So another TACO from the UK's bestest friend, the dependently unreliable Donald J. Trump. Time for the Brits to pick a side and stick with it. Continue to be a Trump lapdog, or get back into the EU where you belong, politically, economically, socially, culturally and militarily.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-suspends-technology-deal-with-uk-ft-says-2025-12-16/

 

"The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
British officials on Monday confirmed the U.S. suspended the deal last week, the FT said, adding that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was pushing for Britain's concessions in areas of trade outside the tech partnership."

I thought the previous British policy of smiling and giving Trump anything he wanted worked very well, why change now? Britain has the chance to become a preferred ally of Trumperica.

 

Better than paying 1000% tariffs.

 

Lol.

8 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

I thought the previous British policy of smiling and giving Trump anything he wanted worked very well, why change now? Britain has the chance to become a preferred ally of Trumperica.

 

Better than paying 1000% tariffs.

 

Lol.

Really? Who says it won't be 1000 % tomorrow, or next week? Or do you have great faith in the words of the conman in the WH?

Besides, there's this. The UK's goose is cooked. Send a delegation to Brussels ASAP!😄

 

 

 

 

 

 

21 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

So another TACO from the UK's bestest friend, the dependently unreliable Donald J. Trump. Time for the Brits to pick a side and stick with it. Continue to be a Trump lapdog, or get back into the EU where you belong, politically, economically, socially, culturally and militarily.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-suspends-technology-deal-with-uk-ft-says-2025-12-16/

 

"The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
British officials on Monday confirmed the U.S. suspended the deal last week, the FT said, adding that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was pushing for Britain's concessions in areas of trade outside the tech partnership."

“Militarily” is under the scope of NATO, which we are a member, and is not restricted to EU membership 

Here's another perspective on it.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/15/us-pauses-tech-prosperity-deal-britain-donald-trump-keir-starmer

 

 

 

 

Typical. Take our s**t, additive laced, chlorine washed, genetically modified, what is supposed to pass as food, or we won't invest in your country. 

 

The US food industry is totally money driven, with no care for its customers, and little government protection to control them.

Many videos on Youtube of US tourists visiting UK supermarkets and shocked at the difference in quality and contents labelled on food.

 

With people around the world boycotting US products because of his tariffs, what makes Trump think that UK citizens will want to buy such cr*p?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So much for post BREXIT sovereignty.

 

Do as Washington instructs.

2 hours ago, BLMFem said:

So another TACO from the UK's bestest friend, the dependently unreliable Donald J. Trump. Time for the Brits to pick a side and stick with it. Continue to be a Trump lapdog, or get back into the EU where you belong, politically, economically, socially, culturally and militarily.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-suspends-technology-deal-with-uk-ft-says-2025-12-16/

 

"The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
British officials on Monday confirmed the U.S. suspended the deal last week, the FT said, adding that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was pushing for Britain's concessions in areas of trade outside the tech partnership."

As a Brexiteer for many years, I have to agree with you that the the EU is a far more reliable partner than the USA, especially under Trump and probably for years after he is gone, as IMHO it will take tears if not decades, for the USA to regain the trust that Trump has destroyed.

No country has ever been stronger alone. That's not how the world works.

 

https://x.com/LizWebsterSBF/status/2000688072569114997?s=20

 

 

Somebody is spitting the dummy because Britain will use Indigenous Rolls Royce Small Modular Reactors and not US ones.

 

US is becoming a less reliable partner for anything.  DJT has destroyed all trust in his nation.

59 minutes ago, billd766 said:

As a Brexiteer for many years, I have to agree with you that the the EU is a far more reliable partner than the USA, especially under Trump and probably for years after he is gone, as IMHO it will take tears if not decades, for the USA to regain the trust that Trump has destroyed.

Under pressure or threat from Russia, China and the US, it seems that both UK and the EU are becoming more realistic and ready to collaborate. UK as a middle sized country cannot get enough leverage, and the EU needs UK in order to weight more against those threats.

Just now, candide said:

it seems that both UK and the EU are becoming more realistic and ready to collaborate.

 

As far as I know they have always collaborated. UK is still in Europe just not in the Brussels-centric EU. 

1 hour ago, phetphet said:

The US food industry is totally money driven, with no care for its customers, and little government protection to control them.

 

This is exactly what RFKjr  and the MAHA movement wanted to change  but he is slandered and stymied at every turn.

20 minutes ago, johng said:

 

This is exactly what RFKjr  and the MAHA movement wanted to change  but he is slandered and stymied at every turn.

That's not the reason why he is "slandered and stymied" (whatever that actually means), it's for his antivax nonsense.

 

The main opponent is the agro-food business lobby and the type of politicians supporting this lobby is probably not the one you were targeting in your comment. 

3 minutes ago, candide said:

it's for his antivax nonsense.

Slandered and stymied...not nonsense at all, he wants 

(I  believe) an end to the nonsense and non science but is stymied at every turn. 

42 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

 

As far as I know they have always collaborated. UK is still in Europe just not in the Brussels-centric EU. 

That's true, but the tone was rather adversarial in the early post-Brexit period. It doesn't seem to be the case any more.

2 minutes ago, johng said:

Slandered and stymied...not nonsense at all, he wants 

(I  believe) an end to the nonsense and non science but is stymied at every turn. 

Who opposes his plan about food safety, exactly?

Personally, I tend to approve it, but I doubt the current Congress majority will fully support it.

11 hours ago, johng said:

Slandered and stymied...not nonsense at all, he wants 

(I  believe) an end to the nonsense and non science but is stymied at every turn. 

He wants an end to non science? Every scientific quote he makes is incorrect.

This is not as newsworthy as some would suppose. Whitehall insiders say American negotiators are playing the usual "hardball". Exactly the same language was employed to describe Bush's government over the steel deal. And you can go back and back. Its just the American way.

 

1947 UK-US trade negotiatins:

 

https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/gatt_e/clash_gatt_negotiators_e.htm

 

Even earlier

https://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2018/03/1826-john-quincy-adams-rescinding-free.html

 

This is likely nothing to do with the President, who is not experienced in these kind of complex deals (he was just a glorified property investor). Its just the baked in approach of generations of American trade negotiators. Leave it to the blokes behind closed doors; the British Establishment and the American Swamp to work it out. Both sides will either come to a brilliant deal for both, or no deal.

 

 

13 hours ago, candide said:

That's true, but the tone was rather adversarial in the early post-Brexit period. It doesn't seem to be the case any more.

 

Just after Brexit Putin phoned Merkel and asked "So now UK is out of the EU that means no British Army?"

Merkel -"Why do you ask?"

Putin- "Oh no reason" 

18 hours ago, Cameroni said:

I thought the previous British policy of smiling and giving Trump anything he wanted worked very well, why change now? Britain has the chance to become a preferred ally of Trumperica.

 

Better than paying 1000% tariffs.

 

Lol.

So according to you, any deal is better than no deal no matter what the terms?

14 hours ago, johng said:

 

This is exactly what RFKjr  and the MAHA movement wanted to change  but he is slandered and stymied at every turn.

Sure, blame his critics and not the Trump administration.

19 hours ago, BLMFem said:

So another TACO from the UK's bestest friend, the dependently unreliable Donald J. Trump. Time for the Brits to pick a side and stick with it. Continue to be a Trump lapdog, or get back into the EU where you belong, politically, economically, socially, culturally and militarily.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-suspends-technology-deal-with-uk-ft-says-2025-12-16/

 

"The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
British officials on Monday confirmed the U.S. suspended the deal last week, the FT said, adding that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was pushing for Britain's concessions in areas of trade outside the tech partnership."

You are cherry picking lines out of the full article that ends with " The U.S. is Britain's largest trading partner, and its big tech comp anies have already invested billions of dollars in their UK operations...."Both sides agreed to continue further negotiations in January.""

TACO did it again, or maybe as always.