US threatens to pummel UK industries

If only we had a US president who actually liked the UK ...

I punched up the title a little but its hardly untrue. I do wonder where all those poor mistaken people wittering on about 'taking back control' are now, seeing as the the cold hand of reality has put paid to that rubbish of making trade deals and being able to do as they want.
As the US has nicely shown here, sovereignty is relative, we havent gained much and we are now economically infinitely weaker to be bullied by our former colonies.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56565636

I like how you put in the Brexit angle when the Eurozone has been threatened with the same (indeed the tech tax is one of the things we'd been working together on).

I should clarify that I oppose this. A tech tax is simply beaurocratic double taxation and only required because the government fears wholesale reform of tax avoidance law and transfer pricing.

If only we had a US president who actually liked the UK ...

He didnt though? His administration actively said to take Britain to the cleaners and whacked us with tariffs. Despite what some poor deluded souls would think, there is no real special relationship and thge US is out for its own Not a bad thing for them but not good for the UK and never really has been.

Are you denying the facts then or merely taking umbrage that i mentioned it?
The EU has not been threatened with tariffs anyway, specifically those discussions have been dropped.

Might i ask why youre defending American corporates who do nothing but harm to the UK though? Tax dodging being an odd thing to defend by most accounts, especially foreign firms

Last time I checked he'd offered us a deal which Britain declined because of something to do with Airbus...

Agree, although trump spoke up for Biden and did want s deal unlike Biden and Obama who gave us the cold shoulder

As alluded to in my second paragraph I don't defend their tax dodging however I argue that the government should finally overhaul the tax code rather than ignore tax avoidance and institute double taxation.

I cant say i understand that double taxation comment sorry? Couldf you expand on that?
Indeed it should though. Alas, every time they do it simply gets worse. Either way, this comes across as naked quasi-mercantilism by the yanks in threatening to punish Britain for trying to extract money we're owed by their firms.

At any rate, i have yet to see a single redeeming feature of any trade deal with America aside from cheap 3rd rate food being allowed into our shops.

Trumpian foreign policy was actually quite popular in Congress.
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Greater access to the millions of US consumers? The whole food thing is hilarious to me considering how much trash we eat in the UK eg pork scratchings, various fast food joints and saver food items and ready meals...

I'm not the biggest free trader guy as you may know but I would say there is less risk to our sovereignty with a trade deal with the US than with being in say the single market see Norway.

As I've said before I'm not a sovereignty or death brexiteer- as I've said before if the EU was being run by Orban or Le Pen I could advocate rejoining (and I suspect Militant remainers will become born again Brexiteers were that to happen).

Instituting a new levy when an old one already exists (i.e. the one they are avoiding) amounts to de facto double taxation and additional beaurocracy at that.

Indeed they are but that's not a shock. As alluded to many times before, Trumpian foreign policy was actually quite popular in Congress.

You make it sound like Britain has something to sell to these 'millions of US customers'

More than slightly facetious but either way, it is a well known fact that us food standards are disgusting.

You would only join the EU if it was run by an autocrat or the daughter of a fascist (she herself being one as well to be frank)...?

Both a damning indictment of he US and an example par excellence of why the world dislikes America these days.. They can either be the leader of the world and respected for high morals and all that jazz or they can be selfish and hated, what they cant do is whine about the latter like they seem inclined to do. For example, their complaining that Iranians chant death to America i always found utterly hilarious given the history.

Never mind the eyewatering irony of complaining about foreign migrants from south america given the US is the sole reason they exist in the first place.

Case in point, the critters that pass for congressmen are one of the main reasons China is winning across the world these days

. After all, the only US 'victories' against it have been the result of bending arms and naked threats to 'allies'.

Is it just me or is that not the actions of an 'ally' we should have much to do with? Their defence umbrella not withstanding.

Both a damning indictment of he US and an example par excellence of why the world dislikes America these days.. They can either be the leader of the world and respected for high morals and all that jazz or they can be selfish and hated, what they cant do is whine about the latter like they seem inclined to do. For example, their complaining that Iranians chant death to America i always found utterly hilarious given the history. Never mind the eyewatering irony of complaining about foreign migrants from south america given the US is the sole reason they exist in the first place.

Case in point, the critters that pass for congressmen are one of the main reasons China is winning across the world these days. After all, the only US 'victories' against it have been the result of bending arms and naked threats to 'allies'.

Is it just me or is that not the actions of an 'ally' we should have much to do with? Their defence umbrella not withstanding.