The US negotiators have been quite explicit: they have the UK over the barrel and they know it. They will dictate the terms, not Trump or anyone else.
Trade deals aren’t some friendly meetings where allied nations hash things out. They are cut-throat negotiations with sharks on both sides of the table, that take years if not decades to finalise.
Ironically, one of the main pillars of the EU was the idea that European nations would band together to negotiate trade deals with large economies like the US on more equal terms, something which the US negotiators have admitted has made their trade negotiations with the EU very different than the norm.
They can’t apply the same sort of pressure when the two economies are on a similar scale. Whereas the UK will be desperate for any sort of trade deal in the event of a no-deal Brexit, we will have to surrender a great deal to get one quickly.
Our political system at the moment is the joke of the world, but you seriously underestimate how much we’re respected for our innovative genius in the fields of medicine and science - and I mean REAL science, not the fake space shit. The Euro countries need us much more than we need them - that’s why they’re so desperate to keep to keep us on board - and there are many world consumer-countries who have pens at the ready to sign a lot of contracts.
What’ and you think that can’t change? You seriously believe that after this utter Brexit farce, Labour or the Conservatives will be returned to power? It sounds from what you say that you actually hope one or other of them does get returned, rather than have a Brexit government.
The year is 2192. The British PM visits Brussels to ask for an extension of the Brexit deadline. No one remembers where this tradition originated, but every year it attracts many tourists from all over the world.
My last post on Twitter before I got banned was telling Nigel that for every move Boris makes, the traitors ambush him with a new law using (ABusing?) the national Legislature, so WTF can Boris do against the entire political and judicial establishments?
Anyway fuck Twitter, I can live without that. It’s like talking to myself anyway, and the only replies I get are insults. I did finish my run on it with 11 Followers and about 60 Likes though. That wasn’t bad for about 5 months membership?
Jesus wept! Like I just said - how the hell can he keep any promises when every time he makes one, a law is contrived and enacted to prevent him carrying it through? Funny that, when I think about it - new laws usually take weeks, sometimes months to become validated, yet here Remainiacs can make it all happen within hours. WTF?
My habit since joining PB is to catch up with overnight replies then go to Twitter to see if there are any interesting topics to engage in; now I guess I’ll just have to sit here twiddling my thumbs until someone posts something here. Think I’ll check out other sites like this one to fill the gaps. Twitter invited me to defend myself if I think I’ve been unfairly treated, but fuck 'em. And all I did was to use what seems to be the one and only rude word in the entire English lexicon and the Urban Dictionary, and I was banned before you can say ‘Anyone for tennis?’
I just tried that, but got the page wanting to know my phone number; I think it might be something to do with my rehabilitation to membership at the end of the suspension period (however long that might be?), so I can’t be bothered. I was insulted with an obscene expression, and if I’m not allowed to retaliate in the same way then Twitter will have to do without my wit and wisdom.
