The price to the UK economy as a result of Brexit,

Forty eight percent of the whole of the UK’s trade is with the European Union. Liam Fox MP, Minister for the Department of International Trade, has publically stated on many occasions that there are ‘40’ EU trade deals which need to be rolled over by the time we leave the European Union on the 29th March 2019 in order to safeguard the UK’s economy. In January 2019 Liam Fox made a statement that in terms of the number of agreements ‘all’ 40 were On track. However, in February 2019, Liam Fox’s own Trade Department, leaked a significant document to the Sun Newspaper ( which no right thinking person could describe as a “remainer” tabloid) which showed that of the 49 EU trade deals:

(a) 6 were “on track”;
(b) 8 were “off track”
(c) 19 were “significantly off track”; and
(d) 4 were “not possible” at all.

Not only do these figures prove that Liam Fox is way behind from the promise he gave to the UK electorate, that the Government would replicate the 40 EU trade free Trade Agreements that exist before we leave the European Union so there is no disruption to trade, but they also show that the government has failed in its public duty to protect the UK economy in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit. Some Brexiteers may try and argue that in leaving with no deal the UK will be free to strike a supposedly really big trade deal with the US.
However, the UK electorate will be aware that just this week the US Ambassador in London gave some pretty severe markers about what the US expects and more importantly what the UK would have to accept in return for such a deal:
(a) Hormone Treated Beef;
(b) Chlorine washed Chicken; and
(c) US companies access to NHS contract (the pathway to privatisation)

If this is the price of doing a comprehensive deal with the US then I know where I stand. Do you?

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I can't wait to leave the EU and I haven't been influenced in any way by the negative propaganda from disgruntled remain voters

For centuries we have lit beacons on the hills around here, I hope we will be lighting one shortly when we depart from the dreadful Economic Union and all it stand for...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ng-circus.html

Re: The price to the UK economy as a result of Brexit,

More remain nonsense I understand the USA may have to meet certain farming standards on a number of produce and if not it is fine by me.
I am mostly vegetarian and eat organic locally reared meat only occasionally and I never eat chicken .

If people don't want to buy this chicken they have a choice and looking at the overweight population many people would be better off eating good quality home bred meat occasionally too instead of eating rubbish all the time.
There NHS can no longer cope with the present demands
I have no objection to an insurance-based medical system .

Re: The price to the UK economy as a result of Brexit,

Thank you for the well thought through reply you have provided in response to my post. However, with the greatest respect to what you have said I will have to agree to disagree.

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I find it strange how some remain voters seem obsessed with chlorinated chicken I can only assume they eat a lot of poor quality food and haven't bothered to learn how to cook with good quality local and seasonal ingredients.

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Chlorine washed chicken is only one (and a minor one at that) of the many issues attributed to and associated with the consequences of leaving the EU without a deal.

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I bet the remainers don't have a problem with doner kebabs or McDonalds.

It's like we need to be ruled by Brussels because if we aren't we might end up with chlorinated chicken.

Very odd

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As the EU leaders have said all along: there is no such thing as a "good Brexit". Everyone loses - the EU & especially the UK.

Interesting watching Tony Blair on TV this morning. He said, rightly, that a "hard" Brexit would be a disaster, and a "soft" Brexit pointless.

That only leaves no Brexit.

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Gotta laugh at the EU Stooge/Remainers still creating ever new aliases and desperately trying to convince people BrExit is bad.

Sorry little man but your pathetic attempts cut absolutely no ice. This infantile behaviour simply strengthens our resolve to Leave, in fact it underpins why we MUST leave and WILL leave.

There shall be no 2nd referendum so suck it up

Stop spreading lies and Remainer BS.

Re: The price to the UK economy as a result of Brexit,

US ambassador to UK slams post-Brexit 'chlorinated chicken' claims

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/worl...-a4080961.html


"Claims that a post-Brexit trade deal with the US would lead to chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-pumped beef arriving on supermarket shelves are "inflammatory and misleading" smears, the US ambassador to Britain has said.

In a strongly worded rebuke to critics of a proposed deal, Woody Johnson dismissed negative claims over agriculture as "myths" concocted by "people with their own protectionist agenda"."

""You have been presented with a false choice: either stick to EU directives, or find yourselves flooded with American food of the lowest quality. Inflammatory and misleading terms like 'chlorinated chicken' and 'hormone beef' are deployed to cast American farming in the worst possible light.

"It is time the myths are called out for what they really are: a smear campaign from people with their own protectionist agenda."


"On chlorine-washed chicken, he said the process was the same as that used by EU farmers to treat their fruit and vegetables.

Describing it as a "public safety no-brainer", he insisted it was the most effective and economical way of dealing with "potentially lethal" bacteria such as salmonella and campylobacter