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OK let's look at GDP instead, top 20 countries as of 2014, source World Bank.
United States $17,419,000,000,000.00
China $10,354,831,729,340.00
Japan $4,601,461,206,885.00
Germany $3,868,291,231,824.00
United Kingdom $2,988,893,283,565.00
France $2,829,192,039,172.00
Brazil $2,416,635,506,076.00
Italy $2,141,161,325,367.00
India $2,048,517,438,874.00
Russian Federation $1,860,597,922,763.00
Canada $1,785,386,649,602.00
Australia $1,454,675,479,666.00
Korea, Rep. $1,410,382,988,616.00
Spain $1,381,342,101,736.00
Mexico $1,294,689,733,233.00
Indonesia $888,538,201,025.00
Netherlands $879,319,321,495.00
Turkey $798,429,233,036.00
Saudi Arabia $753,831,733,333.00
Switzerland $701,037,135,966.00
Out of the top 20, only 5 are in the EU. We're as a nation unable to create our own trade deals with the vast majority of the worlds largest economies, because the EU won't allow it.
30 free trade deals in force (if I counted it right), plus 50 more coming, plus the 27 countries of the EU. That's free trade with 107 countries you don't want us to have, plus the biggest one of all with the US.
Idiots give their bank details out because some official from a Nigerian bank promised to do a bank transfer, these people are told the money is coming.
Idiots will vote stay because they are told free trade deals are coming with India etc. How long's it taken them so far, 9 years was it?
Don't hold your breath.
EDIT Oh, what's that secret 'trade deal' the EU is quietly negotiating with the US, TTIP wasn't it. You know the one, only MEPs are allowed to view the full text, after being escorted into a room by a minder and handing over all electronic devices. They're allowed to make notes of the text, but not copy it out verbatim. That sounds like a great free trade agreement! Especially the ISDS section, that allows US companies to sue our government if they do something which may affect their profits.
Is that how you want future "Free Trade" deals to be negotiated on our behalf?
Originally posted by Nigel Farage MEP - 2016-06-24 04:00:00
"I hope this victory brings down this failed project and leads us to a Europe of sovereign nation states, trading together, being friends together, cooperating together, and let's get rid of the flag, the anthem, Brussels, and all that has gone wrong."
EDIT Oh, what's that secret 'trade deal' the EU is quietly negotiating with the US, TTIP wasn't it. You know the one, only MEPs are allowed to view the full text, after being escorted into a room by a minder and handing over all electronic devices. They're allowed to make notes of the text, but not copy it out verbatim. That sounds like a great free trade agreement! Especially the ISDS section, that allows US companies to sue our government if they do something which may affect their profits.
Is that how you want future "Free Trade" deals to be negotiated on our behalf?
You'll get that anyway if there's a Brexit. Its funny that the Germans and French governments are against it yet the British is for it
“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”
Idiots will vote stay because they are told free trade deals are coming with India etc. How long's it taken them so far, 9 years was it?
But of course the UK will have one within the first week after Brexit.
Don't hold your breath.
I won't!
EDIT Oh, what's that secret 'trade deal' the EU is quietly negotiating with the US, TTIP wasn't it. You know the one, only MEPs are allowed to view the full text, after being escorted into a room by a minder and handing over all electronic devices. They're allowed to make notes of the text, but not copy it out verbatim. That sounds like a great free trade agreement! Especially the ISDS section, that allows US companies to sue our government if they do something which may affect their profits.
Is that how you want future "Free Trade" deals to be negotiated on our behalf?
Because a much smaller, much weaker country acting on its own is going to have a much better time negotiating with the US, or with China? Does that really make sense?
There's still the 107 countries that we currently have free trade deals with now that you plan to walk away from.
You'll get that anyway if there's a Brexit. Its funny that the Germans and French governments are against it yet the British is for it
AFAIK TTIP is a shady agreement between the US and EU. But if I'm wrong and in the unlikely event it's ever signed into UK law, post Brexit, it can be repealled by the next set of idiots voted in.
If it's signed into EU law, post Remain, it can never be repealled by democratic means ("in perpertuity"). Only by civil unrest and the breakdown of the EU (which will probably happen in a post-Remain scenario anyway).
Originally posted by Nigel Farage MEP - 2016-06-24 04:00:00
"I hope this victory brings down this failed project and leads us to a Europe of sovereign nation states, trading together, being friends together, cooperating together, and let's get rid of the flag, the anthem, Brussels, and all that has gone wrong."
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