First blood to Trump

Are you American, Ankers? I could perhaps understand your perspective if you were. Otherwise, I don't.

Many ordinary people in the UK feel left behind and ignored by modern politics and the politicians who neither understand or care about them. These people are the people in America who voted for Trump whom they see as a glimmer of hope that things might change for the better.

Let's face it we need a desperate change in this country. (And for the record I don't mean Corbyn).

Lets see.

My concern is that he may go too far with things, not that he wont be able to go far enough.

I sat and watched the excitement of the Trump supporters the night before the inauguration, and felt so sorry for them because many of the dreams they have cannot come true. Industries that have died will not be resurrected because the world has moved on and jobs have disappeared because of mechanisation. 'Taking back control' is a fine-sounding slogan - but what does it mean? Delusional was the word that came to my mind.

Are you American?

daphnedill "Even more reason why the UK should not be looking to increase trade with the US. It won't be for our mutual benefit. The US is a giant compared with the UK and any deal will be entirely one-sided, although I have no doubt a few UK 'fat cats' would benefit."

Brilliant, Trump takes care of the US. There have been complaints that as POTUS he won't 'fix' the US, maybe he will. No anti Trump rhetoric for his nominal role in UK policies.

Jolly good, but I'm not a US taxpayer. Having said that, Donald Trump doesn't appear to be a US taxpayer either.

Even more reason why the UK should not be looking to increase trade with the US. It won't be for our mutual benefit. The US is a giant compared with the UK and any deal will be entirely one-sided, although I have no doubt a few UK 'fat cats' would benefit.

'Buying American' made Sam Walton. 'Buying American' is good for US taxpayers.

Oh well! What's £4000 to a billionaire?

Indeed!

With Liam Fox in charge of Overseas Trade and his history of...err...unorthodox dealings, I don't have a good feeling about this.

Sorry, £17,000.

www.ft.com/content/0512638c-b7c2-11e6-961e-a1acd97f622d

Did you hear about the jeweller whose diamond and gold sweepings from the floor were worth £13,000?
We'll need a few more of those to make up the losses.

The UK currently has a trade surplus with the US - just about the only country we do have a surplus with. It's been hit recently as a result of the fall in sterling, but is still worth billions to the UK economy.

Much of the surplus comes from financial services, diamonds and pharmaceuticals.

HSBC has confirmed it's relocating 1000 jobs to Paris. Let's just hope not too many follow. The UK is going to be left with the lowly back-room jobs. The US would have no reason not to trade with Paris or Frankfurt.

The UK imports diamonds and cuts them before exporting them. In 2015, the trade was worth $2.1 billion to the UK, but it's declining and will fall further if sterling doesn't recover. Belgium already has its eyes on our market.

Pharmaceuticals include those manufactured by US companies in the UK. Some of them are exported to the US. The companies do that for tax reasons, but it looks as though Trump wants to repatriate the jobs. If he does, it will be a huge blow to the UK economy.

There is no doubt that 'Buying American' will affect the UK.

Only two rules, one being buy American.
So bang goes May's idea of trading with America. They aren't going to buy anything we want to export.

I don't think getting out of the car outside Trump Tower was showing Americans he was one of the people, either.

twitter.com/Bridgesnotwallz

Talking about bears, Russia has minted some coins with "In Trump we Trust" printed on them!

All mention of climate change has disappeared from the White House website, the new Education minister on Newsnight being questioned about guns in schools and saying that a school somewhere might have one to protect the school from bears! and things are just getting going. Whatever will come next?

I hope he doesn't tweet about these.

www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/top-secret-government-documents-confidential-intelligence-214665

Those concerned about climate change, look at this.

secure.avaaz.org/en/climate_story_loc/

The irony, petra. You do realise what you've said?
Trump, the man who has $3.7 billion, is going to force the politicians in Washington to work for the people and not their bank accounts!
He could put his tax accounts online, like all the other presidents have done, just to show how honest he is, petra.
Of course he won't, will he, because he isn't.

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-twitter-what-he-thinks_us_587fdc3ae4b02c1837e973c9?o2835bi75jnnuerk9§ion=us_world

TTIP is no longer featured on the Whitehouse website. Did some posters miss that or couldn't bring themselves to admit that he's done something good.

Did nobody see the series of programmes on BBC breakfast from America last week?
Some of the infrastructure was almost 3rd world, I'm not exaggerating.
America will be great again when they get jobs back from the world and his wife and Trump forces ( by fair means, or foul) the politicians in Washington to work for the people and not their bank accounts.

' I think all people in his position should not use twitter. They should at least try to be more statesmanlike. They should at least think before they tweet.'

They all use twitter don't they?. Corbyn had his twitter account hacked recently.

David Cameron once said "Too many tweets might make a twat"