Current Affairs EU In or Out

[tsubaki]

That's why I want us to leave rather the UK did our deals not have our hands tied.....
come on here to celebrate Corbyn's face losing his proposal and Bercow's today and I cause mayhem - @Bruce Wayne is correct better staying off this thread as when I google alternative facts it upsets posters the facts they do not like .......

"alternative facts" is certainly an interesting description

also joey, if you sign up to WTO rules then your hands are tied

 

[Joey66]

"alternative facts" is certainly an interesting description

also joey, if you sign up to WTO rules then your hands are tied

Like the EUs then as they are on it .

 

[tsubaki]

Like the EUs then as they are on it .

Yes, which makes leaving the EU - where we have more influence - for the WTO so completely and absolutely mindless.

 

[Joey66]

Yes, which makes leaving the EU - where we have more influence - for the WTO so completely and absolutely mindless.

So there were we are allowing the Mafia we pay 9 billion a year to do that.......

 

[Jebus_lives]

Every WTO member has a list of tariffs (taxes on imports of goods) and quotas (limits on the number of goods) that they apply to other countries. These are known as their WTO schedules. The average EU tariff is pretty low (about 2.8% for non-agricultural products) - but, in some sectors, tariffs can be quite high .......

Built for Edward I, by Master James of St George, the castle is amongst the finest surviving medieval fortifications in Britain. In a word, exceptional. You can’t fault it, from the grandeur of its high towers and curtain walls to its excellent state of preservation. An estimated £15,000 was spent building the castle, the largest sum Edward spent in such a short time on any of his Welsh castles between 1277 and 1307. Money well spent....

 

[tsubaki]

So there were we are allowing the Mafia we pay 9 billion a year to do that.......

yes, if we left the EU we could have the Mafia for free!

 

[peteblue]

the problem is that, as this thread has shown, those who call for Brexit on here are folk who care only for themselves

That is quite disgraceful. I call for Brexit and my concerns are for my family and our country. This is a disgraceful slur on people who just believe in our country and people more than you do......

 

[tsubaki]

That is quite disgraceful. I call for Brexit and my concerns are for my family and our country. This is a disgraceful slur on people who just believe in our country and people more than you do......

No, you really don't.

 

[peteblue]

Anyway, there are those who are happy to stand on their own two feet and do the best they can (Brexit) and those that need to be ruled and told what to do by people on the continent (Remain)......

 

[tsubaki]

Anyway, there are those who are happy to stand on their own two feet and do the best they can (Brexit) and those that need to be ruled and told what to do by people on the continent (Remain)......

I think you meant to say "there are those who have spent the last forty years living in the EU and have done the best they can" there

 

[scratchnsurf]

That is quite disgraceful. I call for Brexit and my concerns are for my family and our country. This is a disgraceful slur on people who just believe in our country and people more than you do......

Well, you are an expert on disgraceful slurs, as shown in the Lyra McKee thread, for example.

 

[Joey66]

In essence thats what all trade deals are, they tie you into the country you trade with and the bigger they are the more we the UK will need to bend over with our hands tied behind our back, rules of the jungle. Trade is all about unifying rules and regulations as countries coalesce around common standard.

We will get a free trade deal so what's wrong being independent?

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

We will get a free trade deal so what's wrong being independent?

Brexiteers can yapper nonsense away all day long about America and unicorn free trade, blah blah blah, it wont be free, it rules and regulations which in-turn will impede us making further trade deals. Because any country bigger than us will look to exploit us for their gain. 5G and Huawei being a case in point!

 

[Jebus_lives]

Anyway, there are those who are happy to stand on their own two feet and do the best they can (Brexit) and those that need to be ruled and told what to do by people on the continent (Remain)......

True...If there's one thing that Brexiteers have demonstrated thoughtout this entire process is an aptitude for independent thought.

 

[tsubaki]

We will get a free trade deal so what's wrong being independent?

Because they aren't going to be free trade deals; they are going to be deals where one weaker party is given terms by the other, stronger party - the US, the EU and China (and that is if the US even lets us trade on decent terms with the EU or (especially) the Chinese). Just look at their reaction to May's decision on Huawei, or the list of things they wanted from a UK-US trade deal.

Or ask yourself what standards, laws or practices you expect the US to change on its side of the pond as the result of a UK-US trade deal.