Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Business secretary hails new trade deal as 'great news for the UK'" video.

  1. Quote The government’s prediction that its Brexit trade deal with Asia-Pacific countries will grow the economy by 0.08 per cent may be an overestimate, it has emerged. Officials working on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) deal changed their usual approach to calculating the GDP figure and instead used a new model that “generates larger estimated GDP impacts”, according to the government’s own documentation. Trade secretary Kemi Badenoch last week responded to mockery of the low figure, which amounts to a £1.8bn economic boost, by saying her department's estimate was probably too low and ignored some benefits. But her department’s own small print suggests the number might have been even smaller had the previous model for calculations been used.
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  2.  @lord.of.veracity  at least we won't have this trickle down Austerity nonsense and get a better agreement with the EU
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  3. they had to change the modelling to make it even be positive
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