Johnny Bognor

It's factually correct to state that those outside the EU could trade with 500m consumers up until the point the UK leaves. After that, they would be trading with 440m consumers in the EU. From a UK perspective, trading with the EU does not open a market of 500m people, if in fact the UK comprises of 60m of those people. The net benefit to the UK is that there are 440m consumers that we could sell to without restriction, if we stayed inside the EU. The 60m consumers in the UK are open to trade in or outside the EU. This is fairly basic stuff to be honest.

Well she's not up to the job if she thinks the EU comprises of 500m consumers post Brexit LOL This was the line peddled by the remainers, forgetting the fact that this number includes UK population... unless we are no longer allowed to trade with ourselves We're getting on to a SATS level maths question here... If there are 500m consumers in the EU and one country of 60m leaves, how many consumers are left to trade with??? Any takers?

Yep fair point on UKTI, but you can't disagree with the fact that we already negotiate and manage trade deals outside the EU. The assertion that we have zero experience and no people to deal with it is ridiculous. I'm cool with my education, thanks. I just have a chip on my shoulder in relation to those snobby progressive types that seem to get a sense of self worth from a piece of paper ;-)

I export to both the EU and the US and find no issues with one over another and we don't have a trade deal with the US. Furthermore, a UK trade negotiators job will be far easier than an EU negotiators job. For starters, you don't have consult 28 member states to formulate a position and then report back, only for whoever to block it.

We have a Government department with offices in over 100 countries that is responsible for promoting UK Trade https://www.gov.uk/government/organi...vestment/about I will let you into a little secret. We do have trade relations with dozens of countries already... https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/con...ia-and-pacific In fact, the UK are already actively involved in negotiations.... https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/content/uk-trade-relations-commonwealth To suggest otherwise is another Project Fear lie. Jeez, I am really starting to question whether academic acheivement correlates to intelligence

Richard Branson wasn't a pilot when he started Virgin Atlantic. Errrr... you hire them. Whether that means poaching them from the EU or elsewhere...

Touched a nerve LOL At the end of the day, Obama's intervention was a load of bull. We're not at the back of any queue, because there is no queue....

At the end of the day, the priority of negotiations isn't fixed. There is no orderly queue formed on a first come first served basis. In business, things change and you focus on the things that give you the most/best return. In value terms, I'm sure a deal with the EU would be preferable to the UK, especially if there was a strict choice between the two. But in the event of a quick deal with the UK, whilst EU negotiations continue, then that would happen. In addition, if there are negotiations on a trade deal with Swaziland and the UK comes along, do you not think that priorities might shift a bit? I guess you can't always correlate academic achievement with knowing how to win business and generate wealth.

But as I pointed out above, the septics are making positive noises about their dear old limey friends... ... and we are on their radar https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2016/june/Statement-Ambassador-Froman-UK-Referendum

Yes but bearing in mind that they will already have trade agreements in place with many countries (https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements) and taking account of the fact that a trade deal is in the offing with a world top 6 economy, then maybe they might reschedule their current negotiations??? (applying the money talks, bull walks factor) Perhaps it is other countries that will be forced to the back of the queue... whilst we queue jump. Not a very British thing to do, but needs must.

... assuming that the USA is not capable of negotiating more than one deal at a time. I am disappointed, as I thought someone of your academic standing would get this.

Noises coming out of the US are showing that we aren't at the back of the queue by any stretch of the imagination.. "They've been a great trading partner to the United States for decades and decades, and I wouldn't stop trading with them 'cause they got out of the EU," Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) said. "I'd be happy to negotiate a bilateral agreement." Senate Finance Committee member Isakson added, "it might even be easier" than negotiating a broad agreement with the entire EU. "We're interested in having free trade with anybody," Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said when asked about the prospects of a two-way agreement post-Brexit. "We should now begin to discuss a modern, new trade agreement with the U.K that not only continues but expands the level of trade between our two nations," House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said Friday If the Brits vote to leave the EU, "there will be a new bilateral trade agreement,” Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton declared Bill Reinsch, former president of the National Foreign Trade Council who is now a fellow at the Stimson Center, is also bullish on opening negotiations with the U.K. while “reaffirming our commitment to the EU.” “President Obama may have put [the U.K.] in the back of the queue when it comes to negotiating a trade agreement, but he should put that aside and move quickly to work out a bilateral agreement that builds on our relationship," Reinsch said. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) made it clear that he was all for encouraging more trade with Britain. “We will continue to work together,” he said of Britain, “to strengthen a robust trade relationship and to address our common security interests

Indeed, population density is much higher in the UK. Population denisty in the UK is more than 250% higher than in France... France = 103 people per KM² (66m people across 643,801 km²) UK = 262 people per KM² (64m people across 243,610 km²)

I am fortunate enough to have one, but that doesn't give me the right to look down on someone less fortunate, unlike some so called "progressives" Considering working class kids are 3 times less likely to go to Uni, even with good enough grades, means that it is not a difficult conclusion to draw. If you attack the "uneducated", you are inadvertently attacking the working class. Night night. Sweet dreams xxx

Some of the lefties on here need to take a long hard look at themselves. Pouring scorn on the less well educated is quite frankly disgusting. I thought you were all about looking out for the less well off and less fortunate? Instead of standing up for them or at least being sympathetic to the fact that they are less fortunate than you, you belittle them. You're not socialists with your intellectual prejudice, you're just inverted tories with a different type of snobbery. I feel sorry for the working class with you ****s looking out for them.

As predicted there is a major split in the country... not so much between remain or leave but between young and old. This division has been caused by the media, breaking out voting by age group. It has caused a big division. Massive in fact. The media has a responsibility to unite, not divide, whether that be by race, gender and even age. Today of all days, the media have failed the nation. Miserably. I think a generational group hug is needed

Shell up, BP up, GSK up, Rolls Royce up, Unilever up, BAT up, Pearson up, Diageo up. It's still a sh it crash...

I just copied the chart. It's not much down on the day and is actually up on monday's position... FTSE 350 is up since monday, post 'crash' LOL FTSE 250 is only 1.5% down on monday, post 'crash' LOL Altogether now... "this crash is sh it, this crash is sh it, this crash is sh it, this crash is sh it, this crash is sh it...."

After the BBC were reporting that the FTSE 100 was crashing, now that it clearly hasn't, they've now switched to the FTSE 250 LOL #stockmarketcrash #bedwetters #ifcarlsbergdidcrashes FTSE100 Crash!!

So Jimmy Crankie wants another Scottish referendum because people in England voted to leave. I seem to remember the SNP promising that Scottish MP's wouldnt vote on things that only affected England. Well you didn't keep that promise and now the shoe is on the other foot, suck it up buttercup.

RE: the FTSE crashing.... Headline = FTSE crashes Reality = FTSE recovers 50% of the fall within the first hour... FTSE is still higher than it was a month ago and higher than it was three months ago. But I guess that wouldn't scare people...

It's a good point as to what a post Brexit plan would be. There isn't one as it stands, whereas for remain, it's business as usual. You could argue that initially, post brexit it would be business as usual too, until a political party takes up the reigns to carry things forward. I guess in one scenario, a future plan would be somewhat dictated to us whereas in the other scenario, we could make our own plans...

You can't state "For the most part I have participated in this debate as an independent academic expert" when you are on the payroll to promote the EU. It is about as impartial as an unbaised piece by Farage as to why we should leave LOL

Someone on the payroll not biting the hand that feeds him shocker!!! EU Paid Professors... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Monnet_Programme LOL he's a Monnet Chair... https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/staff/michael-dougan/

General election?