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London (AFP) - Britain begins post-Brexit trade talks with the United States on Tuesday, with 100 negotiators on each side joining via videoconference.
Many in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government hope for a free trade agreement with Washington as one of the biggest benefits of leaving the European Union.
Officials said the first round of talks would last two weeks and cover issues such as goods and services trade, digital trade, investment and how to support small businesses.
The US ambassador to Britain, Woody Johnson, said the deal could “jumpstart the economy after we conquer coronavirus” – a message repeated by British officials.
“The US is our largest trading partner and increasing transatlantic trade can help our economies bounce back from the economic challenge posed by coronavirus,” International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said.
And we think Brexit and Coronavirus are bad enough. Our cake just got a new cherry.
And isn't the phrase "International Trade Secretary Liz Truss" terrifying?
This is one of the payoffs to the tories paymasters. Selling the NHS to american companies, reducing all our standards to US levels.
The trade talks have actually been going on since the brexit vote and before - just not thru official channels
TJ - you make continued references to the '....tories paymasters'; humour me - name a few, explain how they are 'paymasters'.
I disagree with your assertion that the NHS is being sold to american companies.
As for reducing all our standards to US levels?
Much noise about chlorine washed chicken and hormone injected beef; they will be pushed but the UK market for those products will be limited.
Name another product or market to support your assertion.
Trade talks are a permanent feature in most countries' political landscape - all Brexit has done is highlight the fact they take place.
explain how they are ‘paymasters’
They fund their party, and their campaigns, and individual politicians in the party… not just though direct donations, but also through ‘employment’ and off the books campaigning efforts.
This will be painful.
International trade and relations is a brutal and merciless business. There's no such thing as goodwill and the idea of a 'Special Relationship' meaning we'll get a millimetre of slack from them is laughable at any time, but with Trump in charge?
We're leaving a deal made in good time as part of the 2nd largest economy in the world with the largest. A deal based not only on trade but as a way to maintain the status quo between East and West.
Imagine that you're on the American Apprentice, stood in front of his Trumpness, a stupid man who only knows arrogance and endless greed. "Hey, Don, I've got this product here, if you buy it it might make you 0.01% Richer if you don't it'll make you 0.01% poorer, it'll make me 10% richer, but if you don't buy it, it might make me bankrupt. I need an answer really quickly because the longer this goes on, the more likely I'll go bankrupt and more desperate I'll get. So, what to you want to pay for it?
The only incentive the US has for doing a deal is that if they don't there's a chance we may scrap the whole idea and rejoin the EU, but the last 3 years has torn the UK apart, we've burnt a lot of Bridges with the EU and the US knows that at the very least, failing to leave the EU will cost Boris his job, probably cost them the Government too and there will be Civil unrest.
The US, China and Russia all want the EU to be split up, because they all want to be the Superpower the rules the others. The EU was already on course to over-take the UK, a singular yet devolved Superpower.
Follow the money frank. "They work for you" website is a decent place to start.
Barclay brothers ad Murdoch are two obvious ones. Then all the US healthcare companies paying tories.
One of the key aims of these folk is to "allow US corporations access to the NHS" ie selling it to them. Read up on kaiser healthcare.
You really do not seem to understand the level of corruption in the tory party. Johnson has taken millions of pounds in bribes over the last decade. ( dressed up as other things of course)
Much noise about chlorine washed chicken and hormone injected beef; they will be pushed but the UK market for those products will be limited.
Really? Sure, if you saw a big American flag on the packet of chicken breast portions at Tesco you might think twice, but given how murky food packaging law seems to be, what are the chances that the chicken portions will somehow be labelled as UK produced when in fact they've just been packaged here or something? The Americans won't want to open up a new market only to see themselves disadvantaged with unfavourable packaging law, look at the sugar industry as another good example of 'favourable' packaging, every tried to figure out exactly how much additional/refined sugar is added to your food? Good luck
And what happens when UK producers see an opportunity to undercut one another by abandoning the current high standards and taking advantage of the lowering of standards? Suddenly you'd be an idiot to still be producing chicken to an EU standard when all your competitors are producing to a lower standard.
And what about retail and catering? There's an industry that's taking a massive hit due to Coronavirus right now, and how often do you check where your favourite restaurant/takeaway sources its chicken and beef? They'll take whatever saving they can I'll bet.
Nope no paymasters in Tory party.
In September, the former chancellor Philip Hammond declared that Johnson was in league with financiers who, he said, stood to profit handsomely from a no-deal Brexit. The Guardian 9/12/19
Much noise about chlorine washed chicken and hormone injected beef; they will be pushed but the UK market for those products will be limited.
Which is why there will be trade talks. On the table will be labelling laws so that consumers can't tell what they are getting. If there is no market and no way to create a market, they wouldn't be talking trade.
The US has previous with demanding changes to origin labelling, so that countries who don't allow BGH milk would no longer be able to allow labels that show where the milk came from and therefore if it had BGH.
When the US did the old NAFTA, they agreed to allow softwood lumber in, trouble was they never intended to honour that part of the agreement. When the various judgements went against them, they simply ignored the rulings and refused to compensate the other parties. A trade deal with the US is a really bad idea.
Given most of the hospitals near me are pretty much empty, I would think they would be way easier to sell than ones full of pesky poorly people?
The US is our largest trading partner and increasing transatlantic trade can help our economies
Yeah, just 15% which is less than Germany and Switzerland combined. Now add up all EU countries. And to really get a handle on the situation, add up all the countries that send their goods through the EU.
Who needs whom most?
Keeping eggs in the fridge is an American invention because they treat their eggs before sale in such a way that means the shells can be compromised by bacteria, we don’t.
As per supernova’s post on the eggs thread. This is something I did not know and another lowering of standards which will be introduced no doubt.