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Old 15-01-2018, 23:38   #1583
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Re: Brexit discussion

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Originally Posted by Osem View Post
Everybody knows that - the UK can't negotiate any trade deals while we're still in the UK. What can be done is certain 'exploratory' discussions.
If we're in the single market (as Iceland is) we can negotiate and sign deals with other countries. Sky News informed a Brexit Tory politician of this fact recently.
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When push came to shove the real red line - a little surprisingly - was the ability to negotiate, sign, and eventually implement different trade deals.
"What about Iceland?" I asked, highlighting the first Western nation to sign a free trade agreement with China.
"That sounds good," said the MP, before I pointed out that Iceland is a member of the European Economic Area and the European Free Trade Agreement - and therefore in the single market. Indeed so is Switzerland, which is in EFTA alone, but not the EEA. Norway is currently negotiating a deal with China too.
Instead in the week that further deliberations are to be had in the key cabinet Brexit subcommittee, the strategy is still more about what we do not want from the Brexit "end-state" than identifying what we actually want, or rather can get, in the negotiation.
On all sides in Parliament we are still in the middle of a rather pointless semantic dance.
On that issue of the single market it revolves around the word "in".
https://news.sky.com/story/sky-views...rexit-11208575
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