@borntobequiet
Biden, his team and the Irish caucus in the US will be watching carefully and won’t be remotely impressed at the Westminster government’s willingness to throw the GFA under the bus.
The idea of a US trade deal in any way favourable to the U.K. is slipping further away daily. What planet are these Tory numpties (and anyone else who voted for the Bill) living on?
It's so much worse than that.
So much worse.
We're forgetting that Obama - and it's not like he didn't have access to some of the worlds top independent analysts as well as his own partisan advisers - effectively determined that Brexit was bad for the USA. Which is a world apart from just being a "Meh, do what you want".
If you like reading between the lines (and what else can you do in the face of so few facts from Brexiteers) then it's clear Obama warned Cameron of this before the referendum. But Cameron - with the posh boy entitlement that we now know Obama found ... deficient in leadership - plugged ahead arrogantly until he lost. It's hard not to presume his flight from power was also a flight from some serious arse kickin' boots across the water.
Now, 4 years later - with Brexit still a car crash, the UK is about to meet the new boss, same as the old boss. The very same people that said oer 4 years ago: Don't Brexit - it will hurt the USA
Obviously the UK isn't a vassal state of the US. In much the same way Scotland is not a vassal state of the UK. However there is a world of difference between a neighbour that says "I don't gove a shit what colour you paint your house" and a neighbour that says "I know you can paint your house whatever colour you like. But since I like showing people around my house, please be aware that painting it dayglo yellow would harm my house too.
Oh, and unless there's been a rapid turnaround in Bidens planning, trade deals are off the table for everyone. He's already said he wants to get US businesses competitive internally before negotiating with other countries. And wasn't there a suggestion that the UK would have to have it's EU deal sorted before the US would start talking ?
It's already clear that personally Biden has no time for Boris anyway. And that would have been without the egregious needling of Ireland.
None of this should really come as a shock to anyone who has been paying attention (which won't be any Brexiteers). And moreover, I don't think anything has actually changed, apart from the honesty. I don't think Trump had a seconds care for anything the UK wanted - even if it was in his power to deliver it, which it wasn't.
The final kicker is that in 2021 the UK loses what little arrangements it had with the US anyway, as all the EU deals stop working. I have no idea what the implications of that are generally. But a lot of software licensing is undertaken to countries in the EU as a bloc. Will the UK out of the EU suddenly see a spike in prices and less favourable conditions as we're no longer protected by the EU monopolies commission ?