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A deal where the UK is so weakened, enfeebled and desperate that it had to make concessions to *Malaysia*

(let alone to other nations)

And those who did that deal also fucked up the Australia deal where it damages Britain (see George Eustice)
So

CPTPP

Let's look at the estimates of how beneficial it will be to the UK

scmp.com/comment/opinio…
And in terms of concessions made to Malaysia

ft.com/content/eb8b75…
And also concessions to Canada

“The meeting in Vietnam ended with all the other participants basically throwing their hands in the air saying Canada and [the] U.K. must sort out their differences bilaterally.”

politico.eu/article/uk-can…
some threads by experts
a reminder on America

where the UK has been reduced to hawking individual state MOU's as a "benefit" of brexit

see also
a reminder
a reminder
so the UK is weak, desperate and enfeebled

all the nations we are negotiating with know this

hence why they are capitalising on it

it is to their advantage
worse is that cheating lying racist charlatans

who sold the shitshow that weakened the UK

will sell you CPTPP as somehow being a glorious achievement

if you are so pathetically desperate that you will sign anything for a press release

it say more about the UK than CPTPP
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