EU Australia FTA negotiations fail

Obligations are nearly done. The UK citizens who were paid a pension through the EU will be relieved. And your loans are now paid back.

If you dont want any financial association woth the EU drop out of all those trade agreements and stop nagging to be part of Horizon.

Your GDP still relies most heavily on the EU trade deals you still use.
The ones you did (all three) are a global joke.

Do you know what Horizon is??
And no, the UK has not altered any EU trade deal it signed into over the last 70 years.

Best to recognise truth from what would suit your opinion.


As for cheaper food, that isnt borne out by your infamous inflation.

Just exactly what is cheaper, other than the lies you are still expecting to happen?

My dear iggy
The EU does not want to be swamped by Australian produce, or have the unique right to labels of origin which are misleading.

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-12/australia-eu-trade-deal-fails-to-find-agreement/102590552

Talks are due to be resumed later.

OTOH i doubt very much if British livestock producers want tens of thousands of sheep and cows available in the UK, pushing down the costs of farmers already struggling with costs of feed and vets bills.

Do you actually want to see the end of livestock faeming in the UK?

And the EU is sensitive to labelling honestly. No one can merely SAY their product is from a place...it is misleading and introduces grossly unfair competition. Australia wants the right to add regional reference when the item is produced half way around the world.

It would be a deal which would hurt the citizens of the EU and as such, is right to be rejected.

Course you would grab it with both hands since for you, deals are like playing monopoly, while the content doesnt matter.

Which is why the Australians are laughing at you.

Silly argument Dan, steel is still heavily dependent on coal. We don't mine it ourselves due to a legacy of when we were in the EU and the anti coal policies. So, it's either Russia, or Australia till we build new mines. I'd rather it be the Aussies.

Next, cheap food including tomatoes. EU was in short supply last winter. Australia will boost supply. They can supply foods out of season in large quantities.

And our farmers are still subsidised, theirs aren't. We can supply foods to them out of season too.

The UK imports steel. It makes relatively little itself.
And i am amazed that "environment iggy" wants to open more coal mines in the UK.
Its policy is to buy steel from elsewhere often China.

As for food prices, i saw a jump in prices last year and no change this year. I posted yesterday that i saw a large display of firm beautiful vine tomatoes (given that this forum seems to use tomatoes as the base calculation speaking for the position of the UK economy) for 99 cents per kilo. Fuel is holding steady at about 1.67 a litre and there is and never was a shortage of anything.

And disproven to be anything to do with Brexit very rapidly. As were your claims that the UK was the only place in Western Europe with tomato shortages.
Ireland had shortages, Sweden had shortages and you jumped the gun, because of fundamentalism.

You have an urge to see Brexit fail and the UK coming crawling back.
It's a success Dan, we sold £340 billion to the EU last year, more than we ever sold to them before the referendum. And that's taking inflation into account.