Are We All Happy With This?

[youngmafbog]

I certainly am, seems it is the UK having to bang the drum for the EU as the EU continues to think in a protectionist mode.

So we pay for it and still have to go toting for business on behalf of many who just take. Isn't it a wonderful community.

http://news.sky.com/story/1176295/cameron-arrives-in-beijing-for-trade-talks

[sp1814]

Huh???

[trt]

???

[anotheoldgit]

Who made Cameron EU envoy?

He should be in China on behalf of the UK, and drumming up business for the UK, never mind the EU, after all hasn't he promised us a referendum, and if the polls are anything to go by the majority of the British public want 'out'.

[237SJ]

AOG - "He should be in China on behalf of the UK" He is - "The Prime Minister says the main purpose of the trip is to put Britain in pole position to expand trade with China"

[Zeuhl]

YMB

which part of your linked article's opening sub-head don't you understand?

/The Prime Minister will champion a free trade agreement between the EU and China today which could be worth £1.8bn to the UK alone./

[anotheoldgit]

237SJ

/// He is - "The Prime Minister says the main purpose of the trip is to put Britain in pole position to expand trade with China" ///

No only a proportion of the trade, the rest will go to Europe.

*** The Prime Minister will champion a free trade agreement between the EU and China today which could be worth £1.8bn to the UK
alone. ***

*** But the bulk of the delegation was made up of smaller businesses, such as Westaway Sausages of Devon, Moulton bicycles and the Cambridge Satchel Company, which Mr Cameron believes have considerable opportunities in the fast-expanding consumer markets of China. ***

Why the Chinese want our sausages is anyone's guess, will the company be renamed Eastathome sausages?

Spot the sausage maker, is it that chap in the white overalls, on the left at the top of the aircraft's stairway?

http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2013/12/1/274003/default/v1/9628126-1-1-252x337.jpg

[237SJ]

AOG - maybe they should flog 'em some good old Devon hogs pudding instead. Mind you, there is a huge market for foreign food in the Far East. In Singapore and Hong Kong they`re really getting into western food. The bakeries, burger bars and the rest are doing a huge trade (and the people are getting fatter) so you can`t blame companies from getting in there at the start.

[youngmafbog]

Zehul, read and understand the whole article , not just the heading before biting at me.

AOG has kindly helped spell it out, hopefully that is not too difficult for you.

[Zeuhl]

aog didn't so much spell out, as misleadingly select.

Here's the bit he left out presumably because it conflicted with his 'spin':

/Jaguar Land Rover is signing a £4.5bn agreement to provide 100,000 cars to the National Sales Company in China over the next year.The company's chief executive Ralf Speth was among the 120-strong business delegation accompanying Mr Cameron, along with executives from major exporters like Rolls-Royce, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Barclays, HSBC, GlaxoSmithKline, Arup and Virgin.

But the bulk of the delegation was made up of smaller businesses.../

Well it would be wouldn't it? and it is ever so, as it takes 50 of them to have the same economic significance as one Rolls Royce or Barclays representative.

And who thinks we would be in a stronger trade negotiating position with China on our own rather than as part of the largest economy in the world?

/The economy of the European Union generates a GDP of over €12.894 trillion (US$16.566 trillion in 2012) according to Eurostat, which makes it the largest economy in the world. The European Union (EU) economy consists of an Internal Market and the EU is represented as a unified entity in the World Trade Organization/ wiki