Current Affairs EU In or Out

[peteblue]

It's not about being stitched up. Leaving the EU has put this country in a worse position today than it was in yesterday.
They will probably try and get the best deal for themselves now, obviously.
Britain, spectacularly, however will struggle to get anything close to the deal they already had

It doesn’t matter, we trade very successfully on WTO rules at the moment. But now we can negotiate free trade deals without the anchor of the EU other 27 holding us back. In addition for all the bluster and interpretation of numbers, they still sell more to us than we sell to them. We are now their biggest trading partner. They can be spiteful if they wish, it really won’t matter to us as we will profit from tariff transactions. Boris will get his deal.....

 

[peteblue]

Technically the Eurasian tectonic plate will have moved about 0.0006cm, since midnight.

We’re doomed........

 

[dead_soft]

It doesn’t matter, we trade very successfully on WTO rules at the moment. But now we can negotiate free trade deals without the anchor of the EU other 27 holding us back. In addition for all the bluster and interpretation of numbers, they still sell more to us than we sell to them. We are now their biggest trading partner. They can be spiteful if they wish, it really won’t matter to us as we will profit from tariff transactions. Boris will get his deal.....

If we don't need them that much why do we keep buying their stuff? Weird that you were so desperate to leave our biggest trading partner. We certainly do not want to be trading on WTO rules with the EU and mad as hell to suggest it.
It's also spectacular how little you seem to understand about trade - do you really think trade tariffs are as simple as profit for the importing country?

 

[peteblue]

If we don't need them that much why do we keep buying their stuff? Weird that you were so desperate to leave our biggest trading partner. We certainly do not want to be trading on WTO rules with the EU and mad as hell to suggest it.
It's also spectacular how little you seem to understand about trade - do you really think trade tariffs are as simple as profit for the importing country?

No my friend, but I do understand it. Tariffs are not profit , unless of course you import more than you export to someone, then they become profit, because they give you much more than you give them........

 

[dead_soft]

No my friend, but I do understand it. Tariffs are not profit , unless of course you import more than you export to someone, then they become profit, because they give you much more than you give them........

And what about costs to the consumer? Or the export tariffs? Or the cost at borders?

 

[Jebus_lives]

I'll get the £350m NHS tally started a week from now...

 

[Jebus_lives]

It doesn’t matter, we trade very successfully on WTO rules at the moment. But now we can negotiate free trade deals without the anchor of the EU other 27 holding us back. In addition for all the bluster and interpretation of numbers, they still sell more to us than we sell to them. We are now their biggest trading partner. They can be spiteful if they wish, it really won’t matter to us as we will profit from tariff transactions. Boris will get his deal.....

This really isn't the killer argument you seem to think it is.

 

[Archie Knox]

Have house prices crashed yet? Hopefully, then I can use my 10 years worth of savings from Europe to take advantage. Viva la Brexit.

 

[WA Toffee]

But surely your mates in the EU wouldn't try to take advantage and stitch us up would they......,

The EU will look after their own interests first, same as the UK will, it's not about stitching anyone up

Do you believe that we are going to negotiate trade terms with the EU better than those we have just given up? And if you do, why would you think the EU will concede better terms to non EU countries than to their own member states?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

 

[Bruce Wayne]

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Right at the end we are going to get our industry back, like fishing... lol

 

[Billy Dean]

Sad that people like this are the voters wielding the most influence in British politics at the moment

 

[Billy Dean]

Chatting to a Polish person last night. Apparently there’s talk of Farage switching his attention to Poland next

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Chatting to a Polish person last night. Apparently there’s talk of Farage switching his attention to Poland next

It wouldn't surprise me. That does kinda sum things up though, as the racist element of the far-right is strong across the Visegrad region, but their desire to actually leave the EU is not that high at all, not least as they've done very well out of membership. I'm sure the fact that Farage was largely stoking anger against Poles and other eastern European migrants will be airbrushed from any campaign he makes in the region.