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I found a better article at Chatham House which goes through the process and suggests a more realistic possible outcome.

The part quoted starts about 1/2 way through but the whole article is worth a read.

https://www.chathamhouse.org/publica...it-negotiation

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I'm sure the Treasury or another department will have models showing the break-even points for contributing to the EU budget. However, whether commonsense economics over-rides political imperatives is another matter. That being said, if there was some kind of soft Brexit which led to the growth of Ukip, this would most likely be at the expense of the Labour Party and not the Conservatives. And the rebirth of the Liberal Democrats would be far less likely. So it could be an attractive option for May if she could keep her party together. A few donations from industry may smooth matters here.

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Or pay tariffs? What's the difference?

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This is the very reason I voted remain, if this is the deal, what is the fracken point!

I voted remain but we lost, but I don't want "remain light". Now we've voted out I want hard out.

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I suspect that's part of the calculation. Although this would be a flat fee the government pays rather than a cost to everything companies have to face which might discourage investment. If they might have decided that avoiding that cost might be worth the fee.

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It's a 'hard out' in terms of the EU. This is about Britain's future relationship with Europe. If anyone thought leaving meant a complete rejection of the continent or of globalisation they were wrong.

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Presumably less to pay if you pay the EU and a fixed cost so not a direct tax on trade.

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Since no one knows what it looks like, yes, it is an unreasonable request :shrug:
Agreed :tu:

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:clap::D

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We are in a stronger position then many seem to think and we need to start acting like it rather then the pathetic uncertain prats the remain side are happy to portray us as constantly talking the UK down. If May doesn't deliver full brexit ukip will grow but they will take many from the tories not just labour and might even take enough to do serious damage. Ukip with no elected mp's got us a referendum even though cameron organised it in the most cowardly way ensuring the problems we are seeing, imagine ukip with a load of mp's no way May is going to risk that.

Things are changing in the west people have had enough and no politician can take elections for granted anymore it's just a question of how many more need dumping on their backside before the rest wake up and change.

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Don't trolls work and pay taxes then ;)

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Ask a troll :monkey:

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May will deliver Brexit but we're still going to have some kind of arrangement with the EU as others have explained here. No one voted for a soft or hard Brexit just Brexit.
Regarding your suggestion about Ukip challenging the Conservatives. If there's one thing to understand about new leader Paul Nuttall it's this. His focus is now on taking on working-class Labour seats in the north of England. So not a terrific problem for her. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/228322...-under-threat/

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If May goes for soft brexit there will be a lot of unhappy tories and i doubt nuttall will ignore such easy pickups for ukip. Brexit that ends up paying any meaningful sum of money to the EU is not a brexit any leave voter voted for and if that's what happens you'll see the response on your TV screen.

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They're better of going oop north if their support for zach goldsmith is anything to go by. Odd as well that the public rejects them both in favour of a lib dem, brexit means brexit St Theresa or does it, time will tell

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There will be a lot of unhappy Tories whatever Theresa May decides. The majority of voters in the country simply didn't vote for a hard Brexit including her as that endangers the economy.
The public responses I've seen on my TV screen so far have been a 100-person protest at the Judge's A50 decision and an anti-Brexit LibDem winning the Richmond Park constituency.

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Richmond Park illustrates the very tricky balancing act that May faces. It's not simply a case of pandering to the Eurosceptic wing of the party if she wants to retain Conservative seats in the capital.

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I'd be careful about reading too much into this by election result. That constituency was 70% remain last June, it was 49.5% Lib Dem last night and in any case Heathrow airport was also a significant issue. This wasn't a Richmond re-run of the referendum and it doesn't critically alter the parliamentary maths, which were slightly awkward already.

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Personally, as someone who voted leave, I'm a little tired of remainers constantly claiming they know leavers' reasons for their vote better than they do themselves. Laurie Penney tried it on on Question Time last night and quite rightly got absolutely savaged for it.

"Hard Brexit" and "Soft Brexit" are the imaginings of remainers trying to frame a debate, they are not a serious or useful means of describing the decision making process of people who voted leave.

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Surely it alters the maths in Parliament by replacing a pro-Brexit voice with an anti-Brexit voice? Granted that Zac was no longer a Conservative MP so her party's loss occurred when he resigned.

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You'll see this terminology used across the whole political spectrum as it aids understanding of a complex problem. Vote Leave newspapers like the Daily Telegraph have been particularly keen to adopt it and explain what it means. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...d-soft-brexit/

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On this issue it's a simple case of maths - we're talking about everyone who voted in the referendum not just the 51.9%.