Finally, we're discussing trade!

[original PM]

Barnier backtracks and hints at Swiss style deal

Boom - there it is.....

[tomtomagain]

Have you ever been to Middlesbrough?

Yes. I lived there for years. Very fond of the place and its people.

It could really do with an injection of funds.

A nice, big, fat EU parliament sitting there for 40 years would have done the place the world of good.

New airport to fly the bigwigs in and out ... all those lovely support industries from legal services to sandwich shops.

[original PM]

Yes. I lived there for years. Very fond of the place and its people.

It could really do with an injection of funds.

A nice, big, fat EU parliament sitting there for 40 years would have done the place the world of good.

New airport to fly the bigwigs in and out ... all those lovely support industries from legal services to sandwich shops.

They already have the hookers n coke so it would have been a good fit!

[northernladyuk]

Hey no where did I say the Uk government was any better.

But at least with Brexit we only have 1 set of lying ******* to deal with and not two.

I like to see them playing off against each other.

[original PM]

I like to see them playing off against each other.

I know what you mean but I got bored and in reality it was a waste of time and money.

[BlasterBates]

Letter to Nissan still too sensitive to publish

basically the UK will have to more or less government fund the remaining bits of its manufacturing industry to stop inconvenient headlines such as the closure of Nissan's Tyneside factory

[jamesbrown]

You think it is a coincidence!? You are a fool or a liar.

In that case, I'm in good company

[jamesbrown]

I like that too. At least it is not using the hard right propaganda technique of smearing opponents with the language of treachery and terrorism.

I put you in the same camp as the Fail.

[jamesbrown]

Barnier has just informed the press that the UK won't be party to EU FTAs with other countries during the transition, the UK has to sort themselves out with their own replacement FTA's, eg South Korea, Switzerland and Norway etc

"Informed"

Since when, precisely, was that not blindingly obvious?

All of those deals depend on being an actual member state, legally.

What do you think Fox has been trying to do for the last six months (don't answer that )?

[BlasterBates]

"Informed"

Since when, precisely, was that not blindingly obvious?

All of those deals depend on being an actual member state, legally.

What do you think Fox has been trying to do for the last six months (don't answer that )?

Not during the transition

1 year to sign over 50 trade deals