Trump puts EU ahead of Britain for trade deal

[AtW]

No. HTH.

The EU had altered the terms of the membership, pray it does not alter it any further...

[sasguru]

So the UK has to obey the rules and it is vindictive?

The mauve monkey claims to be an "engineer". Yet it is obvious that he doesn't have the intellectual capacity to be any sort of engineer, even if we're to take the word in its most debased form as in "washing machine engineer".

[northernladyuk]

No. HTH.

It might help if you expand on your answer.

[sasguru]

Anyway getting back together the point, this is only going to be a surprise to the most ideological and innumerate Brexiters.
The UK outside the EU is not a significant player and will now decline faster than ever.
And of course there's a strong possibility there will be no UK anymore, something that the Brexiters are now pretending is an impossibility.
Alas all this was utterly predictable from the start.

[jamesbrown]

It might help if you expand on your answer.

Help whom?

What part of the CCP of the TFEU is binding in the absence of a legal commitment with a third country?

That said, the EU isn't shy about ejecting its toys from the pram. The rules are whatever the EC and CoM jolly well says they are. Assimilation 101.

[sasguru]

Help whom?

What part of the CCP of the TFEU is binding in the absence of a legal commitment with a third country?

That said, the EU isn't shy about ejecting its toys from the pram. The rules are whatever the EC and CoM jolly well says they are. Assimilation 101.

Funny how the Brexiter narrative has changed from "they need us more than we need them" to "those 'orrible EU bastards"
Would be laughable if it wasn't so naive and childish.
we could always just walk out as the Tory right suggest ....

[AtW]

The rules are whatever the EC and CoM jolly well says they are. Assimilation 101.

The rules are made by the bigger party. Negotiation 101.

[jamesbrown]

innumerate

Hey, sas.

[chopper]

Weren't we all talking about how dreadful the proposed US-EU trade deal (TTIP) was going to be for us anyway - American health firms suing the UK government for having a government supplied health service, stuff like that?

The rules of the Customs Union are that we cannot negotiate our own trade deals.

[AtW]

Weren't we all talking about how dreadful the proposed US-EU trade deal (TTIP) was going to be for us anyway - American health firms suing the UK government for having a government supplied health service, stuff like that?

EU rejected it, so guess where TIPP is going to land - nice excuse for Tories to destroy NHS and blame the EU...