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Shackles have been strapped to prisoners’ legs for a millennium but maybe they are now our final protection from strange American imports During his state visit this week, Donald Trump tweeted that a “big Trade Deal” would be possible once the UK “gets rid of the shackles”. He was not communicating from a cell in the Tower to negotiate the removal of his leg-irons. Shackles have been prisoners’ fetters for a millennium, but since 1200 or so they have also been any metaphorical restraint. Our “shackles” in this case are the EU regulations that prevent the UK importing American chlorinated chicken and suchlike. In John Yeats’s 1872 book The Growth and Vicissitudes of Commerce, the author recounts the difficulties caused to domestic industry by the fact that, in the 16th century, the Hanseatic League operated its own steelworks in London as a “state within a state”. When the emperor Rudolf II shut down English factories in Germany, Elizabeth I retaliated by closing the Steel Yard – and so, Yeats comments, “removed the chief shackle upon British trade”. Continue reading…
