The UK is poised to join the pan-Pacific Trade Bloc, CPTPP.
A quick look at the members will show how stupid this looks.
It may not be much of a surprise, maybe except to Dominic Raab, to realise the UK is thousands of miles from the Pacific, and that membership of it will not make that much difference to the slump the uK now finds itself in.
It has been suggested that in being a member of CPTPP, the UK could not rejoin the EU, so it is seen as some clever political move by the Brexiteers in Government. But of course, if a country can join a Bloc, it can leave.
At best, the UK economy will be boosed by 0.08% by joining CPTPP, a mere drop in the (Pacific) ocean compared to the damage done by Brexit.
If joining this trade Bloc to amplify our nation's voice, then the same could be said for joining, or rejoining, one much closer to home?
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