Unforeseen Complications

Contrary to all moderate and sensible expectations, it appears that putting up barriers to trade with the country's biggest trading partner may have had a detrimental effect on trade with that very same partner. We can only thank our patriotic stars that Team Starmer's plans for closer ties with the beastly bureaucrats extend no further than espionage and wog-bombing, otherwise it might be thought that going all-out for economic growth includes resuming the Strasbrussels yoke even at the risk of incurring disfavour from the Trumpster and his head-tribble. Such an indiscretion could all too easily imperil the expanding transatlantic trade in tea, which would be an unfortunate diplomatic faux pas given the current delicate process of US reversion to the pre-1773 paradise of arbitrary monarchy.