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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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@2paulcoyle March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

"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?

@srzar March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

Imagine spending that 2000 in your own country. That would change everything.

@nikkihamilton4374 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

We here prefer Trump to our cretinous Starmer! That’s why!

@smellslikethinice1107 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

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 ".

@StephenRichardson-p5m March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

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

@NevervousOtoole March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

We work for America, and know about apple ,and Kellogg's and heinz.

@larrymccue8097 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

How do you think us Canadians feel?

@pennyfrost8208 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

And Tesco and Morrisons ! BOYCOTT ALL AMERICAN PRODUCTs,

@AlanPattinson-z9c March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

Cadburys the great American con.

@user-vs9cq2zo2t March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

Yes, and in foreign policy the UK behaves like America' s shadow, going against it's own interests.
Reprehensible.

@guldenakdemir2493 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

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."!

@JugglinJellyTake01 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

We spend a few billion on Microsoft alone for public sector licences.

@alvindimes649 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

Wait a minute Wait a minute, I thought Brexit ensured we took back control?

@Batemann1980 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

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

@LibertyWines March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

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.

@Stephen-lx9nm March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

Biden did tge same thing .Hipo

@seryozhasteve March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

And your Costa Coffee!

@csharpe5787 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

What does the old saying say, with friends like those?

@ataraxiadreaming9 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

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.

@SomchaiSpeaks March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

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.

@jabberwockytdi8901 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

Many US companies have sold up european companies to German companies, check how many people in the UK work for german companies…..

@TheLRider March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

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.

@YouTubeing1 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

Great guest

@hughjohns9110 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

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.

@colbr6733 March 14, 2025 - 4:23 pm

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.

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