Canada and the USA are the biggest trade partners in the world 75% of Canadian exports go just over the border.

The deal was a last minute political fix but I don't think much actual trade is expected between the EU and Canada its an add-on really.

The EU includes us so are in this deal in case we have forgotten we are actually in the EU.

It seems most trade is with the country near to you as its just so much easier so its pretty silly not to continue in the single market particularly as its a British initiative from a conservative PM Mrs Thatcher.

I am sure I would be quite happy to buy Canadian things but I cannot remember seeing any perhaps McDonalds will do moose-burgers.......

Well that's how you win seats in Parliament and become relevant. It's also a gauge of how well you're supported by your target audience. Share of the vote is much more important than absolute numbers. SNP are clearly much more important than UKIP and hold much more power. UKIP get way too much airtime and largely it has been due to a cult of personality (Farage), racist things their members come out with in public (Bongo Bongo land for example), or more recently revelations that Paul Nuttall performed just after the Hoff on top of the Berlin wall when it came down and was the lesser known fourth spaceman in the 1969 moon landings, staying in the space craft to keep Michael Collins company.

I challenge you to point out where I have supported uncontrolled immigration.

Do we even have uncontrolled immigration or is that a fallacy perpetuated by the media?

You seemed to suggest UKIP warranted more or equal press compared with the SNP based on number of votes. I disagreed with that. Irrespective of what Nick said.

We had a vote on changing the voting system and the Tories wanted to keep FPTP and that's what happened. That's the system we've got and so that's what is relevant. I'd prefer a system closer to PR myself but that's not the system we have. Under the current system their press coverage was unwarranted.

You're perfectly right that UKIP have had a significant impact in the past 7 years, however this has been driven by the press giving them disproportionate air time largely as a result of the points I mentioned previously. A lot of their coverage has come for non-policy based reasons!

Fair enough, but since you supported the Labour party and hence uncontrolled EU immigration and really dislike Ukip to the point of calling its former leader a 'cu-t'...I kind of naturally assumed it.

I don't recall reading about any problems you have with uncontrolled EU immigration into the country. Maybe I have missed a few posts.

Here is your opportunity to educate me and others. What is the Gusset opinion on how immigration into the UK should be handled?

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

More fake news Nick!

Can you show me the bit in the UKIP manifesto that says they "are all for selling off the NHS".

Farage admires Putin, wow! Corbyn is friends with Hamas and the IRA.

Translation: because one (in fact more) country achieved the parameters of a deal we seek, we can't do it because wibble. You're claiming a "one-size-fits-all" approach is simplistic (I agree - blanket multilaterals as espoused by the EU are slow and ill-matched, glad we're getting out). Where is the relevance to taking CETA as a basis?

We need fruit pickers? How the hell does the rest of the world cope? EU academics? Give me a break. Academia is global. The turnover is phenomenal, and your origin is largely irrelevant (except now perhaps for some of the EU H2020 grants - only whites can apply for them, the racists). There are equally, no doubt, issues that are black/white for the UK that were anything but for Canada. Fact remains - no FoM, nearly 100% tariff-free access, no budget payments, no "fax democracy", no ECJ.

It's utterly pathetic you're so blinded by it all you can't even concede that such a deal already exists, and could, with modification, exist for the UK-EU.

It IS this simple: the EU have negotiated, with a smaller, less economically-connected nation, a deal with core features that we would like. Our trade with the EU is more important to them than Canada's. Relative to Canada all your "factors/variables" are weighted in our favour. The EU is more dependent on us than Canada. If they value it, they need to provide is with these same core features.

This is not the time for petulant foot-stamping-wailing because we're not doing things your way any more. That ended with Article 50 being invoked. Toys in pram, please.

He may have said that years ago – he references "coalition government" – but that is not the UKIP policy!

The 2015 manifesto vowed to end the use of PFI contracts, privatisation by the back door, set up by Labour. It was also for scrapping TTIP which could have led to privatisation of parts of the NHS if we were in the EU – and Labour wanted us to remain.

Come on Nick, you know full well how politics works. MPs and MEPs all have their own opinions, especially on blogs. However, there is only one party policy and scrapping the NHS is not in UKIP's manifesto. It's not going to happen. Fake news!

Edited by Penge Eagle (26 Apr 2017 6.35am)

Not really, Nuttall says this is no longer his view.

Does Corbyn say the same about pressing the nuclear button then? Not he doesn't.

And as Prime Minister that would be his call....Not the 'Labour Party'.

No equivalency.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

An addition to the 75% of their trade they do with the USA it doesn't mean it's not worth it.