"Donald Trump has promised to sign a trade deal with Britain "very very quickly" as he told Theresa May: "There is no country that could possibly be closer than our countries."
Mr Trump said: "We will do a very big deal, a very powerful deal. Trade will be a big factor between our two countries." 8 July 2017
"US treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin has threatened new tariffs on UK carmakers after the chancellor defied pressure to cancel a new tax on tech firms.
Former UK chancellor, George Osborne, told the BBC that he thought the government would be wary of provoking the US over the new tax.
"It will be a very brave British government that walks into a trade war with the United States at the very moment when centrepiece of its economic policy is to strike a trade deal with the United States," he told the Today Programme." 22 Jan 2020
This is the reality of things. One where the UK will have to accept what the bigger nations dictate. One where they will seek to shift the balance more in their favour as the UK comes to recognise it needs them more than they need the UK.
So expect to see this not as a one off, but a continual process as the boot will now be on the other foot and previous concessions and benefits of EU negotiated trade deals are lost. Just as the 'big boys' (supermarkets are able to put the squeeze on their suppliers ?
The UK has still to leave the EU and yet so much of the delusion and false claims have already been dumped and swept away. Not looking good for the fantasy that was promised.
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