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  What utter twaddle. Do governments and politicians really think they exercise any real positive control over trade flows? We really need our rulers (particularly 'Obama's Officials') to abandon this dangerous, controlling interventionist mindset. Free trade evolved despite government intervention, not because of it. It's not deals between government officials which create prosperity and jobs, it's corporations and individuals taking risks and making innovations of which governments are fundamentally incapable. Governments are, however, eminently capable of frustrating markets' proper operation by restricting trade; a prime example is the EU regulation that its members can't belong to any other free trade association. Would you join a club that didn't allow you to join any others? I think most right-thinking people would see that as unreasonable.
  
  We should leave the EU and strike free trade deals with anyone we like, including Europe, the Commonwealth and particularly NAFTA.
  
  Clarke is a dinosaur, even by Tory standards, but people still seem to listen to him. Cameron is rapidly turning into a chameleon.
  
  Cue the hand-wringers wittering about low wages in Bangladesh.

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