Same with Germany, they still have beses there, also Finland and Sweeden now...

We would be better of as a member states of the US.

​@@CaDzA818that's cos of NATO and proximity to Russia

@@bjrnthebootybandit Good try, but they put them self into that position, Americans should practice their "Monroe Doctrine" more...

You mean zionist AIPAC!

Brexit devalued the pound and made a lot of companies attractive propositions for foreign companies, the best way to remedy this would be to rejoin the EU if at all possible.

​@@enigmatwist6548 joining the EU would take 30 years sadly.

@@Purple_flower09 The EU is much stronger with UK in it and we haven’t diversified all that much. No idea how long the process might take but I doubt it would be anything like 30 years. In a reformed EU it could happen very quickly.

@@Purple_flower09 Well, better start now! And try to get good trading agreements while you wait.

I worked for a UK company that was taken over by a US company which in turn merged a couple of times. At one stage I had to ask what was the official name of the company.

Helmut Schmidt - "the special relationship is indeed so special only one side knows about it"

UK in the EU You have a democratic say. By voting to send MEPs to the EU Parliament & government ministers to the Council of the EU. UK with US You have no democratic say.

same as everywhere else expect that one country maybe

It is pathetic.

The US seem to fit is still the top dog in the world communist China and the neo Soviet Union will challenge that

he's also an idiot.

Yeah so truthful!

And . . . what would the British economy, culture, even p/Politics, look like (today) if it were not for the supposed dominance of the United States? Hmmm? (Brexit, anyone....?) How much differently, notably in an age of increased global homogeneity, at least in Western democratic states, would the United Kingdom of Great Britain look/function without the dreaded ethnic ooze of those Yanks and their cultural imperialism (as assessed by a Briton, any debate over anything 'imperial' feels tongue-in-cheek.) Is the implication, or outright charge, that the United States is somehow holding-back Britain, is standing in the way of that lamp under that bushel from illuminating? The reality is, as difficult it may be to digest, the United Kingdom of Great Britain never truly recovered from the near-devastation of the Second World War and the consequent loss of her overseas vassals. That is the view from 30,000 feet, decade-by-decade. It is the strategist's view, in terms of national divestment. From the start, the working slate of (what would become) Great Britain was predicated upon the absorption of territory and treasure from outside the original English borders. This trend continued outward, from the North Atlantic to other continents. The United Kingdom of Great Britain evolved as a colonial project (for right or wrong.....) Without that (near-template of a) model, the overarching wealth/influence/power balance in relation to other countries, especially the United States, the whole thing, in plain parlance, just doesn't work. The United Kingdom is a nation small in both area and (relative) population that still mourns its dubiously glorious past. It sees any involvement or cooperation with other nations as something akin to intolerable interference. But then . . . where are all of the British firms, interests, entities that could supplant what the United States has done and will continue to do? Is the idea that, somehow, participation in a global association with the U.S. has prevented British firms/interests from reaching certain heights and/or perhaps had been stymied from the first BY the U.S.? Great Britain has a complicated relationship even with its immediate neighbors. They're a part of Europe. They're not a part of Europe. That almost-schizoid national psyche. So, ultimately, what is the position of this (supposed) America-uber-alles thesis? Let's blame those Yanks for our angst, internally and otherwise? Every policy prescription that fails, every time a British firm is eclipsed by a foreign (expressly American) firm, every move backwards, every dip further into increasing poverty and even dissolution, the rally-cry will ring out, *"Blame the Yanks!"*? Down with Pax Americana? Is that the level to which the U.K. has reduced itself, per this gentleman's prescription? No internal analysis, no reflection inwards, no real insights, no little looksie under the hood (or bonnet)? Really? C'mon, Britain. Be better. (And I would love to have an elaboration on the supposed pilfering of $3-billion annually of "art," or some such . . . Let us take a stroll through the British Museum, shall we, boys & girls?)

@@jamesmatthewneeland5707 “still mourns its dubiously glorious past”.…What? Kids up chimneys? Workhouses? Slaving away in mills for a pittance? Multiple families living in slums sharing one toilet? Wake up! Nobody mourns for those days..

@@anthonyferris8912 You know precisely what I mean, regardless of your straw-man distraction. The influence, all the glitz and glamour, of "empire" . . . . It is mourned in the manner of refusing to adapt to the changing landscape of the Common Market, then the European Union. This go-it-alone insistence, born of the delusion of disconnection, of not requiring the (symbiotic) support of other nations, believing itself to still be buttressed by a 'great and glorious' network of vassal states in a 'Commonwealth' able to be swayed this--a-way-&-that by the whim and wish of Westminster. Them's the good ol' dayz - delusions of grandeur and international relevance wedded to a past long since buried (or, more succinctly, cremated) or, better yet, never to have been ventured in the first place. You are smart enough to understand to what I was referring.

We will be asset stripped but U.S. Blair could not stand up to G Bush. So in we went into an illegal war. No different now. NHS and health insurance damage for all of us.

Ridiculous notion. The US only ever looks after itself.

Ah the Iraq illegal war, I remember that

The only thing "special" about the Special Relationship is its extraordinary one-sidedness. BTW the 51st state of the USA is Israel, not the UK, but it helps explain why we support Israel, i.e. because America does, and does so for at least partly strategic reasons.

Reminder the Yanks 80 yrs ago and bow

And quite a few UK utilities are owned by French state enterprises.

Including all military bases in the UK have a big contingent of yankyness

USA adopt the capitalistic approach to dominate UK businesses and then abuse the British in all aspects politically and financially.

@@notgettingdata Countries with the highest number of stationed US troops - Japan (53,246), Germany (35,188), South Korea (24,159), Italy (12,405), UK (9,949)…Seems Japan, Germany,South Korea and Italy get way more abuse. 😅🤣😂

UK in the EU You have a democratic say. By voting to send MEPs to the EU Parliament & government ministers to the Council of the EU. UK with US You have no democratic say.

​@@AB-zl4nhthe UK had no say in the EU. We were laughed at, talked down to and ignored

@@Jaytwisty23you just described exactly how the Brits were behaving while in Eu 😂 you got it upside down 🙃😂

But the 1% are making billions which includes Tories so nothing will change.

@@Jaytwisty23 That's nonsense and most EU countries said so, they valued our input. Now, having left the EU, we are most definitely laughed at and talked down to and ignored! And of course our economy has taken a hit. Brexit was, and is, a self-defeating disaster and not one person can list all of the 'benefits' that we've 'acquired' from leaving. No major trade deals signed, not with the US or India, neither of which are on the horizon, and not being part of a massive trading block of 400 million people who literally have zero clout and leverage! And all so that some people can moronically chant 'we've taken back control'. If it was so pathetic it would be laughable.

It’s a disgrace. We are led not by donkeys but by morons.

UK in the EU You have a democratic say. By voting to send MEPs to the EU Parliament & government ministers to the Council of the EU. UK with US You have no democratic say.

@@AB-zl4nh what are you spamming about?No one cared about them in the eu. Eu parliament is a joke,the commision runs things and is appointed by the germans who are in turn a vassal state of the US.

The EU have been dictating our laws for decades and they are still at it via the ECHR toward non member and member states. We have never had democracy, just an illusion of it. If our elected leaders would do their job and act in the interests of the electorate rather than for personal gain, it might be a start.

Neither are democratic relationships

True. Everything sold off for a quick buck, or a corrupt back-hander to a Tory politician, zero future investment and now of course at the back of the trade queue behind the rest of Europe because of the brexidiots. Sadly, the once Great Britain is now history.

Well it's probusiness

@@jdlc903 They say they are, but are they really ? Compared to other countries ? Employers national insurance, a tax on the number of people you employ, regardless of profit. The same with business rates. A tax based on what they think your business should be earning rather than what it does earn. You only need to look at the empty high streets in the UK and compare it to some European countries to realise, perhaps they’re not doing things right here. (They definitely aren’t). IMHO

Britain is infested with short-termist cowboys in charge of companies. Like they all believe that they are temporarily embarrassed venture capitalists

My parents recognised it early on - I grew up hearing about this. As soon as Labour signed up to neoliberalism, my father said that's it. We have the American system now.

people realised but it was obviously too convenient for the elites

@@oldishandwoke-ish1181 I mean, it was Thatcher who signed up to neoliberalism. That was very much her thing. But yes, Labour carried it on.

We need to get our country back for real!

Nope. 80 years of socialism has destroyed Britain’s economy. That’s why the debt is sky high and getting worse.

The Left wouldn’t like that though

@@Jamie-uk2zh in the US the left have become the party of war

yeah and they never learn from their mistakes do they, we shouldn't be having wars in the 21st Century and let's be clear this has come about because of NATO expansion, it's not Russia that is the problem, it's the Americans, they are war obsessed and their Defense Contractors dictate foreign policy

Britain only stopped paying back American loans of WW2 in 2006 I believe. The US doesn't have friends, they have interests.(Exception being that little middle east country on the Mediterranean coast).

@@bhupendraparekh6225 I can book you a speaking gig in the US where you can explain to Americans why they should accept responsibility for European security. I'm sure they have not yet understood it.

@@user-vx5rz2bp4f facts my dear facts. Small fish get eaten smal fish who swim with the sharks thrive, but they have to go where the sharks go.

@@user-vx5rz2bp4flol…ok user -vx5rz2bp4f 😂🤣🤡🤡

​@@user-vx5rz2bp4f your name is more botlike than theirs. You a bot?

For some reason the oh so clever politicians let the knuckle draggers decide. I thought we'd end up in efta. I can't believe what's happened.

User - just because someone quotes facts they are not a bot you 🤡

Lived in the US for 15 years never heard the phrase special relationship once.

@@123bwlch It's only used when one sides wants something from the other.

It was an invention of the English upper class in the post war, post empire period. An attempt to rationalise what had happened “we’re no longer number one, but were number one’s best chum”. MacMillan even had a version for those with a classics education, describing the U.K. as “Greece to America’s Rome”. However the US Secretary of State Dean Acheson may have been more accurate “Lost an Empire, but haven’t yet found a role”. Still haven’t.

​@@davidpaterson2309 No need to invent a load of waffle. The term 'Special Relationship' was first by Churchill. On the 5th March 1946 Winston Churchill delivered his speech in Fulton Missouri coining the phase “Special Relationship” for the first time.

@@anthonyferris8912 And you presumably think that Churchill was not a member of the English ruling class? And is what MacMillan and Acheson said “waffle” simply because you were unaware if it? OK. Thanks.

You're voting on these politicians

@@drunkensailor112 doesn’t matter who we vote for, when they get into office, they just do what they want and ignore the voters until the next elections

But we have the weather

No it wouldn’t. That is horseshit

USA has higher per capita because it has no universal healthcare, weak worker rights protection in law (what are unions??) and weaker welfare systems. If you're broke in the USA you're truly broke and your living standards will be beyond appalling. I'm happy to be European and not American regardless of how well you think America's economy is doing the average American certainly is not really better off financially. America is a country for the rich.

@@truthwarrior2149it would be below only California in terms of GDP. However in terms of per capita GDP he’s right and worse yet thanks partially to Brexit our per capita GDP is falling.

I have walked down Skid Row, I have been to San Francisco. The destitution and desperation, the drugs and gun crime. Whatever you think of Western Europe that genuinely does not exist. It really is not remotely like that in Rotterdam or Munich, Marseille or even Manchester. These second cities have poor deprived areas but NOTHING like that seen on the scale of the USA's unequal distribution of wealth and minimal help for those worst off. You barely believe you eyes when people talk about the USA is all about how rich it is per person. You can't even get the medicine you might need or solid paid holiday agreements unless you're an above average earner.

Precisely. The United States of America requires a capable ally patrolling the North Atlantic, notably against the encroachment of Russian nuclear submarines. We don't need a partner that could, by its own recent internal audit, run out of ammunition and supplies within one to two months, possibly as expeditiously as ten days. There is a reason why British soldiers abroad have for decades now been dubbed 'the borrowers.' They are not adequately supplied. This is the fault of the U.S. ? America would like to see a prosperous U.K., a market for more iPhones and other products. This is how cross-associative economics work(s). When one does well, we all do well. We are allied in a global endeavor to secure peace and prosperity. The United States doesn't "run" or "own' the United Kingdom of Great Britain. "Full stop." That is a British compensatory delusion becoming a contemporary vogue to explain-away all of the lackluster policies, failed initiatives and increasing impoverishment and low productivity and overall stagnation. "Blame the Yanks!" Is that the new rally-cry? The reality is that Great Britain never fully recovered from the loss of her colonial vassals and has been seeking alternate revenue streams and a revised identity since. In effect, England began a colonial project with the consumption of Scotland, Wales and, finally, the annexation of the north of Ireland (post-1922...) and expanded outwards. It was actually "empire" itself that doomed the British empire. And attaching regrets and foibles to a goat named "America" and setting it to the hills is not going to solve any of the fundamental problems. I want to see Great Britain prosper - not whine and stagnate almost out of defiance of both her European identity/trade and her enviable American military and diplomatic partnership. It is silly. And it is sad. THINK ABOUT IT: The United Kingdom stands in a wonderful spot to assume the benefits of both unfettered trade with the E.U. and unparalleled protection by and cooperation with the U.S. But you're not doing that. Your internal divisions are undermining your uniquely advantageous position. It's self-injurious. "Down with the Yanks!" For real.....? That's the four-legged beast, the goat? On "fast food" : Money follows markets, and vice-verse. You don't want KFC/McD's/ Taco Bell and so on . . . ? Don't. Consume. It. The same stands for the U.S. marketplace. That, alone, is a micro-example of the larger macro-issue. Blame OUT, rather than looking IN.

My friend I wish it was so; if you try to take an independent stance they bully you! A case in point Huawei 5G equipment, the UK securities after careful examination of Huawei wanted to adopt their 5G. The US was not happy (because of her Trade War with China) forced the UK to toe the line.

The problem is the relationship is abusive as he put it. Look at the extradition treaty between our two countries, for instance. The UK requires prima facie evidence to extradite US citizens to face trial in the UK. The US, however, does not. The bar is a lot lower when the US wants to extradite one of us. Also, look at the case of Harry Dunn. A British boy killed in a car crash caused by a US diplomat's wife because she drove on the wrong side of the road. The US has refused to hand her over EVEN THOUGH she committed the crime on UK soil.

Exactly

Corporations run the U.S., and the U.S. runs Britain.

2nd question answer is no

The US government serves the interests of American oligarchs, the mega-corps, the military industrial complex, the top 1%.

Agree! it seems like the Biden Administration uses big Tech to censor speech except for Elon Musk and politically prosecute anybody that disagrees with them or trespasses on property we pay for because the government doesn't have any money without American taxpayers

yes

And labour. Especially labour

And labour jow 😢

China owns Labour.

UK in the EU You have a democratic say. By voting to send MEPs to the EU Parliament & government ministers to the Council of the EU. UK with US You have no democratic say.

@@bothi00 Labour is mostly funded by the unions, and in turn, the unions are funded by the workforce. Whereas the Tories are predominantly funded by a handful of incredibly wealthy financiers and big corporations. Now, which party would you expect to operate on behalf of the business classes and not your ordinary citizen?

in simple terms, our politicians are all puppets of their US based masters ...

@HedgeWalker washington is a state in the US. but you're talking about washington dc and thats not a state. its irrelevant to the original commenter

@HedgeWalker "Washington DC is not part of the U.S." man i wish i was as high as you! maybe after work :)

say F to the US!

Starting with the Suez Crisis in 1956

Fake news

Are there actually "vast amounts" of British agricultural land - in a nation the size of the State of Wisconsin?

@@jamesmatthewneeland5707 - relatively speaking yes.

@@piccalillipit9211 Hmmm....

French Champagne producers have been buying English vineyards. What is your point?

This is what happens to former colonialist exploiters, they get exploited themselves.

@@platosbeard4449 That does not have any logic to it. It's necessary to be the one exploiting and not the one being exploited. Don't try and cloud the issue using faux morality.

Well i agree with the first part.. but what makes you say that Britain doesn’t.

@@rickyp6815 Getting involved in foreign conflicts, importing insane numbers of people without having the infrastructure to support. On a simple level acting like a powerful rich country when the UK is not a rich country.

​@@gusleonard9397 Who says we don't have the infrastructure to support our influx of immigrants?

And Japan, South Korea, Canada. I actually think Israel controls the US though. Do Israel is our boss.

but it is like that. And it will remain like that. Do you remember the gigantic trade agreement between China and the EU? The US, at the time the outgoing Pompeo and the incoming Blinken issued a statement in order to oppose it. And then it was dumped.

Nonsense

@@henriikkak2091 Of course the UK and EU is controlled by the U.S. You really are asleep at the wheel.

It is the hidden racism of language. If the EU all spoke English the UK would still be in it. But all those pesky Europeans have their own languages! Not good for a nation of people who refuse to learn another language.

And stay out.

@@ulfosterberg9116 What?

time to rejoin

The US made us join the EU.

You need to stop listening to Trump and engage with the real world. Run along now, it's a school day.

As an American, I would be perfectly happy to stop paying taxes to defend a country that doesn’t want it.

Don't worry, when we have been assimilated by Russia the combined former countries of the EU and Russia will invade America and liberate your wealth permanently.

@@liamcraginyou little dum colonist, we made you .

Well the Majority of the UK have no interest in a War the USA Created back in 2012 to 2014. So Stop depending on us to Fund your Proxy War and its Puppet Army NATO.

I blame the british public who time and time again voted against their self economic interests. Politicians dont spring out of the ground nor do they appear out of thin air, people vote for them, and they are a reflection of the people. Congratz on your brexit btw! Greetings from a very much EU loving Belgium!

Real imitation cheese! Only merca.

And . . . what would the British economy, culture, even p/Politics, look like (today) if it were not for the supposed dominance of the United States? Hmmm? (Brexit, anyone....?) How much differently, notably in an age of increased global homogeneity, at least in Western democratic states, would the United Kingdom of Great Britain look/function without the dreaded ethnic ooze of those Yanks and their cultural imperialism (as assessed by a Briton, any debate over anything 'imperial' feels tongue-in-cheek.) Is the implication, or outright charge, that the United States is somehow holding-back Britain, is standing in the way of that lamp under that bushel from illuminating? The reality is, as difficult it may be to digest, the United Kingdom of Great Britain never truly recovered from the near-devastation of the Second World War and the consequent loss of her overseas vassals. That is the view from 30,000 feet, decade-by-decade. It is the strategist's view, in terms of national divestment. From the start, the working slate of (what would become) Great Britain was predicated upon the absorption of territory and treasure from outside the original English borders. This trend continued outward, from the North Atlantic to other continents. The United Kingdom of Great Britain evolved as a colonial project (for right or wrong.....) Without that (near-template of a) model, the overarching wealth/influence/power balance in relation to other countries, especially the United States, the whole thing, in plain parlance, just doesn't work. The United Kingdom is a nation small in both area and (relative) population that still mourns its dubiously glorious past. It sees any involvement or cooperation with other nations as something akin to intolerable interference. But then . . . where are all of the British firms, interests, entities that could supplant what the United States has done and will continue to do? Is the idea that, somehow, participation in a global association with the U.S. has prevented British firms/interests from reaching certain heights and/or perhaps had been stymied from the first BY the U.S.? Great Britain has a complicated relationship even with its immediate neighbors. They're a part of Europe. They're not a part of Europe. That almost-schizoid national psyche. So, ultimately, what is the position of this (supposed) America-uber-alles thesis? Let's blame those Yanks for our angst, internally and otherwise. Every policy prescription that fails, every time a British firm is eclipsed by a foreign (expressly American) firm, every move backwards, every dip further into increasing poverty and even dissolution, the rally-cry will ring out, "Blame the Yanks?" Down with Pax America? Is that the level to which the U.K. has reduced itself, per this gentleman's prescription? No internal analysis, no reflection inwards, no real insights, no little looksie under the hood (or bonnet)? Really? C'mon, Britain. Be better. (And I would love to have an elaboration on the supposed pilfering of $3-billion annually of "art," or some such . . . Let us take a stroll through the British Museum shall we, boys & girls?)

​@@SeArCh4DrEaMz They're too busy pointing the finger at immigrants

Privatisation means profits and assets go where private capital wishes it goes. So the buffoons who simp for privatisation of public services have no business complaining.

Can't tell rich people where to stay

You should know that those times have long gone.

(((the City of London)))

UK in the EU You have a democratic say. By voting to send MEPs to the EU Parliament & government ministers to the Council of the EU. UK with US You have no democratic say.

You mean only the white Brits when you refer to your cousins?

Wrong terminology was used in the interview. UK was first to approve a vaccine and were involved in its development (so I believe). The United Kingdom was the first country to grant emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine. It authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use on December 2, 2020.

​@@martin-hall-northern-soul Correct, emergency approval was possible for all EU members, but the UK was the only country to take advantage of the opportunity. Two months after approval, the UK then left the EU. No, the UK was not involved as it had not prioritized mRNA technology. Biontech was the only European company (alongside CureVac, also based in Germany), which successfully conducted research in it (Katalin Karikó, who researches for Biontech, also received the Nobel Prize). Biontech, then a start-up, is now a multi-billion dollar company based in Mainz. The city has become incredibly rich, so to speak, overnight (through tax revenue from Biontech). Biontech recently expanded to Great Britain and was the first company to open an mRNA factory (research laboratories) directly in Africa. The mRNA is said to have high potential in fighting cancer.

@@nettcologne9186 I bow to your superior knowledge on this one.

@@martin-hall-northern-soul thx. At the time (pandemic) I was very concerned with the topic. If I had described it in my native language I would have described it in a more nuanced way and also the role that Pfizer plays in this, but you can imagine that a start-up needs a large company on its side to produce the product in large quantities worldwide.

@@nettcologne9186 I wish I could write as lucidly as you do in a foreign language.

it's the nasty side of the US left wing, they have now become the party of war

"They discourage new companies by discriminating against them" America allows for brainfart, pump-and-dump companies to declare bankruptcy with relative ease which leaves a trail of unemployed and creditors out of pocket everywhere else prefer to *invest* in companies with a sustainable plan rather than take a punt on companies that leave more losers than winners if involved

The U.S is increasingly run by monopolies and near monopolies. We gobble up small business and competition is discouraged.

@@stevenhenry5267 What I was referring to is the financial system and laws that help startups. What you say is very true for mature industries and tech has become mature. If allowed to continue we’ll lose our edge as well as our democracy. (We’re close to that now.) For those who don’t follow this - at some point 40 or 50 years ago the DOJ decided that AntiTrust law’s purpose was to protect consumers from high prices instead of also protecting all of us and democracy from over-accumulations of power. That view continued under both Democrats and Republicans. Biden’s DOJ is starting to change that view. I hope they continue. We have only 3 national cell carriers, 1 search engine, 1 social media company, etc. That’s not good.

​@@MrDubyadee1 my understanding is that bureaucracy is less in the UK relative to some EU countries. But it's hard to attract capital investment for new companies. The UK has produced some decent tech companies but the owners quickly sell out to the US.

In WW2 the strings didn't look so dangerous when we owned India and half of Africa.

I don't agree with what that guy was saying. Neither do millions of other British.

Precisely. The United States of America requires a capable ally patrolling the North Atlantic, notably against the encroachment of Russian nuclear submarines. We don't need a partner that could, by its own recent internal audit, run out of ammunition and supplies within one to two months, possibly as expeditiously as ten days. There is a reason why British soldiers abroad have for decades now been dubbed 'the borrowers.' They are not adequately supplied. This is the fault of the U.S. ? America would like to see a prosperous U.K., a market for more iPhones and other products. This is how cross-associative economics work(s). When one does well, we all do well. We are allied in a global endeavor to secure peace and prosperity. The United States doesn't "run" or "own' the United Kingdom of Great Britain. "Full stop." That is a British compensatory delusion becoming a contemporary vogue to explain-away all of the lackluster policies, failed initiatives and increasing impoverishment and low productivity and overall stagnation. "Blame the Yanks!" Is that the new rally-cry? The reality is that Great Britain never fully recovered from the loss of her colonial vassals and has been seeking alternate revenue streams and a revised identity since. In effect, England began a colonial project with the consumption of Scotland, Wales and, finally, the annexation of the north of Ireland (post-1922...) and expanded outwards. It was actually "empire" itself that doomed the British empire. And attaching regrets and foibles to a goat named "America" and setting it to the hills is not going to solve any of the fundamental problems. I want to see Great Britain prosper - not whine and stagnate almost out of defiance of both her European identity/trade and her enviable American military and diplomatic partnership. It is silly. And it is sad. THINK ABOUT IT: The United Kingdom stands in a wonderful spot to assume the benefits of both unfettered trade with the E.U. and unparalleled protection by and cooperation with the U.S. But you're not doing that. Your internal divisions are undermining your uniquely advantageous position. It's self-injurious. "Down with the Yanks!" For real.....? That's the four-legged beast, the goat? On "fast food" : Money follows markets, and vice-verse. You don't want KFC/McD's/ Taco Bell and so on . . . ? Don't. Consume. It. The same stands for the U.S. marketplace. That, alone, is a micro-example of the larger macro-issue. Blame OUT, rather than looking IN.

Meh, we Americans are most definately not in enthralled of the UK. Nor culturally nor otherwise. 🤣

Other than a bit of a fascination with the UK royal family I don’t see it in terms of culture. The special relationship in terms of politics was largely dependent on our influence within the EU and that fell by the wayside after Brexit. I doubt there’s any more admiration for the UK than there is for Australia or Canada.

@@gordonspears6320 There are lots of Anglophiles in the US. I’m one of them. I just get tired the way the we have become a scapegoat for all the ills of the world, and the condescending attitudes. The double standard: a British politician must say, We will cooperate with the US when it’s in our interest, but we won’t when it’s not in our interest (Teresa May). If an American president says that, he is condemned for being “transactional”. An American president who acts in America’s interest = unilateralist. A British prime minister who acts in Britain’s interest = independent. A British prime minister who acts in the Anglo American interests = poodle/lapdog. An American president who acts in the Anglo American interest really doesn’t have a name because it’s taken for granted. When British actors, directors, cinematographers, etc. work in Hollywood, it’s part of a plot by sinister Americans to steal British talent. If they weren’t allowed to work in Hollywood, it would be an example of American isolationism and protectionism.

@@greble11 I totally agree, I get so tired of the US being blamed for everything. I believe it drives our isolationism, which is probably not good for anyone. And this whole argument is music to Putin's ears, which is never good.

@@greble11 Nicely put, at the "grassroots" level we have a great deal in common culturally but the "relationship" tends to revolve around who's in the WH and Number 10. It's clear to me the current incumbent has total disdain for the UK (especially us English) and his former boss openly despised the British, I expect you can guess why. I'm glad you noticed Theresa May's "contribution".. she tried to emulate Maggie Thatcher but ignored the best friend we've had in the White House since Reagan. I remember that statement, I'm sure it was in response to advice in regard to our upcoming withdrawal negotiations with the EU. I think she did exactly the opposite so we ended up with a total calamity! cheers

What about before World War II? How was Britain able to act as a totally independent nation before World War II but not anymore what is different?

​@@LindaAndrews-ly1qfhope you like this quote from 1930s I am the man with the umbrella, when I speak seriously the nations take all the more notice.

Bro you have been huffing too much propaganda. Read a history book. Read an encyclopedia. Snap back to reality.

Yes when Trump talks about 2% NATO defence spending, what his saying is we want you to buy American arms. That way we can then fund their arm industry, remember when Turkey bought Russia air defence system America said they wouldn't anymore sell them F15s. They have now done so after Turkey allowed Sweden into NATO. France has it's own fighter jets ,so does Sweden, German it's own battle tanks of course it's in the interest of countries to build their own systems, for employment and export reasons

@@TheGhostOf2020what part of what he has said is propaganda? Please explain.

the uk gets poorer as profits on foreign owned British companies leave the uk never to return. So a successful British company is bought out like Dunlop Tyres now owned by Goodyear, loads of money comes into the uk at once, but the profits no longer stay in the uk, now the profits go into the USA. Investment in the uk isn't a good thing for the uk unless the investment keeps coming back into the uk, which is rarely the case. Goodyear are already asset stripping Dunlop Tyres, shutting down Avon Tyres that was owned by Dunlop, they're only interested in the brand name of the oldest tyre manufacturer in the world, probably the only tyre company that could rival Goodyear for global brand recognition. Avon Tyres made most of the racing tyres for historic motorsport in the world, and a large percentage of modern motorsport.

Sadly there have been horrible examples of UK companies being stripped of assets and reduced to nothing after being bought up by American companies. To the asset strippers, this is just business. The government has left UK business very exposed to this kind of practice - much more exposed than elsewhere.

Orange Mean Tweeter Man bad, blah blah blah. There was nothing authoritarian/fascist about Trump compared to any other US president. The worst were FDR and Wilson.

You were probably a janitor in the armed services

As an American, I say thank you for your service. Britain was once a great military power, especially its navy. Your leftists (just like the ones in the USA) and the EU have sold your country down the river. I hope Brexit Makes Britain Great Again.

You’ll find that those copying all the bad things are not the same ones being angry about it.

What do we copy?

We’re not given a choice that’s why we’re angry. America forgets what a man and a woman is and starts pumping little girls full of steroids and boys full of puberty blockers Now it’s a hate crime to question this in the U.K. elections are meaningless in the U.K. whatever the democrats in America decide becomes our policy even when the Republicans are in office.

More like the US and UK can't take a dump without the say so of China or the EUSSR.

lol the vast majority of shareholders are American.

So long as the USA maintains a majority share they're profiting at the other countries expense unless those profits are invested further into new infrastructure and new businesses. Most American investment in other countries isn't investment for the other countries its just a buyout from their perspective. The British government pretends its investment for itself but its only investment for others not Britain itself.

@@theant9821 I guess I am not understanding the situation there. My state competes with other states for new auto plants from foreign countries because although the profits go back to the country that owns the plant, it creates jobs that benefit the workers, the community and the state. If this is not happening in the UK, then you (the British citizens and leaders) need to figure out why it is not happening and make the changes needed to make it happen. Mexico doesn't own the manufacturing plants that make Hondas, Fords, etc. but they benefit from the jobs and taxes generated by these plants.

I would even support an outright political union... A new commonwealth. The past few hundred years saw British, and by extension, Anglo culture, dominate the world. Together, we are stronger. If both the UK and US were allowed to wither into oblivion, the world would be utterly alien compared to what we have been accustomed to.

as long as the US is taken away the right of printing dollars ...

If a medium sized country of 70m can't stand up to a superpower, what makes you think a country of 5m can? It's a question of maths not flags at the end of the day

Nicely put Josh... some may disagree but I think Britain's best friend in America had a Scottish mother.

Why aren’t you passing the Ukraine bill then? For UK, Ukraine is kind of on the doorstep, before UK has to directly fight Putin.

@@jamonit7169 you're talking about the guy who supports the dictator who carried out chemical attacks on British soil, who is puppeteering to stop any and all help to the country being invaded by that dictator, which threatens Britain's national security. That guy, right?

You want the best for British people? Here's what you can do, elect Joe Biden in November. Britain stands with Ukraine

​@@blauewaffel1469 It also stands with Palestine but Joe doesn't. Neither Trump or Biden does. Israel knows it and will exploit it.

Not true Canada abuses the US.

Alone... with the rest of the commonwealth behind you.

@@iangodfrey4518 correct they came straight in god bless them

No that's not true. The UK has opposed importing US food due to chemicals that are banned in EU

@@user-hj4vw5kf5hbut now you’re not in the EU, you can change your laws to match whatever the US wants…and they will make you want to

Silly boy

a bxtch is a bxtch.. it doesn't matter who it belongs to

Scotland is England's Canada.

@@Paul-kw4js Aye and England is Scotlands America

@@Paul-kw4js Canada is America's Scotland, eh.

Scotland is England’s hat 🎩

Scotland better have a long talk with Sweden then....because Sweden is NOT happy right now.

$3 billion a year! give me a break…

Not so. That is one issue. Listen with your mind.

Yeah, but in exchange they would have to give up NHS... no more universal health care or affordable education, plus more income disparity and tax cuts for the rich and big biz. Let the privatization of everything and the politicization of religion begin.

@@phiksit You wouldn't have to give up the NHS. You'd just have to pay for it and Medicaid/Medicare. California and Vermont have both tried to implement their own state run health care services, but stopped for this very reason. Financially it simply makes no sense. But if you were that married to the NHS you could keep it, there's no law saying states couldn't.

@@phiksit So we should, the NHS has now been so abused it is almost destroyed anyway.

😂😂😂😂😂

@@quentenburnett7296we don’t want to be exploited financially for getting ill. Of course we’re married to the NHS!

McDonald's succeeding in France is very much a non-event in this discussion. We're talking more important matters here, like ownership of strategic, nationally critical companies and infrastructure. France allows almost none of that and retains control over these, while the UK is willing to bend over for anybody.

@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia the point is that the US fast food outlet has had a powerful (some say destructive) influence on French food culture.

Never used Macdonald, never used Amazon or Apple, have weaned myself of facebook ... now working on google ;)

Eire is also owned by

It was a ludicrous comment

That and England is basically Americas mother, America is our rebel son xD

​@@elvishprincess321 Bro US has soon none white population and majority Spanish speaking people will you say same

@@Moonuuu none white?? How on earth is that going to happen? Anyway my answer would still be the same...I'm not racist or prejudice..I believe there is good and bad in all of us no matter which faith country language political party or Colour of peoples skin I love all people of the world this is who we are as the human race why can't everyone just get along with one another surely it can't be that hard...most of us do but there is always people who seek conflict in life..I just find that one of the worlds failures that we can't live in peace but I guess sometimes if you want to live in peace prepare for war such is the world we live in ♥️✌️🙏

@@AllanRice Fair I'm also don't care about color of skin language by white people I means majority of none white people in the US but yes US is not white supremacist country I'm sorry ❤

@@AllanRice I'm not white supremacist I respect everyone race language religion 🙏🙏

Most mercans couldn't find us on a map.

It's a one-way relationship: America is important to us, we are insignificant to them, except to those US owned companies that bought the rights to British oil reserves. Had the government nationalised the oil and kept the profits, our school and hospital buildings didn't need to collapse and the government would have enough money to pay NHS doctors and nurses.

The United States of America requires a capable ally patrolling the North Atlantic, notably against the encroachment of Russian nuclear submarines. We don't need a partner that could, by its own recent internal audit, run out of ammunition and supplies within one to two months, possibly as expeditiously as ten days. There is a reason why British soldiers abroad have for decades now been dubbed 'the borrowers.' They are not adequately supplied. This is the fault of the U.S. ? America would like to see a prosperous U.K., a market for more iPhones and other products. This is how cross-associative economics work(s). When one does well, we all do well. We are allied in a global endeavor to secure peace and prosperity. The United States doesn't "run" or "own' the United Kingdom of Great Britain. "Full stop." That is a British compensatory delusion becoming a contemporary vogue to explain-away all of the lackluster policies, failed initiatives and increasing impoverishment and low productivity and overall stagnation. "Blame the Yanks!" Is that the new rally-cry? The reality is that Great Britain never fully recovered from the loss of her colonial vassals and has been seeking alternate revenue streams and a revised identity since. In effect, England began a colonial project with the consumption of Scotland, Wales and, finally, the annexation of the north of Ireland (post-1922...) and expanded outwards. It was actually "empire" itself that doomed the British empire. And attaching regrets and foibles to a goat named "America" and setting it to the hills is not going to solve any of the fundamental problems. I want to see Great Britain prosper - not whine and stagnate almost out of defiance of both her European identity/trade and her enviable American military and diplomatic partnership. It is silly. And it is sad. THINK ABOUT IT: The United Kingdom stands in a wonderful spot to assume the benefits of both unfettered trade with the E.U. and unparalleled protection by and cooperation with the U.S. But you're not doing that. Your internal divisions are undermining your uniquely advantageous position. It's self-injurious. "Down with the Yanks!" For real.....? That's the four-legged beast, the goat? On "fast food" : Money follows markets, and vice-verse. You don't want KFC/McD's/ Taco Bell and so on . . . ? Don't. Consume. It. The same stands for the U.S. marketplace. That, alone, is a micro-example of the larger macro-issue. Blame OUT, rather than looking IN.

Nah, 51st state

Send us Bernie instead and we might have a deal

Yes you are right. But a lot of people don't know this Ukraine will be next one at 52

The rest of Europe despises and loathes the UK now. We have no other option.

UK has a lot to answer for here... Brexit has been a catastrophe for Europe too as well as the UK itself, whether Europe wants to admit it or not.

Thankyou. I agree on the importance of the relationship and that it has value in both directions.

Totally agree, from the other side of the pond.

It's not American citizens who are the problem! The same people who are impoverishing your citizens are impoverishing ours.

Why is it always one direction? When the US ask to send troops to Iraq or Afghanistan it is done. But when there is a war in Europe the first thing the US A said, under no circumstances we will send troops. Since half a year not even any outdated weapons are delivered to Ukraine while Europe buy 80 % of its weapons from the USA.

@@maritaschweizer1117 Heard of Article 5 in NATO?

True.

yeah they are terrible people focusing on their own domestic problems and putting foreign war adventures as a lower priority. No let's vote for Biden shall we, high crime, open borders, terrible economy and censorship and WAR

Niall Farage predated Trump and he was a significant early influencer. UKIP policies were repurposed into American centric MAGA

In fact, UK is often used by MAGA as the cautionary tale behind the control of immigration and loss of traditional national Identity.

Tony Blair sought to make Labour into a UK version of the Democrats.

He’s a New Yorker pretending to be British 😜