I know a Brexiteer or two who quite liked the idea of returning to the 1950s a couple of years ago. Is this what they meant?https://twitter.com/TomBoadle/status/1089879657871278082 …
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Ask him how many of the 40 trade deals he promised are ready to roll? Assuming that’s on the list of Tufton Street approved questions?
Interesting! Who will it be? Will they be basing their expertise on Minfords model of running down UK Agri and manufacturing? Or maybe the principle of the Japanese Ambassador?pic.twitter.com/SVBOP02pQs
Liam easiest deal in the world Fox, only 1 or 2 rolled over EU trade agreements, is useless and out of his depth. Most trade experts believe WTO is like playing in the 4th division vs the Champions League of the EU - but there probably is an outliner Minford of trade.
Possibly not. Fox has misjudged everything. When he first arrived in Geneva a couple of years ago, trade experts forgave his ignorance as the job was new. Now the same experts say that despite having been to Geneva c.10x he repeats his original errors - ie he knows he is lying
Depends who the trade expert is. You should get someone like Jason Hunter on your show who is a trade expert. I criticise Julia because I have listened to parts of your show - you exhibit no willingness to delve into detail. It's too easy to say Project Fear, 17.4m people etc
Julia rates @LiamFox. Too funny.
And frankly David Davis is a rockstar - bigger than Elvis ! The intellectual calibre of Tory Brexiter is disturbingly poor. Bridgen, Dorries, Patel, Jenkyns, Patterson, Raab (remember Calais), Grayling (no comment needed) - the list is endless.
Ask both re the volume impact on exports when we have to apply WTO tariffs in a no-deal (NB we can't control this - I'm referring to exports NOT imports). In short WTO tariffs force us to raise export prices = demand down = jobs lost. Jobs are created from exports not imports
Your Moggs always refer to import tariifs under our control - not export tariffs outside of our control. If we have no jobs we can't afford to import anything. So the impact on exports is critical.
Ask how we expect to get better trade deals with the likes of Japan and S.Korea than a 500m population block like the EU already has. Ask whether there are MFN clauses in the existing EU agreements meaning it is unlikely we can get better terms
Ask whether the government will compensate businesses which suffer from lost exports while Fox is trying to negotiate trade deals which may take years and in the meantime some companies will go bust as they won't be able to ride it out
Liam Fox? .... I wouldn’t trust him to spell his own name.
Many forget but Liam Fox was forced to resign in 2011 as Defence Sec when he massively breached the ministerial code by letting a friend attend top security national defence meetings. Schoolboy error shows he has zero common sense. Only in politics could you come back from this.
Ask why Brexiters peddle a lie that >90% of trade is on WTO terms which is rubbish. WTO may have c.164 members and all their trade globally adds up to >90% - but this is NOT on WTO terms as it includes eg US/Canada/Mexico trade under NAFTA., intra EU trade etc.
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