Amidst all the falsehoods put about by remainers, the worst is the "No Deal" claim, when in fact if we had left in the Summer of 2016, (not "crashed out") we would have saved billions wasted on the EU, and simply aligned ourselves further with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) who has 160 members accounting for approximately 98% of global trade. This is what I was voting for, to be free traders with dozens of successful countries across the world, not 27 tottering states in a Eurozone entering recession.After being formed 24 years ago, wto.org confirms that it is the only global international trade organisation where agreements are negotiated and signed by the bulk of the worlds' trading nations and ratified by their parliaments. The goal is that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible. To see the huge benefits of dealing with this well-ordered group, one only has to look at China, whose economy had been managed by a Communist government, who joined in 2001 requiring significant changes to its economy and deeper integration into the world economy. The rest is history. WTO Council members rotate on a yearly basis, and include Thailand, Benin, Canada, Panama, Germany, Ecuador, Peru, UK, Paraguay, Namibia, Afghanistan and Lithuania. Their Trade Negotiations Committee includes Switzerland, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Honduras, Senegal, Guyana, Pakistan and the Council for Trade in Goods includes Guatemala, Norway, Japan, Colombia, Hungary, S Africa, S Korea, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Qatar and Indonesia.GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, was set up in 1947, when tariffs for participants were about 22% but had dropped to under 5% after the Paraguay Round in 1999.It was Bilderberger Ted Heath who took us out of the EFTA (FREE being the operative word) and led us into the "Common Market" which has expanded too quickly into an ideology compared by Thatcher and Gorbachev to the crumbling Soviet empire.If any endorsement is needed to promote trade with a superior, larger, free trade organisation that has reduced global tariffs, here it is from economic historian Douglas Irwin:"The prosperity of the world economy over the past half century owes a great deal to the growth of world trade which in turn is partly the result of far-sighted officials who created the GATT. They established a set of procedures giving stability to the trade-policy environment and thereby facilitating the rapid growth of world trade. With the long-run in view, the original GATT conferees helped put the world economy on a sound foundation and thereby improved the livelihood of hundreds of millions of people around the world".Remain in a fracturing entity run by France and Germany, with little geo-political clout, with a drunken Chairman who claims to have "met several leaders of other planets" (yes, it's on Youtube) or deal with the wider, longer-established world, with transparent, rotating ambassadors who have the power reduce tariffs and open doors for us?That's why the majority outside the Putney bubble voted to leave, not least our fisherman. What fish Spain has not wiped out, the Dutch are now electrocuting, causing environmental destruction summed up by a Thanet trawlerman - "it's like fishing in a graveyard".
Chantal Blake-Milton ● 2794d