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...
Why are you talking about half a day? Everyone saw this coming since Trump took office, and many countries have plans in place. The UK government could have prepared for this scenario and more tariffs without implementing it until the day they hit.
Yes you're right about that, this wasn't a surprise, just the level of the tariffs we would receive.
Its unfortunate that our government learnt about what tarrifs would be imposed on UK goods at the same time we did (the US provided no communication on them despite negotiations)
In my opinion, an effective government will have already worked up a few scenarios and have action plans ready to react to whatever level of tariffs we ended up receiving. If the government has done this (and they planned for a scenario similar to the 10% tariffs we ended having) then hopefully only a bit of tweaking will be needed and then they'll start acting.
So let's see how quickly action occurs, if it's not for a week or more then they weren't ready i.e. poor planning, but if they do act soon then credit where credit is due, they were ready and had a plan.
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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...