Former minister George Eustice admits Australia post-Brexit trade deal ‘not actually good for the UK’. Tory former Environment Secretary says UK ‘gave away far too much for far too little in return’.
Former minister George Eustice admits Australia post-Brexit trade deal ‘not actually good for the UK’. Tory former Environment Secretary says UK ‘gave away far too much for far too little in return’.
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This is what generally happens when you’re in a poor negotiating position…
Wait wait wait, I thought no deal was better than a bad deal? Yet more conservative incompetence.
Sucker them in, let them see the cherry then fuck them over. Just like the UK likes to do, or the Australians but they don’t have the reputation that we have. Let’s hope.
Well, it had better go that way or I’m voting Green party next time.
Let me guess it had something to do with ensuring a tiny agricultural related industry in the UK got to sell to Australia. For some reason every Tory is obsessed with agricultural related industries but don’t do anything to help farmers in general.
Brexit: North Sea fishermen
Boris: cheese
Liz Truss: British apples and selling pork to China
Rishi: grass and traditional English gardens in rural areas
Yeah, it was a shit deal, but Liz got some great photo ops.
To be fair, Australia lost. You gave us charlie as a king.
No shit. Yet your lot thought she’d make a great PM
Wait, our government at the time got something right? The UK really screwed up if even the Morrison government of all things outplayed them.
Who negotiated this shit show? Oh Liz Truss.
No wonder.
“The UK went into this negotiation holding the strongest hand, holding all of the best cards, but at some point in early summer 2021, **the then trade secretary (Liz Truss) took a decision to set an arbitrary target** to conclude heads of terms by the time of the G7 summit, and from that moment the UK was on the back foot repeatedly,” he said.”
What a fucking oaf…
I’m not a farmer and I voted Remain so my [reaction](https://media.tenor.com/0ZQF55ZV97AAAAAd/laughing-homer.gif) for this one
So this why we can’t have TimTams? We’ve been sold a pup.
Anyone who was paying attention knew this. The Tufton sock puppets said we were talking the country down.
We said UK had little trade negotiation experience after years of reaching deals vicariously through EU membership.
You said “Project Fear”.