"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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RJH wrote:
he EU is its own enormous trade lobby, and has considerable clout.
What's the quid pro quo for China when dealing with the UK? Of course,
the UK can hope a free trade deal will arise. What I'm failing to see is
why that should happen.

+1. We are a tiny market compared to the EU. Even although an important
one within it. The idea we can 'beat' the EU at its own game just a dream
of stupid old men.

On the other hand, it is much easier for the UK outside
the EU to do a trade deal with an individual country
than it is for the EU, because every single country
in the EU has a veto on every single detail of the deal.
That isnt the case with the UK and plenty of the old
commonwealth countries which got an obscene
gesture from the UK when it joined the EEC will be
quite happy to return to the deal they used to have
instead of having their imports into the UK slugged
with tariffs that are there to protect very inefficient
EU producers of those goods.