Monday, 16 January 2017

Donald Trump says UK trade deal is his priority

Donald Trump has told the Times that a trade deal with the UK will be a priority when he takes office this week.

He said that the UK is "doing great" after the referendum and that we are "smart" to be getting out of the EU. He went on to say that whilst Barack Obama had said that the UK would be at the "back of the queue" we would, in fact, be at the "front of the line". Obama's statement was believed to have been requested by Project Fear as an American would say "back of the line".

Trump's promise that the UK will be a priority for a trade deal has prompted a swift response from the EU who have said that they won't allow negotiations to even start until after we leave.

What are they going to do? Chuck us out?

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I've always thought that the best way to exit the EU would be for them to throw us out, it seems far less complicated than all the negotiations currently proposed and a lot cheaper.
The problem is that all the EU countries would never be able to agree amongst themselves on such a course of action. The French negotiator-in-chief has already suggested that France needs access the London's financial markets and I don't think the German car makers would be too happy if they couldn't sell us their cars.
Mrs May has by far the best hand, let's hope she plays her cards wisely unlike Cameron who revealed his hand in advance.
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All it takes to ''chuck us out'' is for the Institute of Chartered Accountants to scrap immediately Financial Reporting Standard 102 (known to accountants as FRS102). Its adoption is a compulsory requirement of EU membership and in itself - as an accountant - one of my reasons to vote ''leave'' the EU,

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