The hero of United Kingdom

naveed? muslim? no offence but I never thought I'd see the day where a Muslim would call Farage a 'hero'...

I can't trust him on anything since he pretty much lied during his campaign for leave by claiming that £350 million per week would go to funding the NHS, plus so far Brexit hasn't been going well, i don't know much about what it's going to be like in the future.

He [Farage] was a massive hero to UK. He fought the establishment for 20 years to get us a referendum so that we can leave the EU,

Farage did nothing of the sort. It was Camerons fear of his own back benches that bought on the referendum. As for what it will achieve? There is time for you to be disappointed yet.

Ummm, actually he didn't make that claim, and if it's going so badly nobody is able to tell.

SIGH

Doesn't mean he has earned my respect
Debatable. The EU fishing policy has helped, not harmed British fishing stocks and the UK industry had a very healthy 35% profit margin (€367mn) in 2014 (https://goo.gl/Ey5R2K). Britain will always share its fish as we move into an era of global maritime regulation.


Not even going to touch that. *pssst* we'll still pay the fee in the EEU.

Ah, now we come to the interesting part. Our freedom of trade. We'll ignore that the NIESR has said that without deep market access (which will take decades to negotiate) no combination of FTAs will ever be as economically successful as the UK's access to the single market. http://goo.gl/uxjz8l

China: the Sino-Swiss FTA is a good case study as the composition of the Swiss economy is comparable to our own, only differing in size. Long story short, a three year negotiation period ended "successfully" with China setting next to all terms of trade. It forced Switzerland to accept Chinese goods -tariff free- immediately while providing itself up to 15 years to do the same with Swiss goods. The agreement also does not cover the trade of financial services nor the car industry, two major sectors in the British economy.

Not to mention we'd be opening up our manufacturing industry to international competition it's never face before. We won't see a boon to our industrial sector as we force British firms to compete against countries that regularly breach labour laws and aggressively compete wages downwards.

Australia and New Zealand: yay commonwealth, right? Not really. The only products Australia and NZ export are either drilled out of the ground or shaved off of animals, and the scale of their markets is tiny. They're not suitable (in size or composition) replacements for EU markets.

India: India is the single most regulated market in the world (will try to find source, I can't remember exactly where I read it). Historically India has fought tooth and nail to protect its domestic industries which does not bode well for our scrappy British exporters.

America: TTIP will probably be accepted by the EU at some point within the next decade so we'd have gotten our FTA without having to sh*t our collective bed.

Japan: I will agree that trade will be better with Japan. But the EU just entered its 16th round of negotiations with Japan.. so we've got some catching up to do.

Most importantly, any trade partners that Britain can woo into bed will want to understand the EU-UK relationship first as to not infringe upon their own EU trade. And as we can't give them that information until someone pushes the Article 50 button the whole situation, we're stuck. It's all rather more complicated than turning up and saying, do you want some X, sign here please.

Remind me, what was he before he became a politician? Oh Wait a Banker.

Phenomenal post. Can I take you with me?

It makes me sad that not many people in society give respect to Nigel Farage.

He was a massive hero to UK. He fought the establishment for 20 years to get us a referendum so that we can leave the EU, take back control of our laws, take back control of our fishing, save £12 billion a year so that we can spend some of it on the NHS and be able to have the freedom to trade with countries like Australia, China, Japan, America, India, Qatar, New Zealand, etc etc.

And we were never not free to trade with the countries you list and we do anyway.

Remind me, what was he before he became a politician? Oh Wait a Banker.