This Brexit malarkey is going well

[life on mars]

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Positive news we have signed free trade deal with Singapore guess this will lead us into joining the CPTPP Pacific Pact some 11 countries like Canada Australia, Japan , and Vincent's Malaysia, it represents 500 million consumers approx 13% global GDP.

[jon1959]

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Positive news we have signed free trade deal with Singapore guess this will lead us into joining the CPTPP Pacific Pact some 11 countries like Canada Australia, Japan , and Vincent's Malaysia, it represents 500 million consumers approx 13% global GDP.

I think it just means that new Dysons will be £10 cheaper?

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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I think it just means that new Dysons will be £10 cheaper?

Dysons: an alternative for the anti-Vaxers.

[Swiss Peter]

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I think things will be fine

Rumour has it that Liz Truss is about to announce a trade deal with Matebeliland and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

[Swiss Peter]

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https://twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/st...b62f31c1fe12a8


Kristallnacht. Gunboats. This is going well.

[life on mars]

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I think it just means that new Dysons will be £10 cheaper?

No it means Singapore is becoming a commercial gate way to Asia for the UK and vise versa , big UK firms like that entry to that market whilst still having bases/jobs in the UK , if you look at Singapore we are one of their biggest traders,there is life after Europe and beyond , perfect world I suppose going forward is we buy our avocados for ones toast directly from the countries they are harvested form not via a secondary European supply market ,Somerset Brie is fine as is Kent Wines and Champers , tally ho chaps .

Positiveness is healthy.

[life on mars]

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https://twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/st...b62f31c1fe12a8


Kristallnacht. Gunboats. This is going well.

Merkel is no fan of us , the German model is about power and influence along with the french ask the Greeks and other countries who find it a lot harder than those two

[Eric Cartman]

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No it means Singapore is becoming a commercial gate way to Asia for the UK and vise versa , big UK firms like that entry to that market whilst still having bases/jobs in the UK , if you look at Singapore we are one of their biggest traders,there is life after Europe and beyond , perfect world I suppose going forward is we buy our avocados for ones toast directly from the countries they are harvested form not via a secondary European supply market ,Somerset Brie is fine as is Kent Wines and Champers , tally ho chaps .

Positiveness is healthy.

What is a secondary European supply market?

[Eric Cartman]

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Merkel is no fan of us , the German model is about power and influence along with the french ask the Greeks and other countries who find it a lot harder than those two

Britain accusing other countries of bullying is pretty delusional

[Swiss Peter]

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Merkel is no fan of us

True. She's Energie Cottbus, isn't she?

[jon1959]

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No it means Singapore is becoming a commercial gate way to Asia for the UK and vise versa , big UK firms like that entry to that market whilst still having bases/jobs in the UK , if you look at Singapore we are one of their biggest traders,there is life after Europe and beyond , perfect world I suppose going forward is we buy our avocados for ones toast directly from the countries they are harvested form not via a secondary European supply market ,Somerset Brie is fine as is Kent Wines and Champers , tally ho chaps .

Positiveness is healthy.

Positivity may be healthy but delusional jingoism is not.

Do you know what you mean by 'commercial gateway to Asia' or is it just words rehashed from something you read in the Express? I am genuinely interested to know what role Singapore might play in future UK exports if not just as one part of a straight trading deal. Do you mean that the UK might not need to race for trade deals with all the other Asian countries that we currently trade with through the EU? That the city state of Singapore might act as an Asian agent for UK plc? Do tell.

I am also interested in your claim about avocados. Not about what you put on your toast (!) but the 'secondary European supply market'. I am no expert, but I understood that most avocados sold in the UK came direct by ship from Israel (and the occupied West Bank). Are you saying that they are unladed and moved to a European warehouse, and left for a while before being reloaded and delivered to the UK - adding time and cost to the transaction? Where did you get that gem from?

You have spent the last 4 years rubbishing the EU and repeating Brexit bullshit, and yet you claim to have voted Remain? Why?

[the other bob wilson]

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True. She's Energie Cottbus, isn't she?

[jon1959]

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True. She's Energie Cottbus, isn't she?

I just looked them up on Wiki. Interesting history with the original club founded by miners and an offshoot banned by the Nazis.

Now in the 4th tier - Regionalliga Nordost - Northeast league.

Their current squad is all German apart from one Lichtenstein player, but 'on 6 April 2001, Energie became the first Bundesliga club to field a side made up of 11 foreign players. Energie often fielded nine or ten foreigners that season.'

[Swiss Peter]

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I just looked them up on Wiki. Interesting history with the original club founded by miners and an offshoot banned by the Nazis.

Now in the 4th tier - Regionalliga Nordost - Northeast league.

Their current squad is all German apart from one Lichtenstein player, but 'on 6 April 2001, Energie became the first Bundesliga club to field a side made up of 11 foreign players. Energie often fielded nine or ten foreigners that season.'

Interesting. I had forgotten (or never knew!) that they had had such a decent stint at Bundesliga level.

Back to Brexit, interesting to read that the sadly departed John le Carré had said as follows.

"I’m not just a Remainer. I’m a European through and through, and the rats have taken over the ship.”
"We Brits are all nationalists now. Or so Johnson would have us believe. But to be a nationalist you need enemies and the shabbiest trick in the Brexiteers’ box was to make an enemy of Europe. “Take back control!” they cried, with the unspoken subtext: and hand it to Donald Trump, along with our foreign policy, our economic policy, our health service and, if they can get away with it, our BBC."

Good man. Sad loss.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Positivity may be healthy but delusional jingoism is not.

Do you know what you mean by 'commercial gateway to Asia' or is it just words rehashed from something you read in the Express? I am genuinely interested to know what role Singapore might play in future UK exports if not just as one part of a straight trading deal. Do you mean that the UK might not need to race for trade deals with all the other Asian countries that we currently trade with through the EU? That the city state of Singapore might act as an Asian agent for UK plc? Do tell.

I am also interested in your claim about avocados. Not about what you put on your toast (!) but the 'secondary European supply market'. I am no expert, but I understood that most avocados sold in the UK came direct by ship from Israel (and the occupied West Bank). Are you saying that they are unladed and moved to a European warehouse, and left for a while before being reloaded and delivered to the UK - adding time and cost to the transaction? Where did you get that gem from?

You have spent the last 4 years rubbishing the EU and repeating Brexit bullshit, and yet you claim to have voted Remain? Why?

Did you know that the word 'avocado' (when referring to the fruit) is a Spanish bastardisation of the Aztec word 'āhuacatl', which means testicle.

Yours

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