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Originally Posted by ntluser
Maybe the best idea is not to go for a trade deal with the EU or use the WTO model.
If we simply left the EU and the single market, those EU countries like Germany who require a deal would be coming to us and would no doubt accelerate the organising of trade deals in order to sell their products.
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Excellent plan with a couple of minor flaws that come to mind initially:
1) EU countries can't make independent trade deals.
2) WTO members can't reasonably make trade deals with non-WTO states.
Think it might be worth your checking out what the WTO actually do and why no-one has suggested the UK not bother with the WTO.
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I should mention on the less depressing side none of the obstacles are insurmountable, they will almost certainly just take a pretty long time.
In the interim we're at the mercy of the EU being kind enough to provide us transitional arrangements that won't have people who previously couldn't care less about politics protesting on the streets about democracy.