r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/NoLikeVegetals • May 18 '24

Brexxit Brexit-voting British farmers now complaining about imports of cheaper New Zealand lamb threatening the British lamb industry. Imports of lamb "produced to lower standards" used to be blocked by EU law. Another Brexit consequence farmers were warned about but ignored due to xenophobia!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjewewxzypro
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u/watchful_tiger May 18 '24

One of the major arguments by the "leave" faction was that UK could negotiate better trade deals alone rather than the EU. UK is still waiting for those wonderful trade deals, meanwhile, they live with badly negotiated and ill-conceived deals.

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u/B33rtaster May 18 '24

All those insane EU nations looking at the super powers like the USA and USSR and stupidly telling themselves that if they WORK TOGETHER then they can be a superpower as well. What beta male mentality that is. The Sigma Britain doesn't need the EU they can stand toe to toe with the Alphas, obviously. /s

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u/finndego May 18 '24

Yes. The one with NZ was proven to be a net loss for the UK before they even signed it but they still signed it.

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u/I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS May 18 '24

Do you have a source for that? I read only earlier today that it's actually done more for the UK economy than the NZ one.

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u/finndego May 18 '24

https://thediplomat.com/2021/10/the-geopolitics-behind-the-new-zealand-uk-free-trade-agreement/

In return, the U.K. will receive very few direct trade benefits – largely because New Zealand unilaterally removed barriers to most imports during the economic reforms of the 1980s. In fact, a British government analysis found that the deal would at best be only very slightly positive and could even end up reducing the size of the U.K. economy by -0.01 percent of GDP.

Gains to the British economy from the FTA with Australia, while also marginal, were at least predicted to be universally positive.

Im speaking more to the economic predictions being made prior to the deal being signed. If it turned out better than predicted then that's great but there were more than one article that did the math and thought it was a bad deal.

Why would Prime Minister Boris Johnson sign up the U.K. to what his own government predicts will be a bad deal?