Wednesday 22 September 2021

Silly

Does the U.S. want our beef? No, of course not. Why would they? Will they want our lamb? Don't be silly.

Does France want our beef or lamb? Don't be even sillier.

Does Australia want our lamb? Now you're really being silly.

Will Germany or Italy give us a helping hand regarding the long-term spike in energy prices? Don't be silly.

Still happy about the bumpy road leading to self-governance? Still think there is a bright new future ahead for global Britain?

How silly can you get and how much longer can you hang on to silly hopes?

Obama was wrong. Britain is not at the back of the queue when it comes to trade deals with the U.S. because there is no queue. They don't need a queue. The subject of trade deals between Britain and the U.S. never comes up in the U.S. cabinet. They don't even bother to talk about it because it is a non-subject of no interest to them.

We have squandered the respect for being a sovereign nation built up over 300 years in 2.

26 comments:

  1. Applause! We have a shit government. Even Macron could not be bothered to recall his UK ambassador after the Aukus agreement. UK not important enough to bother with.

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  2. If you google US and UK trade you can see what has been negotiated.

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    1. The agreement which has been in negotiation since 2020 has not been signed.

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  3. I didn't vote Leave. In fact, I could not believe it happened. So embarrassing to call an election wrong! But I called Clinton in 2016, and that was dead(ly) wrong. We'll just have to see how it all plays out.

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    1. You didn't vote Leave and I didn't vote for Trump.

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  4. I was shocked when Great Britain left theEU. We miss you, really. I hope you aren't right about Germany and energy prices. And I followed Susan's hint to google US&UK trade and found that: "United Kingdom is currently our 7th largest goods trading partner with $132.3 billion in total (two way) goods trade during 2019. " So: not everything is lost.

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    1. I wonder in whose favour the two-way split falls. The UK is hardly in a strong negotiating position and the latest agreement has yet to be signed.

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  5. Ken Clarke put it succinctly, where is the Mad Hatter's tea party?

    "Energy price hikes, empty shelves, chronic labour shortages, tax rises, rampant inflation and not a mad hatters tea party in sight. Where is the Brexit Wonderland we were promised?!"

    My daughter who had to renew her gas contract yesterday, was offered one at £4000 a year, she found cheaper luckily.

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    1. We sold off our gas reserves in 2017. Germany and Italy have three months worth of reserves. We have three days. This current government are incapable of thinking ahead by more than three days anyway.

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    2. They have reserves but the also have triple figure price rises because of the wholesale energy market right now, same as the rest of Europe. The things listed by Thelma attributed to Ken Clarke are not a result of Brexit.

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    3. You cannot blame everything on Covid, despite what the government may say. I keep saying that the cocktail of causes has led to a perfect storm with Britain weakened as a direct result of Brexit.

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    4. Yes, I agree it is the perfect storm but it is not right to exclude Covid from the equation.

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    5. I have never excluded COVID. Do you exclude Brexit?

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    6. No, the equation includes Brexit.

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  6. Has some news been released in the past 48 hours about meat exports? The UK didn't export beef to the US for 24 years because it was banned because of BSE but the ban was lifted only last year. Has this changed? Lamb is exported to France from Britain because France dont produce much of their own. Has this also changed? I am puzzled by your sudden explosive posting here and would like to know where your information comes from so I can read it.

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    1. The fact that no news has been released about meat exports in the last 48 hours illustrates my point about the success of the trade agreement talks which have yet to be signed. The French still would like British lamb but find it harder to obtain because of a little occurrence called Brexit. My information comes from listening to people who know what they are talking about on that far-left organisation called the BBC. If you can find written evidence which contradicts what I wrote above, let me know.

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    2. I wonder about the 20 odd years of no beef exports to the US because of BSE when our meat was banned. I understood that the ban ended last year. I think sometimes news is selective.

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    3. Boris has got America to lift the ban on British beef, although it has yet to be formally agreed. It will be interesting to see how much of it they want in the future, having survived quite well for the last 20 years without it, and how much of theirs we will be obliged to import under the terms of the agreement.

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  7. I totally agree, downright bl.... stupid.

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  8. I’m too busy saving up for my next electricity bill to care

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    1. Now you have added Putin to the mix of the perfect storm. Scum rises to the surface.

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  9. Boris and his cronies must allow foreign lorry drivers in before there is a drastic collapse, but he is reluctant to make yet another u-turn. He will, too late as usual.

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    1. Yes, he will - all in good time...

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    2. Yes I'm sure the foreign drivers and chicken pluckers are just thrilled at the prospect of three months work to then be sent home on Christmas Eve! Who wouldn't be?!

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