That’s just because you are such a delicate flower that anything less than fulsome praise means you think you are hated.
To enhance the paranoia felt by certain members of this forum the European Union is launching legal action against the UK in response to unilateral moves to rewrite parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol in the post-Brexit deal between both sides, according to the bloc’s executive branch.
What a surprise - an agreement is an agreement even when everybody is out to get you.
yippee don’t ya just like a trade war - better than fighting in Ukraine?
We are heading now for a general strike now.
The left hate you
If you have control of your own tarrifs a trade war is an easy win.
Thank you Brexit
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That applies to both sides.
The biggest one normally wins.
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That’s us scuppered then .
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Well said Penny Mordaunt:
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Go Liz, Go:
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She would say that wouldn’t she ?
Our trade with the entire commonwealth is the same as with Germany .
As for Boris what else can he say ?
He promoted Brexit leaving our biggest and nearest trading partner .
He has to say something which is less fact than wishful thinking .
I suppose it depends on what you mean by trade. Ideally, trade would be a two-way procedure.
However, I suspect that we buy a lot more from Germany than they buy from us.
Of course, I may be wrong and stand to be corrected.
Having left the EU who, after all, did all they can to control us, my hope is that we can trade in both directions with the whole world, including the Commonwealth.
One of my reasons for voting for Brexit was to do trade deals with poorer countries, so that instead of sending them money we could help them build themselves up to enable them to be able to support themselves.
One of the reasons they are poor is because they haven’t got much to trade .
No matter we will soon be one of them
What makes you think that trading with the commonwealth would be any better ?
Some Commonwealth countries such as New Zealand, prefer dealing with the larger market of the EU.
With Boris Johnson having secured his job for now, attention returns to the ongoing tussles between the UK and the European Union – and Government has published plans to change the Protocol section of the Brexit deal. The goal is to make it easier for some goods to move between Britain and Northern Ireland. The EU is against this, as it claims this would break international law.
So what are the merits of these plans? And how unreasonable is the UK to tear up an international deal after having agreed it?
Yes, the UK signed up to checks in the Irish sea in return for avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland, but the actual extent of the checks was never agreed. The understanding was that both sides would be reasonable and meet each other somewhere.
Surely this should not be so hard. If the EU is actually worried about goods sneaking into its Single Market – a fair concern – it ought to double down on checks in the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, the two big entry gates, not some back alley in Northern Ireland. According to the Mayor of Antwerp, both ports are “leaking like a sieve”.
Scrap Ulster protocol? JUS DO IT.
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Then we don’t buy from them. Trade with those countries which want to trade with us.
Perhaps when they need some new submarines!
The reason we trade as much with the Commonwealth as Germany does is because of the impact of our EU membership, in particular the CAP.
Now we are out we can trade more with the commonwealth countries under our own trading arrangements which will favour the UK and the commonwealth and not Germany.
This is what the EU are afraid of and why we had to pretty much ditch the commonwealth as part of our joining the common market (also selling out our territorial waters) back in 1973.
Oh and New Zealand doesn’t prefer to trade with larger markets such as the EU, in fact its the opposite because of the non-tariff barriers the EU puts in the way increasing their costs and making them less profitable and less competitive. The EU trades with the EU because its only interest is the EU.
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