There's no US trade deal.
This is not an argument about semantics or about whether it qualifies as a "deal".
It's more fundamental than that: yesterday was a lie.
All that has been agreed is a non-legally binding framework for discussions towards a possible future deal.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/us-uk-economic-prosperity-deal-epd
This is not an argument about semantics or about whether it qualifies as a "deal".
It's more fundamental than that: yesterday was a lie.
All that has been agreed is a non-legally binding framework for discussions towards a possible future deal.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/us-uk-economic-prosperity-deal-epd
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Huge firms like JLR have come forward applauding the certainty offered by the deal - when in reality that deal doesn't exist!
https://bsky.app/profile/explaintrade.com/post/3loqa3yrkwm2d
Yesterday, Mandelson, Reynolds & others actively conspired to deliver lies to the British & American public.
It should be a resigning matter. A sacking issue for Party members
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It might. In time. Or it might not.
But right now there's no deal and the UK's situation is exactly as before.
You see, all the discussion document says is that each side will meet the other's standards.
So the US can still push to change ours!
All the positive statements rushed out by firms like JLR relate to a fundamental deception: that a deal exists when none does.
It may. But it doesn't.
I spotted it by chance because I happened to search the millions of documents on the UK government website this morning for the latest references to "trade" and discovered they'd published the document.
It's hardly advertised!
After all, Labour put out a juicy quote from him yesterday in their press release boasting about the (non-existent) US trade deal.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/landmark-economic-deal-with-united-states-saves-thousands-of-jobs-for-british-car-makers-and-steel-industry
Is this another knock against “access journalistism” vs “investigative journalism”?
(I've not seen any articles about how the deal doesn't exist.)
As I said in the thread, I literally found the smoking gun document by chance because I was poking through all the references to "trade" on the UK government website.
https://bsky.app/profile/damonthedemon.bsky.social/post/3loqdtntjw22s