So....Prime Minister May has officially pulled the pin !

The countdown to Britain leaving the European Union has officially begun.
What do you hope she manages to secure in terms of trade or other deals in the remaining two years before the UK has to officially leave the European Union ?

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SW-User

Will you guys still be allies?

SW-User

I bloody hope so!

SandInMyShoes · 36-40, F

Yeah, we just don't want to be run from Brussels.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

Well the idea is we have to organise trade deals with individual nations within the E:U.
Unfortunately neither Germany nor France are likely to be keen as they NEED the E:U to work, and us Brits. just don't play well with others !!

SW-User

We shall be allies through NATO anyway unless Mr T starts to pull it apart.

SW-User

@Picklebobble2: I shall drink even MORE Australian wine if France start kicking off about trade. They need us just as much as we need them...

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

You'd like to think so wouldn't you ?
Unfortunately France; Germany and Italy all have big industrial and manufacturing concerns.
Britain doesn't !
They were all squeezed to death during the Thatcher era because they were fraught with industrial problems and after things like 'The three day week' and the power unions strike of the mid-70's,they decided it better to sell them off and have other people run them so the government didn't have to maintain them.