EricHiggin said:
The politics I can totally see being touchy, as even I wasn't all that keen on that portion myself. Though I can see the thought process behind it since we're all part of 'the same family', if you will. I wondered what some opinions would be and didn't want to muddy them by saying what I thought first. Also I just found out about it so I gotta look into it more, but perhaps someone across the pond knew better what it was all about. The business and trade would make more sense, but I would assume the UK would want to keep trading as much as possible with the EU where it potentially could, and then possibly deal with lesser beneficial trade with CANZUK partners for some of the rest. Not sure how tough the EU is being with the UK on this and where it's likely to end up. Having a back up plan isn't a bad idea though. |
EU is actually going pretty easy on the UK.
All the UK has to get free trade agreement, is agree with commen sense things to get it.
But apparently, it wont comepete on fair levels to the EU, so wont agree to them.
Where its likely to end up:
The EU is ~50% of the UK's trade, and a further ~11% through countries that have trade deals with the EU.
So its only like 61% of their trade.... which apparnetly they dont value that much.
Then about ~80% of the UK economy is based around finance and services, they sell to others.
Alot of these, are from the EU, which in future the EU likely wont allow the UK to keep
(why give away jobs and money to another nation not in the EU for free? to handle finance and serives for you? if you can do them yourself)
The UK economy is gonna shrink aton, and apparently the avg Joe bloke of the UK doesnt care.
"give us WTO rules then" Without understanding the impact of such.