What a patronising so so Starmer is Donald this Donald that !
https://www.youtube.com/live/QS6FQ9LrGA ... 6CoJpiyOOG

If he gets a good deal, he can kiss his arse…it’s the kelp that counts.
Forget your pride.

It's certainly a positive development for the country. Now let's hope Raj can get one as well.....

For once Starmer did the right thing, kept his calm instead rushing around with all the affronted slagging Trump off…… don’t poke the crocodile with a stick and expect a pat on the head, it’s a crocodile.

And lets guess whos going to be better off,,,,,,Er Not me.

Or me.

They are mates...till next t Tuesday. Starmer and his team done well...for once. Now let's u-turn other WASPI's and the fuel allowance.

Still loads of tariffs on lots of other UK goods. This is just a relatively small deal, although definitely welcome.

Most on here said Starmer had no chance but his team got it over the line. He still won't be popular but credit when it's due.

I gave him credit for keeping quiet while other leaders lost their heads.
I still think the balance is against him though, he has a looooong way to go to catch up.

No chance there…a U turn wouldn’t solve anything as you get the boot put in for being weak…in his position he’d create more problems for himself than he’d solve and once you give way on one policy others will step up the pressure with renewed vigour.

And so it turns out that on cars, steel, and aluminium only we've accepted tariffs of 10% in exchange for lowering our own tariffs on some US goods to 1.8%. No wonder Trump was so happy, a great deal indeed, for the USA.
India, now USA trade deals seem to be of far better value to them than us? The devil is in the detail.
It's good that steel and car industry jobs are going to be secured, but the impact on some of our other industries is likely to cost jobs as they undercut British made goods.
As an aside, it probably makes closer trading ties with the EU more difficult as it's impossible to satisfy both sets of standards.

In a new world of higher tariffs this is better than having even higher tariffs. Our economy is smaller than California remember.

Fair points - but Trump has won and, in the eyes of many, 'we' lost. Mind, am I the only one who is praying that Trump makes it through his full term as his replacement is frighteningly ignorant and deluded?

In the small print - Barron Trump is to be given the NHS as a twentieth birthday present...........

Overall he's won but you have to operate with what's in front of you and it's good news for steel and aluminium. As for the 10% still in place their industry is very inefficient though sadly a lot of ours is as well. Can we take advantage before other countries sign a deal? I doubt it because we s s don't have the industrial capacity. We do actually win on services of course which is major business.

Agree with you. Have you been drinking?

Yay! First change will be NHS beds for people over 6 foot tall

I guess with all the money spent to save Scunthorpe Steel then it's good to have a market for it

Agree, it helps provide the capacity but still a huge problem there with 70 year o!d furnaces.

They’re supposed to be replacing them in fiv3 years time …the one place I hated working back in the day,

Jeremy Thorpe most certainly did not put the thorpe in Scunthorpe.

But just like Captain Kirk, he was always demanding more thrust from Scotty...

Well that's a good ending to the thread.......

How's about giving Donald Trump some credit then?...same goes to you Mutley.

For what? Could be ripping us off for all we know.

Yummy loads more Palm Oil.

Since 1945 the US has controlled much of UK Policy.
Sometimes its good to have relations with the big bully.

Works at scholl

This fella doesn’t think the U.K. got a good deal, it’s 25 minutes long but you can scroll to the last 20 minutes Summary and Conclusion. Basically he says the US got everything it wanted the U.K. got nought.
https://youtu.be/EReJBPwFxj0?si=NaHG-lihP--uKL_7

2 PMs, 2 tactics and 1Trump,
https://youtu.be/H9ZADE1V4Os?si=zsEk4dn2wSMKm8b4

We still have a big surplus on services ,so far.

After I watched the vlogs I think as a member would say some one’s tummy was tickled and they rolled over, I don’t think the other countries who Trump has put tariffs on will roll over so easy.

Trumps back in talks with China...It's clear him and JD are just having a bit of a larf gun swinging and ".testing the waters" with other nations.... Some folk just need to stop flapping and calm down every time he sits down at the White house table...Ursula and Macron aren't strong enough to take on Trump in the long run,jamie..sorry to disappoint you.

For giving the little weasel an ounce of his time of his time of course.

If Trump is brought into line it will be by his own people, he has already backed down by suspending some of the tariffs due to pressure from the financial people.
One of the markets, The S&P 500’s drop is “by far the biggest decline the index has seen three months into a Presidential term since 1928,” That’s only one of the markets the rest have responded in a similar way.

Trump doesn't understand global economics according to one of his ex economic advisors, let alone care about them. He's a transactionalist businessman, the mass tariff introduction was always intended to be an opening gambit as he tries to get the best deals for the USA. And it's working, deals are being done, tariffs being reset, and markets in the main are almost back to their pre-tarriff levels. Knee jerk reactions and panic not ne essay, although some astute investors will have made fortunes from just that.
Trump is doing what he promised to do although it has to be said he's effectively a very large and blunt hammer.

Lo and behold, US and China agree to reciprocal reduce tariffs, who'd have seen that coming Jamie?
Markets are settling and most of the major ones are at pre-Trump inauguration levels.
He's making progress on immigration, the US economy (long term), and peace talks on multiple fronts are ongoing.

Trump knew he had to do deals, no way were Asian countries who produce Levi Jeans, Nike products etc going to move back to the US. Also Americans would not have put up with the increase in the cost of the fore said products.
Anyone who had the bottle to invest in the stock market after the tariffs were first introduced would have cleaned up, I bet Trumps billionaire mates did, he probably fore warned them of his intentions ,there is talk of insider dealing.

Trump knew he had to do deals, no way were Asian countries who produce Levi Jeans, Nike products etc going to move back to the US. Also Americans would not have put up with the increase in the cost of the fore said products.
Anyone who had the bottle to invest in the stock market after the tariffs were first introduced would have cleaned up, I bet Trumps billionaire mates did, he probably fore warned them of his intentions ,there is talk of insider dealing.

Now that some deal with the Saudis regarding things that go bang!

Trump the same fella who wants to remembered as a peace maker does a $142 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, are Saudi under any threat from anyone ?

So the Saudis shouldn't be buying arms because they're not at war? Why does the UK buy arms when we're not at war then?

Bunker stock answer: Starmer

The point I am making is Trump says he is a peace maker so why is he selling arms to Saudi ?

And the point I'm making is why not? The UK sells arms to many nations, some of them "bad actors". Without doing any serious research, I'd be extremely surprised if the UK isn't selling arms to Saudi too.
Every nation buys arms, some for defence and some for war making.
Trump is doing deals in the Gulf not starting wars so where's the problem?

You don’t get it do you Trump says he is a peace maker, he is hypocrite, where are weapons used, in wars, Saudi have already led air strikes on Yemen, the weapons are not being used to defend Saudi but attack others.

So why are you not criticising every government that sells arms to Saudi then? And by the way guess who is the 2nd biggest arms supplier to Saudi after the US, none other than the UK!
Therefore if you're claiming Trump is a war maker then our PM must also be a war monger.

A theory of international relations is realism. Making yourself strong having strong friends means people are less likely to bother you. meaning war is minimised. It's a popular theory.

Dear me it’s like pulling teeth, I am criticising Trump after he said he’s was a peace maker irrespective who he is selling arms to.