(12-23-2018, 11:00 AM)robkelk Wrote:(12-23-2018, 08:43 AM)hazard Wrote: IIRC May was opposed to Brexit. AFAICT she's been trying to get the best deal Britain can get, it's just that all the brexiteers don't get that what they want is not what they are going to get if they go with their own 'drop everything EU' plan. Britain's too connected and dependent on the continent, and the Commonwealth is not going to bail them out.
And sure, a drop everything EU Brexit is also going to hurt the European Union, but not nearly as much.
Well... Canada's looking for more trading partners, and Canada and the UK are two of the biggest markets in the Commonwealth. Canada's barely a drop in the bucket compared to Europe, though, so any trade deal along those lines would benefit us more than it would the UK.
And Europe would be happy to be a trade partner as well, and would likely make a better partner even if the EU's tariffs are higher than the UK's end up simply due to the sheer size of the market.