We were told that Trade deals with the rest of the world following exit from the EU would be 'a doddle' and ever so easy. YET ANOTHER SCUMBAG 'NASTY PARTY' LIE !!! Brexit: Boris Johnson’s promise of lucrative trade deals in trouble, study warns PM vowed to ‘take back control’ – but dithering has handed advantage to countries on other side of the table, Institute for Government says Boris Johnson’s promise of lucrative post-Brexit trade deals as the UK “takes back control” of its rules is on course to fail, a study warns today. Three years have been wasted failing to agree what Britain wants from its negotiations, the Institute for Government finds – handing the advantage to countries on the other side of table. It means the controversy over the US demand to sell its chlorinated chicken – which has stalled a deal with Washington – will be repeated, its report concludes. The think tank criticises the “unforced error” of launching into complex trade talks before ministers have decided what they want their post-Brexit regulations to be. “Three years ago, we warned that the government had not set up the necessary structures for effective decision making on key trade policy issues,” said Maddy Thimont Jack, a senior researcher. “The government did not heed that warning then, but it now needs to move urgently to put them in place. Otherwise it will find itself losing control of trade and regulatory policy to better-prepared partners.” The criticism comes as trade talks with the EU remain deadlocked because the government cannot agree its future state aid rules and needs to satisfy Brussels’ fears of undercutting. Hopes of a deal with the US this year have been abandoned – and even a revamped deal with Japan has run into trouble, in a row over access for UK agricultural products. Notoriously, Brexit-backing Conservatives claimed it would be easy to strike numerous lucrative deals with other countries, once the UK was free to negotiate alone. In fact, a deal with the US, even if it can be struck, would add only 0.2 per cent to GDP in the long run, the Treasury has estimated – and a continued deal with Tokyo only 0.07 per cent. The IfG study, Trade and Regulation after Brexit, says it will be impossible to marry the desire for a clutch of new agreements and for “regulatory autonomy” – because a weakened UK will be told to change its standards in return. It warns ministers that the UK: * Could “easily fall victim” to other nations “threatening to collapse the talks if they do not get what they want”. * Will be “vulnerable to challenge” at the World Trade Organisation, if its currently dysfunctional dispute system becomes operational again. * Has failed to agree its stance on key regulatory issues, which risks it being “pushed into making concessions it shouldn’t”. * Risks damaging the union, unless it can reach agreement with the other UK nations, which are responsible for implementing trade deals and “could choose not to”
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Hmmm - we are told by the scumbag 'nasty party' that we don't need a trade deal with the EU, that everything will run smoothly once the uk has finally exited from the eu. If that were the case, why then do we need so many 'lorry parks' hmmm ??? Brexit: Dozens more lorry parks to be built across England to cope with trading chaos Traders fear that flow of food and vital medicines will be disrupted after 1 January – even as UK may be hit by second spike of Covid-19 Rob Merrick Deputy Political Editor @Rob_Merrick 1 day ago Up to a further 29 lorry parks will be built across England in order to cope with border trading chaos after Brexit, under emergency government powers. Local residents will have no say over the construction of the sites, which are required because of growing fears that truck drivers will face long delays to enter the EU, or be turned away altogether. Some are in inland areas – Leicestershire, Warwickshire and Solihull – while others are in coastal trading hotspots, including in Kent, Essex, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The move, quietly revealed after MPs left Westminster on Thursday, follows the leak of a government document that described the current border preparation plans as “unmanageable”. Haulage bosses – including the Road Haulage Association (RHA) – have demanded an urgent meeting with ministers over a blizzard of new IT systems and a lack of training for promised customs agents. PM signals no-deal Brexit increasingly likely and hits out at EU The crisis looms regardless of whether the UK avoids crashing out without a trade deal, because the terms of any agreement will also end the current free-flow of goods with the EU. Traders fear that the supply of food and vital medicines will be disrupted, even as the UK risks a second spike of coronavirus infections, when the Brexit transition period expires on 1 January. The regulation triggering the order to build the lorry parks acknowledges that attempts by ports to cope with the vast new red tape have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic. “The government is aware that the impact of coronavirus may have affected the ability of port operators and businesses to provide the necessary infrastructure by the end of the year,” it reads. was a 27-acre site being built in Kent to handle what has been condemned as “a vast customs bureaucracy, with costs passed on to the consumer”. Ministers have already admitted there will be up to 10 months of border disruption, with emergency traffic control measures in Kent to last until “the end of October 2021”. As many as 10,000 trucks a day pass through Dover and other ports, and about four-fifths of the food reaching UK supermarkets comes from the EU, according to the British Retail Consortium. The government has pointed to the staggering £705m being spent on “infrastructure and technology at the border”, to defend its border preparations. “We worked closely with industry in its development and will continue to do so as we move towards the end of the transition period,” a spokesperson said. Richard Burnett, the RHA’s chief executive, urged ministers to address “untried and untested IT systems” and “the lack of customs agents and clear processes for tackling the mountain of red tape traders will face”. “The government’s pace is simply too slow on this, and that’s why we – the people who run the UK’s supply chain – need an urgent meeting with those at the top of government dealing with Brexit preparations.”
