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Why Is This A Gimmick?
Surely a finite date and clarity of when galvanises the effort made to sort things out??
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This has been on the news website for ages so if it has already been posted ... sorry.
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This has been on the news website for ages so if it has already been posted ... sorry.
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"That's just trade with the EU. The rest of world is a different matter. The EU already has trade deals set up. We have none. " - rubbish we do trade with the rest of the world too you know, before during and after the EUSSR, of course we have trade deals with non EU countries, ie most of the rest of the world.
Oh I see, you are calling trading on a WTO basis a "deal". In that case we have a few "deals", but that WTO fallback is precisely the thing that we're calling "No deal" when it comes to the EU.
So, just to be clear post-Brexit:
* We will have no non-WTO deals with any country
* EU members will continue to have 68 deals that are all better than WTO with other countries
* EU members will be able to trade with each other freely, whereas we'll be outside the tent and therefore uncompetitive within the EU
* We will be on WTO terms with the EU assuming the hard Brexit that now looks likely, as well as the rest of the world
So, just to be clear post-Brexit:
* We will have no non-WTO deals with any country
* EU members will continue to have 68 deals that are all better than WTO with other countries
* EU members will be able to trade with each other freely, whereas we'll be outside the tent and therefore uncompetitive within the EU
* We will be on WTO terms with the EU assuming the hard Brexit that now looks likely, as well as the rest of the world
The reason we will have no deals on the table with the other countries (other than WTO deals) with the rest of the world is because the EU won't let us. Is that too difficult to understand?
When we get out we can then look to the world to do trade. It may take some years to finalise but we did it before and we'll do it again. Until that happens WTO is it.
Surely it is the responsibility of businesses to ensure they get the best deal from their trading outside the U.K. Government does its best to smooth the way but at the end of the day continuing trade is in everyone's best interests.
When we get out we can then look to the world to do trade. It may take some years to finalise but we did it before and we'll do it again. Until that happens WTO is it.
Surely it is the responsibility of businesses to ensure they get the best deal from their trading outside the U.K. Government does its best to smooth the way but at the end of the day continuing trade is in everyone's best interests.
Well ellipsis we will just have to agree to disagree.
I understand fully that leaving the EU without the fabled Trade Deal (that doesn't bankrupt us and/or put us at a disadvantage) will perhaps be tricky but workable in the short term.
However I also fully understand that our ability to broker deals will be greatly enhanced regardless of an EU deal. I comprehend that the world is a bigger place than the EU.
I understand fully that leaving the EU without the fabled Trade Deal (that doesn't bankrupt us and/or put us at a disadvantage) will perhaps be tricky but workable in the short term.
However I also fully understand that our ability to broker deals will be greatly enhanced regardless of an EU deal. I comprehend that the world is a bigger place than the EU.
