Cable Forum - UK & EU Agree Post-Brexit Trade Deal

It may well not be, but if Biden wins overnight it leaves the UK scratching around with no major trade deals. The groundwork for which could be laid over the next 12 months. We can decide that as a free and sovereign nation.

Well if, as now seems increasingly likely, we get an EU deal, there will be no problem for Biden in approving a US/UK deal. The border would no longer be an issue.

1andrew1

03-11-2020 14:48

Re: Brexit-Transitional Period Ends 31/12/20

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36056051)

Well if, as now seems increasingly likely, we get an EU deal, there will be no problem for Biden in approving a US/UK deal. The border would no longer be an issue.

The EU is the next US President's focus, not the smaller UK. Hopefully, BoJo will get to meet Biden as they probably agree on more policies than BoJo and Trump did, despite Trump labelling BoJo as the "British Trump".

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Don't know if this legislation being sent back by the House of Lords means this court case can end?

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Boris Johnson is facing further legal action from the EU after he missed a deadline to explain why he is planning to break international law over Northern Ireland.

At the start of October the European Commission sent a letter of formal notice to the UK over the prime minister’s planned Internal Market Bill, which breaches the Brexit agreement signed earlier this year.

The European Commission confirmed on Tuesday that the deadline to respond to the letter has now come and gone without a UK response, meaning the court action against the UK will move to the next phase.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexi...rtan-ntp-feeds

jfman

03-11-2020 15:49

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36056051)

Well if, as now seems increasingly likely, we get an EU deal, there will be no problem for Biden in approving a US/UK deal. The border would no longer be an issue.

A big if.

OLD BOY

03-11-2020 16:45

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36056057)

A big if.

Not as big as you like to make out, jfman.

However, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, tick tock et al...

1andrew1

03-11-2020 16:51

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Mixed news today.

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Robert “Woody” Johnson, the US ambassador to the UK, has claimed that a post-Brexit transatlantic deal will happen regardless of whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden wins the presidency. “I’m confident our countries can get this done no matter what happens today.”...

Elsewhere, Brexit trade negotiators Michel Barnier and David Frost are reportedly yet to reach any agreement on three big areas – fisheries, level playing field issues and a mechanism for settling disputes. EU sources said the two sides remain “stuck” over fishing quota.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b1554424.html

jfman

03-11-2020 18:47

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36056060)

Not as big as you like to make out, jfman.

However, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, tick tock et al...

You’ve just contradicted your own optimism there, OB.

OLD BOY

03-11-2020 20:09

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36056052)

Er, we don’t know who the next president is yet!

1andrew1

03-11-2020 20:32

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36056078)

Er, we don’t know who the next president is yet!

It will be Biden.

nomadking

03-11-2020 20:33

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36056081)

It will be Biden.

He's just the Trojan Horse.

jfman

03-11-2020 21:28

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It’ll be interesting to see the battle for power in a Biden White House. Unfortunately, I’m inclined to agree with Mick that there’s something in his decline, and it’s really sad that the Democrats literally had no alternative.

I think some videos are clearly exaggerated or twisted. And if you put a camera on someone so many hours a day on the road they’ll have moments. But it’s not all down to that.

TheDaddy

03-11-2020 21:36

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36056000)

Yup. Heck, it's far enough ahead for even Turkey to have joined!

They'll be members long before then, 12 million of them were on their way before the brexit vote, wonder what happened to them, did they get lost

1andrew1

06-11-2020 23:26

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As if the US election results weren't gripping enough, more news on Brexit promised tomorrow! ;)

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Boris Johnson will speak to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, on Saturday in an effort to help break the impasse in the talks on a post-Brexit trade deal.

Serious differences remain between the UK and the EU on two key policy areas: fishing access rights and a “level playing field” for fair business competition. The talks are currently stuck on the issue of “non-regression” and whether future UK standards should evolve to stay in line with Brussels as part of any trade pact — something British negotiators have so far resisted.

https://www.ft.com/content/4e3ed438-21fa-40e9-90d5-fe5u businessd73a2a629

jfman

06-11-2020 23:43

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36056624)

As if the US election results weren't gripping enough, more news on Brexit promised tomorrow! ;)

https://www.ft.com/content/4e3ed438-21fa-40e9-90d5-fe5u businessd73a2a629

Do we postpone the call if Biden isn't quite over the line and cling on in the hope Trump wins 5 separate legal challenges?

Chris

06-11-2020 23:44

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That FT link is broken.

pip08456

07-11-2020 00:00

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36056628)

That FT link is broken.

Here you go Chris.

https://www.ft.com/content/4e3ed438-...5-fe5d73a2a629