I suggest you watch the clip again because you are unfortunately wrong again on both counts. He did not say the UK will have to wait for Australia to complete parallel negotiations with the EU. He said they will have to wait 'formal negotiations' until Brexit is completed, although they have already set up a working group. He also did not want 'free movement' as part of a deal. He said they do not discriminate against any group. What he did say was it only took 15 months to set up a trade deal with America, he remarked that a US-UK trade deal would not take very long.
Once again you prove that you don't read what is before you. Australian High Commissioner : Australia’s Trade Minister. Notice the difference?
The Australian Trade Minister also said Britain has a 'tremendous opportunity' for trade across Asia after quitting the EU. He said his country was 'keen' to do a free-trade deal with the UK once it could disentangle itself from the EU. It all sounds very promising on top of the new US-UK relationship.
The Australian economy is about 8% of the size of the EU's. Great. We just need deals to cover the other 92%. The US will destroy us in a trade deal. Watch the clip.
Why would the US 'destroy' us in a trade deal? Australia seem perfectly happy with their deal, it being good for both parties. I'm sure the UK would be willing to do a trade deal with the EU if the terms were right.
Or, more likely, short term gain for long term pain. It really depends upon your 'station in life'...
What will be will be......that's my philosophical mood after the second bottle. As I said on another post, Britain is not going anywhere. It will still be one hours train journey from France and Belgium, and pure geography dictates that its relationship to those countries, and to Germany, will always be more central than its relationship to the USA. or Australia. For environmental reasons as much as for anything else. In the meantime Merry Christmas to all - remainers and brexiters alike. I hope that 2017 may be satisfactory for both of us, though I doubt it.
Plenty have had nothing but increasing pain since 2010 and there is absolutely no reason at all why that should continue. Maybe it's time for some respite for them and pain at the other end of the spectrum - if we are, as politicians like to claim, the 7th richest country in the world, it's time for the so-called 1% to stop accumulating that wealth for themselves.
