As a New York City resident, please let me say that I find this whole topic most distasteful. It is selfishness of the highest degree to worry about protectionism at a time like this and I am sadened for the British to have thought this way and for the most heavy handed comments.
As I recall it was the British that kidnaped Africans several hundred years ago and then sold them to America as slaves. Obviously, despite some very nice British people I know, obviously the same mantality exists today. How stupid you are, it must be PROTECTIONISM! SHAME ON YOU!!!