that free movement was contributing to was maintained under the next governments and the notion to properly handle it wasn’t even entertained.
my biggest lament to it is it actually looks like Europe is going through similar social changes that led the UK to leave and if that happens my dream of an inter-euro national protection alliance may just be reached, my dream of it being under the crown probably not so.
Honestly, people saying we can get a trade deal from the US are laughable. We don’t want anything from them that we can get easier, better and cheaper from the EU.
But it still makes sense that right now the UK doesn’t take a hard stance on tariffs. We haven’t been specifically targeted (yet) and Trump seems to like us so we have a chance to flatter him and influence him – this matters for protecting Ukraine first and foremost but we can be of service to the EU and Canada by playing ‘good cop’ with Trump.
He’s a downright fucking moron, a racist and a wrecker, and the fact he got elected twice will always be a black mark on the US, even if it does somehow survive as a democracy, but we have to be hard-nosed about this and posturing doesn’t help.
Cut off access to all their bases in Europe, throw them out of Menwith Hill, he thinks he can leave Europe vulnerable. Lets see how vulnerable the US is without all their intelligence gathering and FOBs littered throughout Europe.
Trump is doing it for the attention mostly, do the tarrifs on Steel even matter, we plan to re-arm we can use it or sell it elsewhere, in any case its specialized steel that they will most likely have to pay more for now.
I think Starmer is actually doing a great job at a level headed response to the maga nonsense coming out of the US.
Being outside the EU makes the UK extremely vulnerable, but it does also offer it a level of flexibility that the rest of the EU doesn’t have in terms of a diplomatic/economic response.
Starmer picking up the phone to both trump and Zelenskyy instead of tweeting after that disgusting show in the White House is a big reason why this current ceasefire deal even is on the table.
It’s a hard hand of cards, but he’s playing it pretty deftly.
To be fair, the UK has no export industry. Oh no, Americans will be buying fewer vauxhall cars and smegg fridges.
The more countries get involved in applying tariffs against the US, the sooner this stupidity will come to an end.
The second that tariffs were imposed on Canada, everyone else should have applied them in solidarity to force America’s hand.
I totally get this view point and it’s probably more accurate.
But I saw it as our government saying “trumps just throwing another pissy fit, he’ll stop the tariffs before the weekend on his own after enough people tell him how dumb it was” but admittedly that’s giving our guys a lot of credit
I’m not over it either. Us leaving was a dumb decision and majority of people know it.
The UK exports like 1% of the world’s steel, and only 5% of that goes to the US.
Why the fuck would the UK be stupid enough to start a trade war with the US over steel tariffs? lol.
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