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Originally Posted by pip08456
I didn't say trade deals were easy to negotiate or conclude.
The thrust of my post was that the US can be negotiating with more than one country/union/alliance at the same time. To think anything else is disingenuous.
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Yes it is. Nobody seriously believed that the US would be negotiating trade deals solely with the UK any more than the UK would exclude everything else while trying to get a deal done with the US. Still, in the absence of economic meltdown, emergency budgets, an exodus of major companies and widespread social disorder, the mongers of doom have to come up with something else to scare us with...