Brexit Facts4EU says ‘Happy Australia Day!’ to our Aussie cousins

Here’s to a growing collaboration between the independent UK and Australia

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We raise a glass of Aussie Shiraz to the UK-Aus trade deal, the AUKUS agreement, and more

Today (26 Jan 2024) is the official national day of Australia. It is an official public holiday in every Australian state and territory. We hope all our Aussie cousins can kick off their shoes and relax in the way only Aussies can. This is of course high summer in Australia.

We therefore celebrate with our Aussie cousins with a filmed video interview of our Chairman which was broadcast live from Sydney at 5am yesterday morning (UK time).

Given that most self-respecting Poms were still tucked up in their beds at that time, below is the recording which readers can watch on YouTube.

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If you don’t have time for the full interview here’s the Australians’ 45-second promo

The full interview covers a lot of ground and looks at the growing relationship between the newly-independent United Kingdom and Australia. It includes comments from three senior Parliamentarians who each sent messages via our Chairman, which he read out to the Australian audience live on air.

Here is what the politicians said

Former Secretary of State The Rt Hon Sir John Redwood MP

“A big win from Brexit has been letting the UK develop much closer links and more trade with Australia. We can develop freer trade and have trailblazed with defence and intelligence collaboration.”
- Sir John Redwood MP, commenting to Facts4EU.Org and CIBUK.Org, 25 Jan 2024

Former Brexit Minister The Rt Hon David Jones MP

“Australia and the UK have long-established shared values.
“The trade agreement and AUKUS are hugely positive and will help our two nations to spread those values across the world just at a time when other, less liberal, messages are being disseminated by malign international actors.
“Together, we will continue to be a powerful force for good.”
- David Jones MP, commenting to Facts4EU.Org and CIBUK.Org, 25 Jan 2024

Catherine, The Rt Hon Baroness Meyer CBE

“This historic, gold standard trade agreement will bring our countries ever closer together. It will boost trade, create new jobs, and facilitate the movement of qualified professionals between Australia and United Kingdom. It will also reduce costs for exporters and importers by eliminating most tariffs.
"Once again, this agreement highlights the advantages of our being an independent and sovereign nation. I look forward to raising glasses of Australian wines to celebrate this major achievement.”
- Baroness Meyer CBE, commenting to Facts4EU.Org and CIBUK.Org, 25 Jan 2024

Observations

Goodness knows how the Australians ever forgave us, but they did. In 1973 without any Referendum the then Prime Minister, the late Ted Heath, took the UK into what was then known as the European Economic Community (EEC), forerunner to the EU. In doing so he abruptly cut off the traditional and substantial trade which both countries had enjoyed with each other.

Australian producers were suddenly faced with sourcing new markets, which they did, but the pain was severe for some time.

Now that the United Kingdom has secured its independence from the European Union (with the disgraceful exception of Northern Ireland), the UK has been able to sign a Free Trade Agreement with Australia. This is something the EU has yet to achieve after decades of negotiations.

The UK has also signed the AUKUS pact, including the US, for the provision of nuclear-powered submarines. This is the one that seriously annoyed President Macron of France, because it involved the Australians’ cancellation of a contract with France for its old-school diesel-powered submarines.

Today many companies in the UK and Australia are in talks about future trade and co-operation. As the Rt Hon David Jones MP put it: “Australia and the UK have long-established shared values.”

Today, on Australia Day, we toast our friends ‘Down Under’ on their special holiday.

Finally, we leave readers with a video of one of the world’s biggest bands, Crowded House, live outside the Sydney Opera House in 1996. We could have picked the theme song of 'Skippy the Bush Kangaroo' or 'Neighbours', but we thought the following was more appropriate.

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1. terence patrick hewett , Friday, January 26, 2024, 08:39:

The UK-Oz trade deal is a click on the ratchet to a more comprehensive arrangement, which ignores the UK/EU farming lobby, and is a completely zero-tariff deal. Then the crooked, protectionist EU cartel, can try and compete on a level playing field for their £50 billion UK agri-trade.

2. Captain Thunderbolt , Friday, January 26, 2024, 09:31:

1. terence patrick hewett , Friday, January 26, 2024, 08:39:
The UK-Oz trade deal is a click on the ratchet to a more comprehensive arrangement, which ignores the UK/EU farming lobby, and is a completely zero-tariff deal. Then the crooked, protectionist EU cartel, can try and compete on a level playing field for their £50 billion UK agri-trade
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Thats something people do not understand, EU trade is now competing on a level playing field once custom check start happening. any extra cost is being borne by the consumer who buys the product and is not being subsidised by the UK taxpayer in the form of tariffs of membership of the EU
remember the EU ban was declared ileagl by the WTO
See "UK halts trade negotiations with Canada over hormones in beef ban" and "European Ban on Hormone-Treated Beef Violates World Trade Organization"
just another protection racket
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I notice that the rejoin remainiacs are gloating about the halt to the UK/CA trade renegotiations, but fail to recognise that it was the Canadians who are pushing for a relaxation of UK standards to import hormone treated beef and a fundamental reason why they are so anti UK/AU FTA it is also something they tried to scupper CPTPP but trade will still continue under CPTPP

3. Sparky , Friday, January 26, 2024, 10:11:

Australia will be celebrating, they got a great deal because Johnson was desperate to do any deal quickly to show Brexit progress. This is the deal that George Eustice said was "not actually a good deal for the UK". A population of 27m 9,500 miles away compared to a population of 448m 21 miles away.
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Talks with Canada have stalled, current trading terms with Canada are worse than when we were in the EU.
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Meanwhile in the UK ITV Newsman a piece "Fruit and veg prices predicted to rise in UK when new post-Brexit controls bite" and Scottish fisherman have said "UK ‘Excessive’ Red Tape Costing Scotland’s Salmon Industry £millions"

4. Captain Thunderbolt , Friday, January 26, 2024, 11:32:

3. Sparky , Friday, January 26, 2024, 10:11:
Australia will be celebrating, they got a great deal because Johnson was desperate to do any deal quickly to show Brexit progress. This is the deal that George Eustice said was "not actually a good deal for the UK". A population of 27m 9,500 miles away compared to a population of 448m 21 miles away.
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come on sparky tell us how the UK/AU trade deal is any less beneficial compared to the TCA between EU/UK in your own though process
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Sparky distance is not a hinderance to trade after all it was in 1879 that the first 40-ton shipment of beef arrived in the UK in the same condition it left Sydney after 58 days at sea after sailing through the tropics

5. Gazzablack , Friday, January 26, 2024, 12:30:

3, Sparkless
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Here's our sparky domestically tearing apart the UK-Australia FTA despite being completely ignorant of it's provisions.
While Australia has dropped almost all tariffs on UK exports IMMEDIATELY, it will be up to 15 years before we drop all the protections for UK farmers.
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To be absolutely crystal clear. - The UK and Canada signed continuity agreement in 2020 that came into force in 2021.
THAT IS NOT CHANGEING
The UK will continue to have an FT A with Canada
It's worth noting that in July 2023 the UK signed an agreement to accede to the CPTPP (a trade bloc that includes Canada) which has many terms of improvement over the deal copied from the EU.
Canada also signed that agreement.
Perhaps you can explain to the good folk on this forum exactly in what way changes to border controls on imports from the EU will impact border controls from imports from elsewhere.
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4, Captain Thunderbolt.
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Our sparkless is the EU equivalent of Hiroo Onoda.
(For those who can't be bothered looking the name up, he's the Japanese WW2 soldier discovered on an island in 1974 who didn't know the war had ended).

6. NH , Friday, January 26, 2024, 12:46:

3. Sparky , "Australia will be celebrating, they got a great deal because Johnson was desperate"
Your back to desperately repeating the same old things even though they are not accurate and make no sense !
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Exports to Australia are up 18.9% and we have a big trade surplus. Judging by growth patterns they will soon be a bigger market to the UK than Italy and we have always had a huge deficit with Italy as we have had with most of the EU. The EU may have a population of 448 million but the reality is the vast majority of them have never bought much from the UK. I prefer targeting the 7.5 Billion people who are not in the EU. Their markets are growing rapidly and the EU is in recession.
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George Eustice is a farmer who does not want competition. I prefer lower food prices with fair competition.
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3. Sparky , "Canada"
Talks with Canada have stalled because of the hormones they use in beef production. As recently reported by Facts4eu UK UK food standards are very high and we should not compromise on these.
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4. Sparky , "Scottish Salmon Exports"
Scottish Salmon Exports have increased and they are experiencing soaring demand in Asia. It's true that they are experiencing EU red tape and they are working with the government to reduce this. The cost of this is ridiculously miniscule when compared to the amount we would have been paying for continued EU membership.

7. NH , Friday, January 26, 2024, 12:54:

5. Gazzablack , "CPTPP"
I agree that trade with Canada will continue. The CPTPP agreement is not expected to come into force until mid 2024 so we have that benefit to come in the future. The CPTPP is presently stuck in the House of Lords which, of course, is full of remainers. They never miss a chance too try and sabotage the Brexit Benefits !

8. Gazzablack , Friday, January 26, 2024, 15:33:

7, NH
It has now passed through the Lords

9. Gazzablack , Friday, January 26, 2024, 17:37:

Oh dear
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An €800 billion European Union programme set up to fund the bloc's 'green' and digital transitions has been held up by red tape, with fewer than a third of the money being disbursed.

10. jon iivesey , Friday, January 26, 2024, 18:33:

Yes, Sparky is talking nonsense about trade with Australia, and that is because he is ignorant of the fundamentals. Trade isn't just numbers, because trade has an internal structure, ad one aspect of that structure is which countries make natural trading partners. Australia is a country with vast natural resources and agriculture, while 85% of the UK's exports are manufactured goods, and that makes Australia and the UK natural trading partners.
Meanwhile, we and the EU, especially Germany and France are in many ways similar economies, so we are natural competitors, not natural trading partners. This is clear when you look at, say, food. It is a nonsense for a country that has to import food to feed itself to import that food from Europe when European agriculture is so inefficient that it has to be protected by import quotas. To import food from Europe is to choose the most expensive source of food imports, not the cheapest. And of course that is why Remainers keep talking up European food in terms of snobbery, wine, cheese and so on. Any time someone praises something in terms of snobbery, you can be sure it is not the best in terms of cost. Of course, if we rejoined the Single Market, we would be behind those trading barriers ourselves and would have no choice except to buy EU food, which is the real motive behind Remainers. To go back to being a UK with no choices.
And Sparky even manages o talk nonsense about the EU as a market for the UK. He keeps talking about how many consumers live there. But consumers buy retail consumer goods, and the UK generally does not export consumer goods. Our top ten export categories are not consumer goods, so how may people live in Europe has nothing to do with anything, Like everything with Sparky, it's how can you fool people with bogus "facts".
The big picture is trading partners, everything else is details.

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