Are you ready for chlorinated chicken in your kebabs? Doesn’t bother me, I’m vegan. Thoughts? What do you think Labour have won (or given up and dressed up like a win)?
Are you ready for chlorinated chicken in your kebabs? Doesn’t bother me, I’m vegan. Thoughts? What do you think Labour have won (or given up and dressed up like a win)?
I think it will be fairly narrow in scope, with both sides of the Atlantic trying to spin it into a big win, which they both need right now.
However it wouldn’t surprise me if Keir has managed to create a deal to the UK’s detriment in a misguided effort at maintaining the “special relationship”.
It is narrow. BBC’s key point are:
Donald Trump removes the 25% tariff on UK steel and aluminium, and immediately cuts the rate on most car exports from 27.5% to 10%
The lower car rate applies to the first 100,000 vehicles exported from the UK to the US each year - 101,000 were exported last year
In return, the UK government says it’s removing the tariff on ethanol for US goods, and agrees “reciprocal market access on beef”
So we get to sell them steel, aluminium, cars, and beef. They get to sell us ethanol and beef.
I think we got the better end of that unless ethanol is massive in some way I’m not aware of. Having a larger market for British steel is at least joined up thinking given the recent issues with the Scunthorpe works.
Of all the animals products to take from the US, I think beef is probably one of the higher quality ones, although I may be wrong. I’d worry about our cattle farmers competing… But maybe more selling opportunities is more valuable. Americans do eat a lot of it.
Unless they are lowering standards there will be practially no US beef imported to the UK. Almost all US beef cows are pumped up with growth hormones and thats not legal to sell for human consumption in the UK.
I think that’s the point. It’s basically just allowing the US to save face, with the full understanding that nothing will really happen.
Fair enough. I don’t know enough about US cattle farming.
10% of petrol is ethanol now. That’s what the E10 means, so I’d say it’s pretty massive
I’d forgotten that. Haven’t brought petrol or diesel for about 6 years.
Oh, you’re missing out.
@thehatfox
It’s exactly what we all expect… surprise us Keir, for once…
@mannycalavera
More likely, he knowingly created a deal which is downright suicidal for the UK because he and some other MPs will get good money out of it.