Dave Plowman (News) wrote
tim... wrote

The official line that having a deal between country A
and country B increases the wealth of both countries
by billions looks somewhat bogus to me.

Set up a trade deal with a country.

You'll then have some interchange of personnel to deal with the nuts and
bolts of that deal. Those people form friends locally. Tourism may result.

Can't see much of that with the TTIP.

Or with any of these either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe...ade_agreements

Other types of businesses get recommended - like banks and
financial services, etc. Universities. Research. All the things the
UK is good at now we are no longer the workshop of the world.

Sure, but you don’t need a trade deal to get those. Britain does plenty
of that with India and China etc etc etc without any trade deal involved.

It is far more than 'you trade me some wheat for eggs' in passing.

Doesn’t need any trade agreement tho.