Anthony Seldon, "There are three great trading blocs in the world, America, China and the EU" "The EU is going to be really important for Britain's future"
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D'oh
apr 16, 2025, 8:16 am • 5 0 • view
Yep, and the UK left the EU. Main leader of that? Nigel Farage, an admirer of Trump and Putin.
apr 15, 2025, 11:23 pm • 17 0 • view
If only you people had a seat at the table rather than looking through the shop window and hoping for scraps.
apr 16, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
You left out India and Asia Pacific block.
apr 16, 2025, 12:43 am • 1 0 • view
A point not made at all by a single remain campaigner at the time. Our leaders have no strategic nouse whatsoever. As for the morons who promoted global Britain do they still.thin the East India Company exists?
apr 16, 2025, 11:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Britain searching for another empire to tag on to...but the American Empire isn't quite over yet & offers the oportunity to continue playing imperialistic muscle games that Europe only offers through perpetual war in Ukraine ( & Zion).
apr 16, 2025, 9:33 am • 1 0 • view
The UK should & probably will eventually rejoin the EU. Why should we join with a country led by a disfunctional liar, whose word is not to be trusted. We don't want their chlorinated chicken, washed eggs etc. We won't lower our animal welfare & food standards to the US levels.
apr 16, 2025, 10:02 am • 4 0 • view
Hmmm... Is Brexit over, then?
apr 16, 2025, 5:26 am • 1 0 • view
But wait. America can offer the UK some fabulous low quality chlorinated chicken that may just kill you.
apr 16, 2025, 12:00 am • 3 0 • view
Not if Starmer has anything to do with it
apr 16, 2025, 12:39 am • 1 0 • view
Correction: There are two great trading blocs now. China & EU.
apr 15, 2025, 11:50 pm • 11 0 • view
Yes, now tell us why you numpty bastards LEFT the EU?
apr 16, 2025, 11:50 pm • 6 0 • view
Because lots of daft people believed lots of lies.
apr 17, 2025, 1:32 am • 4 0 • view
Sounds familiar
apr 17, 2025, 2:19 am • 1 0 • view
A little disrespectful to Canada, Australia, and Japan...
apr 16, 2025, 1:47 am • 1 0 • view
I'll just leave this here... its not always about trade, it's about having a stake in a country and not giving up your annual income to an unelected quango...
apr 16, 2025, 12:17 am • 1 0 • view
Does Britain have a future?
apr 15, 2025, 11:38 pm • 3 0 • view
apr 16, 2025, 12:20 am • 1 1 • view
Damn, GB could have been part of the EU. Oh, wait, they were.
apr 16, 2025, 5:54 am • 14 0 • view
Yeah, England voted to take us out. Assholes.
apr 16, 2025, 6:44 am • 10 0 • view
Support was for Brexit was highest among seniors, that is, the people who would live the least with the consequences.
apr 17, 2025, 4:14 am • 0 0 • view
You could have left GB but you bottled it cowards.
apr 16, 2025, 8:43 am • 2 0 • view
take yourselves out of great britain
apr 16, 2025, 8:32 am • 0 0 • view
And India?
apr 16, 2025, 12:55 am • 1 0 • view
Brexit was a big mistake,and played right into Russia’s plan
apr 16, 2025, 1:29 am • 3 0 • view
He's 'pre Nigel'. And, he WAS right. The EU was really important to Britain.
apr 16, 2025, 12:13 am • 6 1 • view
Do you really have to explain the blindingly obvious to Brits over and over again? #brexshitforbrains
apr 16, 2025, 12:42 am • 2 0 • view
Sadly, as in the US, there are still so many lies being spread by the likes of Farage, GB News etc. What we need is stricter controls on news media and politicians. Opinions have to be stated clearly as such, with the opposing argument printed underneath. People will still choose to believe (1/2)
apr 16, 2025, 6:30 am • 2 0 • view
What they want, but at least it would be a better informed choice. I left FB & IG after they removed the fact checking on FB. Zuckerberg chose to dance with the devil. Critical thinking is easier when have the resources immediately available (2/2)
apr 16, 2025, 6:33 am • 2 0 • view
Yes…
apr 16, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
One good thing that will come out of this America going down the drain is all the proof that other countries need to be fearful of the rich. So good luck electing your evil nazis. Nobody wants what America has now 's terrifying 😳
apr 16, 2025, 1:58 am • 7 0 • view
Have you seen how popular Reform is becoming in the UK. In 4.5 years we are going to end up in the same boat as the US.
apr 16, 2025, 6:49 am • 4 0 • view
SIR, have you not heard the news, seen ANY news lately? The USA cannot be counted on for anything, nothing, nada! There is a liar, thief and scoundrel living in the best of government housing.
apr 16, 2025, 2:11 am • 1 0 • view
^^This is the real news. The US is no longer a global leader, but instead a global pariah. Nobody believes Treasuries are safe. Nobody thinks the stock market will be going up. This is an epic global disaster.
apr 16, 2025, 3:20 am • 2 0 • view
apr 15, 2025, 10:58 pm • 44 2 • view
Britain got put on it's new place at the Yalta conference and the population of the UK hasn't gotten the message yet.
apr 16, 2025, 4:00 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe they should join the EU, oh wait... Brexit was a brilliant piece of Kremlin work with its useful tool Farage.
apr 16, 2025, 10:43 am • 27 0 • view
Take America out of the equation with Trump NAZI REGIME, there is no trade
apr 16, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s the argument my dad brought me up with in the 80s and the one I had with various brexshitters in 2016 and after. They couldn’t work out that all they were doing was in effect sucking up to America.
apr 16, 2025, 5:34 am • 10 1 • view
How embarrassing
apr 16, 2025, 5:37 am • 2 0 • view
"we have to be grown up" far right: *stomps feet crashes out*
apr 16, 2025, 2:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Correction: There used to be three great trading blocs in the world. Trump is working very hard to make sure America is removed from that list.
apr 16, 2025, 12:56 pm • 8 0 • view
apr 16, 2025, 3:15 am • 2 0 • view
India....
apr 16, 2025, 3:56 am • 1 0 • view
Less than 100 million Indians have any disposable income at all. The rest can only afford survival needs.
apr 16, 2025, 3:58 am • 1 0 • view
India has a population of almost 1.5 billion people. The chances of everybody staying poor are slim, it wasn't that long ago that China was poor and couldn't produce anything. The world is not a static place
apr 16, 2025, 4:05 am • 2 0 • view
Makes you want to bang heads together and shout WAKE UP AND DO SOMETHING!
apr 16, 2025, 10:34 am • 3 0 • view
Shame our ongoing current crop of politicians are tone deaf and trade and finance illiterate- I’d add gullible to the list, waiting for the inevitable ‘we are going to do a great trade deal with Trumps America’!
apr 16, 2025, 9:22 am • 1 0 • view
The US will fall into irrelevance unless we can remove the trump regime.
apr 15, 2025, 11:13 pm • 15 0 • view
Guess who shot themselves in the fit. The conservative Britain.
apr 16, 2025, 1:12 am • 11 0 • view
Aided by a bunch of racist bigots and Cambridge Analytica!
apr 16, 2025, 3:51 am • 11 1 • view
Hahaha
apr 15, 2025, 11:10 pm • 1 0 • view
The U.S. is counting on its citizens future buying power. The China tariffs, number of unemployed, business closings, inflation (it’s coming) and the dropping value of the dollar will together make for an even more unsustainable America. We apologize for this regime.
apr 15, 2025, 11:18 pm • 10 0 • view
I wouldn’t lift a hand to help this regime.
apr 16, 2025, 12:24 am • 1 0 • view
Was thinking more of a boot up the Jacksy to send them on their way... to Russia, Venezuela or somewhere just as suitable...
apr 16, 2025, 12:26 am • 1 0 • view
It is heating up. 🤞🏻
apr 16, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
I'm not sure how accurate your figures are. I found this just now listing creditors who own US debt. uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/much-am...
apr 16, 2025, 3:59 am • 2 0 • view
Yoir figures are as at Dec 2023, the figures I quoted are as at April 2024...
apr 16, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
And a lot of people in the US think they maintain the world when it's exactly the other way around...
apr 16, 2025, 10:38 am • 1 0 • view
Let's just do Japan, UK, Luxemburg, & Canada
apr 17, 2025, 7:35 pm • 1 0 • view
The Italian Prime Minister will be at the White House on Thursday.
apr 16, 2025, 2:03 am • 1 0 • view
Canada here. I hear you want trade without surrendering sovereignty to your neighbour. Want to trade? [ ] Yes. [ ] No.
apr 16, 2025, 5:11 pm • 2 0 • view
This and only this should be what we hear from politicians.
apr 16, 2025, 4:05 am • 1 0 • view
Guess you shouldn't have done that racist Brexit then.
apr 16, 2025, 3:57 am • 2 0 • view
Britain ? - the Celtic bloc - Scotland , Wales and Ireland will join and leave England to fester
apr 16, 2025, 6:48 am • 2 0 • view
- and be healthy with it, too
apr 16, 2025, 9:37 am • 1 0 • view
But Starmer just loves the taste of freshly bleached chicken...
apr 16, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely.
apr 16, 2025, 11:12 am • 1 0 • view
I’m still so angry with everyone who voted leave
apr 16, 2025, 6:03 am • 18 1 • view
Me too. I'll never forgive their stupidity.
apr 16, 2025, 12:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Crucial
apr 16, 2025, 8:52 am • 1 0 • view
He's not wrong.
apr 16, 2025, 2:18 am • 1 0 • view
It’s not rocket science .
apr 16, 2025, 1:38 pm • 1 0 • view
If they get it right!
apr 16, 2025, 10:19 am • 1 0 • view
The EU was really important in Britain's recent past. But bygones, right? I for one hope that the UK can and will rejoin the EU soon.
apr 16, 2025, 12:00 am • 2 0 • view
The EU WAS really important for Britain's future. It also is a really important trading partner, and will be cornerstone of UK future. Brexit (and all it's instigators) was, is, and always will be a mistake for the UK
apr 16, 2025, 3:47 am • 15 2 • view
Too bad they couldn't organize some sort of deal where they could join the E.U. #activemeasures
apr 15, 2025, 11:49 pm • 4 0 • view
No kidding. Must be really hard to get in.
apr 16, 2025, 1:19 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe you have to know somebody….or is it blow…. I can never remember 🤷🏻♀️😜
apr 16, 2025, 2:55 am • 2 0 • view
I have nothing against having the UK back into the EU. However I think that no special treatment should be granted and it should comply with all the requirements and regulations imposed by the EU. No more exemptions.
apr 16, 2025, 11:28 am • 14 0 • view
Exactly, they cannot ever rejoin and have benefits that existing members don't, they had all those pre-brexit and they still wanted more; no more concessions
apr 16, 2025, 11:48 am • 4 0 • view
We could definitely go for that, and that is exactly as it should be. Britain is a total mess since Brexit, speaking as someone who is British, living in Britain.
apr 16, 2025, 12:22 pm • 5 0 • view
How many UK citizens regret not being part of the EC, put your hand up 🙋🏽
apr 16, 2025, 10:24 am • 10 0 • view
Yes, it’s going to block a lot of our trade from reaching the rest of the world, as it’s closer, thus leaving us unable to compete. This isn’t new, but before we could sell to our neighbours.
apr 16, 2025, 9:12 am • 1 0 • view
UK back in EU would be good, but without all their privileges such as the GBP and driving on the wrong side of the road.
apr 16, 2025, 3:11 pm • 5 0 • view
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apr 16, 2025, 3:39 am • 2 0 • view
did you mean 😂 a lot, or very very surprised.
apr 16, 2025, 5:44 am • 2 0 • view
I thought spelling it out would be more fun
apr 16, 2025, 7:37 am • 2 0 • view
Ans the us has shown itself to be unreliable.
apr 16, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 0 • view
Harry's Grandfather 😭
apr 16, 2025, 12:04 pm • 2 0 • view
There is really only 2 The EU and Pacific Region are contributing parties with their out interests. Free trade
apr 16, 2025, 3:30 pm • 1 0 • view
There’s only two, America is destroying itself in real time.
apr 16, 2025, 3:25 am • 9 0 • view
Oooops, brexit!
apr 16, 2025, 3:48 am • 1 0 • view
LOL. So South America, Canada, SE Asia, Japan, Africa, etc aren't big trading blocks? Good thing a feckin' laird told us.
apr 15, 2025, 10:35 pm • 0 0 • view
A bit of irony there?
apr 16, 2025, 11:02 am • 4 0 • view
apr 16, 2025, 1:17 am • 13 0 • view
Oh yeah. The EU stands to benefit mightily from this bullshit from the US.
apr 16, 2025, 3:17 am • 1 0 • view
UnBrexit: coming to a polling place near you
apr 15, 2025, 11:05 pm • 13 0 • view
apr 15, 2025, 11:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Not that easy: Brits can vote to rejoin the EU union BUT the EU can choose to take them back or not and, more important, under which conditions.
apr 16, 2025, 10:44 am • 0 0 • view
"To make a mistake and not change your ways, that is called truly making a mistake" -- Confucius (~500 BC)
apr 16, 2025, 3:53 am • 2 0 • view
Brexit was the worst thing for England.
apr 16, 2025, 10:57 am • 3 0 • view
Apparently it doesn't matter what you vote for, there are always a bunch of ancient corpses who only vote for themselves
apr 16, 2025, 11:06 am • 2 0 • view
He is right
apr 15, 2025, 10:51 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s so infuriating that this has to be debated like it not obvious that getting as close to Europe as quickly as possible is not the sane thing to do.
apr 15, 2025, 11:56 pm • 4 0 • view
You better believe it. Wishing the time would come sooner rather than later that the EU can tell the fuhrer across the pond to go and pound sand!
apr 16, 2025, 5:06 pm • 0 0 • view
There is too much foreign state actors influencing western democracies with their disinformation operations.
apr 16, 2025, 3:36 pm • 1 0 • view
I have been pro EU right from the start. Always through brexit was a very bad idea.
apr 16, 2025, 10:57 am • 7 0 • view
Brexit was a successful Russian disinformation campaign aided by corrupt British politicians, Trump is another aided by corrupt and moronic Politicians along with 70 million racist voters.
apr 15, 2025, 10:58 pm • 58 5 • view
Racism also played a part for many Brexit voters
apr 16, 2025, 12:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump should have placed a protected tariff bubble over Mexico & Canada as CUSMA calls for. Then competition with those other trading blocs would be more in North Americas favour. This go it alone John Wayne crap only works when you have all required resources. Threatening friends is a mistake.
apr 16, 2025, 1:57 am • 3 0 • view
Absolutely not - as a Canadian, I want no part of the problems the tariffs are going to cause the US. They can set themselves on fire but leave the rest of us put of it.
apr 16, 2025, 2:04 am • 6 0 • view
Bold of you to assume we'd join the losing team.
apr 16, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
Starmer cozying up to Trump is mortifying.
apr 16, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 0 • view