Thread: Election 2019 - Week 5
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Old 07-12-2019, 19:04   #33
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Re: Election 2019 - Week 5
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Originally Posted by Angua View Post
Not sure even the EU are likely to support Johnsons deal as it stands. However, I suspect they do not want the electorate knowing that "Get Brexit Done" means anything up to 10 years before we see the back of it.
The Withdrawal Agreement as amended by Boris is as good as agreed and will be rubber stamped by EU leaders at the next summit.

The trade deal will most definitely not take 10 years to get done - how do you make that out? Boris reckons he can do the deal within 12 months and I think that is perfectly do-able, just as he was able to get rid of the backstop in a matter of weeks.

It will, however, take a few years to get the other deals outside the EU signed off, and they will enhance the opportunities available to us. This, the free ports, our escape from the suffocating EU which charges countries high tariff rates, and the 'no tariff' policy that the government will introduce are just some of the advantages that we will be able to secure in future years.

The trade deals we strike will be much more relevant to this country's needs (rather than diluted to the lowest common denominator of all 28 countries of the EU) and we will be able to shake free of the debilitating and disincentivising employment legislation of the EU.

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
Iirc, Juncker said it takes tears to negotiate a free trade deal.
Juncker is old news now, Seph. It won't take anywhere near as long for us to get a trade deal with the EU since we are already aligned with them.
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