I also laughed at her when she was selling cheese to Japan, where over 20% of their population is lactose intolerant.

Don't know why that would be funny. Population of Japan is over 125 million. So only a 100 million market to aim for.

It's not really a new 100 million market to aim at though is it?

The Japanese full (WTO) duty rate on imports of cheese made from cows milk is 25%. The result of Liz's trade deal means imports of cheese from cows milk into Japan of UK origin will attract a duty rate of 14.6%.

What duty rate do imports of cheese made from cows milk of EU origin attract in Japan? That's right exactly the same 14.6%. So it's not a brexit benefit at all. It's actually what we enjoyed when members of the EU and that was trumpeted as a highlight of the deal.

What the government announce before the deals have been signed and ratified by the WTO aren't always what we end up with but the claim this deal went "far beyond what the EU had achieved in negotiations" was just a straight up lie. The Japanese announced at exactly the same time that this deal just represented a continuation of the EU deal.

Still at the rate our economy is going we might be enjoying the 0% duty rate of a least developed country before too long.

It's funny when the few remaining believers in the cult of Brexit quote benefits of leaving which turn out to be the same as or worse what we had as members

Where in my post did I say it was a benefit of Brexit? That's right I didn' t.
My point was the poster was laughing because we were trying to sell cheese to Japan as if it was a stupid thing to do.
Typical europhile making stuff up to suit your tired repetitive agenda.

So we got the same deal as if we were in the EU without having to pay for the privilege?
Hmmmm

Where in my post did I mention you?
Typical Quitter making stuff up so that they can make themselves the victim.

No because our trade deal with Japan isn’t as comprehensive.

The GBP 1.5 billion/annum boost to GDP announced by the government was not on top of the GBP 2.1 billion/annum boost we got from the EU-Japan trade deal. Basically it’s cost us at least 0.6billion/annum based on the exaggerated forecasts from the government.

Those figures, of course, were based on expected growth at that time - we’re about to go into a recession. It’s skewed even more in their favour now as the EU economies continue to grow whilst we are contracting. But based on the figures we had before we entered recession, even with the cost of being an EU member, the return was greater.

Oh My God, there's someone who still thinks we paid in more than we got out.

It's amazing, and terrifying, how pervasive the lies of Johnson & Farage were and how toxic their legacy of misinformation is proving.

The EU is forecast, just as we are, to be in recession by the end of the year.

You know as well as I do mate, that won't mean anything on here for some of them