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**Damien** · 01-06-2016, 14:02

Remember trade-deals are not two-way streets nor all-encompassing. What you can get is relative to your bargaining clout (i.e size of addressable market you're opening up to them) and even then it can cover somethings and not others. It will be vital for us to get similar level of access as we have now for our services industry, especially finance. That would probably be our priority in any negotiation.

But we have a population of 64 million. Germany and France alone have a combined size of 146 million.

The EU would have a stronger hand in any negotiation unless Leave have a trick up their sleeve.

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Damien Remoaner Cable Forum Team Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 32,784	re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU Remember trade-deals are not two-way streets nor all-encompassing. What you can get is relative to your bargaining clout (i.e size of addressable market you're opening up to them) and even then it can cover somethings and not others. It will be vital for us to get similar level of access as we have now for our services industry, especially finance. That would probably be our priority in any negotiation. But we have a population of 64 million. Germany and France alone have a combined size of 146 million. The EU would have a stronger hand in any negotiation unless Leave have a trick up their sleeve.