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[minerve 2] 27/1/2020 10:52

Varadkar is absolutely right, and if I was the EU I wouldn't be too worried about US trade with the UK. Time to let the UK realise where it sits in the pecking order. An injection of reality is well overdue, the pain will be a good learning process and thoroughly deserved by the gammons IMO.

I'm OK Jack, I'm a millionaire.

Popcorn ready to watch the gammons suffer - which I hope they do. I hope the auto industry gets decimated.

[xxxxxy] 27/1/2020 10:50

Boris Johnson has revealed his bold new vision for Brexit Britain, with plans for trade deals around the world by the end of the year. The decision to press ahead with trade talks with the US, Japan, Australia and New Zealand underlines the Prime Minister's vision for a Global Britain. But the move to access international markets worth almost £50trillion is a slap in the face for the EU – which wanted talks to be solely focused on Brussels. With Chancellor Sajid Javid confirming the UK will not agree to demands that Britain aligns with EU regulations, the prospect of a trade deal with the US will put pressure on Brussels to compromise. The major reshaping of British foreign policy also includes efforts to boost trade with Africa. On the post Brexit trade talks, a Downing Street source said: "Downing Street will begin trade deal talks with the USA at the same time as negotiations get underway with the EU. "The Prime Minister has tasked trade negotiators at the Department for International Trade to start discussions with countries including Japan, New Zealand and Australia, alongside the USA." It is also understood the Prime Minister will be making a set-piece speech in early February to set out his plans for life after Brexit in the UK. – Sunday ExpressBrexit Central

[xxxxxy] 27/1/2020 10:49

ROBERT POLATAJKO 17 Jan 2020 10:35PM£15 billion annual EU contributions. £90 billion annual trade deficit with the EU.70% fishing grounds lost to the EU, opportunity cost £5 billion a year.£10 billion annual CAP opportunity cost.They tell us what to do with climate change, environment rules,business rules, vat.They tell us who to let into our country from the EU , costing us billions through low wage, low skill immigration of their unemployed to us.They tell us how to apply trade tariffs and regulations, for their benefit,not our benefit yet they get instant and easy access to the City.We plough money into the European Investment Bank and they tell us when we leave we can whistle for our investment.They want to replace nato yet we help them with military support and intelligence..Did we get any benefit from Eu membership?We will certainly benefit from organising our economy for our benefit.

[xxxxxy] 27/1/2020 10:48

Childish. That immaturity is a problem for all.Varisomething.

[cheshire pete] 27/1/2020 10:28

Varadkar clearly doesn't comprehend the difference between quality and quantity.

“So if these were two teams up against each other playing football, who do you think has the stronger team?"

[utrickytrees] 27/1/2020 10:28

Carefuls post quoting David Smith yesterday illustrated how remain continue to persue the tack of wheeling out the big guns & so called 'experts' to influence public opinion, as though the electorate were incapable of any form of critical thinking. This excellent video of Dom Cummings explaining how the referendum was won touches on the contempt from certain quarters of the Tory Party namely the metropolitan Oxbridge Cameron & Osbourne set. If you've not seen it yet its definitely worth a watch.

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[maxk] 27/1/2020 10:11

Today's doom story...





Brexit latest news: Leo Varadkar compares trade talks to football and claims he's on the 'stronger team'





Amy Jones, political correspondent
27 JANUARY 2020 • 9:02AM



Leo Varadkar has compared Britain’s trade negotiations with the EU to football and claimed he’s on the “stronger team”.

The Irish Prime Minister suggested the bloc would have the upper hand in forging a deal, due to its larger population and market.

He said: "The European Union is a union of 27 member states. The UK is only one country. And we have a population and a market of 450 million people.

“So if these were two teams up against each other playing football, who do you think has the stronger team?"

He also disagreed with the Prime Minister’s claim that there is "bags of time" to sign an agreement by the end of the year, warning "it will be difficult to do this".

[mitchy] 27/1/2020 09:46

Get ready for some really cheap shares. My first mark is 55p. Good Luck.

[mitchy] 27/1/2020 09:42

Welcome to the roller coaster week of corona , interest rates ,PMI ,Brexit ,Iran and Trump impeachment circus.

[mr.elbee] 27/1/2020 09:29

and all public bodies in this country.

[cheshire pete] 27/1/2020 09:28

Brexit about freedom careful, where is the humanity in dishonesty, bullying, corruption, blackmail...all traits of the remoaners beloved EU.

[mr.elbee] 27/1/2020 09:27

Farage has said repeatedly he would be happy to rejoin a purely trading arrangement like ASEAN or NAFTA or LAFTA or 99% of the trading arrangements which exist around the world.

The only one...I repeat ... the only one ..that tried for supranational status was the EU...none of the others have this in their sights...not even APEC with the Chinese hovering. ..

no, only the mad euro elite.

against most people's wishes,against the flow of history,against most nearly everything of sense

The EU wont be there very soon..and the Euro is definitely finished.

We will have a core of breakaway sensible countries..Italy, Spain...with new leaders...Hungary, Poland the Czech republic...we may align with them...and the usual Franco/ German protectionist bloc.

Nothing remotely recognisable to rejoin..
Poor old David Smith..otherwise a good economic journalist...but he picked the wrong side,and foolishly ,stuck to it.

[maxk] 27/1/2020 09:24

I was wondering when the connect would be made between pandemics and brexit.

[careful] 27/1/2020 09:21

It seems that Brexit is causing a pandemic.
Brexit is bad but we never thought it would kill off humanity so quickly.

[grahamite2] 27/1/2020 09:20

The ostensible original concept or the real original concept?

[patientcapital] 27/1/2020 09:16

It needs stripping back to the original concept.

[grahamite2] 27/1/2020 08:55

More likely there won't be any EU left to rejoin in 20 years. The thing is coming apart at the seams.

[utrickytrees] 27/1/2020 08:50

I'm no expert but it strikes me that articles such as those by David Smith (economics editor of the Times) predicting the uk will be back in the EU inside 20yrs are largely pulp fiction. I'd venture to say that every global economic forecast similar to those produced by Banks on an annual basis that I've ever read cannot confidently predict anything, invariably they merely state a range of models which may or may not occur & invariably they are incorrect.
On the UK rejoining the EU, his prediction has a better chance of success than many as there are only two possible outcomes...we will or we wont! I'm not prepared to nail my colours to the mast on this one however, I'd go so far as to say that if we were in in 20yrs time it wont be the same EU as we have today, so the question really is how long will it take for the EU to reform to such an extent that the UK might consider rejoining?

[grahamite2] 27/1/2020 08:39

Remainers vow never to use Brexit 50p coins as they accuse Boris Johnson of 'rubbing our noses in it'



One of the funniest articles The Daily Telegraph has run in a long time. How contemptible and pathetic these wretches are!

[jordaggy] 27/1/2020 08:07

Well I suppose with 500,000 businesses in serious distress, this fall is expected. Oh, and with the entire population wiped out, I guess they won't be paying their loans off!