What a Trump Victory Means for the UK

With Trump winning the US presidential election, the UK government is preparing for the upcoming potential tariffs. In this video, we're taking a look at what the Labour government has already done to build bridges with the President Elect, and then seeing what this means for the UK as a whole.

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[SteveSearle]

Plot twist : Trump ignores Starmer and will only speak to Farage as the representative of the UK parliament.

[GoogleSnakeee]

starmer is too right for the left and too left for the right😭

[Tterrible]

Brexit ironically made us much less independent geopolitically 😂

[bryanwilson]

You work for 40yrs to have $1m in your retirement, Meanwhile some people are putting just $10k in a meme coin for just few months and now they are multi millionaires. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life

[briangasser]

The UK is a service economy. What manufacturing exports does it produce? Tariffs is a much bigger problem for economies such as Germany.

[NoverianSnowCone]

As a Brit, I disagree a lot with Starmer myself. I think he's placed his priorities all in the wrong places.

[Louid]

It’s a hard pill to swallow, but the UK really is an insignificant little country in today’s world. We really don’t have much to offer, I think America, china, Russia just laugh at us like a little brother trying to fit in his dad’s shoes. We need drastic change of government or we’re really going to slide further into the background.

[Pilps]

Starmer sending Labour Party members to help the democrats during the campaign probably didn’t help relations.

Thanks two tier kier

[theawesomeman]

As an American, I wish the best for the UK and US relations to get better.
I know many Brits and I want them to have a better life just like I want my fellow Americans to have better lives.
I'm not a huge fan of Starmer and his government but I'm rooting for his subjects.

[oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

In typical TLDR fashion, what actually happens will turn out to be pretty much the opposite of what the channel predicted.

[Rendertk]

To be honest, I feel like the "special relationship" has long been used as an excuse for the US to economically abuse the UK. With any luck the fact that the US has just elected such an intractible president will be a motivator to reduce our involvement. The fact that a sizeable chunk of our populus here would rather listen to Nigel Farage shilling for American interests over our own is quite upsetting. We could have been so much better off without Brexit and hopefully this will act to precipitate some level of realignment with the EU.

[HeirToTheScarletSky]

So what we're saying here is that China, the US and Europe will all be competing to keep the UK on side?

If the government is pragmatic we should see this as an opportunity.

[phlipyphlopy]

Pushing UK towards China can be quite concerning....

[utabain]

The fact that the entire word "Trump-proofed" their governments or plans and only ended up doing what he actually wanted in the end. This feels calculated

[Feared_Punto]

The election was only unpredictable for anyone not paying attention, Harris was a terrible candidate.

[TryingThink]

I have a feeling that the UK has the weakest leader in G7 right now 😓

[markbenjamin]

Most Anglophilic President ever, we should have him for a state visit and state banquet in 2025

[buster]

Historical unpredictable election ❌ historical most predictable election ✅

[Gibsonuk]

People forgetting the FACT!!! that the Tories put us where we are now! did people think stuff was going to be sorted out in 24 hours???

[xitheris]

I would say most Americans have long wanted Europe to become security independent. There's no reason y'all can't be. Technically, NATO countries are our allies, but everyone knows that most NATO countries are more like American _protectorates_ than American _allies_ — protectorates that don't contribute much to their own defense.

In the aftermath of World War 2, this made sense. Europe was in ruins, and the Soviets had ambitions to conquer the entire continent. Protecting Europe was expensive, but the idea was to help Europeans rebuild and restabilize until they regained the ability to defend themselves. Frankly, many European countries instead became complacent, relying on (1) practically free protection and (2) the economic subsidy it represents.

The historical status quo of NATO, in which the US defends Europe for practically nothing in return, is no longer acceptable to us. We view Europeans as equals, friends who should be capable of defending themselves. We don't want out of NATO; we want the European members of NATO to start pulling their own weight — to make NATO an actual _partnership._

As Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China forge a new Axis, another world war seems increasingly likely. As powerful as the US is, we can't fight a war of attrition on _four_ major fronts. Particularly, even with our allies in the west Pacific, winning a war of attrition against China would probably take _everything_ the US has. We probably wouldn't have much to spare for defending Europe.

Thus, the US urgently needs the European members of NATO to develop a _much_ greater military capacity — enough to win any potential war of attrition against both Russia and Iran, with minimal American support. Of course, we would help as much as we could, but realistically, Europeans would need to take the lead in west Eurasia.