One of the corrections I intended to make a couple of days ago I forgot to include, apologies.
I said that Brexit is in Australia's national interests, and I still believe that to be true. However Australian exporters and companies overwhelmingly use the UK as the international port into the EU, much like Ireland uses the UK Landbridge for the vast majority of transporting their goods to and from continental Europe:
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Like I've said before Ireland will be fucked. Brexit does not change the trade path for the UK in-and-out of Europe, but it changes it substantially for Ireland once the UK has left the single market. It is absolutely true as I've said for AGES that the EU fucked Ireland over. There's no reason why they can't allow the Irish to use the UK Landbridge, or at least give them a transition period in the event of not reaching a trade deal in time for 1 Jan 2021, but this is the EU we're talking about and they'd rather cut off their nose to spite their face, and I reckon this is a really good example of that attitude. Remember Ireland didn't vote for Brexit, Ireland didn't vote to lose their main trading route to move goods into and out of Europe.
I don't think though that I made it clear before that Australia is exposed to a similar loss of trade-route access - but at a MUCH smaller scale. It makes no difference geographically to Australia like it does to Ireland, but it does mean that the internal hubs will have to be set up directly into continental European cities, and not in the UK where it is much easier for Australian companies to establish themselves (no language barrier, cultures are much more aligned, etc).
In reflection of the TalkRADIO discussion I posted, I think part of the problem is the EU is unwilling to accept that to the victor belongs the spoils. We saw what happened to the Theresa May government. They didn't accept it either, and they paid the price.
I said that Brexit is in Australia's national interests, and I still believe that to be true. However Australian exporters and companies overwhelmingly use the UK as the international port into the EU, much like Ireland uses the UK Landbridge for the vast majority of transporting their goods to and from continental Europe:
Like I've said before Ireland will be fucked. Brexit does not change the trade path for the UK in-and-out of Europe, but it changes it substantially for Ireland once the UK has left the single market. It is absolutely true as I've said for AGES that the EU fucked Ireland over. There's no reason why they can't allow the Irish to use the UK Landbridge, or at least give them a transition period in the event of not reaching a trade deal in time for 1 Jan 2021, but this is the EU we're talking about and they'd rather cut off their nose to spite their face, and I reckon this is a really good example of that attitude. Remember Ireland didn't vote for Brexit, Ireland didn't vote to lose their main trading route to move goods into and out of Europe.
I don't think though that I made it clear before that Australia is exposed to a similar loss of trade-route access - but at a MUCH smaller scale. It makes no difference geographically to Australia like it does to Ireland, but it does mean that the internal hubs will have to be set up directly into continental European cities, and not in the UK where it is much easier for Australian companies to establish themselves (no language barrier, cultures are much more aligned, etc).
In reflection of the TalkRADIO discussion I posted, I think part of the problem is the EU is unwilling to accept that to the victor belongs the spoils. We saw what happened to the Theresa May government. They didn't accept it either, and they paid the price.
