Britain Prepares Itself for Some Donald Trump “Vassalage”
Maybe the EU should have just let London get on with negotiating a trade deal with the U.S. Nothing in it could realistically offset Brexit.
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Photographer: AFP Contributor/AFPDonald Trump has always been a Brexit advocate. The U.S. president celebrated Britain’s 2016 vote to quit the European Union as “a great thing,” and he promised the U.K. a “very substantial” trade deal that would be done “quickly” and “properly.” The biggest holdup has been legal. London can’t formally negotiate its own trade agreements while still a full member of the bloc.
In hindsight, maybe the EU should have just let the Brits get on with it. The trade terms on offer from the White House look like the kind of thing even Brexiters might consider “vassalage” (their catch-all term for any whiff of remaining beholden to Brussels).