Also, I mean come on they'll get a deal with Canada that'll put them within inches of an integrated market.

Even if they don't get deals from American and Canada (which they will) trading on WTO standard with all the other countries is a better deal than anything the EU is offering

idk, not my problem🤷

The trade deal hasn't even been negotiated yet, so how can you say that? @randomNPCno3

The ideal is: Free trade so that goods can move with as little friction as possible from A to B.

WTO adds tariffs in the way, increasing the costs of those goods

And the EU won't add tariffs if the UK does a hard Brexit?

The UK will be trading with the EU on WTO rules

Didn't you say like...3 hours ago that the EU would place tariffs on UK goods?

Yes

Through the WTO

or by "they" were you referring to the WTO?

Yeah, I should have been clearer

The WTO

Sounds like the EU would be throwing a bit of a tantrum

alternatively, sounds like a spiteful GF

🤷🏻

Spiteful for sure, but justified tbh

How so?

We didn't honour our agreements

Which ones?

Why should we be treaded any differently?

WTO rules don't regulate or tax you. Pretty easy to make up the difference.

In regards to the 'divorce bill'

how so?

Currently as a member, we need to keep paying into the budget

There's the pensions which we will need to pay our end of

And, as I pointed out before, losing access to UK markets is a substantial hit to German GDP. Bearing in mind their already in negative bond yields.....

Well, the EU isn't Germany

Though the Germans have influence in it

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-11/germany-gets-a-recession-warning-as-investor-confidence-plunges
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Isn't the EU mostly funded by Germany?

It might be 20 percent of the budget?

Tops

Isn't Germany the largest economy in the EU?

True, but the EU is made up of more member states, with combined have more power than Germany

Here's some things we'll be forced to pay money for

https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/Fiscalrisksreport2019.pdf#page=172

Oh I agree that the EU can shiv Germany by taking punitive action against the UK. That's not going to change the economics of a recession in the largest economy....

True

There's quite a bit of speculation around either a global recession or a EU regional one