JonnyF

Just as I thought. Another lame quip. You've got nothing. Jog on son... 😄

Au contraire. I wasn't talking about trade deficit, I was talking about the disparity in tariff percentages. But yes, dirt cheap imports encourages people to buy foreign made products. Trump is addressing that. Buy American. Support American businesses. Not if they choose to buy alternative products. That ruins the export markets of those countries exporting to the US. Perhaps Americans will start buying Californian wine instead of paying more for French wine, for example. Maybe buy a Tesla instead of an increasingly expensive BYD or Benz/BMW. Support American businesses employing American workers. Tariffs on imports encourage people to buy domestically produced items, like we see in Thailand. That creates jobs. It's also good for the environment if you care about that type of thing (I'm guessing you do). Not all manufacturing can be automated. If it can be, that creates jobs in the machine automation industry for companies like, oh I don't know, Tesla. Apart from green energy, I agree. The US should invest in more innovative tech companies like, oh I don't know, Tesla. The billions the US government will receive from these tariffs can help fund that as well as funding better education for the future. Create jobs for the American workforce. Of course, you can keep buying cheap junk from Asia made by 10 year olds on $5 a day from factories pumping out black smoke and then shipped thousands of miles to the US if that makes you feel like a good little environmentalist/globalist.

You're a bit light on details there chum. Why don't you impress us all and point out all my inaccuracies in my post? I suspect "you've got nothing".

Trump is only charging half the amount of tariffs that these countries are putting on US goods in many cases. They should be careful, he has left plenty of wriggle room to increase them further if any of these little tinpot countries start getting chopsy. If they've got any sense they will dramatically and immediately reduce the tariffs on US goods and thank America for being gullible enough to allow them to take advantage of the US for so long. Nice move Donald me old son, nice move.

About time. You've been ripping off America for far too long. Either drop the extortionate tariffs on American imports or see your exports crumble. Like they say in Thailand, Up to You. Cheap Californian wine, cheap Harley's, cheap Mustangs and cheap Jack Daniels could be just around the corner for us expats if Thailand has any sense. Thankyou Mr Trump.

They managed to get him to plead guilty to something that was not evident within his social media posts. Had he plead not guilty he'd be a free man. Shameful. Not surprised you take so much pleasure in it though.

Yes authoritarian/totalitarian regimes like the UK, China and North Korea often pressure poor, uneducated citizens into pleading guilty before jailing them for dissent. Shameful.

Silly rhetoric. They are not dictating anything, two countries are negotiating a deal. You are just trying to turn a positive into a negative, rather unsuccessfully if I may say so. Who reported that? The Guardian? But we are indeed free to do that now after leaving the EU. Thanks to Brexit. Assuming he did, No, not really. If it was up to Starmer we'd still be in the EU. He's reaping the rewards of the Brexiteers who handed him the cards. The same people whose vote he wanted to overturn. He should thanks us, and then apologize profusely.

He spoke out about Labour's inability to control our borders and to give every UK town their "Fair share" of immigrants. He raised the question about what would happen when they arrived in our towns (he used the slang "your turf"). He even posted a picture of some Asian looking men in a boat. The horror. I mean it's not like any of them originate from Asia or arrive in boats. What was he thinking? He didn't call for violence. He didn't ask for throats to be slit like the Labour guy Ricky Jones (who still walks around free). He simply asked what would happen. That's WrongSpeak (or WrongPost in his case). Jailtime. The UK has descended to a level I never thought possible. Shameful. Even more shameful that people like you try to defend it. https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2024/08/think-before-you-post-the-u-k-is-now-jailing-people-for-social-media-comments/

So the US giving us a better deal than the EU while investing in the UK makes us a "Vassal state" of the US? Right-O Chomps 😄. Thank goodness we hadn't remained in the corrupt protectionist EU or we'd have double the tariffs. Win Win. I know it's tough to see, only a few months after Trump defeated Harris as well. Hope you're doing OK...

Yes he was pressured into pleading guilty and then rushed through the politicized court system and jailed within the week. That's what authoritarian/totalitarian states like Russia, China, N.Korea and the UK do. Repeating ad nauseum what happened in that kangaroo court doesn't really help your case.

Yes, it's much easier to do such deals with the US now we have left the EU. Great to see the special relationship continue. Those lower tariffs are really going to help as well. I know it's hard to take Chomps, but this is down to Brexit.

Still gaslighting huh. https://www.change.org/p/demand-the-release-of-lee-dunn-wrongly-imprisoned-for-expressing-free-speech

Thailand had this coming for a long time. Exporting to the US at low rates, then applying huge tariffs to US goods. They must have thought the US was stupid. Good to see Trump address the imbalance although I would have liked to see him go further. Thailand has an easy way out of this, stop taxing US goods at ridiculous rates. Cheap wine, cheap JD, cheap Harley's, cheap Mustangs etc. for us living here in Thailand. Or alternatively Thailand can watch their exports to the US tumble as American consumers buy from elsewhere. The ball is in Thailand's court. Let's see what they do.

So you mean for 86% of our exports to the US, we get half the tariff rate that we would have done if we remained in the EU? Sounds like a pretty good deal. I mean, imagine paying the EU billions of pounds every year to get their massive tariff rates on exports to the US. That would really suck. Thank goodness we left.