Reasoned and intelligent discussion on Brexit

[shaunbhoy]

Exceptionally lean still removes the 750 trade deals and trade enablers that we are party to due to membership of the EU.

We can do a lean deal on airlines with the EU, for example, but our flight rights to other countries are tied up in other EU agreements with those countries.

Good God man...........have you never heard of the concept of "Cut and Paste"??

[PurpleGorilla]

Exceptionally lean still removes the 750 trade deals and trade enablers that we are party to due to membership of the EU.

We can do a lean deal on airlines with the EU, for example, but our flight rights to other countries are tied up in other EU agreements with those countries.

Much will roll over. Freedom of the air guarantees overflights and any country which has the queen on its stamps/coins/notes etc will roll it over. Even Singapore says it wants a roll over.

[pscont]

Much will roll over. Freedom of the air guarantees overflights and any country which has the queen on its stamps/coins/notes etc will roll it over. Even Singapore says it wants a roll over.

Brilliant.... now we can travel to Singapore every week. What is not to like?

[AtW]

Nah, at least another 20 years life in VB6 yet.

Have you tried .NET?

Milan.

[PurpleGorilla]

Brilliant.... now we can travel to Singapore every week. What is not to like?

It’s all good

[motoukenin]

Have you tried .NET?

Milan.

He did try that but after 3 hours and not a single fish caught he gave up. I am just waiting for him to try Python.

[motoukenin]

Dunno. I've seen no evidence of any Brexiters capable of critical thought and reasoned argument, but theoretically I suppose such an animal might exist. Until then the will continue as normal.

The reason this subforum exists is so that people can bitch-slap without sullying the purity of General so I really don't know what dynamic you were expecting.

If you could filter out the leavers there would be a dramatic increase in intellectial content of this subforum.

[meridian]

Much will roll over. Freedom of the air guarantees overflights and any country which has the queen on its stamps/coins/notes etc will roll it over. Even Singapore says it wants a roll over.

“Roll over” means an existing agreement. These aren’t existing agreements with the U.K., these are EU agreements with other third countries.

We could “copy and paste” as SB suggests, but that also highlights the English Exceptionalism - there are two sides to each agreement. They still need to be ratified with each third country. On a simple thing like WTO schedules that we’ve copied and pasted we already have numerous objections.

All of a sudden your “lean” agreements aren’t looking so lean.

[meridian]

Much will roll over. Freedom of the air guarantees overflights and any country which has the queen on its stamps/coins/notes etc will roll it over. Even Singapore says it wants a roll over.

But don’t just take Digby Jones’s word that the trade and trade facilitation deals will roll over, listen to counterpoint opinions....

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/a...t-brexit-role?

“It’s quite naive to believe that every partner will just be happy to sign up to exactly what it has with the European Union,” said Alan Winters, director of the U.K. Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex. “The world is becoming a bit more aggressive. Britain is going to be in a pretty weak position.”

[Cirrus]

The world is becoming a bit more aggressive. Britain is going to be in a pretty weak position

We already know that India wants to flood the UK with Indian IT workers etc, America wants to dump all their dodgy agriculture and meat products on us and Australia wants to... dump all their dodgy agriculture and meat products on us. Of course the Faroe Islands might be more kind to us, so the Brexiteers will have something to legitimize their bonky cloud cuckoo land dreams