Brexit deal finally completed. Done Deal.

[Leicesterbaggie]

I do understand and take your points 123 but I’m just trying to get my head around it all, as many others are!

[WBA123]

I do understand and take your points 123 but I’m just trying to get my head around it all, as many others are!

Trade deals are complex, you have to go through each commodity code and understand the impact that has on your market should you open up access to it from another market.

There are industries, such as steel, which have been crumbled because of cheap foreign imports. All of our industry is negotiable, because we might give up steel to a foreign market in exchange for say, financial services and balance whether it is positive overall for us to do so - do you see how it works? Its a negotiation.

For the US trade deal for example, we'd say we'd like access to X market and they'd say yes if we can have access to your Y market. Then we have to mull over whether it is a good deal for us or not. Its why fishing drives me mad, its worth less than 0.1% of our GDP - in the scheme of things it should never have even been a conversation in the referendum. It also helps having something to negotiate with, we had a lot more bargaining chips being in the EU than being outside of it.

In fairness you're not alone, many people are still trying to get their head around it - and we're 7 years on from 2016. It was a really big mistake to have the referendum at all in my view, because most people do not understand international trade deals. They don't understand that Brexit undermined peace in NI and the Good Friday Deal because it affected the border. They don't understand how different markets work. They didn't understand the value of being in the Single Market. These are highly specific issues that should be dealt with by trade experts. Not put out to the general public alongside a mass information overload full of lies. Most people voted for Brexit because of immigration, and I would say leaving the EU has made immigration worse and not better.

And we're in a situation today where our PM is celebrating NI having access to the EU SM and the UK market. Its precisely what we had pre 2016. Its depressing we're in this mess but its what happens when people vote for charlatans and liars.