Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Brexit Minister – in the Senedd at 2:45 pm on 16 January 2019.
No, not at all. Of course not. All I'm saying is that we wouldn't experience, in the negotiation, the difficulties that he alluded to, as alleged by the Canadians to whom he spoke a little while ago. We don't have to negotiate from a position where we have no agreements with the EU at all. We are actually part of it, so it should be much more simple for us to enter into a longer term agreement, not least because we have a £67 billion a year trade deficit with the EU at the moment. It's as much in their interests to trade with us as freely as possible as it is for us to trade with them. True, the European Commission has different interests from the people and businesses of Europe because they are engaged in their massive political integration project at the expense of the people of Europe, as the euro project itself amply demonstrates, and the ruination it's brought to many countries in southern Europe.