So today’s news in the UK is that the free trade deal with Australia have been announced by Boris Johnson (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom). gov.uk 🇬🇧🇦🇺
Nearly a month ago I talked about concerns regarding the trade deal (now been signed) between Australia and the UK. mrlimitless95.blogspot.com
Here is my take on UK - Australia FTA.
So PM Boris Johnson meets Scott Morrison (Australian Prime Minister) at Number 10 (10 Downing Street) for the announcement of the free trade agreement between Britain and Australia. The deal itself is a raw deal. A raw deal. Bad deal for British farmers. I am not impressed with the Aussie trade deal at all.
I said before that I am not against free trade in any way. What the government have done is not being straight with the public. Particularly farmers who voted for Brexit and Conservative. Brexit really does complicates things.
I know where this is going. UK farmers being undercut. Australia having access to UK farms. Australian beef (beef hormones) to be imported to here. We might as well have shipping containers coming from the Land Down Under (OZ) to Brexitland (UK) for days in the oceans. Let’s all remember that geography matters. The UK trades with the European Union (even Tories, Brexiteers and the govt does not like the fact) while Australia trades with New Zealand and China.
And yet, the UK wants to be in the CPTPP (trade bloc of 11 countries in Asia Pacific) despite we are not in the Pacific region. Global Britain? Oh please. 🙄 Britain never stopped when it was an EU member.
Although there are some good things in the post Brexit - Australia trade deal like studying and working in Australia for those are under 35s (extended from 30 to 35 given there is already a working holiday visas for Brits to go to Australia). Selling British cars, Scotch Whisky and confectionery. All to be sold cheaply in OZ.
But still, the deal will not be beneficial to anybody who genuinely have concerns about it.
UK farmers are being sold out due to the post Brexit UK - Australia trade deal. 🤦
I wonder what will come next? USA trade deal with enormous concerns about chlorinated chicken and beef hormones? The government would rather just sign trade deals without really checking of what is really in the deal properly. Just look up at the government’s recent unbelievable blunder regarding the Northern Ireland protocol. Behaving as if they were tricked into signing a trade deal with the EU27 and war of words about sausage imports, and all that stuff. google.co.uk Just to not being sincere & to frustrate the EU. By the way, the UK just held the G7 summit in Cornwall recently. It seems it was overshadowed by Brexit. google.co.uk
If the govt didn’t liked what has been agreed about the Customs Sea Border in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and Great Britain (the one that Boris Johnson famously said there won’t be border in the Irish Sea & was the one indeed created one) then they shouldn’t signed in the first place. All I hear is porky pies & waffles from the government who is really desperate for trade deals around the world so that they can be better off than being an EU member state.
The UK govt doesn’t seem to realise that countries like the United States can play hardball in trade negotiations. Just look of today’s news about the UK - Australia trade deal. Why? Because Australia played a hardball & see how it came with this conclusive and unbelievable result of the provision being part of the deal. Australia having access to the UK farms access tariff free. Despite they (the govt) say it ”won’t harm UK farmers’s likelihoods). Well I beg to differ. It will harm them and that will be another example of why Brexit shouldn’t really happened in the first place. Especially with lies & the unnecessary referendum which was held almost 5 years ago.
How sad is that? It is really unfair. And Boris Johnson brags about Australian chocolates (Tim Tam & Arnott’s). youtu.be “You better run and take cover”. Because the govt (British govt) have not done homework properly of how to strike trade deal with country in question & wanting it to be “glamorous & perfect” without anything bad which might be advantage for the UK & countries like Australia & America. This is why the government lives in the fantasy world & not in the reality.
So that is my take on the news about the UK - Australia trade deal. I guess I’ll listen to Men At Work song, having a dream to visit OZ (when Covid crisis is over) & to watch two Australian soap operas (Neighbours and Home Away). Instead of the contradictions & lies from the govt (Conservative Brexit govt) who is not honest & not sincerely reliable.
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