As I understand it, we would then no longer be on pure 'WTO rules' Under WTO rules, you have to give all nations you trade with the same tariff. You can place any tariff you like on say cars from Germany but you would have to apply the same tariff to all car imports. This why no countries actually operate under pure WTO rules.
We can trade with our current EU agreement under WTO rules if the bullies didn't cut their noses off to spite there face and then set up a reciprocal deal with the EU long term which would actually benefit them more than us - but hey oh - bullies are what bullies are And as AC says above - you would not even notice if we left without a deal on the 29th
For the umpteenth time, the leave campaigners were holding up Switzerland and Norway as examples of how we could leave the EU and still be prosperous.
You speak in generalities and state "We simply do not have the people, systems or capacity to check.." There are existing fiscal and border control mechanisms in place so the statement is misleading. What exactly are we checking for?
Also, the EU has always said we can't cherry-pick. They won't give us the same terms we have now without staying in the Customs Union and Single Market and allowing free movement. The best deal we will ever get is the one we have right now.
Please be careful when sharing links like this; it's a BBC article that runs through a third party proxy so could be subject to all sorts of manipulation, content injection and/or malicious additions. Always worth making sure you quote the source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47071234
It said on telly? Who said, Jake Grease-Smugg?? What trade agreement?? They won't just allow us to roll over what we have now as insiders - we will then be outsiders.
So we are agreed that Switzerland cannot make decisions for itself that an independent country expects to be able to make - border security and integrity is pretty much a basic requirement before you can call yourself a country. Switzerland cannot control its borders and cannot vote to change things in the EU. In the EU, but not a member and they cannot vote. Like I said. Can we agree to agree now?
As far as I can tell, the EU is attempting to increase the size of each country's population in an effort to ease unemployment.
Nor its banks. Not that it would want to. Dubious history let's not scrape the shiny wrapper off the country.
