The Consequences of Brexit (part 2)

[tinfoilhat]

I agree, it will be the UK, France and Germany who will sort out BREXIT negotiations behind closed doors.

 

If it's all sooooooooo easy why did the Canadian trade deal take 10 years only to be held up be a regional council in in Belgium? Should have just let the Germans do it, they'd have knocked it out in a week!

[I1L2T3]

If it's all sooooooooo easy why did the Canadian trade deal take 10 years only to be held up be a regional council in in Belgium? Should have just let the Germans do it, they'd have knocked it out in a week!

 

If people understood what free trade meant they'd realise why it takes years to construct the deals.

[Gamston]

If it's all sooooooooo easy why did the Canadian trade deal take 10 years only to be held up be a regional council in in Belgium? Should have just let the Germans do it, they'd have knocked it out in a week!

Because the EU is an expensive talking shop. it's a blessing that once Article 50 is triggered, then everything has to be sorted in two years. All agreements will be rubber stamped, during the early hours of some morning near to the deadline.

 

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If people understood what free trade meant they'd realise why it takes years to construct the deals.

Trade deals have already been constructed between the UK and the EU and it wouldn't take long to say, "lets just keeps things as they are because both the EU and the UK will benefit from continued tariff free trading"

[El Cid]

Because the EU is an expensive talking shop. it's a blessing that once Article 50 is triggered, then everything has to be sorted in two years. All agreements will be rubber stamped, during the early hours of some morning near to the deadline.[/i]

 

Both parties can agree to extend the 2 year period, which they may be forced to.

[Gamston]

Both parties can agree to extend the 2 year period, which they may be forced to.

It wouldn't really be in the UK's interest to extend the period, so that is not going to happen. The EU can't force the UK to extend the period.

[Cyclone]

It's absolutely in our best interests to extend it because it's highly unlikely we'll have agreed a sensible exit in the 2 year time frame.

However you're right, we can't force the EU to extend it.

 

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Trade deals have already been constructed between the UK and the EU and it wouldn't take long to say, "lets just keeps things as they are because both the EU and the UK will benefit from continued tariff free trading"

 

Except for the fact that a) they don't need to, b) they've said that there's no way in hell they're going to unless we accept all the other rules.

 

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it's a blessing that once Article 50 is triggered, then everything has to be sorted in two years. All agreements will be rubber stamped, during the early hours of some morning near to the deadline.

 

Except they don't do they. If we can't agree then we fall back to WTO rules. Which is a bad thing.

But bad things get ignored in the minds of brexiteers don't they.

[L00b]

If people understood what free trade meant they'd realise why it takes years to construct the deals.

And if people could read and understand what is written, they'd realise that Article 50 negotiations are wholly unconcerned with reaching a trading agreement

[Cyclone]

Indeed, we can exit the EU and fall back to the WTO rules. But we really don't want to.

[Gamston]

Indeed, we can exit the EU and fall back to the WTO rules. But we really don't want to.

Would affect the EU more than the UK.

[L00b]

Would affect the EU more than the UK.

So, er, what's holding the UK back?