Whitey Grandad

Don't be so childish. You provided a link and I clicked on it and got a blank page. Take it up with Google Chrome because it's nothing to do with the way I click on it. You could also try posting the complete text for the link and not try to disguise it behind a 'here'. Then if there are any problems the reader would have a chance finding the target through another route. That document has a lot of words but doesn't actually say very much and is clearly written from a pre-determined viewpoint. They are trying to tell the US Government what their foreign policy should be for a start. p.s. I have designed more infrared remote controls than you've had customers in Germany.

I heard on the radio that there are no more than a handful of people who could do it. Miriam reckons there might be 25 and that we need at least 500: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/miriam-gonz%C3%A1lez-dur%C3%A1ntez-brexit-trade-negotiators_uk_57713ad3e4b0d257114a18b2

Links? I read the one from the lawyers. Dealing with any other country involves an appreciation of the local predilections. Do you think it would be any easier to deal with someone in Argentina, say? Or Malaysia, or any one of hundreds of others. I have never had any problems in France but there again you have to know how to work the system. I suspect that you may have fallen foul of the UK's gleeful tendency to goldplate any regulations that originate in Brussels. Please explain why you think life would be easier for your exporting if (when) Britain is outside the EU? Wouldn't you still have to meet the environmental and product specifications?

I'm not sure what you're referring to here.

I've had a look at it and it only re-inforces my views. Then I looked at the 'about us' page and everything became clear. I think our posts overlapped. As I said, I have been designing manufacturing and selling products all over the world for nearly 40 years amounting to several millions of £. We've sold in North America, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East amongst others but the bulk of our products to the EU went to Denmark and France. I have plenty of clues and I know all about selling worldwide. (Specialist electronic products and software)

We shall still need them in Brussels in order to keep up to date with everything that's happening. There are no savings to be made there. Until now we have had the EU to do everything for us.

Dishwashers, windcreen washers, patio washers...?

I have been exporting several million £ to the EU for over 30 years and I don't have any problems. Who have you upset?

Of course I remember it. These countries are now part of the Schengen agreement and have to pay to get access to the EEA. Being part of the EEA is a minimu for us, I would have thought. Where do you get all this 'kowtowing to Brussels'? I've never had to do any of that.

Please don't try to lecture me on world trade. I have been selling stuff across the world for over 30 years. Nothing is as straightforward as the Single Market. Anything else costs more.

When in France...

The link wouldn't open on my machine

Would these be the same EU people who will be stopped from entering Britain?

Where does that say that we have the skills and experience to undertake these negotiations? In any case, a trade deal is nothing as straightforward as the Single Market. Sending to France (or any EU member) at the moment is a doddle, you just send it. Sending to anywhere in the rest of the world is a palaver and involves delays and costs. Having a trade deal doesn't mean that there will be any trade.

Yes it does but a couple of days or even a few weeks are not an indication of what the situation will be further down the road. However they are a sign that the great powers are not happy with what has happened. The trouble is that once you fall behind you can never catch up. What I meant was that economically the judgment will come further down the line but I can see nothing positive about our situation and for me the prospect varies from bad to awful to disastrous.

We don't actually have any civil servants who can negotiate these deals. We haven't done that for 43 years.

The Times gives every player a rating out of ten after every game. This morning every England player was given a rating of.... A big fat zero.

It's where we are after two years that matters. I can't see us anywhere other than somewhere between where we are now and 10 to 15% lower.

Watching that was like pulling teeth.

I thought there were rules about that. Which paper is it?

It's dawned on me tonight what has gone wrong in all this business. People voted for what they didn't want but nobody has a clue what they did want.

Any one member can veto it as could we, had we stayed.

Took the penalty well but apart from that.... pants.

Injured. But even with both legs in plaster he couldn't have done any worse.

I would hang on for the end of season party but I'm always busy at Christmas.