The experienced Lord Digby Jones talks an awful lot of common sense 'They don't speak for Britain!' Lord Jones DESTROYS Tony Blair's anti-Brexit campaign
...and impoverish our country for a good 5 years???? Because if we dont have trade agreements in place many of our small businesses that trade in the EU will not survive intact.............
Of course there will be a greater number of businesses affected within the EU. The intransigent EU should remember that.
Funny how Mr Macron goes on a trip to China and wins a massive order for Airbus. Strange how the EU didn't hold him back. Fox goes to China and comes back with nothing. Guess it must be having something that people want to buy.
The Chinese must be mad if they want that metal monster flying over their cities Frenchie. We saw it often enough over Hamburg (it's partly made in Finkenwerder) and it gives you the creeps. Totally unnecessary, bombastic, needs specially designed ships to transport the parts and the Chinese only sign deals like this in exchange for something - like flooding our markets with cheap Chinese steel. The excuse that it creates jobs doesn't wash - there are better ways of doing that producing things which are needed.
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Like a hooker. You are fooling yourself if you think Macron was involved in any of the negotiations. All national airlines play Airbus off against Boeing and vice versa. When we lived near Toulouse we had a good friend who was a senior salesperson for Airbus. It was very interesting to listen to his accounts of negotiations. The politicians just stand in at the last moment to pretend they had some kind of influence.
Whilst Fox and others are whoring themselves round the world, and and making our proudest institutions do the same, you have the brass neck to moan at Macron for doing the same? Says it all....
Trump visits China and gets a deal, Macron visits China and gets a deal, the disgraced Fox visits China and doesn't get a deal. May goes off to India and comes back empty handed. Something says this trading with the world is not going well unless you count selling 50,000 pairs of flip flops to Italy as a success. I did see that Fox held it up as such.
Don't get carried away. These heads of state / trade trips are designed to impress the gullible (it obviously works) when the unpopular leaders need a PR boost. It does not matter how much make up the Macron boy slaps on the truth is the trade deals are done months before by the underlings. I'm not sure if you have difficulty receiving news in your part of the French wilds but I thought everyone knew the UK was not allowed to sign new trade deals with non EU partners until we left the EU. Dr Fox is doing an excellent job travelling the world lining up future trade deals so they can be signed after we have left this failing, diminishing trade group.
Strange how France can do a trade deal with China but the UK can't. Oh I get it. While I haven't been looking China have joined the EU.
I think it is you who do not understand the basics here. The EU. has around 50 free trade agreements with non EU. countries - some more limited in scope than others. As a member of the EU. UK. businesses have easier access to around a third of the World's markets. Leaving the EU. would mean not only creating instability about future UK/EU trade but actually reduce Britain's access to World trade - every single free trade agreement which the EU. has is of benefit to Britain - all of these would have to be renegotiated in the event of Britain leaving. Just as Scotland would no longer have automatic access to EU. markets if it left the UK - the same would be true for Britain and the rest of the World. After Brexit it will not be a case of Britain opening up new markets - but rather playing catch up ie. trying to recover the same conditions it presently enjoys with the rest of the World.
It has already been explained regarding the simplicity of the UK piggy-backing current EU deals when we leave. There will be little or no negotiations to take place as we already conform to the agreements. The UK will simultaneously create new free trade deals with other countries without the baggage of the usual red tape and extended timeframe always suffered by the EU. No wonder our growth is predicted to better the EU's as usual.
