A detail that could be rather important:
It is already offering so little in trade talks that the differential cost of the WTO option is trivial.
If the benefits of “a deal” are trivial then so had the costs better be or the correct answer is bugger you mateys, isn’t it?
How can you have a free trade deal?
Free trade is trade without preconditions.
A trade deal is trade with preconditions.
HTF can you have trade without preconditions with preconditions?
@jgh
I think a free trade deal is just the codification of “we agree to not putting tariffs on owt as long as you do the same.” (possible exceptions for national security etc)
Shouldn’t take more than an afternoon to sort, but it is the government and public sector dealing with it – they have to justify all the tax payer funded lunches and salaries. So it becomes an incredibly complex, prolonged affair.
We didn’t need anybody’s permission to not charge ourselves for buying foreign goods in the 19th century. Admittedly, people wilfully misunderstood what Free Trade meant and sent gunboats out to force other people to not charge themselves to buy our goods.
Trivial?
EU loves triviality, years discussing a misplaced comma or rock more important than life itself
As the US Ambassador to EU said, “EU behave like children”
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EU secret talks: Varoufakis says he’ll release tapes of EU-Greece talks behind closed doors
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has submitted to Greek Parliament an envelope allegedly containing his secret audio recordings from the Eurogroup meetings while he was negotiating for Greece’s SYRIZA-led government in the first half of 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khGTFgpXjGc
The Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory, has been put on an EU blacklist of tax havens, less than two weeks after the UK’s Brexit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s6KvjdPX9U
“In a clear indication of the country’s loss of influence on the EU’s decision-making, the bloc’s 27 finance ministers signed off on the decision today.”
Which is a clear indication of why we should not have entered a transition period and should have fully left. This is only the start of anti-UK Laws, rules & regs which will be implemented and we must Obey
EU are not ‘partners’ they are Enemies
No EU federalism! Danish MEP urges bosses to get trade deal with UK, “We joined EU to trade with UK”
“Danish MEP Peter Kofod told EU bosses that it is essential for his country to continue to trade with its “best trade partner” Britain
Mr Kofod criticised the EU for not working towards a common good.
He added: “Cooperation based on common good rather than the EU federalism that is sometimes witnessed in this house sadly.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJV0_nk6ZoU
In other News
EU Stooge Leo Varadkar steps down as Taoiseach after humiliating defeat and swan song speech in Dáil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dzztKjk41Y
Whole speech is EU, Brexit, EU, CAP, Brexit, EU CFP, EU, Women, EU, Equality, EU…. – Left anti-establishment extremist terrorists to run RoI?
Spanish MEP Luis Garicano has warned UK the EU Parliament will not allow United Kingdom to become a tax haven or laundromat just offshore Europe
Good luck with that Mr Garicano; shows again why we were correct to leave. Competitors verboten in EU
EU: UK can’t have Canada, Japan etc deal as UK too geographically close to EU
– Seems EU haven’t heard of container ships, all trade by Pony & Cart
Fix: Spanish MEP Luis Garicano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW1X0feJgxs
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EU in heated arguments about how to cope with £19 Billion shortfall as UK Leaves their prison
https://www.youtube.com/user/ProductiehuisEU/videos
Farage “Nation states banned”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Djiz_Eu-8s
Yep, that’s why Führer Ursula von der Leyen banned national flags