Reply to: UK sign CPTPP trade agreement

[WTFH]

…also worth pointing out that we already had a trade deal with every one of the countries in the partnership (thanks to the EU) apart from 2 of them.
So, only an idiotic mouthpiece for the government would see it for anything other than fake marketing spin.

[Zigenare]

Yeah he was no Lily Savage

I've a feeling that SE may be.

[Zigenare]

Isn't this suppose to go in the B forum?

Anyway Rish! says this is a B benefit, while Ms Badenoch says it is nothing to do with B .

Doesn't Rish! talk to his ministers? Or is he too busy not answering questions about his pool and flying around on private jets?

Supposed? FFS, sometimes you really let your lack of an education show.

[Snooky]

It is UK PLC moving forward joining a growing market with 500 million people not talking about being prevented from doing it by being a member of the EU oddly a shrinking market with 500 million people.

• A market whose closest member to the UK is thousands of miles away, not literally on our doorstep (OK-ish for remotely provided services, although the timezone difference will be a hurdle, not so great for goods)
• A market where decisions are made in secret courts with no public scrutiny, an issue the EU very sensibly objected to in TTIP
• A market where we have to be bound by its rules, rather like another market we were in not so long ago

But on the upside, a possible increase of nearly 0.1% in GDP. Ah, those sunlit uplands!

[vetran]

And asking for someone to be banned?

Save NLUK!!!

[WTFH]

Blatently circumventing the B filter is a bannable offence

And asking for someone to be banned?

[northernladuk]

Isn't this suppose to go in the B forum?

Anyway Rish! says this is a B benefit, while Ms Badenoch says it is nothing to do with B .

Doesn't Rish! talk to his ministers? Or is he too busy not answering questions about his pool and flying around on private jets?

Blatently circumventing the B<cough> filter is a bannable offence

[Paddy]

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/31/b...hnk/index.html

500 million people trading bloc with tariff free trade.

Kemi Badenoch stated "It's good to join a trade block as there is security in being a member along with other countries."
0.08% trade increase is predicted and the UK has to agree to their rules.

[vetran]

And Australia gave us Dame Edna Everage, who I have since discovered was actually a man dressed up in Drag.
I'm so horrified, I may have to watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert for a does of real masculine men.

Oh, and Australia's record on mass shootings since the National Firearms Agreement shows that they have more thoughts and prayers.

Yeah he was no Lily Savage

[WTFH]

cheers was typing while doing other things, corrected.

If the Americans hear the Australians have schools....

And Australia gave us Dame Edna Everage, who I have since discovered was actually a man dressed up in Drag.
I'm so horrified, I may have to watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert for a does of real masculine men.

Oh, and Australia's record on mass shootings since the National Firearms Agreement shows that they have more thoughts and prayers.

[vetran]

I know numbers aren't your thing, but going from 500 million to 100 million is shrinking by 80%, not growing.

And given the US population of 350m, unless they are going over to kill everyone with their second amendment rights, I'd expect the number in the market to increase, not decrease.

cheers was typing while doing other things, corrected.

If the Americans hear the Australians have schools....

[WTFH]

It is UK PLC moving forward joining a growing market with 500 million people

...

Now if Biden brings the US back in it will be 100+ million people.

I know numbers aren't your thing, but going from 500 million to 100 million is shrinking by 80%, not growing.

And given the US population of 350m, unless they are going over to kill everyone with their second amendment rights, I'd expect the number in the market to increase, not decrease.

[vetran]

Isn't this suppose to go in the B forum?

Anyway Rish! says this is a B benefit, while Ms Badenoch says it is nothing to do with B .

Doesn't Rish! talk to his ministers? Or is he too busy not answering questions about his pool and flying around on private jets?

It is UK PLC moving forward joining a growing market with 500 million people not talking about being prevented from doing it by being a member of the EU oddly a shrinking market with 500 million people.

It is a B benefit in reality.

Now if Biden brings the US back in it will be 850 million people.

[WTFH]

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/31/b...hnk/index.html

500 million people trading bloc with tariff free trade.

Great news - joining a bloc for free trade.

I hear the 15% is the value of the bloc in terms of global GDP, not the value of increased trade for the UK, which is a smidgen lower...

the Government’s own modelling shows that joining CPTPP is expected to boost UK trade, GDP and wages for UK workers by only a modest amount in the long run (after c. 15 years), with the estimated percentage increase in GDP being 0.08%

https://committees.parliament.uk/pub...fault/#page=13

[SueEllen]

Isn't this suppose to go in the B<cough> forum?

Anyway Rish! says this is a B<cough> benefit, while Ms Badenoch says it is nothing to do with B<cough>.

Doesn't Rish! talk to his ministers? Or is he too busy not answering questions about his pool and flying around on private jets?