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Amazingly – New Zealanders and Australians are to negotiate with themselves over post-Brexit trade deals with UK
In a desperate effort to show they’re doing something about the Brexit mess – Theresa May’s government has been keen to push possible post-Brexit trade deals with Australia and New Zealand.
The Antipodeans – although admitting it will take many, many years to complete a deal with the UK – seem pretty keen on the idea.
Perhaps that’s because the UK negotiators who will be banging the table on the UK’s behalf against the New Zealanders and Australians will also be …. New Zealanders and Australians.
The UK has admitted there are not enough experienced international trade deal negotiators in the UK and so we are busy hiring foreign experts who have experience of negotiating international trade deals.
And which countries are we mainly hiring from?
Erm …. that would be New Zealand and Australia.
It won’t of course be mentioned much in the UK, but here’s a report from the Australian horribly illustrating the surreal post-Brexit world we are now in:
Malcolm Turnbull and Theresa May will meet at the G20 in China today to discuss a new trade deal between Australia and Britain.
In order to accelerate the process, Trade Minister Steven Ciobo has offered to lend Australian negotiators to Britain to help settle the terms of its exit from the European Union before formal trade talks can begin. New Zealand and Canada have also offered help.
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New Zealand offers UK its top trade negotiators for post-Brexit deals
Trade Minister Steven Ciobo offers to lend Australian negotiators to Britain
UK FTA “years off” in key post-Brexit talks in London
Lily-livered Brexiters too timid and too scared to stand up to their own leaders’ lies
The Brexit vote wasn’t democracy in action. It was populist ignorance on a grand scale.
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FINE, No Problem. They should have done this ages ago and set up post brexit deals and negotiations with possible trading partners throughout the world.
They really were unprepared although all indications was that the public would vote OUT. Another example of govt and parties listening to spin and their own blinkered beliefs than taking notice of the real terrain and listening to the public, and business.
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Some people are spinning around happily and seem totally prepared and planned for Brexit. Lord Ashcroft being one of them. Meeting n greeting people every where. I imaging him humming and singing “The Sun has got its Hat On, Hip Hip HIp Hooray……” Someone was ready and prepared.
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Reblogged this on sdbast.
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Tom this is probably the first post that I would take issue with you over.
The first question is what trade? We are a net importer not exporter, we have a monthly trade deficit with the rest of the world so trading with them is a problem for them not us.
The EU as with the rest of the world are Neo-Liberal governments, we have a Neo-Liberal government here, that is the problem we need to address.
We really aren’t trading we are importing, the American trade deals (TTIP) are designed to hand over power to the corporate sector not to benefit us.
In short we need to understand our needs inside this country and stabilise this economy, not worry about trading with the rest of the world, China is the mass exporter, then the USA, then Europe, we are a tiny part of that.
We don’t have the industries we once had, they have emigrated east, we can rebuild our economy and create Industries but to think we can compete with the rest of the world is to forget how got here in the first place.
Money creation is the key to rebuilding our economy, we need to invest at home and look to our needs, competing with the rest of the world got us here where are today.
We don’t need trade deals to buy other countries finished goods, this is a distraction away from a real future.
Concentrate on what is possible not what we are told to think.
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