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I don't know what's so important about a trade deal with the USA.
We seem to trade OK where it matters and it would be hard going to negotiate anything of especial value to us.

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Originally Posted by roughbeast

What was never explained clearly in the run up to the referendum was that even if we did get full free trade deals with the USA, India and China combined that would not make up for the volume and value of trade we were likely to lose with the EU under most Brexit scenarios, apart from remaining members of the EEA.

To get a trade deal with the USA before the next GE would have been a political boost in the headlines for the Conservatives, but a cold hard look at its worth in terms of trade and GDP would have dampened their Brexit fervour.

There's another lunge at Brexit. When there is a wrench like Brexit, it will take several years to reach an equal or improved stage as Business adjusts and innovates.

Brexit wasn't about trade. Indeed, had the EU not gone politically mad with their 'ever closer union' ideology, and stuck to the EEC scheme, we'd still be in.

Brexit was about sovereignty and nothing else.