Civil service can't negotiate24 Nov 2018 03:37
I think ppl are not using their heads if they think this deal is worth paying 39bn none of which we are legally obliged to pay anyway. We operate on wto with China and usa, 2 largest economies on earth, and there is zero reason we can't do this with EU. We even run a large surplus with USA under WTO!!! And before ppl get too distressed it's a 2.8% mean tariff and besides we run a 70bn deficit with EU. Just because some idiot politicians agree a trade deal doesn't mean you get traders, you need product to sell in the first place. This appalling trade deal is a direct payment from every worker in the UK of around 1500 going out of the country and never retutning, total madness. Just imagine what 39bn could do for infrastructure here. Why parliament is determined to waste 39bn after we've already frittered away 500bn on the EU is beyond me. Good money after bad!