Stop buying American goods after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico

Here’s what we import from the US. Not easy to boycott, but why don’t you start with not flying anywhere and not smoking. That will take care of three.

• Fuels
• In 2023, the UK imported £18.7 billion of fuels from the US, which was 23.5% of all fuel imports
• Mechanical power generators: In 2023, the UK imported £5.5 billion of mechanical power generators
• Aircraft: In 2023, the UK imported £3.1 billion of aircraft
• Animal, vegetable fats and oils: In 2023, the UK imported $26.82 million of animal, vegetable fats and oils
• Lac, gums, resins: In 2023, the UK imported $24.97 million of lac, gums, and resins
• Explosives, pyrotechnics, matches, pyrophorics: In 2023, the UK imported $24.69 million of explosives, pyrotechnics, matches, and pyrophorics
• Tobacco and manufactures tobacco substitutes: In 2023, the UK imported $24.41 million of tobacco and tobacco substitutes

He won't. Starmer & Streeting will offer them greater access to our healthcare market.

Sorry you do understand that Trudeau is on the way out politically, and what power does Mark Carney have? Your posters are hilarious.

Both countries need to tighten their own borders and there is evidence that this is already happening. Fentanyl flows in both directions across the border apparently. Both countries until the last few weeks have allowed pedestrian unmanned border crossings to operate but was announced very recently this is stopping (not sure how much these crossings contributed to drug flow). The PCT hiking community are a bit annoyed as they’ll have to turn back at the monument and do a longer hike back to the nearest USA town than if they could carry on to the nearest Canadian town. Could be dangerous in late Sept/oct which is when most people reach the border and the weather is closing in.

Canada has also announced more border security.

forbes say any drug trade or illegal immigration does not justify the tariffs as the numbers are so small.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2025/01/31/tariff-on-canada-not-justified-by-us-immigration-and-drug-claims/

Stop visiting the US.

Stop using the dollar.

Is that poll by the same company that said Kamala was going to win the election?

In fact I don’t see how Britain can resist anyone or anything at this moment in time. Politicians even seem to want to reduce our food production - and the farmers have long been spoiled in comparison to the rest of us for that very reason. If we produce nothing we are dependent.

Congratulations to decades of neoliberalist fools and the greedy chasing big bucks who have neglected the basic building blocks of local markets and small production, and made such utterly impossible here via land prices (and huge immigration imports don’t help).

There has also been a huge increase in illegal immigrants (mostly of subcontinental Indian origin). Sadly an entire Indian family died crossing the northern border, including a baby. They froze to death.

Also fake trucking schools being used to transport drugs into the US and Canada is making no serious effort to stop this (imo anyway).

Whether tariffs will work in bringing back manufacturing in the US remains to be seen, I’m cautiously optimistic

The US is our biggest ally, and you think it’s a good idea to get into a spat that has nothing to do with us?! It’s honestly a ridiculous suggestion, and will lead to a serious fracture in our relationship with them, which is under enough strain as it is because of Starmer and Lammy.

@Rainingalldayonmyhead I will be checking very carefully where my goods come from now

Well I'm glad you have the time.

I'm more concerned with helping elderly relatives now they've had their Winter Fuel Payment taken off them and working out if I can afford to take any staff on now that I have to pay extra for NI and wages etc etc🙄

Then I'm sure they'll let him know and maybe that'll do some good. He does play best to the home crowd.

OFFS

Just because the White House say this doesn’t make it true. Even the bbc which you’d hope would be balanced reckon it’s about revenue raising.

This is the difficulty with large entwined supply systems. Ultimately nations got started as large scale community groups exchanging resources within commonly (or enforced) held standards, agreements and law. There is no such standard or social cohesion on the global map.

This is why some of us have never liked globalism, because of the vulnerability of close interdependency. I don’t see how the U.K. can resist America now, especially outside the EU. This is why all of our leaders are having to crawl and backtrack in humiliating fashion.

Unfortunately, I think this is a very accurate assessment.

Weird attitude.

The people of America, using their long standing democratic process, voted for this. Everyone could see the direction this election was heading. They got what they wanted.

Unfortunately, when you hyper focus on minor matters, you miss some of the bigger stuff which in the clear light of day was very obvious to ‘outsiders / foreigners’.

I mean, people didn't stop using Amazon when it was decimating the high street, they're not going to give it up just to stick it to Bezos, are they?

That's fine, but Musk and his like want their stuff manufactured in China so they don't have to pay a decent wage. If Trump wants things made in the US, Americans are going to have to do the work, at the same speed as they do in China and India, and their employers are going to have to pay them more. Just as we will have to if we want more manufacturing in this country. Less stuff, made better that lasts for longer, but much, much more expensive. The proliferation of people who don't care that a child has made their piece of crap top from Shein that they bought for £2 suggests that won't be happening anytime soon.

We shall see, hopefully it'll be a message for other countries and convince Canada to tighten their own borders.

If every Britain cancelled Amazon Prime or at least drastically reduced getting Amazon deliveries, there would be a noticeable impact on a key Trump ally.

I don't pay for any of these. If people want to pay them to advertise to me, that's up to them, although I use ad-blockers.