'Germany will come back with a trade deal'
But you dont want a trade deal, do you
You want to leave and get bilateral deals elsewhere
That means divergence and no frictionless trade.
So there is no deal Germany can offer
Currently we already have frictionless trade with zero tariffs.
You want to go back and negotiate a worse deal -which you dont want anyway.
Flawless logic from fillyboy
Oh and Germany cant do bilateral deals. Its the EU old bean.
The whole world is, and has been for some time, heading toward a free trade system worldwide. That was the original purpose of the WTO of which we were a founder member. That's globalisation which is inevitable.
Where it becomes complicated is that to make globalisation fair, the playing field need to be not too far off level. So if a country, let's say for example China, make their exports cheaper by devaluing their currency, or 'dump' stuff into the market, ie selling it below value to get rid of a surplus, other countries suffer and see their industries collapse.
That's why the EU have strict rules on trade surpluses etc, now from memory, I'm not googling at this time of night, but eu rules dictate that any member state cannot exceed a 3% trade surplus, Germany has for many years, run a trade surplus of 6-7%, cool, that's great for China, sorry, Germany, except that for every trade surplus, there has to be a matching trade deficit, enter southern Europe, the PIGS. Of course the PIGS, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain are paying the price for Germanys success. The PIGS countries currencies are overpriced, Germanys true currency is grossly underpriced, the whole Euro strategy is aimed at two things, subsidising Germanys manufacturing and France's farming.
Mark my words, Britain won't be the second country to leave the eu, their will be a third, fourth and fifth, it may carry on until it's just France and Germany left, that would be amusing.
