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Originally Posted by Pierre
I think they could probably sort the fishing issue out. It's the "level playing field" that's the real issue. A problem that is the EU's making not ours. The unreasonable request that we must meet all of the EU's benchmarks so that we cannot produce things or provide services more efficiently than them and undercut them.
Which is one of the reasons we left. So if we reach no agreement on that, it's no deal - in regards to trade.
I'm sure there will be lots of other side deals around other things.
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Trouble is side deals are far, far harder if there is no trade deal in the first place.
The fishing deal should be relatively unimportant to each side (I believe Harrods employs more people and adds more to UK GDP) but the UK does seem keen to want to end the current arrangements.