Post Brexit, UKIP wants tariff-free access to EU single market

[Vergennes]

@SMS Derfflinger @MarkusS @flamer84
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UKIP's Neil Hamilton | Matt Cardy/Getty Images




‘It will be hugely in the interests of the European Union to grant it,’ says UKIP committee member


The EU should be motivated to forge trade deals with the U.K. because of current lopsided trade relations.

Neil Hamilton, from UKIP’s national executive committee, told BBC Radio 4 today that it was in the EU’s interest to make that happen following the vote to leave the bloc “because we have a huge trade deficit with them.”


“We want tariff-free access to the single market and it will be hugely in the interests of the European Union to grant it,” Neil Hamilton, from UKIP’s national executive committee, told BBC Radio 4 today, following Britain’s vote to leave the EU.

http://www.politico.eu/article/post-brexit-ukip-wants-tariff-free-access-to-eu-single-market/

 

[MarkusS]

lol EU already said that it wont deal with UK and it must do singular treaties with all 27 individual countries.

Also its likely that EU will put many rocks into UK way.

 

[SMS Derfflinger]

 

[Stephen Cohen]

UK's problems have JUST BEGUN

Scotland is already angry because it wanted to remain with EU

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-36621030

 

[maximuswarrior]

UK is in deep trouble, but I'm sure Nigel Farage will fix it all.

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

EU needs to finish negotiations with the U.S. first.

 

[flamer84]

In a few years it will be sorted out,these things take time.Meanwhile the UK superpower has left the boat and it's their job how they handle the sharks.

 

[livingdead]

this has been the leave position all along... that EU has trade imbalance with UK and putting up tariff is in nobody's interest. nothing new.

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

this has been the leave position all along... that EU has trade imbalance with UK and putting up tariff is in nobody's interest. nothing new.

It is in EUs interest to show other potential quitters, that it is not in their interest to quit.
Tariffs on financial transactions would speed up the movement of City functions to Frankfurt.

 

[livingdead]

It is in EUs interest to show other potential quitters, that it is not in their interest to quit.
Tariffs on financial transactions would speed up the movement of City functions to Frankfurt.

depends on how well EU market performs, they dont want to bring recession upon themselves, I guess. BTW UK as country is much more nimble footed than EU committee and is free to do deals around the world to dampen the negative fall out. EU will find it harder to do such deals.

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

depends on how well EU market performs, they dont want to bring recession upon themselves, I guess. BTW UK as country is much more nimble footed than EU committee and is free to do deals around the world to dampen the negative fall out. EU will find it harder to do such deals.

Question is how many people want to spend effort on making a special deal with the U.K.
Obama has stated that the trade deal with the EU, is much more important.
He is of course on the way out, but why would the new POTUS value a deal with the U.K. higher?

 

[jamal18]

 

[UKBengali]

Eu will be desperate to make a quick deal with the UK as it sells more to UK than other way round.

 

[livingdead]

Question is how many people want to spend effort on making a special deal with the U.K.
Obama has stated that the trade deal with the EU, is much more important.
He is of course on the way out, but why would the new POTUS value a deal with the U.K. higher?

the new chief can do deal with UK and EU.. its not like if you do with EU you cant do with UK. From american point of view, a favorable ally in the club was useful, it does not really mean they wont do a deal with UK.

 

[flamer84]

It is in EUs interest to show other potential quitters, that it is not in their interest to quit.
Tariffs on financial transactions would speed up the movement of City functions to Frankfurt.

Better to suck it up and loose some billions than face disaster and disintegration.Make the UK (or what's left of it after Scottexist) an example.