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Continuity deals.Are we able to implement them?

 

Some of them have been renegotiated. But if it's possible to do "continuity deals" with countries outside the EU like Switzerland, surely we can replicate all the EU trade deals without problems by simply rolling them over?? If that's the case, what's the problem? Anyway, your claim that we can't do trade deals is simply wrong.

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Singapore is not comparable.

 

It does not trade on WTO rules alone but is a member of ASEAN, APEC and IOR-ARC. It recognises, as we should do, that being in a trading block gives you more influence and clout than being isolated and on your own.

 

The EU has just signed a free trade deal with Singapore - EUSFTA - and we would not get better terms than that.

 

It is different on lots of levels as folk have said above. But it has a large manufacturing sector that we don't have. Huge inequalities of wealth. No minimum wage. It also does 3/4 of its trade with its closest partners in Asia. And having a population of only 5.6 million does not make it in any shape or form comparable to the UK.

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Some of them have been renegotiated. But if it's possible to do "continuity deals" with countries outside the EU like Switzerland, surely we can replicate all the EU trade deals without problems by simply rolling them over?? If that's the case, what's the problem? Anyway, your claim that we can't do trade deals is simply wrong.

 

I may be wrong but I was under the impression we couldn’t implement them until the transition period ended.Has that been scrapped?

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Geo is right.

 

But what you can do is to sign trade deals in preparation for leaving so that on the day we leave we can roll over those deals and not suffer any damage.

 

That's why Fox wrongly promised everyone that he'd have at least 40 deals done by the end of March when in reality he has only 9.

And as I said above the FT reckon that we need over 700 agreements just to replicate what we've already got never mind try and do better.

So, at present, if we left with No Deal we're up the creek without a paddle.

 

We of course are already members of the WTO via our membership of the EU, so we get the best of both worlds.

Surely it's simple logic to realise that a block of almost 600 million people will have more bargaining power than a single country of 66 million.

That's why we joined in 1973 and spent decades trying to get in the single market.

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Vey hard for Fox to organise trade deals when he only has the support of 19 % of Parliament since Article 50 was activated.

 

Article 50 was activated to save their jobs.

 

They then slowly back tracked on every approach to a deal. No deal was not ever considered and that is the reason we are in this mess to start with. Had it been considered, a no deal consensus would have been engineered with Business and the EU would then have come to one only solution and that would have been to give us a free trade deal because they would have been at fear of further revolt from a huge percentage of the other 27.

 

That is what 17.4 million voted for and now what they will have to vote for with UKIP

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A driver Is stuck in a traffic jam outside London.

 

Nothing Is moving. Suddenly, a man knocks on the car window.

 

The driver rolls down the window and asks, "What's going on?"

 

"Terrorists have kidnapped Members of Parliament and

 

they're asking for a £100 million ransom! Otherwise,

 

they are going to douse them all in petrol and set them on fire.

 

We are going from car to car collecting donations."

 

"How much is everyone giving, on average?" the driver asks.

 

"About half a gallon."

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Geo is right.

 

But what you can do is to sign trade deals in preparation for leaving so that on the day we leave we can roll over those deals and not suffer any damage.

 

That's why Fox wrongly promised everyone that he'd have at least 40 deals done by the end of March when in reality he has only 9.

And as I said above the FT reckon that we need over 700 agreements just to replicate what we've already got never mind try and do better.

So, at present, if we left with No Deal we're up the creek without a paddle.

 

We of course are already members of the WTO via our membership of the EU, so we get the best of both worlds.

Surely it's simple logic to realise that a block of almost 600 million people will have more bargaining power than a single country of 66 million.

That's why we joined in 1973 and spent decades trying to get in the single market.

 

Nah.

 

There is a block of 600 million who all want different things and are pulling in different directions.

 

All very well talking about how great the single market is. How about you admit how terrible it is that we have given away our sovereignty to access it?

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