has finally come for the bongs 
R*pe Daddy has laid a fresh, steaming log on Rachel Reeve's desk this morning.
Donald Trump has announced 25 per cent tariffs on all motor vehicle imports to the United States, in a move that will inflict another blow on the UK economy.
The announcement raises fears of greater economic pain in the UK, whose largest vehicle export market is the US, having sold £6.4bn in motor vehicles to the country in 2023, according to the Office of National Statistics.
are mini coopers and Nissan Qashqais ( 
) that popular in the US?
Retaliate? 
with what, champ? 
waauhgghgh i deliberately made my country extremely expensive and punitive towards businesses, now they're all based elsewhere how could this be happening wwhhhahghhgff
Watching everyone in Europe have to learn what a tariff is has been quite entertaining ngl 
This tariff is straight from Musk right? To encourage the purchase of Tesler
I did that!
Isn't everything an invitation to raise taxes to the bong? 
We need to hurt America so darn badly. Disgraceful fricking wankers
ok google what is the USMCA
uhhhhhh whats a finished good again
That would affect Richard Hammond and literally nobody else 
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This is one of the things that annoys me the most about the UK, their insistence on the fiction that they're more than one nation. They're a country made up of multiple former nations that are too proud to accept that fact.
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A U.S. state
has more power 
internally and externally than any "kingdom" in the U.K.
!burgers
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This insistence is actually quite modern; it's an invention of Tony Blair's devolution which was a
nakedly evil plan to give Wales + Scotland a fake plastic parliament to play with, thereby saving HM Government some money on Scotland's ENORMOUS heroin bill
For most of our history since the acts of union, we've understood ourselves to be a single nation called Great Britain (Northern Ireland is a bit of a different story
) Since blair we've become this weird political entity called 'The UK' which is where the 'yookay' meme comes from
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they're called countries in all the union acts u r-slur. read ur rw xeets more closely
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Not relevant
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very relevant. we're special
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They really need to accept they're either all one state of inbred limeys, or go the other way and fully dissolve into 4 separate countries.
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as if American's don't love going on about being scottish or irish
Scottish independence is an ongoing joke as the country would instantly collapse if it tried
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23andMe said I have 20 percent British Isles which I'm going to interpret as strictly Scottish even though it says London area so I'm basically William Wallace and when you really think about it I'm much more Scottish than the Scotch today and I wear kilts and also get blind drink on Buckfast and pass out in my own piss. Aye
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great, make sure to constantly post about your homeland needing independence like in Braveheart
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No the UK economy is just that small.
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no its because you love mini coopers
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I had no idea the UK still made cars
I thought mini was bought out by jeets or something decades ago like all the others
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I thought every manufacturer in Europe was owned by VW and everything in the US was owned by GM (except Tesla) and any actually good car was made by Japs.
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Acura gang
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BMW own Mini but they're still built in Oxford
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I like Mini Coopers!
Why does Triumph produce the shittiest of cars? How is it possible?
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much better at motorcycles
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Mini coopers are cute but they're krautslop now so I wouldn't buy one on those grounds.
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omg
yeah i hate the new ones, the countryman is so bland and ugly
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Lmao Canada literally went to the UK warning you this was going to happen to you too and attempted to make plans with you but you literally poo-pooed the situation away with a "let's wait and see, we are not amused". Wankers.
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um FIRST OF ALL you're only a dominion so pipe down
Secondly what other response could we give, seeing as we can't do a fricking thing about it
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Neighbor we are THE Dominion.
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You are our favourites but don't tell the Aussies that
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Honestly it's so easy to see that the Aussies are your favourite kid you don't even try to hide it.
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Nonsensical Bong Word of the Day:
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American bougies love their Land Rovers
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A starter car? This is a FINISHER car!
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Most of them moved to Rivians
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maybe they'll move back if the price of a Tesla truck goes down to $20,000
oh, and he makes it not ugly
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fyi Land Rovers are Indian cars
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They were planning to build some EVs in India but none of the Indian factories or suppliers were deemed good enough. The only thing built in India is the Indian market Velar
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I know Indian factories make Foxconn cry.
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Were quite lucky that at least our car exports are probably not that price sensitive. There's not really a good domestic equivalent to a Range Rover or a Bentley that can take sales away
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Range Rovers, Astons and bentleys are always going to have low price elasticity on the basis that they're luxury products; the bulk of the UK car industry is toyotas and nissans tho.
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Yes but they're not for the US market though. I don't think they even get the Qashqai and there's already a corolla factory in America for the domestic market
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The Qashqai is called the Rogue Sport and it, along with the Rogue, are the official car of Mexican women.
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Looks like they discontinued the Rogue sport for the latest Qashqai generation
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yeah, if you're buying a Bentley, you don't give a frick about an extra 30k. might even make it better that way even less losers can afford them.
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Sadly ive had issues with American car reliability and would rather drive an affordable honda over a cheap chevy
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The concept of a tariff is in a state of superposition where it is simultaneously bad for the country applying it but also bad for the country its effective toward, and the only way to collapse the wave function is by applying the journo's personal bias.
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But number go down, that means its bad.
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This but irridactiably
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Congratulations, your comment is the only google result for that word!
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it is weird. protectionism by all means should work but the issue is outside of china no country has full supply chains. why i just do not know but you can go from basic to intermediary to final product all in china. but when germany tariffs a Chinese good to protect a company they still have to reach outside of Germany for the inputs. A great example of the sheer failure of protectionism is India which has created rent-seeking conglomerates rather than dynamic industry.
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Protectionism is good for developing or critical industries but when you're internationally competitive already it's counterproductive
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i agree as well. but the issue is picking national champions gets iffy when business just fumble. obama funded Solyndra which actually was making cool tech nd they went belly up. afterwards on both sides of the isle the political capital vanished. this happens a lot when u try to do protectionism, volt in the eu is another good example.
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Right, it has limited applications if you're trying to develop a specific industry that's going to have a strategic value for you later. Like semiconductors if you think that you're gonna get cut off from your supply at some point.
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Just friends being friends...... "Special Relationship".... lol
That'll teach the Bongs to support the Americans in their military adventures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Forces_casualties_in_Afghanistan_since_2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_casualties_during_the_Iraq_War
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Anyone not treating the US like garbage rn is deluded lol.
Trump cant survive a bad economy, if everyone got together with massive economic sanctions on america the WH would instantly cave.
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Oh gee, I wonder why other countries don't heavily sanction the US
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Because theyre cowards.
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They can't survive without Bud Light
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MUSK IS IN CONTROL!
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Let me tell you why Made In America and America First is bad for Americans:
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Snapshots:
https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1jky4n7/trump_announces_25_tariffs_on_vehicle_imports_in/:
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In 2023 we exported £7.8 billion worth of cars to the US. We only import £1.1 billion. We can't just ignore this like we did with steel. We need to retaliate.:
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Make the corporates based from the US finally pay tax.:
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There was one with Starbucks a few years ago where they did make a profit here. A substantial one. But on paper it was a loss because they contrived that the U.K. company had to pay a foreign arm for use of the Starbucks name.:
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How is this a blow to anyone but Americans? It's not targeting just Britain. It's orange man, the twitter guy and bearded wannabe cheerleader against the world.:
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This tariff is straight from Musk right? To encourage the purchase of Tesler:
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This sounds like an invitation to start taxes big tech:
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We need to hurt America so darn badly. Disgraceful fricking wankers:
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Trump probably just bankrupted the US motor industry the three big indigenous manufacturers Ford, GM and Stellantis all have integrated supply chains with Canada and Mexico with parts and even entire vehicles being assembled outside the US.:
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