Die-hard Bond fans were outraged to discover US retail giant Amazon can do what it likes with 007. But most Brits just shrugged.
Bond’s surrender was inevitable. The rest of the UK has already been bought up by the US, why not 007?
Trump has threatened to make Canada the 51st state of the USA, but he hasn’t mentioned the UK. He doesn’t need to. In so many respects, we’ve turned into a vassal state anyway.
Trump’s aggressive “America First” policies will continue that, because our leaders no longer have the power or the gumption to resist.
Our submission to the US started with lend-lease at the start of World War II and became clear after the Suez Crisis in 1956.
That’s when Britain learned it couldn’t wage war without Washington’s say-so.
The British establishment learned its lesson. We’ve been Washington’s grateful poodle ever since. Tony Blair’s decision to trot after George W. Bush into Iraq only confirmed it.
Politically, the US owns us. And financially, too.
Cash-rich US corporate raiders are hoovering up UK firms.
Morrisons, G4S, Sky, Hotel Chocolat and cybersecurity firm Darktrace are just some of those snapped up in recent years.
Our defence industry is vanishing, with Cobham, Meggitt and Ultra Electronics now US-owned. Today, we learned that defence firm Chemring is being targeted by a US corporate raider too too.
Our one technology hope Arm Holdings was flogged off to the Japanese in 2016. It ended up on Wall Street too.
While other nations protect key…
