Discussion

• @elenaadaal Elena Adaal on bluesky

  The ink isn't dry on the ‘old deal’....  If you give in to blackmail, they will always come back for more.  —  www.theguardian.com/us-news/ 2026...

• @premnsikka Prem Sikka on bluesky

  Trump threatens UK with tariffs if it doesn't drop digital services tax on US companies.  —  Trump is a threat to UK sovereignity, holding govts to ransom.  —  Trump has already forced UK to pay higher prices for NHS drugs, £64bn more by 2036.  —  UK must free itself from the US,…

• @dcjohnson Dave Johnson on bluesky

  If UK tries to recover some of the wealth that untaxed US tech monopolies are extracting...  www.theguardian.com/us-news/ 2026...

• @catanonim.me @catanonim.me on bluesky

  All that ego massage and regal visiting has worked, then, eh?  —  ~ Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn't drop digital services tax ~  —  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ 2026/apr/24/trump-tariff-uk-digital- services-tax-warning

• r/unitedkingdom r on reddit

  Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn't drop digital services tax

• r/worldnews r on reddit

  Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn't drop digital services tax

• @fightingliberal @fightingliberal on bluesky

  Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn't drop digital services tax President accuses Britain of trying to ‘make an easy buck’ from American tech firms, weeks after warning UK-US trade deal can be changed ...

• @edwinhayward.com Edwin Hayward on bluesky

  I and many others warned against making big concessions to the USA to get a hasty trade deal.  —  It has come back to bite Starmer on the proverbial.  —  Trump's more slippery than a bag of eels, so nothing was actually gained from the concessions Britain made.  —  www.theguardia…

• @tonyvaughanmp Tony Vaughan on bluesky

  It's not feeling like a very Special Relationship if all we keep getting are insults and threats.  —  We must keep the digital services tax.  It's hardly that punitive - it's a 2% levy on the revenues of major US tech companies.  —  www.theguardian.com/us-news/ 2026...

• @beany Buck Frexit on bluesky

  If this is a relationship it's not special, it's abusive.

• r/ukpolitics r on reddit

  Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn't drop digital services tax

• @tristangrayford.scot Tristan Grayford on bluesky

  So here's an economics question -  —  Given how large the returns could be if the tax on US tech giants was pushed to 5%, what would stop a UK Government from responding with “bring it on, we'll tax your guys more and use the proceeds to support our exporters”?  —  www.theguardia…

• @ewanmg Ewan McGaughey on bluesky

  We need to rejoin the EU to stop the risk of these kinds of threats transpiring.  —  Medium countries like the UK have no bargaining power in global trade on their own.  —  We need to raise tax on US big tech + then replace it with open source + public option tech.  —  www.thegua…

• @ollibackstrom Olli Bäckström on bluesky

  More lol.  All that decades of grovelling at America's feet and this is the reward that UK gets.  —  www.theguardian.com/us-news/ 2026...

• r/LabourUK r on reddit

  Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn't drop digital services tax |  Donald Trump

• @hannorein@mastodon.social Hanno Rein on mastodon

  One thing I really wish world leaders would do better is band together against Trump.  He's a bully who is pursuing a divide and conquer strategy.  If just a couple of major countries were to coordinate on a digital services tax, Trump's tariff threat wouldn't nearly work as well…

• NewsMax.com NewsMax.com on x

  UK to Face ‘Big Tariff’ If It Won't Drop Tech Tax: Trump