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Old 22-09-2016, 16:36   #1620
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
Excellent plan with a couple of minor flaws that come to mind initially:

1) EU countries can't make independent trade deals.
2) WTO members can't reasonably make trade deals with non-WTO states.

Think it might be worth your checking out what the WTO actually do and why no-one has suggested the UK not bother with the WTO.

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I should mention on the less depressing side none of the obstacles are insurmountable, they will almost certainly just take a pretty long time.

In the interim we're at the mercy of the EU being kind enough to provide us transitional arrangements that won't have people who previously couldn't care less about politics protesting on the streets about democracy.
I was thinking about deals post Brexit. Once we leave the EU we can trade with those who wish to trade with us as we are no longer EU members. I can't see Germany and others not wanting to trade.

If we have to go with WTO membership then fair enough but we can put the spadework in via informal talks to sketch our what kind of deal countries want with us and later go into formal talks a bit more prepared, hopefully cutting the time it takes to get a deal organised.

Not sure what kind of deal the EU will give us in the interim but I think we will have to give up the single market if we want to control immigration. Not sure too if France will continue the current deal re: immigration arrangements at Calais. Strange that the EU do not want to limit migration to their countries so long as those arriving can be routed on to the UK.

It will be interesting to see what happens if and when the UK invokes Article 50 and also what happens in the German and French elections as that may have a bearing on things.

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Originally Posted by Osem View Post
Given his track record as Peace Envoy I reckon he'd be ideally suited to joining the ranks of political failures running the EU and all the more reason for us to have autonomy from it.
Well, you and I know that but does he?

Politics is a funny old game and we don't always get politicans who care about ordinary people running the country.
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