{"id":658632,"date":"2026-06-26T03:19:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658632\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:19:59","slug":"what-do-britons-think-about-the-uks-relationship-with-the-us-in-their-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658632\/","title":{"rendered":"What do Britons think about the UK\u2019s relationship with the US \u2013 in their own words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[Trump] is deeply unreliable, he changes his mind on a whim, he is demanding of how our country and our Prime Minister should act, he is undiplomatic, he has raised tariffs which has increased the prices of some goods, and he has started a war with Iran which he has no idea how to get out of, which has effected the cost of living for the entire world.\u201d \u2013 Woman, 55+, 2024 Labour voter, East of England<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you plan and have political, diplomatic and economic security with an unpredictable country.\u201d \u2013 Man, 45-54, 2024 Lib Dem voter, South East England<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK cannot work with the US on specific issues or areas of cooperation because Trump is capricious and unpredictable, and constantly moves the goal posts according to his latest whim.\u201d \u2013 Woman, 55+, 2024 Labour voter, South East England<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell trump lies about us. Insults us.\u201d \u2013 Woman, 25-34, 2024 Labour voter, North West England<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhilst the president often makes some sound overall points (but often also not). he is often difficult, for example his tariff policies swing wildly and often the actuality doesn&#8217;t match his public statements.\u201d \u2013 Man, 55+, 2024 other party voter, South West England<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump. I think his rogue leadership style and America first principles have highlighted the UKs over dependence on the US, and that our economy and security could be put in jeopardy because of 1 man in power seems like putting all the eggs into 1 basket.\u201d \u2013 Woman, 25-34, 2024 Labour voter, South West England<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201c[Trump] is deeply unreliable, he changes his mind on a whim, he is demanding of how our country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}