If only there was something we could do to give us more clout in these trade negotiations. Like - hear me out - if we could club together with a bunch of other friendly mid-sized economies and negotiate collectively with Washington on that basis.

Of course if we did that we wouldn’t need to negotiate with Washington.

It’s not actually a good economic partner it’s miles away why would we trade with them when there is a perfectly convenient continent about half an hour across the ocean?