40 Trade Deals

[chopper]

2017: Liam Fox promises to sign 40 free trade deals the 'second after' Brexit

2019: UK fails to close global trade deals ahead of Brexit deadline

“Almost none of them are ready to go now and none will be ready to go by March"

Oops.

[Old Greg]

2017: Liam Fox promises to sign 40 free trade deals the 'second after' Brexit

2019: UK fails to close global trade deals ahead of Brexit deadline


Oops.

The UK probably isn't leaving in March.

[Lance]

2017: Liam Fox promises to sign 40 free trade deals the 'second after' Brexit

2019: UK fails to close global trade deals ahead of Brexit deadline


Oops.

What is needed is a club, of countries, who mutually gain from trading as a single block, to make better trade deals with the rest of the world.
One with a diverse set of countries that are geographically proximate.
With a common culture and history.

Oh. hang on...

[Eirikur]

Brexit will be the easiest thing ever

Just 11 Times Leave Campaigners Said That Brexit Would Be Easy

[Uncle Albert]

It'll be fine, we'll be free to trade with South Sudan, the 138th largest economy in the world! They even have petrol

OEC

- South Sudan (SSD) Exports, Imports, and Trade Partners

[Lance]

It'll be fine, we'll be free to trade with South Sudan, the 138th largest economy in the world! They even have petrol

OEC

- South Sudan (SSD) Exports, Imports, and Trade Partners

nah. When the Dear Leader takes over we'll buy our petrol from Venezuela at prices guaranteed to facilitate the next stages of the revolution Comrades.

[Old Greg]

It's Johnny Foreigner's fault. Send 40 gunboats.

Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, has said that other countries are to blame for the fact that the UK does not have alternative trade deals ready by 29 March to replace the existing 40 EU ones that will lapse if the UK leaves without a deal. Asked about this revelation in today’s Financial Times (see 10.57am), he said:

[The agreements are] not just dependent on the UK. Our side is ready. It is largely dependent on whether other countries believe that there will be no deal, and are willing to put the work into the preparations.

[Mordac]

The UK probably isn't leaving in March.

I said that earlier and you accused me of having a tiny brain. Does that mean we're both in the tiny brain club? Please say it ain't so...

[vetran]

I said that earlier and you accused me of having a tiny brain. Does that mean we're both in the tiny brain club? Please say it ain't so...

OG is in the tiny two brain club according to his misses.

[Old Greg]

I said that earlier and you accused me of having a tiny brain. Does that mean we're both in the tiny brain club? Please say it ain't so...

Do you think the UK probably is leaving in March?