Comments by "Drew Hodge" (@drewhodge3820) on "" video.

You made me smile and chuckle when i read your comment. It's Brilliant. I'v noticed the increased TV and Onlne adverts for Aussie wines. Got to love the bonus points to Brexit. Plus a boot up the arse for the unelected in Brussels when we stop send them 10% import tax on none EU goods entering the UK. Basic maths means a saving of roughly 20% across the board.
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It's funny we will still trade with the EU on WTO (which will bring more tax revenue into the UK) and trade with the rest of the world on genuine free trade deals. It really is a Win Win for the UK.
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@g0balot I dont take any joy in saying your wrong about everything you said. The UK imports twice as much from the EU compared to how much the EU imports from the UK. WTO tariffs work both ways. What ever tariffs the EU puts on UK goods, the UK will put on EU goods. So the UK will collect twice as much in tariffs/taxes. The UK mirrored all of the EU's trade deals last year, apart from the Japan free trade deal, where the UK has done a better deal than the EU has with Japan. The reality is that the EU doesn't have more than 30 trade deals that are actively used and of those 30 trade deals only 7 of them bring any gains into the EU. Yes i fully understand the EU keeps talking about the 100+ trade deals but that is on paper NOT actual trade. Which is why the EU's economy is shrinking year on year. That should be totally impossible because more than 1 Million people move/migrate to the EU every year, which should guarantee increased spending/GDP unless the economic system is broken. Next year the EU's GDP will take a massive hit, once the UK's GDP is taken out of the equation. When the UK leaves the EU, that will be the financial equiverlent of more than 20 of the EU 27 leaving the block overnight.
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@g0balot The UK has mirrored all the EU's trade deals it had while it was in the EU. That means the UK went to all the individual countries the EU has trade deals with and asked to carry on trading in the same way, with those none EU countries. The only country that wanted to re-negociate was Japan. We know the new UK/Japan free trade deal is better than the one the EU has. During the UK's membership to the EU, the UK collected import tax at the rate the EU set and then sent that import tax directly to Brussels. Basic import tax is 10%. That is 10% the UK wont have to charge on goods. Its actually cumulative. For example an item from a none EU country costing £100 + £10 shipping = £110, + 10% import tax = £121 + VAT 20% = £145.20. The same item without the EU's import tax would cost £120. You get the idea. In reality the EU's basic rate of 10% import tax means every time you spend £1 on an item the EU cost you personally 20 pence. Yes that's a very basic but fair assessment. Add that up over a years worth of wages you already pay tax on. Then remove the EU's 20% share. UK wages will go a lot further. It will be like getting a pay rise overnight. Yes certain things from the EU might cost slightly more but when you consider we have been paying roughly 20% on all none EU goods for decades. A basic 10% WTO tariff is no different to the EU's import tax but that 10% goes into the UK instead of being sent to Brussels. Plus the UK imports less than 30% of it's food from the EU. The reality is the UK cannot lose from Brexit (with or without a trade deal) and the EU has always been fully aware of this and that is what the EU is scared of. They know the UK is a Net importer from the EU. So the UK will collect double the number of tariffs/taxes on EU goods entering the UK, compared to the tariffs the EU collects on UK goods entering the EU. The UK will be free to trade with the whole world without paying a single penny/cent into Brussels cash flow. I fully understnd this because i have been an importer (40ft shipping containers into the UK from none EU countries). While im not a Boris fan boy (like you would expect me to be). Boris is correct when he says the UK will flourish/prosper With or Without an EU free trade deal. Yes it will be a bumpy ride for the first 30-60 days as people get used to doing imports differently but that is a small price to pay for the freedom to trade with the world without sending Import tax to Brussels and getting very little in return. In the process saving us roughly 20 pence in every pound we spend on all none EU goods. As EU goods get more expensive due to possible increased tariffs the UK will adapt and buy more goods from outside the EU. So there is nothing to fear from these changes when they can only benefit the UK publics spending power.
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@g0balot It's been a long stated fact that all the EU's active trade deals have been mirrored by the UK during last year and the first part of 2020. The only outstnding deal was the UK/Japan deal which has been agreed and is far better than the EU/Japan deal. Why would all those countries want to lose the trade they already do with the UK? Plus they wont have import tax on those goods entering the UK from next year while will make those countries goods cheaper in the UK. In turn that means their sales in the UK will increase. So please tell me why any of those countries wouldn't want to mirror those trade deals? The bonus to the genuine free trade deal with Japan is it's a step closer to a much larger deal (CPTPP) across the globe including Asia and South America, where most of the worlds growth is. The UK will still trade with the EU's 460 million populatio on WTO but the addition of the CPTPP would add another 560 Million people. That's before you think about a possible UK/USA trade deal. Even without a UK/USA trade deal (because that isn't guaranteed) goods from the USA are going to be roughly 20% cheap from next year. It's not hard to understand a pattern here.
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@g0balot You can deny the facts all you like. Its doesn't make them false. The UK has mirrored all the active EU trade deals. (which isn't hard because the EU has so few of them. The UK has not changed its standards because we are still trading with the EU. Any changes would be notified in advance. The way all trade agreements constantly change. Do you think EU or WTO trade deals dont adapt as things change. Amendments are made. It really is that simple. I look at the big picture and find information from both sides. While your just watching Pro EU videos, you will only get a one sided view point. It's not like the MSM cover the information from either side of the Brexit argument correctly.
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@justmythought7658 When people have looked into the EU's trade deals, very few are active and only a handful are actually financially benificial to the EU and the UK. Trade deals like the EU/Korea deal have been mirrored by the UK but its actually called Continuity instead of Mirrored. Most of the main stream media across Europe and the UK are Pro EU so they wont give this any real coverage because that would prove EU leaders wrong. The Brussels still say the EU 27 countries need Brussels to negociate trade deals. The EU leaders in Brussels said it would take decades for the UK to sign any free trade deals outside the block but the UK already traded with those none EU countries so it was easy for the UK to Duplicate/Mirror EU trade deals. (Probably with some slight tweeks) Japan was the only country that wanted to sit down and negociate a stronger trade agreement with the UK. Here is a link from AUGUST 21 2019. Plus another link from the same date from the UK government website. https://www.ft.com/content/2e5f2c58-c439-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-korea-to-sign-trade-continuity-deal-to-ensure-businesses-are-ready-to-trade-post-brexit#:~:text=The%20UK%20and%20Korea%20will,Brexit%20on%20Thursday%2031%20October.&text=Trade%20continuity%20agreements%20signed%20so,39%20billion%20in%20March%202019.
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@justmythought7658 You wont find this information in the main stream media either but the UK has these trade agreements with countries/trading blocks, which are set to take effect from January 1st 2021. Andean countries CARIFORUM trade block Central America Chile Côte d’Ivoire Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) trade block  Faroe Islands Georgia Iceland and Norway Israel Jordan Kosovo Lebanon Liechtenstein Morocco Pacific states Palestinian Authority South Korea Southern Africa Customs Union and Mozambique (SACUM) trade bloc Switzerland Tunisia Ukraine This information is also off the UK Government website.
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@g0balot Sorry to disappoint you but here is a link that might help you. Im not saying the UK has a trade deal with Norway. Of course Norway is a member of the single market but not an EU member. For countries like Norway its more complicated and they will wait and see what happens to the UK/EU negociations. The problem is the EU said it would take the UK decades to start negociating trade deals. The reality is the UK is duplicating trade deals and making/agreeing new trade deals all the time. The information in this link is updated all the time as more UK trade deals are agreed. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-trade-agreements-with-non-eu-countries#trade-agreements-from-1-january-2021
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@g0balot No those are None EU countries that the UK has NEW trade deals with. Most of the EU deals the UK has duplicated/mirrored were completed last year. This is where your Pro EU narrative fails. You bash everything and say those counties the UK has agreed NEW trade with are small. You forget that the EU 27 is made up of mostly small countries (at least in economic terms) and all the worlds economic growth is outside the EU. Plus Japan and Korea and many of the other countries on that list are not small and all these NEW deals are worth many Billions of trade for the UK, that we would never have had inside the EU. These NEW trade agreement are additional to trade the UK has with the EU, that trade will carry on between the UK-EU with or without an EU deal. Where trade deals are not in place, trade will be done on WTO and those tariffs will go to fund the UK. Unlike import tax that the UK collects on none EU goods to send directly to Brussels slush fund at the moment. The EU said the UK could not do trade deals on its own or the first trade deal would take 8-10 years. Now all the EU's fake stories (Project Fear) have ammounted to nothing at all. Without a UK-EU trade deal the UK will collect double the tariff that the EU will collect. That is simply because the UK imports twice as much from the EU compared to how much the EU imports from the UK. So it's a Win Win for the UK With or Without a trade deal with the EU. Not bad for a little tiny island on the edge of Europe. There are many more trade agreements that will be agreed over the next few weeks and in the first few months of next year. While the EU 27 cannot even agree on the recovery funding, let alone sign dozens of new trade agreements like the UK has done. All these new trade deals have been done without paying a single penny/cent into Brussels slush fund.
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@g0balot I have supplied you with Genuine Proof/Facts. It's not my fault that the information doesn't suit certain peoples Pro EU narrative. The problem is the EU has been pushing constant missinformation for the past 5 years. So normal people have looked into the details and proved the EU's constant Anti UK propaganda is full of massive holes. Now we are getting closer to the UK's Independence (Roughly 9 weeks) and the close we get to the end of this, the more the Pro EU argument falls apart. Most of it is being pushed for alternative political motives (Anti Conservative government) or personal financial investments in the EU and the remainding people are just scared of change or missinformed because they believe anything they see in the Pro EU Bias MSM. Will you carry on supporting the EU next year when the EU starts to attack the UK economy to try and punish everyone in the UK?
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