Wto Instead Of Eu - Better Or Worse ?

[Canary42]

Some WTO member countries have objected to terms of UK membership.

It's not so bad. The WTO does have a complaints procedure. Unfortunately, the unelected members who sit on the complaints panel are also the ones who sit on the unelected members panel who decide the rules and directives that have caused the complaints in the first place. The WTO has no independent elected house like the European Parliament, to debate and vote on the WTO rules and directives.

But the WTO complaints panel do act quickly: Boeing and Airbus have only been in dispute for 14 years - still unresolved.

The signs are that some of the larger countries (e.g. USA, Australia) will make objections to UK's membership as they smell blood in the water and know the UK will have to agree to their terms in order to get WTO membership and trade deals.

Never mind Brextremists, just dismiss this as scaremongering and brush it under the carpet like all the other Brexit Bad News that continuously emerges but which you find so difficult to acknowledge.

[hellywelly4]

Oh dear.

[naomi24]

//The signs are that some of the larger countries (e.g. USA, Australia) will make objections //

Where are the signs?

[Togo]

The UK has been a "member" of the WTO since 1948 and gained "Accession in 1985. Bit late with their "objections" then. Just another remoaner trailing a skirt for the unwary. Ignore and treat as the spasm and tic that it is.

[Hopkirk]

Project Fear still operating then?

[Theland]

Great Britain - worlds 5th largest economy.
Market of over 62m people.
World leader in all kinds of technologies.
A big hitter that cannot be ignored.
Too big and powerful to be dictated to.

[Garaman]

...and no powerful nation has ever lost its power due to bad decisions.

[rockyracoon]

Canary, you really need to relax.

You seem to be worrying yourself stupid over something that may, or may not happen. It really isn't good for your health.

[naomi24]

I still want to know where these signs of objection are.

[ABerrant]

//The UK has been a "member" of the WTO since 1948 and gained "Accession in 1985.//

The WTO came into existence 1st January 1995; one of its 124 founding nations was the UK.

The WTO is the successor organisation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a multinational treaty signed by 23 countries on 30th October 1947 to come into effect 1st January 1948, on which date eight signatory nations activated GATT and its tariff concessions:

United Kingdom,
United States,
Australia,
Belgium,
Canada,
France,
Luxembourg,
Netherlands.

//But the WTO complaints panel do act quickly: Boeing and Airbus have only been in dispute for 14 years - still unresolved.//

You do realise that the only disputes involving the UK are complaints made by parties against the EC/EU.

https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/countries_e/united_kingdom_e.htm

[vetuste_ennemi]

If only there were as much chirpy chirpy as there is cheap cheap.

[Kromovaracun]

//Great Britain - worlds 5th largest economy//

It's the 7th now. It was the 5th in 2016...

[Old_Geezer]

I think the clue to the answer lies in understanding which is trying to turn one's nation into a insignificant local area of a continental wide nation, ruled by their elite. Once identified, they can immediately be categorised as worse, since they are merely empire builders. The other, dealing with trade matters between nations, has to be the better option.