Quote Originally Posted by Eric Cartman View Post
It's also not some sort of charitable endeavour whoever we are negotiating with. USA has far less motivation to secure a deal with us than we do with them and therefore, it will lean heavily in their favour. Those clamouring for a trade deal with the USA, as some sort of 'see, Brexit works', might not like what we have to give away.
But either you are saying that countries should naturally want to spend time to negotiate deals (to perhaps bespoke it to their own economic or social needs) in which case why wouldn't we want that ourselves..

..or you are saying that free trade deals are so universally positive that no one should ever want to make changes to it..in which case they wouldnt be complex to negotiate?

I'm sure the reality is somewhere in the middle.