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Angus Hanton, author of “Vassal State: How America Runs Britain”, discusses how much influence American corporations wield in …
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"American"
Anyone with a phone can buy shares in a "American" company. So 7 billion people, governments, wealthy …non Americans own "American" companies.
Are they American, or are they world companies?
Imagine spending that 2000 in your own country. That would change everything.
We here prefer Trump to our cretinous Starmer! That’s why!
Uk you will slowly realuze your "special relationship "is nothing to an American . They will swallow you whole and turn around and say "it's just business ".
This guy's crazy. Has he just realised that we dont own anything in this country. I wonder how many people in Britain work for Chinese companies
We work for America, and know about apple ,and Kellogg's and heinz.
How do you think us Canadians feel?
And Tesco and Morrisons ! BOYCOTT ALL AMERICAN PRODUCTs,
Cadburys the great American con.
Yes, and in foreign policy the UK behaves like America' s shadow, going against it's own interests.
Reprehensible.
Never forget what Henry Kissinger, who worked for Nixon and a Jew, said , "It's dangerous to be an enemy of America but deadly to be a friend of America."!
We spend a few billion on Microsoft alone for public sector licences.
Wait a minute Wait a minute, I thought Brexit ensured we took back control?
We’ve sold everything off to foreign countries and corporations. Don’t make our own government “buy British”
Then wonder where all the money has gone.
The wealth of our country has been extracted and it’s reached a tipping point
There's absolutely nothing surprising in what he's saying. I don't see any new information whatsoever and what he has said it's all just redundant obvious cross-border trade that everyone knows about. The only surprising thing to most Americans is they do not know that the Americans moved in heavy on the top British football clubs but that's old hat now.
Biden did tge same thing .Hipo
And your Costa Coffee!
What does the old saying say, with friends like those?
So dont, quit and worl for your country that has you paying the highest electric prices in Europe. And wants to spend hundreds of billions on solar in a cou try with the highest nuber of cloudy days ive ever heard about.
The US began ordering the British government around immediately after WW2 and have now made Britain into a vassal state. As a Brit living outside the country for nearly 50 years I see how people are totally enthralled by things American but retain a ludicrous nationalism borne out of the Empire. I last visited immediately prior to the Brexit referendum and was appalled at the levels of depression amongst people and how dilapidated everything was. And it has only got worse.
Many US companies have sold up european companies to German companies, check how many people in the UK work for german companies…..
I worked for two British companies both bought out by US multinationals.. The transformation was amazing and purely based on a new competent style of leadership. During those 20 odd years creative accounting ensured that the UK companies ran at an aparent loss thus not paying income tax here but subsidising operations in the USA.
Great guest
Does this guy (not to mention the presenter) not realise that the owners (ie the shareholders) of "American" corporations can be any nationality and anywhere in the world? Makes me worry about all the other stuff NS put out.
Name 10 UK company startups, UK managed, UK owned, with UK IP that have gone on to become an international success in the last 20 years. We Brits simply don't invest in ourselves.