Nick On The Money Again.

Nick Martinek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield. NO one seems to have asked the basic question – why is the Government trying to negotiate a free trade (zero tariff) deal with the EU in the first place? Both the Government and “Continuity” Remain say they are desperate for a free trade deal. So desperate that they will compromise UK independence, and bribe the EU with our money instead of funding the NHS and other services. Yet the Remainers are vocal admirers of the EU. But the EU hides behind its own, often very high, protective tariff wall. It looks like the Remainers want to eat their cake and keep it: they’d sell out UK independence for a free trade deal, but keep the EU’s protectionism. That is a contradictory position. Others might call it Remain hypocrisy. If free trade is the best policy, we shouldn’t be in the protectionist EU. If the Remainers were correct that EU tariffs are best, then we don’t need free trade deals. In that case we can just continue with the existing WTO deal which we already use for our overseas trade in goods and services, set at EU tariff levels. It can’t be that the Remainers are just out to cause trouble, can it?

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