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Is America treating the UK like a colony?

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  • 04-06-2019 5:51pm
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    steddyeddy
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    Not really a politically commentary but I'm currently living in the south of England and I can't believe the way the UK is bowing down towards Trump. Granted he's the president but so far he's insulted the Mayor of London by calling him a looser, said the NHS is on the table as part of a trade deal and has got involved in the election of the prime minister. Obviously Brexit has left the UK in a much weaker state but I expected the British establishment to stand up for themselves more. I'm feeling sorry for our nearest neighbour lately, should they really put up with this?


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    [Deleted User]
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    I'm feeling sorry for our nearest neighbour lately, should they really put up with this?

    They should digest their just desserts.


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    Harry Palmr
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    The UK has long been a vessel for the USA, it's just that Trump is making it more obvious and yes Brexit means they USA can push home their advantage and dismantle the social infrastructure that still exists after the Tories Austerity Programme.


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    Atoms for Peace
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    Their nuclear deterent ability is totally dependent on US technology.


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    kneemos
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    The cluster**** just keeps getting worse for them.


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    Fan of Netflix
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    It's the final humiliation for the great British empire. Kissing Trumps feet and treating him like their King as he berates and disrespects their entire country and wants to loot it economically.

    I don't think they even realise how cringeworthy this whole spectacle appears and all the while try to big themselves up while they beg for crumbs from his table. What a fall from grace for a once proud nation. I would truely be embarrassed to be British today. I don't think they realise how humiliating it looks, they are so deluded from eating up the headlines from the Daily Mail, Telegraph and the Daily Express.

    And it will only get worse from here. You would almost feel sorry for em. But not quite.


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    Woke Hogan
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    The US treats virtually every country as a colony. How many American army bases are there around the world? How many leaders have they deposed in other countries? They've been running riot since the Monroe Doctrine.


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    kneemos wrote: »
    The cluster**** just keeps getting worse for them.


    Is it so very wrong that i am just a little bit pleased?

    It is isn't it?

    They will REALLY regret it if they don't stand up now and let them get their feet under.

    All that talk of a special relationship and how popular the UK is etc in the US.

    And no its NOTHING near as bad as colonization. What the British did here was brutal.


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    namloc1980
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    Picking off the best bits of the UK economic carcass. The UK were and would be protected from this as part of a powerful bloc in the EU. Out on their own they'll be picked to pieces in their desperation to make deals.


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    Thelonious Monk
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    They'll be lining up to suck his balls here too. Unfortunately without American investment we'd probably be a lot less well off.


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    Auguste Comte
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    It's on the cards.


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    Auguste Comte
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    It's on the cards.


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    [Deleted User]
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    It's all very embarrassing, but entirely of their own making. Entirely. 45 years of demonising and scapegoating the EU so that they can "take back control" by being a vassal state of the United States. The Tory rightwing and the oligarch-controlled Tory media are entirely to blame for leading their society to this point. The middle class, educated and liberal English are to blame for not fighting back against this union of mendacious toffs and ignorant plebs. How ineffably sad that open-minded, cultured English people have, without a fight, surrendered their future to these people.

    Watch those declining food standards very closely, and those declining working conditions. England in ten years time is looking like it's going to be decidedly, and eerily, dystopian.


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    They'll be lining up to suck his balls here too. Unfortunately without American investment we'd probably be a lot less well off.
    He will be rude as **** over here.


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Not really a politically commentary but I'm currently living in the south of England and I can't believe the way the UK is bowing down towards Trump. Granted he's the president but so far he's insulted the Mayor of London by calling him a looser, said the NHS is on the table as part of a trade deal and has got involved in the election of the prime minister. Obviously Brexit has left the UK in a much weaker state but I expected the British establishment to stand up for themselves more. I'm feeling sorry for our nearest neighbour lately, should they really put up with this?

    They're desperate for a bit of leverage.


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    Fan of Netflix
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    https://twitter.com/Felix_Klos/status/1135562190763769857


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    They're desperate for a bit of leverage.


    The only leverage they have is their military.


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    ratracer
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    Our mob will be no different when he’s here!


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    B0jangles
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    The UK is in a horrible, horrible negotiating position as a result of the Brexit vote - they have to somehow hammer out dozens of trade deals with dozens of countries who can all afford to let them sit and sweat because the Brexit clock is always ticking down to a chaotic crashout - it's a huge firesale of British national and business interests, and the bargain-hunters are willing to wait until the EVERYTHING MUST GO!!! signs go up

    The government are having to try to maintain the traditional Tory party smirk and uplifted chin of innate superiority while their heads are jammed so far up Trump's behind only the shoulders are visible.

    It's a disgrace what they are inflicting on the people of Britain, an absolute disgrace.


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    Fan of Netflix
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    He will be rude as **** over here.
    He won't walk over us as much as he won't want to upset Irish Americans, and has no real interest in us economically. He wants a no deal Brexit and an economic takeover of the British. They are bending over backwards for him to be come a vassal state of the US.


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    Hamsterchops
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Is America TRUMP treating the UK like a colony?

    Yes.


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    Fan of Netflix
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's all very embarrassing, but entirely of their own making. Entirely. 45 years of demonising and scapegoating the EU so that they can "take back control" by being a vassal state of the United States. The Tory rightwing and the oligarch-controlled Tory media are entirely to blame for leading their society to this point. The middle class, educated and liberal English are to blame for not fighting back against this union of mendacious toffs and ignorant plebs. How ineffably sad that open-minded, cultured English people have, without a fight, surrendered their future to these people.

    Watch those declining food standards very closely, and those declining working conditions. England in ten years time is looking like it's going to be decidedly, and eerily, dystopian.
    Indeed the Lib Dems and the whole liberal remainers now are stale, powerless and too late. They can wave their EU flags as much as they want but where were they the past 40 years challenging the Tories and right wing anti EU press. They allowed this to occur now act shocked it has. Whole things a mess.


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    #23
    ILoveYourVibes
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    ratracer wrote: »
    Our mob will be no different when he’s here!
    Lets hope they weather the storm with more grace.

    Humane and polite but not supplicant.


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    RustyNut
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    481945.jpg.


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    Fan of Netflix wrote: »
    Indeed the Lib Dems and the whole liberal remainers now are stale, powerless and too late. They can wave their EU flags as much as they want but where were they the past 40 years challenging the Tories and right wing anti EU press. They allowed this to occur now act shocked it has. Whole things a mess.


    Why didn't they have a massive push for a second vote??

    There was at the start if Cameron had stayed enough support.


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    kowloon
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    Have a lot of friends in the UK and most of them have expressed worry at how much they're going to be raped by the US come trade deal time.


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    Fan of Netflix wrote: »
    He won't walk over us as much as he won't want to upset Irish Americans, and has no real interest in us economically. He wants a no deal Brexit and an economic takeover of the British. They are bending over backwards for him to be come a vassal state of the US.

    The US never really had much interest in us economically blessing in disguise right now.


    Anything Trump gives is a Trojan Horse.


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    Junkyard Tom
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    Western Europe was where the US was going to go to battle with the Soviet Union - Britain being the 'unsinkable aircraft carrier' off the coast of the continent. It's high time that Europe left NATO and NATO left Europe. Europe needs its own self-interested defence pact using its own native tech. US interests are not European interests.


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    kowloon wrote: »
    Have a lot of friends in the UK and most of them have expressed worry at how much they're going to be raped by the US come trade deal time.


    Its mostly their businesses, farmers etc and civil service contracts they need to worry over.

    The only good thing is Trump will not be there forever.


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    iamwhoiam
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    I hope it pisses rain and hail and thunder tomorrow on the golf course


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    Western Europe was where the US was going to go to battle with the Soviet Union - Britain being the 'unsinkable aircraft carrier' off the coast of the continent. It's high time that Europe left NATO and NATO left Europe. Europe needs its own self-interested defence pact using its own native tech. US interests are not European interests.

    After the wind has blown either the EU will break up or it will form one EU state.


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