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Originally Posted by 57 On Red
No, not 'finalised'. Whole trade agreements have to be negotiated and written from scratch. That can take well over a decade. And the most important foreign parties will have us at a considerable disadvantage.
We haven't left the EU yet, and Art.50 hasn't even been triggered. So nobody knows what the position is, or what it's going to be.
I wouldn't agree that we are at a disadvantage when we are operating a huge trade deficit with the EU. If they don't want us to spend billions on their goods and services and they are happy losing 000's of jobs in their own countries to score political points then so be it.
Politicians may be happy with this but the workers, the little peasants to the EU politicians, who lose their jobs as a direct result will be up in arms.
I'd expect to see real unrest in Germany and France if the EU politicians actually set out to agree trade terms which cause huge damage to their own economies.
On the other hand this would surely speed up the disintegration of the EU project and return sanity to the world so maybe a couple of years of pain would be worth it to get rid of these idiots.