chalga Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/13/hammond-eu-leaders-paranoid-that-other-nations-will-leave-after-brexit Hammond rounds off his 'please let us have our cake and eat it tour' with another foot in mouth interview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magilla Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/13/hammond-eu-leaders-paranoid-that-other-nations-will-leave-after-brexit Hammond rounds off his 'please let us have our cake and eat it tour' with another foot in mouth interview. “To us, that sounds more like a poker game where one tries to pull a fast one on the other” ... Rumbled! He's getting worried, unsurprisingly..... the bluff comes closer to being called. Looks like the UK no longer being the gateway to the EU might cause a few issues going forward: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/07/emmanuel-macron-china-visit-beijing-ties-eu-xi-brexit here it is in Express speak, so retep can understand it: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/901351/Macron-China-trade-trip-Theresa-May-Beijing-Brexit The UK influence wanes some more.... "France is now a more important partner in Europe and also in the global arena." Just as the EU are starting to finalise a deal with Mexico: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-and-mexico-make-big-push-for-trade-deal-in-coming-days/ Then there's all this talk of TTP membership... wasn't the arbitration in TTIP one of the excuses for Brexit? http://uk.businessinsider.com/cloud-cuckoo-land-uk-government-mocked-over-plans-to-join-pacific-trade-bloc-after-brexit-2018-1 .. desperation. Edited January 13, 2018 by Magilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalga Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) “To us, that sounds more like a poker game where one tries to pull a fast one on the other” ... Rumbled! He's getting worried, unsurprisingly..... the bluff comes closer to being called. Looks like the UK no longer being the gateway to the EU might cause a few issues going forward: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/07/emmanuel-macron-china-visit-beijing-ties-eu-xi-brexit here it is in Express speak, so retep can understand it: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/901351/Macron-China-trade-trip-Theresa-May-Beijing-Brexit The UK influence wanes some more.... "France is now a more important partner in Europe and also in the global arena." Just as the EU are starting to finalise a deal with Mexico: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-and-mexico-make-big-push-for-trade-deal-in-coming-days/ Then there's all this talk of TTP membership... wasn't the arbitration in TTIP one of the excuses for Brexit? http://uk.businessinsider.com/cloud-cuckoo-land-uk-government-mocked-over-plans-to-join-pacific-trade-bloc-after-brexit-2018-1 .. desperation. Even Farage knows the cake and eat it option is not going to happen: Last Monday Farage held a meeting in Brussels with the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, which, he said, left him convinced that the UK would not be offered the kind of deal that would be easy to sell as beneficial to the UK economy unless Leavers upped their game. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/13/nigel-farage-hard-brexit-leave-remain-no-deal Edited January 14, 2018 by chalga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retep Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 “To us, that sounds more like a poker game where one tries to pull a fast one on the other” ... Rumbled! He's getting worried, unsurprisingly..... the bluff comes closer to being called. Looks like the UK no longer being the gateway to the EU might cause a few issues going forward: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/07/emmanuel-macron-china-visit-beijing-ties-eu-xi-brexit here it is in Express speak, so retep can understand it: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/901351/Macron-China-trade-trip-Theresa-May-Beijing-Brexit The UK influence wanes some more.... "France is now a more important partner in Europe and also in the global arena." Just as the EU are starting to finalise a deal with Mexico: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-and-mexico-make-big-push-for-trade-deal-in-coming-days/ Then there's all this talk of TTP membership... wasn't the arbitration in TTIP one of the excuses for Brexit? http://uk.businessinsider.com/cloud-cuckoo-land-uk-government-mocked-over-plans-to-join-pacific-trade-bloc-after-brexit-2018-1 .. desperation. With a UK £25 billion deficit in trading with China, the EU can have all the plastic crap we import no wonder the tips are overflowing here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyofborg Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 With a UK £25 billion deficit in trading with China, the EU can have all the plastic crap we import no wonder the tips are overflowing here. so what do you do to address that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apelike Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 so what do you do to address that? Use Veolia and they can just burn it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron99 Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 So the latest thinking on a 'No deal', would cost the EU €500 billion & the UK stands to benefit to the tune of £650 billion. Deutsche Bank chief executive John Cryan yesterday admitted it will move hundreds of jobs from the UK, rather than thousands, because of Brexit. He added: “The number of 4,000 mentioned again and again in media reports is way too high.” He also said "Deutsche’s bankers, technology experts and traders would largely remain in London while the bank’s booking centre would move to Frankfurt. But this affects fewer jobs than many people think.” The EU is also softening plans to give EU regulators the power to force London’s main clearing house to move. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/904339/brexit-news-eu-uk-no-deal-free-trade-agreement-economists-for-free-trade Looks like the plans of Juncker & Tusk to punish the UK will start to unravel when individual nation states look at the finer details of any agreement & it will be business that dictates any agreement, no unelected EU bureaucrats sucy as Juncker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalga Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) So the latest thinking on a 'No deal', would cost the EU €500 billion & the UK stands to benefit to the tune of £650 billion. Deutsche Bank chief executive John Cryan yesterday admitted it will move hundreds of jobs from the UK, rather than thousands, because of Brexit. He added: “The number of 4,000 mentioned again and again in media reports is way too high.” He also said "Deutsche’s bankers, technology experts and traders would largely remain in London while the bank’s booking centre would move to Frankfurt. But this affects fewer jobs than many people think.” The EU is also softening plans to give EU regulators the power to force London’s main clearing house to move. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/904339/brexit-news-eu-uk-no-deal-free-trade-agreement-economists-for-free-trade Looks like the plans of Juncker & Tusk to punish the UK will start to unravel when individual nation states look at the finer details of any agreement & it will be business that dictates any agreement, no unelected EU bureaucrats sucy as Juncker. Is that the same Patrick Minford as this Patrick Minford? http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/mps-react-after-vote-leave-11269819 Professor Minford, of Cardiff Business School, has previously advocated “running down” the UK auto industry – which would include plants such as Sunderland’s Nissan. Giving evidence to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee in 2012, he said: “It is perfectly true that if you remove protection of the sort that has been given particularly to the car industry and other manufacturing industries inside the protective wall, you will have a change in the situation facing that industry, and you are going to have to run it down. “It will be in your interests to do it, just as in the same way we ran down the coal and steel industries. These things happen as evolution takes place in your economy.” He went on to echo this statement in The Sun recently, writing: “Over time, if we left the EU, it seems likely that we would mostly eliminate manufacturing, leaving mainly industries such as design, marketing and hi-tech. But this shouldn’t scare us. Edited January 14, 2018 by chalga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyofborg Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Use Veolia and they can just burn it! hardly an environmentally friendly solution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apelike Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 hardly an environmentally friendly solution Veolia do that already with some plastics and providing it is done properly it shouldn't pose a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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