Britain becoming U.S. vassal state, says French presidential hopeful Macron

[Denzil_DC]

Britain is becoming subservient to a United States that will be extremely difficult to cooperate with judging by President Donald Trump's "serious and worrying" first acts, French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said on Friday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May, who will hold talks with Trump later on Friday, wants a renewal of the "special relationship" between London and Washington at a time her conservative government redraws its relationship with Europe.

"Britain lived in an equilibrium with Europe," Macron told France Culture radio. "But now it is becoming a vassal state, meaning it is becoming the junior partner of the United State."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-macron-britain-idUSKBN15B16A

Fact is, the "special relationship" and financial and military/intelligence ties ("The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier", Menwith Hill, etc.) have made the UK a vassal US state for decades.

It'll just be a heck of a lot more apparent outside the EU.

[T_i_B]

1. With President Fart in the White House....

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....we will effectively be the puppet of a puppet.

As it is, with hostile powers to the east and the west, there is a definite incentive for the EU to look at ways to increase their own security, be it with new alliances or the EU army that "Vote Leave" scaremongered about, which could not happen until we leave the EU.

[LeftishBrit]

2. We had always been something of a '51st state', but with Brexit it will be far far worse

Sovereignty my arse, we will just be the poodle of anyone who might consider deigning to trade with us.