Britain’s obsession with trying to negotiate exemptions from Trump’s tariffs is entirely the wrong approach. The overwhelming national interest lies in working with others to stand up to Trump and try to preserve as much as possible of the global trading system. Mark Carney is showing the way - ThreadSky

nixonsimon.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Britain’s obsession with trying to negotiate exemptions from Trump’s tariffs is entirely the wrong approach. The overwhelming national interest lies in working with others to stand up to Trump and try to preserve as much as possible of the global trading system. Mark Carney is showing the way

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bearsie17.bsky.social•6 days ago

Agreed, Putin and tRump are peas of the same pod. They only understand strength, bullies understand nothing else.

tsojcanth.bsky.social•6 days ago

I feel there's a Commonwealth FTA agreement just waiting to be ratified

sootie123.bsky.social•6 days ago

We need to let Trump languish in the mess he has created. No one should help to dig him out. Just chill for a while. The world will not end

kuyvonbraun.bsky.social•6 days ago

Starmer has already thrown disabled people & those with mental health issues under the bus.

Don’t be surprised when he DOGEs the entire state to appease Trump

kuyvonbraun.bsky.social•6 days ago

Labour have already thrown the disabled & most vulnerable under the bus, they’ll DOGE the entire state if necessary to appease Trump.

I have no idea why some think Starmer is *secretly* rejoining the EU

cathyby.bsky.social•6 days ago

Re capital controls, assume this is a disincentive to invest in US?

windahl.bsky.social•6 days ago

The UK and Europe need to hang tough. Europe did not make the US poorer.

dale1212.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’d like the rest of the world to form a free trade zone around the USA.

Trumps policies are not good for the rest of the world anyway so why even bother with him?

drbob317.bsky.social•6 days ago

Couldn’t agree more!

absolutepinnacle.bsky.social•6 days ago

Pretty special to be sorted into a team with the entire rest of the globe and still try to defect from it.

nixonsimon.bsky.social•6 days ago

😂

horseshoepartyuk.bsky.social•6 days ago

Really? Britain suffering enough of our own economic woes after fourteen years of Tory theft and vandalism should stick our necks out to posture and volunteer to make things worse for ourselves if it can possibly be avoided, because some people pontificating from ivory towers say so.
Um.
Ok m8
SMH.🤦🏻‍♂️

mattelliott85.bsky.social•6 days ago

But that wouldn't do their future US speaking tours or company directorships any good. It was more honest when they got an envelope stuffed with cash

jphendo.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump has effectively torn up any trade deals the USA had so why should we trust him to comply with any deal we negotiate with him? It'll last only until the next trade "unfairness" he invents

wildwestwind.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes it's time to stop crawling to the criminal in the White House and stand up to him.
The world together can make enough Americans so disillusioned with the malignant narcissist they'll remove him themselves.
Normal service can then resume.

horrocksjon.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yup. He wants people to negotiate exemptions with him, so they become dependent upon his favour. Negotiating with him is absolute madness and not in our national interests.

tadaaa.bsky.social•6 days ago

It would be like negotiating with Tony Soprano

evethorne.bsky.social•6 days ago

That's correct. Canada tried and it got us nowhere.

rcdavies.bsky.social•6 days ago

Why would GB, a huge deficit country, stand alongside huge surplus countries in this instance? Any goods pushed out of the US are coming this way to further unbalance GB trade.

If Trump brings down the US deficit markedly, he wins. It's much easier to replace suppliers than customers.

er2023.bsky.social•6 days ago

Because they painted insults to the Great Genius Leader, penguins will be slapped with 60% tariffs - effective on Wednesday. That will teach them! 🐧😂

petergmartin.bsky.social•6 days ago

People need to understand that 'narciopaths' (narcissistic socio/psychopaths) do not ever think that they are wrong and therefore do not back down.

Trump genuinely believes he's a 'genius', a tough guy and successful. He believes the rest of the world is wrong and it's his job to put us right.

lesserspottedh.bsky.social•6 days ago

Well said, Peter.

petergmartin.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump has now placed himself between the classic rock and hard place.
If he continues with the tariffs he will destroy the US (and possibly global) economy and will be condemned as an idiot.
If he backs down he will look weak and also be condemned as an idiot.
He is an idiot.

irishdreamer.bsky.social•6 days ago

You know we can do both?

damerainbowwarrior.bsky.social•6 days ago

Things have changed A LOT since Labour published it's manifesto.
America is no longer a trusted ally.
It's clearly in our best interests to #RejoinEU
If they don't change tac then we'll vote tactically to get them OUT and @libdems.org.uk and TheGreenParty IN!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700041

birdonthewire3.bsky.social•6 days ago

#BeMoreMarkCarney

barbaracooney.bsky.social•6 days ago

And that would be a vote-winner: A Pime Minister with a spine instead of one kow-towing to a tyrant while bleating about an imaginary 'special relationship'.

iskragoch.bsky.social•6 days ago

True.

ellis-redding.bsky.social•6 days ago

Carney has a General Election looming. I am a big fan of Carney & have been for a long time. But he is in a very different scenario.

purpleelectric.bsky.social•6 days ago

You mean he has to come out swinging doing the best for voters in his country, while Starmer with no election pending can carry on dithering and concentrating on himself and his donors?

mehing.bsky.social•6 days ago

‘Doing the best’ is not the same as campaigning for an election….Carney knows that a vocal opposition is popular, if he wins then will he maintain this stand or take a more pragmatic approach.

ciaron.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes, and when Trump has to reverse, he will pick off the more vulnerable, like the UK to ease tariffs. If we welcome this, net effect will be our inability to negotiate any trade deals with our friends and allies. We’ll be screwed or rather Starmer will.

owainb.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's also gives Trump the attention he craves which probably lies behind the whole thing. Everyone is talking about him and trying to 'negotiate' with him. And he's loving it

pauldstevens.bsky.social•6 days ago

Being ignored is Trump’s kryptonite. The world should band together and move on without him.

wildwestwind.bsky.social•6 days ago

Exactly. Trump is a narcissist and malignant at that. This is all about his giant ego.

borners.bsky.social•6 days ago

"national", but what if the UK is not a nation state but a rival multi-national union that has no reason to exist if the EU can provide a superior framework for its 4 component nations?
Starmer is following the logic of the British Ideology.

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