Solo uno su tre britannici ha fiducia nella relazione speciale nel Regno Unito-USA-Sondaggio

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Barely a third of Britons believe the UK still has a “special relationship” with the US, a poll has found, as Donald Trump prepares to touch down for his second state visit.

The US president is due to arrive in Britain on Tuesday for a two-day trip during which he will meet the King and the Prime Minister.

But a survey carried out by Ipsos UK found just 36% of people agreed with the idea that there was a “special relationship” between the two countries.

Although this was higher than the 30% who said the same in the immediate wake of Mr Trump’s sweeping tariffs, imposed in April this year, it is well down on the 51% who believed in the special relationship at the start of Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021.

But despite pessimism about the UK-US relationship, MPs were much more positive, with 73% saying the special relationship still existed, including 84% of Labour MPs.

Tom Fife-Schaw, managing director at Ipsos UK, said the findings showed a “perhaps surprising resilience in parliamentary faith in the special relationship”.

He said: “The confidence among Labour MPs likely reflects the current Government’s diplomatic successes in rebuilding bridges with Washington, although that may now be shaken by the recent news about Lord Mandelson.”

The Ipsos poll also found that 61% of British people said they did not like Mr Trump, and a similar proportion believed the UK did not need a leader like him.

But despite opposition to the president, almost half said they thought the state visit should go ahead and only a third backed protests against Mr Trump.

Opposition to the state visit had fallen significantly, at 34%, having been as high as 44% in March.

Ipsos UK senior director Gideon Skinner said people showed “negative attitudes towards Donald Trump”, but that views had “started to show some recovery since the immediate post-tariff low earlier this year”.

It hasn’t really been a thing since the Thatcher Reagan years.

I’m surprised it’s that many. Most people I know have long viewed the US with suspicion which has morphed sometimes into outright hostility.

Since Iraq I come across very few people with anything positive to say about the US.

How can you have faith in it when Trump and co are on the other end?

Britons having a delusion of grandeur? Colour me surprised and call me Barry. The US doesn’t care about the UK. They can’t even find it on a map if their life depended on it.

Always found the term nauseating, it was basically the UK/US’s way of saying, the UK will follow suit on everything the US does or demands, because we’re their lapdog.

If we were still in a time where people like Obama were President, I’d say it was a good thing, they had a great respect for us and I’d like to think, we for them, especially the bond they shared with the Queen.

But we don’t live in those times anymore, the US is becoming more Axis than Ally each day that goes by.

I’ve said it before, if they didn’t just happen to speak English we’d never talk/here about them.

It’s a shame the UK isn’t more involved with the countries we’re actually like, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and especially Ireland.

Why is it on everybody else to pander to that ghoul while he can continue to make threats and demands every week and never ever cave?

Is it really a “special relationship”? Kind of like having a narcissist partner and sticking around in the hopes they’ll change and saying there’s a “special connection”.

 

It’s a very condescending relationship and, cynically, I’d say the UK has always been on the receiving end of the “Bend over…..” orders of the US.