Trump sticks 10% tariffs on all UK imports into the USA.

Not such a special relationshp after all is it.

25% on the EU however, put that in your pipe and smoke it any lingering remoaniacs.

Rich wrote:


25% on the EU however, put that in your pipe and smoke it any lingering remoaniacs.

Those who believed coming out of the EU made no sense could hardly have been expected to base their decision all those years ago on a detail of Trump's rambling senescence in 2025.

And even if he does remember to sign off these tariffs, leaving still made no sense.

Rich wrote:
Trump sticks 10% tariffs on all UK imports into the USA.

Not such a special relationshp after all is it.

25% on the EU however, put that in your pipe and smoke it any lingering remoaniacs.

He called Australia "wonderful place" as he stuck 10% tariffs on us.

I still cannot understand why Australia never uses it's leverage over the US top secret spy base Pine Gap in the middle of the Oz desert which has been operating there for over 60 years.

It's strategically placed so no spy ships can spy onit and it's the US's most important base from which they run all military actions like the Osama Bin Laden raid.

They pay no rent but Trump has probably never heard of it.

The Spectator (Michael Gove is the editor) is claiming that the 10% tariff on the UK is a "Brexit win", versus 20% (other sources report that too) on the EU. But if Australia is also getting 10%, does that mean Australia is also getting a "Brexit win"? Australia's Norfolk Island ("Norfolk Island is a little dot in the world, we don't export anything.") is apparently getting 29%. So Trump must consider its treatment of the USA to be worse than that of the EU.

Trump’s tariffs are a real Brexit win

A tiny Australian outpost gets a steep Trump tariff despite few exports

The truth about Trump’s tariffs and the ‘Brexit dividend’

Within minutes of Donald Trump’s announcement on so-called “reciprocal tariffs” around the world, Brexiteers were claiming victory because the UK escaped with half the rate imposed on the EU.

But if the UK’s 10 per cent import tariffs to the American market compared to the EU’s 20 per cent, is the best economic justification for Brexit that can be made, then supporters of leaving the EU are clutching at straws.

The first and most obvious point is that Brexit has not spared the UK from having tariffs imposed on it by the one world leader who was the biggest cheerleader outside Britain for the UK leaving the EU.

Britain is yet to benefit from the “Brexit dividend” - the economic gain that was promised when it left the EU. And far from the trade deal that Brexiteers promised would follow with the US, there is still none in place nine years after the referendum. Even if Keir Starmer lands one, it is likely to be highly focussed on specific areas and may not avoid tariffs altogether.

Even Tory Brexit supporter Mark Wallace, now chief executive of the Total Politics magazine, cautioned his fellow Leavers from “cheering” tariffs this morning, even if 10 per cent is better than 20 per cent.

Even with half the rate of tariffs compared with those imposed on the EU, the difference barely goes anywhere near undoing the economic harm that Brexit has done to the UK economy.

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To claim anything as "a win" when you are getting slapped with a 10% tariff is probably pushing it a bit, a real win would have been no tariffs at all, but even that is hardly a prize to have won, just the status quo as it was anyway.

How come all these tariffs can be levied so rapidly anyway? You'd think it needs lots of planning and new paperwork and systems set up to do so.

The last Special Relationship was Blair and Bush whose only plan was bombing the Middle East. 9/11 was all planned.

Trump has put a 10% tariff on Heard and McDonald Islands in the southern Pacific.

They're populated by penguins.

Meanwhile he's announced he's going to build a wall around Antarctica and the penguins are going to pay for it.

hedda wrote:
Trump has put a 10% tariff on Heard and McDonald Islands in the southern Pacific.

They're populated by penguins.

Meanwhile he's announced he's going to build a wall around Antarctica and the penguins are going to pay for it.

I guess you don't know what a gag is then, Trump did say he was going make countries pay their fair share and joked about penguins. He knew the media and Trump haters would take the bait.

hedda wrote:
Trump has put a 10% tariff on Heard and McDonald Islands in the southern Pacific.

They're populated by penguins.

Meanwhile he's announced he's going to build a wall around Antarctica and the penguins are going to pay for it.

There is still no vaccine for TDS is there. It's needed urgently.

Rich wrote:
hedda wrote:
Trump has put a 10% tariff on Heard and McDonald Islands in the southern Pacific.

They're populated by penguins.

Meanwhile he's announced he's going to build a wall around Antarctica and the penguins are going to pay for it.

There is still no vaccine for TDS is there. It's needed urgently.

Same with Musk, the liberals, Hollywood and the MSM loved him until now. Even the Simpsons episode with Musk which I had to watch online is interesting as The Simpsons is a left-wing program. The whole episode is built around Musk and getting praised from left-leaning characters.