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Originally Posted by Mick
No, let's get it right, the EU and their ilk want to punish the UK for voting out, remember the old drunken prick, Jean Claude Juncker's words 'This is not an amicable divorce!'
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Yup there's been plenty of that sort of thing emanating from those lovely Eurocrats, you know the ones the usual suspects here can't bear to criticise at all. It's perfectly clear that the EU wants to be seen to make the UK pay heavily for daring to leave their empire and what's equally clear is that there are those amongst us who'd happily help them do just that.
Most right minded people hope a sensible compromise can be found but if EU dogma prevents them from doing that then it's their fault not ours - we just need to move on and thank our lucky stars that we got out while we could.
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... today’s new Institute of Economics Affairs report on trade policy has been well-received by ministers. It argues that no deal with the EU on trade would not be a disaster for the UK, recommending Britain commits to a policy of unilateral free trade with the rest of the world, eliminating all barriers to imports regardless of whether other countries impose tariffs on their imports from the UK. It would then be up to the EU if it wanted to impose tariffs, which would hurt EU consumers by raising prices. In such a scenario, the IEA report concludes the UK would likely be given tariff free access to the single market:
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https://order-order.com/2017/08/18/i...al-free-trade/