The messages I get from the latest Three Blokes in the Pub, from Geneva, the home of the World Trade Organisation, are: a) that pre-referendum Brexiteers did not know what they were talking about in terms of international trade post-Brexit; b) that, having spoken on and off to the WTO in the two years since the referendum and learned more about WTO processes, politicians are now lying to the British public if they continue with their promises of 2016; and c) if we do follow through on the policies of the leading "clean-breakers", we will be breaking so many international rules that we will become a pariah state. The USA can afford to put two fingers up to the rest of the world because she can be self-sufficient if the chips are down; what chance does a small island have which has to import about a third of its food, let alone raw materials for its factories?
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