How the EU's deal coming along?Originally Posted by molehill
At least Australia has one with China as does Switzerland and even tiny Iceland.
How the EU's deal coming along?
At least Australia has one with China as does Switzerland and even tiny Iceland.
There you go! I'll get back under my bridge now 😉
I see Hollande was quite unequivocal on the whole "can we have the best of both worlds" question. He said if you want access to the single market, you need to accept free movement of people.
How do people think this will play out? On the one hand I agree they want access to our market and goods as much as we do theirs. On the other hand, they don't want to give any indication to other countries that it's easy to leave the EU.
Depends whether they decide paying tarrifs to sell in the UK is a lesser penalty than stepping down on free movement. The EU has a habit of maintaining the status quo regardless of what might be best.
On the flip side, I think our politicians are more than capable of ignoring the electorate and bodge a Norway style deal. Both of which involve the UK paying up.
The electorate only voted to leave the EU, not how to leave it.
They can't can't be seen to give the UK a better deal than EFTA. It so there would not just be the UK involved in the negotiations.
[QUOTE=noel;626200]I see Hollande was quite unequivocal on the whole "can we have the best of both worlds" question. /QUOTE]
Unless it is running two mistresses at the same time?
Why not? They have given a better deal to Canada - if it ever gets over the finish line.
Don't confuse access to the single market with being in it.
The EU cannot actually stop access. The worst case scenario is WTO tariffs and it isn't a bad scenario for us.
Hollande probably doesn't want to be party to granting the UK tariff free trade, but the option is to shoot himself and particularly Germany and the rest of the longer standing EU countries in the foot.
If tariffs are introduced, even my little business will move some of my EU sourcing to the Far East. I'd actually save money, so it would benefit me. But at the moment I chose not to as the saving is only between 5 & 10% and requires more capital commitment due to larger orders and longer lead time.
Just imagine the impact on EU wine, if we end up with tariffs and then strike trade deals with Australia, New Zealand, South Africa.......
There's even a case for saying let them put in tariffs and be damned, and we just opt for tariff free imports anyway.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
As to wine it has been said that if it was bought on quality rather than reputation then only wine from the southern hemisphere would be consumed, particularly from South America, and that all the vines in France would be pulled up and replaced with potatoes. So, potentially, in wine sales at least, the EU does have a lot to lose.
One for the Brexiteers
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-gsk...-idUKKCN1070HY
So the tale of doom and gloom by the remain has not yet come to fruition.
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