Theresa May’s kowtowing to the hard Brexiters in her party may have just cost the UK $1.7 Trillion of access to international projects after Brexit.
The U.S., New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Ukraine, Israel and Moldova have all blocked Britain’s post-Brexit entry into the World Trade Organization’s Government Procurement Agreement, a market worth $1.7 Trillion.
And while the first six big players on that list may eventually (after perhaps years of hard negotiations) give in with separate trade deals, with the last one – the small country of Moldova – it’s unlikely.
Because it’s personal.
This is because Theresa May – in an effort to look tough on immigration – made the inexplicable and utterly disastrous decision last year to deny visas to a Moldovan government delegation who wanted to visit the UK on a trade mission.
Corina Cojocaru – a government adviser to the Moldova government – and her team were arrogantly denied entry to the U.K. in 2017 when they wanted to discuss their country’s future relationship with Britain after it leaves the European Union.
Understandably, Cojocaru was VERY pissed off by the way she was treated by the UK:
“I couldn’t get a visa and a diplomatic passport to go to London to negotiate on government procurement. Nobody listened to us for six to seven months.”
And who is the head of the Moldovan representatives to the WTO who has just decided to block the UK?
Yep. Corina Cojocaru.
This of course illustrates the MASSIVE flaw in the Brexiters’ idiotic plans to revert to WTO rules under a no-deal Brexit: namely that under the rules of the organisation, it only takes ONE country anywhere in the world with a grudge to blackball a member.
And under Theresa May’s Tory government, the UK has been creating a LOT of grudges.
This of course should be massive news in the UK.
But with a supine, spineless press in our country, with most of its billionaire owners personally pro-Brexit, it seems this important news seems to have ‘escaped’ the attention of most of our so-called ‘journalists’.
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More info here from a US newspaper:
Moldova Grudge Could Cost U.K. Access to $1.7 Trillion Projects
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I don’t for a second support what May is doing but won’t it just help her by equating the total size of a market with potentially “blocked” projects. It gives an impression of propaganda rather than fact based analysis.
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Have to agree with Christopher Hentschel; it’s scaremongering worthy of the Sun or the Daily Express, which will likely be totally counterproductive! May’s UNDOUBTED incompetence has NOT ‘just cost Britain $1.7 TRILLION in post Brexit contracts’ – instead it has probably (or even possibly) cost Britain – perhaps temporarily – a SHARE in $1.7 TRILLION in post Brexit contracts, the vast bulk of which would certainly go to the USA in any case! There’s plenty of genuine and effective ammunition to fire at the despicable Tories…
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On the other hand, Tom, have you seen this one:
At the Heart of Global Woes, 157 of World’s 200 Richest Entities Are Now Corporations, Not Governments
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/17/heart-global-woes-157-worlds-200-richest-entities-are-now-corporations-not
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My understanding of the article is that the UK is blocked from $1.7 Trillion of access. That’s not the same as $1.7 trillion in deals for the UK. Unless I’m misunderstanding Christopher Hentschel and jacobusmcmxlvii.
Apart from that, I’m astonished that the UK Government hasn’t been aware of how their game playing and intransigence, plus their breaking of contracts and agreements, must look to the outside world. Just because they’re living in a blinkered world, doesn’t mean that others can’t see into it.
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Aint Karma a bitch
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May has got to go….
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Get her out NOW
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I would love to re-post this BUT you have stated “a market worth $1.7 Trillion.” Then go on to say, in the picture, “Theresa May’s incompetence has just cost Britain $1.7 trillion”. This is blatantly and disappointingly untrue.
What she has done is denied Britain access to a share in a market worth $1.7 trillion, not cost us $1.7 trillion.
I am shocked that Prides Purge has allowed himself to mislead like the MSM that he despises.
Get a grip or one of your faithful followers and re-posters, for years, will stop following your normally great blogs.
Have you PP got anything to say about this??
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As UK is already a member how can Moldova stop them .
[The UK is not a member of the WTO procurement agreement The EU is. We have to reapply. ]- Tom
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May has an agenda, she is doing everything in her power to ensure that she and her fellow profiteers are well catered for following what is likely to be a landslide defeat at the next election.
She is hell bent on selling off the NHS to the likes of Branson and several major American healthcare companies.
She is determined to help as many of her wealthy chums make as much money as possible before she loses her job, something that is likely to happen well before any election.
She is just out to cause misery for those who are unable to do anything to prevent it, those people who need the support of the rest of the population to back them up but for reasons unknown to me, don’t seem willing to do so.
The sooner that this party is gone, the better.
One other thing. If the U.N are so concerned about this government’s record on Human Rights for the disabled and the poor, why have they not passed the matter over to the International Court of Human Rights?
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What an absolute load of cockwaffle. More fear mongering. I used to respect you and you your reporting. I think you will be better placed writing for the Beano.
[LOL. Putting your head in the sand won’t help] -Tom
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It’s always good to see a lively discussion, LMAO!
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Is it really scaremongering? I guess that we shall just have to wait and see. This isn’t Y2K all over again, this is real and it could be true, I sincerely hope that it isn’t but alas I feel that it is very likely.
Watch and see.
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someone please …..Banish Teresa May?
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Tom! Re-edit this so it’s true, looks to me like an easy mistake to make with grammar and sequencing but then again I /am/ biased.
“cost the UK $1.7 Trillion of access to international projects”
NEEDS to rapidly become
“cost the UK access to $1.7 Trillion of international projects ”
– maybe with a little note of the correction at the bottom.
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Good reporting. Thank you.
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Isn’t it odd that so many people clearly comment without at least scanning previous comments…
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They will deny it very diplomatically but it’s personal for New Zealand as well. In 1972 when we emigrated there NZ was happy as the UK’s butter, wool and sheepmeat supplier. The UK was still called Home.
Then in ’73 the UK joined the then EEC and the doors slammed shut. It was a generational catastrophe. NZ picked itself up, re-jigged things, built regional container ports and new freezing works (export abattoirs) and rebranded the humble Chinese gooseberry as the Kiwifruit.
NZ no longer needs the UK, it has a free trade deal with China, Chile, ASEAN and a new one with the EU coming etc etc. So it will be looking for advantage here and it will play hardball. May partially closed the door to Antipodeans seeking OE. That will have to go, more Antipodean barmaids I’m afraid. But guaranteed butter, lamb, wool and apple imports whether we want them or not are likely.
Oh and during l’Affair Rainbow the UK was not helpful and took France’s side. We remember.
Revenge is a dish best served cold. NZ has an Antarctic Territory, it does very, very cold.
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Brexit is the biggest con EVER put on to the UK public, however I do not see at this time, how the disaster of a no deal can now be avoided. The elites want to carry out their private “crisis” investing plans. Where they can bring in their shady money and multiply their wealth by picking up valuable assests for buttons.
Criminal never mind immoral, I think a Bastille day is warranted and I am no hard liner.
However these people are bringing the UK to it’s knees and making us the joke country of the world. The Tories should be disbanded, impotent labour is little better.
In fact our whole political system needs rewritten and a real constitution made. Respecting all the rights we are used to having, plus regulations on political power, which is being so abused at this time. As it is the ordinary hard workers across the board will be the ones to suffer, the elites will be the profiteers.
As far as our “precious Union” is concerned, it is likely finished now by marginalising the devolved goverments, May is knowingly destroying all faith that remained in Westminster and will not go well in history. The UK as we know it is coming to an end, and these conspirators will never be forgotten and the pain inflicted on the people will never be forgiven..
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These are people who were brought up and fed from birth on diets of xenophobia. They can’t help themselves and the world of ordinary people should know what they are really like.
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Erm… Just one point this article forgets to mention.
Theresa May and her team are all Remainers! They DO NOT want to make a success of Brexit!
So, REMAIN ARE TO BLAME!
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The U.S, New Zealand (a Commonwealth country) Japan, Israel (a country dependent on British support for it’s vile and insidious policies toward the Palestinian people), all of them are blocking us so how about we sanction them? We don’t need them if that is the way they wish to treat us.
Britain is responsible for so many world class inventions and services, we are the best in the world. FUCK, America speaks our language, as does New Zealand, in the case of America, they can’t even do that properly, they have to fuck up our words by spelling them differently.
I sincerely hope that when this debacle is finally over, these countries remember the way that they treated us, especially when they have to come cap in hand for British expertise.
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I cannot stand May as I think she is an incompetent baffon that could not organise a pissup in a brewery, and she is the one who introduced the tough inhumane stance on immigration (as a British citizen my Rhodesia Wife has to pay 000’s in visa and NHS, even though she is working and contributing to NHS, when a friends South African husband pass nothing because she is an EU citizen), but I have to say it is irresponsible articles like this that is splitting the country apart. There is nothing wrong with writing articles that show the good and bad to about how we will be affected by brexit as long as they are clear and factual. Another thing is WTO is not part of EU it is an independent organisation.
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What a croc! Scaremongering by the left. New Zealand and the USA haven’t blocked the UK. They want good trading relationships post brexit. Seriously the media in the uk need to be shot. Brexit under WTO rules is the best thing Britain can do.
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I’m sorry but this is the biggest load of bullshit so far ! I belong to no party but if labour are looking for support then talk sense and stop wasting people’s time with crap like this !!!!!
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I trust then that you are in favour of May’s disastrous plans for Britain with regard to Brexit.
Open your eyes and see the truth. Cornyn may not seem to have a plan that everyone can get behind but then he doesn’t need one at the moment but if he did have a plan, it would be a whole lot better than what May wants.
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-wto/wto-agrees-in-principle-to-keep-britain-in-procurement-deal-envoy-idUKKCN1NW1WN
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I would agree with Mick Shaw that this is.a.scaremongering article; for grammatical reasons. Mr Shaw also refers to Beano, a comic I haven’t seen since the fifties and have to assume it still exists.
On the other hand I do believe you should be scared. Moldova is a European country so remote it has perhaps never felt the whipping hand of British kolonialsm.
Most other places in the world have however. And most have little axes to grind. I live in such a place and have worked with many others… And if you think the cost of leaving the EU is heavy… no one it seems has thought about how much you will have to pay to close business in any of those places given the evolved state of competition in consumables and services in what is rapidly becoming a global gig economy. And the ‘pay’ by the way will as always come from the lower orders.
On one level this should be an amazing opportunity for those competent to grab the ring: and go for greatness. Provided you can grasp its inherently Dickensian quality… And figure out what to do about that mass of people who are totally left behind…. And like schmucks have voted to be poorer.
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If she had from the beginning of the negotiations realised she didn’t possess the skills to barter she should have brought in David Davis and even though she hates the man Nigel Farage. But no she just carried on giving in to all the EU demanded she wouldn’t be in the position she is now !
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Maybe we should execute Russell Brand for convincing young people that they shouldn’t bother having a vote?
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This woman and her advisers are nothing less than the most disastrously treacherous,embarrassment to our country globally,it’s all most inconceivable that a conspiracy of of this magnitude could have ever been devised by the verry people who are entrusted with the verry wellbeing of our nation and countries future and the verry same leaders who are trusted to portray and uphold our strength and democratic values to the rest of the world.THEY SHOULD ALL BE JAILED FOR TREASON.every one of them dating back to & including Ted Heath.
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Yes, but it looks like it’s been resolved now – https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news18_e/gpro_28nov18_e.htm
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Besides conflating the total size of the market and the contracts Britain actually has to provide foreign government contracts, as pointed out by plenty of commenters above, you also say “This is because Theresa May – in an effort to look tough on immigration – made the inexplicable and utterly disastrous decision last year to deny visas to a Moldovan government delegation who wanted to visit the UK on a trade mission.” Yet the source you cite (Bloomberg) only says “Moldova’s economic counselor to the WTO, and her team were denied entry to the U.K. last year”, with no particular suggestion that Theresa May herself made the decision, or that she had any particular motivation for doing so. Do you have a source for the apparent conjecture you’ve added, or did you just make it up for fun?
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