With Boris Johnson inside 10 Downing Street, what does the future hold for the UK’s relationship with the EU and US?
Former British ambassador Sir Kim Darroch’s leaked cables have kicked up a lot of dust given that the UK’s relationship with the US was seen as key to Boris Johnson’s early period in office as Prime Minister. A quick trade deal with America would be a catalyst for others to follow and would give Britain’s economy a shot in the arm to help it deal with a post hard-deal Brexit economic shock.Firstly, the ‘special relationship’ is really nothing more than a journalist’s cliché.
The problem with Trump’s style is that he doesn’t even offer his own technocrats the chance to follow up and begin the arduous process; he’s not a negotiator nor a businessman of any merit and so his own petulance will kill it off there and then. The BBC recently reported that the lacklustre former German defence minister, now the new EU Commission boss, has already signalled that she could accept an extension to the October 31 deadline.
She already caused controversy by showing that she will be a much more warmer and reasonable negotiator than the petulant, petty and sometimes even less than sober Jean-Claude Junker, who was blinded by his own dogma and arrogance with his Brexit stand and led by his euro federalist fantasies – which led to Britain being offered such a dog’s breakfast of a ‘withdrawal deal’ in the first place.
Making statements of support to Iran and but not backing them up is what has created the crisis in the first place. Iran is tired of EU statements and knows that they don’t add up to much. What the EU could and should be doing is making Iran part of the trade talks, going further to allow Iran to sell oil to EU governments and to lean on countries like India, China, South Korea and Japan to stop complying with Trump’s secondary sanctions and go back to buying oil from Tehran.
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