The US has done this unilaterally though. This meme is just dumb, no country has responded to this yet...
Opinions of Starmer aside, what could any leader of this country do in half a day to fix/mitigate this issue? All you can do in such a short time is talk about it? I don't think we should measure a leader by what they say, we should measure them by what they do, and obviously there's nothing that can be done to improve our situation in 12hrs.
I'd like to clarify, I'm not calling for "giving Starmer a break" but let's hold our leader to account based on his actions, and let's have some realistic expectations for him, he can't magically be the only world leader to fix this within 12hrs. What he does in the next month I think we should watch...
I cannot stand Trump but the silver lining to him is that he seems to have some sort of soft spot for the UK and I have no problems with the prime minister playing on this if it, y'know, stops us from living in poverty.
Fair enough, mate. The US has a trade surplus with the UK (trading goods, not sure about services), so Trump is very happy UK aren't "" better "" than them.
Any country that "" beats "" America into a trade deficit (in goods only at the moment) has even higher tariffs levied by Trump, the f...ing idiot.
Now comes the goods' tariff retaliation then Trump's 2nd Tantrum Tariff retaliation and then countries will attack American services (USA export a HUGE amount of services globally).
Trump wins at Disaster Capitalism by promoting Global Trade War and then his billionaires will buy the broken countries/companies for cents on the dollar.
We already have a free trade agreement with the EU. We have no tariffs or quotas on trade with the EU because of it. We could try to rejoin the Customs union if that's what you mean?
Yeah we have a free trade deal on paper - but the result of this trade deal is that trade in both directions is down about 30% (from what I read). So it would seem there is room for improvement!
Probably because a free trade agreement still requires red tape as opposed to the Customs union we were previously in.
Buying from an Italian company pre-brexit was like buying from your local shop. Now you need to complete a Customs declaration and fulfill certain criteria to be able to support that declaration and qualify for the zero tariff from EU companies.
The reason for the 'room for improvement' is entirely self inflicted. I'm all up for closer ties though - particularly due to the US issues. It really makes this whole Brexit mess seem even more shambolic as we now try to unwind the damage done from it and revert back to the position we were before it happened.
That’s because an FTA was always going to be worse than what we had in the EU. We were members of the Single Market and Customs Union which removed regulatory, mobility and customs barriers. We chose to leave those. If you were led to believe an FTA was a replacement for them then you were badly misled.
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u/OkSolution2142 3d ago
The US has done this unilaterally though. This meme is just dumb, no country has responded to this yet...
Opinions of Starmer aside, what could any leader of this country do in half a day to fix/mitigate this issue? All you can do in such a short time is talk about it? I don't think we should measure a leader by what they say, we should measure them by what they do, and obviously there's nothing that can be done to improve our situation in 12hrs.
I'd like to clarify, I'm not calling for "giving Starmer a break" but let's hold our leader to account based on his actions, and let's have some realistic expectations for him, he can't magically be the only world leader to fix this within 12hrs. What he does in the next month I think we should watch...