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Trade=influence or just money?

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By *ary_Argyll OP   Man
over a year ago

Argyll

Do you buy the argument that trading with a country gives us leverage in terms of their behaviour (apparently Theresa May believes this)?

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

TM is correct, but only up to a point, and then only if there is a massive imbalance in favour of one of the traders.

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral

It should,when will we learn it is not up to us to tell people how to live.

They,ie the Saudis do not tell us how to live,we should not tell them.

We do not have to approve just as they do not need to approve of us,business is business and we all live in peace.Look at us telling the Iraqis how to live,that went well

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

she's busy re-branding the foreign office so she would say that .... the new department will be called "The East India Company"

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By *oi_LucyCouple
over a year ago

Barbados


"she's busy re-branding the foreign office so she would say that .... the new department will be called "The East India Company""

-Matt

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston


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They,ie the Saudis do not tell us how to live,we should not tell them.

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Actually they do, just not directly. They use the likes of Al Queada, Boko Haram and IS to do it for them...

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By *isandreTV/TS
over a year ago

Durham

The EU has enormous influence over the people it trades with. It insists on certain standards. If you want to Trade with the EU, you must meet it's standards.

That is the biggest problem with getting an agreement between the EU and USA on a Trade Deal.

EU standards will probably eventually become the worldwide standard.

Bit silly all our kicking up a fuss about them really, since they were all pretty much sensible and we voted for 96% of them.

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By *leasure domMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh


" They,ie the Saudis do not tell us how to live,we should not tell them."

Apart from sponsoring and financing Islamic terror, Saudi Arabia undermines western society by financing numerous mosques and installing extreme salafist clerics to preach their vile, disgusting ideology

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By *andS66Couple
over a year ago

Derby


" If you want to Trade with the EU, you must meet it's standards.

That is the biggest problem with getting an agreement between the EU and USA on a Trade Deal.

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I thought the biggest problem was Donald Trump telling the EU to fuck off?

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By *isandreTV/TS
over a year ago

Durham


" If you want to Trade with the EU, you must meet it's standards.

That is the biggest problem with getting an agreement between the EU and USA on a Trade Deal.

I thought the biggest problem was Donald Trump telling the EU to fuck off?"

I don't think Trumps views were particularly relevant in the previous 26 years, nor will they be after he's impeached.

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By *ary_Argyll OP   Man
over a year ago

Argyll

I was thinking mainly about Malaysia when I started the thread - the president is pretty extreme and we are cosying up to him it seems.

In terms of telling others how to live I don't agree - the UK generally supports basic human rights which are pretty lacking in some of our new potential trading partners.

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By *oorland2Couple
over a year ago

Stoke


" They,ie the Saudis do not tell us how to live,we should not tell them.

Apart from sponsoring and financing Islamic terror, Saudi Arabia undermines western society by financing numerous mosques and installing extreme salafist clerics to preach their vile, disgusting ideology"

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