Breaking news: Eu and UK agree transition deal 🇬🇧

I wonder if it'll be less than 2 years and allow us to start arranging free trade agreements with other countries

Ok so it's to December 2020 and we can sign trade deals during that near 2 year period. Also an emergency option for NI to stay in single market and customs union if a hard border is threatened. Good result!

Yeah finally the tories accepted the "unacceptable"... Uk stays in Eu still december 2020, everything stays the same (regarding what i read, maybe im wrong) but without the right to vote Eu decisions.

Ps: is this "agreement" really validated right now ?

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Mar 19 2018 01:13pm

The difference is that we can forge our own deals in the transition period whereas we cannot do so now. That is a YUGE difference and frankly I'm surprised you overlooked such a key point, it's very out of character for you.

Now about the free trade agreements...I doubt we will be able to make all the complex trade deals required with dozens of countries in a 21 month period that are more favourable than our current arrangements. It's going to be a testing period and of course the EU will be the toughest negotiator of them all, but if gEUrmany wants to keep exporting Volkswagens here they'd better shape up. If not, as a last resort we can always slash business tax to 10% and be a tax haven like Ireland.

This post was edited by dro94 on Mar 19 2018 01:22pm

Gives them about 2 and a half more years with your 9 year old daughter, way to go

“So we understand the catholic church raped your son, but you guys have to fund their existence for another 2 and a half years. Also if you try to form a community outside of the catholic church we’ll have to call you alt right and imprison you for hate crimes. Oh and our prisons our filled with followers of the catholic church, so you might want to stay quiet about your bigotry”

u wot m8

can't just leave in March 2019, we'd be on WTO rules with yuge tariffs and GDP would shrink by 3%+

The gains will help pay for therapy for your child after being branded property of allah
UK Yes!

Almost as much as the Irish {fishing zones and related crisis, look like some tories have been "betrayed"} problem you completely omitted to talk about

"In a weak position against the Europeans, the government of British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday increased the concessions."

this is what i get on a conservative (not pro-eu) paper here
i guess they know well their job, better than me or you ( http://www.lemonde.fr/referendum-sur-le-brexit/article/2018/03/19/brexit-un-accord-a-ete-trouve-sur-la-periode-de-transition_5273292_4872498.html )

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Mar 19 2018 01:47pm

First we said we'd pay no concessions. Now we negotiated to pay some concessions which are less than what the EU initially wanted - only around £2.5bn a year until 2065 which is nothing considering the £252m a week (net) we send to the EU. Gotta give it to Theresa May and her team, they have negotiated very well so far and it's going a lot better than I, a skeptical remain voter, expected.

This post was edited by dro94 on Mar 19 2018 01:58pm