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Considering Russians have a habit of aggressively invading their neighbours, and America's southern border has been stable since the ~1850's, I suspect the Americans would be very unhappy with having any Russian ally near any of their borders.
Boris is a ******. We need someone to really deliver on the benefits of Brexit. That means stopping trade with any "partners" that try make Brexit look bad. Namely, the EU and US with their moaning about the GFA, and India with their attempts to offload villages full of peasants on us in exchange for a post-Brexit trade deal.
This leaves China, the next PM should build bridges with China and open our economy to their massive wealthy middle class. The Chinese are willing to invest as well, African economies are roaring off the back of Chinese investment.
If you lot wanted BT to be a "national asset" maybe you should have voted for Labour & Corbyn to renationalise Openreach. Which was a sensible policy and pro-UK.
As it stands ill take the foreign owner and cash out my investment. There is no national pride under a Tory government, only opportunists and and corruption.
MVarawa, where do you get the idea that Remainers all have a villa in Spain? It was Breixt country out there, that's how much sense most Brexiters have. Although I expect if you ask them now they probably voted Remain, funny that.
Young people that voted Remain in the UK did not have a hope in hell of owning property abroad, and the certainly won't now you have to be even richer to navigate the extra paperwork and requirements without EU citizenship.
@Carrington Sure, Germany exports more in value to the UK than we export to them. But if the argument is to be used that the UK has some leverage to take advantage of in regards to trade what matters is the percentage of their total exports that go to the UK.
The percentage of their exports to the UK in 2019 is 6%, according to this UN data. That is our leverage, not insignificant by any means, but hardly a "gravy train". Then you look at UK exports to Germany as a percentage, which is 10%. Who has more to loose?
https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/exports-by-country
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/exports-by-country
Netflix is run by it's founders, they care about their legacy and are probably sitting on a mountain of cash that they have reason to invest back into the company wisely.
Rolls is run by career execs that just care about how much they can extract for themselves without getting arrested.
It's not the engineering that's not valued, it's the company.
I agree that more politicians should have the courage deliver some straight talking and not be afraid of criticism from one angle or another. Unfortunately Trump is the antithesis of a straight talker, he constantly contradicts himself and delivers bald faced lies on such a regular basis anyone who has listened to him for more than a few weeks will inevitably pick up on his ruse, or so one would hope.
Very selective hearing is required to believe Trump "tells it how it is".
China's actions against Taiwan are disgraceful, but its not a unique situation in regards to the WHO. China strong arms all organisations to repress Taiwan. Politics is an influence on all international co-operation and China has the power to get it's own way.
Given that China was the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak I suspect the WHO were in a difficult position of needing China on side to get any useful information while trying to not let them control all the messaging. The middle of a pandemic is not the right time to suddenly call out China on their bull****. They should have done that long ago, but I doubt any other countries cared to back them up, including the US.
Trump's actions against the WHO is nothing more than him playing the blame game to try and absolve himself of responsibility for the terrible way the US has reacted (is all a conspiracy remember); and the fact that China is the one influencing the WHO and not the US. Shooting them down now does not help solve the COVID-19 problem.
Please, the WHO are an international organization to improve health standards worldwide. They aren't going to politicize a pandemic to appease Trump and his acolytes. The reason Trump is calling them names is because they represent international co-operation, which is a danger to his agenda of exploiting nationalism and division.
They also won't kiss his ass like some of our useless politicians, so is is doubly against them.
After this is over I would be surprised to not see the WHO advise on better standards around the wet markets where this virus likely originated. Right now is not the time to be pointing fingers directly, however big Trump's daily tantrum is.
Got it Trump is actually a genius, has to be doing such a good job convincing sane people he is mental. His edgy views sure are above most peoples "pay" grade, only those born into riches can survive with his outlook on life.
One thing that Brexit and the serial posters on this site like "lam and tram" have made patently clear -- age does not come with wisdom, far from it. Hopefully the young have woken up for this election, although I'm not betting on it. Just hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
One thing that puzzles me, how can anyone have the nerve to have had the benefit of a free education, and then complain that young people today are "naive" for voting for someone that is taking their issues seriously. Shame that education didn't teach you the meaning of hypocrisy. The UK is richer, and the economy bigger than when you were young, and yet apparently we can't educate our kids without putting them �50,000 into debt at 21. Sorry, young people are not so stupid they can't work out something doesn't add up.