Both ways too ,French will love thatThat'll be in the back of the 7000 lorries queuing in Kent
EU threatens to ban UK ag and food exports to them
- Thread starter Deranged peasant
- Start date
- Location
- Limousin, France
France has already built the lorry parks, customs facilities and even the restaurants. Douane have increased in number, many more being trained.
Do you still think the EU will back down?
ollie989898
Member
In my view, the view for the UK having a separate nuclear deterrent during the Cold war was weaker than it is today. Far far more uncertain world today than in the 70s or 80s.
ollie989898
Member
The USA does not control the UK's nuclear weapons chain of command.
ollie989898
Member
Nothing stopping the EU from spending loads of money on defence. Only they don't have the money.
Defence contracts are not on the table for trade discussions, they never have been.
Doubt it!!
No-deal Brexit will cost UK more than Covid, report finds
LSE analysis says long term economic hit will be two to three times as large as Covid impact
www.theguardian.com
ollie989898
Member
Nukes highly ineffective?
Ok, so you would prefer the West had none and that Iran and North Korea did?
Come off it. Nuclear weapons are so effective you don't ever need to use them.
Is it Cummings?
- Location
- Limousin
And you really think the UK will sally forth with it's own nuclear war against some unfortunate country. We only do something big with US blessing and that has always been the case since Suez.
ollie989898
Member
What are you on about?
You harp on about how the WTO is meaningless, yet dozens of countries are signed up to it?
The UK consumer market is vast. The government has intimated at length that it will be looking to extend bilateral free trade deals with interested parties. I can't write that more times than I already have.
I know you live in upside down land but that is a bloody big cherry dandling down for anyone interested in making a shilling from it. The EU has not offered the same to anyone outside of Europe, nor has the USA. What, you suppose India won't look for a slice of that action for fear we will bury them in cheap clothes manufactured in child sweatshops because of the total lack of labour laws in the UK? You reckon other countries won't want to do a deal because of the UK's reputation for churning out goods with poor product safety and a lack of compliance with environmental protection laws?
Come off it.
ollie989898
Member
It's not about a unilateral first strike and you know it. You reckon the French would launch on their own?
5 men with a big club is always far more scary than just 1 man with a big club.
ollie989898
Member
You mean Brexit is costing the EU money?
You would think they would be looking to get it over with.
- Location
- Limousin
The French had a full test of their customs system over a year ago in preparation for no withdrawal deal happening. The UK hasn't even specced, let a loan written some of the systems they need.
- Location
- Beragh, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Did France not have a row with the NATO command structure in the 1960/70s when they withdrew their forces officially from the command structure ?
ollie989898
Member
The French had a full test of their customs system over a year ago in preparation for no withdrawal deal happening. The UK hasn't even specced, let a loan written some of the systems they need.
Because they aren't going to bother! Globally, less than 2% of all international freight is subjected to customs checks- there is far too much of it by volume. It relies entirely on intelligence. The only way you can hope to check any volume of freight is by gamma ray backscatter scanning which is a hot topic given the prevalence of human beings trying to get across the channel in wagons. The UK already imports goods from all over the world, it will be another working day for the UK importing stuff. It's Europe who needs to check stuff they don't want to import. I wish them luck. It won't be done and the EU have historically been lame as fudge about border controls.
Japan have you a harder deal than the one you had through EU!
And that was before the “let’s break international agreements”, fiasco!!
No, no, no ..... it’s going to be a hard sell I’m afraid. Then the House of Lords will make it harder!!
caveman
Member
- Location
- East Sussex.
Anybody would think all EU traffic is of French origin?
Your hilarious. Whatever your train of thought, your humours comments makes for interesting reading in these dull times