Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
by VBprogrammer on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:41PM
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I don't think "we probably won't even starve to death" would have gone over quite so well on the side of the bus.
There is also the question of how easy unravelling our membership of the WTO with the rest of Europe will be.
I'm no expert in how international trade works but it's not as simple as WTO becomes the default day one no deal situation from what I've read. For example https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-trade-...
> “The thing is, checks on non-EU trucks don’t take a couple of minutes,” Burnett told me. “They can take two or three hours.” Post-Brexit, British trucks would be non-EU. A team from London’s Imperial College subsequently estimated those queues could be 29 miles long at peak times on the British side, and there’s no reason to suppose it wouldn’t be the same on the French.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/sep/15/food-and-brexit...
Days of wait time would prohibit fresh/frozen food to make it to the UK before perishing.
The EU and the UK already have a trade deal. It is called the World Trade Organization rules.
Yes, some taxes and tariffs might be higher, but it is a complete lie, born of either ignorance or maliciousness, to claim that a country would literally starve to death.
Once again, go look up the WTO trade rules. WTO trade rules cover most of the world.