Speaking to the BBC, she said: "I understand why there’s so much focus on our trading relationship with the US but actually our trading relationship with Europe is arguably even more important, because they’re our nearest neighbours and trading partners.
Maybe also because a deal with USA can be torn up by Trump at any moment! He did that with his own deal with Canada and Mexico!
USA should absolutely be considered secondary at best to most countries now. Kind of ironic, since Trump had the slogan America first. 🤥
I think they might be mutually exclusive right now. For example, if any US trade deal includes chlorinated chicken, the EU is not going to let chicken into the EU from the UK.
if any US trade deal includes chlorinated chicken
I don’t think this will ever happen. I hope so!
Having trade deals on both sides doesn’t man you can ship whatever from one to the other.
They can trade over set of things with one, and another set with the other.
What to stop them, though? Ship it in, remove the label, export it.
While breaking the agreement? If they’re breaking the agreement, what difference does it make where it comes from?
Mislabeling would be a problem no matter what they trade. And ultimately sabotage any trade deals.
Laws banning the mislabeling of products? A.k.a. label fraud?
“Obviously I’ve been meeting Scott Bessent this week whilst I’m in Washington, but I’ve also this week met the French, the German, the Spanish, the Polish, the Swedish, the Finnish finance ministers - because it is so important that we rebuild those trading relationships with our nearest neighbours in Europe, and we’re going to do that in a way that is good for British jobs and British consumers.”
I do agree with her but I’m also calling bullshit because this is exactly what you’d say to improve your negotiation position. Note that she is already in Washington. She is trying to get a deal done. I mean good for her and I wish her and everyone in the UK all the best, but the UK tries to be the link between EU and US just like Meloni. They want best of both worlds (who doesn’t).
The result of these talks will be the real news, this is just a cookie for the hungry journalists. A kind of fortune cookie that is meant as a message to the other guy at the negotiation table.
I’m also calling bullshit because this is exactly what you’d say to improve your negotiation position.
Don’t you understand that she must say such things then?
My point is exactly that her reason for saying this is because the fact she is negotiating, what I meant with calling bullshit is that I don’t think this person is saying this from a genuine belief. Might be true that she thinks this, I just don’t think she would have said it if she wasn’t in a negotiation.
Rare Reeves W. And the bar is insanely low at this point
I’m sure she’ll come out with something suitably evil and psychopathic to remind who she is very shortly.
It clearly is.
