This feels dire, doesn't it? By cutting us loose from the ICW our sister countries don't really have the opportunity to watch and hear, much less influence from the inside. They want to watch us burn
They'll be missing the free trade soon enough. You should move to Paris Chatter in the Minister's office follows suit, and suggests that the ICW taxed the hell out of us in order to shunt the galleons to other countries without supporting Britain. Codswallop is a good word for it.