What Greenpeace are advocating for here, is for the government to use powers that it only has due to Brexit.

So by extension, Greenpeace are in favour of Brexit.

My book doesn't require any assumptions or modelling though.

Again. It is just a collation of factual statements, historical fact. There is no scientific method that needs reviewing.

Scared of reality. Got it.

Zero benefit?

Looks like you might need to read a book.

You don't have to take what I say at face value.

That is what the sources are for. There is not a single statement in the book that is not defended by factual source material. It is purely a collation of facts.

I'm sorry but I just don't believe you.

I don't believe that you have approached other pro-EU authors and asked them why they wrote a book without getting their work peer reviewed first.

Don't they just.

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The negotiations are not ongoing though.

There are no negotiations right now between the UK and Canada.

The UK ended them. The deal is permanent.

You can assume what you like.

I wonder if you ask this of every author. Do tell me more about how you question other authors on book content that you are not opposed to.

It is not there to be temporary.

It is the trade deal in place, unless and until something replaces it.

Read the book. Or don't read the book.

It's your choice.

But it is just a collection of facts. Facts you seem to be desperate to undermine without having read a single one of them. I wonder why that is.

No.

Unless your definition of *every* trade deal is that it is temporary.

Unless something else comes along to replace it in the future, it is there. It is permanent.

Please learn to read.

You haven't read that website have you.

As if you had, you wouldn't be posting it.

You don't seem like someone capable of intelligent thought, let alone being persuaded. So am treating you in exactly the same way as you're treating me.

If you wanted to be treated respectfully, maybe you should've tried not being a d**k from the get go.

Erm.

We have the powers and ability to fix a problem now, and haven't used those powers effectively.

So your solution is to give the powers away and make the problem worse? Really not the smartest are you Tim.

Your silly rant was demonstrable nonsense. I corrected you. As I'm the one who actually knows what they are talking about.

You got a free education. You're welcome.

You seem to be unable to read.

The UK-Canada deal isn't temporary. It is in place right now. There were a couple of time limited parts to it, the cheese quota being the most published one, but otherwise the deal is there right now.

The CPTPP agreement is better than CETA. Again just a fact.

It does yes.

...and that is not the topic of the benefit that Alan was talking about. The topic of the benefit was the EUs trade deals around the world that we had successfully replaced.

We are talking about the UKs trade deals. Not the EUs trade deals.

A UK trade deal cannot force an existing EU deal to include cumulation of UK components in a trade it has no part of.

We are talking about the UKs trade deals. The UKs trade.

It isn't temporary. It will continue to be in effect until something replaces it. But the CPTPP agreement is also better than the terms of CETA, and Canada are ratifying that for the UK this autumn as per Carney comments in the last few weeks.

Except he isn't right Jonathan.

He said we didn't have a continuity trade deal with Canada as the Canadians said no. They did nothing of the sort.

We have a continuity trade deal in effect with them right now. You know it, I know it. Does Alan know it?

You should try actually reading the book. But as for your figures.

The LSE report into the cost of Brexit, published in December, says that the figures you just cited are a significant exaggeration, and the impact is actually a lot lower than forecasted. Less than the cost of membership in fact.

The content of each benefit has had scrutiny from SMEs though, and the source material confirms their validity as well.

The book is simply a compilation of proven benefits highlighted elsewhere, written up with source material to go with it.

Why am I not surprised that you think this is a detailed demotion Jonathan.

I'd like to say I thought better of you, but I really don't.

Time for you to be an adult and admit Alan was wrong, and that I am right. You won't of course will you.

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People who can be respectful to me will get respectful replies.

Did you think the idiotic and juvenile responses you screenshotted deserved something better? As I don't.

Aw Kate. You put your faith in the wrong person. Figures.

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Shame he was wrong then isn't it.

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Alans response was lazy and wrong, so of course you assumed he was right without checking a damn thing.

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Where is the battering? I can't see a battering at all.

Point out the battering.

Book published by the Bruges Group. Not self published.

Can't even get basic things right can you.