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We went through this to give BoJo a spin nehind tbe wheel!

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No we never, there was a myriad of reasons people voted to leave and you only speak for yourself, fact is we left and in doing so left the single market that maggie dreamt up including it's free movement of services, goods, capital and people, we haven't gone through all this crap to glibly say oh we'll reintroduce one of them, there would be uproar and rightly so imo

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I rhink Truss may introduce one way FOM for farm and hospitality work.

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Maggie didn't "dream up" the single market at all, that was the EEC at the time and it certainly didn't include free movement of people. It was merely a trading block.

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Hmm. She had a lot to do with making it happen and freedom of movement was always intended to be one of its four pillars.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/o...ld-432900.html

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Who said this then

and to move towards free enterprise in a single market. She stated that "of course, we want to make it easier for goods to pass through frontiers. Of course, we must make it easier for people to travel throughout the Community

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https://apnews.com/article/brexit-bu...b5132bdfb22ea6

Easier for people to travel does not automatically mean free movement.

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Great, a quote that bares no relevance to the point you're trying to prove, like it or not she was the political driving force behind the unified single market for goods, services, labour and capital, the fact she didn't like the euro or Central Bank doesn't change that

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Got my new driving license photo card in the post today after changing address. No more euro-flag in my wallet. A small thing, I know, but it made me smile. I can’t wait for those disingenuous “structural fund” signs to start vanishing from our regional infrastructure projects as well, all decorated with the EU flag as if it wasn’t our own money they were sending back to us (after necessary deductions for their commissioners’ private jets, naturally).

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I doubt you'll be seeing any replacement Union Flag signs unless your MP is Conservative. ;)

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Wonder if any of the regional infrastructure projects will vanish as well, after rishi's boasting about taking money of poor regions it wouldn't surprise me

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If they do, then political accountability for it will rest at Westminster and nowhere else, and it can become a directly relevant issue at the next election - which is part of the point of Brexit.

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It was returning money to the regions Labour had stolen it from. There are a set of formulae that are used to allocate money to regions. Labour altered them to take money away from non-Labour areas.

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Not really bothered about that to be honest - we’re not really a big flag-waving nation. It’s more the symbolism of the disengagement from EU institutions and structures I was pointing out. The main advantage is that signage no longer implies we should be grateful for largesse paid for with our own money.