Quote Originally Posted by 1959_60 View Post
Evening Sinkov.

It has to be recognised that China is a super power and, contrary to what some people say, the EU is good at fostering good working trade relationships worldwide. China is good at manufacturing IT equipment, which we all use, and they import mainly raw materials and cars. There has been a long standing relationship between the EU and China - and has been for the benefit of both parties.
It is true that the UK have been very slow to foster trade with China but recently we have been trying much harder. The problem is that a UK-China deal is not very appetising for China once we leave the EU.
Like I said earlier, the company which I recently retired from DOES already deal with China - we import from them - and in our field (IT) it is good business. Exporting to them will be much harder for us once we leave the EU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%...nion_relations
Nevertheless 59/60, my point remains, being outside of the single market and customs union is clearly not an impediment to trade between the USA/China and the EU. In which case, whilst I acknowledge the difficulties incurred by our leaving, there is no reason why it should be catastrophic, given goodwill and co-operation between the two sides to work around the difficulties and resolve the problems.
An example is the Great Repeal Bill, I think it's called, which would enshrine all EU laws and regulations in our law thus ensuring a smooth transition, last I heard of it the Bill was in difficulty, being blocked by the traitors in Parliament on spurious grounds, Remoaners claiming they had concerns about a potential loss of Parliamentary sovereignty, and this from people who have been overseeing and delighting in a gradual transferring of sovereignty from our Parliament to Brussels for the last 40 years. Hypocrisy on an epic scale.