[Merged]Brexit stuff (part 2)

[NotAllThere]

All roads lead to Hard Brexit - let's save millions in lawyer fees, and incompetent Civil Servants (who are all pro remain) - and just get on with it.

Hard Brexit to WTO please.

Without lawyer fees and Civil Servants, you won't get WTO. Britain is only a member of WTO by virtue of being in the EU, so membership will have to be negotiated, and it requires consensus from the WTO members.

[sasguru]

Without lawyer fees and Civil Servants, you won't get WTO. Britain is only a member of WTO by virtue of being in the EU, so membership will have to be negotiated, and it requires consensus from the WTO members.

Turned down a rather attractive permie job in Basel so the missus can get some traction on the Brexit/WTO/whatever lawyers gravy train.
Brexit strategy is to sell off assets in the UK, keeping only one property as a base, while making the most of Brexit, then sailing off into the sunset with the loot.
Thanks, Brexiters

[DodgyAgent]

Without lawyer fees and Civil Servants, you won't get WTO. Britain is only a member of WTO by virtue of being in the EU, so membership will have to be negotiated, and it requires consensus from the WTO members.

as if the UK will not be allowed in

[DodgyAgent]

Turned down a rather attractive permie job in Basel so the missus can get some traction on the Brexit/WTO/whatever lawyers gravy train.
Brexit strategy is to sell off assets in the UK, keeping only one property as a base, while making the most of Brexit, then sailing off into the sunset with the loot.
Thanks, Brexiters

You are most welcome - anything to see the back of you

[shaunbhoy]

Turned down a rather attractive permie job in Basel so the missus can get some traction on the Brexit/WTO/whatever lawyers gravy train.

Let's be honest, even the most Senior Janitorial post that might happen your way is going to offer chump change by comparison with what any lawyer can earn. Can't you just get her to pay you to carry her bag?

[sasguru]

Let's be honest, even the most Senior Janitorial post that might happen your way is going to offer chump change by comparison with what any lawyer can earn. Can't you just get her to pay you to carry her bag?

Hook line and sinker. QED.

[BlasterBates]

as if the UK will not be allowed in

You don't think that some countries might hold the process up to gain concessions ?

Why UK could be doomed to years without proper access to world trade

There is no reason for WTO members to give the UK an easy ride – quite the opposite, in fact. As part of the EU, the UK demanded a pound of flesh from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries in the recent Economic Partnership Agreements; these countries may now seek payback.

Then there are late WTO joiners such as China and Russia who were required to make far greater concessions than existing members; they too may now seek to extract additional concessions from the UK in return. Desperate to cement its position in the WTO and no longer able to rely on the combined power of the EU, the UK lacks significant bargaining leverage.

The UK is going to be forced to do an awful lot of grovelling to get itself WTO membership.

[DodgyAgent]

You don't think that some countries might hold the process up to gain concessions ?

Why UK could be doomed to years without proper access to world trade



The UK is going to be forced to do an awful lot of grovelling to get itself WTO membership.

really? . How do you think countries that export to the UK will feel about that?

[sasguru]

really? . How do you think countries that export to the UK will feel about that?

At one stroke, Brexit has turned the UK into a smallish (less than 4% of world GDP, much of that from foreign companies), aging (immigrants brought down the average age and bred faster), bankrupt (debt is more expensive as gilt yields rise) economy.
I think countries that export to the UK will simply look elsewhere

[shaunbhoy]

Hook line and sinker. QED.

Mea Culpa. As if anyone would offer you an attractive Permie job!!